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Hybrid War 2.0 on China, a bipartisan U.S. operation, is already reaching fever pitch. Its 24/7 full spectrum infowar arm blames China for everything coronavirus-related – doubling as a diversionist tactic against any informed criticism of woeful American unpreparedness.

Hysteria predictably reigns. And this is just the beginning.

A deluge of lawsuits is imminent – such as the one in the Southern District of Florida entered by Berman Law Group (linked to the Democrats) and Lucas-Compton (linked to the Republicans). In a nutshell: China has to shell out tons of cash. To the tune of at least $1.2 trillion, which happens to be – by surrealist irony – the amount of U.S. Treasury bills held by Beijing, all the way to $20 trillion, claimed by a lawsuit in Texas.

The prosecution’s case, as Scott Ritter memorably reminded us, is straight out of Monty Python. It works exactly like this:

“If she weighs the same as a duck…

…she’s made of wood!”

“And therefore…”

“A witch!!!!!”

In Hybrid War 2.0 terms, the current CIA-style narrative translates as evil China never telling us, the civilized West, there was a terrible new virus around. If they did, we would have had time to prepare.

And yet they lied and cheated – by the way, trademark CIA traits, according to Mike “We Lie, We Cheat, We Steal” Pompeo himself. And they hid everything. And they censored the truth. So they wanted to infect us all. Now they have to pay for all the economic and financial damage we are suffering, and for all our dead people. It’s China’s fault.

All this sound and fury forces us to refocus back to late 2019 to check out what U.S. intel really knew then about what would later be identified as Sars-Cov-2.

“No such product exists”

The gold standard remains the ABC News report according to which intel collected in November 2019 by the National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), a subsidiary of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), was already warning about a new virulent contagion getting out of hand in Wuhan, based on “detailed analysis of intercepted communications and satellite imagery”.

An unnamed source told ABC, “analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event”, adding the intel was “briefed multiple times” to the DIA, the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, and even the White House.

No wonder the Pentagon was forced to issue the proverbial denial – in Pentagonese, via one Col. R. Shane Day, the director of the DIA’s NCMI: “In the interest of transparency during this current public health crisis, we can confirm that media reporting about the existence/release of a National Center for Medical Intelligence Coronavirus-related product/assessment in November of 2019 is not correct. No such NCMI product exists.”

Well, if such “product” existed, Pentagon head and former Raytheon lobbyist Mark Esper would be very much in the loop. He was duly questioned about it by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

Question: “Did the Pentagon receive an intelligence assessment on COVID in China last November from the National Center for Medical Intelligence of DIA?”

Esper: “Oh, I can’t recall, George,” (…) “But, we have many people who watch this closely.”

Question: “This assessment was done in November, and it was briefed to the NSC in early December to assess the impact on military readiness, which, of course, would make it important to you, and the possible spread in the United States. So, you would have known if there was a brief to the National Security Council in December, wouldn’t you?”

Esper: “Yes (…) “I’m not aware of that.”

So “no such product exists” then? Is it a fake? Is it a Deep State/CIA concoction to trap Trump? Or are the usual suspects lying, trademark CIA style?

Let’s review some essential background. On November 12, a married couple from Inner Mongolia was admitted to a Beijing hospital, seeking treatment for pneumonic plague.

The Chinese CDC, on Weibo – the Chinese Twitter – told public opinion that the chances of this being a new plague were “extremely low.” The couple was quarantined.

Four days later, a third case of pneumonic plague was identified: a man also from Inner Mongolia, not related to the couple. Twenty-eight people who were in close contact with the man were quarantined. None had plague symptoms. Pneumonic plague has symptoms of respiratory failure similar to pneumonia.

Even though the CDC repeated, “there is no need to worry about the risk of infection”, of course there was plenty of skepticism. The CDC may have publicly confirmed on November 12 these cases of pneumonic plague. But then Li Jifeng, a doctor at Chaoyang Hospital where the trio from Inner Mongolia was receiving treatment, published, privately, on WeChat, that they were first transported to Beijing actually on November 3.

The key point of Li Jinfeng’s post – later removed by censors – was when she wrote, “I am very familiar with diagnosing and treating the majority of respiratory diseases (…) But this time, I kept on looking but could not figure out what pathogen caused the pneumonia. I only thought it was a rare condition and did not get much information other than the patients’ history.”

Even if that was the case, the key point is that the three Inner Mongolian cases seem to have been caused by a detectable bacteria. Covid-19 is caused by the Sars-Cov-2 virus, not a bacteria. The first Sars-Covid-2 case was only detected in Wuhan in mid to late December. And it was only last month that Chinese scientists were able to positively trace back the first real case of Sars-Cov-2 to November 17 – a few days after the Inner Mongolian trio.

Knowing exactly where to look

It’s out of the question that U.S. intel, in this case the NCMI, was unaware of these developments in China, considering CIA spying and the fact these discussions were in the open on Weibo and WeChat. So if the NCMI “product” is not a fake and really exists, it only found evidence, still in November, of some vague instances of pneumonic plague.

Thus the warning – to the DIA, the Pentagon, the National Security Council, and even the White House – was about that. It could not possibly have been about coronavirus.

The burning question is inevitable: how could the NCMI possibly know all about a viral pandemic, still in November, when Chinese doctors positively identified the first cases of a new type of pneumonia only on December 26?

Add to it the intriguing question of why the NCMI was so interested in this particular flu season in China in the first place – from plague cases treated in Beijing to the first signs of a “mysterious pneumonia outbreak” in Wuhan.

There may have been subtle hints of slightly increased activity at clinics in Wuhan in late November and early December. But at the time nobody – Chinese doctors, the government, not to mention U.S. intel – could have possibly known what was really happening.

China could not be “covering up” what was only identified as a new disease on December 30, duly communicated to the WHO. Then, on January 3, the head of the American CDC, Robert Redfield, called the top Chinese CDC official. Chinese doctors sequenced the virus. And only on January 8 it was determined this was Sars-Cov-2 – which provokes Covid-19.

This chain of events reopens, once again, a mighty Pandora’s box. We have the quite timely Event 201; the cozy relationship between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the WHO, as well as the Word Economic Forum and the Johns Hopkins galaxy in Baltimore, including the Bloomberg School of Public Health; the ID2020 digital ID/vaccine combo; Dark Winter – which simulated a smallpox bio-attack on the U.S., before the 2001 anthrax attack being blamed on Iraq; U.S. Senators dumping stocks after a CDC briefing; more than 1,300 CEOs abandoning their cushy perches in 2019, “forecasting” total market collapse; the Fed pouring helicopter money already in September 2019 – as part of QE4.

And then, validating the ABC News report, Israel steps in. Israeli intel confirms U.S. intel did in fact warn them in November about a potentially catastrophic pandemic in Wuhan (once again: how could they possibly know that on the second week of November, so early in the game?) And NATO allies were warned – in November – as well.

The bottom line is explosive: the Trump administration as well as the CDC had an advance warning of no less than four months – from November to March – to be properly prepared for Covid-19 hitting the U.S. And they did nothing. The whole “China is a witch!” case is debunked.

Moreover, the Israeli disclosure supports what’s nothing less than extraordinary: U.S. intel already knew about Sars-Cov-2 roughly one month before the first confirmed cases detected by doctors in a Wuhan hospital. Talk about divine intervention.

That could only have happened if U.S. intel knew, for sure, about a previous chain of events that would necessarily lead to the “mysterious outbreak” in Wuhan. And not only that: they knew exactly where to look. Not in Inner Mongolia, not in Beijing, not in Guangdong province.

It’s never enough to repeat the question in full: how could U.S. intel have known about a contagion one month before Chinese doctors detected an unknown virus?

Mike “We Lie, We Cheat, We Steal” Pompeo may have given away the game when he said, on the record, that Covid-19 was a “live exercise”. Adding to the ABC News and Israeli reports, the only possible, logical conclusion is that the Pentagon – and the CIA – knew ahead of time a pandemic would be inevitable.

That’s the smokin’ gun. And now the full weight of the United States government is covering all bases by proactively, and retroactively, blaming China.

(Republished from Strategic Culture Foundation)

Here’s where to sign it

A petition to investigate Bill Gates for “crimes against humanity” and “medical malpractice” has gained a staggering 289,000 signatures from concerned citizens, almost tripling the number required to get a response from the White House. Because the petition is only ten days old, it may hit half a million signatures.

The “We the People” petition < —- which can be signed by going to that site — asks the federal government to call on Congress to investigate the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, stating that “Congress and all other governing bodies are derelict in duty until a thorough and public inquiry is complete.“

The petition created on April 10 reached the threshold of 100,000 signatures within days and is currently one of the most popular petitions on the site.

This petition comes as change.org eliminated a similar petition for the UK.

As the White House’s “We the People” website explains, the petition platform empowers every American citizen “to become an agent of change” – and, if a petition gains 100,000 signatures in 30 days, the White House will “make sure it gets in front of the appropriate policy experts”.

“We the People is a platform that empowers the American public to take this action like never before – it’s a way for anybody, anywhere, to speak directly to the government and become an agent for change.

“With We the People, you can easily create a petition online, share it, and collect signatures. If you gather 100,000 signature in 30 days, we’ll review your petition, make sure it gets in front of the appropriate policy experts, and issue an official response.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, has also sharply criticized Gates for what he describes as a “messianic conviction that he is ordained to save the world with technology.”

“Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global vac ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control over global health policy—the spear tip of corporate neo-imperialism,” Kennedy Jr. wrote.

“Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems fueled by a messianic conviction that he is ordained to save the world with technology and a god-like willingness to experiment with the lives of lesser humans.”

Full petition:

We Call For Investigations Into The “Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation” For Medical Malpractice & Crimes Against Humanity Created by C.S. on April 10, 2020

As we look at events surrounding the “COVID-19 pandemic,” various questions remain unanswered. On Oct. 18th of 2019, only weeks prior to ground zero being declared in Wuhan, China, two major events took place. One is “Event 201,” the other is the “Military World Games,” held in none other than Wuhan. Since then a worldwide push for vaccines & biometric tracking has been initiated.

At the forefront of this is Bill Gates, who has publicly stated his interest in “reducing population growth” by 10-15%, by means of vaccination. Gates, UNICEF & WHO have already been credibly accused of intentionally sterilising Kenyan children through the use of a hidden HCG antigen in tetanus vaccines.

Congress & all other governing bodies are derelict in duty until a thorough and public inquiry is complete.

Robert F Kennedy Jr. writes on April 20th on IG:

Anyone defending Bill Gates & WHO needs to explain Morgensen et al 2017.

Prior to 2017, neither HHS nor WHO performed the kind of vaccinated/unvaxxed (or placebo) study necessary to ascertain if the DTP vaccine actually yields beneficial health outcomes. The US and western nations discontinued the DTP in the 1980s following thousands of deaths and brain injuries.

But Bill Gates and his surrogates, GAVI & WHO, made DTP a priority for their African vaccine program. Scandinavian governments, a vaccine manufacturer (SSI) and other international funders commissioned this study by the world’s leading experts on African vaccines.

The two most prominent names Drs Soren Morgensen & Peter Aaby are both vocal vaccine supporters. They were shocked when they examined years of data from a so-called “natural experiment” in Guinea Bissau where 50% of children die before age 5. In that nation half the children were vaccinated with the DTP vaccine at 3 months & the other half at 6 mos.

The division was randomized. Dr Morgenson & his team found that girls vaccinated with the DTP vaccine—the flagship of Bill Gates’ GAVI/WHO program—died at 10x the rate of unvaccinated kids. While the vaccinated children were protected from Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis, they were far more susceptible to other deadly diseases than unvaxxed peers.

DTP apparently ruined their immune systems. Thanks to Gates, DTP is the world’s most popular vaccine. In Africa, GAVI & WHO use DTP to gauge national vaccine compliance. WHO can financially punish nations that don’t comply. The Scandinavian scientists publicly begged WHO to reconsider its practice of bullying Africans into taking DTP.

WHO refused.

The researchers suggested that DTP is killing more children than the diseases it targets. Perhaps millions of children have died unnecessarily. The NY Times & other Gates boosters will accuse me of promoting “vaccine misinformation.” But this is a peer-reviewed publication in a respected journal by leading scientists describing outcomes akin to genocide. The Times has elsewhere cited the study as reliable. Should we be scrutinizing Bill Gates’ record in Africa before we let him dictate American health policies?

Dec 25-26 The weird pneumonia with the opaque ground glass imaging on the lung X-rays shows up … Dec 31 the WHO is informed of possible infectious outbreak.

Jan 3 leader of China’s CDC confers with America’s head of CDC.

Jan 4-5 WHO makes public information of cluster of pneumonias in Wuhan

Jan 12 genetic sequence of the virus released

Jan 14 announce that human to human transmission might occur, but no evidence yet

Jan 21 announce that human to human transmission is now proven

By January 23 Congressional leaders have been briefed on possible pandemic and researchers at John Hopkins release paper describing a “fat-tailed” pandemic as imminent.

Authored by Egon von Greyerz via GoldSwitzerland.com,

A Hyperinflationary Depression has always been the inevitable end to the biggest financial bubble in history. And this time it will be global. Hyperinflation will spread from country to country like Coronavirus. It could start anywhere but the most likely first countries are the US and the EU or ED (European Disunion). They will quickly be followed by many more like Japan and most developing countries. Like CV it will quickly jump from country to country with very few being spared.

CURRENT INTEREST RATES ARE A FALSE INDICATOR

Ever since the last interest cycle peaked in 1981, there has been a 39 year downtrend in US and global rates from almost 20% to 0%. Since in a free market interest rates are a function of the demand for credit, this long downtrend points to a severe recession in the US and the rest of the world. The simple rules of supply and demand tell us that when the price of money is zero, nobody wants it. But instead debt has grown exponentially without putting any upside pressure on rates. The reason is simple. Central and commercial banks have created limitless amounts of credit out of thin air. In a fractional banking system banks can lend the same money 10 to 50 times. And central banks can just print infinite amounts.

Global debt in 1981 was $14 trillion. One would have assumed that with interest rates crashing there would not have been a major demand for debt. High demand would have led to high interest rates. But if we look at global debt in 2020 it is a staggering $265 trillion. So debt has gone up 19X in the last 39 years and cost of debt has gone from 20% to 0% – Hmmm!

CORONAVIRUS IS THE CATALYST BUT NOT THE CAUSE

The crisis that the world is now encountering has not been caused by the Coronavirus. As I have stressed in many articles recently, CV is just the catalyst, albeit the most vicious one which could have hit the world. The real cause of the Greatest Financial Crisis in history is the Central Banks. They have been pouring fuel on the fire for 50 years by continuously reducing the cost of money until it became free in 2008 when rates were reduced to ZERO. Since then we have also seen negative rates around the world.

Negative rates are not just a total paradox but also absolute lunacy. Bankrupt sovereign nations around the world have been issuing debt at no cost or have even been paid for it. The whole purpose of interest is to be paid for the risk of lending money. As governments around the world have issued virtually unlimited debt which will never be repaid, the risk of lending to them has increased exponentially. But instead of much higher rates, to reflect the massive increase in debt plus severely elevated risk, central banks have got away with defying the laws of nature buy falsely manipulating rates.

FALSE MARKETS WITH NO REAL PRICES

Money is a commodity and the price should be a direct function of risk plus supply and demand. But since we currently have a false financial system with fake money and false markets, there are no real prices. So through constant manipulation and intervention central banks together with a few accomplices can totally rig most markets and prices.

Therefore, the cost of money today neither reflects the risk nor the demand. All it represents is malicious manipulation to serve governments and their masters the central bankers. But like all fake markets, also this one will end, not just badly but catastrophically.

THE SITUATION IS DESPERATE FOR BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS

As I discussed in last week’s article, we now have the perfect storm. Virtually every government in the world is now committing billions and trillions of dollars, euros etc in fruitless attempts to save a collapsing world economy. In many countries, 50% or more of industry is shut. Most service industries are in a total lockdown and so is aviation, transport and most small businesses. Unemployment is approaching rates not seen since the 1930s depression. All businesses need assistance, from major corporations to small firms. The majority of individuals haven’t got savings for more than a couple of weeks living and for the ones who are now becoming unemployed, the situation is desperate.

Many major US corporations need assistance from the government. Very few of these have put aside profits to reserves for a rainy day. Instead management has been too generously rewarded as well as the shareholders. Since 2009, S&P 500 companies have spent $5.4 trillion in share buybacks. Instead of asking government for assistance, management should pay back their bonuses and shareholders who have received major payouts should recapitalise the companies. But this will obviously not happen. Just like in 2006-9, profits are privatised and losses are socialised.

Businesses are haemorrhaging cash and so are individuals. All that becomes a vicious circle with bills not being paid including rents, mortgages and taxes. Estimates predict a 40-50% fall in Q2 2020 GDP in the US. The problem is that this is not a temporary crisis. This means that GDP will see permanent erosion of a major magnitude in most countries.

SECULAR DOWNTURN LEADING TO HYPERINFLATIONARY DEPRESSION

So what we are experiencing is the start of a secular downturn which soon will become a hyperinflationary depression. This was always the inevitable end to this cycle as I have discussed in many articles for over 20 years.

A crisis of this magnitude is always a debt crisis. Very soon we will see debt around the world come under enormous pressure as borrowers start defaulting. This will lead to bonds crashing and rates surging. Central banks will then lose control of interest rates as long rates first go up and soon also pulling the shorter rates up. Rates can easily go to 15-20%. Many bonds will go to zero and rates to infinity. I have previously talked about paying 21% on my first mortgage in the UK in 1974. So I have personal experience of high inflation but never hyperinflation.

Since the majority of the $1.5 quadrillion derivatives market is interest related, this market will also blow up. All this will lead to unlimited money printing and currencies crashing fast to their intrinsic value of ZERO. At that point the entire financial system will be unrecognisable and parts of it nonexistent. All of this could happen very quickly, possibly within the next 6 -18 months.

2006-9 WAS A REHEARSAL

Could my Cassandra forecast be wrong. Yes, of course it could. But let’s be clear that the rehearsal of what I am predicting took place in 2006-9. Nothing was resolved at that point, just temporarily deferred. This is now the real thing and whatever money central banks print this time will have no effect. So I doubt very much that our banker “friends” can pull another trick out of the hat again. Because the only trick they know, to print more money, can never solve a debt problem.

MARKETS

Stock markets, in their first leg down of the new secular bear market, reached a 40% loss in most countries and that in less than 4 weeks. We are now seeing a typical correction that can go a bit higher. But when that is finished which could take 1-3 weeks, the next devastating downleg will start. Anyone trying to catch this falling knife will be slaughtered.

Bond markets might hold up for a bit longer with massive central bank manipulation and money printing. Junk bonds will first start crashing and constant downgrades will turn a lot of debt to junk. Much of corporate debt will go the same way and within 6-12 months also sovereign debt will come under attack.

Property markets are a major bubble and are already starting to disintegrate. Industrial, commercial, retail and residential, no sector will be spared. There will be no buyers, no financing and many forced sellers. A perfect recipe for a collapse.

Before the secular bear market has bottomed in these three markets, prices will be down 90-100% in real terms. And real terms means in constant purchasing power like gold.

We must remember that markets will bottom long before the economy. The likely development is first a hyperinflationary depression that could come and go very quickly within the next couple of years. Thereafter we will most probably see a deflationary implosion of all assets and a collapse of most of the financial system.

But we mustn’t believe that this is the end. It is just another phase in the world economy to correct excesses of the 100 or 300 years or even 2000 years. Once debt has imploded and all asset prices have come down from current fantasy valuations, a new system will emerge built on sound values and principles. And then the cycle starts all over again.

GOLD

There are currently severe pressures in both the paper gold market and the physical market. The Comex and LBMA are making noises that everything is under control. LBMA is giving the illusion that they have plenty of gold in their vaults. But virtually all of that gold is already committed. Comex, the gold futures exchange is under tremendous pressure since they can’t deliver more than a small fraction in physical when paper holders of gold demand delivery. And that day is not far away.

The 3 biggest refiners in the world based in Ticino, Switzerland have been closed for 2 1/2 weeks, representing at least 50% of world production. The refiners have just opened this week but at a very reduced capacity of 25-33%.

If we just take the Gold ETFs as an example, they increased their holdings by 93 tonnes in the last 4 weeks. That represents a total value of $5 billion

It is today virtually impossible to get hold of physical gold so you wonder where the ETFs have bought their gold.

The answer is of course simple. It was lent to them by LBMA banks which are custodians for the biggest gold ETF GLD. These banks also hold central bank gold and all they need to do is to lend the same gold yet one more time to the ETFs. So if you hold a gold ETF, which you mustn’t, you know that it is unlikely to be backed by gold for more than a small portion of the fund total.

In a world where prices of most assets are about to implode, gold is life insurance and virtually the only asset that will maintain its value in real terms. Silver is also likely to do very well and will most probably outperform gold. But gold is safer and much less volatile.

As the 20 year gold chart shows above, gold is in an extremely strong uptrend. In all currencies but US dollars, gold has surpassed the 2011 highs. The gold price in dollars has just broken out and is now likely to go to $1,700 on its way to the old high of $1,920 and thereafter much, much higher.

As I have expressed before, I have been standing on a soap box for 20 years in my attempt to inform investors of the critical importance of gold for wealth preservation purposes. Fortunately many investors have listened but they still represent less than 0.5% of world financial assets. Since we started 18 years ago, gold is up 6-7X depending on the currency. That rise is insignificant compared to what is coming next.

But remember you are not holding gold to measure the gains in debased paper money. Instead you are holding physical gold as insurance against a broken financial system that is unlikely to be repaired for a very long time.

Shared by Jack Barry, H/T Marco Maddalena

April 17, 2020
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By now, the world already knows the US is desperately seeking to cover up its biological attacks against China, Iran, and Italy.
I will summarize the main points underlying this case. First, what motivates US aggression against these three states? Enter, the Wolfowitz doctrine, namely the US’ official but unstated foreign policy to crush all potential rivals in order to uphold US economic and military tyranny on earth.
America’s political and military mission in the post-cold-war era will be to ensure that no rival superpower is allowed to emerge.
Refer to the “Project for a new American century” which was written about 1 Year before 911 and the destruction of the twin towers in New York which led to the US military invasion of the Middle East.
US phase 1 trade Aggression begins.
1. US starts trade War (economic war) against China
2. US pulls out of the JCPOA nuclear deal with Iran and places crippling sanctions on Iran and its people in an effort to topple Iran’s government
3. US threatens European vassals to avoid China’s OBOR/BRI Eurasian integration project
4. US tries to crush Huawei, through unscrupulous lawfare, sanctions, and a global smear campaign.
5. US sponsors large scale violence and terrorism in Hong Kong.
RESULT
1. China defies the US regime’s one sided trade dictates.
2. Iran plans to restart nuclear program
3. Italy joins China’s OBOR/BRI project
4. Huawei defies US sabotage and purges many US components from its products.
US increases its aggression, and the depravity of its tactics used.
1. During this trade war, China suffers from a series of scorched earth tactics – African Swine Flu from a US empire bioweapons lab in Georgia. Pig farms across China are sprayed with advanced aerial drones in a highly coordinated attack that would require extremely high technological and biowarfare expertise. 50% of pigs are infected and culled. China needs to buy US pork.
Next, Avian flu is weaponized against chicken farms. A third of chickens in China are infected and culled. China needs to buy US poultry.
Next, army worms appear in 14 unrelated provinces, devastating grains/crops. China needs to buy US grains.
Next, the coronavirus bioweapon is unleashed upon Chinese civilians in Wuhan. A clear crime against humanity and an unmitigated act of war
This attack was timed right at the start of Chinese New Year in the strategically located BRI city of Wuhan, a central transportation hub that was intended to spread the virus to hundreds of millions of innocent Chinese planning on going home for the New Year.
This WMD attack was combined with a highly synchronized global media onslaught that, without evidence, blamed the coronavirus on China “eating bats”, as well as Wuhan civilian biological forensic lab that was misrepresented as being a “bioweapons” lab, etc. In other words, this entire campaign was highly coordinated and completely unnatural.
The goal from the start was to blame China and destroy China’s reputation as well as move supply chains out of China .
Wilbur Ross was on record saying the coronavirus is a “good opportunity to bring back jobs”.
Trump is on record saying that the coronavirus in Wuhan will be good for the USA.
2. US assassinates top Iranian General Qasem Solemani. The US attacks Iran with a different strain of the coronavirus that is also highly lethal.
3. The US attacks Italy with a different strain of the coronavirus that is also highly lethal.
4. US pressures TSMC to stop making chips for Huawei.
Highly suspicious events
1. National Security Advisor and infamous war criminal, John Bolton, axed the Epidemics Response Team in 2018.
2. In 2019, there was an enormous increase in “influenza” related deaths in the US that would appear to be a result of a domestic testing regime of biological agents to be deployed against China. Upon further scrutiny, the deaths appear to have actually been caused by the coronavirus, lending credence to the conclusions of both Japanese and Taiwanese researchers that the coronavirus began in the US.
3. In the summer of 2019, months before the coronavirus attack against China, the fort Detrick bioweapons lab was shut down due to numerous leaks and security breaches.
This matches up with point 1 here.
Specifically, the Epidemics Response team that was axed by Bolton was to remove oversight of the weapons lab where work had begun to launch biowarfare attacks against China, and likely suffered numerous “lapses in security”.
4. The Trump regime has now censored and classified all CDC data related to the coronavirus. His reason? “Our discussions involve CHINA” [i.e. biowarfare]
This again is likely more to do with hiding their crimes against humanity from public scrutiny.
Conclusion
There are only two logical possibilities.
1. The coronavirus weapon escaped a US bioweapons lab and spread across the US. Knowing containment was impossible, they sent infected soldiers to the Wuhan military games to spread the infection there and then used its media to blame China for the coronavirus. This would explain the totalitarian control they have placed on all coronavirus related data and information within the country.
2. The coronavirus weapon was used by the US as part of its ongoing war against China.
This is the most probable reason since all the preceding attacks “coincidentally” gave the US enormous leverage in trade negotiations, where none existed before.

‘We have to understand that the key to resolving the catastrophe of Ukraine is to be found in Washington. That’s where Nazism has to be defeated…’
– Sergei Glazyev, advisor to Russian president Vladimir Putin, speech of 10th June 2014.

A German study in one of the hardest-hit regions of the country found an infection fatality rate five times lower than the national average, researchers said.
According to The National, an English-language newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, the Heinsberg Protocol study was conducted in Gangelt, a rural town where the Heisenberg region’s first fatalities from the virus occurred.
A team of virologists, led by Hendrik Streeck of University Hospital Bonn, discovered that 15 percent of the population in the town was infected, leading his researchers to a tentative conclusion that the death rate from the disease in the population they studied was only 0.37 percent.
Germany’s case fatality rate — which is a crude number that measures the number of deaths against all people diagnosed with a condition — was 2 percent as of Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
According to Reason, the researchers also concluded that those who have had coronavirus and recover are immune to the disease, at least for a while.

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We are live and announce the first perceptions about our #COVIDー19 scientific investigation:@hendrikstreeck @ArminLaschet #heinsbergprotokoll #heinsberg #hsbestrong #coronadeutschland #COVID19de #CoronaVirusDe

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Streeck and his team warned that the findings, which were preliminary, couldn’t necessarily be extrapolated to the entirety of Germany — much less the rest of the world — but the study gave new hope that the mortality rate for coronavirus could be much lower than the range of estimates currently being postulated.
The study used antibody tests on those it examined. Researchers were “hoping to test 1,000 people in the town and to date 85 per cent of them have given their permission to be tested,” The National reported Wednesday.
An antibody test — a relatively new development in the fight against coronavirus — detects if an individual has natural antibodies created by the body to fight the virus in their blood. If detected, it obviously means the individual has already been infected.

Hendrik Streeck
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Kurzer Blick hinter die Kulissen. Unser Team, das die Studie verantwortet und ermöglicht hat.

Prof. Dr. Martin Exner, Prof. Dr. Gunther Hartmann, Landrat Stephan Pusch, @ArminLaschet, @landnrw & @UniklinikBonn #hsbestrong #heinsbergprotokoll #coronavirus #Covid_19

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“What we did was a representative study within this area where we had a high prevalence of cases already,” Streeck told CNBC.
“It got hit pretty hard by COVID-19. The surprising part [of] what we found was there were 15 percent in that population that didn’t know that they had an infection … this case fatality rate is not actually different probably in other countries, but you can assume a pretty high rate of infections that are asymptomatic.”
The researchers said they were hopeful that lockdowns could soon be lifted provided people follow basic hygienic principles.
Even before the study, it’s worth noting, the low death rate in Germany was considered an anomaly among European nations.
The New York Times‘ Katrin Bennhold, for what it’s worth, said that the primary reasons for this were “early and widespread testing and treatment, plenty of intensive care beds and a trusted government whose social distancing guidelines are widely observed.” The scientists she talked to seemed to focus on testing.
“The reason why we in Germany have so few deaths at the moment compared to the number of infected can be largely explained by the fact that we are doing an extremely large number of lab diagnoses,” Dr. Christian Drosten, a member of the team that developed the first test, told The Times.
There’s also the fact that the average age for a coronavirus patient in Germany has been significantly lower than the country’s European neighbors — 49, compared to 62.5 for France and 62 for Italy, The Times reported April 4.
Many of the early patients were skiers who caught the virus at ski resorts in Austria and Italy.
The Heinsberg Protocol study wasn’t the only potentially game-changing research to come out of Deutschland this week. Another study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, found that the United States is only catching 1.6 percent of all coronavirus cases via testing.
Overall, the study suggested that on average, countries were only identifying 6 percent of all cases. If this number is accurate, this would mean there were 26 million cases in the United States already, according to Florida Today.
“These results mean that governments and policy-makers need to exercise extreme caution when interpreting case numbers for planning purposes,” study co-author Sebastian Vollmer, professor of development economics at the University of Göttingen, said in a statement.
Both of these studies point to a significantly lower death rate from coronavirus than initially expected. If we’re missing 98.4 percent of infections, that would also change the case fatality rate significantly.
So, do 0.37 percent of people who contract coronavirus die? The answer is that we simply don’t know.
What we do know is that a number of studies have shown that initial statistics — particularly the 3.4 percent figure suggested by the World Health Organization — are very much off. This is what happens when testing is accurate and deployed more widely.
The United States is behind, thanks to a faulty initial test from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as a ban on private labs deploying their own tests.
We’re catching up, but we’ll need widespread testing for both the disease and for antibodies before there’s a semblance of normalcy.
The death rate for coronavirus is still high; even if the tentative results from the Heinsberg Protocol study are close to accurate, that’s still four times more deadly than the seasonal flu.

However, it’s also not 3.4 percent — and that’s a huge difference from our early conclusions about the coronavirus.

by Gao Lei and Liu Caiyu Source:Global Times Published: 2020/4/11

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Recent research conducted into the genetic network analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic, done jointly by British and German experts, testified the variant of novel coronavirus that is closest to that discovered in bats was actually found mainly among cases from the US, rather than in Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei Province.

To explain the pandemic origins, experts from the University of Cambridge and their peers from Germany analyzed 160 virus genomes that were extracted from human patients around the world and they found the coronavirus mutated into three distinct strains.

They found that most cases carried type A virus – the ancestral type of virus, which is bat coronavirus, with 96 percent sequence similarity to the human virus – were largely seen in patients from the US and Australia.

Once type A had been detected in Wuhan. The virus infected five individuals from Wuhan and four patients from South China’s Guangdong Province. But most cases from the Chinese mainland and East Asian regions do not carry type A virus but carried the type B virus, which is a variant of type A, the study found.

Instead, patients carrying the ancestral type of virus (type A) were largely seen coming from the US and Australia, such American patients had a residence history in Wuhan, the study found.

As for type C, it is a variant of type B, which is commonly seen in European countries such as France, Italy and Sweden and also evident in Singapore and South Korea as well as China’s Hong Kong and the island of Taiwan , the study found.

In reply to the question why the ancestral type of virus was not commonly seen in China and particularly in Wuhan, but instead the mutated type B virus, geneticist Peter Forster from the University of Cambridge, lead author of the study, told the Global Times that “type A isn’t fitting quite well with most locals’ immune systems in Wuhan” but has “become adapted to American and Australian immune systems.”

The prevalence of variant type B virus in Wuhan may also result from a “founder effect,” Forster said.

The study was published in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

To trace the pandemic origins, apart from the paper that was published on the PNAS, Forster told the Global Times that they also finished an analysis of 1,001 genomes, which is still unpublished.

Forster said he understands the topic of the viral origin is a “hot potato” after the political dispute between China and the US, but neither the PNAS paper nor the unpublished paper could offer a clear explanation for it.

But their study has evidence that the virus mutation rate is significantly faster outside China and the spread of the disease among humans likely occurred between September 13, 2019 to December 7, 2019.

The Ebola Virus hit West Africa with a peak in the autumn of 2014. A Liberian doctor named Gorbee Logan tried as a last resort the HIV- medicine Lamivudine that is a reverse transcriptase inhibitor since no therapy used until then had showed any effect.

 

Doctor Gorbee Logan
To his pleasant surprise, it worked on 13 of a total of 13 patients that were treatable and not moribund when they presented themselves. But the Ebola virus should not have been defeated by a drug that blocks an enzyme that it should not have according to for instance Wikipedia.

There it is classified as a RNA-virus and not a retrovirus. Such a change of a virus metabolism cannot happen spontaneously. It has been made in the laboratory by splicing the genes that provides for replication in the HIV-virus into the Ebola-virus.

Conclusion:

 

A technique has been developed to transfer retrovirus functionality to a RNA-virus (Ebola virus in the year 2014 West Africa case). A retrovirus has the ability to copy its genetic material into the host cell DNA as a blueprint (sequence of nucleotide bases). When the retrovirus exists only as a blueprint, the body’s immune-system will not detect it or get rid of it. Later the physical virus will reappear from the hosts DNA (it is transcribed with a human enzyme).

 

This is how the infection starts all over again in the human who once was infected with the retrovirus. The HIV virus (and hepatitis B) is the only retrovirus that affects humans. So if you plan to make killer/exterminationalist virus then genes coding for retroviral functionality are the genes to include in your designer virus.

 

There is strongî evidence that this transfer rerovirus functionality also has been performed on the COVID-19 virus.

 

Please see the Tamaida Shimera blog: google “Tamaida Shimera” for the evidence.

 

There is a cure reverse transcriptase inhibitor (RTI) !

Please see the Tamaida Shimera blog: google “Tamaida Shimera” 

 

A little background information

The first retrovirus was found in sheep in Iceland. The virus, Visna-virus produced a disease called Visna and it caused the Sheep to waste/wizen and die typically after a couple of years. An Icelandic doctor, Bjoern Sigurdsson, who got funding from the Rockefeller foundation, isolated the virus. After Dr. Sigurdsson died at the young age of 46, American scientists continued the further research on retroviruses in American laboratories. The HIV virus is essentially a Visna-virus modified to infect humans. See link https://telegra.ph/Tamaida-Shimeras-blog-on-Coronavirus-Retrovirus-What-is-it-03-10

This is posted on the basis of the fair use rule. Please see the links below especially https://telegra.ph/Tamaida-Shimeras-blog-on-corona-virus-COVID-19-03-02 for more comprehensive information/documentation

By Drago Bosnic
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In the worst cases of COVID-19, the virus not only attacks and destroys tissue in the lungs but also triggers an overreaction of the immune system, creating dangerous levels of inflammation. Many of these patients are left unable to breathe on their own, and some die in a hospital intensive care units, or at home.
For others with milder COVID-19 cases, a hospital stay might end without the need for artificial ventilation, and they go home after being treated for pneumonia. Many more are riding out this illness at home, in bed with fevers, striving to isolate themselves from the rest of their household. Still more people — perhaps between 25 and 50 percent of all infected — feel no COVID-19 symptoms at all.

This huge range of severity of COVID-19 cases is part of what makes it such a horrific health crisis. The mild or asymptomatic cases can spread the disease to the most vulnerable, who may suffer greatly and, in some cases, even die. Because COVID-19 is such a new disease, much still needs to be learned about it. Among the top questions:

“What leads one person with the virus to severe disease, and another to have no or few symptoms?”

There are a few clear risk factors, including age and underlying medical conditions. But among younger healthy people, the risk factors aren’t known.

“A lot of young patients without comorbidities are getting very sick, and we wish we knew who was going to deteriorate,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, chief of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard, told reporters last week. “We do know it happens precipitously. One day they’re okay, the next day they require intubation. [It’s] one of scariest parts of this disease.”

Potential risk factors need a lot more research: Are there some genetic variations that make one person more susceptible than another? And why are men dying in higher numbers than women? Here’s what we know so far about risks for the worst forms of COVID-19 — and what we ought to learn.

The “infection enigma”

While the most severe COVID-19 cases are concerning, it’s actually not unusual to have a big range. Doctors routinely see the same virus wreak havoc on one person and leave another unharmed.

“What we’re seeing here is the same for tuberculosis, malaria, all infectious disease of humankind,” says Dr. Jean-Laurent Casanova, a pediatrician who studies the genetics of disease severity. “Some people control the infectious agent very well, others die, and there’s everything in between. It’s what we call the infection enigma.”

What’s frustrating, he explains, is that the answer to the enigma may be different for each illness. The biological pathways that lead to severe disease for one virus might not be the same pathways that lead to severe disease with another virus. Each infection requires its own investigation.

Individual differences in immune response could lead one person to severe disease and another one to be fine. .Scientists already have some hypotheses to test, and some leads to follow, in answering the infection enigma of COVID-19. For one, it’s thought that some of the difference between mild COVID-19 and severe cases may have to do with how the person’s immune system reacts (or overreacts) to the virus.

After an infection sets in, the immune system rallies to create antibodies — proteins that hunt down and kill foreign invaders like viruses in our bodies.

In some cases, “those antibodies can also backfire,” Akiko Iwasaki, a Yale immunobiologist, says. Some antibodies bind to the virus, she explains, and instead of blocking the virus, they’re taken up by white blood cells. Those white blood cells then go haywire, producing molecules called cytokines. These are the chemicals that, among other things, promote inflammation throughout the body. “And that ultimately makes the disease as bad as it is,” she says.

It’s unclear why a “cytokine storm,” as this reaction is called, might impact one person severely and not occur at all in another. Thankfully, though, doctors do have some insights into how to treat this overreaction. It’s possible sex differences play a role too. In the United States, and around the world, it appears COVID-19 is killing more men than women. The reason isn’t completely understood.

Men could have more underlying health risk factors than women. They could also be engaging in more risky behaviors (perhaps greater rates of smoking and drinking alcohol among men are in play.) There’s also evidence women may have a stronger immune response than men (and are also more at risk for autoimmune diseases because of it), as the Washington Post explains. We just need more research here.

Scientists will soon start to search for genetic clues, too, that might signal a person is more at risk than another. In Casanova’s lab, he and his team look for single genetic changes that cause one person to get sicker with an infection than another.

Herpes, for example, is a common infection that many people don’t even know they have, but in rare cases, it can lead to encephalitis (swelling of the brain). Casanova and colleagues have found genetic mutations that make brain cells more prone to herpes infections, he says. So if you have these mutations, “the virus replicates in the brain,” he says. “Whereas if you don’t, your neurons your brain remains protected.”

This genetic detective work has already begun for COVID-19. Casanova’s lab has been collecting genetic data on the few people under the age of 50 without underlying conditions in the ICU to see if there are any genes that might explain the course their illness took in them.

He stresses that his approach is not guaranteed to find quick answers. “It may be three weeks, three months, three years, or 30 years, I don’t know,” he says.

Many things are not guaranteed here. It’s also possible that the genetics that underlie severe disease in an otherwise healthy person may not necessarily play the same role in one with an underlying condition like diabetes. The results of the genetic investigations may reveal more about the biology of the disease, rather than produce a reliable genetic counseling test for COVID-19.

Other groups of scientists will also search for polygenetic (many-gene) associations between genetic variation and disease severity. These studies will help scientists understand the biology of this illness better, and could potentially be used to figure out who is most at risk.

Perhaps the amount of virus a person is exposed to makes them sicker

Scientists also wonder if the circumstances of how a person was first infected play a role in how sick they get. Data from China reveals that health care workers are getting sicker from COVID-19 than you might expect based on their age.

It’s possible these workers are being exposed to high concentrations of the virus, which may lead a person to more severe illness. “The more virus you are exposed to, the more likely you are going to replicate higher levels of virus [in the body], and that’s not going to help you cope with such an infection,” Iwasaki explains. “And, of course, if you’re a health care worker, inhaling someone coughing in your face —that’s a very high level of exposure.”

This is one scientists still need to figure out. “We don’t really know at this time if dose, or dosing route has an effect” on severity, Angela Rasmussen, a Columbia University virologist, says. “I would imagine that it probably does.”

One thing is clear: Age is a risk factor for severe disease and death

Scientists may not yet understand the genetics, and exposure factors that lead someone to severe illness, but they’re not completely in the dark when it comes to risk factors. We know COVID-19 is an illness that disproportionately impacts some groups more than others. Namely, older people are most clearly at risk.

Last week, the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases published the latest estimates of the death rate of COVID-19. The paper found that globally, the case fatality rate for those under age 60 was 1.4 percent. For those over age 60, the fatality rate jumps to 4.5 percent. The older the population, the higher the fatality rate. For those 80 and over, COVID-19 appears to have a 13.4 percent fatality rate.

In the US, the CDC reports, “overall, 31% of cases, 45% of hospitalizations, 53% of ICU admissions, and 80% of deaths associated with COVID-19” are among adults older than 65. “With the highest percentage of severe outcomes among persons aged ≥85 years.” (To note: This CDC data is compiled from February 12 to March 16, when there were just 4,226 confirmed cases in the United States.)

Why are older people more at risk? There’s no one reason. It’s believed immune function declines with age, and older people have more of the underlying conditions that also appear to be risk factors for severe COVID-19. Young people also should not feel invulnerable. There have been disturbing reports of young, otherwise healthy people falling seriously ill with COVID-19 and dying.

In New York City — which currently has the largest outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States — there have been 12 deaths of people ages 19 to 44 who had no reported underlying medical conditions as of April 7, of 3,202 deaths total. And 11 percent of more than 19,000 hospitalizations were for those ages 18 to 44 as of April 5. So we should all do our part to protect ourselves from the virus, regardless of our age.

Underlying conditions like diabetes and heart disease appear to be risk factors

This is also showing up in US hospital data reported to the CDC: Many of the sickest patients also have underlying medical conditions. Seventy-eight percent of all people put into intensive care for COVID-19 in the US have had an underlying condition like diabetes or heart disease: 32 percent had diabetes, 29 percent had heart disease, 21 percent had chronic lung disease, and 9 percent had compromised immune systems.

We know that certain communities are disproportionately affected by these chronic conditions. In Chicago, 70 percent of those who have died from COVID-19 are black, even though black people make up only 29 percent of the city’s population.

“The majority of the black COVID-19 patients who died had underlying health conditions including respiratory problems and diabetes. Eighty-one percent of them had hypertension, or high blood pressure, diabetes or both,” WBEZ in Chicago reports.

It’s also possible that exposure to air pollutants can play a role. An epidemiology team from Harvard recently reported increased risk of dying from COVID-19 is also correlated with exposure to air pollution. Air pollution is known to harm the lungs and cardiovascular system, and a lifetime of exposure could make someone more vulnerable to damage from a respiratory virus.

The big picture here is that some demographics — who are more exposed to pollution, who suffer chronic diseases at higher rates, who have worse access to health care — may be more at risk from dying from COVID-19, and we should be mindful of this and seek to protect them.

There’s so much more to learn

Scientists need to better understand these risk factors, so we can best protect the most vulnerable people. Higher-risk groups, for example, could be the first people to be vaccinated if a vaccine is approved and becomes available. The frustrating thing is, right now, this virus is still new.

It only came to the attention of the World Health Organization at the end of December. “We’re still on the steep learning curve about the virus, and it could take a couple years to work out all these things,” Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, says.

Unfortunately, in not knowing who is most vulnerable to get severe COVID-19, we may have to assume anyone can be.