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ABC News Forgets Its Own 2020 Blockbuster Scoop, Peddles Lab Leak Theory Instead
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In the new False Flag Weekly News posted above, E. Michael Jones and I opened with the week’s biggest story: The US Department of Energy, which oversees research on biological weapons as well as nuclear weapons, has assessed that COVID is man-made and probably emerged from a lab leak.

Throughout 2020 and into 2021, saying such things could get you banned from social media. My Facebook account was temporarily frozen, and my Patreon account and YouTube channel permanently nuked, on the pretext that I was posting “medical misinformation,” i.e. COVID heresy. I had repeatedly cited evidence that COVID was obviously a lab-made bioweapon rather than a naturally occurring disease, including early interviews with Dr. Meryl Nass in which she exposed the primary purveyors of the “natural origins” myth, who turned out to be notorious biowar criminals and “usual suspects.”

Now that the US government has all but admitted that COVID is a bioweapon, will Patreon and YouTube restore my accounts and pay damages? Will Zuckerberg get down on his knees and apologize? Will everybody who pushed the natural origins myth, including the whole mainstream media, be banned from Facebook and YouTube and Patreon and social media in general? I’m not holding my breath. More likely, the official line will become “we always knew it was a bioweapon” along the lines of “we have always been at war with Eastasia.” (Ironically, the Wuhan-lab-leak false flag limited hangout may be what takes us to war with Eastasia!)

Coincidentally, when I Googled around looking for a non-paywalled report on The Wall Street Journal’s exposé of the new Energy Department assessment, the top result sourced to ABC News. I experienced a sudden moment of deja vu: Hadn’t ABC News broken a similar blockbuster story a couple of years ago?

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That story, with all of its monumental implications, somehow got memory-holed. Ron Unz and I have been working since then to un-memory-hole it.

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If the full story of the fall 2019 neocon bio-attack on Wuhan and Qom ever emerges, ABC reporters’ April 2020 exposé of US intelligence foreknowledge of the COVID pandemic could become Pulitzer-worthy, not to mention mega-historic. So it seems unduly self-effacing, not to mention stupid, for ABC News to be reporting on the Energy Department’s assessment that COVID is a lab artifact without even mentioning that same network’s earlier work exposing who made and unleashed it.

As E. Michael Jones and I noted on FFWN, the “deliberate bio-attack on China and Iran” hypothesis is the elephant in the room. The answer to the COVID origins riddle turns out to be “as easy as ABC.”


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  1. In poker, wisdom is knowing when to hold them or fold them.

    In government work, wisdom is understanding the Peter Principle.

    At the Unz Review, wisdom is knowing when a topic is way outside of one’s skill set.

    Historical evidence requires substantial analysis to form reasonable opinions. However, scientific evidence is outside of the vast majority’s skill set regardless of the “scholarly research” done.

    I recommend that you first concentrate on historical evidence concerning China’s cooperation with the Talmudic Cult. There is enough evidence to raise suspicion, that at the highest level, China is on board with the Cult.

    Check out the articles written that Israel was selling much of America’s military technology to China. Make the case that China broke from the Talmudic global agenda.

    There is good evidence to support the claim that the Cold War was just a smoke screen, that at the highest levels, the Soviet Union and the US were working together. The cold war smoke screen worked back then and may be working with China today as another smoke screen.

    If you get the history right, the science issues may come into focus.

    • Replies: @Rat City
    , @ardvark
  2. If you get the history right, the science issues may come into focus.

    And just what is that “science” and how does it prove that there was a “lab leak” in Wuhan? A lab leak of a “deadly” contagion in a lab where no one dies? Some workers having “Covid-like symptoms” in November? Not “Covid symptoms” which would include symptoms of my environmental allergies, but “Covid-like symptoms” which pretty much covers the waterfront for dozens of illnesses. Do we include the science of Dr. Stefan Lanka and Dr. Tom Cowan?

    In case you haven’t noticed, the new “lab leak” front page hoopla comes when Sy Hersh has provided a logical scenario for the Nord Stream attack; they are closing in on Hunter Biden’s laptop and potential fallout; and the Ukraine lie factory is collapsing under its own weight. This is a distraction from what is really happening.

    • Agree: Drapetomaniac
  3. JasonT says:

    Covid is an operation that had two primary components.

    1. A hoax fueled by a fraudulent PCR test and a fraudulent notion that asymptomatic transmission of respiratory illness is a thing,

    2. A lab-made gain-of-function spike protein murder weapon, which was deployed as a poison in certain places around the world in 2020 to provide substantiation for the hoax, and then deployed again in 2021 in the form of spike-protein-generating mRNA kill-shots.

    The why is clear. One only needs to read the WEF agenda for humanity.

    The only two real questions here are: “Who is in on the operation and who isn’t?” and “What can we do about it?”, the latter of which being the most important.

  4. Rat City says:
    @Socratesjr

    Er, give us a hint on where to look…the relationship between China and the…zionists…has been a blank spot for me. Inquiring minds want to know!

    • Replies: @Socratesjr
  5. JWalters says:

    Here’s another case of the Financial Overlords’ fear of the public learning the truth. Reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, called “the most powerful female voice in America”, was silenced as she investigated the JFK assassination. After calling the Warren Commission report “laughable”.
    Mysterious Death of Reporter Dorothy Kilgallen & the JFK Assassination

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  6. Mark G. says:

    New emails uncovered by House Republicans show that Fauci commissioned a scientific paper in February 2020 disproving that Covid leaked from a Chinese lab. Eight weeks later he cited this paper as proof at a White House press conference that the lab leak theory was false while he pretended that he had nothing to do with it and did not know the authors. The question of why Fauci went to such efforts to obscure the origins of the disease is now being investigated by a GOP led House committee.

    https://nypost.com/2023/03/05/new-emails-show-fauci-commissioned-paper-to-disprove-wuhan-lab-leak-theory/

    • Replies: @Curmudgeon
  7. There is not Covid origin because there is no covid.

    • Replies: @dogbumbreath
  8. @Rat City

    My pleasure engaging an inquiring mind Mr. RC.

    First, my emphasis is on how to think, not what to think. My goal is to analyze enough historical evidence to achieve reasonable probability.

    A very good tool to arrive at reasonable probability is pattern analysis.
    Pattern analysis leads to a fundamental of this global agenda which is DECEPTION. Deceptive strategies are necessary for this agenda to worm its way through many centuries of history undetected by the vast majority. Exposure of the deception is contained because only a very few at the top have full knowledge of the deception.

    Deceptions that have worked in the past are repeated. Therefore we must first analyze the past, and that is why I brought up the Cold War smoke screen.

    The Cold War deception worked very well. Creating an enemy is one of the most common and effective strategies. This justifies large sums of public money to be channeled into agenda projects (read the Report From Iron Mountain). It also provides justification for Cult infiltrated agencies to unsuspectingly promote the cult agenda. If I remember correctly, Neil Herman was head of counter terrorism at the FBI during the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He later resigned from the FBI and went to work for the ADL The evidence from other testimony suggest that this bombing was done by a covert cell within the FBI. You will have to dig wide and deep to find this one. I am pushing the point that exposure of the deception is contained by only a few people knowing the plan.

    The creation of Communism as an enemy is equivalent to the game of Chess, when the vast majority can only play a mediocre game of Checkers. Seymour Hersh’s containment opinion about the Soviet Union shooting down KAL 007 as a mistaken military plane did not reveal that Congressman Larry McDonald was on that plane. As in many other coverups, this one seems to lack common sense. Like Congressman Huey P Long, Larry McDonald was a major threat to the global agenda, and it is much more probable that the order was given by the Cult for the Soviets to shoot the plane down. At the very top level of the Cult, the US and the Soviet Union were the same. More supporting examples are available, such as the Norman Dodd interview and the book FROM MAJOR JORDAN’S DIARIES by George Racey Jordan 1952, and another book called THE RED SYMPHONY by Jose Landowsky 1938.

    Another strategy is the Cult’s control of the flow of war materials and technology. Using pattern analysis you will see this occurred in the Russian/ Japan war, WWI, WWII and for the Communist take over of China where the US supported the Communist. See senator John F Kennedy’s 1949 speech on the US support for China’s communism. We also have good evidence of Israel as a conduit for both war materials and military technology to so called adversaries including China.

    The Iraq/Iran war is a good example of Israel suppling war material to keep the war prolonged as long a possible.

    Some of my earlier comments may help fill in some of the gaps. My January 12 comment is particularly relevant to understanding the success of deception strategies.

    To Kevin’s credit, he had made a comment (in jest?) that just maybe Putin and China were in on a scripted course of action to reduce the worlds population and bring in the New World Order. Good luck trying to find hard evidence.

    My advice is to avoid the all too common focus on “what to think” and place more emphasis on “how to think”. You don’t want to be caught like a greedy monkey that can’t let go of the banana. There are a surprising number of greedy monkeys at the Unz Review.

  9. DESTROYING VACCINE LIES BY THE GOVERNMENT



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  10. @Mark G.

    This is how government and its agencies work:
    – Declare an investigation, study, inquiry, paper, etc on any topic;
    – Have your conclusions prepared in advance;
    – Choose a chairperson or panel that will support your pre-hearing conclusions.
    – Announce, with great fanfare, the conclusions of the investigation, study, inquiry, paper, etc

    It’s all theatre.

  11. A. Pagano says:

    This whole “origin of COVID” sttory is a red herring. I’m not sure either Jones or Barrett illuminated anything. Barrett seemed almost gleeful that ABC News changed its tune about COVID origins to lab leak. And then the team of Barrett/Jones report to their chagrin that the government more or less admitted that it is a bio-weapon. Apparently Barrett/Jones swallowed that hook, line and sinker. About the only bio-weapon is the vaccine.

    Once we learned—at the very start of this fiasco—that the mobile military hospitals set up in NYC and Seattle were empty most of us smelled a rat. There were no excess deaths to speak of in 2020 and the excess deaths after the Vax roll out in 2021 have largely been attributed to lock-down conditions, dangerous vaccines and the preferred hospital treatment known to cause death in 50% or more of its patients—ventilators with Remdesivir.

    There is not the slightest proof that any such an airborne virus exists that was transmissible or infectious particularly since the virus has yet to be found in a single sick patient. NOT ONE. But this is true of all the supposedly transmissible viruses cooked up by Fauci and his crew since HIV in the early 1980s. They have NOT been found and isolated in a single sick patient.

    If they can’t find the virus how did they create a gold standard test? They didn’t and they can’t; the PCR test they created is largely worthless but lucrative. Kary Mullis—the creator of the PCR test—reported before his passing that even if Fauci and crew had actually found live corona virus in a sick patient and extracted a true and complete DNA/RNA sequence that a positive PCR test didn’t prove that disease was present let alone that the coroana virus was the cause. Hell even the Chinese lab which supposedly created the corona virus couldn’t produce the full DNA/RNA sequence or anything close. The DNA/RNA sequence produced for use in the PCR test is largely made from whole clothe using a computer model.

    We do know that governments around the world including our own have been war gaming the use the biological warfare against populations. But the war games—like Event 201 conducted in in 2019—are NOT designed to find safe and effective medical solutions to protect the people, they are designed to practice how to exploit the terror value and to dominate the media. The end goal of these war games is to terrorize the people for control and profit. Who does that implicate? Jones and Barrett were silent.

    The federal government has never insured the safety or efficacy of single vaccine—NEVER. The harm caused by vaccines was sufficiently great and provable by the early 1980s that civil juries were hammering the pharmaceutical companies. Insurance companies would no longer sell coverage for these vaccines to big Pharma. So these same companies “threatened” to stop making their harmful products unless Congress gave them immunity from civil liability. Instead of Congress saying, “good riddance to bad rubbish” they granted them immunity. Big Pharma has the money to corrupt. They don’t care if they harm and kill. None of them ever goes to jail.

    And what do we get from Barrett and Jones? Little more than a mutt and jeff routine.

    • Replies: @dogbumbreath
  12. @obwandiyag

    There is not Covid origin because there is no covid.

    Covid is just a name. Be more specific…..there is no such thing as a virus. There are chem/bio weapons made from pathogens you can see with a regular microscope (bacteria, fungi and parasites), proteins and toxic chemicals. They can make this to KILL.

    https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/the-truth-about-viruses:a

    • Agree: JasonT
  13. @A. Pagano

    There is not the slightest proof that any such an airborne virus exists that was transmissible or infectious particularly since the virus has yet to be found in a single sick patient. NOT ONE. But this is true of all the supposedly transmissible viruses cooked up by Fauci and his crew since HIV in the early 1980s. They have NOT been found and isolated in a single sick patient.

    If they can’t find the virus how did they create a gold standard test? They didn’t and they can’t; the PCR test they created is largely worthless but lucrative. Kary Mullis—the creator of the PCR test—reported before his passing that even if Fauci and crew had actually found live corona virus in a sick patient and extracted a true and complete DNA/RNA sequence that a positive PCR test didn’t prove that disease was present let alone that the coroana virus was the cause. Hell even the Chinese lab which supposedly created the corona virus couldn’t produce the full DNA/RNA sequence or anything close. The DNA/RNA sequence produced for use in the PCR test is largely made from whole clothe using a computer model.

    Thank you. See comment #12.

    PCR test is a magic trick:

    https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/the-truth-about-pcr-tests:6

    • Replies: @ariadna
  14. ATTORNEY BATTLING PFIZER IN COURT OVER COVID VACCINE GIVES UPDATE ON THE BIGGEST TRIAL AGAINST BIG PHARMA



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  15. Andreas says:

    I was never impressed by that “intelligence report”.

    It never read as anything more than an agency performing its assigned duties. ABC was using it to discredit the Trump administration, claiming Trump had the information but failed to act properly on it. That’s all it ever was.

    If the virus did emerge in China, either naturally or as a result of human error, then the detection and reporting of events and patterns pointing to a potential disease outbreak was entirely consistent with that agency’s job function. I’m just not seeing otherwise.

    I had always thought that a compelling piece of circumstantial evidence was China’s zero-covid policy. I had taken this extreme measure and its persistence to be an expression of national embarrassment and deep sense of culpability for what had happened.

    This is an important cultural factor. It is real and tangible in effect. Yet, Westerners at all levels will fail to see it, much less its significance.

    So maybe it was the true nature of the zero-covid policy that was the real elephant-in-the-room.

    While I’m not claiming I caused it – lol – I was amused that the FBI report concluding that a lab leak was the most likely origin of covid came out just a few hours after I had posted my original opinion on this topic. Of course, they did not reveal their methods. However, it is reasonable to believe that the FBI has people available to them who are aware of these cultural factors and that this has shaped their conclusions. Or maybe they just read the Unz Review.

    • LOL: Bro43rd
  16. @Curmudgeon

    No incidents or leaks in the WIV. Dozens over many years at Ralph Baric’s UNC Chapel Hill labs. And as USA Today reported, US bio-labs leak like sieves, and that’s in the USA, not in the scores scattered around the world, like the hideous Lugar Centre in Georgia where the locals have reported a number of outbreaks of previously unknown diseases and the appearance of novel arthropods ie ‘Insect Allies’. The WIV was chosen as the patsy in this long planned and intricate bio-warfare attack by the USA.

  17. ariadna says:
    @dogbumbreath

    “the PCR test they created is largely worthless ”

    Not true. I recall it was proved to be effective in diagnosing COVID 19 in a piece of mango. Or was it papaya?

    • Disagree: Folkvangr
    • LOL: dogbumbreath
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  18. @Curmudgeon

    Are you shadow boxing?

    Another way to look at your position is that the science issues are coming into focus for you because you are getting the history (big picture) right!

    “Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.
    Bertrand Russell, “The Impact Of Science on Society”, 1953

  19. Sparkon says:

    Dr. Barrett wrote:

    I had repeatedly cited evidence that COVID was obviously a lab-made bioweapon rather than a naturally occurring disease, including early interviews with Dr. Meryl Nass in which she exposed the primary purveyors of the “natural origins” myth, who turned out to be notorious biowar criminals and “usual suspects.”

    From that link (“Ron Unz and Other Truth-Seekers to Explore Corona Bioweapon Hypothesis This Sunday”)…

    Boyle’s view was recently supported by a new study led by vaccine researcher Nikolai Petrovsky of Flinders University in Australia […] There is only one plausible mechanism by which the virus could have existed in human cells long enough to become so perfectly specialized: It must have been introduced into human cell cultures in a laboratory. Germ warfare scientists would have taken a bat coronavirus, put it into cultured human cells, and run it through many generations, selectively breeding the virus to get better and better at binding with human cell receptors.

    I’m sorry Dr. Barrett, but the bit I’ve put in bold is a flight of logic. First, let’s establish the general rule with coronaviruses:

    Because of their ability to recombine, mutate, and infect multiple species and cell types, coronaviruses keep emerging and evolving,

    There is long standing evidence going back at least 10 years that SARS-CoV-like viruses had been infecting villagers living near bat caves in China’s Yunnan province with mild or asymptomatic infections dating back to 2013, if not earlier, proving there has been ample opportunity for SARS-CoV-like viruses to mutate and adapt in humans to forms capable of more readily infecting humans.

    In 2013, diverse SARS-like-CoVs were discovered in a single colony of Rhinolophus sinicus in Yunnan Province (China). The colony contained CoVs with all genetic diversity encountered in other locations in China, and the viral strains presented all genetic elements needed to form SARS-CoV.
    […]
    Furthermore, two additional isolates were identified in the Yunnan province (China): isolated from a single fecal sample of Rhinolophus sinicus, and RaTG13 from fecal samples of Rhinolophus affinis. Further testing by infection of HeLa cells expressing humans, civet cats, and Chinese horseshoe bats ACE2 receptors, confirmed that these isolates could use them as cell entry mechanisms. Cell susceptibility testing using different cell lines further indicated that WIV16 had the same host range as WIV125,27. The ability of these strains to use ACE2 as entry receptors argued against the necessity for them of an intermediate host to reach humans. This hypothesis was further supported by serological studies on human subjects who had previously been in contact with bats.[..]

    Conclusions

    The timeline of the origin and development of the present pandemic that emerges from the data and the discussions above is a suitable way to conclude the contribution… It shows that the COVID-19 disease was present in China—and also in Europe—well in advance of its sudden explosion in Wuhan at the beginning of this year. Nevertheless, the disease had remained in a dormant state because the other factor which was essential for its vigorous awakening, the local amplification effect, was absent. In hindsight, it could be speculated that it was a matter of time: sooner or later, the explosion was bound to happen.

    [my bold]

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7513903/

    However, considering that these individuals have a high chance of direct exposure to bat secretion in their villages, this study further supports the notion that some bat SARSr-CoVs are able to directly infect humans without intermediate hosts, as suggested by receptor entry and animal infection studies

    Serological Evidence of Bat SARS-Related Coronavirus Infection in Humans, China

    At some point, one or more of these infected but asymptomatic villagers traveled to Wuhan.

    There’s your ABC, Dr. Barrett.

    • Replies: @bjondo
  20. @ariadna

    Not true. I recall it was proved to be effective in diagnosing COVID 19 in a piece of mango. Or was it papaya?

    Tanzania’s divisive president John Magufuli tested animals and fruit. He disobeyed WHO/WEF clowns and guess what happened months later:

    https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20210318-tanzania-mourns-mysterious-death-of-divisive-president-john-magufuli

    • Replies: @ariadna
  21. bjondo [AKA "wormssnakesbrain"] says:
    @Sparkon

    Read only a sentence or 2. Did you say something
    about Covid having HIV inserted – unnaturally?

  22. ardvark says:
    @Socratesjr

    You have uncovered a slender thread of the ongoing “Question” . It is a huge story needing exposure.

  23. ariadna says:
    @dogbumbreath

    Yes, unfortunately true

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  24. I linked to the video below elsewhere at unzdotcom, but it certainly is germane to the discussion here.

    In the 24 minute video David Martin addresses a peer-reviewed paper written in 2015 and published in 2016. The paper reveals that a Covid gain-of-function virus was developed in a lab at U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with the involvement of Ralph Baric. Fauci approved the research even though it was illegal at the time.


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  25. Folkvangr says:
    @ariadna

    Someone forgot to take their medication today. Or missed her weekly appointment with her psychiatrist. Or burned her last frozen pizza. It happens.

  26. Anonymous[289] • Disclaimer says:

    Funny how in the that ABC blowjob I mean interview Fauci got, that sniveling worm Karl never asked him the 6 million dollar question:

    What is the difference between gain-of-function and banned biological weapons development?

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