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Best of the Web: Nobel-winning scientist who discovered HIV claims SARS-CoV-2 virus 'contains HIV genetic sequence', likely 'leaked from a lab'


Livemint
Sun, 19 Apr 2020 19:15 UTC

Comment: Of course, he gets the source wrong (Wuhan, China), but still, what a bombshell if true that this thing has been genetically modified by mad scientists. Even IF this came out of the Wuhan BSL-4 bio-lab, that's a WHO-accredited facility with heavy academic and govt links to US and European bio-weapons labs...


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French Nobel prize winning scientist Luc Montagnier has sparked a fresh controversy by claiming that the SARS-CoV-2 virus came from a lab, and is the result of an attempt to manufacture a vaccine against the AIDS virus.

In an interview given to French CNews channel and during a podcast by Pourquoi Docteur, professor Montagnier, who co-discovered HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), claimed the presence of elements of HIV in the genome of the coronavirus and even elements of the "germ of malaria" are highly suspect, according to a report in Asia Times.

"The Wuhan city laboratory has specialized in these coronaviruses since the early 2000s. They have expertise in this area," he was quoted as saying.

The theory that Covid-19 virus originated in the lab is making rounds for quite some time.


Comment: See also: Coronavirus now has thousands of strains and mutations, some rare, some more pathogenic

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Best of the Web: The U.S. government's secret history of grisly experiments

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:29 UTC
"They were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late." — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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I have never known any government to put the best interests of its people first, and this COVID-19 pandemic is no exception.

Now this isn't intended to be a debate over whether COVID-19 is a legitimate health crisis or a manufactured threat. Such crises can — and are — manipulated by governments in order to expand their powers. As such, it is possible for the virus to be both a genuine menace to public health and a menace to freedom.

Yet we can't afford to overlook the fact that governments the world over, including the U.S. government, have unleashed untold horrors upon the world in the name of global conquest, the acquisition of greater wealth, scientific experimentation, and technological advances, all packaged in the guise of the greater good.

While the U.S. government is currently looking into the possibility that the novel coronavirus spread from a Chinese laboratory rather than a market, the virus could just as easily have been created by the U.S. government or one of its allies.

After all, grisly experiments, barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions have become synonymous with the U.S. government, which has meted out untold horrors against humans and animals alike.
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Best of the Web: Millionaire 'Democrat' Nancy Pelosi 'relates to the suffering masses' by showing off $24,000 dollar fridge stocked with $13 pots of ice cream

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:20 UTC
Marie Antoinette didn't actually say "Let them eat cake" but you won't believe who is saying "Let them eat ice cream." Join James for this edition of #PropagandaWatch as he explores the latest fad among the celebrities and political puppets: Shaming poor people!
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Best of the Web: Is lockdown essential? Comparing the Swedish experience with the Imperial College model suggests otherwise

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:54 UTC
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I wonder how many people who claim that lockdown is essential to dealing with Covid-19 have actually looked at the original Imperial College report, which sparked the British Government's decision to shut down much of the economy and place the most draconian measures on the population ever seen. Had they done so, they might have been shocked to find that the modelling they used assumes the measures would be put in place for 5 months:
"Suppression strategies are assumed to be in place for 5 months or longer." (p. 6)

"The blue shading shows the 5-month period in which these interventions are assumed to remain in place." (p. 10)
Would those who accepted lockdown as absolutely necessary have been quite so ready to accept it had they known that it would need to be put in place for 5 months? My guess is no, yet that is what "the science" they followed actually calls for. Of course it remains to be seen whether the Government will continue on this course, or whether most of the media and large sections of the public who demanded and welcomed the draconian measures are prepared to continue backing that particular horse, but if they are to be consistent and "led by the science", as they have so far claimed, they are going to have to insist that lockdown should continue until late August, as the Imperial College model says it should.

But as I have said repeatedly, I see no evidence for the necessity of lockdown, for two reasons. Firstly because the case fatality rate of Covid-19 does not warrant it (the evidence points to between 0.1%-0.5%, and a recent study from Stanford University suggests it may be between 0.12% and 0.2%). And secondly, because I have seen no evidence to suggest that a lockdown strategy makes any real difference in reducing cases and deaths.
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Best of the Web: Criminal! NY issues do-not-resuscitate guideline for cardiac patients amid induced coronavirus panic

Carl Campanile and Kate Sheehy
New York Post
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:44 UTC

Comment: This is exactly what they've rolled out in Europe too. The premise is supposedly that the virus is so deadly, it will kill medics if they try to resuscitate people 'suspected' of having it. As everyone should be able to see by now, the virus is not deadly to 99.99% of people, which means that this protocol is going to ramp up deaths-by-medical malpractice...


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© Taidgh Barron/NY PostAn FDNY ambulance responds to a call in the East Village.
New York state just issued a drastic new guideline urging emergency services workers not to bother trying to revive anyone without a pulse when they get to a scene, amid an overload of coronavirus patients.

While paramedics were previously told to spend up to 20 minutes trying to revive people found in cardiac arrest, the change is "necessary during the COVID-19 response to protect the health and safety of EMS providers by limiting their exposure, conserve resources, and ensure optimal use of equipment to save the greatest number of lives,'' according to a state Health Department memo issued last week.

First responders were outraged over the move.

"They're not giving people a second chance to live anymore,'' Oren Barzilay, head of the city union whose members include uniformed EMTs and paramedics, fumed of state officials.

Comment: No, these changes are orders handed down from the One World Govt.

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Best of the Web: Fake pandemic: Army field hospital for Covid-19 surge leaves Seattle after 9 days. It never saw a patient

Liz Brazile
kuow.org
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 13:05 UTC
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© KUOW Photo/Megan FarmerU.S. Army soldiers set up a military field hospital inside CenturyLink Field Event Center on Sunday, April 5, 2020, in Seattle. The 250-bed hospital for non COVID-19 patients was deployed by soldiers from the 627th Army Hospital from Fort Carson, Colorado, as well as soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Gov. Jay Inslee's office on Wednesday announced that the state will be returning a field hospital deployed to CenturyLink Field Event Center to the U.S. Department of Defense.

The 250-bed facility, for which setup began on March 30, was intended to help Washington state's health care system tend to non Covid-19 patients in the event of a hospital surge.

But just three days after announcing the facility was ready to receive patients, officials say they're returning the hospital to the federal government.

Comment: That's some real cognitive dissonance right there. Framing this as the hospital not being needed because of the effectiveness of social distancing is confirmation bias at the extreme. Perhaps, just perhaps, the hospital would have never been needed, even if social distancing had not been instituted, because the virus is over-hyped and hospitals are not being overrun with sick patients.

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Best of the Web: The Swedish experiment looks like it's paying off

Fredrik Erixon
The Spectator
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 20:37 UTC
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Two weeks ago, I wrote about 'the Swedish experiment' in The Spectator. As the world went into lockdown, Sweden opted for a different approach to tackling coronavirus: cities, schools and restaurants have remained open. This was judged by critics to be utterly foolish: it would allow the virus to spread much faster than elsewhere, we were told, leading to tens of thousands of deaths. Hospitals would become like warzones. As Sweden was two weeks behind the UK on the epidemic curve, most British experts said we'd pay the price for our approach when we were at the peak. Come back in two weeks, I was told. Let's see what you're saying then. So here I am.

I'm happy to say that those fears haven't materialised. But the pressure on Sweden to change tack hasn't gone away. We haven't u-turned. We're careful, staying inside a lot more. But schools and shops remain open. Unlike some countries on the continent, no one is asking for 'our papers' when we move around in cities. The police don't stop us and ask why we are spending so much time outdoors: authorities rather encourage it. No one is prying in shopping baskets to make sure you only buy essentials.

The country's Public Health Agency and the 'state epidemiologist', Anders Tegnell, have kept their cool and still don't recommend a lockdown. They are getting criticised by scientific modellers but the agency is sticking to its own model of how the virus is expected to develop and what pressure hospitals will be under. The government still heeds the agency's advice; no party in the opposition argues for a lockdown. Rather, opinion polls show that Swedes remain strongly in favour of the country's liberal approach to the pandemic.

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Dollar

Best of the Web: A Real New Deal & Debt Jubilee or a Green New Deal & Global Dictatorship?

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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As scary as it is for some to admit even at this stage of the game, the current financial system sits precariously on the edge of a meltdown beyond anything ever recorded in human history. Normally, such a systemic meltdown would generate such turbulence and panic that the masses of complacent subjects would be induced to action in defense of their families and nations, however under current circumstances, the coronavirus pandemic has ensured that no such mass movement, or policy fight has taken shape.

As I wrote in a February 27th editorial Why the Coming Economic Collapse Will NOT be Caused by Coronavirus, the inevitability of the meltdown has been well known to all leading central bankers and highly placed officials in "a position to know" for a very long time. This fact was known even before the new wave of emergency bailouts were begun in September 2019 starting with $50 billion/night of overnight repo loans. It was known even before the age of bailout was created to postpone the 2008-09 collapse of the system under threat of Martial Law. It was known before Glass-Steagall was repealed in 1999 and over-the-counter derivatives were deregulated in 2001. Let's just say it's been a part of a very ugly plan for a very long time.

But make no mistake, you didn't have to be a "highly placed" banker or technocratic social engineer to know this collapse was going to happen. No crystal ball was ever needed.

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Best of the Web: Respiratory doctor calls BS on the coronavirus 'pandemic'

Makia Freeman
The Freedom Articles
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:52 UTC
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© YouTube screenshotThis respiratory doctor lays out the truth behind the fake coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 test is flawed and the case count is inflated.



Comment: This video has already disappeared from the originating article. An alternate upload was found but may yet be censored.


Transcription:

"Good evening YouTube. This is our future and the power's with the people. Just wanted to let you know I am a respiratory therapist and I've been doing this for 21 years. I've been kind of all over the place doing this. I wanted to show you our equipment room here. So we want to talk about COVID-19 for a few minutes and the first thing I want to say is: does it look like there's a ventilator shortage? There's not, okay! As a matter of fact, we're running less ventilators right now than we would normally run and that's cause people are just staying home. They're not having elective surgeries. I want to talk about the numbers and the criteria that goes into what a COVID patient is, or a patient under investigation (what's also called a PUI). Basically right now, and the way it has been last couple of months when they locked us down, is that any patient that came in with a respiratory problem was labeled COVID. Now that doesn't matter if it's you got stage 4 lung cancer, pancreatitis, heart disease, liver failure and everything else - you're still, because you come in with breathing problems, you're labeled a COVID patient.
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Best of the Web: I'm in ghost town Madrid, witnessing a brutal lockdown enforcement. Is it even constitutional?

Jason O'Toole
RT
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:03 UTC
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Madrid has felt eerily like a ghost town ever since the radical lockdown began almost six weeks ago, but an investigation is now looking into whether the heavy-handed approach by the Spanish police is even constitutionally sound.

There's a deafening silence here in the Spanish capital, which is broken only by the ominous sounds of police or ambulance sirens. The city briefly comes to life every night at 7:58pm, when Madrilenos take to their balconies to applaud healthcare workers on the frontline. It's done with such great gusto - there are even vuvuzelas blasting away and people singing - that it can feel like a cup final night in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

It obviously helps to create a positive spirit of togetherness, but tensions are running high. I don't want to come across like controversial radio host Alex Jones harping on about far-right conspiracy theories, and I certainly won't say the situation in Spain is like a return to the bad old days under Franco's regime - but with the military visible on the streets of Spain it's hard not to describe the situation as martial law in all but name.
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