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The First Steps Toward a Liberty Platform
•�September 9, 2024
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Last weekend several hundred of us gathered in Washington, DC, at the Ron Paul Institute conference to again proclaim our dedication to the cause of liberty and our opposition to constant US government assaults on that liberty. Our collaborators included old friends like Judge Andrew Napolitano, who explained that the Bill of Rights was not... Read More
France Charges Telegram CEO, Alleging He Is “Allowing Criminal Activity” on Messaging App
•�August 29, 2024
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Do you know who I blame for this? The Jews. The Jews were going after TikTok hard, and it was obvious that they were eventually going to hit Telegram. Actually arresting the company’s CEO in France and charging him with not doing enough censorship is a bold and outrageous move, one you wouldn’t expect. But... Read More
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EU to Telegram - We're Coming to Get You
•�August 27, 2024
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The Pavel Durov saga is a gift that will keep on giving for a long time to come. This is what hot information war is all about. So let’s attempt to connect several loose ends. A high-level Russian analyst makes the case that Durov’s arrest is connected with “anti-French protests in its former colonies, withdrawal... Read More
NYPD to Flood Central Park with Drones to Somehow “Fight Crime”
•�August 14, 2024
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Related: Utopia Closer Than Ever After NYC Puts Gun-Detecting Tech at Busy Subway Station I didn’t realize Mayor Eric Adams loved tech so much. Here I am learning that he’s a tech-lover, and I didn’t even know that. New York Post: Central Park frolickers could soon find themselves under Big Brother surveillance from NYPD drones... Read More
UK: Pro-Stabbing Cops Monitoring Anti-Stabbing Protesters on TikTok, Looking for Incriminating Footage
•�August 7, 2024
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We’ve seen where they’re going to people’s houses and arresting them for posting on the internet that they’re against stabbing. The pro-stabbing British government has made it illegal to be anti-stabbing. If you ask them why they support stabbing, they will start talking about the Holocaust, and then arrest you for asking. They’re talking about... Read More
Other Than Nuclear War, the Digital Revolution Is Mankind’s Greatest Disaster
•�July 21, 2024
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It has been clear to me from the beginning that the digital revolution was a massive catastrophe in the making. The digital revolution is a catastrophe across the board. It not only gives government ability to impose tyranny beyond George Orwells’ imagination, it subjects all accumulated knowledge to wipe out by an electromagnetic pulse, and... Read More
Treasonous FISA Bill Passes
Blackmailed Pedophile Cabal that Owns USG Has Good Reasons to Need to Spy on Everyone
•�April 22, 2024
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Rumble link Bitchute link The U.S. president has signed into law a bill that extends the government's warrantless spying powers for two years. Joe Biden signed Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after it passed the Senate by 60 against 34 votes. The move was slammed by privacy advocates inside and outside of... Read More
This Is What the Digital Revolution Brought Us
•�April 19, 2024
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Your information is everywhere on the internet. It is in your banking, financial, credit card, cell phone, internet, utility, and online purchase accounts and in the accounts of these companies’ service providers. Your information is in more places than you can imagine. The internet system is easy to hack, because it was created as an... Read More
Republican Speaker of the House Flushes US Constitution Down the Toilet
•�April 17, 2024
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As I predicted on April 11, the police state got the Republicans to reconsider and to pass their warrantless spying and home entry. The Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson cast the deciding vote that nixed the warrant requirement. This tells us all we need to know about Republicans. They are part of the... Read More
FISA Exchanges Real Liberty for Phantom Security
•�April 15, 2024
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House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed liberty and the Constitution by making a full-court press to get a “clean” reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act through the House. Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign citizens. When the FISA Act was passed, surveillance state boosters promised that 702 warrantless surveillances would... Read More
Democrats Respond to Trump’s Plea to Kill Police State FISA Act
•�April 11, 2024
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The House Democrats, not the Republicans, Respond to Trump’s Plea to Kill the Unconstitutional FISA Act, while the Republicans Vote for the Police State Measure The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was passed as a result of the public hysteria that was orchestrated in response to a non-existent “Muslim terrorist threat” that was spun off... Read More
The House Republicans Have–guess What–expanded the Federal Surveillance of Americans
•�December 12, 2023
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As I have sadly reported on several occasions, there is no hope in the Republican Party. The only positive about Republicans is that they do not hate white people and, at least not yet, are not actively working to make and keep white Americans second class citizens with less rights under law as the Democrats... Read More
Was There a “war on Terror” or a War on the American People?
•�September 12, 2023
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In response to 9/11, Republican Attorney General John Ashcroft told an obedient Congress on a Wednesday to have a sweeping expansion of executive power and dramatic curtailment of American’s civil rights ready in bill form by the end of the week. As Matt Taibbi reminds us, “Congress quickly delivered with ‘roving’ wiretaps, warrantless searches, ‘trap... Read More
Big Brother Surveillance
•�January 4, 2023
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Recent court filings reveal that Google, by means of its Location History function that many Google users (often unknowingly) opt into, has tracked and recorded extensive location data for over 500 million people. Few of us are aware our location histories are being tracked and recorded in this way. Law enforcement agencies — state and... Read More
Big Collusion Between Big Media and Big Government
•�December 23, 2022
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An FBI agent contacts Twitter's head of trust and safety and asks him to censor every mention of a major news story from the social media network on the grounds that the story is false, a result of illegal hacking or both. Twitter complies, even going so far as to suspend the account of the... Read More
Oppressed Jew Is Watching You: the sinister American Attorney-General Merrick Garland
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What Orwell Got Wrong in his Dystopian Satire Nineteen Eighty-Four
•�November 14, 2022
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When it was first published in 1949, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was a dystopian satire aimed at the left. In 2022, the novel seems to have become an instruction manual used by the left. For example, in Orwell’s satire the worst of all offences is thoughtcrime, the denial of official ideology and rebellion against the... Read More
Feds Scramble to Hide Role of Oath Keeper’s Informant In January 6th “Insurrection”
•�November 11, 2022
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A bombshell New York Times report has revealed that Greg McWhirter, the Vice President of the Oath Keepers who helped lead the group’s presence on January 6th, is an FBI informant. Federal officials worked hard to hide McWhirter’s status as a Confidential Human Source (CHS) in the seditious conspiracy trial of Oath Keeper’s leader Stewart... Read More
The Intercept Releases Department of Homeland Security Agenda to Do Mass Censorship
•�November 3, 2022
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The Intercept has published a big exposé on a Department of Homeland Security agenda to implement mass censorship in America because it is allegedly afraid that information will cause terrorism. The article is based on leaks as well as court documents. It is quite something. They are claiming, outright, that basically every new item is... Read More
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Breaking News: Edward Snowden Granted Russian Citizenship
•�September 26, 2022
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Today Edward Snowden was granted Russian citizenship. Snowden had to flee his country, because he released information that proved that the NSA was, and still is, illegally spying on US citizens. The presstitutes will use Snowden’s grant of citizenship as proof that he was a Russian spy, not a patriotic whistleblower trying to alert his... Read More
Snowden Gets Russian Citizenship
The whistleblower fled the US after leaking top-secret documents, almost a decade ago
•�September 26, 2022
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President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to US National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, Russia’s TASS news agency confirmed on Monday. The American’s name was included without fanfare on a list of 72 foreigners who became citizens. Snowden, who applied for citizenship in 2020 upon receiving permanent residency rights, has not commented on... Read More
Supersized IRS Will Shrink Liberty
•�August 15, 2022
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West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin recently claimed the 15 percent corporate minimum tax contained in the Inflation Reduction Act, which should be called the Inflation Creation Act, is not a tax increase. Instead, he claimed, the bill simply closes a loophole that allows corporations to avoid paying all the taxes they owe. Despite what Senator... Read More
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Cull, Track and Control
•�November 25, 2021
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The most salient feature of totalitarianism is control of movement, which entails tracking each citizen. Before the internet era, this could only be achieved roughly. The state knew John Smith lived on Lumumba Street and worked on Stalin Avenue. If Smith wanted to spend a night at a woman’s apartment, she had to register him... Read More
Resist the Unique Patient Identifier!
•�November 1, 2021
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If people who torture animals are psychopaths, then what are government officials who use taxpayer dollars to fund animal torture? Many are asking this question in the wake of revelations that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci - high priest of the COVID cult - funded medical “research”... Read More
New Lawsuit Seeks to Reveal Extent of the FBI's Domestic Political Spying Campaign
•�September 20, 2021
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The Cato Institute is taking the FBI to court for its refusal to provide over a thousand documents on its domestic political surveillance program. The public interest lawsuit seeks to force the FBI and Department of Justice to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made last year for 1,082 pages of documents... Read More
Twenty Years On, We’ve Learned Nothing from 9/11
•�September 13, 2021
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Nothing upset the Washington Beltway elites more than when in a 2007 presidential debate I pointed out the truth about the 9/11 attacks: they attacked us because we’ve been in the Middle East, sanctioning and bombing the civilian population, for decades. The 9/11 attackers were not motivated to commit suicide terrorism on the Twin Towers... Read More
Australia: New Law Allows Feds to Hack and Control Online Accounts of Political Dissidents Without a Warrant
•�September 1, 2021
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The Australian parliament has recently passed one of the most egregious attacks on privacy rights and civil liberties in the world. The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021 was rapidly snuck through with little debate or fanfare in a 24 hour window. The piece of legislation has the support of both the Liberal... Read More
Pink Police State: FOIA Documents Show FBI Surveilled Conservative Christian Women's Group for Their Beliefs
•�August 12, 2021
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Congressman Jim Jordan has dispatched a letter demanding answers from FBI Director Christopher Wray after Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents revealed that the Bureau targeted a conservative women's non-profit in 2016. Wray was given until August 24th to respond. The group in question, Conservative Women for America (CWA) is a non-profit started in 1978... Read More
Another Israeli Spy Story: When Will It End?
•�July 29, 2021
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It is perhaps not necessary to point out how the mainstream media in the United States as well as in Europe and Oceania persist in ignoring or otherwise covering up stories that make the Israelis look bad. Recent accounts of the slaughter of children and mostly civilians in Gaza by Israeli planes, missiles and artillery... Read More
The NSA Has Proven Itself to be the Resurrection of the Nazi Gestapo, Only Worse
•�July 8, 2021
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It Was OK for Fox News Journalist Megan Kelly to Interview Putin, but if Tucker Carlson Interviews Putin it Means Tucker is a Putin Agent. NSA committed a felony by leaking Tucker Carlson’s emails to presstitutes hostile to Tucker in an effort to demonize him and “drive him off the air.” The emails were simply... Read More
The Covidian Cult (Part II)
•�April 21, 2021
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Back in October of 2020, I wrote an essay called The Covidian Cult, in which I described the so-called “New Normal” as a global totalitarian ideological movement. Developments over the last six months have borne out the accuracy of that analogy. A full year after the initial roll-out of the utterly horrifying and completely fictional... Read More
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National Justice Exclusive: Notorious "Nazi" Satanic Group Is An Illegal Counter Intelligence Operation Controlled By Two ...
•�January 15, 2021
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On January 5th, National Justice released an article regarding a leaked FBI document on the pro-mass murder Satanic group the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) hinting at a potential government scheme to undermine First Amendment protected nationalist activity. After reviewing numerous documents and interviewing multiple sources, National Justice can now confirm that the US chapter... Read More
The 'Great Reset' Is About Expanding Government Power and Suppressing Liberty
•�January 4, 2021
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World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab has proposed using the overreaction to coronavirus to launch a worldwide “Great Reset.” This Great Reset is about expanding government power and suppressing liberty worldwide. Schwab envisions an authoritarian system where big business acts as a partner with government. Big business would exercise its government-granted monopoly... Read More
No Escape from Our Techno-Feudal World
•�December 3, 2020
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The political economy of the Digital Age remains virtually terra incognita. In Techno-Feudalism, published three months ago in France (no English translation yet), Cedric Durand, an economist at the Sorbonne, provides a crucial, global public service as he sifts through the new Matrix that controls all our lives. Durand places the Digital Age in the... Read More
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Eat Your Lemon!
•�November 26, 2020
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The G20 leaders have reached a consensus of a magnitude previously observed at Warsaw Pact summits. News in brief: they want to vaccinate us, and then, before we become restless, switch to combating global warming. If we survive masks and vaccines, austerity will kill off the survivors. Remember, before the pandemic there was Greta? Greta... Read More
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America’s Social Credit System Is Worse Than China’s
•�November 13, 2020
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China is notorious for a “Social Credit System” that controls the lives of citizens, rewarding what the authorities want and punishing what they don’t. The United States has a social credit system, too, even if we don’t call it that. And ours is worse. The Chinese system tries to build social trust. Ours destroys trust.... Read More
European Union Moves to Outlaw Encrypted Apps
•�November 9, 2020
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The European Union is moving to ban end-to-end encrypted communication. An EU council of ministers resolution spearheaded by French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of the conservative Austrian People's Party would mandate that apps such as Telegram, Signal, and WhatsApp provide European intelligence services with backdoor access in order to allow... Read More
Western Liberty R.I.P.
•�October 25, 2020
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Germany is on the brink of modifying its constitution, to allow all 19 secret services to hack anyone at any time, for any reason, secretly ( ). — Mark Crispin Miller, News from Underground We are witnessing in every Western country a rapid transformation of what were formerly free countries into police states. Governments violate... Read More
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From Lockdown to Police State: The “Great Reset” Rolls Out
•�August 22, 2020
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Mayhem in Melbourne On August 2, lockdown measures were implemented in Melbourne, Australia, that were so draconian that Australian news commentator Alan Jones said on Sky News: “People are entitled to think there is an ‘agenda to destroy western society.’” The gist of an August 13th article on the Melbourne lockdown is captured in the... Read More
Coronavirus Is the New ‘Terrorism’
•�August 10, 2020
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has proposed the next multi-trillion dollar "coronavirus relief” spending bill that will support testing, tracing, treatment, isolation, and mask policies that have been part of a “national strategic plan” she has been advocating. The Trump administration is not opposing Pelosi’s plan on principle. Instead, it is haggling over the price. But,... Read More
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Huawei, Tik-Tok and WeChat
•�August 8, 2020
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First, let's dispel the combined notion that China spies on everyone and the US spies on no one. There is so much public evidence to destroy both these assertions that I won't bother repeating them here. I will however remind readers that a few years ago China more or less banned Windows 8 from the... Read More
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The New (Pathologized) Totalitarianism
•�June 29, 2020
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It was always going to come to this … mobs of hysterical, hate-drunk brownshirts hunting down people not wearing masks and trying to get them fired from their jobs, “no mask, no service” signs outside stores, security staff stopping the mask-less from entering, paranoid pod people pointing and shrieking at the sight of mask-less shoppers... Read More
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Brave New Normal (Part 2)
•�May 20, 2020
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My columns haven’t been very funny recently. This one isn’t going to be any funnier. Sorry. Fascism makes me cranky. I don’t mean the kind of fascism the corporate media and the fake Resistance have been desperately hyping for the last four years. God help me, but I’m not terribly worried about a few hundred... Read More
How Biosecurity Is Enabling Digital Neo-Feudalism
•�May 15, 2020
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Italian master thinker Giorgio Agamben has been on the – controversial – forefront examining what new paradigm may be emerging out of our current pandemic distress. He recently called attention to an extraordinary book published seven years ago that already laid it all out. In Tempetes Microbiennes, Patrick Zylberman, a professor of History of Health... Read More
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Israel Perfecting Surveillance Tech
Leave it to the Mossad and Shin Bet to profit militarily and financially from virus.
•�May 14, 2020
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Israel’s external spy organization Mossad and its internal espionage equivalent Shin Bet have reputations that are much larger than their actual successes, but the one area where they have excelled is electronic intelligence gathering. Recent electronic spying around the White House and other federal buildings in Washington carried out by the Israeli Embassy demonstrates that... Read More
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A Bicephalous Monoparty and the Four Pillars
Totalitarianism for Dummies
•�May 12, 2020
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The genius of America’s totalitarian system of government is that it is not totally total, and sometimes not very totalitarian at all. It is just total enough. Truly total government--"Your papers, citizen," stop-and-frisk, permission needed to travel from city to city--might spark revolt. By contrast, a sufficiency of totalitarianism, but not an excess, keeps the... Read More
Next in Coronavirus Tyranny: Forced Vaccinations and 'Digital Certificates'
•�April 27, 2020
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In my first week in the House of Representatives in 1976, I cast one of the two votes against legislation appropriating funds for a swine flu vaccination program. A swine flu outbreak was then dominating headlines, so most in DC were frantic to “do something” about the virus. Unfortunately, the hastily developed and rushed-into-production swine... Read More
Monitoring the Public After Coronavirus
•�April 23, 2020
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It is too early to say when or even whether the siege initiated by the coronavirus will end, but many Americans and Europeans are speculating over what kind of countries will emerge on the other side. National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, who exposed illegal spying on American citizens, recently predicted that there would... Read More
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Techno-Tyranny: How the US National Security State Is Using Coronavirus to Fulfill an Orwellian Vision
•�April 20, 2020
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LAST YEAR, A GOVERNMENT COMMISSION CALLED FOR THE US TO ADOPT AN AI-DRIVEN MASS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM FAR BEYOND THAT USED IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN ORDER TO ENSURE AMERICAN HEGEMONY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. NOW, MANY OF THE “OBSTACLES” THEY HAD CITED AS PREVENTING ITS IMPLEMENTATION ARE RAPIDLY BEING REMOVED UNDER THE GUISE OF COMBATING THE... Read More
A Healthcare PATRIOT Act?
•�April 13, 2020
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According to a story in Politico, the White House Coronavirus Task Force is considering creating a national surveillance system to track Americans’ health information. Supporters of this initiative claim it would enable the federal government to quickly identify areas in need of additional medical supplies and other assistance because the areas are coronavirus “hot spots.”... Read More
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Whither Coronavirus? When Will It End and What Will Happen Along the Way
•�March 26, 2020
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The coronavirus story has generated a number of major subplots. First is the origin of the virus. Did it occur naturally or was it created in a Chinese, American or Israeli weapons lab? If bioengineered, did it somehow escape or was it deliberately released? As the governments that might have been involved in the process... Read More
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