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Coming on the first anniversary of America’s unprecedented wave of Covid-19 lockdowns, my recent long article on the impact of the viral outbreak and its origins only broke limited new ground, but recapitulated and summarized much of the material I had previously published, beginning with my original April 2020 analysis.
Despite the replacement of Donald Trump by Joe Biden in the White House, America’s relations with China remain just as hostile as before, hardly a surprising development since control of our foreign policy has merely shifted from the Trump Neocons to the Biden Neocons. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has now taken a position at the Hudson Institute in DC, a leading Neocon organ, which had previously maintained a warm and friendly relationship with Anthony Blinken, his Democratic successor. On his last day of office, Pompeo had denounced China for committing “genocide” against its minority Uyghur population, and on that very same day Blinken had endorsed exactly those same charges in his official Senate confirmation hearings. The foreign policy differences between our two political parties seem smaller today than they have ever been before.
In addition, the explosive claims that the worldwide Covid-19 epidemic was the consequence of a Chinese government lab leak in Wuhan have recently been strongly revived in the media, after having been temporarily pushed aside by many months of Black Lives matter turmoil, the bitter presidential campaign, and the post-election protests. Although it appeared in early January, the 12,000 word New York Magazine cover story by liberal public intellectual Nicholson Baker is now starting to finally gain some public attention.
Meanwhile, my own 8,700 article presented a sharply different perspective, analyzing the mass of somewhat confusing and contradictory claims, then focusing on the strong even overwhelming evidence that the Covid-19 outbreak actually represented an American biowarfare attack against China (and Iran).
Many hundreds of thousands of Americans have now died due to our incompetent government response to the unexpected blowback from this exceptionally reckless action, probably undertaken by rogue elements of our national security apparatus associated with the Deep State Neocons, so my analysis is surely as controversial a hypothesis as might possibly be imagined. Therefore, I was very pleased to receive a number of extremely laudatory private responses, including from somewhat unexpected quarters.
These days, different publications are rated for their credibility by a variety of establishmentarian watchdog organizations, eager to denounce as “extremist fake news” those perspectives that do not comply with the dominant media narrative. As might naturally be expected, our own alternative webzine is routinely vilified and slandered in the strongest possible terms by most of these, for example ranked near the absolute bottom of reliability by the Media Bias/Fact Check website (which oddly enough misidentifies our publication as “The Unz Report,” hardly a demonstration of its own fact-checking prowess).
In sharp contrast, the Genetic Literary Project, a science-oriented website founded in 2012 by former mainstream journalist Jon Entine is ranked as being very high in those same measures of credibility and reliability by those same organizations. I was therefore very pleased when that later organization decided to republish my own Covid-19 article, thereby bringing my controversial analysis to the attention of a much wider circle of different readers.
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On other matters, I’d recently spent nearly a month producing audio versions of over a hundred of my long articles together with eBook versions of my major works and collections, and I’ve generally been quite pleased with the results. The audio files have now been accessed over 11,000 times, and along with 7,000 or 8,000 downloads of the various eBooks, and since I’ve encouraged users to freely redistribute this electronic content, some unknown fraction of these may have also gone into wider distribution.
In addition, I’ve also now released those audio files on SoundCloud and YouTube, providing additional redistribution channels, and also added an Audio RSS Feed for new pieces as they gradually appear:
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Since a little time has now gone by since the release of all those eBooks and audio files, I’d very much welcome feedback on them.
With the eBooks in particular, it’s easy for us to monitor their many thousands of recent downloads, but much more difficult to determine whether people are actually reading them, and finding their format useful and convenient, or even redistributing them in various circles.
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You shouldn’t be pleased to have your article republished on a GMO apologist website. I read a good chunk of your lengthy article but didn’t get to the bioweapon part(I knew of it from earlier articles tho). I’m guessing they didn’t get there either or they would have not published it. They are using your article as a little topical infotainment buttress for their real purpose which is GMO and Monsanto propaganda. GMO’s are a wonderful side dish to the Covid “Vaccines”… or maybe it’s the main dish? Sites like that all have this “who we are” page chocked full of bought and paid for Phds. I searched the site to find out about its funding and found a lengthy section refuting numerous accusations of funding from Monsanto. And like Monsanto never funded someone who funded someone else… As I went to click off the dreadful website I saw a title “Skeptical of pesticides? That’s because you don’t know what life is like without them”. Actually I totally know what life is like without them. I know what it is like to be extremely healthy.
That is, leak from the joint US-Chinese project in Wuhan. Fauci’s Ecohealth Alliance is a full partner bringing lots of research “talent” and bucks to the Wuhan gain-of-function bioweapons projects.
One of the most disgusting and loathesome things about the wingnuts is how they worship this Fauci who by any measure is a Nuremburg-level mass murderer who has all the blood of the lockdowns and injections themselves on his hands and is 100% responsible for each and every death caused by any pathogen that came out of Wuhan, Detrick or anyplace else the US was involved.
Yes, hundreds of thousands have died from misdiagnosis and neglect (these often by deliberate policy) of the elderly who are ill, and from cancer, heart disease, respiratory illness etc. caused by the abdication of the health care establishment in compliance with the “Covid” panic itself, plus all the many excess suicides, homicides, drug overdoses and other deaths of despair caused by the lockdowns themselves.
Plus however many of the elderly were directly murdered by the euthanasia programs in the nursing homes of NY, NJ and other states.
And who knows how many lives could have been saved if influenza had been diagnosed and treated in the pre-2020 way instead of being religiously declared no longer to exist.
There’s no doubt at all that hundreds of thousands of Americans would be alive today if there had never been a terroristic assault of propaganda and policy interventions centering on “Covid”, if the word “Covid” had never once been heard.
As for what will be the ultimate death toll from the experimental injections, already high and mounting rapidly, we can only speculate.
The only other question is how much we can ascribe government action to stupidity, and how much to malice aforethought. As I’ve said often, the very fact of the instant unanimous lockstep response at every level of government, NGO and media the moment the WHO fired the “pandemic” starter pistol (using a pre-changed, newly obfuscated definition of a “pandemic”) is the best proof that the entire top-down part of the Covidian 1941-style blitzkrieg was planned and coordinated ahead of time.
Which also is the best evidence that the Wuhan event was a deliberate US attack whose primary purpose was to serve as the pretext for the propaganda-lockdown-injection terror campaign.
Unz cannot be writing in good faith on the subject of COVID. Yet again he falls back on American incompetence to explain why this country has the worst COVID statistics on Earth. It should be obvious that he is slipping us an emotionally provocative meme (“Americans have the most incompetent government on Earth”) in order to short circuit our critical thinking. It is no different from people who invoke American exceptionalism to explain the moon landings. It’s not evidence, its not even an argument really, it’s pure psychological manipulation.
When I read that I wondered why Neocons would care about China, which is like asking how does harming China help Israel.
Historically Israel has been friendly with China since it turned into the People’s Republic of China. (For example, Israel illegally sells U.S. military technology to them. Philip Giraldi has written about this.) But lately China has been helping Iran, and of course Israel doesn’t want that.
Releasing a bio-warfare agent in Wuhan is a rather ham-handed way of trying to end the China-Iran alliance. If the Neocons were responsible I can’t imagine what they were thinking. For one thing, how would the Chinese leaders know to make the connection? But then Neocons aren’t known for thinking very well.
Do you have a specific reason for holding Neocons responsible for the attack?
It would be nice if Ron Unz applied his considerable talents (writing, research skills, dot-connecting instincts, etc.) toward exposing the entire germ/virus theory foundation and the lucrative business of modern medicine.
The architects of this current hoax don’t care whether we think it came from a bat or a weapons lab, as long as we think it exists and is contagious.
Go deep, Mr. Unz.
Posted to the comments section for Ron Unz’s essay reprinted by the Genetic Literacy Project (and then almost immediately removed as Spam. But then almost immediately reposted and marked as ***NOT SPAM***. And then removed again … without explanation of course.)
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/03/25/about-bats-and-covid-why-the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-shouldnt-be-dismissed-out-of-hand-and-other-reflections-one-year-into-the-crisis/
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An aspect of this matter that has not been covered/mentioned, even by Ron Unz in his review:
Twenty years ago, witnessing the rise of China with double digit GDP growth, and the rapid Neoliberal transfer of manufacturing to China, I thought to myself that the US could only recover competitiveness and the US jobs that were then being moved to China, in (***only***) one of two ways: (1) Nuke China “back to the stone age” (radical in the extreme, as well as “impractical” because of China’s nuclear deterrent, and because the barbaric severity would have correspondingly severe global political implications). Clearly too radical; or (2) to simply wait it out until rising Chinese wages met falling US wages, at which point US workers would once again be competitive.
Looking back at this view, I see another possibility, a more “creative” option to damage China and halt or slow their rise: the bioweapons option. Unlike a direct military attack, a bioweapons attack could be kept “covert”. By hiding behind a “natural origin” narrative, the attacker could avoid a retaliatory response. (Even if the Chinese Governing elite saw it as a bioweapons attack, accepting a “natural origin” narrative, would allow them to save face and forgo an obligatory retaliatory response and the catastrophic damage to US-China economic activity that would certainly result.)
Now, let us “guess” that the previous avian and swine flu outbreaks may have been lower level “test runs” of a bioweapons strategy. Or alternatively, a natural event that might suggest a bioweapons strategy.
With this preface, in this light, let’s look to the unmentioned hypothesis for the Covid-19 event that I mentioned at the start.
Simply stated. The cooperative effort — funding and personnel — between the US and China to research GoF research at the Wuhan lab could not possibly have been conducted without the knowledge and involvement of the US National Security apparatus. China was a chief US adversary, and the CIA would have been all over this activity. And the plan then becomes incredibly simple: at a time of their choosing, a time of greatest effectiveness — around Chinese New Year — the CIA asset at the Wuhan lab, releases the pathogen ***DELIBERATELY***. (No Ft. Detrick involvement needed.)
Up till now the “Lab Leak” hypothesis has always assumed/implied an accidental release. A deliberate release is far more reasonable and certainly far more consistent with Occam’s Razor.
And there are those other factors: the Military Intelligence report revealed by ABC news, at once denied, and then confirmed by Haaretz; all the Plan 201 and other “timely” pandemic preparedness activity immediately preceding the pandemic: the instantaneous and comprehensive lockdown by the Chinese (which suggests that they may have been prepared, anticipating as much a deliberate military “bioweapons” attack as a natural outbreak). And the refusal of the US to allow release of the US CDC data about the origin.
Some thoughts.
‘The Media Bias/Fact Check website (which oddly enough misidentifies our publication as “The Unz Report,” hardly a demonstration of its own fact-checking prowess.)’
LOL. Clowns in charge…
One reason to suspect Neocons are responsible for the viral outbreak is that the virus took out a number of Iranian leaders. On the other hand this could have been due to the aforementioned recent cooperation between China and Iran.
I listened to your “American Pravda” article on the Covid Randy. Nice, very nice. Its convenient to not have to sit and read through those short books you write. I pretty much agree with your theory. I curse you for still doing the “blame the village idiot” bit you libertarians love doing.
Ohhh stop! This wasn’t incompetence for Christ’s sake… This is the system working EXACTLY as designed. This is the result of decades of muh free market, libertarian dogma, offshoring all our manufacturing for capitalist profits, and very competent psychopaths putting profits above everything else including peoples lives. WSWS has published some good stuff on it.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/pers-m13.html
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/14/pers-m14.html
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/24/pers-m24.html
God bless the stock market!
You need to work on your voice too. What happened man? Listen to yourself back in 92
https://youtu.be/8qiBjtI4MLc
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These free resources by Ron Unz are a goldmine. I listened to some of the audio for hours while on a long drive recently. I’ll be listening to hours more next week. They are well done and extremely edifying.
As was said by someone on Sailer’s blog a few weeks back, Ron Unz is probably the most under-appreciated man in modern times.
Respectable reasoning if I may say so. Mind you I have at various times tossed into the ring various thoughts which h might help lighten up the over certainties. One is the possibility that some little group of greedy opportunists decided to try setting off (not necessarily at first try) a market moving event that they could speculate on with inside knoedge. Another is that the report that you say was “confirmed by Haaretz” ,a version of the confirmed by Israeli TV that I haven’t come across was an obvious beat up by some who were or could pass themselves off as intelligence insiders to damage Trump.
Yes you would just need one superspreader cleric back from Qom,, like the Christian woman in Korea, and each hug of a colleague or acolyte could multiply the rate of infection amongst a limited group of religious leaders.