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China had coronavirus in August reveals new study from Harvard

Chloe Taylor
CNBC
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 09:20 UTC

© Aly Song | Reuters
Travellers line up with their belongings outside Hankou Railway Station after travel restrictions to leave Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province and China's epicentre of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, were lifted, April 8, 2020.

Covid-19 may have been circulating in China as early as August 2019, a new study from Harvard Medical School (HMS) claims.

The virus, which is widely believed to have originated in a wildlife market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, was first reported to the WHO in late December.

However, an analysis of hospital traffic and search engine data in Wuhan indicates that there was early disease activity in the fall of 2019, according to HMS researchers.

Comment: This supports the official announcements from some Western countries that also believe coronavirus was circulating much earlier:

'Transgender women are women': Daniel Radcliffe on J.K. Rowling's tweets on gender

Nate Day
Fox News
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:02 UTC

Daniel Radcliffe is making his position clear.

On Saturday, Harry Potter scribe J.K. Rowling issued a handful of tweets in response to an article that mentions "people who menstruate." Rowling responded by urging the word "woman" be used in place of the phrase, irking fans who accused her of ignoring transgender women.

Since then, Rowling, 54, has defended her position online and has faced even more backlash from followers.

Now, Daniel Radcliffe, who starred in the film adaptations of Rowling's hit young adult series, has published an essay on the matter.

Comment: Hey Daniel, way to throw the person who made your life what it is, under the bus. Maybe you ought to listen to someone who actually is female.

Not everyone was taking the tempest in a showbiz teapot seriously, calling it for what it is.

In brave new America, leaders kneel and looters are saluted. What will the Democrats conjure up next?

Robert Bridge
RT
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 15:31 UTC

'Hail Satan'

Events are now in the saddle and riding Americans. In most cases, the authors of those events - from harsh anti-Covid measures, to rioting and lawlessness - derive from the liberal left. How far are they prepared to go?

It would be difficult to name a more action-packed six months than the first half of 2020. From Russiagate to riots, Americans feel like blindfolded passengers on a roller-coaster ride, totally unprepared for the corkscrew curves and dizzying dives ahead. All they can do is scream and hold on for dear life.

The worst part of this amusement-park hellscape, however, is not the news per se, but how US leaders - specifically Democrat leaders - are responding to it. Consider, for example, the lockdown measures implemented in response to Covid-19. While most people begrudgingly accepted the need for quarantine, masks and social distancing, Democratic leaders piled on additional pain that did nothing to stop the spread of the coronavirus. In fact, the measures seemed tailor-made - like a form-fitting straitjacket - to drive their imprisoned constituents crazy. How else to explain the ban on mowing lawns, swimming in the ocean, and using a motorboat on an empty lake?

Ex-ISIS member reveals terrorists' ties with UK's MI6

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ News
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

A former member of the ISIS terrorist group disclosed on Monday that Britain's spy agency, MI6, has recruited and used foreign terrorists in Syria. Mohammed Hussein Saud, a defected member of the ISIS, told reporters that the MI6 tried to spy on the Syrian and Russian military centers in Syria with the help of terrorists, the Arabic-language service of Russia Today reported.

"The British told me to go to Tadmur (Palmyra), saying that they would provide me with money, cell phone and anything I need," he said.

Saud also revealed his meetings with the British intelligence officers in the al-Tanf region at the bordering areas between Syria and Jordan, where they asked him to collect intelligence about the important Russian military bases in Syria and ways to attack them. He added that the MI6 had hired a tour guide in Tadmur who knew several languages to guide the spying team.

Comment: Yet more confirmation of how ISIS and other terrorist boogeyman groups are merely the products and proxies of Western intelligence agencies and interests seeking to divide and conquer various parts of the Middle East (and other parts of the world).

See also:

'Worst since World War II': Global economy to shrink more than 5% this year

RT
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 14:37 UTC

The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown measures have thrown the global economy into turmoil, the World Bank says, projecting global GDP (gross domestic product) to contract 5.2 percent in 2020.

The anticipated decline will be the worst since World War II and nearly three times as steep as in the 2009 global recession.

In its Global Economic Prospects report, the bank forecasts that the pandemic is expected to plunge most countries into recession in 2020, with "per capita income contracting in the largest fraction of countries globally since 1870."

Advanced economies are projected to shrink seven percent. The bank has expressed specific concern over developing markets with weaker public health systems, where up to 60 million people could be tipped into extreme poverty.

Prince Andrew 'FALSELY PORTRAYS' he's trying to assist US in Epstein probe - DOJ

Owen Bowcott and Amy Walker
The Guardian
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 14:33 UTC

Prince Andrew has become embroiled in a war of words with US prosecutors investigating the disgraced financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Lawyers for the Duke of York issued a statement on Monday accusing the American investigators of misleading the public and breaching their own confidentiality rules in their handling of the inquiry.

Blackfords, the London-based criminal law specialists, alleged in a strongly worded two-page statement that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) had effectively rejected three offers of help volunteered by the prince this year.

The firm noted that the DoJ had "advised us that the duke is not and has never been a 'target' of their criminal investigations into Epstein" and that they had instead sought his confidential, voluntary cooperation.

'Incel' blew off hand making explosives to target 'hot cheerleaders': feds

Lee Brown
NY Post
Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:30 UTC

A sexually frustrated Virginia man blew off a hand while trying to make homemade explosives — ones he planned to use in a revenge attack on "hot cheerleaders," according to federal prosecutors.

Cole Carini, 23, went to a health clinic in Richlands last Wednesday suffering from an amputated hand, amputated fingers on the opposite hand, and shrapnel wounds to the neck and throat, the Department of Justice said.

He claimed it was from a devastating lawnmower accident — but investigators found his yard overgrown, they say.

Instead, they found evidence of a recent explosion, with explosives materials, rusty nails, pipes and pieces of flesh, prosecutors said.

Parents, 4 kids, pets found dead in Texas garage amid smell of carbon monoxide: 'Not an accident'

Harriet Sokmensuer
People
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 12:48 UTC

Police in Texas are investigating a possible murder-suicide after a family of six was found dead in their home.

"It's the whole picture. The adults, the children, the pets," San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said during a press conference Thursday. "Saying it's not pretty — there's no words to describe that."

Earlier that morning, police responded to a welfare check at a San Antonio home. Upon arrival, officers noticed the smell of carbon monoxide McManus said "kind of blew everybody back out the door."

Black Lives Matter Don't Care About Black People

Amir Pars
Twitter
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 06:21 UTC

I will lose many friends over what I'm about to say.

I will possibly be called a racist or even a white supremacist (even though I'm a brown man, who's been beaten to a pulp by neo-Nazis wearing steel toed boots).

But maybe, just maybe, the fact that I am getting 100% of my information from the black scholars in the picture - The Great Thomas Sowell, Glenn Loury, Shelby Steele, John McWorther, Coleman Hughes, Kmele Foster and Thomas Chatterton Williams, allows me some room for thought?

I've been watching the narrative play universally over the heinous killing of George Floyd, and the complete and utter lack of facts about African Americans in The US has been infuriating.

Unfortunately, anyone who doesn't submit to the dominant narrative will be called a heretic, a racist, a whites supremacist etc. Still, I can't stop myself.

Three ways lockdowns paved the way for these riots

Ryan McMaken
Mises Institute
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 06:03 UTC

There were many reasons to oppose the COVID-19 lockdowns.

They cost human lives in terms of deferred medical treatment. They cost human lives in terms of greater suicide and drug overdoses. Domestic abuse and child abuse have increased. There is also good reason to believe that lockdowns don't actually work. The lockdown activists capitalized on media-stoked fear to push their authoritarian agenda based not on science, but on the whims of a handful of experts who insisted that they need not present any actual evidence that their bizarre, draconian, and extreme scheme was worth the danger posed to human rights, health, and the economic well-being of billions of human beings.

Those who lacked the obsessive and irresponsible tunnel vision of the prolockdown people warned that there were other dangers as well, in terms of social and political conflict.

It didn't require an especially clear crystal ball to see that destroying the livelihoods of countless millions while empowering a police state to harass and arrest law-abiding citizens would create a situation that maybe — just maybe — could lead to greater social and political conflict.

Specifically, there are three ways in which the lockdowns laid the groundwork for our current state of unrest.

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Society's Child

China had coronavirus in August reveals new study from Harvard

'Transgender women are women': Daniel Radcliffe on J.K. Rowling's tweets on gender

In brave new America, leaders kneel and looters are saluted. What will the Democrats conjure up next?

Ex-ISIS member reveals terrorists' ties with UK's MI6

'Worst since World War II': Global economy to shrink more than 5% this year

Prince Andrew 'FALSELY PORTRAYS' he's trying to assist US in Epstein probe - DOJ

'Incel' blew off hand making explosives to target 'hot cheerleaders': feds

Parents, 4 kids, pets found dead in Texas garage amid smell of carbon monoxide: 'Not an accident'

Black Lives Matter Don't Care About Black People

Three ways lockdowns paved the way for these riots

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