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French doctor claims coronavirus was present in Europe in December


Comment: This is about the 10th occasion in which senior doctors and scientists in countries other than China have claimed COVID-19 was present in their countries before or in conjunction with the Wuhan outbreak. Clearly then, Wuhan was NOT 'ground zero'...


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A doctor claims that COVID-19 was present in Europe in December, which is earlier than what was originally thought.

Dr. Yves Cohen, an intensive care chief in Paris, said that looking back, a positive case of COVID-19 was identified at Jean-Verdier Hospital in the northeastern Paris suburb of Bondy on Dec. 27, according to ABC News. That would be around the same time the first cases of the virus were detected in China.

Doctors reanalyzed samples from molecular diagnostic tests of 24 patients in December and January who were experiencing pneumonia-like illnesses but tested negative for the flu and other viruses. At the time, tests for the coronavirus were not yet being offered.

Cohen said the man who tested positive may have been France's "patient zero" and urged doctors to retest all patient samples that had been negative for pneumonia.

France reported its first confirmed case of COVID-19 on Jan. 24, linking it to the southwestern city of Bordeaux. It was also the first reported case in Europe.

Comment: Here's what Dr. Cohen said in his interview with local media:
"We've reanalyzed all negative tests on people who were diagnosed with pneumonia. Of the 24 patients, we found one who resulted positive to Covid-19 on December 27 when he was taken to our Avicenne Hospital," said Cohen. He confirmed that the patient in question has fully recovered and "is well."
This pretty puts puts a nail in the theory that the virus originated in Wuhan. It's even possible the virus was in Europe earlier than December, perhaps November.


Biohazard

Project G-2101: Pentagon biolab discovered MERS and SARS-like coronaviruses in bats

Lugar
© Dilyana Gaytandzhieva
The Lugar Center, the Pentagon-funded biolaboratory in Georgia's capital Tbilisi
Two years ago, I investigated an alleged laboratory accident at the Lugar Center, the Pentagon biolaboratory in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, which had resulted in the death of two Filipinos working in the laboratory. The death cases were hidden by the local authorities but I recorded on camera witnesses who testified about this tragic incident.

However, what then seemed to me to be a local issue, turned out to be part of a bigger story. The Lugar Center in Georgia is just one of the many Pentagon biolaboratories in 25 countries across the world. They are funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under a $ 2.1 billion military program - Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP), and are located in former Soviet Union countries such as Georgia and Ukraine, the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa. Much of their work is classified and includes projects on bio-agents and pathogens with pandemic potential.

Comment: For more in-depth exposés from Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, see: And check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Interview with Dilyana Gaytandzhieva: Pentagon Biological Warfare And Arms Trafficking to Terrorists


Biohazard

Bill Gates partners with DARPA & Department of Defense for new DNA nanotech COVID19 vaccine

Gates and Darpa

Comment: The video below provides an excellent overview for many of the developments we're seeing come into play and being rolled out in the not-too-distant future...


In this powerful interview, Spiro is joined by Whitney Webb and Ryan Cristián from The Last American Vagabond, as they discuss the rollout of a new system of control the likes of which the world has never seen.

It has been said to never let a good crisis go to waste, and it appears the ones pulling the strings are taking full advantage of the current crisis as more and more evidence emerges contradicting the official story that suggests this crisis is no accident.

The fact that Bill Gates has teamed up with the Department of Defense and DARPA, which is the special project research and development arm of the Pentagon, to develop a brand new type of vaccine which is being rushed into production is alarming to say the least.

Especially considering this new kind of DNA / RNA vaccine would normally take 15-20 years to roll out, while this one is being rolled out in a matter of months and is already undergoing human clinical trials. The urgency and rolled back regulations to streamline this new vaccine is, of course, justified by the crisis.


Comment: See: The new eugenics? Bill Gates promotes unregulated development of 'Gene Drive' gene editing that has "alarming potential to go awry"


Bullseye

The science is becoming clear: Lockdowns are no longer the right medicine

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When reports emerged of an epidemic in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, policy-makers had to make far-reaching decisions based on extremely limited information. Terrifying statistics led many global leaders to shut their economies and quarantine entire populations.

The World Health Organisation declared at first that the Covid-19 death rate was 3.4%. Modelling at Imperial College London — based on early, unreliable data — suggested more than 500,000 people could die in the UK unless drastic action were taken.

Since then academics have been working hard to understand more about Covid-19 and we have seen remarkable progress. Here are some of the key findings.

Comment: Ioannidis isn't just a professor of epidemiology; he's the world's leading expert on it.

Here he has been given a platform on the UK's 'top newspaper'.

And yet the British govt, like most other Western ones... isn't lifting the lockdown until mid-summer.

Clearly then, the medical and epidemiological facts about COVID-19 are not informing their decisions.

So what is?


Light Saber

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: We have allowed ourselves to become Bill Gates' guinea pigs


Comment: Good man for speaking out, Bobby. You do your forefathers proud.


Gates and Kennedy
Other Billionaires (Trump, Bloomberg) run for president. Gates' strategy of buying #WHO & purchasing control of US health officials like Tony #Fauci & #DeborahBirx has yielded him powers exceeding, in some respects, those wielded by presidents.

Control of WHO allows #BillGates to dictate global health policies affecting 7 billion people and to control the most intimate details of our lives; when and where we work, play sports, shop, attend school, go to beaches, bars, movies, concerts and what medicines we must and must not take. His minions may compel us to wear masks, lock us in our homes and ordain how close we can stand to our loved ones. #Gates is WHO's second biggest donor after the USA.

Comment: Bill Gates is now being exposed for the monumental manipulator that he is - and surely one of the most dangerous people walking the planet today. See also:


X

Zoological clarification: No, we didn't get coronavirus from bats

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Young fruit bats NOT the source of coronavirus
A distant relative of the coronavirus afflicting us today was found in a bat in China and that's all it took to demonize the extraordinary flying mammals.

Let's start from the punch line: Bats did not give us the latest coronavirus. Nor were its notorious cousins SARS-1 or MERS, or even the ebola virus, transmitted from bats to humans. So what did happen?

A distant relative of the current coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was isolated in a bat in China. Genetic analyses that looked for similarity between the virus in the bat and SARS-CoV-2, and factored in the theoretical pace at which the virus mutates, estimated that the two viruses parted ways between five and 50 years ago. In other words, one possibility is that about five years ago, the bat coronavirus managed to infect some other different animal - we don't know which one at this time. In that next animal, the coronavirus lived and mutated over those five years, and one day infected a human for the first time. There are other hypotheses as well.

Science doesn't yet know where the coronavirus lurked in wait for the past few years, or when it became dangerous to people, or when the first person was infected, nor do we know which animal infected that first human. The only thing science knows for sure is that the coronavirus isolated from the Chinese bat cannot have infected humans and isn't dangerous to them.

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Cult

Pedo king Epstein used his office at Harvard University over 40 times AFTER being convicted of child sex crimes

Harvard math professor Martin Nowak placed on leave for giving Jeffrey Epstein own office on campus, allowing website to be used to boost his reputation
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Alan Dershowitz, Jeffrey Epstein, Steven Pinker, [unknown] and Lawrence Summers
A Harvard math professor was placed on administrative leave Friday after a damning new report claimed he had continued to maintain an office on campus for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, even after the deceased financier's 2008 sex crimes conviction.

Martin Nowak, the lead on Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, provided Epstein with a campus key card which allowed him to visit more than 40 times between 2010 and 2018, the report states.

A room in the department was established as 'Jeffrey's office' and Epstein, who died by suicide in a Manhattan jail in 2019, even had his own Harvard phone line.


Comment: Epstein didn't kill himself.


The report added that Nowak also signed off on false, flattering statements about Epstein for the school's website as the deceased financier attempted to rehabilitate his image after his 2008 conviction for soliciting sex from an underage girl.

Yellow Vest

France extends 'state of health emergency' until July 24, effectively continuing lockdown for THREE MORE MONTHS


Comment: They're still being extremely cagey about their next moves, Our Dear Western Leaders, but it's looking more and more like they intend to keep as much of the lockdown in place as possible. For many more months to come...


france prime minister Édouard Philippe

French PM Édouard Philippe has become the most reviled man in France because of the govt's ever-stricter lockdown measures...
France has decided to extend a "state of health emergency" imposed to fight the coronavirus pandemic for two months until July 24, Health Minister Olivier Véran said on Saturday.

A proposal to be put to parliament on Monday says plans this month to lift the public health emergency, which began on March 24, would "be premature" and "could see a risk of the outbreak" intensifying.


Comment: Not to be confused with the date the lockdown began in France, one week prior on March 17th.


"We are going to have to live with the virus for a while," Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said after a cabinet meeting.


Comment: That's a given - just like we live with every other virus. What it really looks like is that we are going to have to live with authoritarians like Castaner for a while. Their 'cure' is going to last a lot longer than the disease - and it's also going to do far more damage.


The bill also lays out the quarantine conditions for people coming to France from abroad.


Comment: More on this below...


Comment: We can live with politicians being vague during normal times. But politicians being vague during 'war-time' (as they themselves have repeatedly described this) is FATAL to a country's health. As things stand, they are telling people several different things at once, all the while the financial, social, health and psychological screws tighten on everyone's mind. This CANNOT go on indefinitely; the politicians are driving people to revolt...

On the new 'quarantining of foreigners' mentioned in the above report, The Local (France) has more:
As part of the planned measures, Veran [health minister of France] said people entering France may have to remain confined for two weeks.

Entry into France is currently heavily restricted, with only essential travel into the country allowed, and an international travel certificate required for everyone crossing the border.

"The compulsory quarantine will concern anyone entering the national territory, an overseas territory or Corsica," said Véran. [...]

Véran said people who are not symptomatic would be quarantined and those who develop symptoms and are diagnosed positive for coronavirus by a doctor will be put in isolation.

Anyone arriving from abroad and infected with the virus would be obliged by law to be quarantined.
So which is it: anyone entering French territory, or anyone who tests positive for the virus?? Because the minister just said BOTH are grounds for mandatory quarantine.
However Interior Minister Cristophe Castaner added that there would be exceptions for people who regularly cross the border such as frontalier workers and haulage drivers.

He said there were already provisions in place for people "who live close to the border or who live in France and travel regularly to another country for work".

It was not clear where people would be quarantined or isolated with the government planning to announce further details in the coming days.
You can bet that they already know exactly where they want to put people; they're just - once again - 'breaking it to us gently'...
The condition of the length of quarantine, the place where people will be asked to stay, the health monitoring and restrictions on outings that apply to those quarantined will be specified after the advice of the Scientific Council, said the minister. The total duration of isolation, whatever the situation, could never exceed 30 days, said Véran, and people will have the right of appeal to a judge who must decide their case within 72 hours.
Oh. So it's an entire MONTH of solitary confinement??
Infected people already in France will, however, not be forced to accept isolation and treatment, as "we trust French people's sense of responsibility," Veran said.
Oh how very considerate of them. They know perfectly well that those who are 'confirmed infected' are already 'in the care of the state' because those are symptomatic people who voluntarily sought treatment. The above is a message to those who are infected, asymptomatic and living freely (to the extent that they can while under house arrest): 'we could come find you and forcibly remove you from your homes, but we're not just yet'...
The government had initially announced a plan for everyone in France who tested positive for Covid-19 to isolate for two weeks either at home or in special accommodation, and initial plans were to give local authorities the power to enforce quarantine.

However this was altered after protests over heavy-handedness, and now the quarantine will be something that people are only asked to do in order to protect the health of others.
Like all other 'government recommendations' in the past two months, this is bullshit of the highest order. They are SAYING it's all voluntary, WHILE their security forces are arresting and fining people on the basis of strict adherence to the 'recommendations', AS IF THEY WERE LAW.

We fear another revolution is in the making.


Beaker

There is no such thing as 'The Science'

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Science is not some grand tome we can consult to get the 'right' answer.


According to David Blunkett, a former senior cabinet minister in Tony Blair's governments, attempts to have a blanket lockdown on the over-70s are discriminatory. He believes that the current 'shielding' rules are too crude and need to be more nuanced. Whatever the merits of his ideas, his comments on the scientific advice that the government is receiving are interesting.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One on 28 April, Blunkett argued that the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has a problem. Drawing on Matthew Syed's book, Rebel Ideas, he said that 'major mistakes in the recent past have been made by people of similar ilk, similar ideas, similar background, similar thinking being considered the only experts that you could draw down on. And I'd like RAGE - a Recovery Advisory Group - that had a very much broader swathe of advice and expertise to draw down on.'

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Health

Big Pharma beware: Dr. Luc Montagnier shines new light on COVID-19 and the future of medicine

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This April 16th, Dr. Luc Montagnier became a household name around the world. This occurred as the controversial virologist decided to publicly state his support for the theory that Covid-19 is indeed a laboratory-generated creation and not a naturally occurring effect of viral evolution.

Referring to a study published at the Kusama School of Biology in New Dehli on January 31st, Montagnier (the 2008 Nobel Prize winner for his 1983 discovery of the HIV virus) made the point that the specific occurrence of HIV RNA viral segments spliced surgically within the COVID-19 genome could not have originated naturally and he described it in the following words:

"We have carefully analyzed the description of the genome of this RNA virus. We weren't the first, a group of Indian researchers tried to publish a study showing that the complete genome of this virus that has within the sequences of another virus: that of HIV."

Comment: It is incredibly frustrating that Montagnier, like Beneviste before him, has been so maligned and smeared for his honest and humble scientific inquiries. The old guard will tightly protect their interests at all costs and so medicine will remain in the dark ages for the foreseeable future. There is little doubt that our ancestors will owe a great debt to these pioneers, if the truth is ever allowed to fluorish.

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