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FULL INTERVIEW HERE ON X: "After tabulating, calculating, and quantifying all of the various dimensions of the costs of the [pandemic] lockdown policies, we found that lockdowns are about 30 to 35 times more costly than what they could possibly have delivered in benefits… in terms of human life."... This was Gigi Foster's (of Australians for Science and Freedom) stunning revelation to me in June of 2022, based on the results of her own research. I had been well aware that lockdown policies had signficant collateral damage associated with them. Indeed, this was the reason why common-sense public health policy for years had been to avoid them at all costs—until, that is, this was all thrown out the window in early 2020. But I hadn't been ready to accept a 35X differential. The bottom line, according to Gigi, who as a professor at the University of New South Wales is a behavioural economics expert and as such does these sorts of calculations routinely, was always: "How many people would you be willing to kill in order to save one from COVID? That is essentially the trade-off." From skipped cancer screenings to impeded speech development in toddlers to growing social inequality, when we add it all up, what price did we pay? Join me and Gigi to learn the truth in American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸 with @JanJekielek Episode #637, Gigi Foster: Did Our Pandemic Policies Kill More People Than They Saved?, and check out my channel on Box 📦 Club Leader 2.0—I'll post links in the thread below👇show more

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Jan Jekielekvor 2 Jahren

Please check out my @AmThoughtLeader channel on @EpochTV 👉 And here's the link to my hit w/ Gigi Foster (w/ full transcript), Did Our Pandemic Policies Kill More People Than They Saved?, Episode #637👇

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Zach Winnervor 2 Jahren

@X One of the worst knock on effects of the lockdowns is the normalization of working from home and the devastating impact that has had on physical vacancies in office buildings, and devastating impact on Central Business districts throughout the country.

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Carri Ceevor 2 Jahren

@jeffreyatucker @X Gigi was my hero and anchor through lockdowns...and an absolute delight in person ❤️

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The Fountainheadvor 2 Jahren

@kevinnbass @X Brilliant discussion. Well worth the time.

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Mark Changizivor 2 Jahren

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The End is Farvor 2 Jahren

@EpochTimes @X Would be interesting to see how costly other Centrally Planned Responsibilities our Govt has assumed/usurped like our Health; Education, Medical Industry, and the list goes on.

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Richard Altmaier vor 2 Jahren

@X @DrJBhattacharya Jay's data in Apr 2020 showed a low fatality rate. No data ever justified lockdowns.

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John Knowltonvor 2 Jahren

@X From the start this was obvious to many lay persons such as myself. However a 36x greater cost was something beyond what I ever imagined. The world has been lead by blind guides in both the medical community & Government.

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UngaTheGreatvor 2 Jahren

Most politicians can’t pass a rudimentary economics course and are clueless to the impact their decision-making has on our economy. But it didn’t take an economist to understand the immediate damage to our communities following lockdowns, jabs, masks, stay-at-home mandates, and related actions. Quantifying not only confirms what many of us speculated as it was happening, but also how government beforehand knowingly made a decision in their best interest rather than in the interest of protecting their citizens.

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DawsoCreek💜🐭vor 2 Jahren

@X Gigi @aus4science was a loud and lonely voice here in Australia from the outset. So great you've found and profiled her amazing work

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RFK Jr.: "All of those senators are taking hundreds of thousands of dollars, including, in some cases, millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry. So they don't want to hear the answers to the questions that they ask me." "They want to make a little speech and then shut me down. But they can't deny the fact that we did worse than COVID. The CDC is a broken agency." "We did worse than any country in the world. We have 4.2% of the world's population. We have 20% of the world's COVID deaths. We literally are the worst team in the league."" I've been brought in as a new manager, and my job is to shake up the organization to fire the people who were responsible for masking our children with no science, for social distancing orders with no science, or all the other thing, you know, for all of the other things that they try, for closing our schools. At the behest of the teachers union, hurting workers all over America." "These were bad. We literally did worse than any country in the world, and it was because we forgot about the science. And what we're going to do, what the Trump administration is going to do, is to return gold standard science and make this agency the lead agency for public health in the world once again."

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Emily Blunt now believes in UFOs after researching for Disclosure Day “This certainly sparked the fires of my imagination when I started researching everything to do with people who have had these experiences from the congressional hearings that had taken place, every documentary, the docuseries. I think that the thing that I was struck by was how inarguable it seemed to me that people were lying. There was this absolute peaceful truth pouring out of them. They know what they saw. They believe it. Even if they've been discredited, disvalued, kicked out, lost their jobs, accused of being whistleblowers, they believe it. There was a sort of universal peacefulness, I think, in all of them as to what they had seen and that they had been awe struck by it and shifted by it. I just found it very healing actually watching all of these people talk about this otherworldly experience that they had. And I think it would be a very good thing for human beings to question their place in the universe. I think it might be an arrogant thing to assume that we know everything, that we're alone. I mean, they just discovered a thousand new species in our oceans this year on Earth. So, why would we imagine that we know everything that's out there in the universe?”

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ELON: SOCIAL MEDIA AND FREE SPEECH WOULD HAVE PREVENTED THE NAZIS TO HIDE THEIR ACTIONS “One of the first things the Nazis did when they came in, is to shut down all the press and any means of conveying information. If there had been social media, I think it would have been impossible to hide, if there'd been freedom of speech as well. It's worth noting that the First Amendment in the United States was freedom of speech because the people that came to the United States from other countries did not have freedom of speech. If they had said something, they could be imprisoned or killed. That's why the first correction to the Constitution was the ability to say what you want to say and not be thrown in prison or killed.” Source: European Jewish Association, January 2024

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Robert L. Suettinger says U.S. actions in Venezuela and Iran may be forcing leaders in China to reconsider how they view President Trump. “I think that there has been a level of shock that the United States has not only been able to, but willing to, engage in these kinds of operational military on-the-ground matters.” “I think it’s probably a matter of considerable concern and discussion… that they maybe have been wrong about Trump all along and that there is more to his policies than they had given him credit for.” “That has probably provided them with a lot of cause for concern.” “It is going to be a major topic of conversation in the hallways at the National People’s Congress, in the back rooms of Zhongnanhai, and certainly in the discussions that go on within China.”

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UB40 on stage at the Together Alliance march, "We were all born in the 1950s, that was the time unions were strong, my dad was a factor worker, and we had the NHS, council houses, and it was a great time for the working class" "We all grew up in inner city Birmingham, it was a melting pot. You could sit on your doorstep and see teh four corners of the world go by" "Members of the band were the first generation of Black British. Their parents came over in the Windrush convoy. We went to school together" "And we remember Enoch Powell's rivers of blood speech" "We remember when the Tories using posters saying: if you want a coloured person as your neighbour, vote Labour" "We also remember the rise of the national front. Policies to force repatriation of people from the Caribbean" "Then we had the rise of the BNP in the 80s and the 90s" "Then we had the spivs and millionaires in UKIP" "And now we've got Reform UK" "Of course they're full of Tories, taking the toxic policies that UKIP had, and the National Front promise of forced repatriation which is what Theresa May did in her government" "Over the years we've visited all kinds of places from America, Australia, Africa" "And one thing we've come to the conclusion of is that working people around the world have more in common with each other than they do with the elites and the billionaire class" "There are more of us than there are of them" "This has been such an amazing turnout, it's absolutely incredible" "In conclusion, I'd like to quote that great political philosopher, Wolfie Smith, and say" "Power to the people" Thank you UB40 Together Alliance 👏

UB40 on stage at the Together Alliance march, "We were all born in the 1950s, that was the time unions were strong, my dad was a factor worker, and we had the NHS, council houses, and it was a great time for the working class" "We all grew up in inner city Birmingham, it was a melting pot. You could sit on your doorstep and see teh four corners of the world go by" "Members of the band were the first generation of Black British. Their parents came over in the Windrush convoy. We went to school together" "And we remember Enoch Powell's rivers of blood speech" "We remember when the Tories using posters saying: if you want a coloured person as your neighbour, vote Labour" "We also remember the rise of the national front. Policies to force repatriation of people from the Caribbean" "Then we had the rise of the BNP in the 80s and the 90s" "Then we had the spivs and millionaires in UKIP" "And now we've got Reform UK" "Of course they're full of Tories, taking the toxic policies that UKIP had, and the National Front promise of forced repatriation which is what Theresa May did in her government" "Over the years we've visited all kinds of places from America, Australia, Africa" "And one thing we've come to the conclusion of is that working people around the world have more in common with each other than they do with the elites and the billionaire class" "There are more of us than there are of them" "This has been such an amazing turnout, it's absolutely incredible" "In conclusion, I'd like to quote that great political philosopher, Wolfie Smith, and say" "Power to the people" Thank you UB40 Together Alliance 👏

Farrukh

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So yeah, after watching it yesterday for the 5th #ChristmasDay in a row, there is no denial: Patty Jenkins’s #WonderWoman1984 became my Post-Covid #Christmas movie staple. I think I’ll never forget the preview night when it came out, with the film in theatres during just a short evening, because of the announcement that, from that night or, depending on the city, on the following day which was supposed to be its opening day, all theatres would be closed for the following 6 months in the U.K. The rush to get to the nearest theatre still open that evening when the lockdown announcement came, we had to go all the way from London to Maidenhead to be able to watch it on that THU, as the preview screenings that evening in London were being canceled… I was so excited for that film for over 2 years, and somehow I knew that would be the one and only opportunity to see it in theatres. And I was so damn right! I think I never understood, till that point, how much movies, movie theatres and the moviegoing experience were important to me. They’ve always been there as part of my life, I’ve always taken them for granted. Until, all of sudden, they weren’t. And for a moment, #WW84 would be the last blockbuster we would see in a movie theatre, for a long while. That day for me was like our last, desperate way to hold on to the old normal pre-Covid. And in a way, in my mind, I was saying good bye to those Pre-Covid times without even knowing it. When theatres reopened again, 6 months later, things never got back to where they were. On top of a period already challenging as it as, my mother passed away within that bleak period, 2 weeks before theatres reopened. While some say ironically or mockingly that we went through a Great Reset, to me it was a literal reset. A forced one I was never consulted about nor agreed with. But life goes on, and we had to move on with it - but never losing that hope deep inside that, one day, we would have that life pre-Covid back. And that’s how #WonderWoman1984 deeply connected with me, I believe even more on the following Christmas in 2021, when things got scarily more relatable after that tough year. The film had all the messages I needed just on the right time. All the social unrest, forced division and global turmoil that followed from 2021 onwards, mixed with that longing desire to have back a life and the people that I would never have again, it felt like that film was predicting what we were about to go through in the following years, while offering its perspective on how to - and how not to - deal with most of these phantoms. And every time I rewatch it, I appreciate it a bit more. All those beautiful, powerful messages still stand and they feel even more meaningful now than they already were back in DEC 2020. They remind me of what we used to be as society, but also remind me of what we still can be, depending on the path we decide to take. And I know, I know - on this app, that movie means different things for different people, or even it might be the case it feels meaningless for some. I totally understand, respect and appreciate the diversity of opinions around it, and I see where they are coming from. I’ll never fight about your own views about the movie or your experience with it. That’s the magic of the movies after all, resonate differently with different people, as a collective but diverse experience. But to me it has a deeper meaning, and I love revisiting it time and time again. Until next Christmas!

So yeah, after watching it yesterday for the 5th #ChristmasDay in a row, there is no denial: Patty Jenkins’s #WonderWoman1984 became my Post-Covid #Christmas movie staple. I think I’ll never forget the preview night when it came out, with the film in theatres during just a short evening, because of the announcement that, from that night or, depending on the city, on the following day which was supposed to be its opening day, all theatres would be closed for the following 6 months in the U.K. The rush to get to the nearest theatre still open that evening when the lockdown announcement came, we had to go all the way from London to Maidenhead to be able to watch it on that THU, as the preview screenings that evening in London were being canceled… I was so excited for that film for over 2 years, and somehow I knew that would be the one and only opportunity to see it in theatres. And I was so damn right! I think I never understood, till that point, how much movies, movie theatres and the moviegoing experience were important to me. They’ve always been there as part of my life, I’ve always taken them for granted. Until, all of sudden, they weren’t. And for a moment, #WW84 would be the last blockbuster we would see in a movie theatre, for a long while. That day for me was like our last, desperate way to hold on to the old normal pre-Covid. And in a way, in my mind, I was saying good bye to those Pre-Covid times without even knowing it. When theatres reopened again, 6 months later, things never got back to where they were. On top of a period already challenging as it as, my mother passed away within that bleak period, 2 weeks before theatres reopened. While some say ironically or mockingly that we went through a Great Reset, to me it was a literal reset. A forced one I was never consulted about nor agreed with. But life goes on, and we had to move on with it - but never losing that hope deep inside that, one day, we would have that life pre-Covid back. And that’s how #WonderWoman1984 deeply connected with me, I believe even more on the following Christmas in 2021, when things got scarily more relatable after that tough year. The film had all the messages I needed just on the right time. All the social unrest, forced division and global turmoil that followed from 2021 onwards, mixed with that longing desire to have back a life and the people that I would never have again, it felt like that film was predicting what we were about to go through in the following years, while offering its perspective on how to - and how not to - deal with most of these phantoms. And every time I rewatch it, I appreciate it a bit more. All those beautiful, powerful messages still stand and they feel even more meaningful now than they already were back in DEC 2020. They remind me of what we used to be as society, but also remind me of what we still can be, depending on the path we decide to take. And I know, I know - on this app, that movie means different things for different people, or even it might be the case it feels meaningless for some. I totally understand, respect and appreciate the diversity of opinions around it, and I see where they are coming from. I’ll never fight about your own views about the movie or your experience with it. That’s the magic of the movies after all, resonate differently with different people, as a collective but diverse experience. But to me it has a deeper meaning, and I love revisiting it time and time again. Until next Christmas!

Luiz Fernando

11,494 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

Really devastating lines of questioning from @SenJamesLankford.... Lankford: “There are a lot of issues and a lot of questions that have come up, and hopefully, some day in the future, we’ll be able to get all this clarity and pull it together. More than a million Americans that died of COVID. You know it well. You were tracking the number every single day. Those affected and those that died from the earliest days. There are a lot of lessons that we have to learn from this that we should put into history to be able to determine what happens in the future, how do we respond in the future, how do we deal with something like this again. It was uncharted territory for everyone. But I will tell you countless families, including my own, watched a loved one die behind a screen because we couldn’t get access to them. Children couldn’t get to school. People missed their prom or graduation ceremonies. There were lots of things that happened that dramatically changed the future of the country. The mental health issues that we have continued to deal with from the isolation have been profound. Even something as simple as children that wore masks or around adults wearing masks for all that time are slower in learning language now because they couldn’t watch someone’s lips moving, and so they’re slower in that. Amazingly enough, churches and places of worship were forced to be closed down. There were even churches that met with the pastor, preached in the parking lot, and the congregants all met in their cars with windows up, and police came and scattered them and said, you can’t be here. The simple act of social distancing became an issue, as everyone guessed, what’s the right distance to be away from someone else? Literacy rates have declined. All these things are results, not to mention the loss of lives and the health experiences that have been out there for many Americans. So, there are legitimate questions. I wanted to be able to raise some of those, to be able to walk through some of this, because it has been very, very challenging. As we’ve gone through some of your — your notes and your diary and other things that are out there, we’re trying to be able to pull bits and pieces of things to be able to learn lessons. On May 6, 2020, you wrote, at that time, ‘I had a conversation with Robert Redfield,’ as you know well, was then the director of CDC, ‘about the fact that greater than 1 million children worldwide have missed their measles vaccination because of the shutdown.’ You stated, ‘this is terrible and needs to be addressed, since on that basis alone, there would be far, far, far, far more excess deaths from measles among children than coronavirus deaths among children. I need to bring this up to the TF” — the task force. Did you ever have an opportunity to bring up the potential of measles deaths among children and an infection rate going around the world from measles, based on the fact that so many children would not get their measles vaccine because of the shutdown?” Dr. Fauci: “I’m sorry, Senator, but on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.” Lankford: “That is your right to do. One of the big issues is really coming up is on the lab issue. This was greatly discussed about whether this came from a lab or whether this came from nature. There are obvious issues and differences between the two — to be able to know this, you had a lot of conversation on this. Scientists around the world were — were in conversation on this. There are different statements that you even made in your private notes and your public notes on it. In January the 26th of 2020, this is before we had our even our first tragic death of coronavirus in the United States, you wrote, ‘it now appears using EPI data that the genomic data in the first infection was in early December and was not connected to the market,’ which was the big rumor that was out there — was this wet market in China. ‘We know the market was not the source. It was the amplifier.’ On January the 31st, you wrote about a phone call. You wrote the people on the phone, on the phone, ‘felt the mutations around the fur-and-cleavage site of the spike protein could not have occurred naturally, since it would require an evolutionary jump that they found nowhere in bat isolates. They bring up the possibility this could have been deliberately inserted in either accidentally released or deliberately released by a crazy person in the lab, the former being the most likely. February the 1st, same year, 2020 — this is again still before our first death, “there was not total agreement about the likelihood of deliberate insertion. Ron said he was.’ – ‘he was sure that this could occur naturally, and we should not waste our time and divert our efforts to pursue this. This is expected of him since he was the original gain-of-function person with Yoshi. Also, Christian was withdrawn. The rest felt deliberate insertion was possible, and given the fact that Doctor Shi Zhengli at the University of Wuhan has been working for years in gain of function in coronaviruses to allow adaptation of the spike protein to bind to the human AC-2 receptor. We could not let this go. That’s a remarkable statement for February the 1st of 2020, when there hadn’t even been the first death here. But we knew something was moving. You knew well that something was moving. You identified February the 1st, before any of us had ever heard of the Wuhan lab, not only the Wuhan lab in the conversation, but literally the scientists that you named in your own notes, the lead scientist that was there. It’s interesting to me on that. And the questions I was going to ask you was just your background and knowledge about the Wuhan lab and Doctor Shi and, and all the details. I’m aware of where you have been on trying to be able to plead your Fifth Amendment right, which is your right to be able to do. But I also want to be able to find out some facts to be able to help us for the future on this. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in May of 2020 put out a classified document that has only been recently unclassified on this — that had this statement: ‘We assess all the necessary conditions for an accidental release of a laboratory=modified coronavirus, specifically a coronavirus adapted to recognize human cell receptors, were present at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in mid-to-late 2019. Now, the question that I have for you is this is May the 27th of 2020. This is the report that most people will see is this. I have — I have clearance, I serve on the Intelligence Committee. I’ve actually read this complete document unredacted. My concern is we’re you given the ability to see this document unredacted, based on your position, were you able to see this and to be able to get this information, I could I could see it, and I know what’s here. Everybody else just has their conclusion at the beginning of it. Not this. My question to you was going to be, did you have access — because it’s important for the future that people in your position do have access to this kind of information and insight? Is there any way you could answer that question? Were you able to give access to this data?” Fauci: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer, based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.” Lankford: “You wrote on January the 26th of 2020, we should be allowed to send our CDC epidemiologists to China to work with them, so you could — So they could see the data firsthand. You — you also wrote in February 12th, 2020 that you had great concerns about the World Health Organization because they Depends greatly on China and, as you stated, often bows to them. Now, this is a really important issue that we’ve got to resolve for the future. It’s not just our cooperation with Chinese scientists, it’s our acknowledgment that China covered up their data, wouldn’t allow our scientists to be able to come in. They cleaned up the wet market. They cleaned up the other areas. They wouldn’t allow you to get access to — all the other scientists are there, including their health records, what happened to them, or even all the sequencing that they had done in advance for the future of our research and our cooperation with any scientists around the world? I think it’s really important that we resolve, if we’re going to fund research and cooperate with you, we’ve got to have certain things from you. If things go sideways, we’ve got to have access to all information in all places. You were noting not only that China was affecting the World Health Organization and that China was bending them to their will, and so, the World Health Organization was putting out data that you saw, at least at that point, as being, from a Chinese perspective, covering up what was going on. But you also noted we weren’t able to get access to all this information. We’ve got to be able to figure this out for the future, to be able to make sure that research that is done, we have access to all information if something goes sideways at some point, which clearly it did at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And that being, as was noted by many people, the only lab in the world that was doing research like this that had a lower standard of actually their security standards there than many other labs around the world, yet they were doing this very dangerous research. What can we gain and what advice would you give us to say in a future setting, We’ve got to make sure that we actually get information from people, and we can be guaranteed that we’re going to get that insight. Yes, sir.” Fauci: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.”

Really devastating lines of questioning from @SenJamesLankford.... Lankford: “There are a lot of issues and a lot of questions that have come up, and hopefully, some day in the future, we’ll be able to get all this clarity and pull it together. More than a million Americans that died of COVID. You know it well. You were tracking the number every single day. Those affected and those that died from the earliest days. There are a lot of lessons that we have to learn from this that we should put into history to be able to determine what happens in the future, how do we respond in the future, how do we deal with something like this again. It was uncharted territory for everyone. But I will tell you countless families, including my own, watched a loved one die behind a screen because we couldn’t get access to them. Children couldn’t get to school. People missed their prom or graduation ceremonies. There were lots of things that happened that dramatically changed the future of the country. The mental health issues that we have continued to deal with from the isolation have been profound. Even something as simple as children that wore masks or around adults wearing masks for all that time are slower in learning language now because they couldn’t watch someone’s lips moving, and so they’re slower in that. Amazingly enough, churches and places of worship were forced to be closed down. There were even churches that met with the pastor, preached in the parking lot, and the congregants all met in their cars with windows up, and police came and scattered them and said, you can’t be here. The simple act of social distancing became an issue, as everyone guessed, what’s the right distance to be away from someone else? Literacy rates have declined. All these things are results, not to mention the loss of lives and the health experiences that have been out there for many Americans. So, there are legitimate questions. I wanted to be able to raise some of those, to be able to walk through some of this, because it has been very, very challenging. As we’ve gone through some of your — your notes and your diary and other things that are out there, we’re trying to be able to pull bits and pieces of things to be able to learn lessons. On May 6, 2020, you wrote, at that time, ‘I had a conversation with Robert Redfield,’ as you know well, was then the director of CDC, ‘about the fact that greater than 1 million children worldwide have missed their measles vaccination because of the shutdown.’ You stated, ‘this is terrible and needs to be addressed, since on that basis alone, there would be far, far, far, far more excess deaths from measles among children than coronavirus deaths among children. I need to bring this up to the TF” — the task force. Did you ever have an opportunity to bring up the potential of measles deaths among children and an infection rate going around the world from measles, based on the fact that so many children would not get their measles vaccine because of the shutdown?” Dr. Fauci: “I’m sorry, Senator, but on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.” Lankford: “That is your right to do. One of the big issues is really coming up is on the lab issue. This was greatly discussed about whether this came from a lab or whether this came from nature. There are obvious issues and differences between the two — to be able to know this, you had a lot of conversation on this. Scientists around the world were — were in conversation on this. There are different statements that you even made in your private notes and your public notes on it. In January the 26th of 2020, this is before we had our even our first tragic death of coronavirus in the United States, you wrote, ‘it now appears using EPI data that the genomic data in the first infection was in early December and was not connected to the market,’ which was the big rumor that was out there — was this wet market in China. ‘We know the market was not the source. It was the amplifier.’ On January the 31st, you wrote about a phone call. You wrote the people on the phone, on the phone, ‘felt the mutations around the fur-and-cleavage site of the spike protein could not have occurred naturally, since it would require an evolutionary jump that they found nowhere in bat isolates. They bring up the possibility this could have been deliberately inserted in either accidentally released or deliberately released by a crazy person in the lab, the former being the most likely. February the 1st, same year, 2020 — this is again still before our first death, “there was not total agreement about the likelihood of deliberate insertion. Ron said he was.’ – ‘he was sure that this could occur naturally, and we should not waste our time and divert our efforts to pursue this. This is expected of him since he was the original gain-of-function person with Yoshi. Also, Christian was withdrawn. The rest felt deliberate insertion was possible, and given the fact that Doctor Shi Zhengli at the University of Wuhan has been working for years in gain of function in coronaviruses to allow adaptation of the spike protein to bind to the human AC-2 receptor. We could not let this go. That’s a remarkable statement for February the 1st of 2020, when there hadn’t even been the first death here. But we knew something was moving. You knew well that something was moving. You identified February the 1st, before any of us had ever heard of the Wuhan lab, not only the Wuhan lab in the conversation, but literally the scientists that you named in your own notes, the lead scientist that was there. It’s interesting to me on that. And the questions I was going to ask you was just your background and knowledge about the Wuhan lab and Doctor Shi and, and all the details. I’m aware of where you have been on trying to be able to plead your Fifth Amendment right, which is your right to be able to do. But I also want to be able to find out some facts to be able to help us for the future on this. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in May of 2020 put out a classified document that has only been recently unclassified on this — that had this statement: ‘We assess all the necessary conditions for an accidental release of a laboratory=modified coronavirus, specifically a coronavirus adapted to recognize human cell receptors, were present at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in mid-to-late 2019. Now, the question that I have for you is this is May the 27th of 2020. This is the report that most people will see is this. I have — I have clearance, I serve on the Intelligence Committee. I’ve actually read this complete document unredacted. My concern is we’re you given the ability to see this document unredacted, based on your position, were you able to see this and to be able to get this information, I could I could see it, and I know what’s here. Everybody else just has their conclusion at the beginning of it. Not this. My question to you was going to be, did you have access — because it’s important for the future that people in your position do have access to this kind of information and insight? Is there any way you could answer that question? Were you able to give access to this data?” Fauci: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer, based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.” Lankford: “You wrote on January the 26th of 2020, we should be allowed to send our CDC epidemiologists to China to work with them, so you could — So they could see the data firsthand. You — you also wrote in February 12th, 2020 that you had great concerns about the World Health Organization because they Depends greatly on China and, as you stated, often bows to them. Now, this is a really important issue that we’ve got to resolve for the future. It’s not just our cooperation with Chinese scientists, it’s our acknowledgment that China covered up their data, wouldn’t allow our scientists to be able to come in. They cleaned up the wet market. They cleaned up the other areas. They wouldn’t allow you to get access to — all the other scientists are there, including their health records, what happened to them, or even all the sequencing that they had done in advance for the future of our research and our cooperation with any scientists around the world? I think it’s really important that we resolve, if we’re going to fund research and cooperate with you, we’ve got to have certain things from you. If things go sideways, we’ve got to have access to all information in all places. You were noting not only that China was affecting the World Health Organization and that China was bending them to their will, and so, the World Health Organization was putting out data that you saw, at least at that point, as being, from a Chinese perspective, covering up what was going on. But you also noted we weren’t able to get access to all this information. We’ve got to be able to figure this out for the future, to be able to make sure that research that is done, we have access to all information if something goes sideways at some point, which clearly it did at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And that being, as was noted by many people, the only lab in the world that was doing research like this that had a lower standard of actually their security standards there than many other labs around the world, yet they were doing this very dangerous research. What can we gain and what advice would you give us to say in a future setting, We’ve got to make sure that we actually get information from people, and we can be guaranteed that we’re going to get that insight. Yes, sir.” Fauci: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.”

Curtis Houck

31,416 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

AOC: How do we get out of this pattern that we seem to have been stuck in for years? This state knows it well. Six elections in a row, starting in 1992, Democratic presidential candidates won here in Michigan. In fact, it wasn’t even particularly close in most of those contests. But then, in 2016, something shifted—not just here in Michigan, but across the country. Not just with Democrats, but also with Republicans. And to many political watchers, it seemed that the laws of political nature were totally upended. But it happened in all directions. And that is also part of what Bernie’s campaign spoke to 10 years ago as well. And that’s also what Trump’s victory in the fall in this state represented: this oscillation in response to the failure of our political system to address the needs of working people. These earthquakes and aftershocks… Two years after 2016, we had another aftershock across the country. And as a part of that, I went from being a waitress to winning a primary against a 20-year Democratic incumbent who was meant to be the next Speaker of the House. So I get it, Michigan. My frustrations—precisely because the stakes are so high, precisely because of their corruption, their discrimination, the gutting of voting rights—I understood the stakes of cleaning up my own backyard back here at home. We had to look at our contributions and why people like my family and my neighborhood felt so failed by the party in charge of championing the working class, and ask: How can we be better? In fact, we have a responsibility to be better. And all of us have been trying to get a handle on what all of that means ever since. And we do know some of the many contributing causes and factors. Yes, one of the deep causes has been bad trade deals that hollowed out states like Michigan. Another cause was the record income inequality and the Great Recession, spurred on by unchecked greed on Wall Street. And yes, yet another cause was the slew of shameful and quiet bigotries waiting in the shadows in pockets of our country—racism, sexism, fear of our neighbor—that seemed to gnash their teeth the strongest the closer we get to uniting across our differences. All of these things are true. And yet there is more, because it was also due to a political system that had, over decades and across parties, become totally enmeshed in a financial and electoral politics that stopped serving working people.

AOC: How do we get out of this pattern that we seem to have been stuck in for years? This state knows it well. Six elections in a row, starting in 1992, Democratic presidential candidates won here in Michigan. In fact, it wasn’t even particularly close in most of those contests. But then, in 2016, something shifted—not just here in Michigan, but across the country. Not just with Democrats, but also with Republicans. And to many political watchers, it seemed that the laws of political nature were totally upended. But it happened in all directions. And that is also part of what Bernie’s campaign spoke to 10 years ago as well. And that’s also what Trump’s victory in the fall in this state represented: this oscillation in response to the failure of our political system to address the needs of working people. These earthquakes and aftershocks… Two years after 2016, we had another aftershock across the country. And as a part of that, I went from being a waitress to winning a primary against a 20-year Democratic incumbent who was meant to be the next Speaker of the House. So I get it, Michigan. My frustrations—precisely because the stakes are so high, precisely because of their corruption, their discrimination, the gutting of voting rights—I understood the stakes of cleaning up my own backyard back here at home. We had to look at our contributions and why people like my family and my neighborhood felt so failed by the party in charge of championing the working class, and ask: How can we be better? In fact, we have a responsibility to be better. And all of us have been trying to get a handle on what all of that means ever since. And we do know some of the many contributing causes and factors. Yes, one of the deep causes has been bad trade deals that hollowed out states like Michigan. Another cause was the record income inequality and the Great Recession, spurred on by unchecked greed on Wall Street. And yes, yet another cause was the slew of shameful and quiet bigotries waiting in the shadows in pockets of our country—racism, sexism, fear of our neighbor—that seemed to gnash their teeth the strongest the closer we get to uniting across our differences. All of these things are true. And yet there is more, because it was also due to a political system that had, over decades and across parties, become totally enmeshed in a financial and electoral politics that stopped serving working people.

Acyn

42,097 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

#WATCH | Bengaluru | On inviting investment in West Bengal, State Finance Minister Swapan Dasgupta says, "Unfortunately, for the past 50 years, Bengal has been saddled with the image problem, which is really that it is inhospitable to industry. It is inhospitable to business. We want to correct that impression. We are now asking people to realise that there is a new Bengal which is hospitable and welcoming to business. We are trying to make all sorts of policies, create a policy framework that is attractive to business, and get back the relevance that Bengal once had and which Bengal has unfortunately lost. We believe that many people who originated from West Bengal are working and occupying responsible positions in Bengaluru. We are appealing to all of them to look at Bengal now. We have asked them to consider Bengal as part of their future plans. The past 50 years have been terrible for West Bengal. We have the support of the entire people of West Bengal who want change. We have the support of the central government. We have the total commitment of the state government, which is interested in making supportive policies."

#WATCH | Bengaluru | On inviting investment in West Bengal, State Finance Minister Swapan Dasgupta says, "Unfortunately, for the past 50 years, Bengal has been saddled with the image problem, which is really that it is inhospitable to industry. It is inhospitable to business. We want to correct that impression. We are now asking people to realise that there is a new Bengal which is hospitable and welcoming to business. We are trying to make all sorts of policies, create a policy framework that is attractive to business, and get back the relevance that Bengal once had and which Bengal has unfortunately lost. We believe that many people who originated from West Bengal are working and occupying responsible positions in Bengaluru. We are appealing to all of them to look at Bengal now. We have asked them to consider Bengal as part of their future plans. The past 50 years have been terrible for West Bengal. We have the support of the entire people of West Bengal who want change. We have the support of the central government. We have the total commitment of the state government, which is interested in making supportive policies."

ANI

48,422 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

“We are all at the mercy of the bottom 20 % of people in America.” “The rules and laws that we follow, they all exist because of the behavior of the bottom 20%.” “The taxes we all pay on our income and on our purchasing, they only exist to support the bottom 20%.” “Greatest risk to the property that you own and to the wellbeing of you and your family members and the people you love is that bottom 20 % of people.” “The public places that used to be really nice and used to be really fun to hang out at or comfortable to be in, they're not anymore because of this bottom 20%.”

“We are all at the mercy of the bottom 20 % of people in America.” “The rules and laws that we follow, they all exist because of the behavior of the bottom 20%.” “The taxes we all pay on our income and on our purchasing, they only exist to support the bottom 20%.” “Greatest risk to the property that you own and to the wellbeing of you and your family members and the people you love is that bottom 20 % of people.” “The public places that used to be really nice and used to be really fun to hang out at or comfortable to be in, they're not anymore because of this bottom 20%.”

Wall Street Mav

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