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Best of the Web: US Intelligence report warned of coronavirus outbreak as early as November

Josh Margolin & James Gordon Meek
ABC
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 03:55 UTC
Hubei
© AFP via Getty Images, FILEAmbulance medical staff arrive at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital with an elderly woman, who recovered from COVID-19, at Wuhan in China's central Hubei province, March 30, 2020.
Ambulance medical staff arrive at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital with an elderly woman, who recovered from COVID-19, at Wuhan in China's central Hubei province, March 30, 2020.
According to an exclusive ABC News investigation the National Center for Medical Intelligence warned the military and White House about the spread of the virus in China as far back as late November.

As far back as late November, U.S. intelligence officials were warning that a contagion was sweeping through China's Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting.

Concerns about what is now known to be the novel coronavirus pandemic were detailed in a November intelligence report by the military's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), according to two officials familiar with the document's contents.

Comment: The South China Morning Post reported on the 22nd March 2020: Coronavirus Did NOT Originate in China: Lombardy Doctors Have Been Dealing With 'Strange Pneumonia' Since at Least NOVEMBER

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Supermarket giant Tesco gets £585 million coronavirus tax break, pays shareholders £635 million

Zoe Wood
The Guardian
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:08 UTC
Tesco
© Andrew Couldridge/ReutersPanic-buying by shoppers initially led to empty shelves but Tesco says supply levels have stabilised.
Tesco has defended its decision to pay a £635m dividend while accepting a similar-sized tax break from the government's emergency coronavirus support package.

The Labour peer Andrew Adonis tweeted that it was "absolutely wrong" for Tesco to accept the business rates holiday worth £585m and said the retailer should "pay it back" if it could afford to pay a big dividend to shareholders.

However, Tesco's chairman, John Allan, told the Guardian that rewarding shareholders was the "right thing" to do after they backed it through the five-year recovery from an accounting scandal.

Comment: Meanwhile for the average citizen: UK banks not lending government backed emergency loans to small businesses, up to a million may go under

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What did they know, exactly? US intel warned of 'cataclysmic' coronavirus pandemic in NOVEMBER 2019, report claims


RT.com
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 07:25 UTC
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US military intelligence tried to raise the alarm about the coronavirus epidemic in China when it was still embryonic in November, inside sources claim - raising questions of what they knew and who ignored, or squashed the report.

Not only had the coronavirus epidemic begun spiraling out of control in Wuhan by November 2019, but military analysts were already warning it "could be a cataclysmic event" for both China and the US, four sources familiar with the briefings told ABC on Wednesday. Analysts at the National Center for Medical Intelligence, a subsidiary of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, had been trying to alert Pentagon and Donald Trump administration officials of the looming catastrophe for months before the country finally took action, the sources claim.

Based on detailed analysis of intercepted communications and satellite imagery, the NCMI reportedly projected that a virulent contagion already getting out of hand in Wuhan would soon be menacing not just China but US troops stationed nearby. Most intriguingly, the sources hint that analysts may have begun looking into the unfolding epidemic even earlier, given the timeline for when the material crossed President Trump's desk. By the time the agency's warnings made it into the President's Daily Brief in early January, they would have had to undergo "weeks of vetting and analysis."
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Robert F Kennedy Jr: Vaccines are a 'strategic philanthropy' for Bill Gates to achieve dictatorial control over global health policy

Robert F Kennedy Jr
Instagram
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:01 UTC
bill gates vaccine
Bill Gates

Comment: The following was posted to @robertfkennedyjr on Instagram. You can find the original post with images here.


Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft's ambition to control a global vac ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control over global health policy — the spear tip of corporate neo-imperialism.
Gates' obsession with vaccines seems fueled by a messianic conviction that he is ordained to save the world with technology and a god-like willingness to experiment with the lives of lesser humans.

Promising to eradicate Polio with $1.2 billion, Gates took control of India 's National Advisory Board (NAB) and mandated 50 polio vaccines (up from 5) to every child before age 5. Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating vaccine-strain polio epidemic that paralyzed 496,000 children between 2000 and 2017. In 2017, the Indian Government dialed back Gates' vaccine regimen and evicted Gates and his cronies from the NAB. Polio paralysis rates dropped precipitously. In 2017, the World Health Organization reluctantly admitted that the global polio explosion is predominantly vaccine strain, meaning it is coming from Gates' Vaccine Program. The most frightening epidemics in Congo, the Philippines, and Afghanistan are all linked to Gates' vaccines. By 2018, ¾ of global polio cases were from Gates' vaccines.

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Best of the Web: Bill Gates's Charity Paradox

Tim Schwab
The Nation
Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:01 UTC
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© Illustration by Jason Seiler
A Nation investigation illustrates the moral hazards surrounding the Gates Foundation's $50 billion charitable enterprise.

Last fall, Netflix premiered a three-part documentary that promises viewers a rare look at the inner life of one of history's most controversial businessmen. Over three hours, Inside Bill's Brain shows us a rare emotional side to Bill Gates as he processes the loss of his mother and the death of his estranged best friend and Microsoft cofounder, Paul Allen.

Mostly, though, the film reinforces the image many of us already had of the ambitious technologist, insatiable brainiac, and heroic philanthropist. Inside Bill's Brain falls into a common trap: attempting to understand the world's second-richest human by interviewing people in his sphere of financial influence.

Comment: The whole concept of 'philanthropy' clearly needs a reboot. Bill Gates likely cares little if any about the world's poor and disadvantaged, but has simply found a way through charity to weild power and influence over the world. His vision reportedly includes mass vaccinations, population controls, rampant genetic modification and complete surveillance of every individual on the planet. Has anyone voted for this? Gates giddy glee at the lockdown measures currently gripping the planet give away his entire game - he wants a world population under total domination and control with himself seated on the throne.

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Flashback Meet the world's most powerful doctor: Bill Gates

Natalie Huet and Carmen Paun
Politico
Mon, 08 May 2017 20:50 UTC
Bill Gates
© Stephen Voss/REDUXMicrosoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates
Some billionaires are satisfied with buying themselves an island. Bill Gates got a United Nations health agency in Geneva.

Over the past decade, the world's richest man has become the World Health Organization's second biggest donor, second only to the United States and just above the United Kingdom. This largesse gives him outsized influence over its agenda, one that could grow as the U.S. and the U.K. threaten to cut funding if the agency doesn't make a better investment case.

The result, say his critics, is that Gates' priorities have become the WHO's. Rather than focusing on strengthening health care in poor countries — that would help, in their view, to contain future outbreaks like the Ebola epidemic — the agency spends a disproportionate amount of its resources on projects with the measurable outcomes Gates prefers, such as the effort to eradicate polio.

Concerns about the software billionaire's sway — roughly a quarter of WHO's budget goes toward polio eradication — has led to an effort to rein him in. But he remains a force to be reckoned with, as WHO prepares to elect one of three finalists to lead the organization.

"All of the candidates are going to have to ally with him in some way," said Sophie Harman, associate professor of international politics at Queen Mary University of London. "You can't ignore him."

Evidence of Gates' unprecedented influence abounds in ways subtle and showy.

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SOTT Focus: Bill Gates' Obsession With Vaccines


The Clover Chronicle
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 06:50 UTC
Book of Bill
On Tuesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, took to social media and shared a lengthy message about billionaire Bill Gates and his "obsession with vaccines":
"Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft's ambition to control a global vac ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control over global health policy — the spear tip of corporate neo-imperialism.

"Gates' obsession with vaccines seems fueled by a messianic conviction that he is ordained to save the world with technology and a god-like willingness to experiment with the lives of lesser humans.
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Dr. Birx: We have 'very liberal' recording of COVID deaths; if they test positive, 'we are counting that'

Amanda Prestigiacomo
The Daily Wire
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 21:56 UTC
Dr. Deborah Birx
© Michael Brochstein / Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images
During Tuesday's White House press briefing, coronavirus task force leader Dr. Deborah Birx explained that COVID-19 deaths in the United States have "very liberal" recording guidance, noting that anyone who tests positive for the virus and dies would be included in their numbers of coronavirus deaths.

Responding to a question from a reporter about potential underreporting of novel coronavirus deaths in the nation, Dr. Birx responded: "I think in this country, we are taking a very liberal approach to mortality. And I think the reporting here has been pretty straightforward over the last five to six weeks," she said, adding, "If someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that."

Dr. Birx suggested COVID-19 deaths in January and February were likely underreported, due to a lack of testing. "When there wasn't testing in January and February, that's a very different situation and unknown," she explained.

While the U.S.'s death toll has been highlighted in relation to other counties, Dr. Birx pointed out that other nations are not recording as liberally as we are.

"There are other countries, that if you have a pre-existing condition, and let's say the virus called you to go to the ICU (intensive care unit) and then have a heart or kidney problem," she explained. "Some countries are recording that as a kidney issue, or a heart issue, and not a COVID-19 death."

Comment: They're openly stating that they're inflating the numbers and still the numbers that we're seeing are surprisingly below average. So what's with the continued promotion and enforcement of lock downs and quarantines?

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Targeting Iran while America locks down

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Pompeo Netanyahu
A national health crisis does not stop the beat of the war drums

The United States has just declared war against the coronavirus, with President Donald Trump self-proclaiming that he is now a "wartime president." Whether one believes that the virus must be confronted with maximum aggression by effectively shutting down the country or that the measures already in place are already an overreaction hardly seems to matter as developments over the next several months will likely demonstrate what could have/might have/should have been done. But meanwhile extreme views are proliferating, with Rush Limbaugh detecting a conspiracy by Democrats and communists to destroy capitalism under "the guise of saving lives" while a more restrained but ideologically driven libertarian Ron Paul meanwhile chose to pen an article entitled "Coronavirus Hoax" that personally pilloried as a "chief fearmonger" the government's widely respected expert on the origin and spread of the disease Dr. Anthony Fauci.


Comment: And for very good reasons:

Stalin famously said that the death of one person was a tragedy while the death of a million is a statistic. For both Limbaugh and Paul an epidemic that could kill tens or even hundreds of thousands Americans produces a statistic, of lesser importance than retaining a completely corrupt Wall Street and the individual's "liberty" to go shopping. Indeed, if greed driven American "vulture" capitalism must be preserved in its current form to protect and empower the rich, radical change might be welcomed by most Americans to include a long overdue genuine health infrastructure safety net.
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Minsk II update: The Ukrainian peace process collapses, positive momentum blocked by Berlin and Paris

Eric Zuesse
The Saker
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Minsk 2
News has only gradually seeped out that the Minsk II agreement, to find a peaceful way to end the war between Ukraine and its breakaway far eastern Donbass region, collapsed on March 26th. It was an agreement which Francois Hollande of France and Angela Merkel of Germany had established with Vladimir Putin of Russia, on 11 February 2015, in Minsk, Belarus. U.S. President Barack Obama, the founder of today's Ukraine, had opposed that Agreement, because he was encouraging the then-President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, militarily to retake both Donbass and Crimea by force — or at least to attempt to do so. The "Minsk Protocol" had set up a "contact group" of representatives from Ukraine, Russia, and the OSCE (a peace-maintenance organization consisting of virtually all countries in the northern hemisphere).

The agreement's purpose was to establish direct talks between representatives of Ukraine and representatives of Donbass. Whereas Donbass was reluctantly willing to have such talks, Ukraine never was willing, at all, and signed the original document only in order to be able to qualify for more loans from The West (so as to be able to continue bombing Donbass). Ukraine bombed and has continued virtually ceaselessly to shell Donbass to conquer it, and the far-right in Ukraine control the country and have consistently threatened to assassinate Ukraine's President if he signs any agreement to establish peace-talks with Donbass. So, the President of Ukraine has been trapped between, on the one hand, the U.S. President and Ukraine's rabidly anti-Russian nazis — both of whom want the war to continue — and, on the other, Ukraine's public (who overwhelmingly want the war to end).
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