Jun 13, 2023·edited Jun 13, 2023Liked by Michael Shellenberger
“Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not today.” Apoorva Mandavilli, "science" reporter for the New York Times.
NEVER FORGET that when it came to one of the biggest stories of the century, an event that was used as a pretext for all sorts of power grabs and attacks on civil liberties, our legacy media, led by The Paper of Record, not only refused to investigate its origins, but denounced anyone who even considered the possibility that the Official Narrative was wrong, as RACISTS. (In the 21st century, the Bigotry Accusation is the first refuge of scoundrels.)
If you wanna talk about Patient Zero, here is symbolic evidence that speaks in a million different ways: about the degradation of American discourse, the transformation of the MSM into brazen bullying propagandists, the contempt the elite class has for its citizens, and the attempted takeover of Western societies by an arrogant globalist caste that lies at will and wants complete control of our lives and thoughts.
They killed millions of people and lied about it, knowing that since they owned the media their PR lapdogs would help them cover it up. Never believe a single word of their lies ever again.
it will never cease to shock me how tribalism can make you believe the most obvious stupidity and how social pressure can turn brains to mush....of course Covid came from dining on live pangolin, you bigot!
Take that tribalism and multiply it by a corrupted media working alongside a corrupted government, then top it off with a thick layer of Social Media echo chambering and you have the perfect alternate reality shitcake.
Social media plus smartphones plus constant internet access have turned out to be the greatest brainwashing tools ever invented. The Algorithm is a cruel, capricious tyrant...
😂🤣😂. My then 6 year old loves pangolins (no idea why, he likes weird animals - has a pet created gecko and wants an axolotl because they are “so cute” 🤦♀️). He was so irate the news, which is rarely on tv in our house, was trying to blame a pangolin. He kept rambling on about their lung capacity and talking about how it made no sense to think a “cute pangolin” in a “mean” outdoor wet market could infect human mammals with a respiratory virus.
In fairness the child would watch NatGeo documentaries as an 18- month old toddler and hated Disney shows. I distinctly remember when he was 4 and we were on a road trip hearing something on some NatGeo documentary he was watching about “mature bull elephants” and elephant mating rituals and saying to my husband “I think we racked up another parent fail.” 😂 The only “cartoons” he would watch were Splash and Bubbles, Octonauts, Wild Krafts, and Dino Train. Though he was still 6 - if it strains reasonableness for a 6 year old it should for adults as well. If anyone has babies I would recommend all of those. They are pretty cute. In fact a song about parrot fish pooping out sandy beaches is stuck in my head as I type this.
I was scrolling the legacy articles from late summer of 2020 and almost everyone that mentioned Covid also blamed tens of thousands of deaths on Trump himself. why? for not locking down the entire country? meanwhile the real culprit (NIH, EcoHealth, Fauci, Dazak, WIV etc) will get book deals and sacred candles with their likeness...
Within days of the CCP/WHO finally admitting that human-to-human transmission was indeed possible Trump took immediate action by shutting down all travel to China and was thoroughly savaged as a dirty racist and xenophobe for doing so.
Later, he would simultaneously be blamed for each and every (greatly exaggerated) COVID death and "not doing enough".
Just like how Biden and the hyena both trashed the MRNA jabs during the campaign, vowing to never inject themselves with anything developed under Trump. Three months later when they took power it became mandatory for the entire nation.
Yeah, just under 7 million and counting. History will be adding the tally up over the next decades. But hey, Pol Pot was only responsible for maybe 2 million deaths. So Xi, Fauci/Collins/Daszak and Shi are still in a very small club.
The people who pushed pandemic hysteria and useless authoritarian mitigation are mostly this bizarre combination of promoting fascism in policy and Marxism in rhetoric......... they are doing the same 💩 shit on energy policy while using the promotion of race hate and child genital mutilation as cover.
To me the most chilling line was, "If you knew that this was likely a lab-enhanced pathogen, there are so many things you could have done differently."
Image how many lives, livelihoods, and economies might have been spared. Then again, Trump might have been reelected so to the elites and the Swamp it was worth the price.
Actually it was probably the Chinese government trying to conceal the leak and the democrats trying to utilize a pandemic to alter an election. Just my opinion of course.
This is wonderfully put. The Left essentially owns all of the levers of discourse in media, higher education and government. Yet that is not enough for them; they must bully, cajole, disdain and shame any individual with the temerity to question their motives and veracity.
If a smoking gun doesn’t appear in the pages of the "respectable" press, does it still smoke? For the good and virtuous people who get their news from NYT, WaPo and NPR this story simply doesn’t exist and never never never never will. For half the country Fauci et al are glorious heroes who did their best to save America from this mysterious pandemic. And so they will remain.
I thrive on a steady diet of cynicism like a (pre Biden) car eats gasoline, but even for me the despicable cynicism of this whole thing is overwhelming and disgusting.
Clever, you make my blood boil! It puts me in mind of your coinage - “the homeostasis of hate.”
Why do our betters treat us like this? Our elite, the chattering class, they are so reliably dishonest, it’s almost a parody. Dishonesty followed by a complete collapse in the narrative and then memory holing: that’s the pattern.
This ambient political conditioning from whence does it come? Hate was your previous answer, a homeostasis of hate and oh my, such cynicism; I think your mother would chastise you, be more trusting my son.
Why all the lying? Is it because they are stupid? I doubt it. Do they know they’re lying? I think they do know.
I think it is the rewards, money and status, imagine being a New York Times reporter, how cool are you! So you whore yourself. You know you have to go along to get along. To get ahead, you have to give some head.
Prostitution is the oldest profession, yes, because of the biological urge, but more importantly, because she is our great great grandmother and our progenitor, we all need to whore ourselves to get along in this world. And the rewards of being a CNN employee, or better a reporter, now you’re mother would be proud!
I read a lot of Michael Crichton novels when I was a teen in the '90s, but as entertaining as they were I always thought he was overly alarmist. Now I get it. This is exactly the combination of scientific arrogance, ambition, and incompetence he was warning about.
“A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored.”
Swiss Policy Research published much of this, including those who were sick related to the Wuhan lab, and the clevage CCG stuff, in the first half of 2020. Before Substack blew up and Brownstone was founded. It was and is one of the few places to find truthful information, actual data, and cited sources.
I shared the underlying links, along with dashboard info...... I think if you look it up it says crazy stuff on like Wikipedia, but even my 4th grader isn’t allowed to cite is as a source in school because it’s so wrong. 😂. I haven’t looked in a while. The Ukraine stuff is interesting.......
"Ethos / Pathos / Logos" ... has been transformed into... "Ethos uber alles" ... where Ethos just seems to appear magically out of nowhere and is never questioned. That's the power of modern propaganda on the lazy.
However, the Swiss were among the worst offenders in applying medieval medical demands/recommendations to its populace. They were overly pleased with creating a police state through the entirety of 2020 well after it became clear to any sentient medical scientist that lockdowns, masking and the life were completely uselss.
You got the cart before the horse. Step #1 = Forensic Analysis. Who, what or why is done afterwards by licensed investigators with the power of subpoena.
Point #1: WTC7 was not hit by a plane and the observed fall could only have occurred by simultaneous severing of all 81 structural steel columns concluded the University Alaska computer analysis and simulation of the tower collapse. It is flatly impossible for fire to cause that to happen
Point #2: It is also flatly impossible for a 757 giant aircraft to burrow its way into a hole in the ground leaving no wreckage on the surface. That goes beyond "strain credulity", that goes into the area of inventing new laws of Physics to explain it.
There is a lot more forensic evidence in addition to that. They all fit very well with the controlled demolition of the 3 WTC buildings. Most likely the planes were drones with a known remote control pod attached under the belly of the aircraft, as witnessed & videotaped.
My parents back door neighbor died on the plane that crashed, leaving behind a baby boy she was head over heels in love with, and my cousins was working in DC as an air traffic controller on 9-11. Those planes were not drones being remotely controlled and those who died on them were very real humans who left a lot of actual heartache behind for their grieving families.
That's not how it was done. There was a nearby air base that was evacuated, everyone told to stay home. The 4 planes were flown there. That's where the impossible phone calls were made, including one in which a lady called her boyfriend leaving a message ending with the phrase: "It's a frame". Also peculiar language used like they were reading from a script written by someone who is not a native American, likely East European. After that the passengers were likely gassed and murdered.
Obviously Flight 93 was meant to hit WTC7 but the control system malfunctioned, the plane veered off course and had to be shot down, spreading wreckage (but no bodies) over a wide area. The Pentagon hit though was likely a missile, that's why the FBI confiscated some 80 videotapes of the incident and hasn't released any to this day.
"....First off, all serious researchers aside from Morgan Reynolds (a former Bush economist) agree that planes actually hit the towers, however the planes that hit the towers had no windows and extra equipment attached (PODs) and are believed to be remote control drone aircraft. In fact, a similar plan was devised in 1962 by Robert McNamara called OPERATION NORTHWOODS which detailed flying an aircraft filled with FBI agents (allegedly college students on vacation) in flight the plane would switch transponder signals with a drone aircraft which would then be shot down over Cuba. The FBI agents on the plane would then land safely and resume new covert identities. There is evidence that a similar plot was hatched on 9/11:
Thomas Deatherage, Former Airline Captain B- 747-400 and B- 737-300: "After viewing many posted videos on "Youtube" I can tell you without hesitation that clearly aircraft # 2 B-767 - was radio controlled into the building Tower 2. The "pod" mounted on the bottom of the aircraft, is manufactured by "Martin Marietta" Corporation in Los Angeles. The pod has been used extensively by the USAF for outfitting drone aircraft for over 22 years, and you can clearly see it in (4) of the amateur videos- just before impact, with tower # 2. Also, I would like to find an insider A and P mechanic at both United and America to cross reference the A/C serial number of flight 77 and 93. I guarantee that they change the N issued tail number. However, one could trace and find this original A/C, from an insider employee, at these companies- leading to the smoking gun these aircraft were not destroyed."
MARTIN MARIETTA LANTIRN NAVIGATION AND TARGETING SYSTEM: The system consists of two externally-mounted pods carried on some fighter aircraft. LANTIRN was first employed during the Persian Gulf War.
Development of LANTIRN began in 1980, and the first production pod was delivered in 1987. The AAQ-13 navigation pod contains a Forward Looking InfraRed sensor (FLIR) and a Terrain Following Radar (TFR). FLIR imagery provides the pilot a view of terrain ahead of the aircraft at night. The TFR allows "hands-off" flight as low as 100 feet above the ground while avoiding obstacles in the aircraft's path. The AAQ-14 targeting pod has a FLIR and a laser designator/ranger to "illuminate" or mark the target for laser-guided bomb deliveries. The USAF ordered LANTIRN pods for F-15E and selected F-16C/D fighters. ..."
From everything I’ve read I agree on 9-11, but I got some questions on the Kennedy assassination, and the more I read on that the more the official narrative strains credulity.
You need to get ready. We got this Covid Plandemic because people turned a blind eye to the JFK, RFK & MLK assassinations and then went completely blind after 9/11.
The conspiracy isn’t that 9-11 was a controlled demolition with remote control airplanes or any of that nonsense. The likely conspiracy is that the US Intelligence agencies knew about the plot before hand and did nothing to stop it or even possibly helped nudge it along (like the Gretchen Whitmire kidnapping). Whether this was done via sheer incompetence or malice is hard to tell but I think the conspiracy has merit.
“The buildings were wired with Thermite, jet fuel can’t melt steel beams!” Argument is kinda silly. Don’t go down that rabbit hole
I think both of those cases are similar to COVID; nothing nefarious, just a massive screwup followed by a desperate attempt to cover up the screwup, making the subsequent conspiracy theories inevitable.
Bush was briefed on Al Qaeda, but took his cues from conservative media at the time and assumed it was a a distraction ginned up by Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal.
With Kennedy, I think the FBI or CIA attempted or successfully recruited Oswald as an asset based on his time in the USSR, then he went rogue.
No way. It was flatly impossible for those buildings to collapse the way they did without using demolition charges. Especially WTC7 which wasn't even hit by an airplane:
WTC 7 Not Destroyed by Fire, Concludes Final University of Alaska Fairbanks Report:
“The only way it could have fallen in the observed manner is by the near-simultaneous failure of every column.” — Professor Leroy Hulsey
And giant 757 airplanes, going 580mph, can't disappear into a small hole in the ground. Flatly impossible, the impact would rip the plane into pieces. There was this guy called Isaac Newton who had this law of motion F=ma the force on an object is equal to its mass times its acceleration. It very much applies in this instance.
That's about where I am, especially with 9/11 since I lived through it. I very much remember how poorly coordinated and incompetent the "war on terror" was afterwards. I can absolutely believe that that administration was dumb and evil enough to turn a blind eye to and then take advantage of a real tragedy for profit, but I can't quite believe they orchestrated it up front.
At first news media seemed to be going with that premise, after all the reports by people hearing explosions in the buildings before the impacts. But then they realized it would be very hard to fit that story into their narrative so the authorities totally denounced it.
I remember reading years ago that Bush’s response to the CIA agent who briefed him on the “Al Qaeda Determined to Strike the US” memo was “OK, you’ve covered your ass” then focusing on Russia and China for the rest of the meeting. As someone who also lived through 9/11 and the Bush administration, this is 100% believable.
I mean, if I had funded a plague that killed millions of people, after extolling the virtues of Gain of Function in the Washington Post just a few years earlier, I’d probably do the same thing as Fauci. I never expected him to come forward and admit he fucked up.
What I did expect was for quality journalists to get to the bottom of this shit 2.5 years ago.
You built an expectation on seriously faulty assumptions. How many "quality journalists" still exist at WaPo and NYT? Certainly they appear to be unserious and incurious about a lot of what those two rags "investigate".
Yeah... I wasn't really paying attention to the journalism "scene" the last 8 years (pretty much after having kids I stopped following the news as religiously as I did in my 20s and early 30s. For reference last I watched MSNBC Matt Taibbi was still on it.
I really wasn't ready for what happened when I stopped watching. Thought there'd be way more Katherine Ebans and Alex Berensons.
Journalists have been silenced by money from Corporate Media. Watch Jordan Peterson interview RFK Jr. They talk about Big Pharm and it’s control over Corporate Media.
That’s what baffles me though. You’d think they would have figured out by now that the Chinese are just going to use your company to bootstrap their domestic industries, steal your IP, then cancel the contract the second they have everything they need.
The mainstream media is so attached to the Democratic Party Establishment, that happens to exercise an unseemly large amount of influence over the federal law enforcement bureaucracy, and are so obsessed with controlling the party-approved narrative, they refuse to admit they don’t know what they’re doing.
The media (with academia behind it) is so powerful that a case can be made that the relationship you describe is actually the inverse. It’s not state run media, it’s a media run state. The Democratic Party is actually doing the bidding of the NYT, not the other way around.
But, I just want to say something else about the bizarre "happenings" we've all been experiencing.
The treasury is being looted, industries are being dismantled, farmlands and fields are left fallow, slaughterhouses, food processing centers are burning, cargo ships wait weeks out-to-sea for their turn to dock and unload its cargo.
Whatever it is the Leftist Democrats are planning is certainly not worth destroying our country over.
Anthony Fauci has blood and cancer and heart failure and a host of other mysterious illnesses on his hands yet he is a paragon of virtue still to the population of the cognitively dissonant in the US. I still hear friends and acquaintances, many with advanced degrees knowingly guffawing at the "conspiracy theorists" when anything like this article comes up. In exactly the same vein, if anyone dares point out the continuing high rate of unexpected deaths in the West, these same folks roll their eyes. It's as though the Left has taken a pill that makes them stupid, incurious, and angry at the same time.
It’s a religion. Fauci is one of their many saints. Criticizing a saint in any way is considered a tremendous sin. Try talking about Saint Floyd’s many felonies and see what happens.
This information was known from the start. Essentially all of it. It is apparent that the US _and_ China are responsible; and the top virologists as well as Fauci and his minions were aware, and in many cases response.
Let me pose a question. If the US, or China, or any nuclear-armed country, "accidentally" detonated a nuclear weapon, killing as many people as Covid did, what would be the effect?
I know! The clown world NPC response, surely? --
"Let's not litigate the past. Instead let's focus on the future, and make sure this won't happen again."
While NIAID funds EcoHealth alliance yet again. Which is what they just did.
Yes, indeed. And biological weapons carry the same classification as nuclear weapons. They are both WMDs. The people responsible avoid reprisals because they are supranational entities.
So now another question quickly arises, given how much “inside baseball” was involved here, with a clear involvement from various U.S. entities and individuals involved, when and how long was it before Pfizer and Moderna were made aware or found out, about all of this given their record time in creating their vaccines (of questionable efficacy)? It would be difficult to imagine that in this small community of researchers and scientists, the pharma companies didn’t have some sort of inside track on all this research taking place. While not suggesting their direct involvement, I would suggest that somewhere along the way, early in the virus’ spread, they became aware of exactly what it was, where it came from and who was behind it, in order to come up with their over-hyped solutions. Just a thought.
I'd like to see a video mash up of all the liars and propagandists in the media who stomped on the lab leak theory, interspersed with clips of Rand Paul interrogating Fauci, concluding with whether or not funding of gain-of-function continues.
The virus was partly engineered at the lab in Wuhan but a lot of the work was done at labs in the USA and elsewhere. It really seems that China was tricked into developing the bioweapon, just as Putin was tricked into invading Ukraine, by the Western Oligarchy or Corporatocracy whatever you want to call it. It sure ain't a Democracy.
Evo Morales: "...I continue having doubts about …corona virus. I read…a report from the IMF that said…it’s important to reduce unnecessary population, & who are they? The old, the disabled, poor people, the working class. It looks like, brothers & sisters, that this pandemic is part of a biological war. Let the poor die, the old die, the disabled die.. It looks like… this pandemic is part of a biological war…”
This is Evo Morales, the former President of Bolivia that the U.S helped coup out of his own country.
A big one was the Iranian leadership who were badly affected by Covid right at the very beginning of the plandemic. Even before Italy. So how did Covid spread so early to the holy city of Qom in Iran which had negligible Chinese, unlike Italy which had Chinese garment workers? Ron Unz wrote a lot about it:
"...Most of these early cases had occurred exactly where one might expect, among the East Asian countries bordering China. But by late February Iran had become the second epicenter of the global outbreak. Even more surprisingly, its political elites had been especially hard-hit, with a full 10% of the entire Iranian parliament soon infected[35] and at least a dozen of its officials and politicians[36] dying of the disease, including some who were quite senior[37]. Indeed, Neocon activists on Twitter began gleefully noting.."
"... initial Iranian outbreak was also strangely centered on the Holy City of Qom, the home of that country’s elite political and religious leadership rather than in the far larger metropolis of Tehran....Wuhan is some 5,500 kilometers from Qom, so the latter city would hardly seem the most likely location for the next major appearance of the virus...By March additional major Covid outbreaks had also occurred in Northern Italy and soon afterwards Spain, but the circumstances were quite different. According to Wikipedia, some 300,000 Chinese[38] live and work in that Italian region while another 150,000 Chinese reside in Spain[39], ...By contrast, Iran’s total Chinese population is one of the smallest in the world, numbering just 5,000-9,000[40], and overwhelmingly concentrated in Tehran rather than Qom...."
"This long article will explain how Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was created as a result of intentional laboratory work. It will also show that the blueprint for Sars-Cov-2 was described in the “Project DEFUSE” proposal by Peter Daszak, which was preceded by years of relevant lab work and virus manipulation..."
A few important facts:
" Prashant’s Jan 2020 article about strange HIV Gp120 and “gag” inserts in Sars-Cov-2 was withdrawn in haste and under pressure during the weekend, which is unusual.
HIV-originated Gp120 inserts in Sars-Cov-2, described by Prashant, are meaningful and instrumental to COVID-19’s infecting immune cells, similarly to HIV.
Furin Cleavage Site in Sars-Cov-2 does not exist in other betacoronaviruses and is instrumental for pathogenicity.
Dr. Fauci is an expert on HIV and Gp120 glycoprotein and is a co-author of many articles and a coinventor of three Gp120 related patents, and no doubt understood what Prashant’s preprint meant, right away. Fauci and his associates, together with the likely creator of Sars-Cov-2 Peter Daszak, set out to cover up the origin of Sars-Cov-2.
Peter Daszak’s 2018 “Project DEFUSE” proposal describes exactly what Sars-Cov-2 actually is.
Sars-Cov-2 was possibly cultured on a Moderna MSH3 cell line containing a patented Moderna gene sequence CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG."
The mystery remains why the U.S. government continued to obfuscate in the face of this obvious early evidence, or to promote silly masking studies like the hairdresser comparison, or to insist on vaccinating younger people when the infection mortality rate is lower than for the flu for people under 40. Now the Cochrane study basically says masks are worthless (something Dr Fauci has said on more than one occasion)... I could go on. And yet our public health officials have not adjusted their guidance and don’t seem to acknowledge and adjust to the data. Why? The only coherent answer I’ve heard is in Robert Kennedy’s book about Fauci, which is a fascinating but very depressing read.
Political malfeasance on an epic scale. They say it’s never the crime that trips up the bad actors, but the attempted coverup. This crowd seems well-backed up and down the political spectrum as to be impervious to both.
“Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not today.” Apoorva Mandavilli, "science" reporter for the New York Times.
NEVER FORGET that when it came to one of the biggest stories of the century, an event that was used as a pretext for all sorts of power grabs and attacks on civil liberties, our legacy media, led by The Paper of Record, not only refused to investigate its origins, but denounced anyone who even considered the possibility that the Official Narrative was wrong, as RACISTS. (In the 21st century, the Bigotry Accusation is the first refuge of scoundrels.)
If you wanna talk about Patient Zero, here is symbolic evidence that speaks in a million different ways: about the degradation of American discourse, the transformation of the MSM into brazen bullying propagandists, the contempt the elite class has for its citizens, and the attempted takeover of Western societies by an arrogant globalist caste that lies at will and wants complete control of our lives and thoughts.
They killed millions of people and lied about it, knowing that since they owned the media their PR lapdogs would help them cover it up. Never believe a single word of their lies ever again.
Pandemic the result of scientists playing God in a lab funded by US taxpayers, in coordination with EcoHealth and NAID? Racist!
Pandemic the result of unsanitary cultural and dietary customs of the Chinese? Not Racist!
it will never cease to shock me how tribalism can make you believe the most obvious stupidity and how social pressure can turn brains to mush....of course Covid came from dining on live pangolin, you bigot!
Take that tribalism and multiply it by a corrupted media working alongside a corrupted government, then top it off with a thick layer of Social Media echo chambering and you have the perfect alternate reality shitcake.
Social media plus smartphones plus constant internet access have turned out to be the greatest brainwashing tools ever invented. The Algorithm is a cruel, capricious tyrant...
Only to those who succumb to its siren call of communal ignorance. For the rest of us there is Substack and Rumble
...and possibly Twitter.
Correct ! Just a big steaming pile from the Elite ( MSM, Social Media, Big Government, Universities, etc.).
😂🤣😂. My then 6 year old loves pangolins (no idea why, he likes weird animals - has a pet created gecko and wants an axolotl because they are “so cute” 🤦♀️). He was so irate the news, which is rarely on tv in our house, was trying to blame a pangolin. He kept rambling on about their lung capacity and talking about how it made no sense to think a “cute pangolin” in a “mean” outdoor wet market could infect human mammals with a respiratory virus.
In fairness the child would watch NatGeo documentaries as an 18- month old toddler and hated Disney shows. I distinctly remember when he was 4 and we were on a road trip hearing something on some NatGeo documentary he was watching about “mature bull elephants” and elephant mating rituals and saying to my husband “I think we racked up another parent fail.” 😂 The only “cartoons” he would watch were Splash and Bubbles, Octonauts, Wild Krafts, and Dino Train. Though he was still 6 - if it strains reasonableness for a 6 year old it should for adults as well. If anyone has babies I would recommend all of those. They are pretty cute. In fact a song about parrot fish pooping out sandy beaches is stuck in my head as I type this.
So accurate. Astutely describes the inherent racism of those who claim others are guilty of it. Very well observed, DAmbrosio.
Michael D--A, perfect. Question, how stupid is our public conversation? Answer: maximum.
Tactic Number One. Attack the speaker personally. Label the speaker a racist, Nazi, etc. When the article contains this, you know they are lying.
- Saul Alinsky "Rules For Radicals"
I was scrolling the legacy articles from late summer of 2020 and almost everyone that mentioned Covid also blamed tens of thousands of deaths on Trump himself. why? for not locking down the entire country? meanwhile the real culprit (NIH, EcoHealth, Fauci, Dazak, WIV etc) will get book deals and sacred candles with their likeness...
Within days of the CCP/WHO finally admitting that human-to-human transmission was indeed possible Trump took immediate action by shutting down all travel to China and was thoroughly savaged as a dirty racist and xenophobe for doing so.
Later, he would simultaneously be blamed for each and every (greatly exaggerated) COVID death and "not doing enough".
Just like how Biden and the hyena both trashed the MRNA jabs during the campaign, vowing to never inject themselves with anything developed under Trump. Three months later when they took power it became mandatory for the entire nation.
Hypocrisy much?
Fauci should get a blindfold. He does not deserve a cigarette.
I think more like a slow drip of AZT and Remdesivir ...
Touché!
This is Mao, Hitler and Stalin levels of death.
Nah, the Marxists and Nazis were worse.
Yeah, just under 7 million and counting. History will be adding the tally up over the next decades. But hey, Pol Pot was only responsible for maybe 2 million deaths. So Xi, Fauci/Collins/Daszak and Shi are still in a very small club.
The people who pushed pandemic hysteria and useless authoritarian mitigation are mostly this bizarre combination of promoting fascism in policy and Marxism in rhetoric......... they are doing the same 💩 shit on energy policy while using the promotion of race hate and child genital mutilation as cover.
To me the most chilling line was, "If you knew that this was likely a lab-enhanced pathogen, there are so many things you could have done differently."
Image how many lives, livelihoods, and economies might have been spared. Then again, Trump might have been reelected so to the elites and the Swamp it was worth the price.
Examples, please. And, while I'm at it: are we blaming the US gov or Chinese gov or who exactly for the spread of the virus?
Actually it was probably the Chinese government trying to conceal the leak and the democrats trying to utilize a pandemic to alter an election. Just my opinion of course.
Dan Steward
Examples of what, precisely? Lives potentially saved?
What is she thinking would have been done differently? Genuinely curious.
This is wonderfully put. The Left essentially owns all of the levers of discourse in media, higher education and government. Yet that is not enough for them; they must bully, cajole, disdain and shame any individual with the temerity to question their motives and veracity.
they dont call it "Total"itarianism for nuthin!
all fanatics and fundamentalists can't rest ez as long as they know someone somewhere disagrees with them.
If a smoking gun doesn’t appear in the pages of the "respectable" press, does it still smoke? For the good and virtuous people who get their news from NYT, WaPo and NPR this story simply doesn’t exist and never never never never will. For half the country Fauci et al are glorious heroes who did their best to save America from this mysterious pandemic. And so they will remain.
I thrive on a steady diet of cynicism like a (pre Biden) car eats gasoline, but even for me the despicable cynicism of this whole thing is overwhelming and disgusting.
“Never believe a single word of their lies ever again.”.....well said!
thx!
Amen !!!
“Today is not that day.” If you’ve been watching Silo, you’ve heard that one before.
“A Chinaman ate a bat” is a much less racist theory. Good job NYT 😂
May Apoorva Mandavilli rot in whatever hell her religion believes in...
Clever, you make my blood boil! It puts me in mind of your coinage - “the homeostasis of hate.”
Why do our betters treat us like this? Our elite, the chattering class, they are so reliably dishonest, it’s almost a parody. Dishonesty followed by a complete collapse in the narrative and then memory holing: that’s the pattern.
This ambient political conditioning from whence does it come? Hate was your previous answer, a homeostasis of hate and oh my, such cynicism; I think your mother would chastise you, be more trusting my son.
Why all the lying? Is it because they are stupid? I doubt it. Do they know they’re lying? I think they do know.
I think it is the rewards, money and status, imagine being a New York Times reporter, how cool are you! So you whore yourself. You know you have to go along to get along. To get ahead, you have to give some head.
Prostitution is the oldest profession, yes, because of the biological urge, but more importantly, because she is our great great grandmother and our progenitor, we all need to whore ourselves to get along in this world. And the rewards of being a CNN employee, or better a reporter, now you’re mother would be proud!
I read a lot of Michael Crichton novels when I was a teen in the '90s, but as entertaining as they were I always thought he was overly alarmist. Now I get it. This is exactly the combination of scientific arrogance, ambition, and incompetence he was warning about.
"They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race." - Michael Crichton
“A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored.”
Andromeda Strain
I *love* that movie.
I call it the "Hold My Beer" method of scientific inquiry.
Swiss Policy Research published much of this, including those who were sick related to the Wuhan lab, and the clevage CCG stuff, in the first half of 2020. Before Substack blew up and Brownstone was founded. It was and is one of the few places to find truthful information, actual data, and cited sources.
Website
https://swprs.org
Every time I’d try to share something from them “but that’s a right wing site - it can’t be trusted”
🤦♂️
That site doesn’t say what I want to hear, so it must ...
I shared the underlying links, along with dashboard info...... I think if you look it up it says crazy stuff on like Wikipedia, but even my 4th grader isn’t allowed to cite is as a source in school because it’s so wrong. 😂. I haven’t looked in a while. The Ukraine stuff is interesting.......
"Ethos / Pathos / Logos" ... has been transformed into... "Ethos uber alles" ... where Ethos just seems to appear magically out of nowhere and is never questioned. That's the power of modern propaganda on the lazy.
Thank you. Damn! Matt and Michael's substacks and their followers deliver the goods!
However, the Swiss were among the worst offenders in applying medieval medical demands/recommendations to its populace. They were overly pleased with creating a police state through the entirety of 2020 well after it became clear to any sentient medical scientist that lockdowns, masking and the life were completely uselss.
Swiss Policy Research doesn’t have anything to do with the actual Swiss. Go look at the website. I posted it above
Another “conspiracy theory” revealed to be true.
The real question is why is our ruling class so desperate to protect the CCP and parrot their propaganda?
At this point, I'm about ready to believe that the CIA killed Kennedy and that 9/11 was an inside job.
Sadly, both are most assuredly true.
Assuredly? 9/11 being an inside job strains credulity.
You got the cart before the horse. Step #1 = Forensic Analysis. Who, what or why is done afterwards by licensed investigators with the power of subpoena.
Point #1: WTC7 was not hit by a plane and the observed fall could only have occurred by simultaneous severing of all 81 structural steel columns concluded the University Alaska computer analysis and simulation of the tower collapse. It is flatly impossible for fire to cause that to happen
Point #2: It is also flatly impossible for a 757 giant aircraft to burrow its way into a hole in the ground leaving no wreckage on the surface. That goes beyond "strain credulity", that goes into the area of inventing new laws of Physics to explain it.
There is a lot more forensic evidence in addition to that. They all fit very well with the controlled demolition of the 3 WTC buildings. Most likely the planes were drones with a known remote control pod attached under the belly of the aircraft, as witnessed & videotaped.
My parents back door neighbor died on the plane that crashed, leaving behind a baby boy she was head over heels in love with, and my cousins was working in DC as an air traffic controller on 9-11. Those planes were not drones being remotely controlled and those who died on them were very real humans who left a lot of actual heartache behind for their grieving families.
That's not how it was done. There was a nearby air base that was evacuated, everyone told to stay home. The 4 planes were flown there. That's where the impossible phone calls were made, including one in which a lady called her boyfriend leaving a message ending with the phrase: "It's a frame". Also peculiar language used like they were reading from a script written by someone who is not a native American, likely East European. After that the passengers were likely gassed and murdered.
Obviously Flight 93 was meant to hit WTC7 but the control system malfunctioned, the plane veered off course and had to be shot down, spreading wreckage (but no bodies) over a wide area. The Pentagon hit though was likely a missile, that's why the FBI confiscated some 80 videotapes of the incident and hasn't released any to this day.
9/11 PODs and Remote Control Plane Theory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMayTWzOGY0
9/11 PODs and Remote Control Plane Theory - video Dailymotion WTC2 video, Flight 175, Boeing 767-222/ER:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2p7wmu
Gallery | 9/11 Anomalies Plane Boeing 767 crash into WTC2 pictures, remote control pod
https://911anomalies.wordpress.com/gallery/
"....First off, all serious researchers aside from Morgan Reynolds (a former Bush economist) agree that planes actually hit the towers, however the planes that hit the towers had no windows and extra equipment attached (PODs) and are believed to be remote control drone aircraft. In fact, a similar plan was devised in 1962 by Robert McNamara called OPERATION NORTHWOODS which detailed flying an aircraft filled with FBI agents (allegedly college students on vacation) in flight the plane would switch transponder signals with a drone aircraft which would then be shot down over Cuba. The FBI agents on the plane would then land safely and resume new covert identities. There is evidence that a similar plot was hatched on 9/11:
Thomas Deatherage, Former Airline Captain B- 747-400 and B- 737-300: "After viewing many posted videos on "Youtube" I can tell you without hesitation that clearly aircraft # 2 B-767 - was radio controlled into the building Tower 2. The "pod" mounted on the bottom of the aircraft, is manufactured by "Martin Marietta" Corporation in Los Angeles. The pod has been used extensively by the USAF for outfitting drone aircraft for over 22 years, and you can clearly see it in (4) of the amateur videos- just before impact, with tower # 2. Also, I would like to find an insider A and P mechanic at both United and America to cross reference the A/C serial number of flight 77 and 93. I guarantee that they change the N issued tail number. However, one could trace and find this original A/C, from an insider employee, at these companies- leading to the smoking gun these aircraft were not destroyed."
MARTIN MARIETTA LANTIRN NAVIGATION AND TARGETING SYSTEM: The system consists of two externally-mounted pods carried on some fighter aircraft. LANTIRN was first employed during the Persian Gulf War.
Development of LANTIRN began in 1980, and the first production pod was delivered in 1987. The AAQ-13 navigation pod contains a Forward Looking InfraRed sensor (FLIR) and a Terrain Following Radar (TFR). FLIR imagery provides the pilot a view of terrain ahead of the aircraft at night. The TFR allows "hands-off" flight as low as 100 feet above the ground while avoiding obstacles in the aircraft's path. The AAQ-14 targeting pod has a FLIR and a laser designator/ranger to "illuminate" or mark the target for laser-guided bomb deliveries. The USAF ordered LANTIRN pods for F-15E and selected F-16C/D fighters. ..."
https://rumble.com/v2pkds0-911-who-did-it-and-how-rebekah-roth-talks-to-bill-ryan.html
From everything I’ve read I agree on 9-11, but I got some questions on the Kennedy assassination, and the more I read on that the more the official narrative strains credulity.
Pretty sure about CIA but not ready for 9/11 yet.
You need to get ready. We got this Covid Plandemic because people turned a blind eye to the JFK, RFK & MLK assassinations and then went completely blind after 9/11.
The conspiracy isn’t that 9-11 was a controlled demolition with remote control airplanes or any of that nonsense. The likely conspiracy is that the US Intelligence agencies knew about the plot before hand and did nothing to stop it or even possibly helped nudge it along (like the Gretchen Whitmire kidnapping). Whether this was done via sheer incompetence or malice is hard to tell but I think the conspiracy has merit.
“The buildings were wired with Thermite, jet fuel can’t melt steel beams!” Argument is kinda silly. Don’t go down that rabbit hole
I've had my suspicions since watching GW Bush's reaction to the news while reading to those little kids. Too composed.
I think both of those cases are similar to COVID; nothing nefarious, just a massive screwup followed by a desperate attempt to cover up the screwup, making the subsequent conspiracy theories inevitable.
Bush was briefed on Al Qaeda, but took his cues from conservative media at the time and assumed it was a a distraction ginned up by Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal.
With Kennedy, I think the FBI or CIA attempted or successfully recruited Oswald as an asset based on his time in the USSR, then he went rogue.
No way. It was flatly impossible for those buildings to collapse the way they did without using demolition charges. Especially WTC7 which wasn't even hit by an airplane:
WTC 7 Not Destroyed by Fire, Concludes Final University of Alaska Fairbanks Report:
ae911truth.org/news/656-wtc-7-not-destroyed-by-fire-concludes-final-university-of-alaska-fairbanks-report
“The only way it could have fallen in the observed manner is by the near-simultaneous failure of every column.” — Professor Leroy Hulsey
And giant 757 airplanes, going 580mph, can't disappear into a small hole in the ground. Flatly impossible, the impact would rip the plane into pieces. There was this guy called Isaac Newton who had this law of motion F=ma the force on an object is equal to its mass times its acceleration. It very much applies in this instance.
https://hoodwinkedatshanksville.blogspot.com/2007/03/back-in-black-boxes.html
That's about where I am, especially with 9/11 since I lived through it. I very much remember how poorly coordinated and incompetent the "war on terror" was afterwards. I can absolutely believe that that administration was dumb and evil enough to turn a blind eye to and then take advantage of a real tragedy for profit, but I can't quite believe they orchestrated it up front.
Couldn’t Al Qaeda have set the explosives too?
At first news media seemed to be going with that premise, after all the reports by people hearing explosions in the buildings before the impacts. But then they realized it would be very hard to fit that story into their narrative so the authorities totally denounced it.
I remember reading years ago that Bush’s response to the CIA agent who briefed him on the “Al Qaeda Determined to Strike the US” memo was “OK, you’ve covered your ass” then focusing on Russia and China for the rest of the meeting. As someone who also lived through 9/11 and the Bush administration, this is 100% believable.
I mean, if I had funded a plague that killed millions of people, after extolling the virtues of Gain of Function in the Washington Post just a few years earlier, I’d probably do the same thing as Fauci. I never expected him to come forward and admit he fucked up.
What I did expect was for quality journalists to get to the bottom of this shit 2.5 years ago.
You built an expectation on seriously faulty assumptions. How many "quality journalists" still exist at WaPo and NYT? Certainly they appear to be unserious and incurious about a lot of what those two rags "investigate".
"How many "quality journalists" still exist at WaPo and NYT?" I can answer that:
ZERO.
Yeah... I wasn't really paying attention to the journalism "scene" the last 8 years (pretty much after having kids I stopped following the news as religiously as I did in my 20s and early 30s. For reference last I watched MSNBC Matt Taibbi was still on it.
I really wasn't ready for what happened when I stopped watching. Thought there'd be way more Katherine Ebans and Alex Berensons.
Journalists have been silenced by money from Corporate Media. Watch Jordan Peterson interview RFK Jr. They talk about Big Pharm and it’s control over Corporate Media.
Follow the money. Follow the cowardice.
Like the NBA $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
That’s what baffles me though. You’d think they would have figured out by now that the Chinese are just going to use your company to bootstrap their domestic industries, steal your IP, then cancel the contract the second they have everything they need.
And start killing everyone but Han Chinese transplanted from China
The mainstream media is so attached to the Democratic Party Establishment, that happens to exercise an unseemly large amount of influence over the federal law enforcement bureaucracy, and are so obsessed with controlling the party-approved narrative, they refuse to admit they don’t know what they’re doing.
The media (with academia behind it) is so powerful that a case can be made that the relationship you describe is actually the inverse. It’s not state run media, it’s a media run state. The Democratic Party is actually doing the bidding of the NYT, not the other way around.
Look up “the cathedral” for more information.
I'll check out cathedral.
But, I just want to say something else about the bizarre "happenings" we've all been experiencing.
The treasury is being looted, industries are being dismantled, farmlands and fields are left fallow, slaughterhouses, food processing centers are burning, cargo ships wait weeks out-to-sea for their turn to dock and unload its cargo.
Whatever it is the Leftist Democrats are planning is certainly not worth destroying our country over.
Anthony Fauci has blood and cancer and heart failure and a host of other mysterious illnesses on his hands yet he is a paragon of virtue still to the population of the cognitively dissonant in the US. I still hear friends and acquaintances, many with advanced degrees knowingly guffawing at the "conspiracy theorists" when anything like this article comes up. In exactly the same vein, if anyone dares point out the continuing high rate of unexpected deaths in the West, these same folks roll their eyes. It's as though the Left has taken a pill that makes them stupid, incurious, and angry at the same time.
Mass formation. Just as a flock of sheep is stupider than each individual sheep.
It’s a religion. Fauci is one of their many saints. Criticizing a saint in any way is considered a tremendous sin. Try talking about Saint Floyd’s many felonies and see what happens.
There must be millions of reasons why Biden would go easy on China
As in millions of dollars.
This information was known from the start. Essentially all of it. It is apparent that the US _and_ China are responsible; and the top virologists as well as Fauci and his minions were aware, and in many cases response.
Let me pose a question. If the US, or China, or any nuclear-armed country, "accidentally" detonated a nuclear weapon, killing as many people as Covid did, what would be the effect?
I know! The clown world NPC response, surely? --
"Let's not litigate the past. Instead let's focus on the future, and make sure this won't happen again."
While NIAID funds EcoHealth alliance yet again. Which is what they just did.
Yes, indeed. And biological weapons carry the same classification as nuclear weapons. They are both WMDs. The people responsible avoid reprisals because they are supranational entities.
Fauci is a criminal against humanity and should have his punishment televised live worldwide.
So now another question quickly arises, given how much “inside baseball” was involved here, with a clear involvement from various U.S. entities and individuals involved, when and how long was it before Pfizer and Moderna were made aware or found out, about all of this given their record time in creating their vaccines (of questionable efficacy)? It would be difficult to imagine that in this small community of researchers and scientists, the pharma companies didn’t have some sort of inside track on all this research taking place. While not suggesting their direct involvement, I would suggest that somewhere along the way, early in the virus’ spread, they became aware of exactly what it was, where it came from and who was behind it, in order to come up with their over-hyped solutions. Just a thought.
Politicians cover up themselves. FBI covers up pols. Press covers everyone, then labels opponents as terrorists.
Pffff, that's why I focus on tryna get laid, unreal how rigged it is.
I'd like to see a video mash up of all the liars and propagandists in the media who stomped on the lab leak theory, interspersed with clips of Rand Paul interrogating Fauci, concluding with whether or not funding of gain-of-function continues.
If Matt Orfalea at Racket News hasn't put something together yet, I'd be surprised.
Narrator: there was no “full accounting”
But President Trump was acting like a bigot for calling it a Chinese Virus. By the way a very good article. Thanks
Dan Steward
The virus was partly engineered at the lab in Wuhan but a lot of the work was done at labs in the USA and elsewhere. It really seems that China was tricked into developing the bioweapon, just as Putin was tricked into invading Ukraine, by the Western Oligarchy or Corporatocracy whatever you want to call it. It sure ain't a Democracy.
Evo Morales: "...I continue having doubts about …corona virus. I read…a report from the IMF that said…it’s important to reduce unnecessary population, & who are they? The old, the disabled, poor people, the working class. It looks like, brothers & sisters, that this pandemic is part of a biological war. Let the poor die, the old die, the disabled die.. It looks like… this pandemic is part of a biological war…”
This is Evo Morales, the former President of Bolivia that the U.S helped coup out of his own country.
A big one was the Iranian leadership who were badly affected by Covid right at the very beginning of the plandemic. Even before Italy. So how did Covid spread so early to the holy city of Qom in Iran which had negligible Chinese, unlike Italy which had Chinese garment workers? Ron Unz wrote a lot about it:
"...Most of these early cases had occurred exactly where one might expect, among the East Asian countries bordering China. But by late February Iran had become the second epicenter of the global outbreak. Even more surprisingly, its political elites had been especially hard-hit, with a full 10% of the entire Iranian parliament soon infected[35] and at least a dozen of its officials and politicians[36] dying of the disease, including some who were quite senior[37]. Indeed, Neocon activists on Twitter began gleefully noting.."
"... initial Iranian outbreak was also strangely centered on the Holy City of Qom, the home of that country’s elite political and religious leadership rather than in the far larger metropolis of Tehran....Wuhan is some 5,500 kilometers from Qom, so the latter city would hardly seem the most likely location for the next major appearance of the virus...By March additional major Covid outbreaks had also occurred in Northern Italy and soon afterwards Spain, but the circumstances were quite different. According to Wikipedia, some 300,000 Chinese[38] live and work in that Italian region while another 150,000 Chinese reside in Spain[39], ...By contrast, Iran’s total Chinese population is one of the smallest in the world, numbering just 5,000-9,000[40], and overwhelmingly concentrated in Tehran rather than Qom...."
Sars-Cov-2 was Lab Made Under Project DEFUSE:
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/sars-cov-2-was-lab-made-under-project
"This long article will explain how Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was created as a result of intentional laboratory work. It will also show that the blueprint for Sars-Cov-2 was described in the “Project DEFUSE” proposal by Peter Daszak, which was preceded by years of relevant lab work and virus manipulation..."
A few important facts:
" Prashant’s Jan 2020 article about strange HIV Gp120 and “gag” inserts in Sars-Cov-2 was withdrawn in haste and under pressure during the weekend, which is unusual.
HIV-originated Gp120 inserts in Sars-Cov-2, described by Prashant, are meaningful and instrumental to COVID-19’s infecting immune cells, similarly to HIV.
Furin Cleavage Site in Sars-Cov-2 does not exist in other betacoronaviruses and is instrumental for pathogenicity.
Dr. Fauci is an expert on HIV and Gp120 glycoprotein and is a co-author of many articles and a coinventor of three Gp120 related patents, and no doubt understood what Prashant’s preprint meant, right away. Fauci and his associates, together with the likely creator of Sars-Cov-2 Peter Daszak, set out to cover up the origin of Sars-Cov-2.
Peter Daszak’s 2018 “Project DEFUSE” proposal describes exactly what Sars-Cov-2 actually is.
Sars-Cov-2 was possibly cultured on a Moderna MSH3 cell line containing a patented Moderna gene sequence CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG."
SmithFS, it sounds like the US really is the Great Satan :-(
With the US military, FBI, CIA, NSA under control of the global financial Mafia of Malthusian Psychopath Parasites, it sure is.
The GFMMPP? Is that another fed agency?
The mystery remains why the U.S. government continued to obfuscate in the face of this obvious early evidence, or to promote silly masking studies like the hairdresser comparison, or to insist on vaccinating younger people when the infection mortality rate is lower than for the flu for people under 40. Now the Cochrane study basically says masks are worthless (something Dr Fauci has said on more than one occasion)... I could go on. And yet our public health officials have not adjusted their guidance and don’t seem to acknowledge and adjust to the data. Why? The only coherent answer I’ve heard is in Robert Kennedy’s book about Fauci, which is a fascinating but very depressing read.
Political malfeasance on an epic scale. They say it’s never the crime that trips up the bad actors, but the attempted coverup. This crowd seems well-backed up and down the political spectrum as to be impervious to both.