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Ron Unz discusses his new articles “Israeli Assassinations and Public Scrutiny” and “After Four Years and Thirty Million Deaths.” The former reflects on the hidden history of Israel’s outrageously bad behavior, some of which is now becoming better known in the wake of the accelerated genocide of Gaza, while the latter summarizes and updates Ron’s work on COVID, including his groundbreaking articles arguing that the pandemic emerged from a US bio-attack on China and Iran.

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The best way to think about it is there are really three reasonable hypotheses. The covid virus could be a natural virus. It could be a Chinese virus. Or it could be an American virus. And the problem is the entire debate, virtually 99% of the debate in the media, even more than that, has been between options one and two, a natural virus or a Chinese virus that came from the Wuhan lab. And therefore, in a sense, both of the competing camps have sometimes been talking past each other.

Most of the individuals, most of the groups that advocate a natural virus, focus on the fact that there’s very little evidence of any lab leak in the Wuhan lab. There’s really quite a lot of evidence that the virus did not come from the Wuhan lab. And so they say that proves the virus must be a natural virus.

On the other hand, the advocates of the Wuhan lab leak theory focus almost entirely on the very strong evidence that the virus was bioengineered, that it was produced in a laboratory somewhere. And by default, they assume it must have been the Wuhan lab. While on the other hand, they seem to focus very little on any evidence that the virus came from the lab.

The single best eyewitness we have from the Wuhan lab, Danielle Anderson, an experienced virologist who was working at the lab at that point in time, says there’s absolutely no evidence, no hints from the people she was working with, that any sort of lab leak had occurred, or any indications that they were working on that type of virus.

So there really isn’t any evidence for a lab leak while there’s overwhelming evidence that the virus was bioengineered. And that by a vector sum, I think, leads one to the third option, which is that the virus was the result of an American bio-warfare attack against China and Iran.

There’s a lot of other evidence besides. For example, the fact that the two earliest outbreaks in the world, the two epicenters, were China and Iran, the two countries that America was most hostile towards. The fact that in the Crimson Contagion exercise, America’s chief biowarfare advocate, Robert Kadlec, spent eight months in a major federal-state training exercise on how to prepare America. for the appearance of a COVID-like virus in China if it spread to the United States. And that exercise was concluded just a couple of months before the virus suddenly appeared in Wuhan.

Or for example, the fact that the Defense Intelligence Agency produced a secret report in November 2019 saying that there was a potentially cataclysmic disease outbreak taking place in the city of Wuhan before there was any outbreak in the city of Wuhan.

So, with all that evidence, none of it is basically known by most of the individuals who debate the COVID origins hypothesis on either side of the scale. And so if those facts simply became more widely known, (the case for) the virus having been produced in an American laboratory and then used in a biowarfare attack against China would simply be overwhelming.

So my piece was really a long piece, but it was almost entirely recapitulation. of the arguments I’ve been making over four years.

(Republished from Substack by permission of author or representative)
 
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  1. Andreas says:

    Or for example, the fact that the Defense Intelligence Agency produced a secret report in November 2019 saying that there was a potentially cataclysmic disease outbreak taking place in the city of Wuhan before there was any outbreak in the city of Wuhan.

    The DIA was doing its job.

    It is confounding that this is continually cited as evidence “proving” US complicity in a bio-warfare attack against China.

    It seems to imply that if the US was NOT behind the attack, that the DIA would NOT have issued such a report. This is obviously absurd because it is the duty of the DIA to report just such events. Arguments do not make a critical distinction between what the DIA would have done differently given a lab outbreak or natural origin. Wouldn’t they have issued the exact same report? So I think all that can be concluded from this report is that the DIA was doing its job. They were simply making a report based on observable evidence irrespective of origin.

    The infamous ABC news article in which this first appeared – one that I have read countless times – had one and only one intent, and that was to smear the Trump administration by making it appear as though it hadn’t responded quickly enough to the outbreak despite the DIA report.

    However, in spite of this, I think that in retrospect, the circumstantial evidence that the US was indeed behind this disease outbreak has increased markedly.

    – Covid is no deadlier than the ordinary flu.
    – Excess deaths were due to Covid being a novel event.
    – Creators/planners would have thus known Covid’s actual lethality.
    – Simulations would have been correspondingly more realistic.
    – The “ruling class” has empirically shown that it will do anything to protect its interests.
    – Turn against and sacrifice their own people.
    – Aid and abet egregious war crimes.
    – Aid and abet outright genocide.
    – The “ruling class” has complete and total control over the MSM.
    – Within such a context, blowback therefore becomes an acceptable risk.
    – Mostly elderly and infirm will be affected.
    – Blowback can also be leveraged in at least two ways.
    – Indefinite revenue stream for Big Pharma.
    – Mass social conditioning experiment.

    Had things gotten truly out of hand – e.g. social panic or economic catastrophe – they could have gotten things back under control almost overnight by replacing Big Pharma shill Dr. Fauci with an authentic voice of reason to announce to the world what they had known all along.

    So the original criticism that the planners of this outbreak would not have been so crazy as to risk unmitigated blowback weakens considerable, especially with a potential triple-play payoff: destruction of China’s economy, sustainability of corporate profits and absolute social control. With these things in consideration, it now becomes entirely plausible that the Globalist/Zionist-controlled Deep State was indeed behind this attack.

  2. Mr. Unz does exemplary work. He is one of my top go-to sources for true information, both historical and current. His strength is that he carefully researches and digests actual facts and separates those – to the extent possible – from the ongoing narratives and propaganda. But I find it sad that he puts on blinders on the “vaccine” issue. The Covid origin is almost certainly intrinsically entwined with the “vaccines,” with evidence that both were apparently preplanned and intended to work together. Yes, that evidence is circumstantial, so maybe Mr. Unz can get a pass for rejecting. But at a minimum, I look forward to the day when he will address known factual “vaccine” mortality and morbidity and show how that stacks up to the government-controlled narrative. And then perhaps conjecture on motive(s) as he has done with the Covid origin issue.

  3. Notsofast says:

    list of coincidences that need to be ignored, in order to believe to believe the offical government narrative:

    1. the 2015 patent ralph baric, working for fauci’s nih and darpa received for inserting a dangerous bat spike protein complex from a bat virus (that was next to impossible to transmit to humans, unless your harvesting bat guano) and transplanting it into an existing corona virus (that is easily transmitted).

    2. the transfer of gain of function research, used in acquiring said patent to wuhan, while it was banned in the u.s., in 2014.

    3. the 2017 nih lifting of the ban on gain of function research, while the hhs was between directors.

    4. fauci’s 2017 tweet confidently stating there would be a major pandemic during the trump administration.

    5. robert kadlec, being appointed assistant secretary of hhs for preparedness and response, in august 2017.

    6. kadlec’s jan 2019, operation crimson contagion (i’m surprised they didn’t call it operation mask of the red death).

    7. ft. detrick bioweapons labs being shut down in july 2019, due to “failing a safety inspections”.

    8. event 201, in oct of 2019, a table top role playing game, contemplating a novel corona virus outbreak in the u.s. and worldwide, concluding that we were the most prepared county in the world (well we should be concidering we planned the whole thing).

    9. the wuhan military games (in which the u.s. pretended to participate) were in november.

    10. the first reported outbreak in china two weeks later, perfectly coinciding with the incubation period of covid.

    11. kadlec being placed in charge of operation warp speed (now wait a minute i thought he was in charge of operation mask of the red death? oh yeah, it’s really the same thing, as the “vaccine” is the same as the disease (surprised they didn’t call it “operation angry ferengi”)).

    if you or any of your family members, believe these events to be unrelated, you may be suffering advanced coincidence theorist syndrome, or acts, because if it acts like an idiot, thinks like an idiot and talks like an idiot, you may well be heading into a state of terminal idiocy and should seek immediate cognitive attention.

  4. Andreas says:

    if you or any of your family members, believe these events to be unrelated, you may be suffering advanced coincidence theorist syndrome, or acts, because if it acts like an idiot, thinks like an idiot and talks like an idiot, you may well be heading into a state of terminal idiocy and should seek immediate cognitive attention.

    We stupidly stumbled from one coincidence to another despite the best efforts of our benevolent and altruistic leaders to protect us from disinformation and keep us secure from those who hate our freedoms.

    Had we just listened to the MSM instead of trying to think for ourselves all of this would have made sense, and we could have saved ourselves a lot of worry and anxiety.

  5. Chebyshev says:

    That was a great segue from RFK Junior’s possible fear of being assassinated by a Palestinian patsy to Israel’s long history of assassinations and terror attacks.

  6. mongrelito [AKA "orack"] says:

    It is somehow surprising that Ron Unz who believes that 9/11 was partly perpetrated by Jews or Mossad, which is viewed as conspiracy theory by many keeps thinking that there was a “virus”, that SARS-Cov-2 / “covid” despite the evidence that it has never been isolated, therefore never proven to exist.

    Despite the global mega campaign to try to prove the world population that a killer virus was there, and the extreme totalitarian abuses worldwide to impose this absurd narrative (and even more absurd, isolation, house arrest, maniac hand washing, masks, and fake & deadly “vaccines”)…

    When we look back at what happened from 2020 on, we can only recognize a vast psyops on a global scale.

    The US didn’t need to launch a bio-weapon on China, China and the US and most other WHO/UN members (and WEF puppet cabinets) worked together towards the same end, a global coup to launch their ‘new world order’.

    The people who would have launched a bio-weapon also have children and couldn’t take the risk to have them killed, this is why even if they launched a bio-weapon, it was not the killer bug they pretend it was.

    On the other hand, the mRNA poison they wanted to forcefully inject in all the populations is a bio-weapon, has killed and harmed millions and keep doing so.

    The only mortality peaks from this fake “pandemic” come from the fascist measures taken to muzzle, isolate and oppress people, the economic destruction and the “vaccines”.

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