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The Great Covid Conspiracy of Silence

Godfree Roberts •ï¿½February 15, 2021

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Because Coronaviruses have been with us for as long as conspiracies, itâ€™s natural for people to link them. But the history of epidemics offers better explanations than any conspiracy theory and useful advice to those who study it and respond appropriately. This is the story of two civilizations: one that studied history and one that... Read More

The Politics of COVID Vaccinations: Who Will Get Them and When?

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½December 10, 2020

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The first thing to understand is that there will not be enough COVID-19 vaccine to go around for many months to come, so the process of who comes first will essentially be a political decision since governments at various levels will inevitably be managing the distribution process. And there will be considerable confusion when the... Read More

Britain Will Seek 'Herd Immunity' Covertly or by Default

Patrick Cockburn •ï¿½September 26, 2020

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I was six years old in 1956 when my parents decided to return to Ireland from London, though a polio epidemic was in full swing in Cork city thirty miles from where we lived. They thought we would be safe in our house deep in the countryside and were encouraged by the fact that there... Read More

The Failed Centralised Track and Trace System Is a Disaster

Patrick Cockburn •ï¿½July 31, 2020

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When I got polio on a farm in the middle of the Irish countryside in 1956, an Irish Health Ministry official visited our nearest neighbour, a farmer called Dick Cunningham, the next day. He told him what had happened and advised him to keep his children at home. Other farmers in the area, none of... Read More

COVID-19: China Reseeded with COVID-20

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½June 22, 2020

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From the date of the initial outbreak in Wuhan I watched carefully on a daily basis the dispersion and progression of the coronavirus in China and then abroad, collecting as much data as were available on each location. By late May of 2020, China had been infection-free for many weeks, the concern turning to the... Read More

Is This Controlled Demolition All Over Again?

Gilad Atzmon •ï¿½May 22, 2020

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For years Eco-Enthusiasts, both activists and scientists, have been telling us that the â€˜partyâ€™ will come to an end. The planet we are stuck on canâ€™t take it for much longer, it is getting too crowded and unbearably warm. Most people didnâ€™t take any real notice of the situation and for a reason. This planet,... Read More

A Change of Venue

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½May 5, 2020

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I wrote an article on March 19, 2020, titled, "All Truth Has Three Stages", listing them thus: First, it is ignored. Second, it is widely ridiculed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident. In this, I omitted something of importance. The second step actually has two stages: the truth is widely ridiculed but, if ridicule proves... Read More

Who Invited the World to Infect America?

Ilana Mercer •ï¿½April 30, 2020

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On March 31, the number of Americans dead from Coronavirus stood at 3,900! A mere month on, at the time of writing, 63,801 Americans have perished. American deaths by COVID account for a fourth of the worldâ€™s, including those in the undeveloped world. To ignore this Third-World-like specter is to dismiss the dead and the... Read More

In Effect Swedenâ€™s Economy Is Also Closed

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½April 29, 2020

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We have been subjected to much nonsensical disinformation that Sweden has kept its economy open and is faring no worse in infections than countries with closed economies and without the economic consequences of closed-downed economies. The fact of the matter is that de facto Swedenâ€™s economy is closed and is doing no better than anyoneâ€™s... Read More

Enough Is Enough

Israel Shamir •ï¿½April 21, 2020

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For weeks, I woke up every morning hoping to find myself in the normal world, instead of this alternative reality. The normal world where men can roam the hills, pray in the church, go to work, stay at the seashore, listen to a concert, visit museums, socialise with friends, flirt with girls, send kids to... Read More

The Hunt for Patient Zero

Another American Index Case?

Godfree Roberts •ï¿½April 10, 2020

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In our last episode, Last Man Standing, we wondered if the Covid-19 outbreak might prove advantageous to China. Here we speculate about howâ€“thanks to a bureaucratic decision about a common illnessâ€“it may cause America to lose world hegemony. *** Finding the Index Case, Patient Zero, of an epidemic is critical to understanding and curbing further... Read More

Fighting the Worldwide War on Death

Israel Shamir •ï¿½April 6, 2020

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The seasonal madness overtook mankind. In years to pass, it will be remembered as a new Witch Hunt, but on a global scale. The Salem affair engulfed a small town in a remote British colony, while the Corona lockdown broke the back of the global economy, pauperised millions, imprisoned three billion people, caused uncounted suicides... Read More

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We Are All Totalitarians Now

Coronavirus Brings Back the Spirit of the Polis

Guillaume Durocher •ï¿½March 29, 2020

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The coronavirus epidemic has been highly instructive. In the face of a looming early death for millions of citizens, Western States have entered a genuine crisis in which the Schmittian sovereign â€“ who was always there lying in waiting â€“ has reemerged into the open and taken all the measures deemed necessary, liberty and law... Read More

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Whither Coronavirus? When Will It End and What Will Happen Along the Way

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½March 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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China Wins Big With Covid-19. What Were We Thinking?

Godfree Roberts •ï¿½March 22, 2020

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China suffered through the H1N1 coronavirus epidemic in 2008 largely because the CDC took 6 months to identify it and, as a result, 300,000 died prematurely. SARS (774 deaths) was the clincher. They created a hair-trigger alarm system, mandated post-mortem pneumonia DNA testing nationwide, and promoted the CDC head, Dr. George F. Gao[1], to Demigod.... Read More

In the Pandemic, It's Every Nation for Itself

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½March 17, 2020

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"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time," said Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey to a friend on the eve of Britain's entry into the First World War. Observing from afar as the coronavirus pandemic ravages the Old Continent, Grey's words return to mind. And... Read More

Is the Global Pandemic a Product of the Eliteâ€™s Malthusian Agenda and U.S. Biowarfare?

Max Parry •ï¿½March 16, 2020

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On March 11th, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to be a global pandemic, the first since the H1N1 swine flu in 2009. Initially reported in the city of Wuhan in Central China in December, just four months later there are now over 150,000 cases in... Read More

Looking at the Military Aspects of Biological Warfare

The Saker •ï¿½March 14, 2020

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The 20th century has seen a seemingly countless number of military conflicts, ranging from small local clashes, to at least two world wars. The same 20th century saw a huge efforts by major powers to develop three types of so-called â€œweapons of mass destructionâ€ (WMD): Atomic, Bacteriological and Chemical (ABC). All of these WMD were... Read More

Will the Coronavirus Kill the New World Order?

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½March 13, 2020

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Dr. Brian Monahan, attending physician of Congress, told a closed meeting of Senate staffers this week that 70 million to 150 million Americans -- a third of the nation -- could contract the coronavirus. Dr. Anthony Fauci testified that the mortality rate for COVID-19 will likely run near 1%. Translation: Between 750,000 and 1.1 million... Read More

Was Coronavirus a Biowarfare Attack Against China?

OldMicrobiologist •ï¿½March 13, 2020

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[The following is the republication of several long and very detailed comments by an unidentified purported expert on biowarfare that originally appeared on a recent thread of the Saker blogsite.] [Update: an investigation strongly suggests that the author's claims regarding his personal background and professional expertise are accurate.] Iâ€™ll throw my 2 cents in here.... Read More

Who Made Coronavirus? Was It the U.S., Israel or China Itself?

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½March 5, 2020

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The most commonly reported mainstream media account of the creation of the Coronavirus suggests that it was derived from an animal borne microorganism found in a wild bat that was consumed by an ethnic Chinese resident of Wuhan. But there appears to be some evidence to dispute that in that adjacent provinces in China, where... Read More

Bats, Gene Editing and Bioweapons: Recent Darpa Experiments Raise Concerns Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

Whitney Webb •ï¿½January 30, 2020

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WASHINGTON D.C. â€“ In recent weeks, concern over the emergence of a novel coronavirus in China has grown exponentially as media, experts and government officials around the world have openly worried that this new disease has the potential to develop into a global pandemic. As concerns about the future of the ongoing outbreak have grown,... Read More

Chinaâ€™s Virus Response Has Been â€˜breathtakingâ€™

Chinese President Xi Jinping is leading a scientific â€˜Peopleâ€™s Warâ€™ against the coronavirus

Pepe Escobar •ï¿½January 29, 2020

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President Xi Jinping formally told WHO head Tedros Ghebreyesus, at their meeting in Beijing earlier this week, that the coronavirus epidemic â€œis a devil and we cannot allow the devil to hide.â€ Ghebreyesus for his part could not but praise Beijing for its extremely swift, coordinated response strategy â€“ which includes fast identification of the... Read More

Coronavirus: The Dark Side

Godfree Roberts •ï¿½January 28, 2020

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Vioxx killed 500,000 Americans: a toll that could have been reduced by 90% had the FDA issued a timely warning. Pharmaceuticals, correctly and legally prescribed, kill 140,000 Americans each year, yet most people are unaware of their lethality and do not know how to a prevent being killed this way. Coronavirus deaths are few, its... Read More

The Global Economy Can Kill Us In More Ways Than One

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½January 25, 2020

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61 years ago Walter M. Miller Jr. published A Canticle for Leibowitz. The story spans thousands of years as humans rebuild civilization after a devastating nuclear war. Among the episodes is a conflict between warring nomads and a settled people who rely on cunning instead of arms and introduce hoof and mouth disease into the... Read More

Chinaâ€™s Coronavirus Outbreak Reminds Me of a Polio Epidemic I Survived

Patrick Cockburn •ï¿½January 25, 2020

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China is responding to the spread of the coronavirus in Wuhan much as countries have always reacted to life-threatening epidemics. At every level of society and government, fear of death â€“ or, more accurately, fear of being held responsible for death â€“ drives decision-making, which is consequently often ill-judged. Officials do not want to cause... Read More

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Ron Unz

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9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV

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Ron Unz

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