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US Grant To Wuhan Lab To Enhance Bat-Based Coronaviruses Was Never Scrutinized By HHS Review Board, NIH Says
Post Date: 2021-04-06 10:47:51 by Horse
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An oversight board created to scrutinize research that would enhance highly dangerous pathogens did not review a National Institutes of Health grant that funded a lab in Wuhan, China, to genetically modify bat-based coronaviruses. Experts say the NIH grant describes scientists conducting gain-of-function research, a risky area of study that, in this case, made SARS-like viruses even more contagious. Federal funding for gain-of-function research was temporarily suspended in 2014 due to widespread scientific concerns it risked leaking supercharged viruses into the human population. An NIH grant that involved the modification of bat-based coronaviruses and the transfer of $600,000 to the ...
U.S. Govt-Funded Radio Free Asia, Citing Anonymous Sources, Claims China 'Torturing' Christians to Renounce Faith
Post Date: 2021-04-06 10:31:30 by Horse
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The US government, which is persecuting Christians in America for opposing the ruling class' fringe LGBT ideology, is putting out atrocity propaganda through Radio Free Asia citing anonymous sources to claim China is "torturing" Christians to get them to renounce their faith.
Peak Woke
Post Date: 2021-04-06 10:27:11 by Ada
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What were the execs of these mighty companies thinking — these knights of the boardroom, these capitalist geniuses, these moral nonpareils — when they cancelled Atlanta’s turn to host the midsummer All-star Game to “protest” Georgia’s passage of a law that requires voter ID? Surely that they were striking a righteous blow against systemic racism. And then, the rest of the world realized — almost immediately — that Major League Baseball requires online ticket buyers to show ID when they pick up their tickets at any stadium… and that Delta Airlines requires passengers to show ID (duh) before being allowed to fly in one of their airplanes… ...
Everything The West Claims It Values Is Invalidated By Its Treatment Of Assange
Post Date: 2021-04-06 09:27:39 by Ada
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The western world has a very high opinion of itself and its supposed values, and its treatment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange makes a lie of it all. Truth. Justice. Freedom. Democracy. We are taught from an early age that these are the sacred values our society upholds with the utmost reverence, and that we are very fortunate to have been born in a part of the world which holds such virtue. You see this haughty self-righteousness pop up on a daily basis in the most influential circles on earth, from the way US presidents are still to this day referred to as the “leader of the free world”, to US Secretary of State Tony Blinken recently babbling about the “shared ...
War with China? What Fun!
Post Date: 2021-04-06 08:16:55 by Ada
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I’d Rather Be Ruled by Brain-Damaged Twelve-Year-Olds There is no limit to misjudgement. If the psychic curiosities in the Federal bunker start a war with China, or push Beijing into starting one, it will be blamed on a proximate cause, such as a collision of warships after which some lieutenant who joined on waivers lost it and opened fire. After all, historians have to write about something. The causes will actually be deeper and more complex. To begin, people are cerebrally arranged to form groups–“packs” is a better word—and fight with other groups. This is dimwitted, but so are people. The urge manifests itself in wars, political parties, football, teenage ...
Why Is the Biden Administration Pushing Ukraine To Attack Russia?
Post Date: 2021-04-06 08:07:22 by Ada
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On March 24th, Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky signed what was essentially a declaration of war on Russia. In the document, titled Presidential Decree No. 117/2021, the US-backed Ukrainian leader declared that it is the official policy of Ukraine to take back Crimea from Russia. The declaration that Ukraine would take back Crimea from Russia also followed, and was perhaps instigated by, President Biden’s inflammatory and foolish statement that “Crimea is Ukraine.” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was a chief architect of the US-backed coup against Ukraine in 2014, continued egging on the Ukrainians, promising full US support for the “territorial ...
For What Should We Fight Russia or China?
Post Date: 2021-04-06 08:01:08 by Ada
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Last Monday, in a single six-hour period, NATO launched 10 air intercepts to shadow six separate groups of Russian bombers and fighters over the Arctic, North Atlantic, North Sea, Black Sea and Baltic Sea. Last week also brought reports that Moscow is increasing its troop presence in Crimea and along its borders with Ukraine. Joe Biden responded. In his first conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Biden assured him of our "unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia’s ongoing aggression in the Donbass and Crimea." Though Ukraine is not a member of NATO, and we have no treaty obligation to fight in ...
‘A necessary step’: Japan starts trials on issuance of national digital currency
Post Date: 2021-04-05 20:41:18 by Horse
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The Bank of Japan (BOJ) said on Monday that it has begun experiments to study the feasibility of issuing its own digital currency. The move sees it join other global central banks in exploring options in the digital sector. According to the regulator, the first phase of experiments will be carried out until March 2022 and will focus on testing the technical feasibility of issuing, distributing, and redeeming a central bank digital currency (CBDC). It will then move to the second phase of experiments, which will scrutinize more detailed functions, such as whether to set limits on the amount of CBDC each entity can hold. Poster Comment:That will be real funny money. Japan has been inflating ...
Journalist Glenn Greenwald had gun stuck in mouth during violent robbery
Post Date: 2021-04-05 10:59:37 by Ada
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Glenn Greenwald recalls having "five men pointing guns at me. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald revealed he was the victim of a violent, hour-long robbery — during which he had a gun thrust in his mouth — at his rental in Brazil. Greenwald — best known for his work with Edward Snowden in leaking National Security Agency documents about mass surveillance — was attacked and tied up while alone at the “isolated and beautiful” farmhouse, he said. His husband and their two kids were at their main home in Rio — and only escaped the harrowing robbery after a last-minute change in plans, Greenwald wrote in a lengthy piece on his website. ...
UK: Political Judge Sentences Woman To Jail For Calling Holocaust A "Cash Cow"
Post Date: 2021-04-05 10:52:15 by Ada
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'I'm not sentencing you on the basis that you are anti-Semitic, I'm not sentencing you on the basis that you are a Holocaust denier," said Westminster District judge Michael Snow, after doing exactly that. This was Snow's confusing message to 56-year-old Alison Chabloz, a political commentator who was dragged to court for stating that the Holocaust is an "eternal cash cow" on a podcast. She will be serving four and a half months in jail. While Judge Snow has no legal basis for jailing a person specifically for comments critical of the Holocaust, he was able to exploit an open- ended and subjective "gross offense" law to punish Chabloz for ...
From the Notebook: Archegos Bikini Atolls
Post Date: 2021-04-05 10:42:52 by Ada
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Do you remember the end of Dr. Strangelove? When the Russian ambassador reveals the existence of the Doomsday device Strangelove makes the point that such weapons only have deterrent power if everyone knows about them. Secret weapons have no ability to deter cataclysmic violence. The reply from the Russian ambassador is one for the ages, “It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday.” Remember this when we consider the curious question of the demise of Archegos Capital. Becuse sometimes I watch something unfold and I have zero opinion on it whatsoever. The Suez blockage was one of them. I had to will myself to care beyond the obvious, “this is bad” ...
Video: Same Collateral Used 7 Different Times By Hedge Funds?
Post Date: 2021-04-05 09:41:59 by Horse
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WallStForMainSt 40.8K More details are coming out about Archegos and the growing repo and collateral problems. And the Fed is going to have to an more insane amounts of emergency liquidity. A recent CNBC article that former Wall Street investment bank VP Caitlin Long reported on cited who the exact same collateral was used 7 times by hedge funds and family offices. And this weekend the Financial Times is reporting that Archegos lost $110 billion in only 5 days and they were (over) leveraged by 500%!
UK mulls emergency education plan as 200,000+ primary school students lack basic reading skills after Covid-19 lockdowns
Post Date: 2021-04-05 09:14:10 by Horse
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London is working on a ‘catch-up’ education plan as hundreds of thousands of primary school children are struggling with basic reading and writing following months of Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, government sources told the Times. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will launch a four-year emergency plan to tackle the looming illiteracy crisis, the Times reported on Sunday. The problem appears to be so dire it has become the prime minister’s second priority after the vaccination campaign, and will remain in the government’s focus until at least the next election, according to senior government sources and internal data seen by the paper. The series of lockdowns implemented to ...
Is the Volunteer Military Too Expensive? Or Is Global Intervention Too Expensive?
Post Date: 2021-04-05 08:03:00 by Ada
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The Napoleonic Wars consumed the lives of between 2.5 million and 3.5 million soldiers, most unwilling draftees. Although defeated, discredited, and exiled after years of brutal conflict, the self- anointed emperor responsible for those deaths today is honored – lionized, actually – in Paris. His tomb is located in the Hotel Les Invalides surrounded by commemorations of his many great but costly victories. Aggressive war and mass slaughter obviously look better through the mists of time. And conscription, which Napoleon used to terrorize a continent, is still routinely employed by nations today. Today millions of people can be dispatched by a few bombs launched from half the ...
Why US Troops Will Never Be Pulled Out Of Syria
Post Date: 2021-04-05 03:10:30 by Horse
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Authored by "Ehsani" - a Middle East expert, Syrian-American banker and financial analyst who visits the region frequently and writes for the influential geopolitical analysis blog, Syria Comment. A friend recently asked: "Surely, the American Army is not staying in Syria forever and sooner or later they will leave, no?" To his surprise, my answer was: "No, I don’t think they would leave. Why would they? It costs very little and they incur hardly any casualties." Moreover of all past military interventions in the region, the US presence in Syria is unique in a number of ways. It is relatively small in scope, yet it does achieve a seemingly broad set of ...
Babylon Bee: Roman Authorities Investigating Jesus For Violating Stay-In-Tomb Order
Post Date: 2021-04-05 02:40:54 by Horse
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The Best Shot Ever
Post Date: 2021-04-04 16:13:20 by Lod
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Some things run in families. Adolph Toepperwein's papa was among the best Schützen marksman in central Texas. So it was just natural that young 'Top' proved a prodigy with rifle and revolver. His skill as a marksman and trickshooter caught the attention of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, and he was soon contracted to perform shooting exhibitions across the country. He was lauded far and wide for his creativity as much as his accuracy. But it's also natural to want the admiration of your home folks, so he planned something special for his homecoming in 1907. In December of that year, Top rolled into the San Antonio Fair Grounds. His mules were hauling one wagon ...
Looking Back at the Sino-Vietnamese War
Post Date: 2021-04-04 14:28:40 by Horse
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Poster Comment:China invaded Vietnam with 330,000 troops in 1979.
PEPE ESCOBAR: The Slave, The Orator & The Emperor and the Slave
Post Date: 2021-04-04 11:05:13 by Ada
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A trio of Stoics from Ancient Greece offer philosophical opposition to today’s turbo capitalism in this excerpt from “Raging Twenties, Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism.” Stoicism, in Ancient Greece, was pop culture —reaching out in a way that the sophisticated Platonic and Aristotelian schools could only dream of. Like the Epicureans and the Skeptics, the Stoics owed a lot to Socrates — who always stressed that philosophy had to be practical, capable of changing our priorities in life. The Stoics were very big on ataraxia (freedom of disturbance) as the ideal state of our mind. The wise man cannot possibly be troubled because the key to wisdom is ...
Tankie, Conspiracy Theorist, And Other Pejorative Tools Of Narrative Control
Post Date: 2021-04-04 09:01:22 by Ada
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Bloomberg pundit Noah Smith had a very revealing interaction on Twitter the other day that I’ve been meaning to write about ever since. It began with Smith sharing a screenshot of an article by journalist Yasha Levine which condemns US imperialist escalations against China and ties them to the sudden spike in anti-Asian hate crimes we’ve been seeing. Smith shared his screenshot with the caption, “I hold by my prediction that the American Left is going to split into A) social democrats, and B) foreign-policy-obsessed pseudo-tankies.” “How do we stop the B group from driving the narrative?” one of Smith’s followers asked him. “Well, first we teach ...
Paradigm Failure
Post Date: 2021-04-03 13:36:22 by Ada
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A nation literally falling apart certainly might want to Build Back Better, but it also might want to consider building back differently, consistent with the signals that reality is sending to humankind these days. For instance, the signals that the old industrial paradigm is coming to an end, and that the furnishings and accessories of it may not be the ones that humankind actually requires going forward. Alas, the psychology of previous investment tends to dictate that societies pound their capital — if they still have any —down a rat-hole in the vain and desperate attempt to keep old rackets going, and this is the essence of Mr. Biden’s infrastructure bill, a colossal ...
Why is the military worried about China expanding into South America? South of the border.
Post Date: 2021-04-03 11:36:47 by Ada
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Do you lose sleep at night worrying about China dominating South and Latin America? Neither do I, but the head of U.S. Southern Command claims this is actually a thing. “The Chinese Communist Party’s insidious, and corrosive and corrupt influences at work globally and in this region,” Navy Adm. Craig Faller said at a March 16 Pentagon news conference. Faller’s comments raise a few questions. First of all: Why do military leaders always single out the “Chinese Communist Party” when describing China’s nefarious activities? There is no other party in China, so it’s redundant to mention that the country is run by communists – unless the John Birch ...
Sweden Scraps Bill Gates' Geoengineering Plot To Block The Sun
Post Date: 2021-04-03 10:58:09 by Horse
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.for now! Poster Comment:Good News!! 3 points: 1) There never was any Global Warming. 1930s were blazing hot and Los Angeles never went under water. 2) We we entered another Maunder Minimum so we can expect more Global Cooling. We have 44 of 89 current active volcanoes spewing ash into the upper atmosphere blocking the sun so Mother Nature is doing what gates wanted to do 3) Blocking sunlight leads to crop failures and famines.
Reindeer Cyclone - amazing video & info
Post Date: 2021-04-03 10:37:42 by Lod
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Please Do the Tighten-up on Right Sidebar, Thank you
Post Date: 2021-04-03 10:31:25 by Lod
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