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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7442)	3/23/2021 11:23:03 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13784

France summoned China’s ambassador on Tuesday to underscore the unacceptable nature of insults and threats aimed at French lawmakers and a researcher, and Beijing’s decision to sanction some European officials, a French foreign ministry source said. Ambassador to France Lu Shaye had already been summoned by the foreign ministry last April over posts and tweets by the embassy defending Beijing’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and criticising the West’s handling of it. The envoy had been told of France’s disapproval of that decision, the French official said, adding that Lu was “visibly shocked by the extremely direct character of what he was told” and had tried to change the conversation to discuss Taiwan. The Chinese embassy last week warned against French lawmakers meeting officials during an upcoming visit to self-ruled Taiwan, drawing a rebuff from France. Since then it has been in a Twitter spat with Antoine Bondaz, a China expert at the Paris-based Foundation for Strategic Research, in which the embassy has described him as a “small-time thug” and “mad hyena”. “It continues to be unacceptable and has crossed limits for a foreign embassy,” the French official said after Lu was received by the head of the foreign ministry’s Asia department. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Lu’s behaviour was creating an obstacle to improving relations between China and France. The United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada imposed sanctions on Chinese officials on Monday for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, in the first such coordinated Western action against Beijing under new U.S President Joe Biden. In retaliation, the Chinese Foreign Ministry sanctioned several European nationals, including French Member of the European Parliament Raphaël Glucksmann. The envoy had been told of France’s disapproval of that decision, the French official said, adding that Lu was “visibly shocked by the extremely direct character of what he was told” and had tried to change the conversation to discuss Taiwan. reuters.com

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7442)	4/1/2021 5:34:29 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Recommended By Maurice Winn Respond to of 13784

a guy describes VVV under the light of today's Anarcho-Tyranny Was through increasing policing, tough on crime policies, including picking people up for relatively minor offenses and hard labor. Weird how you get tough on crime, you get less of it, while when you're soft on it you get more. Boggles the modern (stupid) mind. Was through increasing policing, tough on crime policies, including picking people up for relatively minor offenses and hard labor. Weird how you get tough on crime, you get less of it, while when you're soft on it you get more. Boggles the modern (stupid) mind. pic.twitter.com/7FFxub02DR — Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) March 21, 2021 Society had literally solved crime 100 years ago, before modern methods of surveillance, etc., and we don't even consider that a realistic possibility today. It was Victorian England that accomplished this, while the medical/social model of crime in the 1960s led to an explosion. pic.twitter.com/Y6TMFTuKo3 — Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) March 21, 2021

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7442)	4/4/2021 4:40:44 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13784

Want to end Covid? Break the vaccines' patents head of talks at the WTO on patents on COVID-19 tools, a small number of countries continue to block a waiver that would open up access to these tools during the pandemic. Should the waiver be agreed, countries could produce COVID-19 vaccines and drugs on a larger scale, at lower prices. MSF urges these countries to immediately stop blocking the proposal to allow lives to be saved. https://reliefweb.int/report/world/countries-obstructing-covid-19-patent-waiver-must-allow-negotiations-start

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7442)	4/5/2021 3:43:33 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13784

The Norwegians were worried, MQ. They were not getting a return on their SWF. The climate alarm thing was not working. Negative yelds everywhere. They discovered that pretty soon they would need to start eating into their capital. Then they've got this brilliant idea. The Pharma-Industrial Complex Copied what the Military-Industrial Complex Voila ! CEPI! Norway is proud to be a founding member of CEPI. With the pandemic, CEPI is more important than ever. Ensuring access to vaccines for all is a necessity, not a luxury. As the emergence of new variants tells us: no one is safe before everyone is safe. The mutations underline the need for a continued investment in vaccine development. Norway will continue to mobilise around CEPI and other much-needed building blocks in global health. If anything, the pandemic has reminded all of us that we need better preparedness and response. We have focused on this agenda for a long time. This is not the time to give up. You can count on Norway's continued support. Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway COVID-19: CEPI’s first Disease X When CEPI was established in 2017 we classed Disease X as a serious risk to global health security, for which the world needed to prepare. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, CEPI had initiated a rapid response programme—including mRNA vaccines—against novel pathogens. Our goal was to be able to start safety testing of vaccines within months of a new pathogen being genetically sequenced. https://cepi.net/news_cepi/preparing-for-the-next-disease-x/ Once the Covid thing tapers off? Be prepared for "mutant", "new variations" to keep the money spigot open. Or we will have a brand new virus.