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Atlantic Council: 'China spread Covid-19 conspiracy theories about man-made virus around the world'


Comment: Although the following report comes from the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, it's based on a US Associated Press investigation, in collaboration with arguably the leading Western imperial think-tank, The Atlantic Council.

Let's see where it goes wrong...


China played leading role in spreading Covid-19 conspiracies, investigation finds
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"You did it!" "No, YOU did it!"
It took just three months for the rumour that Covid-19 was engineered as a bioweapon to spread from the fringes of the Chinese internet and take root in millions of people's minds.

By March 2020, belief that the virus had been human-made and possibly weaponised was widespread, multiple surveys indicated. The Pew Research Center found, for example, that one in three Americans believed the new coronavirus had been created in a lab; one in four thought it had been engineered intentionally.


Comment: That's certainly what the evidence suggests: Compelling Evidence That SARS-CoV-2 Was Man-Made


This chaos was, at least in part, manufactured.

Comment: It's the West that has gone totalitarian, which in itself tells us a lot about which countries are attempting to leverage Covid-19 for ulterior motives.

It is not a 'conspiracy theory' that SARS-CoV-2 was the subject of gain-of-function research, a scenario even the WHO is still open to. See also: The Inanity of RNA Vaccines For COVID-19


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Wall of Lies

Propaganda is not what it used to be. It is something far worse. In part because of the effectiveness of its action upon us, we have no idea when it is present, nor what it is doing to us.

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This essay is an adaptation to current circumstances of a chapter from my 2018 book Give Us Back the Bad Roads (Currach Press), titled 'Engineering Consent'.
I see the same syndrome expressed in signs everywhere: people on the street jumping under buses rather than pass close to one another; a journalist I once thought at least vaguely intelligent writing about 'cases' under the seeming impression that PCR tests do exactly what it says on the Covid tin; a political movement supposed to be pro-freedom demanding a faster rollout of vaccines; half a dozen police officers sitting on a woman and helping each other to handcuff her because she is more than five kilometres from her home, and nobody batting an eyelid. Signs of what? Signs of complicity in a terror beyond understanding. Signs of having surrendered the option of having a mind of your own. Signs of a surrender to the insuperable, the inevitable. Signs of being walled in by lies.

There is something we are not comprehending, something to do with the minds of the generality of people.

It is not sufficient to speak of 'propaganda'. The word, used by our limited understanding of its meaning, is inadequate to the achievement of even the remotest understanding of where we are now. To speak of it thus in times like these is like standing on the deck of Noah's Ark discussing the weather.

Comment: See also:


Syringe

One year after Bill Gates declared pandemic will not end until entire world is vaccinated, Germany's Merkel says same

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Germany and other wealthy countries may need to give some of their own stock of vaccines to developing countries in addition to money, since only vaccinating the whole world will end the coronavirus pandemic, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday.

Speaking after a video conference of leaders of the G7 group of large developed economies, Merkel said they had not discussed specific percentages of their vaccine stocks that should be given to poorer countries.

But she told journalists: "I stressed in my intervention that the pandemic is not over until all people in the world have been vaccinated."

Comment: Impossible goals require totalitarian measures.


Heart - Black

Why greens love lockdown

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"Green"
Over the past year, the response to the Covid-19 pandemic has caused untold damage to people's lives. Discussing whether draconian policies are effective, or whether there may be other ways of managing the crisis, has been muted by angry ripostes - you will be branded a 'denier' or a 'granny-killer'. To disagree is to have blood on your hands.

But surely, despite these tensions, most people want the whole thing to be over? It doesn't seem so. One tendency seems to hope that lockdown is just the dawn of an age of confinement. Greens, after a year at home on full pay, believe this is the beginning of a bright new era of global environmental consciousness and good international governance, in which lockdown will be the norm.

The question at the centre of this bizarre, anti-human dystopianism is, 'Will Covid help us save the planet?'. That was asked by last Sunday's edition of the BBC's Big Questions. spiked's Fraser Myers, outnumbered by George Monbiot, Extinction Rebellion activists and neo-Malthusian population-obsessives, appeared on the show. He was interrupted every time he tried to counter the greens' celebration of locking people in their homes. Such is the BBC's absorption into the green and lockdown orthodoxies that it apparently could not find, in a population of 65million people, more than one dissenting voice.

Comment: See also:

Right of reply: Lockdowns contradict a century of pre-Covid science


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The treatment of viral diseases: Has the truth been suppressed for decades?

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Since I started medical school in 1976, until 2020, I have heard the dogma that viral diseases are not treatable (with some exceptions such as antivirals for HIV/AIDS), certainly not with antimicrobials. My older son, a newly minted general surgeon, was educated much more recently, but with the same misunderstanding. Since viral diseases are not treatable, our only weapon is vaccination. A friend who spent his life as an academic university physician retiring in 2016 had never heard this fact either. As the "pandemic" broke out, I constantly watched and read online publications. After reading about the Chinese, Indian, and Korean use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), an antimalarial agent, against coronavirus, within an hour I found more than 20 scientific papers, written in the last 40 years on the use of lysosomotropic agents — specifically chloroquine — to treat viruses. Like Rip Van Winkle, I suddenly awoke, after decades, to a completely new medical reality.

Comment: More information from Dr. Lee Merritt:


Windsock

'Greening' of economy to blame for Texas power outages as half its wind turbines freeze solid during winter storm

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Great job, Greenies, Govts.
The message that we need to electrify everything that currently uses fossil fuels to generate energy has become the dominant message of the energy transition. Solar, wind, and energy storage — perhaps with the help of hydropower and some nuclear — can handle the energy needs of mankind, the argument goes, and do it with a much lower carbon footprint.

Yet, the Arctic cold wave that is sweeping across the United States has seriously undermined this argument.

Natural gas prices exploded last week in many parts of the U.S. and are still rising higher, as are electricity prices. In Texas, a state unaccustomed to such weather, wholesale electricity prices hit $9,000 per MWh on the spot market, prompting at least one retail power supplier to urge its clients to switch to another provider to avoid huge utility bills.

Blackouts are now a fact, with two million households across Texas without power at the time of writing. Authorities, meanwhile, are urging people to conserve energy by limiting their consumption. ERCOT has said the blackouts will be rolling, lasting for 45 minutes per area. This may not be a lot, but it does indicate the presence of a problem.

Comment: Great analysis. We would just add that there may be one additional factor in play here: saboteurs taking advantage of the cold spell to pile pressure on Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who the Deep State has on its Black List because of past support for President Trump.


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Psaki: Biden won't meet world leaders for 'a couple of months' following revelation Kamala is taking his phone calls


Comment: We knew the situation was bad, but we didn't know it was THIS bad!


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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted today that Joe Biden will not be meeting with world leaders in-person for "a couple of months."

This news comes after the revelation that Vice President Kamala Harris has assumed one of the traditional roles of the presidency, and has begun taking Head of State calls with foreign leaders on behalf of the President.

This news comes amid suspicions that Harris would be running the show throughout the duration of Biden's presidency due to the President's apparent cognitive decline. Harris has already had phone calls with French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

"It will be a couple of months before the President has an in-person or invites a foreign leader to meet in person here at the White House," said Psaki during a White House press conference.


Comment: A country's strength, purpose and integrity are often reflected in the leaders it promotes. Its growth or decline may be symbolically and literally understood through its representation.


Cow Skull

How Conspiracy Theorizing May Soon Get You Labelled a 'Domestic Terrorist'

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Conspiracies for good and for evil do exist now, as they have from time immemorial, Matthew Ehret writes. The only question is which intention do you want to devote your life towards?

If you are starting to feel like forces controlling the governments of the west are out to get you, then it is likely that you are either a paranoid nut job, or a stubborn realist.

Either way, it means that you have some major problems on your hands.

If you don't happen to find yourself among the tinfoil hat-wearing strata of conspiracy theorists waiting in a bunker for aliens to either strike down or save society from the shape shifting lizard people, but are rather contemplating how, in the 1960s, a shadow government took control of society over the dead bodies of many assassinated patriots, then certain conclusions tend to arise.

Three Elementary Realizations for Thinking People

The first conclusion you would likely arrive at is that the United States government was just put through the first coup in over 58 years (yes, what happened in 1963 was a coup). Although it is becoming a bit prohibitive to speak such words aloud in polite society, Nancy Pelosi's official biographer Molly Ball, recently penned a scandalous Time Magazine article entitled 'The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign that Saved the 2020 Elections' which admitted to this conspiracy saying:

"Even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information." (Lest you think that this was a subversion of democracy, Ball informs us that "they were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.")

Comment: For more on Cass Sunstein in particular, see:


Snowflake Cold

Heavy snowfall hits Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt

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Snow Syria
Snow blanketed parts of Syria Lebanon and Israel on Wednesday, blocking roads disrupting traffic and postponing exams at some universities.

Large parts of Syria were covered, including the capital Damascus which is witnessing this winter's first snowfall. Snow was as high as 15 cm (6 inches) in the mountains of Sweida province, according to the official state news agency SANA.

Roads in some provinces were blocked. In the central province of Hama, bulldozers shoveled snow to open roads while vehicles skidded on ice, further causing traffic disruption.

The University of Damascus called off mid-term exams scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday in all its branches around Syria because of the extreme weather conditions. The country's ports remained open.


Comment: More film of the countries hit:

Heavy snowfall, gales as winter storm hits Middle East , 16_17 feb 2021

Snow is blanketing parts of Syria, Lebanon and Israel, JORDAN, NORTH SAUDI ARABIA AND SAINT CATHERINE,EGYPT ,blocking roads, disrupting traffic and even delaying exams at some universities
00:00​ JORDAN SNOWFALL
05:09​ SYRIA , SNOWFALL
06:36​ LEBANON , SNOWFALL
07:57​ ISRAEL , SNOWFALL
08:40​ Palestine , SNOWFALL
09:42​ SAUDI ARABIA, TABUK , SNOWFALL
10:23​ EGYPT, SAINT CATHERINE , SNOWFALL
Snowfall in Saint Catherin, Egypt:


Saudi Arabia:



Related: Snow falls in Libya for the first time in 15 years


Snowflake Cold

Almost 5 million without power in U.S. as winter storm stresses grid

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The massive winter storm that swept across the nation this week has left 5 million people without power as utilities have been forced to implement rolling power outages, Bloomberg reported.

The Southwest Power Pool (SPP), which manages a 14-state grid from North Dakota to Oklahoma, on Tuesday ordered the second day of rolling blackouts, the news outlet reported.

SPP executive vice president and chief operating officer Lanny Nickell said in a statement that the move was a "last resort" and SPP had never before ordered such interruptions.


Comment: Check out Austin, Texas this week: it's covered in ice!