[CHD] Scientists in the U.S. and Canada, with support from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, resurrected the Spanish flu virus through reverse genetics, arguing we need to make a more dangerous version of the virus to be able to make better vaccines for it — even though the Spanish flu no longer exists in nature.
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Scientists in the U.S. and Canada have resurrected the Spanish flu virus through reverse genetics. Not surprisingly, the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are involved.
The scientists appear frustrated by the fact that their reverse-engineered Spanish flu virus — even at the highest doses tested — was not lethal enough to kill the macaque species selected for the experiment. They argue we need to make a more dangerous version of the Spanish flu to be able to make better vaccines for it. This despite the fact that, until they resurrected it, it no longer existed in nature.
The argument that we need to create dangerous viruses "just in case" nature comes up with something similar, so we can create vaccines for said viruses in advance, simply doesn’t hold water. This is science gone mad, and it must be stopped.
Evidence points to SARS-CoV-2 being the product of gain-of-function research, and a number of U.S. institutions need to come clean about their work, including the EcoHealth Alliance, the University of North Carolina, the University of California at Davis, the NIH and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
All of these agencies and institutions have conducted and/or collaborated on research that may be able to solve the mystery of where SARS-CoV-2 came from. But instead of transparently sharing their data, they’ve merely declared that they’ve "not been involved in any experiments that could have resulted in the emergence of SARS-CoV-2." Blanket denials are no longer enough. They must produce the data for independent review and analysis.
Evidence points to SARS-CoV-2 being the product of gain-of-function (GoF) research. Indeed, attorney Tom Renz will soon release the results of a major legal investigation, which he claims will demonstrate — beyond a reasonable doubt — that SARS-CoV-2 was created as part of a GoF project.
Whether the outbreak was accidental, intentional or the result of negligence, the end result is the same — devastation of health, commerce, finance and civil life worldwide for years on end.
Now imagine what might happen if something like the Spanish flu got out — or worse, a turbo-charged, genetically engineered version of it.
Incomprehensible as it may seem to the average person, scientists in the U.S. and Canada have resurrected this devastatingly lethal virus and, not surprisingly, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) are involved.
Mad scientists are testing recreated Spanish flu on monkeys
As reported by Renz, Aug.19:
"... this is so absurd that I am just starting with the reference document because I am concerned no one will believe it. Here it is: ’Spanish Flu GoF.’ Yes, that is right, Fauci and crew are now actively performing gain-of-function (GoF) work and infecting primates with the Spanish Flu ... Here is a quote from the document:
"’... Influenza virus A/South Carolina/1918 (H1N1) was generated by reverse genetics and handled in biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) containment at the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML).
"Sequences of the 1918 influenza viral segments were based on data reported under GenBank accession numbers DQ208309, DQ208310, DQ208311, AF117241, AY744935, AF250356, AY130766, and AF333238.
"1918 influenza virus was cultured using Madin-Darby canine kidney ... cells. MDCK cells were grown in minimum essential medium ... supplemented with 5% fetal bovine serum ... and 1 L-glutamine ...
"A passage 2 (P2) virus stock was prepared using MEM supplemented with 0.1% bovine serum albumin (BSA) ... 1 L-glutamine, and 1 mg/mL N-tosyl-L-phenylalanine chloromethyl ketone (TPCK)-treated trypsin ...
"This stock was used for animal inoculation. The mouse 50% lethal dose (MLD50) for this stock was determined previously to be 103.2 PFU; this value was confirmed prior to the use of the stock for macaque infection.’
"I frankly do not care to debate the nuance of whether the recreation of generally extinct virus ’generated by reverse genetics’ using pieces and parts of other animals qualifies as GoF; what I care about is that we have recreated the Spanish Flu and are experimenting with it on other animals."
SPANISH FLU ’NOT LETHAL ENOUGH’
As noted by Renz, the scientists appear frustrated by the fact that their reverse-engineered Spanish flu virus — even at the highest doses tested — was not lethal enough to kill the two macaque species selected for the experiment.
Macaques were therefore deemed "not ideal for the development and testing of novel pandemic influenza-specific vaccines and therapies," necessitating "other physiologically relevant nonhuman primate models."
Renz continues:
"... given the result of the previous coronavirus GoF, can ANYONE possibly argue GoF work on the Spanish Flu is a good idea? Even the simple recreation of the disease demonstrates an incredible lack of respect for the disaster created by the coronavirus GoF.
"So you may be asking, what moron could possibly be oblivious enough to support GoF work on the Spanish Flu while the world is still dealing with the nightmare that is COVID? The answer should not be surprising ... NIH and NIAID are involved.
"Apparently Fauci does not mind what he did with funding the creation of COVID and is at it again. You might also note the vaccine development crew’s involvement. A foundational point in this article is that the newly recreated Spanish Flu is not dangerous enough. Here is a pull-quote:
"’However, 1918 influenza was uniformly nonlethal in these two species, demonstrating that this isolate is insufficiently pathogenic in rhesus and Mauritian cynomolgus macaques to support testing novel prophylactic influenza approaches where protection from severe disease combined with a lethal outcome is desired as a highly stringent indication of vaccine efficacy.’
"This means that these people are arguing that we need to make a more dangerous version of the Spanish Flu so they can make ’better’ vaccines for it ... despite the fact that until they recreated it, it likely no longer existed in nature."
As noted by Renz, elected officials really need to answer the question, "Why is this kind of research allowed to continue on your watch?" Why are we reverse engineering the most lethal viruses the world has ever seen — after they’ve already been eradicated?
The argument that we need to create dangerous viruses "just in case" nature comes up with something similar, so we can create vaccines for said viruses in advance, simply doesn’t hold water. Stop creating these monstrosities, and we won’t need the vaccines!
This is science gone mad, and it must be stopped.
Besides, what are the chances that a virus would emerge naturally that just so happens to perfectly match the virus we now have a vaccine against? The entire premise is irrational from start to finish. It’s biowarfare research and nothing else.
THE INTENTIONAL COVER-UP OF SARS-COV-2’S ORIGIN
Fauci, former NIH chief Dr. Francis Collins, EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) president Peter Daszak and other members of the scientific community have spent the last two and a half years actively stifling debate about the genesis of SARS-CoV-2.
And, coincidentally, most of them have clear-cut connections to bat coronavirus GoF research and/or the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which appears to be the lab from which the virus somehow escaped.
So, it appears those who insist SARS-CoV-2 is of natural origin, despite all the evidence to the contrary, are doing so because they don’t want risky virological research to be blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic. That would "blow their cover" and raise questions about the sanity of funding such research.
Some may be so enamored with their chosen careers, that they cannot imagine doing anything other than tinkering with pathogens. For them, pulled funding is a threat to their livelihood.
But for others, the underlying incentive may be more nefarious. Like I already said, there’s really no reason for this kind of research other than the creation of weapons of mass destruction.
Whatever incentive any given player may have had, what’s clear is that Fauci, Collins, Daszak and many others intentionally undermined efforts to get to the bottom of where SARS-CoV-2 came from.
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The entire field of "medical ethics" is stone silent about all this. You almost wonder if the sudden mania about mutilating kids (also tacitly approved of by the medical ethicists) is in part to divert attention from this.
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I vote we inject Fauci with the most lethal version.
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WTF is the government doing researching this shit, I'm pretty sure we banned biological weapons, and Fauci's minions do nothing but come up with new ones.
[Huffpoo] Fox News host Geraldo Rivera tweeted Wednesday that he "could never support" longtime friend Donald Trump again.
Rivera, a rotating co-host on "The Five," said the ex-president’s baseless cries of voting fraud ended his allegiance permanently.
"Election Deniers depress me," Rivera wrote. "I blame President Trump for his shameful campaign to slander and undermine American faith in our elections. For all his positive accomplishments, and there are many, I could never support him again. Without fealty to the Constitution, we’re [second] rate."
Trump recently intensified his disenchantment with Fox News, a usually reliable mouthpiece for him.
"Wow! Fox News is really pushing the Democrats and the Democrat agenda," he wrote on Truth Social, his own social network. "Gets worse every single day. So many Dems interviewed with only softball questions, then Republican counterparts get creamed."
Rivera has called Trump a "loyal friend" whom he supported for four years in office and accused "leftist creeps" of trying to destroy Trump at all cost. He praised Trump for his role in producing a COVID-19 vaccine and said it should be named after him. But Trump’s baseless denial of his election defeat soured Rivera’s loyalty.
He allowed that Trump stopped talking to him after Rivera declared the 2020 election over. Rivera has called out Fox News colleagues and Trump for amplifying the fraud claims leading up to the Capitol riot and blamed Trump for inciting the siege. He said shortly after the insurrection that it revealed a "dysfunction" in his friend that he had not seen.
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Me! Me! LOOK AT ME!!!!!
I'm still relevant. Really, I am.
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Has anyone asked Geraldo about Hillary and Biden, both of whom questioned the 2016 election. I don't think either has retracted. Geraldo is an idiot.
[GoogleBooks] Matthew Cole - "Code over Country," pages 226-227:
A month after American Sniper was published and shortly after Bissonnette signed the contract for his book on the Bin Laden raid, an eighty-five-year-old retired veteran stood up from row of chairs in a Washington D.C. ballroom to address Adm. McRaven. In the nine months since the mission in Abbottabad, McRaven had earned a fourth star and a promotion. He was now commander of the Special Operations Command. McRaven was the keynote speak for an annual special operations conference, and after his remarks, the audience asked questions. The retired veteran who rose was no former grunt. He was retired Lt. Gen. James Vaught and had served in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars. More importantly, he's been the overall commanding general for the failed rescue attempt at Desert One in 1980. "You've been splashing all of [your SEAL Team 6 operations] all over the media. and I flat don't understand that," the retired general said. "[If] you keep publishing how you do this, the other guy's going to be there ready for you, and you're going to fly in and he's going to shoot down every damned helicopter and kill every one of your SEALs," Vaught warned Adm. McRaven, "Mark my words, get the hell out of the media." Emphasis in the last para added.
[NYT] She has been trailing her Republican rival, Gov. Brian Kemp, alarming Democrats who have celebrated her as the master strategist behind the state’s Democratic shift. You'd think she would be doing better as the Real™ Incumbent Governor, right?
NEWNAN, Ga. — Georgia Democrats have grown increasingly pessimistic about Stacey Abrams’s chances of ousting Gov. Brian Kemp from office, pointing to her struggles to rally key parts of her party’s coalition and her inability to appeal to a slice of moderate Republican voters who can decide the state’s elections.
Public and private polls have consistently shown her trailing Mr. Kemp, a Republican seeking a second term. And, in a particularly worrying sign for Ms. Abrams, polls also show she is drawing less support than the other high-profile Democrat on the ballot, Senator Raphael Warnock, who is seeking a first full term.
The gap between the two Democrats, which is within the margin of error in some recent surveys and as wide as 10 points in others, highlights the extent of her struggles. Though she is beloved by Democratic voters, she has lost some ground with Black men, who provided crucial backing in her narrow loss to Mr. Kemp in 2018. And while Mr. Warnock draws some support from Republican moderates, Ms. Abrams — who has been vilified more by the G.O.P. than any other statewide figure — has shown little sign of peeling off significant numbers of disaffected Republicans.
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the master strategist(s) behind the state’s Democratic shift
Are all working behind the scenes and under the radar to subvert Georgia's election integrity.
Boxcar's "radar cross-section" precludes "under the radar."
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...I'm starting to believe that President Of United Earth Abrams (she got a fairly nice little cameo on Star Trek: Discovery last season) is suffering from Hilary!'s Disease.
This is a malady found only in politicians, and notably in female politicians, who come to believe that a given office is rightfully theirs, and that election is inevitable.
I have admittedly been taking a break from presenting an update on Europe's energy future, and not just to hike into the wilderness. There are certainly a lot of balls up in the air right now, and we're seeing policy and supply changes from week to week. But while we don't know yet what--if any--"fixes" are in the future for Germany and its neighbors, we know where the shortfalls are.
But first, the good news: Germany's energy storage is 70-80% full. Industrial and residential users are looking to see where they can voluntarily cut back usage. Governments are looking to step in and help customers shoulder expected price increases. Good? Sure. Enough? Ehh..
[Washington Examiner] Documents related to the nuclear and military capabilities of an unnamed nation were among the papers found at Mar-a-Lago by FBI agents, per a report.
The sensitive documents, which would require special clearance for access on a need-to-know basis, were recovered during a raid by the FBI last month on former President Donald Trump's Florida residence, people familiar with the situation told the Washington Post.
The documents are so secretive that most senior national security officials are unaware of their contents, and only the president and very few officials are aware of the documents, according to the report.
Earlier Tuesday, Trump decried the Mar-a-Lago raid and fallout over classified documents as a "witch hunt."
"All American Patriots know that I always do everything 'by the book' and that this Hoax will fail miserably," he said in a statement.
The Trump team was handed a victory in the legal battle with the Justice Department on Monday when a judge granted a motion for a special master to look through documents seized by the FBI during the August raid.
The Justice Department has the ability to appeal the decision, and some have speculated the motion will be overturned upon appeal.
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They're just using new terms to describe the "nuclear secrets" they lied about a week ago. Apparently the correspondence between Trump and North Korea's Kim were part of the documents seized, and they declared those "nuclear secrets". Now they're saying "documents detailing foreign country's nuclear capabilities" -- which could include what Kim responded back with, or open-source information on Nork or Iranian programs.
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Interesting Rob. Even with weekly approved media links, the entire exercise appears to be losing both airspeed and altitude.
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Nice to see the FBI is leaking info and half truths to spin the media in their favor. Yet they were silent on Hillary and the Bidens. It wont be long until the Trump taxes are leaked. If people cant see the FBI's corruption and partisanships, they are blind.
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^ None so blind as those who will not see.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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"... speculated the motion will be overturned upon appeal."
Given the number of still in power Obama appointed judges there is little speculation in my mind.
This is eventuall headed to the SCOTUS.
Which worries me, given how one SCOTUS suddenly died under OBAMA just before and important ruling was to be made against that LSD group.
If we get another make it up as they go Liberal USSC Judge, the USA is screwed.
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Remember -- the leaks are intended to make the issue seem more serious. The reality will be less serious -- and in any case Trump could not violate classification while he was president, because his authority over classification is absolute.
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FBI passing selective leaks to Washington Post to make Trump look bad heading into the November midterms. Exculpatory evidence kept secret. That's to be expected when Trump and Roe v Wade are about the only issues they have.
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Jessica Tarlov proclaimed Trump the biggest leaker in all this. I wish I could ask what he leaked.
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[Conservative Brief] The former top U.S. spy chief believes that the FBI came up short during its raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate early last month.
John Ratcliffe, a former U.S. congressman from Texas whom Trump tapped to serve as director of national intelligence, told Fox News last week that the bureau "didn’t find what they were looking" for, based on his observations.
"I was a former federal prosecutor, United States attorney. Let me tell you what this is about. Good prosecutors with good cases play it straight. They don’t need to play games," Ratcliffe said, in reference to Justice Department officials. "They don’t need to shop for judges, they don’t need to leak intelligence that may or may not exist."
The Justice Department’s arguments against having a federal court appoint a special master to review allegedly classified documents "tells you that the government didn’t find what they were looking for," Ratcliffe continued.
"There weren’t nuclear secrets" at Trump’s estate, he noted further, "and they’re trying to justify what they’ve done. They’re not playing it straight before the American people. I think that that’s going to play out."
The Epoch Times noted further that Ratcliffe did not go into specific evidence regarding his claims, however.
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Anyone know the date of the warrant? I still think the raid was initiated based on something, planted or real, in the SS texts the J6 committee subpoenaed.
In 2003, Abdul-Majid al-Khoei, leader of a liberal branch of Shia Islam, returned to Baghdad from exile in London with the aim of introducing a moderate and modern branch of his religion.
As the son of a holy man who had died in prison under Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, he had a friendly following in his home country. The American occupiers of Iraq liked him and flew him to Baghdad after having tossed Saddam’s regime.
Apparently unaware of the dangerous political rivalries unleashed after Saddam’s fall, al-Khoei traveled to the holy Shiite city of Najaf. He walked unarmed and unguarded into the shrine of Ali, the first Shiite imam. A mob surrounded him, pulled out daggers and sliced him to death.
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[CHD] Scientists in the U.S. and Canada, with support from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, resurrected the Spanish flu virus through reverse genetics, arguing we need to make a more dangerous version of the virus to be able to make better vaccines for it — even though the Spanish flu no longer exists in nature.
Matthew Cole - "Code over Country," pages 226-227:
