Tuesday, February 11, 2020

1124 Chinese Communist Party, in video on WeChat, says Wuhan coronavirus was created by U.S. to attack China

Chinese Communist Party, in video on WeChat, says Wuhan coronavirus was
created by U.S. to attack China

Newsletter published on February 11, 2020

(1) Chinese military website: Wuhan Coronavirus is manmade by the U.S.
(2) Chinese Communist Party, in video on WeChat, says Wuhan coronavirus
was created by U.S. to attack China
(3) Yoichi Shimatsu and incitement to War
(4) Don't incite Fear
(5) Israel Shamir: whose Overstatement?

(1) Chinese military website: Wuhan Coronavirus is manmade by the U.S.

By GM35, 2020-02-04 18:33

https://gnews.org/author/joan2ski/

On Feb 1, 2020, the most influential Chinese military website
<http://www.xilu.com> www.xilu.com published an article to acknowledge
that the Wuhan coronavirus is manmade accusing the U.S. of creating such
bioweapon against china.

https://gnews.org/102795/

(2) Chinese Communist Party, in video on WeChat, says Wuhan coronavirus
was created by U.S. to attack China


The video cities this research paper:
Xu2020_Article_EvolutionOfTheNovelCoronavirus.pdf

https://gnews.org/101180/

CCP says Wuhan coronavirus was created by the U.S. to attack China

By GM35 - 2020-02-03 00:45010212

Last updated at 8 PM ET on Monday, Feb 3.

In this propaganda video spread on WeChat, the Chinese Communist Party
says that the Wuhan coronavirus was created by the U.S. to attack China.

The Chinese Communist Party is spreading a video linking Wuhan
Coronavirus to the U.S.

CCP video with English subtitle added by GNews: (Please feel free to
download and distribute)

The Orginal CCP video without English subtitle:

English transcript from the video:

Chinese scientists uncovered terrible secrets. Four proteins identified
in the virus were changed for a precision attack — specifically against
genes found in Chinese people.

Multiple research papers analyzing the novel coronavirus have already
concluded that this virus could not have come from the natural world.
Finally, the evidence is here.

On January 21st, three researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences
published a joint paper in the "Science China Life Sciences" journal,
written in English. They revealed the truth about the novel coronavirus,
so please watch this news closely.

There were three researchers who found this information — Pei Hao, a
researcher from Institute Pasteur of Shanghai and the Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Wu Zhong, a researcher from National Engineering Research
Center for the Emergence Drugs, Academy of Military Medical Sciences,
and Xuan Li, a researcher from Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, CAS
Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences.

Together, they published a joint paper in "Science China Life Sciences"
online journal in English to provide a scientific and academic
explanation for the evolution, source, and human transmission of the
Wuhan novel coronavirus.

The most important conclusion of the findings is this:

even though four of Wuhan CoV’s most important proteins (interface amino
acid residues) have been changed, the Wuhan novel coronavirus
(2019-nCov) has been found to have a significant binding affinity to
human ACE2.

The researchers were shocked when they compared the SARS S-protein with
Wuhan CoV’s S-protein and found that it doesn’t alter the structural
composition of the virus even though four amino acids were replaced.

The 3-D structures identified in the RBD domain are almost identical —
so, it is no wonder that the Wuhan CoV’s similarity to SARS can easily
mislead people into believing that it is SARS.

This research points to an important discovery that the Wuhan CoV
S-protein supports strong interaction with human ACE2 molecules, which
can lead to infecting the epithelial cells in the upper respiratory tract.

This discovery also told us that Wuhan CoV is highly contagious by design.

This research has laid a theoretical foundation for China to develop
control, test, and intervention of Wuhan CoV in a scientific way.

After reading the research report, people are outraged in disbelief.

The key point of all these findings is that "four of the important
S-protein have been replaced in Wuhan Coronavirus".

First, the purpose is to disguise Wuhan CoV as SARS to make it more
difficult for medical researchers and doctors to differentiate it from
SARS. This misleads them into taking SARS-like prevention measures,
which can result in the delay of treatment and increased spread of the
virus.

Secondly, it is so contagious that it spreads rapidly by design.

Can this type of crime through biotechnology against humanity be
committed by bats or bamboo rats?

Ten thousand years of evolution cannot produce this type of precise
altering of four important S-proteins!

The fact that the Wuhan virus was created in a lab under human influence
Is indisputable. This is inhumane to the extreme.

In 2010, China won the battle against the SARS virus.

In 2015, the PLA hospital won battles against the Ebola virus in Africa.

This time, our enemy picked Chinese New Year for a new viral outbreak.

We are facing a new challenge.

All medical research and epidemic prevention personnel in our country
have entered a war-ready state.

All the people in the country are on high alert and are combat-ready.

The Chinese people will win this war.

The perpetrators will be punished by heaven.

The imperialists never stop destroying, attacking or trying to contain us.

The fast rise of China makes the imperialists tear down all their
disguises to attack us openly.

Our enemies are reckless and unscrupulous, so we must fight back
reciprocally.

Let’s emphasize again. We are human. We must do it in a human way. "A
tooth for a tooth", "blood for blood".

Look at the American’s shocking plan from SARS to Wuhan pneumonia!

Sixteen years after the last SARS epidemic, a novel coronavirus
mysterious emerged in China…

(3) Yoichi Shimatsu and incitement to War
- by Peter Myers, Feb 11, 2020

Someone sent me an article by Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of the
Japan Times, in which he says that the Coronavirus in China was
engineered by Japan's Unit 731. It was published on Rense.

I refused to publish it.

Such statements are incendiary.

I can't see that Shimatsu could be right, because
- China is so close to Japan. The virus would quickly spread to Japan too.
- Japan is hosting the 2020 Olympics, which may need to be postponed or
cancelled. They would not have jeopardised their own Games.

I am reluctant to publish material attributing the outbreak to a
deliberate plant by the US, Japan, Britain etc.

We are talking about inciting war. One would need good evidence for it.

Who knows what China's response would be if his view took hold. You know
how Chinese mobs can get carried away.

In the past Yoichi Shimatsu has put out a lot of lurid stories. E.g. he
said that the Fukushima nuclear disaster was deliberately triggered by
the US setting off a targeted earthquake under the ocean. Benjamin
Fulford said the same. But I never saw them produce a signature of the
event. Fulford is another person whose material I don't use.

There's another reason why I'm not using Shimatsu's stories on
Coronavirus. He disparages Zero Hedge as 'disinformation'. But I find
them one of the best sites on this issue. GreatGameIndia likewise.

Larouche literature constantly accuses the "British", by which they mean
the Anglo-American Empire, of intent to make war on China.

Such material is dangerous. Material from EIR, the main Larouche outlet,
is published in China Daily.

I have presented evidence that the Coronovirus inflicting China was
created in a lab. There are only two possibilities:
- one, that it accidentally leaked from Wuhan Institute of Virology
- two, that it was planted by the USA.

The local leak in Wuhan is much more likely.

But given the devastation, the Chinese public will want to hold someone
accountable. Although that could be local workers at the Lab, the regime
as a whole is implicated, because it's pushing the "Made in China 2025"
agenda, a sort of 10-year plan to achieve economic independence and
dominance.

So the Government, to retain the Mandate of Heaven, is shifting the
blame to the USA.

However, this could incite war; if not now, then later, as a
contributing factor.

It looks as if this Coronavirus is going to spread worldwide. It affects
all races; Europeans and Black Africans have been infected.

China's draconian measures will probably contain its spread within
China. But then the rest of the world will have to deal with it.

It's unlikely that other countries will be able to suppress transmission
in the highly controlled way China is doing. Therefore there's likely to
be a substantial death toll, worldwide. Healthy people will survive, but
those with weak immune systems could succomb.

Unless some way is found to stop it, this virus will curtail tourism,
business travel, and "just in time" manufacturing. It will make city
life impossible, and ruin the world economy.

Imagine all the airconditioned buildings, buses, trains, planes etc,
vulnerable to aerosol transmission of such a virus.

It's not in ANY country's interest to plant such a disease; it will
attack us all, sooner or later.

(4) Don't incite Fear

From: Diane Marino <dmdeedee@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Billionaire Whistleblower: Wuhan crematoriums have cremated
50,000 bodies (CNN)

All of this is new to incite fear in the minds of the world.  There are
massive assumptions and propaganda listed in this email and showing
headlines to grab viewer attention.

Inciting fear over another virus with conflicting reports across the
media outlets is a tactic of control and domination.  This manmade virus
was a deliberate sabotage of China for economic reasons to knock them
out of their #1 spot on the GDP in the world  pushing the U.S. from
their perch.  The Communists of USA and Israel no doubt are the ones
responsible for China's horrible attack.

I am sure there are other agendas that will be coming from this virus in
China that we just can't know right now.  As with 9-11 it is always a
multi-faceted agenda used in their corruption filled playbook!

Comment (Peter M.):

I said, citing Francis Boyle and others, that Coronoavirus was an
accident. Developed in a lab, yes, a weapon, probably an unfinished one,
but only accidentally leaked.

But you liken it to 911, which was an intentional act, a conspiracy in
high places. It's much more dangerous to impute that to Coronoavirus,
than what I said. Because it invites retribution.

The similarity is not to 911, but to Chernobyl. This Coronoavirus is
China's Chernobyl. But it looks like infecting the whole world.

As Francis Boyle said, all the BSL-4s should be shut down.

(5) Israel Shamir: whose Overstatement?

From: israel shamir <israel.shamir@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Billionaire Whistleblower: Wuhan crematoriums have cremated
50,000 bodies (CNN)

Billionaire Whistleblower: Wuhan Coronavirus Death Toll Is Over 50,000
and all of them are Uygur tortured to death by Commies.

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1123 Billionaire Whistleblower: Wuhan crematoriums have cremated 50,000 bodies (CNN)

Billionaire Whistleblower: Wuhan crematoriums have cremated 50,000
bodies (CNN)

Newsletter published on February 10, 2020

If your Immune System is strong, you should survive - see item 4. Be
aware, but stay calm.

(1) Billionaire Whistleblower: Wuhan crematoriums have cremated 50,000
bodies (CNN)
(2) Massive release of Sulfur Dioxide gas from the outskirts of Wuhan
(3) Chinese Copper buyers cancel Orders; price of Copper plunges
(4) Wuhan ICU Doctor: "For most, the illness is over in 2 weeks; those
with weak immune systems will die in 3 weeks"
(5) Wuhan coronavirus spreads by aerosol transmission (Air
Conditioning?); but killed by Bleach
(6) Eighty cities in China are under lockdown, including Beijing

(1) Billionaire Whistleblower: Wuhan crematoriums have cremated 50,000
bodies (CNN)

https://www.ccn.com/billionaire-whistleblower-wuhan-coronavirus-death-toll-is-over-50000/

Published: February 9, 2020 3:54 PM UTC

Billionaire Whistleblower: Wuhan Coronavirus Death Toll Is Over 50,000

Exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui recently revealed leaks from Wuhan
crematoriums. He claims based on the number of bodies their furnaces are
burning, the death toll could be as high as 50,000.

Author Image  Author: W. E. Messamore @thehuli coronavirus A Chinese
billionaire and whistleblower who lives in U.S. exile says Wuhan
crematoriums have burned 50,000 coronavirus victims. | Credit:
Chinatopix via AP

The official coronavirus death toll in China is a little over 800. But
an exiled Chinese businessman says crematoriums are leaking the real
figure. A billionaire whistleblower alleges Wuhan has crematoriums
working 24/7. He claims they’ve cremated some 50,000 coronavirus
victims. Guo Wengui is a Chinese billionaire living in exile in the
United States. The official coronavirus death toll is some 800 people in
China. The current official death toll worldwide, outside of China, is
774. But a Chinese billionaire with a history of blowing the whistle on
his former government says the real figure is much higher.

Exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui recently revealed leaks from Wuhan
crematoriums. He claims based on the number of bodies their furnaces are
burning, the death toll could be as high as 50,000. Wengui made the
bombshell allegations in an interview with former White House chief
strategist Steve Bannon.

Whistleblower: 1.5 Million Coronavirus Cases In China, 50,000
Coronavirus Deaths In Wuhan He also claims to have inside information
that there are 1.5 million confirmed coronavirus cases in China. Wengui
is emphatic that these are not merely quarantined or "under observation"
but confirmed cases of coronavirus infection:

So I got inside information. The truth is 1.5 million people is not only
[an] observation, [it] is confirmed [cases]. And the number of people
who have died, as the burned bodies show, [is] more than 50,000. [...]

Wengui is a mysterious and controversial figure. After falling into
disfavor with the Communist Party of China, the real estate developer
fled to the United States in 2015.

China has charged him with rape, bribery, kidnapping, money laundering,
and fraud. But the U.S. has declined to extradite him. Guo has published
a number of other allegations of corruption among top Chinese officials.
VICE news says they’re a mixed bag. Some have been proven false, some
have been neither verified nor disproved, and others have turned out to
be accurate.

Crematoriums Are Working Overtime To Handle Coronavirus Death Toll

Wengui says there are 49 crematoriums in Wuhan, and they’ve been working
24/7 for 17 days. Last week, a crematorium worker identified as "Mr.
Yun" told a Chinese newspaper he and co-workers have been working 24
hours a day:

Almost all staff at each funeral home in Wuhan are fully equipped, and
all Wuhan cremation chambers are working 24 hours.

Mr. Yun says at his location alone, 100 body bags are required a day.
The Epoch Times does have a strong anti-communist party bias, but it has
not failed any fact checks in the past. And its reporting in the case of
Mr. Yun was picked up by the Daily Mail.

Not all the bodies going into the Wuhan crematoriums are victims of
coronavirus. There is still the usual number of deaths from other
causes. But these account for a small number of the new round-the-clock
pace of cremations.

One crematorium manager told a Hong Kong reporter that, in normal times,
his 24 ovens were lit five days a week for four hours at a time. Now, he
said, they have so many corpses to deal with that all the ovens are
going around the clock.

With reports like these, and the Chinese government’s history of
suppressing information to maintain its idea of order, the official
coronavirus figures are very questionable.

The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the
views of CCN.com.

This article was edited by Gerelyn Terzo.

(2) Massive release of Sulfur Dioxide gas from the outskirts of Wuhan
https://twitter.com/inteldotwav/status/1226267582740811777

@inteldotwav

Data from http://windy.com shows a massive release of sulfur dioxide gas
from the outskirts of Wuhan, commonly associated with the burning of
organic matters. Levels are elevated, even compared with the rest of China.

 From the same time, using the same scale - notice that the emissions
are heightened across the board. Only other city that comes near to it
is Chongquing, which is also afflicted by the #coronavirus.

(3) Chinese Copper buyers cancel Orders; price of Copper plunges

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/chinese-copper-buyers-cancel-orders-around-globe-economy-grinds-halt

Chinese Copper Buyers Cancel Orders Around The Globe As Economy Grinds
To A Halt

by Tyler Durden Sun, 02/09/2020 - 15:15 0

While Beijing has been doing everything in its power to keep equity
markets artificially supported to avoid a collapse in the precious
"wealth effect" and investor sentiment, throwing the kitchen sink at
equities and in addition to a record liquidity injection...

... rate and tax cuts, and various fiscal stimulus measures, outright
banning the shorting of stocks, there is one indicator that Beijing has
been unable to manipulate. Ominously, it is the one indicator that leads
overall Chinese output and suggests that the world's 2nd largest economy
has hit a brick wall.

We are talking, of course, about Dr. copper, that age-old barometer for
the health of the global economy, which after rebounding modestly from a
record 13-day drop, has once again resumed sliding, in the process
creating a gaping divergence with the US equity market, which so far has
shown an immunity - so to speak - to any concerns about viruses or
frankly anything else.

But why is the price of copper plunging, and why has this most popular
barometer for the state of the global economy disconnected from both
Chinese stocks and the S&P500?

Simple: while China's "National Team" still has enough firepower to
intervene in the stock market, where it can just outright ban selling
and print any amount of liquidity it needs to push stocks higher, it
lacks the funds to offset the collapse in demand from Chinese copper
buyers on the ground, who have seen the writing on the wall for China's
economy - the world’s largest buyer of the orange metal - and have
literally torn up contracts, or as the FT reports, "copper traders in
China... have asked miners from Chile to Nigeria to cancel or delay
shipments" due to a freefall in copper demand.

According to the report, "multiple Chinese copper buyers said they had
scrapped or postponed overseas orders by declaring force majeure since
the end of January, when Beijing began to report a surge in coronavirus
infections."

As for the reason why copper demand is collapsing, China’s efforts to
contain the virus, ranging from restricting highway traffic to extending
the lunar new year holiday, have affected industrial activity and raised
concerns about growth in the world’s second-biggest economy. In fact, as
we reported on Friday, according to JPMorgan China's Q1 GDP is already
set to plunge from 6% to 1%...

... and while a rebound in Q2 is expected as Beijing gets the pandemic
under control, this may end up an overly optimistic assumption for a
nation where some speculate as many as 1.5 million are now infected.
Indeed, even JPM admits that unless the pandemic is contained in the
next few weeks, China's GDP may crash as much as -4% in Q1, ending all
hopes for a quick rebound, and in the process potentially triggering a
global recession, if not depression.

It's not just copper that is seeing an implosion in demand: Chinese
buyers of liquefied natural gas have also considered declaring force
majeure, a clause that identifies natural disasters or other unavoidable
catastrophes as cause for not fulfilling a contract.

Quoted by the FT, a manager at Guangzhou Zhongshan Trade, a non-ferrous
metal trading firm in southern China that focuses on copper and
antimony, said that "Coronavirus has had a huge impact on copper demand
as downstream users [involved in processing raw copper] have stopped
acquiring raw material." Guangzhou Zhongshan this week asked suppliers
in Chile and Somalia to delay shipments of 500 tonnes of copper worth
about Rmb25m ($3.57m) for at least a week. It has also cancelled a
preliminary contract with a seller in Somalia and has stopped placing
new orders.

"The epidemic is not just a China issue, it is a global problem," the
manager said, adding that its customers had not objected to its
decision, although there is a reason for that - they expect these orders
to return shortly. If that doesn't happen, and if the world's largest
buyer of copper fails to return to the market, the avalanche of upstream
bankruptcies as one copper producer after another files, could result in
the world's biggest commodity shock since Lehman. Copper users, ranging
from car companies to home appliance makers, are suffering from a
collapse in sales.

As for the port of Guangzhou (aka Canton), located in China's Pearl
river delta, one of the biggest in China for commodities trading,
business activity has already plunged with fewer than a third of workers
on duty, the manager added, even though Guangzhou is not yet officially
under quarantine. As a result, at least a dozen other Chinese copper
buyers could use force majeure in the coming weeks to try to renegotiate
copper import contracts, said traders in the city, located about 1,000km
south of Wuhan, the outbreak’s centre. One can only imagine what would
happen if a burst of new cases were to be reported in this province
which is key to China's economy.

One thing is certain: the coronavirus fallout - which has led to nearly
half a billion people living under lock down - is only just starting, as
copper users, ranging from car companies to home appliance makers, face
a sharp drop in sales if the outbreak continues to worsen. Consultancy
Wood Mackenzie said demand for copper-related products could suffer
"further disruptions" after more than a dozen provinces imposed
restrictions on people’s movements in an attempt to contain the disease.

That, the FT reports,  has prompted copper traders to embrace the use of
force majeure, even if it comes at the expense of their business
partners. What it means is that the copper supply chain is now on the
verge of collapse, and it's every man for themselves. Ironically,
Chinese end buyers will be ok, buffeted by the massive liquidity
injections unleashed by the PBOC. But what about all those fragile
upstream producers all of which are so dependent on Chinese purchases?

Well, they are none of China's business: "Sellers have to accept our
terms because the disease has made business contracts invalid," said an
executive at Shenzhen Yongfulu, a copper trader in southern China with
annual revenues of about Rmb40m. Yongfulu imported 4,000 tonnes of
copper last year. The company asked its suppliers in Chile and Somalia
to postpone shipments of 400 tonnes of copper for at least two weeks.

Needless to say, a plunge in Chinese purchases - which has already led
to a record drop in the price of copper - would send shockwaves through
the global copper market. The nation accounts for half of global
consumption of the metal, according to the International Copper Study
Group. Copper futures traded in Shanghai have fallen 8 per cent since
the beginning of this year. And even though many local Chinese smelters
have continued to operate despite the breakout of the pandemic , the
decision to shut down roads in key hubs and cities across China has
caused delays in them receiving raw materials.

The practice of force majeure is controversial. Dan Harris, a lawyer who
has worked on force majeure cases against Chinese firms, said an overuse
of the clause will hurt Chinese copper importers in the long run.
"Legally, these Chinese companies may be in the right," said Mr Harris.
"But [copper sellers] are going to remember that. A year from now they
are not going to sell to those Chinese companies."

Somehow we doubt that: after all who in the world, literally, can
possibly replace the ravenous demand from Chinese buyers. The answer is
rhetorical, which however leads to another question: what happens to
China's economy as the world realizes that countless just-in-time supply
chains, all of which pass through China, are no longer working?

For the answer, read our article from 2012: "Trade-Off": A Study In
Global Systemic Collapse.

(4) Wuhan ICU Doctor: "For most, the illness is over in 2 weeks; those
that can't survive will die in 3 weeks"

From: chris lancenet <chrislancenet@gmail.com>

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/reporters-notebook-life-and-death-in-a-wuhan-coronavirus-icu

The Death Rate Is Up To 5%": The Harrowing Admission Of A Wuhan Doctor

A front-line coronavirus doctor tells of life in death in the ICU...

Translated by Sun Huixia and Dave Yin via The Straits Times, Singapore

WUHAN (CAIXIN GLOBAL) - In the coronavirus epidemic, doctors on the
front lines take on the greatest risk and best understand the situation.
Dr Peng Zhiyong, director of acute medicine at the Wuhan University
South Central Hospital, is one of those doctors.

In an interview on Tuesday with Caixin, Dr Peng described his personal
experiences in first encountering the disease in early January and
quickly grasping its virulent potential and the need for stringent
quarantine measures.

As the contagion spread and flooded his ICU, the doctor observed that
three weeks seemed to determine the difference between life and death.
Patients with stronger immune systems would start to recover in a couple
of weeks, but in the second week, some cases would take a turn for the
worse.

In the third week, keeping some of these acute patients alive might
require extraordinary intervention. For this group, the death rate seems
to be 4 per cent to 5 per cent, Dr Peng said. After working his 12-hour
daytime shifts, the doctor spends his evenings researching the disease
and has summarised his observations in a thesis.

The doctors and nurses at his hospital are overwhelmed with patients.
Once they don protective hazmat suits, they go without food, drink and
bathroom breaks for their entire shifts. That's because there aren't
enough of the suits for a mid-shift change, he said. [...]

Caixin: Based on your clinical experience, what's the disease
progression of the new coronavirus?

Peng: ... I've observed that the breakout period of the novel
coronavirus tends to be three weeks, from the onset of symptoms to
developing difficulties breathing. Basically going from mild to severe
symptoms takes about a week. There are all sorts of mild symptoms:
feebleness, shortness of breath, some people have fevers, some don't.
Based on studies of our 138 cases, the most common symptoms in the first
stage are fever (98.6 per cent of cases), feebleness (69.6 per cent),
cough (59.4 per cent), muscle pains (34.8 per cent), difficulties
breathing (31.2%), while less common symptoms include headaches,
dizziness, stomach pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting.

But some patients who enter the second week will suddenly get worse. At
this stage, people should go to the hospital. The elderly with
underlying conditions may develop complications; some may need
machine-assisted respiration. When the body's other organs start to
fail, that's when it becomes severe, while those with strong immune
systems see their symptoms decrease in severity at this stage and
gradually recover. So the second week is what determines whether the
illness becomes critical.

The third week determines whether critical illness leads to death. Some
in critical condition who receive treatment can raise their level of
lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, and see an improvement in their
immune systems, and have been brought back, so to speak. But those whose
lymphocyte numbers continue to decline, those whose immune systems are
destroyed in the end, experience multiple organ failure and die.

For most, the illness is over in two weeks, whereas for those for whom
the illness becomes severe, if they can survive three weeks, they're
good. Those that can't will die in three weeks. [...]

(5) Wuhan coronavirus spreads by aerosol transmission (Air
Conditioning?); but killed by Bleach


From: Matthew Mitchell <matthewwinstonmitchell@yahoo.com.au>

Not wanting to be alarmist, but it might help to be psychologically
prepared. This is guy is a published research immunologist, and based on
his reports we might all be doing a lot more local production of food
and goods soon:

New Research Suggests The Coronavirus May Be Far Worse Than We Thought

Chris Martin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Ho96UKfYA

Chinese officials are now warning the Wuhan coronavirus may spread by
aerosol transmission.

We have know it spreads via fomites contained in mucus-based globules,
spread by coughing, sneezing, etc.

But if it also transmits from human to human via aerosol means, it's
likely FAR more contagious than previously feared.

Many of the most contagious diseases, like measles, spread as aerosols
-- tiny particles that hang in the air for a protracted time.

If confirmed, this makes a very bad situation substantially worse.

And adding to the hit parade of bad news, recent research shows that
coronavirus particles can survive on surfaces for up to 5-9 days. At
least, the good news is that chlorine-based cleaners (like simple
bleach) appear effective at killing the virus within 1 minute.

So, again, good hygiene practices are our best defense here. Avoid
exposure, and when in public areas, protect your eyes/nose/mouth/skin,
and sanitize often.

Meanwhile, the data shows the virus continues to spread around the
world. And we see more indirect evidence that the infected and fatality
data out of China may be much higher than is what's being reported.

Folks, this virus is a beast.

(6) Eighty cities in China are under lockdown, including Beijing

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/were-totally-dark-japan-not-doing-enough-contain-outbreak-diamond-princess-passengers

Beijing Under Partial Lock Down As Virus Death Toll Tops 900; More  Than
40,000 Infected

by Tyler Durden

Sun, 02/09/2020 - 13:10

Update (2240ET): And so the epidemic reaches China's capital Beijing. As
gnews reports, as the coronavirus spreads from Wuhan, China has been
implementing "closed management" by putting 80 cities under lockdown,
and on Monday, Beijing authorities also issued a "Strict Closed
Management of Residential Communities" in an epidemic prevention and
control announcement (link here). It is an official declaration that
Beijing, the country’s capital city of China, is now under lockdown.

According to the notice, Beijing will further enforce "community closed
management" in a strict manner. Outside vehicles and personnel are not
allowed to enter the city. People arriving in Beijing must also report
their health status and complete the registration of personal information.

Those, who have left the epidemic area or have physical contact with
persons in the epidemic area within 14 days of their arrival at Beijing,
shall be inspected or quarantined at home in accordance with the
regulations. They should take the initiative to report their health
conditions, and cooperate with relevant management services. They shall
not go out. Anyone who refuses to accept epidemic prevention measures
such as medical observation and home quarantine constitutes a violation
of public security management and shall be severely punished by the
public security bureau according to the law.

In addition, all public places in the Beijing community that are not
essential for people’s living are closed. All agencies and enterprises
must strictly strengthen body temperature monitoring. Housing agencies
and landlords in Beijing must provide local government with information
on rental houses and tenants. This is a measure for epidemic prevention.
[...]


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1122 Sanders 'not electable because he's a Communist; it would be like Trotsky running for President'

Sanders 'not electable because he's a Communist; it would be like
Trotsky running for President'

Newsletter published on February 9, 2020

Sorry, I forgot to include Ellen's article in the last newsletter.

(3) Mexico Is Showing the World How to Defeat Neoliberalism - Ellen Brown
(5) Sanders 'not electable because he's a Communist; it would be like
Trotsky running for President'

(3) Mexico Is Showing the World How to Defeat Neoliberalism - Ellen Brown

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/mexico-is-showing-the-world-how-to-defeat-neoliberalism/

FEB 06, 2020

Mexico Is Showing the World How to Defeat Neoliberalism

by Ellen Brown

While U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first
public banks chartered, Mexico’s new president has begun construction on
2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when
it will be the largest bank in the country. At a press conference on
Jan. 6, he said the neoliberal model had failed; private banks were not
serving the poor and people outside the cities, so the government had to
step in.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO) has been compared to the
United Kingdom’s left-wing opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, with one
notable difference: AMLO is now in power. He and his left-?wing
coalition won by a landslide in Mexico’s 2018 general election,
overturning the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that had ruled
the country for much of the past century. Called Mexico’s "first
full-fledged left-wing experiment," AMLO’s election marks a dramatic
change in the political direction of the country. AMLO wrote in his 2018
book "A New Hope for Mexico," "In Mexico the governing class constitutes
a gang of plunderers…. Mexico will not grow strong if our public
institutions remain at the service of the wealthy elites."

The new president has held to his campaign promises. In 2019, his first
year in office, he did what Donald Trump pledged to do — "drain the
swamp" — purging the government of technocrats and institutions he
considered corrupt, profligate or impeding the transformation of Mexico
after 36 years of failed market-focused neoliberal policies. Other
accomplishments have included substantially increasing the minimum wage
while cutting top government salaries and oversize pensions; making
small loans and grants directly to farmers; guaranteeing crop prices for
key agricultural crops; launching programs to benefit youth, the
disabled and the elderly; and initiating a $44 billion infrastructure
plan. López Obrador’s goal, he says, is to construct a "new paradigm" in
economic policy that improves human welfare, not just increases gross
domestic product.

The End of the Neoliberal Era

To deliver on that promise, in July 2019 AMLO converted the publicly
owned federal savings bank Bansefi into a "Bank of the Poor" (Banco del
Bienestar or "Welfare Bank"). He said on Jan. 6 that the neoliberal era
had eliminated all the state-owned banks but one, which he had gotten
approval to expand with 2,700 new branches. Added to the existing 538
branches of the former Bansefi, that will bring the total in two years
to 3,238 branches, far outstripping any other bank in the country.
(Banco Azteca, currently the largest by number of branches, has 1,860.)

Digital banking will also be developed. Speaking to a local group in
December, AMLO said his goal was for the Bank of the Poor to reach
13,000 branches, more than all the private banks in the country combined.

At a news conference on Jan. 8, he explained why this new bank was needed:

There are more than 1,000 municipalities that don’t have a bank branch.
We’re dispersing [welfare] resources but we don’t have a way to do it.
. . .  People have to go to branches that are two, three hours away. If
we don’t bring these services close to the people, we’re not going to
bring development to the people. …

They’re already building. I’ll invite you within two months, three at
the most, to the inauguration of the first branches because they’re
already working, they’re getting the land … because we have to do it
quickly.

The president said the 10 billion pesos ($530.4 million) needed to build
the new branches would come from government savings; and that 5 million
had already been transferred to the Banco del Bienestar, which would
pass the funds to the Secretariat of Defense, whose engineers were
responsible for construction. The military will also be used to
transport physical funds to the branches for welfare payments. AMLO
added, "They are helping me. They are propping me up. The military has
behaved very well and they don’t back down at all. They always tell me
‘yes you can, yes we do, go.’ "

To concerns that the government-owned bank would draw deposits away from
commercial banks and might compete in other ways, such as making
interest-free loans to small businesses, AMLO countered:

There’s no reason to be complaining about us building these branches. …
[I]f private banks want to build branches, they have every right to go
to the towns and build their branches, but as they won’t because they
believe that it’s not [good] business, we have to do it . . . it’s our
social responsibility, the state can’t shirk its social responsibility.

Issues With the Central Bank

While the legislature has approved the new bank, Mexico’s central bank
can still block it if bank regulations are breached. Ricardo Delfín, who
works at the international accounting firm KPMG, told the newspaper La
Razón that if the money to fund the bank comes from a loan from the
federal government rather than from capital, it will adversely affect
the bank’s "Capitalization Ratio." But AMLO contends that the bank will
be self-sufficient. Funding for construction will come from federal
savings from other programs, and the bank’s operating expenses will be
covered by small commissions paid on each transaction by customers, most
of whom are welfare recipients. Branches will be built on land owned by
the government or donated, and software companies have offered to advise
for free.

About the central bank, he said:

We’re going to speak with those from the Bank of México respecting the
autonomy of the Bank of México. We have to educate them because for them
this is an anachronism, even sacrilege, because they have other ideas.
But we’ve arrived here [in government] after telling the people that the
neoliberal economic policy was going to change. . . .

There shouldn’t be obstacles. How is the Bank of México going to stop us
from having a [bank] branch that disperses resources in favor of the
people? What damage does that do? Whom does it harm?

AMLO has repeatedly promised not to interfere in the business of the
central bank, which has been autonomous for the past quarter of a
century. But he has also said that he would like its mandate expanded
from just preserving the value of the peso by fighting inflation to
include fostering growth. The concern, according to The Financial Times,
is that he might use the central bank to fund government programs,
following in the footsteps of Argentina’s former President Cristina
Fernández de Kirchner, "whose heterodox policies led to high inflation
and, many economists believe, the country’s current crisis."

Mark Weisbrot counters in The New York Times, however, that Argentina’s
problems were caused, not by printing money to fund domestic
development, but by a massive foreign debt. Hyperinflation actually
happened under Fernández de Kirchner’s successor, President Mauricio
Macri, who replaced her in 2015. The public debt grew from 53% to more
than 86% of GDP, inflation soared from 18% to 54%, short-term interest
rates shot up to 75%, and poverty increased from 27% to 40%.

In an upset election in August 2019, the outraged Argentinian public
re-elected Fernández de Kirchner as vice president and her former head
of the cabinet of ministers as president, restoring the 12-year Kirchner
legacy begun by her husband, Nestor Kirchner, in 2003 and considered by
Weisbrot to be among the most successful presidencies in the Western
Hemisphere.

More appropriate than Argentina as a model for what can be achieved by a
government working in partnership with its central bank is that of
Japan, where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has funded his stimulus programs
by selling government bonds directly to the Bank of Japan. The BOJ now
holds nearly 50% of the government’s debt, yet consumer price inflation
remains low — so low that the BOJ cannot get the figure up even to its
2% target.

Other Funding Options

AMLO is unlikely to go that route, because he has vowed not to interfere
with the central bank; but analysts say he needs to introduce some sort
of economic stimulus, because Mexico’s GDP has slipped in the last year.
The Mexican president has criticized GDP as the ultimate standard,
advocating instead for a model of development that incorporates wealth
distribution and access to education, health, housing and culture into
its measurements.

But as Kurt Hackbarth warned in Jacobin in December, "To fully unfurl
[his] program without simply ransacking other line items to pay for it
will require doing something AMLO has up to now categorically ruled out:
raising taxes on the rich and large corporations which, not
surprisingly, make out like utter bandits in Mexico’s rigged financial
system."

AMLO has continually vowed, however, not to raise taxes on the rich.
Instead he has enlisted Mexico’s business magnates as investors in
public-private partnerships, allowing him to avoid the "tequila trap"
that brought down Argentina and Mexico itself in earlier years — getting
locked into debt to foreign investors and the International Monetary
Fund. Mexico’s business leaders seem happy to invest in the country,
despite some slippage in GDP.

As noted by Carlos Slim, Mexico’s wealthiest man, "Debt didn’t go up,
there is no fiscal deficit and inflation came down." In November 2019,
the Economy Secretariat reported that foreign direct investment showed a
7.8% increase in the first nine months of that year compared with the
same period in 2018, reaching its second highest level ever; and at the
end of 2019 the peso was up around 4%. Stocks also rose 4.5%, and
inflation dropped from 4.8% to 3%.

Partnering with local businessleaders is politically expedient, but
public/private partnerships can be expensive; and as U.K. Professor
Richard Werner points out, tapping up private investors merely
recirculates existing money in the economy. Better would be to borrow
directly from banks, which create new bank money when they lend, as the
Bank of England has confirmed. This new money then circulates in the
economy, stimulating productivity.

Today, the best model for that approach is China, which funds
infrastructure by borrowing from its own state-owned banks. Like all
banks, they create loans as bank credit on their books, which is then
repaid with the proceeds of the projects created with the loans. There
is no need to tap up the central bank or rich investors or the tax base.
Government banks can create money on their books just as central banks
and private banks do.

For Mexico, however, using its public banks as China does would be
something for the future, if at all. Meanwhile, AMLO has been a
trailblazer in showing how a national public banking system can be
initiated quickly and efficiently. The key, it seems, is just to have
the political will — along with massive support from the public, the
legislature, local business leaders and the military.

(5) Sanders 'not electable because he's a Communist; it would be like
Trotsky running for President'

From: Paul Bustion <pbustion87@gmail.com>
Subject: Your statement about Bernie Sanders

Peter,

You wrote in a recent newsletter:

 > Returning power to the people, unseating the Wall Street crooks who run
 > everything at present, is the most important issue. Therefore, we must
 > back Sanders.

I don't agree with you about this. Sanders is not electable because he's
a crackpot Communist, it would be like Trotsky running for president. I
think the only Democrats who can beat Trump are Elizabeth Warren and Joe
Biden. The most likely scenario is Biden gets the Democratic
presidential nomination, and Tulsi Gabbard runs as a third party
candidate taking votes away from Biden, and Trump is reelected as a result.

Paul

Comment (Peter M>):

 > it would be like Trotsky running for president

I had a good laugh at that.

Trotsky had a domineering and bloodthirsty style that Sanders lacks.
Trotsky was so arrogant that even his comrades feared him. That's why
Stalin was able to out-manoevre him.

There's no way that Sanders could install full-blown Communism in 4
years. Don't forget that Congress and the MSM would be a headwind.

It's not as if there's no middle ground between Communism and
Capitalism. What about Scandanavian style Socialism? We had that too in
Australia, from about 1940 to the late 1980s. It was MUCH better than
what we've got now.

"Virtus in Medio Stat" - virtue lies in the middle ground. I forget who
first said it; can anyone remind me?

Biden is already out of the race, after his poor showing in Iowa. That's
why the DNC are panicky - they want Bloomberg. But Bloomberg is an
Oligarch; Sanders keeps talking about him BUYING the election, and this
is a potent issue with voters.

Bloomberg has recently recast himself as a candidate who wants to
address Inequality. But his own past record is just the opposite.

The 2016 election was about the Culture War; Hillary's quip about
'Deplorables' summed it up. But Trump has dealt with those issues. The
2020 election will be about Inequality - restoring Democracy, i.e.
taking control back from the Oligarchy.

The economy does not belong to the 1% who claim to 'Own' it. Their idea
of Private Property is absolute; but that's wrong. The economy belongs
to everyone, and when some people are allowed to 'Own' it, that's just
Provisional, a delegated right. They have duties, obligations, not just
Rights.

As Wilkerson said, they're planning to introduce Robotics & Artificial
Intelligence to further cull the workforce.
They can't be allowed to get away with it. This is a Life & Death matter
for the American people.

Much as I detest AOC's line on Culture War issues, I give her credit for
saying that the Campaign Donation system in the US is actually 'Corruption'.

If rich people are able to buy the election, then it's not Democracy.
Wilkerson made that point when he called it 'Oligarchy'.

Communism in the USSR made the mistake of nationalizing ALL private
property, to fulfil the mantra, "One For All and All For One".

Not only the estates of the Aristocrats, but the small farms of the
Peasants (Collectivization) and the small businesses of craftsmen. Local
markets, where people buy & sell small things, were not allowed.

In the satellite countries of Eastern Europe, the farms were not
collectivized; small businesses were allowed, and the Church was
permitted to operate. This was a much better kind of Comminism than the
Soviet one.

We need Market Socialism, in which people own their own homes and small
farms, and the market still operates, i.e. a large part of the economy
is privately owned, but major parts of the economy (banks, railroads,
shipping lines, water utilities, electricity utilities etc) are publicly
owned and run.

This is the way it was done in Australia from about 1940 to 1990.

Despite all the talk about Sanders being a Communist, the most he will
be able to do in 4 years is inaugurate Market Socialism.

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1121 USA is an Oligarchy - Col. Larry Wilkerson; names Sheldon Adelson, Paul Singer, George Soros

USA is an Oligarchy - Col. Larry Wilkerson; names Sheldon Adelson, Paul
Singer, George Soros

Newsletter published on February 9, 2020

(1) Sanders vs the Oligarchy; why the Left supports China
(2) USA is an Oligarchy - Col. Larry Wilkerson; names Sheldon Adelson,
Paul Singer, George Soros
(3) Mexico Is Showing the World How to Defeat Neoliberalism - Ellen Brown
(4) Michael Hudson - Note to China on Dollar Hegemony

(1) Sanders vs the Oligarchy; why the Left supports China
- by Peter Myers, February 9, 2020

Col. Larry Wilkerson says that the USA is an Oligarchy (item 2).

"Don't talk to me about Moscow and Putin. We are the oligarchy clan in
the world today. We are the personification of what Plato and Aristotle
talked about when they said, oh, let's let the rich people run
everything. They are doing that in this country, whether it's Sheldon
Adelson funding West Bank settlements, Paul Singer doing the same thing,
or George Soros pretending like he's a philanthropist ..."

All 3 are Jewish. Wilkerson knows, but does not say so.

"Don't talk to me about China and state owned enterprises. We are a
state owned country by these oligarchs and we're killing ourselves."

Several candidates for 2020 are against the Oligarchy, but none moreso
than Bernie Sanders.

He has moved to the Left in 2020, allowing the Open-Borders Left (eg
AOC) to run his campaign. So, in terms of the Culture War, it's bad news.

But this appeals to Millennials, the young people who have huge Student
Debt and who can't afford a house.

Returning power to the people, unseating the Wall Street crooks who run
everything at present, is the most important issue. Therefore, we must
back Sanders.

But, since the DNC is clearly going to cheat him once again, and since
his supporters won't put up with that, it will be a 3-horse race:
Bloomberg, Trump and Sanders. I believe that Sanders will win, despite
the odds, because most people are desperate, worried about their future.

Even if the DNC were to allow Sanders to be the candidate, Bloomberg
would run as an Independent. So, one way or another, there will be a
3-horse race.

Hillary wants to be on the DNC candidate's ticket, but it's unclear if
Bloomberg would have her. Who wants that sort of baggage?

Hopefully they will change the voting system in the US, to Instant
Runoff (Preferential Voting), so that votes for minority candidates are
not wasted.

The Jewish Lobby does not seem very keen on Sanders; they ran ads
against him in Iowa. This is another reason to support him.

If he wins, Sanders will inaugurate Public Banks to fund his
infrastructure program, as Ellen Brown has long campaigned for.

I doubt that President Sanders would go down the Open Borders path,
despite the campaign rhetoric. By that time, Trump's wall will be built.
An influx of southern migrants would destabilize the new regime. Anyway,
Sanders would be trying to implement so many changes to the economy, and
having to overcome so much resistance from Congress and from the MSM
(read 'Wall Street'),  that Culture War issues would be put on the back
burner. Left for 2024, that is.

Congress, Wall Street and the Media would give Sanders just as hard a
time as they gave Trump. The 1% will not give up power voluntarily.

Ellen Brown presents the new government of Mexico as an example for the
US to follow (item 3).

Item 4 is Michael Hudson's Note to China, on Dollar Hegemony. No-one
else in the world can explain how the World Economy works like him.

Like many on the Left, he supports a rising China as a way to curb the
American Empire. The goal is returning power to the pwople, but I fear
that, were King Dollar to be dethroned, we would then be faced with King
Yuan.

(2) USA is an Oligarchy - Col. Larry Wilkerson; names Sheldon Adelson,
Paul Singer, George Soros


Kelvin Heslop <keljohn01@gmail.com>

https://russia-insider.com/en/watch-america-oligarchy-trying-screw-you-colin-powells-fmr-chief-staff-nails-it-col-wilkerson

WATCH: America Is an Oligarchy Trying to Screw You! - Colin Powell's Fmr
Chief of Staff Nails It (Col. Wilkerson)

Great short speech by anti-war activist and truth-teller Col. Larry
Wilkerson (Wikipedia). He made these remarks at a rewards ceremony for
heroic CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling, whose Kafkaesque ordeal you
can read about in this excellent article on Consortium News by Ray McGovern.

Wilkerson had his dander up because after attending an anti-war meeting
about Iran recently, he was visited by 2 FBI agents asking questions
about the other attendees. He really raises the roof, speaking plain
truth about the rot in Washington.

Highly recommended!  Full transcript follows below. ==

Transcript: (Machine transcribed, includes inaccuracies)

Introducer:  We have Larry Wilkerson, colonel, former colonel. And if
you haven't watched Democracy Now and a bunch of other places after the
killing of Soleimani, he has been out there just like what I write on
Facebook. He's been hitting a home run on these things. Just telling the
truth. Telling the truth about the situation. Thanks.

Col. Wilkerson:  Congratulations to you. (Turning to Jeffrey Sterling).
And my hearty applause to you for joining this group.

I want to get a little more serious for a moment about another issue
altogether. I want to tell you that the FBI came to see me because I was
at your Iran gathering. Two young swashbuckling agents. I said, you
don't even look like FBI. If you don't show me your badges, I'm going to
shoot you on my doorstep!

God, what a couple of arrogant assholes!

In the middle of the conversation, we finally got around to it. - Well,
you were with this woman at this Iran thing. (they said).

That's the state we're in now. That's the state we're in.

And what we have happening right now that I've come to codify and
understand in a level of detail I never thought I would approach is
because I've been for 15 years on a campus with some of the brightest
students in the world, over 400 of them doing in case study after case
study for me. So it's not just my experience in the government for 40 years.

It's this incredible comprehensive look at what's happening to us right
now. We are involved in a fundamental battle for our life. The battle is
not as the newspapers tell you about. That's all a bunch of bull. The
battle is between what has been happening for some time in this country.

It's between the national security state whose raison d'être is war,
war, war, and the predatory capitalist state whose reason for existence
is to screw you out of every penny you have in your life, any way it can
do it. That's there's no deep state. The deep state is the meritocracy,
the bureaucracy that runs the country when the goddamn politicians
aren't there or when they're changing or when they're idiots like we
have today. The real deep state, the pernicious poisonous deep state is
the oligarchs who are running this country.

Think about this for a minute. These two states are in a mortal battle
right now with one another. You see it every day. You just don't
understand it. Most people don't anyway. You have people in both camps.
Exxon-Mobil sells more fossil fuel to D.O.D than anybody else on the
face of the earth. If d.O.D were, a country would rank 55th in 200 right
beside Portugal. Lockheed Martin is a member of the national security
state, the biggest merchant of death on earth. Its sales to the national
security state. But they're killing each other in this battle. It's a
mortal battle between the two. And guess who's in between the demos? The
people your democracy are in between your democracies.

Poor people are going in dying in 19 plus years of war. Your democracy's
people are being forced out of their jobs. Wait, do you see automation
and robotics and what's coming down the road with A.I.? Then these
predatory capitalists can do everything they do without you, without any
of the people out there. There right now are worried sick about their
jobs. Do you know that distress as analyzed by medical personnel in this
country has tripled in the last 15 years? We are the most distressed
country in the world.

Mental health has gone to hell. Oh, just put them in the private run
prisons and they'll die anyway. This battle is existential. We won't
even talk about the climate crisis is coming down the road at us that
most people are ignoring. This battle's existential. The national
security security state is now going to spend a trillion dollars of your
money to make nuclear weapons better. You know what the Pentagon thinks
about nuclear weapons being better in terms of use on the battlefield?
Those low yield nuclear weapons we're going to develop are going to be
used on the battlefield. Disregarding 50 years of escalatory theory and
doctrine. Oh, it won't be escalatory. The hell it won't be escalatory.
The Russians have already adopted in their written doctrine the use of
nuclear weapons to blunt a NATO incursion into their sphere of influence.

This is all happening while we go about our daily lives and think things
are maybe, you know, halfway decent or maybe they're falling apart.
Whatever your thoughts might be, these two states are waging this
colossal battle in your country and the people in the middle and the
democracy in the middle are dying.

They're giving in to these two states. If you haven't read Tom Muellers
book, Crisis of Conscience whistle-blowing in an age of Fraud, you
should read the first chapter alone.

It'll make you ill that Johnson and Johnson and their subsidiaries were
able to infect children all across this country. In ways that will stay
with them for the rest of their lives, however short that is, that their
subsidiaries were complicit, that they actually sat around in their
offices and talked about the cost being worth it because 35 billion
dollars was the profit and the costs was only these poor people dying
and so forth. Then you begin to understand what I'm talking about.

You begin to understand the dimensions of the poison that is amongst us
and the poison that is taking over our country and our democracy. I
hesitate sometimes with my students even to call us a democracy anymore
because these oligarchs are in charge.

Don't talk to me about Moscow and Putin. We are the oligarchy clan in
the world today. We are the personification of what Plato and Aristotle
talked about when they said, oh, let's let the rich people run
everything. They are doing that in this country, whether it's Sheldon
Adelson funding West Bank settlements, Paul Singer doing the same thing,
or George Soros pretending like he's a philanthropist ...

{All 3 are Jewish. Wilkerson knows, but does not say so - Peter M.}

A book by Marc Fisher, a gentlemen who committed suicide in New York a
few months ago is called Capitalist Realism. Read that book. You'll have
to have an Oxford English Dictionary, a dictionary of American medical
terms and so forth. But look at the stats in that book on what is
happening to this country. It's just unbelievable when you look at and
it's all because of this predatory capital state.

That's what we are today. We're a predatory capitalist state. Don't talk
to me about China and state owned enterprises. We are a state owned
country by these oligarchs and we're killing ourselves.

And as Tom tells you in that book, the one really brilliant flash of
lightning through this whole morass is people like this and people like
Bill and Tom and John and Edward Snowden. They are the people who are
shining at least a little bit of light on this stuff. And Karen and
Jessalyn and the people who defend them.

That's the only thing I see out there that's shining brightly and
occasionally actually get some retribution and some accountability and
some justice.

So that's why this group is so important. That's why you're so
important. That's why the entire concept of this is so important. Don't
stop.

I think it was Martin Luther King who said something to the effect of if
you're silent, you're wrong. If you're silent in the face of wrong,
you're doubly so.

This group isn't silent. Thank you.

(4) Michael Hudson - Note to China on Dollar Hegemony
https://michael-hudson.com/2020/01/note-to-china/

Note to China

By Michael

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

My book "Super Imperialism" was about how the United States has gained a
free lunch by establishing the dollar as international reserve currency
by replacing gold. I also showed that the U.S. balance of payments
deficit is almost entirely military related to support its 800 bases
around the world. Ending the gold-exchange standard in 1971 created a
situation in which the excess U.S. dollars thrown of by the U.S.
payments deficit end up in foreign central banks.

For these central banks, the inflow of surplus dollars poses the problem
of what do we do with them. Central banks don’t buy stocks and bonds, or
control of corporations, because that is risky and also does not
directly help their own economy. So central banks buy US Treasury bonds
and bills – IOUs of the U.S. Government. For the United States, the
money that is spent on running a balance-of-payments deficit on account
of the military and on American investors buying Chinese stocks and
Chinese companies, dollars are recycled back to the United States to buy
US Treasury bonds.

That is how the U.S. balance of payments deficit serves to finance the
domestic government budget deficit. The larger the U.S. balance of
payments deficit grows as the U.S. spends more militarily and
politically around the world, the more foreign central banks end up
financing the domestic budget deficit.

That frees the United States Treasury from having to balance its budget
to avoid having to borrow from US investors. More and more of the U.S.
federal debt has been owed to foreign central banks. That means that
foreign countries are, in effect, financing the costs of surrounding
them(selves) with the 800 U.S. military bases. This enables the United
States to make military threats, in case they cannot conquer you
intellectually by making you follow the University of Chicago and IMF
financialization policy.

Another reason not to use the dollar is to avoid taking the risk of
being victimized in the way that the United States has treated Iran and
other countries. U.S. strategists have threatened to isolate foreign
banks from using the Swift bank-clearing system. They have imposed
sanctions on European investors in the Nordstream gas pipeline, and had
imposed unilateral penalties on other governments that do not favor U.S.
investors.

The U.S. strategy is to control your economy in order to force you to
sell your most profitable industrial sectors to US investors, to force
you to invest in your industry only by borrowing from the United States.

So the question is, how do China, Russia, Iran and other countries break
free of this U.S. dollarization strategy? As now constituted,
dollarization creates a circular flow that finances American military
spending by forcing the costs onto foreign central banks holding dollars.

The solution obviously is to avoid using dollars in order to break free
of American control of your economy. To do this, you have to have a
non-Dollar currency. This currency alternative has to be large enough to
have a critical mass, so that it can be used internationally. That’s why
China, Russia, Iran and their allies are trying to create their own
currency area, incorporating largely the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization. The aim is denominate your foreign trade, investment and
government spending in your own currency.

It is necessary to break away not only from the U.S. dollar, but also
from the International Monetary Fund. The objective of U.S. and IMF
monetary policy is basically to make your economy much more expensive
and inefficient than that of the United States. Its government runs a
budget deficit and balance-of-payments deficit by creating its own
money. It does not expect or intend to repay its debt. Other countries
are to treat it as their own monetary backing, in place of gold.

But outside the United States, countries are told to finance their
budget deficits by selling off whatever is in their public domain –
namely, their land, real estate and natural resources, their commanding
heights in the form of basic infrastructure and electric utilities.

The ideal the United States would like China to do is to let U.S.
investors do to it what they did to Russia after 1991. They told Russia
that it needed to back its domestic Ruble issues by holding an
equivalent amount of U.S. dollars, in the form of private dollar loans
or dollar-denominated U.S. Treasury securities. This involved borrowing
dollars from the United States instead of simply issuing domestic
rubles. Russia paid 100 percent interest a year to U.S. investors in
1993-1994.

Yet Russia did not have enough foreign exchange to pay domestic
ruble-wages or to pay for domestic goods and services. But neoliberal
advisors convinced Russia to back all Ruble money or domestic currency
credit it created by backing it with U.S. dollars. Obtaining these
dollars involved paying enormous interest to the United States for this
needless backing. There was no need for such backing. At the end of this
road the United States convinced Russia to sell off its raw materials,
its nickel mines, its electric utilities, its oil reserves, and
ultimately tried to pry Crimea away from Russia.

Suppose China would follow the U.S. plan. At a certain point it will be
asked to sell off Macau and Hong Kong as a US military base. It will be
advised to sell its information technology to the United States. And
politically, U.S. diplomacy would like China to divide itself into three
or four countries, starting with Xinjiang as a separate country. This
divide-and-conquer strategy aims at carving up China, and it uses
financial policy to do this.

The U.S. has discovered that it does not have to militarily invade
China. It does not have to conquer China. It does not have to use
military weapons, because it has the intellectual weapon of
financialization, convincing you that you need to do this in order to
have a balanced economy. So, when China sends its students to the United
States, especially when it sends central bankers and planners to the
United States to study (and be recruited), they are told by the U.S. "Do
as we say, not as we have done."

The United States is not telling China or Russia or third world
countries or Europe how to get rich in the way that it did, by
protective tariffs, by creating its own money and by making other
countries dependent on it. The United States does not want you to be
independent and self-reliant. The United States wants China to let
itself become dependent on U.S. finance in order to invest in its own
industry. It wants Chinese corporations to borrow from the United
States, and to sell its stocks to US investors just like Khodorkovsky in
Russia was trying to sell Yukos oil to Standard Oil, and essentially
turn Russia’s oil reserves to U.S. investors.

The United States is trying to convince China that its tax system should
be based on raising your cost of labour. The objective of the United
States is to injure China, to make it a high-cost economy by imposing
the value-added tax, a VAT, which will increase the cost of consumer
goods. The aim of this anti-industrial tax policy is to make you pay
your labor a high enough wage to afford to pay the taxes on consumer goods.

The United States could never pass such a tax domestically. There would
be a revolution. The amazing thing is that there is no revolution in
China. It and other countries have been gullible in accepting the logic
of U.S. economists teaching the students you send over, hoping that they
will draw up a plan for China along neoliberal lines.

The neoliberal plan is not to make you independent, and not to help you
grow except to the extent that your growth will be paid to US investors
or used to finance U.S. military spending around the world to encircle
you and trying to destabilize you in Sichuan to try to pry China apart.

Look at what the United States has done in Russia, and at what the
International Monetary Fund in Europe has done to Greece, Latvia and the
Baltic states. It is a dress rehearsal for what U.S. diplomacy would
like to do to you, if it can convince you to follow the neoliberal US
economic policy of financialization and privatization.

De-dollarization is the alternative to privatization and financialization.


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1120 Dr. Francis Boyle: Coronavirus leaked from Wuhan BioLab, as Lyme Disease & West Nile Disease leaked from US Lab at Plum Island. All these labs should be closed.

Dr. Francis Boyle: Coronavirus leaked from Wuhan BioLab, as Lyme Disease
& West Nile Disease leaked from US Lab at Plum Island. All these labs
should be closed.

Newsletter published on February 8, 2020

(1) Dr. Francis Boyle: Coronavirus leaked from Wuhan BioLab, as Lyme
Disease & West Nile Disease leaked from US Lab at Plum Island
(2) TRANSCRIPT: Bioweapons Expert Dr. Francis Boyle interview with
Geopolitics & Empire on Coronavirus
(3) Lancet study showed that early Coronavirus cases had no connection
to Wuhan market
(4) White House Asks Scientists To Investigate Whether 2019-nCoV Was
Bio-Engineered
(5) Wuhan Institute Of Virology – Epicentre Of Coronavirus
(6) Doctor who sounded alarm over Coronavirus - branded Fake News - has
died; public anger unsettles Xi

(1) Dr. Francis Boyle: Coronavirus leaked from Wuhan BioLab, as Lyme
Disease & West Nile Disease leaked from US Lab at Plum Island. All these
labs should be closed.


Dr. Francis Boyle: "It's clear this thing blew back on the Chinese"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pur2NIh9Zrs

Dr. Francis Boyle: Coronavirus Is Twice As Potent As SARS

7 Feb 2020

Dr. Francis Boyle joins The Alex Jones Show to expose the potent dangers
of a coronavirus outbreak in comparison to previous viral pandemics. (3:41)

1.55 It's clear this thing blew back on the Chinese, just as all these
hideous biological warfare agents that we're working on in our own BSL-4
facilities.

Alex J: like Lymes Disease, that came from that New York offshore lab
... Plum Island ...

FB: Yes the Lyme Disease clearly came out of the Bioware Lab at Plum
Island. Likewise West Nile Disease clearly came out of the Bioware Lab
at Plum Island.

(2) TRANSCRIPT: Bioweapons Expert Dr. Francis Boyle interview with
Geopolitics & Empire on Coronavirus


https://greatgameindia.com/transcript-bioweapons-expert-dr-francis-boyle-on-coronavirus/

TRANSCRIPT: Bioweapons Expert Dr. Francis Boyle On Coronavirus

By GreatGameIndia - February 5, 2020

A recent interview with Bioweapons expert Dr. Francis Boyle published by
GreatGameIndia and conducted by Geopolitics & Empire, has been exploding
across the world the past few days as the truth is emerging on the
origins of the Coronavirus Bioweapon.

Francis Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of
Illinois College of Law. He drafted the U.S. domestic implementing
legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention, known as the
Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, that was approved
unanimously by both Houses of the U.S. Congress and signed into law by
President George H.W. Bush.

Geopolitics & Empire is joined by Dr. Francis Boyle, who is
international law professor at the University of Illinois. We'll be
discussing the Wuhan coronavirus and biological warfare. He's served as
counsel to numerous governments such as Bosnia and Herzegovina and the
Palestinian authority. He's represented numerous national international
bodies in the areas of human rights, war crimes and genocide, nuclear
policy, and biowarfare. He's written numerous books, one of my favorites
being "Destroying Libya and World Order", which I assigned as mandatory
reading material for my own students when I taught at the Monterrey
Institute of Technology.

India in Cognitive Dissonance Book by GreatGameIndia But most important
for this interview, he's written a book called "Biowarfare and
Terrorism", and drafted the US domestic implementing legislation for the
biological weapons convention, known as the Biological Weapons
Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 that was approved unanimously by both houses
of the US Congress and signed into law by President Bush. Thanks for
joining us, Dr. Boyle.

Dr. Francis Boyle: Wow. Thank you so much for having me on and thanks
for that kind introduction.

Geopolitics and Empire:  Now let's get to what's been on the news
recently. This coronavirus in Wuhan. There have been some reports
recently, there's a really interesting website called GreatGameIndia
that has been reporting on this. They've been talking about China, which
they say has been complying with biological weapons convention in recent
years.

But then there are some people in the US and experts that have been
saying that in reality, China isn't complying with the weapons
convention. And I think neither, perhaps the US as well. I'm wondering
if China is developing its own biosafety level four lab in Wuhan and
elsewhere, as you know, as a type of deterrence. Is it a type of a
biological arms race that we have going on?

You told me in an email that you suspect China was developing the
coronavirus as a dual use of biowarfare weapons agent. Also, what do you
make of reports that Chinese scientists have been stealing research and
viruses, including the coronavirus from a Canadian bio lab this past
December?

And as well, Chinese nationals have been charged with smuggling vials of
biological research to China from the US with the aid of Charles Lieber
who was the chair of Harvard's chemistry department. And he also happens
to be in 2011 a strategic scientist at Wuhan University. So, can you
tell us what's going on with this recent outbreak in Wuhan?

Dr. Francis Boyle: Well, that's a lot of questions. I guess we can take
them one at a time, but if you just do a very simple Google search on
"Does China have a BSL-4 laboratory?", Wuhan comes up right away. It's
at the top of the list. That's all with the moment this type of thing
happened I began to do that. So a BSL-4 is the most serious type. And
basically BSL-4 labs, we have many of them here in the United States,
are used to develop offensive biological warfare weapons with DNA
genetic engineering.

So it does seem to me that the Wuhan BSL-4 is the source of the
coronavirus. My guess is that they were researching SARS, and they
weaponize it further by giving it a gain of function properties, which
means it could be more lethal.

Indeed, the latest report now is it's a 15% fatality rate, which is more
than SARS at 83% infection rate. A typical gain of function travels in
the air so it could reach out maybe six feet or more from someone
emitting a sneeze or a cough. Likewise, this is a specially designated
WHO research lab. The WHO was in on it and they knew full well what was
going on there.

Yes. It's also been reported that Chinese scientists stole coronavirus
materials from the Canadian lab at Winnipeg. Winnipeg is Canada's formal
center for research, developing, testing, biological warfare weapons.
It's along the lines of Fort Detrick here in the United States of
America. I have three degrees from Harvard. It would not surprise me if
something was being stolen out of Harvard to turn over to China. I read
that report. I don't know what was in those vials one way or the other.

But the bottom line is I drafted the US domestic implementing
legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention that was approved
unanimously by both Houses in the United States Congress signed into law
by President Bush Sr. that it appears the coronavirus that we're dealing
with here is an offensive biological warfare weapon that leaked out of
Wuhan BSL-4. I'm not saying it was done deliberately. But there had been
previous reports of problems with that lab and things leaking out of it.
I'm afraid that is what we are dealing with today.

Geopolitics and Empire: We'll be talking about the Wuhan and the
coronavirus and China, but can you give us kind of like a bigger
context. I know you've, previously, in interviews said that since 9/11,
you think that the US has spent $100 billion on biological warfare
research. We know the Soviet Union, if I'm not mistaken, developed
anthrax as a bioweapon. And you've also mentioned that UK, France,
Israel and China are all involved in biological warfare weapons research.

And something interesting, I believe one or two years ago a Bulgarian
journalist and the Russian government shared their concern of the
discovery of a US bioweapons lab in the country of Georgia. You've
commented how in Africa, US has set up bioweapons labs to work on Ebola,
which I think is illegal under international law. But they were allowed
somehow to put those in Africa. Can you give us like a bigger picture?
What's going on with these different countries and what's the purpose of
this research?

Dr. Francis Boyle: All these BSL-4 labs are by United States, Europe,
Russia, China, Israel are all there to research, develop, test
biological warfare agents. There's really no legitimate scientific
reason to have BSL-4 labs. That figure I gave $100 billion, that was
about 2015 I believe. I had crunched the numbers and came up with that
figure the United States since 9/11.

To give you an idea that's as much in constant dollars as the US spent
to develop the Manhattan Project and the atom bomb. So it's clearly all
weapons related. We have well over 13,000 alleged life science
scientists involved in research developed testing biological weapons
here in the United States. Actually this goes back it even precedes 9/11
2001.

I have another book, The Future of International Law and American
Foreign Policy, tracing that all the way back to the Reagan
administration under the influence of the neocons and they got very
heavily involved in research development testing of biological weapons
with DNA genetic engineers. It was because of that I issued my plea in
1985 in a Congressional briefing sponsored by the Council for
Responsible Genetics, I'm a lawyer for them. They're headquartered in
Cambridge, Mass. All the MIT, Harvard people are involved in that, the
principal ones. And then they asked me to draft the implementing
legislation.

The implementing legislation that I drafted was originally designed to
stop this type of work. "Death science work", I call it, "by the United
States government". After 9/11, 2001, it just completely accelerated. My
current figure, that last figure a 100 billion. I haven't had a chance
to re-crunch the numbers because I just started classes. But you have to
add in about another 5 billion per year.

Basically, this is offensive biological weapons raised by the United
States government and with its assistance in Canada and Britain. And so
other States, the world have responded accordingly including Russia and
China. They were going to set up a whole series of BSL-4 facilities as
well. And you know Wuhan was the first. It backfired on them.

Geopolitics and Empire: Would you basically consider what happened and
Wuhan and just boil it down to ineptitude or incompetence on the Chinese
part?

Dr. Francis Boyle: Well, it's criminality. It does appear they stole
something there from Winnipeg. This activity that they engaged in
clearly violates the Biological Weapons Convention. Research development
of biological weapons these days is an international crime, the use of
it would be. That was criminal.

I'm not saying they deliberately inflicted this on their own people, but
it leaked out of there and all these BSL-4 facilities leak. Everyone
knows that who studies this. So this was a catastrophe waiting to
happen. Unfortunately, it happened. The Chinese government under Xi and
his comrades there have been covering this up from the get-go. The first
reported case was December 1, so they'd been sitting on this until they
couldn't anymore. And everything they're telling you is a lie. It's
propaganda.

The WHO still refuses to declare a global health emergency. It said
Tedros was over there shaking hands with Xi and smiling and yanking it
up. The WHO was in on it. They've approved many of these BSL-4 labs.,
they know exactly what's going on and that is a WHO research-approved
laboratory. They know what's going on too. You can't really believe
anything the WHO is telling you about this, either they're up to their
eyeballs in it, in my opinion.

Geopolitics and Empire: I'd probably agree with you that this outbreak
in Wuhan was an accidental leak from the laboratory. But just your
thoughts, it's happening at quite an opportune time because namely we're
smack in the middle of a US-China new Cold War, which is currently
characterized by economic warfare such as the trade war among other
forms of hybrid and technological warfare. And it seems the Wuhan
outbreak will likely hit the Chinese economy hard. The Chinese are flat
out dismissing any idea that the US is involved in. Like I said, it's
probably they made the mistakes in the Wuhan lab. What are your thoughts
of any seemingly, this would benefit the US…

Dr. Francis Boyle: When the outbreak occurred, of course I considered
that alternative too. When you have an outbreak, you're never quite sure
who or what is behind it. It certainly isn't bats, that's ridiculous.
They made the same argument on Ebola in West Africa. I demolished that
online. You can check it out. So I kept competing theories about this.

But right now, when you originally contacted me, I said I wasn't
prepared to comment because I was weighing the evidence. I'm a law
professor and a lawyer,  I try to do the best I can to weigh the
evidence. But right now, the Wuhan BSL-4 in my opinion is the most
likely source, apply Occam's razor, the simplest explanation. I'm not
ruling out some type of sabotage. But right now, I believe that is the
source here.

Geopolitics and Empire: And you mentioned WHO. I'd like to just get your
thoughts on the WHO and the Big Pharma. There's also some analysts who
are downplaying this news media hype of the coronavirus. You've just
said that it seems to be lethal, but if we go back a decade to the 2009
swine flu, which I believe didn't have too many casualties, but I think
profited greatly the pharmaceutical companies. If I recall that back in
2009, many countries purchased great stocks of the vaccines and they
ended up not using anywhere from 50 to 80% of the vaccines that they
purchased.

You've previously stated in an interview that the World Health
Organization is a front for Big Pharma if I'm not mistaken. Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. also agrees and he says, you know, 50% of WHO funding comes
from pharmaceutical companies. And that the CDC itself is also severely
compromised. What are your thoughts on the WHO? The CDC?

Dr. Francis Boyle: Can't trust anything the WHO says because they're all
bought and paid for by Big Pharma and when they work in cahoots with the
CDC, which is the United States government, they work in cahoots with
Fort Detrick, so you can't trust any of it.

However, the swine flu and yes, I agree pharma made a lot of money, but
that swine flu which I looked at it, it did seem to me to be a
genetically modified biological warfare weapon. It was a chimera of
three different types of genetic strains that someone put it together in
a cocktail. Fortunately, it was not as lethal as all of us fear. So
fine. But as I said, this figure I just gave to you was Saturday from
Lancet, which is a medical publication, saying it's a 15% fatality rate
and an 83% infection rate. So it's quite serious, I think, far more
serious than the swine flu.

As for big pharma, sure they're all trying to profit off this today as
we speak. There was a big article yesterday in the Wall Street Journal,
all big pharma trying to peddle whatever they can over there in China
even if it's worthless and won't help. We do know, if you read the
mainstream news media they say there isn't a vaccine.

Well, there is, it's by the Pirbright Institute in Britain that's tied
into their biological warfare program over there. They were behind the
hoof and mouth disease outbreak over there that wiped out their cattle
herd and it leaked out of there. So it's clear they're working on a hoof
and mouth biological warfare weapon, but the vaccine is there. I have
the patent for it here, I haven't had a chance to read the patent it's
about 25 pages long and my classes just resume. So eventually, I get
some free time and I'll read the patent.

You can't patent a vaccine with the United States patent office unless
the science is there. So there is a vaccine. Everyone's lying about
that, no one's pointing this out – there's a vaccine but instead big
pharma wants to make money and the researchers say, well, it'll take
three months and we're racing forward, you know. Everyone's gonna make a
buck off of this, that's for sure. But there is a vaccine, I have the
patent here. It's been patented by the United States government.

So obviously, I don't know exactly how workable it is, but it's a
vaccine. I don't know why it isn't out there now? Why isn't someone
saying there is a vaccine? Perhaps political leaders have already been
vaccinated for all I know, I really don't know.  But there is a vaccine,
Pirbright is well known there in Britain and it's tied into Fort Detrick
and CDC is tied into Fort Detrick too. So they all know there's a
patented vaccine.

Geopolitics and Empire:  And just to get your comment on, I mean,
something to related to this, which was my next question. So I think,
I'm not sure if it's that same Institute that you just mentioned that
has the patent.  I read somewhere that the Bill & Melinda Gates
foundation maybe funds or has some connection to that Institute that has
the patent.

Dr. Francis Boyle:  I think they do. The Bill & Melinda Gates
information, they fund this type of DNA genetically engineered
biological warfare work. That's correct. So you can't trust anything
they're telling you that somehow they're out there trying to make the
world a better place.  I mean, we have Bill Gates publicly admitting
that the world be a better place if there were a lot less people. So the
Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, they are wolves in sheep's clothing and
they are funding this type of stuff. Sure.

Geopolitics and Empire: And just your comment, there was also the report
that I guess it was a consortium of companies which included the Gates
foundation that back in just two or three months ago in October of 2019
they held a pandemic exercise simulating an outbreak. I mean, what are
the chances specifically of a coronavirus and it was called events 201.
People can find this online online and they gave a list of seven
recommendations for governments and international organizations to take.
I also find that kind of interesting how they had this simulation.

Dr. Francis Boyle:  That's correct. It raises that question,  the
origins of what happened here.  But right now, I'm just looking at the
evidence I have and applying Occam's razor and we know that Wuhan BSL-4
was research developing, testing, SARS as a biological warfare agent. So
it could have been, they gave it this DNA genetic engineering enhanced
properties gain of function which we do here in the West, in the United
States all the time. We have  all sorts of research that is clearly a
bio warfare research that has been approved by the National Institutes
of Health, it's a joke. They know full well they are proving all kinds
of biological warfare research and it gets funded by the United States
government.

Geopolitics and Empire:  And you've also mentioned in the email to me
that what happened in the biosafety lab level 4 in Wuhan calls into
question the safety of all of these level 3and 4four labs around the world.

Dr. Francis Boyle:  They're complete unsafe. BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs are
only designed for research development testing of offensive biological
warfare agents.  In my opinion, they serve no legitimate purpose at all.
They should all be shut down, every one of them. Even assuming, they're
simply too dangerous. If you want, there's an excellent  documentary
called Anthrax Wars by Nadler and Coen and I'm in there.  Repeatedly at
the end, I say with respect to these labs, three and four, this is a
catastrophe waiting to happen. Well, I'm afraid the catastrophe is now
happened. So there it is.

Geopolitics and Empire:  Yeah, I was just watching that documentary
before we connected and I recommend the listeners go check that out. Do
you see, in the future, any countries,  if we come to a conflict between
US, EU, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, Russia,  I mean you name it.
Do you see any of these countries actually utilizing these biological
weapons?  I mean, it's illegal under international law but we know like
in the past that international law isn't followed. Do you think that
there's a real danger of this escalating?

Dr. Francis Boyle: For sure. That's the only reason they develop these
biological weapons to eventually be used, sure.  I mean, it's like the
Manhattan project, we put all that money into developing an atom bomb
and even though it was not needed to end world war II they still knew
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So, yes,  I think that's correct.  And also
these can be used covertly. Anytime you see an unexplained  sudden
outbreak of a disease like this anywhere in the world, both for human
beings and or animals, I always suspect the bio warfare agent is at
work.  I monitor the situation like I did at Wuhan until I can reach a
conclusion. Yes, they can be used as the eyes for the United States
government, today they are fully prepared, armed, equipped, supplied to
wage a biological warfare with anthrax.

These other more exotic things I don't know, but they have the weapons,
there are stockpiles. We have to understand if you read Seymour Martin
Hersh's book published about 1968, he won the Pulitzer prize, he had the
whole offensive US biological warfare industry in there back before it
was illegal and criminal. Basically after 9/11, 2001, that entire
industry – offensive biological warfare industry has been reconstituted
here in the United States with all these BSL-4 BSL-3 labs, well over
13,000, alleged scientists sort of like Dr. Mengele working on these
things. Other countries have responded in kind like Russia, like China,
France is involved, Britain's involved. Sure.

Geopolitics and Empire: I just wanted to get your thoughts on, in the
last few years there was the Russian double agent spy Sergei Skripal who
had been allegedly poisoned with Novichok out in Britain and  I thought
it was funny. It just so happened where he was allegedly poisoned, he
was right in Porton Down the British bio weapons lab, I guess the
world's first bio weapons lab that was created in 1916. I mean,  I don't
know if you have thoughts on that whole incident.

Dr. Francis Boyle: Yeah, I was right down the street from Porton Down,
so applying Occam's razor who you think might've been behind this and it
was not a nerve agent. A nerve agent would have killed him immediately.
This is Novichok. It was something else like DX or something like that.
So fine. But, I would just say that I don't think that was a
coincidence, but, you know, there you go. There's the, obviously there's
a lot of speculation on that.

Geopolitics and Empire: Something else that's kind of interesting.
You've written in bio warfare and terrorism in your book and there's
also Graeme Macqueen, I think your colleague who wrote the Anthrax
Deception the case for domestic conspiracy…

Dr. Francis Boyle:  Everything you said in there. That's correct.

Geopolitics and Empire:  I'm wondering also if this new war for
biotechnological dominance, whatever you want to call it, if it can also
be used kind of as a pretext for the centralization of political power
and the initiation of wars like I guess it did in the 2003 Iraq war. I
mean, is this another danger that we get these events like now this
coronavirus and then governments will call for a centralization of
greater power and taking away some of our civil liberties?

Dr. Francis Boyle:  Sure. If you look at the October, 2001 anthrax
attacks here in the United States, that was clearly by elements of the
United States government that was behind that. That was a super weapons
grade anthrax with a trillion spores per gram and it floated in the air.
Solely a very sophisticated biological weapons lab like Fort Detrick
could produce that. And they used that anthrax attack including on
Congress to brand through the USA Patriot act which basically turned the
United States to a police state which is what we have now. You have to
understand the Pentagon, Fort Dietrich made the dugway proving ground
still has a stockpile of that super weapons grade anthrax that we saw in
October of 2001 that they can use the next time they want to do
something like that to further develop the American police thing. Right.

Geopolitics and Empire:  Is there anything else you feel important to
mention regarding this Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak or biological warfare
or any other thoughts you'd like to leave us with?

Dr. Francis Boyle:  Well, you just can't believe anything the Chinese
government, the WHO,  the CDC are telling. They're all lies because they
know what's going on here  and so you're going to have to figure it out
as fast as you can. But in my opinion, as of this time and I'm fully
prepared to consider further evidence on this, it does seem to me that
this was  a DNA genetically engineered biological warfare agent leaking
out of Wuhan that has gain-of-function properties which can make it more
lethal.  I think they are probably doing something with SARS to make it
a lot more lethal and more infectious. And so for that reason,  you have
to take extreme precautions and they're now finally admitted anyone
within six feet can be infected, whereas with SARS that was about two
feet. Well, that's gaining a function right there and that should be a
tip off.

So, I guess you're gonna have to protect yourself.  Laurie Garrett had a
pretty good essay in a foreign policy yesterday and she was over there
covering the SARS and she has very good advice in there except that she
took the SARS figure out two to three feet and said  well, you gotta
stay to two to three. I think you've got to stay at least six feet away
because this is gained function. It can flow through the air and infect
and it can get you in the eyes. Any orifice, the mouth, maybe the ears,
we're not sure at this point.

Geopolitics and Empire: I'm here on the border of China in Kazakhstan
and I was just reading yesterday – today that they're no longer allowing
Chinese citizens into Kazakhstan without a medical paper, a medical
check to get their visas to enter Kazakhstan

Dr. Francis Boyle:  Those medical checks are worthless because this is
just public relations by all the governments involved because there is a
14 day incubation period where people can still be infected. So someone
could walk right through a medical inspection and passing a gate into
your country and then they come down with the coronavirus. So that's all
public relations in my opinion by governments and they know it and
they're just sending people out there with temperatures and things like
that. It's not like SARS, this is more dangerous than SARS.  As I said,
I think that Wuhan lab, we know they had SARS in there that they were
dealing with and I think they enhanced it at and I'm afraid that's what
we're dealing with. But you know, I'm keeping an open mind as to what
other sources that might have and I wasn't prepared to say anything
until that Wuhan lab is right there and it's dealing with coronavirus.
So again, apply Occam's razor. It seems to me that's the simplest
explanation here.

Geopolitics and Empire: I guess my, one of my final question would be in
the months ahead, apart of what you say staying six feet away from
people.  I've read taking high doses of vitamin C and other things like
this can help you. But, if they come out as the situation develops and
if it gets worse and they come out with a coronavirus vaccine,  should
people take it or not? What are your thoughts?

Dr. Francis Boyle:  Well, what I would say is this. Right now, if you
look at the article at the Wall Street Journal, big pharma is trying to
sell all sorts of – they're taking all their drugs off the shelf and say
well let's see if it works. Which is preposterous. Okay. The scientists
are saying, well, we can get you a vaccine maybe two to three months but
they're not tested.  So what we do know, however, is that Pirbright
vaccine has been patented. So all I can assume is that that might work.
But I don't think I'd be taking any of these other vaccines. No, you
have no idea what's in there. You'll be the Guinea pig for big pharma
and everyone figures they're gonna make a lot of money here. So I'll
keep my eye open on this  and how it develop but I wouldn't trust
anything they're trying to sell right now. They're just pulling these
things off the shelf.

If they do come up with something in two to three months, even that's
not going to be tested in accordance with normal scientific protocol. So
it's going to be a crap shoot. If it's going to help you, indeed it
might not help you because they'll be using for this vaccines (these DNA
genetic engineered vaccines) they'll be using live coronavirus probably
and sticking it in there and giving you some live coronavirus on the
theory you'll develop an immunity. That's the way a lot of these
vaccines worked out, that's what happened with the Ebola vaccine that
created the Ebola pandemic there in West Africa. They were testing out a
vaccine on poor black Africans, as usual, and  this vaccine had live
Ebola in it so it gave them Ebola. So again, I'd be very careful even if
they do come up with these vaccines two to three months from now, very
careful. Why would you want to inject the live coronavirus in you?

Geopolitics and Empire: All right. I don't believe you have a strong
online presence. How can people best follow your work? I suppose to
search for interviews as well as get your books.

Dr. Francis Boyle: Well, basically I'm blackballed and blacklisted off
all the mainstream news media here on purpose. As far as I can figure
out, the US government gave an order that I should not be interviewed by
anyone, so I'm not.  I guess you could just put my name in there under
Google, Google alert, and some interviews might come up. What happened
was, right after the anthrax attacks of 9/11 2001, I was giving a
lecture out at Harvard m Alma Mater.  I was running a panel on
biological warfare for the council for responsible genetics and it was
at Harvard Divinity School and as I was going in, there was a Fox camera
crew there from Boston and I said it looks to me like this has come out
of the US government lab. We know they do research and testing on
anthrax. Then I said the same thing there at Harvard then I gave an
interview to a radio station in Washington, D C then I gave an interview
on that to the BBC. So the whole world saw it and at that point I was
completely cut off and I've been cut off  ever since. So you  probably
not going to hear too many  interviews from me here. As for my book.
Biowarfare & Terrorism, you can just get it at amazon.com. That picks up
the story pretty much from 9/11 2001 and until it went to press and then
there are interviews I'd given to an investigative reporter, Sherwood
Ross and a big one I just sent you and you might want to put that on
your web page. That was pretty comprehensive.

Geopolitics and Empire: Yeah,  I read that as well and I'll include the
link in the description of this interview so people can go check that
out. You're not the only academic I know and have heard of others that
similar things have happened and that's just I guess the price we pay
for telling the truth. Again, for listeners, if people wanted to have a
broader context and deeper understanding of what's happening today
especially with biological warfare as well as us foreign policy and
international affairs, I urge you to get Dr. Francis Boyle's books and
listen to his interviews as well as his colleagues book. Graeme
Macqueen, The Anthrax Deception, The Case For Domestic Conspiracy. Thank
you for being with us, Dr. Boyle.

Dr. Francis Boyle: Well, thank you and again, please understand these
are my current opinions.  I could change my opinion here based on more
evidence. So  I'm just looking at the evidence out there as I see it and
you have to understand there is so much disinformation, lies and
propaganda that it's kind of very difficult to distinguish truth from
fact.  I'm doing the best job I can here.

— end interview —

(3) Lancet study showed that early Coronavirus cases had no connection
to Wuhan market


From: chris lancenet <chrislancenet@gmail.com>

https://www.infowars.com/creator-of-us-bioweapons-act-says-coronavirus-is-biological-warfare-weapon/
NEWSLETTER

Creator Of US BioWeapons Act Says Coronavirus Is Biological Warfare Weapon

The WHO knows full well what is occurring

GreatGameIndia.com - FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In an explosive interview Dr. Francis Boyle, who drafted the Biological
Weapons Act has given a detailed statement admitting that the 2019 Wuhan
Coronavirus is an offensive Biological Warfare Weapon and that the World
Health Organization (WHO) already knows about it.

Francis Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of
Illinois College of Law.

He drafted the U.S. domestic implementing legislation for the Biological
Weapons Convention, known as the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act
of 1989, that was approved unanimously by both Houses of the U.S.
Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.

In an exclusive interview given to Geopolitics and Empire, Dr. Boyle
discusses the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China and the Biosafety
Level 4 laboratory (BSL-4) from which he believes the infectious disease
escaped.

He believes the virus is potentially lethal and an offensive biological
warfare weapon or dual-use biowarfare weapons agent genetically modified
with gain of function properties, which is why the Chinese government
originally tried to cover it up and is now taking drastic measures to
contain it.

The Wuhan BSL-4 lab is also a specially designated World Health
Organization (WHO) research lab and Dr. Boyle contends that the WHO
knows full well what is occurring.

Dr. Boyle also touches upon GreatGameIndia‘s exclusive report
Coronavirus Bioweapon – where we reported in detail how Chinese
Biowarfare agents working at the Canadian lab in Winnipeg were involved
in the smuggling of Coronavirus to Wuhan's lab from where it is believed
to have been leaked.

Watch Dr. Francis Boyle's interview with Geopolitics and Empire below:

Dr. Boyle's position is in stark contrast to the mainstream media's
narrative of the virus being originated from the seafood market, which
is increasingly being questioned by many experts.

Recently, American Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas also dismantled the
mainstream media's claim on Thursday that pinned the coronavirus
outbreak on a market selling dead and live animals.

Alex Jones shares his insight on the explosive interview of Dr. Francis
Boyle.

In a video accompanying his post, Cotton explained that the Wuhan wet
market (which Cotton incorrectly referred to as a seafood market) has
been shown by experts to not be the source of the deadly contagion.

Cotton referenced a Lancet study which showed that many of the first
cases of the novel coronavirus, including patient zero, had no
connection to the wet market — devastatingly undermining mainstream
media's claim.

"As one epidemiologist said: ‘That virus went into the seafood market
before it came out of the seafood market.' We still don't know where it
originated," Cotton said.

"I would note that Wuhan also has China's only bio-safety level four
super laboratory that works with the world's most deadly pathogens to
include, yes, coronavirus."

Tom Cotton?@SenTomCotton

China claimed—for almost two months—that coronavirus had originated in a
Wuhan seafood market. That is not the case. @TheLancet published a study
demonstrating that of the original 40 cases, 14 of them had no contact
with the seafood market, including Patient Zero.

Such concerns have also been raised by J.R. Nyquist, the well known
author of the books "Origins of the Fourth World War" and "The Fool and
His Enemy," as well as co-author of "The New Tactics of Global War". In
his insightful article he published secret speechs given to high-level
Communist Party cadres by Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Chi Haotian
explaining a long-range plan for ensuring a Chinese national renaissance
– the catalyst for which would be China's secret plan to weaponiz viruses.

Nyquist gave three different data points for making his case in
analyzing Coronavirus. He writes:

The third data point worth considering: the journal GreatGameIndia has
published a piece titled "Coronavirus Bioweapon – How China Stole
Coronavirus From Canada And Weaponized It."

The authors were clever enough to put Khan's Virology Journal article
together with news of a security breach by Chinese nationals at the
Canadian (P4) National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg, where the novel
coronavirus was allegedly stored with other lethal organisms. Last May,
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were called in to investigate; by late
July the Chinese were kicked out of the facility. The chief Chinese
scientist (Dr. Xiangguo Qiu) was allegedly making trips between Winnipeg
and Wuhan.

Here we have a plausible theory of the NCoV organism's travels: first
discovered in Saudi Arabia, then studied in Canada from whence it was
stolen by a Chinese scientist and brought to Wuhan. Like the statement
of Taiwan's intelligence chief in 2008, the GreatGameIndia story has
come under intensive attack. Whatever the truth, the fact of proximity
and the unlikelihood of mutation must figure into our calculations.

It's highly probable that the 2019-nCoV organism is a weaponized version
of the NCoV discovered by Saudi doctors in 2012.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media's narrative still maintains that the
origin of the 2019 Coronavirus is the Wuhan Seafood Market. After
GreatGameIndia published the story on Coronavirus Bioweapon – not only
were our databse tinkered with and our reports blocked by Facebook on
the flimsy reason that they could not find GreatGameIndia Facebook page,
but the report itself was viciously attacked by Foreign Policy magazine,
PolitiFact (known widely as Facebook's propaganda arm) and BuzzFeedNews.

It is not GreatGameIndia alone which is being viciously attacked. Zero
Hedge, a popular alternate media blog was suspended by Twitter for
publishing a story related to a study by Indian scientists finding 2019
Wuhan Coronavirus to be not naturally evolved, raising the possibility
of it being created in a lab. Shockingly, the study itself came under
intense online criticism by Social Media experts resulting in the
scientists withdrawing the paper.

In retaliation India has launched a full-scale investigation against
China's Wuhan Institute of Virology. The Indian government has ordered
an inquiry into a study conducted in the Northeastern state of Nagaland
(close to China) by researchers from the U.S., China and India on bats
and humans carrying antibodies to deadly viruses like Ebola.

The study came under the scanner as two of the 12 researchers belonged
to the Wuhan Institute of Virology's Department of Emerging Infectious
Diseases, and it was funded by the United States Department of Defense's
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

The study, conducted by scientists of the Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research, the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), the Wuhan
Institute of Virology, the Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences in the U.S. and the Duke-National University in Singapore, is
now being investigated for how the scientists were allowed to access
live samples of bats and bat hunters (humans) without due permissions.

The results of the study were published in October last year in the PLOS
Neglected Tropical Diseases journal, originally established by the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation.

As the author J.R. Nyquist puts it:

We must have an investigation of the outbreak in Wuhan. The Chinese must
grant the world total transparency. The truth must come out. If Chinese
officials are innocent, they have nothing to hide. If they are guilty,
they will refuse to cooperate.

The real concern here is whether the rest of the world has the courage
to demand a real and thorough investigation. We need to be fearless in
this demand and not allow "economic interests" to play a coy and
dishonest game of denial. We need an honest inquiry. We need it now.

(4) White House Asks Scientists To Investigate Whether 2019-nCoV Was
Bio-Engineered


https://www.zerohedge.com/health/white-house-asks-scientists-investigate-whether-2019-ncov-was-bio-engineered

by Tyler Durden

Fri, 02/07/2020 - 17:26

A week ago, we published details that raised questions about the source
of the Wuhan novel coronavirus, specifically questioning the official
theory for the spread of the Coronavirus epidemic, namely because
someone ate bat soup at a Wuhan seafood and animal market as a
fabricated farce.

The real reason behind the viral spread, we suggested, was that a
weaponized version of the coronavirus (one which may have originally
been obtained from Canada), was released by Wuhan's Institute of
Virology (presumably accidentally ), China's only top, level-4 biohazard
lab, which was studying "the world's most dangerous pathogens." [...]

But, bygones being bygones, we moved on... until today when no lesser
entity than The White House began asking questions about the origin of
the deadly coronavirus.

As ABC News reports, the director of the White House's Office of Science
and Technology Policy (OSTP), in a letter to the National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, requested that scientific experts
"rapidly" look into the origins of the virus in order to address both
the current spread and "to inform future outbreak preparation and better
understand animal/human and environmental transmission aspects of
coronaviruses."

Specifically, ABC News' Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton
asked the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Disease about concerns that stem from misinformation online that the
novel coronavirus could have been engineered or deliberately released.

     "There's always that concern," Dr. Anthony Fauci said.

     "And one of the things that people are doing right now is very
carefully looking at sequences to see if there's even any possibility
much less likelihood that that's going on. And you could ultimately
determine that. So people are looking at it, but right now, the focus is
on what are we going to do about what we have."

The White House has good reason to question the official story as expert
virologist Dr. James Lyons-Weiler of the Institute for Pure and Applied
Knowledge, showed and explained how the coronavirus' genetic sequence -
which has been publicly released by China - contains a unique "middle
fragment" encoding a SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) spike
protein that appears, according to his genomic analysis, to have been
inserted into the 2019-nCoV virus using "pShuttle" technology. This
technique can only be done in a lab, as it has never occurred naturally
in nature.

     "This isn't a 'conspiracy theory', it is a scientific, medical
theory," says Del Bigtree, the Emmy-winning producer and founder of
non-profit Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN).

     "Its foundation is based on sound science, logic, and research, and
the mainstream media needs to be asked whether it is going to pursue
this link to SARS instead of trying to censor anyone who is trying to
pursue truth via scientific fact."

One additional, major reason we suspect this line of logical reasoning
could be correct - as conspiratorial as it may seem - is that Chinese
authorities have launched a full-scale crusade to disprove the fact that
this deadly virus was man-made.

     "Conspiracy theorists don't believe in science. I hope that the
national professional department will investigate and give us an
innocence," Shi Zhengli, a director at the Wuhan Institute of Virology -
the only P4 level biosafety laboratory in China - responded to Caixin on
February 4.

Faced with external doubts and accusations, on February 2nd, Shi Zhengli
responded angrily in the WeChat circle of friends:

     "The new coronavirus in 2019 is a punishment for uncivilized living
habits of human beings by nature. It doesn't matter. I advise those who
believe and spread rumours of bad media, believe in the so-called
academic analysis that Indian scholars do not rely on, and close your
mouth. "

Additionally, as The Washington Times reports, one ominous sign, said a
U.S. official, is the that false rumors since the outbreak began several
weeks ago have begun circulating on the Chinese Internet claiming the
virus is part of a U.S. conspiracy to spread germ weapons.

     That could indicate China is preparing propaganda outlets to
counter future charges the new virus escaped from one of Wuhan's
civilian or defense research laboratories.

As a reminder, it was discovered that Shi Zhengli had participated in a
study published in Natural Medicine on November 9, 2015, about a disease
that can be caused by a SARS-like coronavirus (SHC014-CoV) found in
Chinese horseshoe bats.

     The researchers used the SARS reverse genetics system to generate
and identify a chimeric virus. In simple terms, this chimeric virus
consists of the surface protein of SHC014 and the backbone of the SARS
virus. The chimeric virus can infect human respiratory cells,
demonstrating that the surface protein of SHC014 has the necessary
structure to bind to key receptors on cells and infect cells. Chimeras
can cause disease in mice, but they are not lethal. Studies have shown
that viruses currently circulating in bat populations could potentially
trigger the potential risk of SARS-CoV (SARS virus) outbreaks.

We are sure this is all just a coincidence - Wuhan epicenter... Only P4
facility in China... A lab investigating bats infected with genetically
engineered Coronavirus... Coronavirus infected Bats... Chimeric
bio-engineered viruses.... and that is probably why The White House is
now asking authorities to investigate the source of the disease.

Of course, when Zero Hedge suggested the same thing, highlighting key
personnel in the Wuhan lab that were publicly acknowledged as
responsible for that research, we were immediately banned by Twitter. We
look forward to reading Buzzfeed's article decrying The White House for
daring to ask questions about the origin of this deadly pandemic.

https://apnews.com/PR%20Newswire/ff548c99a03afb0d69bb7871f7cd4fc0

Did the Internet News Program "The HighWire With Del Bigtree" Break the
Coronavirus Code?

February 5, 2020

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/

Last Thursday's episode of "The HighWire With Del Bigtree" featured the
expert analysis of virologist Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, who used science
and facts to make a strong case that the coronavirus is lab created, not
a naturally occurring organic permutation of a prior virus.

Dr. Lyons-Weiler, of the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge,
showed and explained how the coronavirus's genetic sequence--which has
been publicly released by China-- contains a unique "middle fragment"
encoding a SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) spike protein that
appears, according to his genomic analysis, to have been inserted into
the 2019-nCoV virus using "pShuttle" technology. This technique can only
be done in a lab, as it has never occurred naturally in nature.

Dr. Lyons-Weiler buttresses his point with the following facts:

"This isn't a ‘conspiracy theory,' it is a scientific, medical theory,"
says Del Bigtree, the Emmy-winning producer and founder of non-profit
Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN). "Its foundation is based on
sound science, logic, and research, and the mainstream media needs to be
asked whether it is going to pursue this link to SARS instead of trying
to censor anyone who is trying to pursue truth via scientific fact."

Dr. Lyons-Weiler has put all of the scientific evidence backing his
theory on the web for other scientists and interested parties to
research on their own. He says that new sequences related to the study
come in every day, and that he will publish a definitive final study
that challenges the contention that 2019 n-CoV has no history of
recombination. He told Highwire that if there have been covert
vaccination studies using this virus in China, the human subjects in
such trials may have become super-sensitized to secondary challenge from
natural infection, which is what animal studies to date have found for
every experimental vaccines that uses recombinant SARS proteins.

"The older animals tend to die due to upper and lower respiratory
distress syndrome," says Lyons-Weiler. "This is part of the reason why
we don't have a vaccine for the common cold."

"It is highly likely the coronavirus was lab-created, and if that is the
case, the public needs to know," Bigtree, who produced the controversial
and revolutionary documentary "Vaxxed: From Coverup To Catastrophe"
asserts. "Particularly as we keep reading of ‘a race for a vaccine,' at
a time when the World Health Organization's claims about vaccine safety
have been exposed as mere talking points for the pharmaceutical industry."

"The HighWire With Del Bigtree" streams live every Thursday at 11am PST
on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and its website thehighwire.com, among
other platforms.

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(5) Wuhan Institute Of Virology – Epicentre Of Coronavirus
https://greatgameindia.com/wuhan-institute-of-virology-epicentre-of-coronavirus/

By GreatGameIndia - February 7, 2020

The source of the novel coronavirus that has led to the lockdown of 34
Chinese cities, and has now spread to 35 countries outside China, is
still unknown. Initial reports from China claimed the source was a live
food market in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, and may have been
caused by bats. Other reports claimed the source of Coronavirus may have
been the state-run Wuhan Institute of Virology near the market, where
the virus may have been leaked from the country's first top-level "P4"
lab, which handles the most dangerous types of pathogens.

The original report making the claim about the P4 lab as a potential
source was published by GreatGameIndia, a journal on geopolitics and
international relations in its report Coronavirus Bioweapon. Other
publications, such as The Washington Times, followed, with additional
claims based on interviews.

While the narrative of the virus coming from the lab hasn't been
debunked, it has been criticized by several news outlets, since some of
the connections still aren't proven.

Regardless of where the coronavirus came from, the attention on the P4
lab has focused a spotlight on the Chinese regime's alleged biological
warfare program and is raising questions about the nature of the P4 lab
in Wuhan.

The main argument against the idea that the Chinese regime has a
biological warfare program is the fact that China became a state party
to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1984, which would forbid
it from developing biological weapons.

A brief perusal of official documents and strategies, however, quickly
fuels doubt about how closely the Chinese regime has followed the BWC. A
U.S. State Department report from August 2019 notes the U.S. assessment
that China had an offensive biological weapons program from at least the
1950s to the late 1980s, and despite signing the BWC, "there is no
available information to demonstrate that China took steps to fulfill
its treaty obligations" to "divert or destroy" any offensive biological
weapons it previously developed.

The report also notes that the Chinese regime "engaged during the
reporting period in biological activities with potential dual-use
applications, which raises concerns regarding its compliance with the BWC."

In other words, some research programs done by the Chinese regime could
be used for both peaceful and hostile purposes. The report notes,
"Available information on studies from researchers at Chinese military
medical institutions often identify biological activities of a possibly
anomalous nature … with potential dual-use applications."

Rick Fisher, a senior fellow at the International Assessment and
Strategy Center and an Epoch Times contributor, said in an interview
that U.S. assessments in the government and intelligence communities
hold that "China has been developing these weapons all along."

Fisher noted that it was suspected that biological warfare program in
China were connected to leakages of the SARS virus, following its
outbreak in 2002 and 2003, and to a viral outbreak in the late 1980s in
Xinjiang.

"They are still disasters—breakdowns—in the process of these
laboratories that allowed for these very harmful viruses to leak out
into the public and cause extensive, but clearly unnecessary, death,"
Fisher said.

The P4 lab in Wuhan has connections to the Chinese military, the
People's Liberation Army. When the U.S.-based company Gilead Sciences
recently sent a new drug (remdesivir) to China that could possibly treat
the novel coronavirus, the Wuhan Institute of Virology quickly moved to
apply for a patent.

In a Feb. 4 statement published on the institute's website about the
patent, the institute notes it conducted research alongside the National
Academy of Military Medical Research Institute of Emergency Medicine for
Prevention and Control of Drugs. It also notes ties to the Prevention
Engineering Technology Research Center of Military Medical Research
Institute, and to the National Institute of Emergency Medicine Control
and Engineering Research Center for Military Medical Research.

The Wuhan P4 lab is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which has
close ties to the Chinese military in its research programs.

Meanwhile, Chinese military doctrine has identified biological warfare
as a key part of the regime's military strategies—particularly in any
war scenarios with the United States. Among the key programs is its
Assassin's Mace ("Sha Shou Jian") strategy.

Michael Pillsbury, a Pentagon consultant, warned of the strategy in his
2016 book "The Hundred-Year Marathon," in which he noted the only time
China won in a simulated war game with the United States, the China team
used the Assassin's Mace strategy. He wrote, "whenever the China team
used conventional tactics and strategies, America won—decisively.
However, in every case where China employed Assassin's Mace methods,
China was the victor."

Fisher said that Assassin's Mace is designed around using various
unconventional weapons in conjunction for a brutal surprise attack, and
that "when used at the right time, and targeted against a specific
weakness of the enemy, can result in the rapid collapse of that enemy's
military threat."

He also noted that Chinese military officials haven't shied away from
discussing the use of brutal attacks and weapons, including biological
weapons. Some of the statements are so brazen and extreme, however, that
many in the U.S. defense analyst community tend to dismiss them.

In regard to rumors about the new coronavirus spreading in China, he
noted that while they're still unproven, they also shouldn't be written
off without some investigation.

Also read: India to Investigate Wuhan Institute of Virology

"Reputable scientists are beginning to coalesce around the idea that at
a minimum, the coronavirus that we're facing today is the product of a
laboratory [and] not the product of some kind of naturally occurring
process," Fisher said.

He said the "developing consensus that this coronavirus is a man-made
virus naturally links this to China's biowarfare capabilities and programs."

"The world should take this as a very serious possibility, and it should
affect our policy and relationships with the People's Republic of China."

(6) Doctor who sounded alarm over Coronavirus - branded Fake News - has
died; public anger unsettles Xi


https://www.economist.com/china/2020/02/07/li-wenliangs-death-is-a-new-crisis-for-chinas-rulers

Mourning for a medic

Li Wenliang's death is a new crisis for China's rulers

Sympathy for the doctor who sounded the alarm over coronavirus is mixed
with anger at the government

Feb 7th 2020

BEIJING

"IF YOU KEEP being stubborn, fail to repent and continue illegal
activities, you will be brought to justice." So read the warning that
police in Wuhan issued to Li Wenliang early in January. Mr Li, an
ophthalmologist at a hospital in the city, had been summoned by officers
after sharing information through WeChat, a social-media platform, about
a new coronavirus that few people then knew about. On the evening of
February 6th Mr Li was killed by the pathogen, having been infected by a
patient a few days after the police told him to shut up. His death has
prompted one of the biggest outpourings of online criticism of the
government in years. Officials struggling to contain the virus are also
now battling to assuage public anger.

Mr Li is being hailed by Chinese netizens as a whistleblower, but all he
did was post a few sentences about the virus on a private forum used by
former classmates from his old medical school, most of whom are also
practising doctors. On the evening of December 30th he warned them that
a group of patients with links to one of Wuhan's live-animal markets
were believed to be infected with the SARS virus that killed hundreds of
people during an outbreak in 2002-03, or something similar to it. He
suggested that they adopt more stringent precautions against infection
in their hospitals, and asked them not to share the information with others.

But screenshots of his message circulated widely and eventually came to
the attention of his hospital bosses. They summoned him for a
dressing-down, then ordered him to write a letter of self-criticism. The
police called him in for questioning three days later and said he had
"gravely disturbed social order". Without naming them, the police
publicly accused eight people of spreading "false information". Mr Li
was reportedly one of them. Later in January, as the impact of the virus
became more evident and officials abandoned their secretive approach to
handling the outbreak, Mr Li and his co-accused were absolved by the
government. The supreme court issued a rare rebuke to the authorities in
Wuhan for trying to silence them. Chinese and international media were
able to interview Mr Li, who by then was lying sick in hospital. The
eight became online heroes. Many messages on social media criticised the
government's earlier treatment of them.

Mr Li's death has fanned netizens' resentment. Messages commemorating
him and lambasting the authorities have blanketed social media. Most
people in China are stuck at home as a result of measures implemented by
local governments to curb the spread of the virus. So they have plenty
of time to vent their feelings online. Many have expressed support for
Mr Li's young child and pregnant wife, and shock that, having mostly
killed older people, the virus has taken the life of a 34-year-old. Some
have posted links to "Do you hear the people sing", a song from "Les
Misérables" that is often heard at anti-government protests in Hong Kong
and elsewhere. Others have quoted from an interview Mr Li gave to
Caixin, a Chinese magazine, in which he said: "A healthy society should
not only have one voice." There have been calls for people to light
candles in memory.

These are fraught times for Chinese officials. They are caught between a
desire to promote awareness of the virus and its dangers, and a fear of
anything that could trigger social unrest. Media firms have been ordered
to "safely control the temperature" of debate about Mr Li's death,
according to a leaked directive published by China Digital Times, a
website based in America. Posts containing the phrase "I want freedom of
speech" have disappeared fast. The central government appears to hope
that making a scapegoat of Wuhan's officials will help to restore calm.
Hours after Mr Li's death the Communist Party's internal
discipline-enforcement agency said it was dispatching a team to
investigate "questions raised by the masses" in connection with Mr Li.
Expect much official praise for the doctor. On Twitter, China's
ambassador to America, Cui Tiankai, said it was unfortunate that
"devoted" people such as Mr Li had not at first been "fully understood
and appreciated by all". Less encouragingly, however, he said "this
could happen anywhere".

The party would doubtless prefer that mourning remain confined to
cyberspace. It has not forgotten that the nationwide anti-government
protests of 1989 were sparked by the death of a sympathetic public
figure (a former party chief, Hu Yaobang, who had lost his job for being
too reformist). No one is expecting another political explosion of that
nature—not least because public gatherings would be very difficult to
organise amid widespread fear of contagion by the virus. But like the
cases of coronavirus, the party's problems are multiplying.

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