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To: marcher who wrote (172365)5/26/2021 7:15:09 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 220063
 
Folks who got the flu around November 2019 are now suspects per reliable source via WSJ

I am fuzzy on exact dates dates but around late November / Early December, per posts early 2020

Message 32637555 (2020 03 27)

<<I might have had it back in early December

Dry hacking but deep cough

Slight fever

2 days of 16-hrs sleep and Chinese herbal medicine

Unusual for me, the fever even if slight

Was not a flu I exactly had before (generally triggered, seemingly, when I walk past a smoker)>>

Message 32720673 (circa 2020 05 07)

<<(1) I know I had a nasty cough / light fever back in November, that required me to take three days off and sleep most of the days, and intaking a bit of traditional Chinese medicine, a few bowls of chicken soup

None around me got sick. So am thinking it could not have been the CoVid however hacking the cough was, and uncommon that I had a fever
>>

Message 32752252 (2020 05 25)

<<For all I know I may have had it back in November, but I do not know
Had unusual deep hacking cough, and unusual for me, fever
Unusual again, spent 16 hours per day over three days sleeping and doing nothing other than light reading
Took traditional Chinese flu medication, chicken soup, is all
If I had, then my extended household / family / enough friends must have had it, and if so, all asymptomatic
This 'all asymptomatic' is the only fact that makes me suspicious that I had the virus

I will know soon enough if have antibody
If I had the virus, than the global lockdowns are too expensive, and the 'flu' is just a flu
If not, then at least for me, the answer remains blowing in the wind.
>>

Now, if I am reading all the aggregated news correctly, then the script goes something like ...

- Team China released Covid from the wild into the wild, by way of USA funded gain-of-function studies

- CoVid is a flu that is not just a flu, but substituted for a lot of flu and resultant flu-related deaths

- Allegedly not an event requiring lockdowns, masks, vaccines, and social distancing, but nevertheless all tee-ed up, to crash the economies, but the whole world was taken in

- According to the same people that unearthed Afghanistan connect to 9.11, protocol-nuke material in Iraq, milk factory in Libya, and Russian bounty in Afghanistan

ft.com

Biden orders new intelligence report on Covid-19 origins

US president asks agencies to ‘redouble’ efforts amid questions over role of Chinese lab

3 hours ago
Chinese state media have called the theory that Covid-19 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology ‘a conspiracy created by US intelligence agencies’ © REUTERSJoe Biden has asked US intelligence agencies to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, amid renewed questions over the role a laboratory in China might have played.

The US president said Wednesday that he had asked his officials to deliver within 90 days their conclusions on how the Sars-Cov-2 virus first spread to humans.

Biden said in a statement: “As of today, the US intelligence community has coalesced around two likely scenarios, but has not reached a definitive conclusion on this question.

“I have now asked the intelligence community to redouble their efforts to collect and analyse information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion and to report back to me in 90 days.”

A team of scientists from the World Health Organization concluded in March that it was highly unlikely the disease had escaped from the Wuhan lab, though the WHO later admitted that its investigation, which was facilitated by Beijing, had left some questions unresolved.

The WHO said on Wednesday that more studies were needed in a range of areas, including the lab-leak hypothesis, and that it was still reviewing recommendations from its report.

Earlier on Wednesday, the state department denied reports that the Biden administration had shut down an inquiry launched during the Trump administration into the lab leak hypothesis, saying the inquiry had simply come to its natural conclusion.

Ned Price, a spokesperson for the department, said in a statement: “In February and March of 2021, the team’s findings were briefed to?.?.?.?staff in the new [Biden] administration. With the report delivered, the work was ended.”

Biden said on Wednesday that he would work with allies to press China to co-operate more fully with an international investigation into how the pandemic started.

Some in the Trump administration had argued that the virus first infected humans involved in experimenting on coronaviruses at the Wuhan institute, China’s highest-level biosafety lab.

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The Chinese government and the institute have both denied that theory, and many scientists argue animal-human transmission is a more likely explanation.

But questions over the institute’s role resurfaced over the weekend after a report in the Wall Street Journal said that US intelligence agencies had concluded three researchers from the WIV fell ill with the disease in November 2019, a month before the first official case was reported.

Andy Slavitt, one of Biden’s pandemic advisers, on Tuesday reiterated the US’s demand for a more comprehensive international investigation.

That demand prompted an angry response from China, where state media described the lab leak hypothesis as “a conspiracy created by US intelligence agencies”.

Additional reporting by Katrina Manson in Washington and Donato Paolo Mancini in London



To: marcher who wrote (172365)5/26/2021 7:15:54 PM
From: TobagoJack  Respond to of 220063
 
the whole-government / all-society approach to china china china seems vaguely familiar from readings of history

bullish

for gold

bloomberg.com

Casino Mogul Steve Wynn Must File as Foreign Agent, U.S. Says
Ilya Banares
27 May 2021, 05:18 GMT+8



The U.S. Justice Department has told former casino magnate Steve Wynn to register as a foreign lobbyist for China and is ready to go to court if he doesn’t comply, a person familiar with the matter said.

The order stems from allegations that Wynn tried to persuade American officials in the summer of 2017 to send Guo Wengui, a Chinese businessman with ties to former President Donald Trump, back to his home country, according to the person, who asked not to be identified discussing a pending inquiry.

Reid Weingarten, Wynn’s attorney, didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

Guo, who fled China in late 2014, was charged there with corruption, bribery and fraud and is considered a fugitive by Chinese authorities. The Wall Street Journal, which reported earlier on the Justice Department inquiry on Wynn, quoted Guo as saying he was glad to hear the department is investigating Wynn and that “they should criminally indict him for serving as a greedy spy of the Chinese Communist Party.”

Gao is a member of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and has worked with former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon. Bannon was aboard Guo’s yacht off the coast of Connecticut when he was arrested last year and charged with defrauding donors to a foundation that was privately funding construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump pardoned him as he was about to leave office and a federal judge dismissed the indictment earlier this week.

Read More: Bannon’s Fraud Indictment Dismissed by Judge Over U.S. Objection

Under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, passed in 1938, any person representing the interest of foreign entities in the U.S. -- including governments -- must disclose their relationship to the Justice Department. They also need to make public all of the activities they’ve done on their behalf and, if applicable, how much they were paid.

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Wynn, 79, helped develop the modern Las Vegas into a destination for upscale travelers as well as hardcore gamblers. His resorts, such as the Mirage and Bellagio, were famous for their outdoor spectacles, such as fountains and a faux volcano. Wynn Resorts Ltd., which he started after selling his first company, was one of just three U.S. operators to score licenses in Macau, a Chinese territory that would become the world’s largest gambling market.

A long-time Republican, he formerly spearheaded the party’s fund-raising efforts and helped organize Trump’s inauguration celebration.

Wynn ran into trouble after a number of former employees came public with stories of sexual harassment by him. He stepped down from the company that still bears his name and sold all of his shares in 2018 for a total of more than $2 billion.

He currently has a net worth of about $3.8 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He remains a prolific political donor and in 2020 gave a total of $708,500 to Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee that raised money for Trump’s campaign, the Republican National Committee and state parties.

— With assistance by Bill Allison, Chris Strohm, and Christopher Palmeri

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