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Cover-up: WHO expert says coronavirus leak from Chinese lab unlikely, most probably jumped to human via intermediary species

Emily Wang Fujiyama
AP
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:28 UTC
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© AP Photo/Ng Han GuanMarion Koopmans, right, and Peter Ben Embarek, center, of the World Health Organization team say farewell to their Chinese counterpart Liang Wannian, left, after a WHO-China Joint Study Press Conference held at the end of the WHO mission in Wuhan, China, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021.
The coronavirus most likely first appeared in humans after jumping from an animal, a team of international and Chinese scientists looking for the origins of COVID-19 said Tuesday, saying an alternate theory that the virus leaked from a Chinese lab was unlikely.

A closely watched visit by World Health Organization experts to Wuhan — the Chinese city where the first coronavirus cases were discovered — did not dramatically change the current understanding of the early days of the pandemic, said Peter Ben Embarek, the leader of the WHO mission.

But it did "add details to that story," he said at a news conference as the group wrapped up a four-week visit to the city.

Comment: Don't get mislead by the "Chinese lab" debunkings. It seems much more likely the SARS-CoV2 originated in Fort Detrick. See:

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1 in 4 Russians saw Navalny's explosive 'Putin's Palace' documentary but majority say it hasn't changed view of president - poll


RT
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:54 UTC
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© Mash
With its glitzy interiors and digital dance studio, an opulent manor on Russia's Black Sea coast said to be owned by President Vladimir Putin certainly raised eyebrows. Now, it appears many are skeptical of the allegations.

A new study of more than 1,600 Russians by the Moscow-based Levada Center estimates that over a quarter of the country's adult population watched the video which made the claims online. Produced by imprisoned opposition figure Alexey Navalny and his group, the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK), it alleges that the multimillion-dollar pile is the secret private retreat of the president.

The FBK, registered as a 'foreign agent' by Russia's Ministry of Justice, showed off a series of photoshop renderings featuring glamorous interiors, a casino, pool, and even a striptease lounge.

Comment: Here's a handy infographic of the findings:
putin's palace video changed minds

Ruptly published a quick video about the Mash journalists exploration of the property and interview with Arkady Rotenberg:




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The TCF Center election fraud - Newly discovered video shows late night deliveries of tens of thousands of illegal ballots 8 hours after deadline (UPDATE)

Cassandra Fairbanks and Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 07:20 UTC
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On Tuesday, November 3rd President Trump was ahead of Joe Biden in the swing state of Michigan by over 100,000 votes. This appeared to be another solid win for President Trump in Michigan with a greater margin than his 2016 victory. The ballot counting in Detroit, Michigan on election night took place at the TCF Center, formerly known as Cobo Hall.

This is the site where Detroit City Officials put cardboard over the windows to prevent the GOP observers from seeing in, where poll workers were militantly hostile to the GOP observers, and where hundreds of affidavits by election observers claim they witnessed voter fraud.

At least three election observers testified in sworn affidavits that they witnessed vehicles delivering fraudulent ballots to the TCF Center early in the morning on November 4th.

Comment: Newsmax covered the footage. You can bet no one else will:


Time magazine has conveniently laid out how the election was stolen in a 6500 word article found on Sott here: 'If we did it': TIME magazine reveals the 'shadow campaign' that 'saved' the 2020 election

UPDATE from Gateway Pundit:
Today we have more video proof of the Biden ballot dump.

Detroit city official Chris Thomas signed an affidavit admitting to one late-night ballot dump at the TCF Center. Thomas said 41 boxes of ballots were delivered.

This was a lie. The Gateway Pundit has video proof that the van made two ballot drops at the TCF Center. We also have proof that over 60 boxes of ballots were unloaded at the arena in just the first ballot dump.

And we also have a video that the white van was escorted by a suspicious vehicle.

A black Hyundai Elantra also drove into the TCF Center in the early morning on November 4th.

The Gateway Pundit was able to identify the vehicle. It was registered in Pennsylvania and then registered in Michigan in October. The car had a new title but they kept the old Pennsylvania plates on the car. We believe the vehicle is registered to Enterprise rent-a-car.

We now know that the source for the mainstream media reports, Chris Thomas, has not been truthful at all in his legal affidavits.

We also know the local officials and their far-left media lackeys keep changing their story — while our reports have remained consistent and correct.

And we also know these ballots came into the center without the proper chain of custody documentation.

These ballots should have been disqualified.

Here is our latest investigative video from the TCF Center on November 4th.


Also from Gateway Pundit, Politifact has been caught in major lie on the early morning ballot dump at the TCF Center in Detroit (surprise, surprise):
Also back in November, the Washington Post attempted to debunk the accusations saying a man with a wagon filmed entering the TCF Center at 2:40 AM belonged to a local photographer.

And far-left Politifact claimed there was NO EVIDENCE that ballots were smuggled into the TCF Center.

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Politifact's Clara Hendrickson 'debunked' one wagon with cameras in the front of TCF. She then used that to ignore the numerous reports of a white van delivering ballots in the cargo area of TCF, which is what every serious witness was saying.

Clara Hendrickson also wrote a piece for the Detroit Free Press where she used one city official Chris Thomas with skin in the game to allege our reporting was not accurate.

On Friday The Gateway Pundit published video of a white van dropping off ballots late at night inside the TCF Center.

Following our report on Friday Clara Hendrickson from Politifact — without a hint of shame — admits the ballots were brought into the TCF Center after all.

Then she moved the goalposts to say this did not prove election fraud at the TCF Center in Detroit.

politifact ballots video debunk
This is how the far left operates. They just move the goalposts whenever they are caught.

This is why you can NEVER trust the fake news media or their garbage fact-checkers.


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Growing evidence Capitol attack was pre-planned undercuts Trump impeachment premise

John Solomon
Just the News
Mon, 08 Feb 2021 09:35 UTC
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Emerging evidence also raises questions about whether the FBI and other security agencies acted proactively enough to thwart the violence.

Days before former President Trump's impeachment trial begins, newly filed federal charges against anti-government activists offer fresh, compelling evidence that the accused perpetrators of the Capitol riots pre-planned their attack days and weeks in advance and in plain sight of an FBI that vowed to be vigilant to extremist threats.

A dozen FBI affidavits supporting charges against the more than 200 defendants show rioters engaged in advance planning on social media sites. The planning included training, casing sites, identifying commanders on scene, and requests for donations of cash, as well as combat and communication gear.

Comment: None of the above quotes show the breaching of the Capitol was pre-planned. It shows some people were coordinating something, but it gives no indication of what was being planned. Nevertheless, this may prove to be a way to shut down the farcical impeachment proceedings in Trump's favor, rather than trying to argue the obvious - that Trump actually told people in his speech to remain peaceful.

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'Out of control!' — Travellers to the UK face 10 years in prison for lying about corona travel history

Kurt Zindulka
Breitbart
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:01 UTC
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© Hollie Adams/Getty Images
Travellers arriving in the United Kingdom face up to ten years in prison if they were found to have lied about travel history and fines of up to £10,000 if they breach quarantine rules, Britain's health secretary announced on Tuesday.

People who lie about having travelled to the government's so-called 'red list' of coronavirus hot spot countries will face up to ten years behind bars, putting the offence on par with possession of a firearm with intent, making threats to kill, and poisoning.

Those found to have attempted to breach the mandatory hotel quarantine scheme will be subject to fines of up to £10,000 and anyone who fails to take a mandatory coronavirus test within 72 hours of their departure or upon their second day in quarantine faces a £1,000 penalty.

Comment: Meanwhile, the UK's SAGE team have suggested they may be keeping this up for YEARS. From RT:
A member of the UK government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has claimed that lockdowns could be a part of people's lives for "several years" as variants of Covid-19 mutate.

Professor Sir Ian Boyd, who teaches at the University of St Andrews' School of Biology, warned this week against the frequent lifting of lockdowns because "it simply fuels a new wave of disease" that can cause the virus to replicate more and mutate into new strains.

"There are a lot of reasons for taking pain now in order to create conditions for controlled release from [restrictions] a lot easier," he argued, adding, "Otherwise we risk just passing through phases of various levels of lockdown and release."

Boyd said that lockdowns "could go on for a long time," despite the UK's mass vaccination program. "My suspicion is that we will experience a damped oscillation of control-release for a long time to come — perhaps several years."
And apparently the British environment secretary has expressed disappointment that NHS workers have been turning down the jab. Again from RT:
The British environment secretary has bemoaned the decision of some National Health Service (NHS) staff not to get the Covid-19 vaccine, with those turning down the jab highest in ethnic minority groups.

"Obviously it is disappointing if people working in our NHS, who themselves in very small numbers, have decided not to have the vaccine," Environment Secretary George Eustice told Sky News on Tuesday morning.

"We want to get maximum protection particularly for those vulnerable cohorts but also for those such as those working in the NHS who are particularly exposed, and the vast majority of them have taken up the vaccine."

Amid discussion around whether employers should be able to mandate their employees to be vaccinated, Eustice suggested the NHS would not be forcing staff to get the jab despite being on the frontline of healthcare provision.

In late January, the board of Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation Trust reported that while overall 80 percent of its staff had been vaccinated, only a quarter of black-African and black-Caribbean staff had taken the jab. Rates were even lower among Filipino and Bangladeshi workers.

Director of workforce Daniel Waldron said that rates were lowest among Filipino staff who are employed in their thousands by the NHS after heavy recruitment campaigns in recent years.

Other hospital trust bosses in London told the Health Service Journal that they had encountered similar issues.

One said: "Most of our white staff have been vaccinated and few of our BAME staff have. This is a real concern given that the majority of our hands-on clinical staff are black."

There is growing concern about 'vaccine hesitancy' among BAME groups in the UK. On Monday, it was reported that a vaccination centre had to close early on three days last week because of "really low patient uptake" in an east London borough. Forty-five percent of the area's residents were considered non-white in the 2011 census.


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Megyn Kelly blasts 'woke' LA Times op-ed columnist for comparing Trump-supporting neighbors to Hezbollah and Nazi sympathizers after they kindly plowed snow from her yard

Harriet Alexander
Daily Mail
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:53 UTC
Virginia Heffernan
Virginia Heffernan, a journalist and author, sparked fury with her LA Times op ed on Friday
'Someone did something nice and you are victimized?'

Megyn Kelly is leading criticism of a Los Angeles Times columnist who compared her neighbors to Nazi sympathizers and Hezbollah because they backed Donald Trump.

The Brooklyn-based author, Virginia Heffernan, wrote in Friday's paper that the 'Trumpites' next door to their 'pandemic getaway' in upstate New York had plowed her drive after a snow storm.

'Of course, on some level, I realize I owe them thanks — and, man, it really looks like the guy back-dragged the driveway like a pro — but how much thanks?' she wrote.

Comment: This article, as with many other examples of 'leftists behaving badly,' shows you who the real 'Nazis' are.

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The risk of eternal lockdown

Adam Wagner
UnHeard
Mon, 08 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
end the lockdown
The implications for human rights could be worryingly far-reaching

Periods of society-wide threats are danger-times for rights. Anxious populations tend to accept restrictions on liberty which would be strongly resisted at other, more peaceful, moments. During the "War on Terror" which followed the 9/11 attacks, detention without trial, mass surveillance and torture were authorised by liberal democracies. We may be seeing that dynamic repeated today, as the legally enforced social-distancing restrictions put in place to slow the spread of Covid-19 raise some of the most difficult questions in modern times about life, liberty and the basic tenets of democracy.

Human rights law has built into it a deep scepticism of state power, particularly of the untrammelled variety, and so it is a useful lens through which to consider lockdowns. After the Second World War, human rights laws were created to ensure that even during those danger times certain basic rights were protected. But the basic psychology of threats and emergencies remain.

So let us consider a year of Covid-19. Twelve months ago, the first two cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the UK. Fifty days later, on 23 March, the Prime Minister announced that he would "give the British people a very simple instruction — you must stay at home". Three days after that, the first set of emergency lockdown regulations arrived. These were undoubtedly the most severe restrictions on liberty imposed in peacetime, and Health Secretary Matt Hancock reportedly described them as "Napoleonic". "In lockdown", he told the Cabinet, in a reversal of the usual principle of English law that whatever is not explicitly prohibited is permitted: "people would be forbidden from doing anything unless the legislation said, in terms, that they could".

Comment: A "rights-based approach to resolve"? The author doesn't get it: All of the policies of lockdown, vaccination, etc. - were made with the very intention of taking our rights away.

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SOTT Focus: Donald J. Boudreaux: "I Can't Stop Wondering About Covid-19"

Donald J. Boudreaux
American Institute for Economic Research
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 22:02 UTC
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Like so many people, I can't stop wondering about Covid-19. But unlike many people, my thoughts aren't on the physical dangers that this disease poses to me. I long ago stopped being unusually worried about me becoming infected with SARs-CoV-2.

To be clear, I'm no Covid denier. I understand that I can catch this nasty disease and that it might do me in. But the same is true for the ordinary flu. And so too might I be done in by riding in an automobile. So too might I meet an early death as a result of my habit of drinking each evening a few glasses of wine (and sometimes one too many glasses).

Given my age (although 62, I'm young compared to Covid's chief victims), my relatively good health (I daily go to the gym), and my slimness (I'm six feet tall and weigh 150lbs), I see no reason for me to worry about me catching Covid. I simply, truly have no special fear of this disease. I shake hands with people willing to shake. I hug friends and family members willing to hug. I dine indoors at restaurants without a second thought and remove my mask the moment I'm seated. And I would go about my business without a mask altogether were I not required to wear one in order to enter stores and restaurants.

My incessant wondering about Covid is instead about what other people think, or refuse to think, about Covid - the other people being those who, after reading the previous paragraph, will accuse me of being either appallingly selfish or inexcusably unaware that the coronavirus spreads through humans coming into close physical proximity to each other.
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Amid internal meltdown at New York Times, '1619 Project' creator doxxes reporter for digging into her own racially charged tweets


RT
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 21:09 UTC
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© Reuters / Henry Nicholls
In the New York Times' latest internal scrap, the paper's leading advocate for critical race theory allegedly doxxed a reporter for calling out her hypocrisy, after a veteran journalist was forced out for using "the N-word."

Donald McNeil Jr., the New York Times' top reporter on the Covid-19 pandemic, resigned last week. McNeil, it had been revealed, used a racial slur while on a trip to Peru with students in 2009. McNeil simply repeated the term after a student inquired about its usage, and the paper backed him up, saying he had no malicious intent. Nevertheless, he resigned after 150 employees demanded he be punished, writing in a letter that "our community is outraged and in pain."

Enter Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Times reporter behind the controversial '1619 Project', a work that reframes the entire history of the US as one of white supremacy, and one which prompted former President Donald Trump to wage a government-wide war on the "toxic" ideology of 'critical race theory'.
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Jerusalem mayor threatens to ban unvaccinated Arabs from attending mosques


RT
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 21:03 UTC
Muslim worshippers
© Reuters / Ammar Awad
Muslim residents of East Jerusalem won't be allowed to visit mosques if they refuse to join Israel's vaccination drive, the city's Mayor Moshe Lion has warned community leaders in Arab neighborhoods.

The people in the Muslim part of the city were "indifferent" to being vaccinated against the coronavirus and needed extra persuasion to get the shots, Lion told Arab officials during a call on Sunday. A recording of the discussion was afterwards released to local media.

"Remember what I tell you, friends - whoever does not get vaccinated won't be able to return to normal routine," the mayor said.

If Arab residents "don't want to be vaccinated, they won't be vaccinated, but they won't be allowed to enter hotels; they won't be allowed to enter mosques; they won't be allowed to enter schools," Lion added.
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