Scientists and Western governments have raised serious doubts about the WHO coronavirus investigation. The report is not only misleading, it suggests Beijing is involved in a cover up.

It didn’t take long for researchers and the Biden administration to sharply challenge the WHO investigation – the first undertaken by the organization, and the only international team allowed into China since the pandemic began in 2019.

The study was publicly billed as a World Health Organization investigation but was renamed recently as a “joint WHO/China investigation” and was accompanied on its release by a statement from the organization’s director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, which read in part: “WHO calls for further studies, data on origin of SARS-CoV-2 virus, reiterates that all hypotheses remain open”.

The United States alleges Beijing not only wrote a significant portion of the report, but also limited what international investigators were allowed to investigate.

My own review of the 300-page report revealed misleading conclusions which strongly suggest China’s regime is covering up the real cause of the Wuhan outbreak.

WATCH: Part one of the interview with Prof. Nikolai Petrovsky of Flinders University (above).

Lab Leak Theory

The WHO report lists four possible causes of the outbreak in order of their likelihood. The panel concluded the most likely origin of the outbreak was a zoonotic transmission from animal (potentially a bat) to a human.

The second most likely possibility was that the virus evolved through an intermediate animal like a pangolin to a human.

Transmission through frozen foods was third on the list of likely culprits.

The least likely cause according to the panel, was an accidental lab leak.

In reality, there’s little available evidence to support the three initial scenarios and a significant amount of evidence to support the lab leak, as I first reported last May.

Scientists cannot explain how quickly the virus adapted from bats to humans. A typical zoonotic process would require a longer evolutionary timeline and many more contacts between infected animals and humans but this never happened.

Chinese scientists have also tested thousands of species and food sources for signs of contamination but could not find a single match to the coronavirus.

That leaves scientists with only one remaining possibility – a leak from one of the labs at the Wuhan Institute of Virology which housed the largest bat coronavirus database in the world.

Researchers at the institute had been experimenting on bat coronaviruses including gain of function experiments which augment an existing genome by splicing it together with another genome, making it more amenable to human cells.

Prof Nikolai Petrovsky of Flinders University in Adelaide joined Zev Shalev and Noel Casler on the podcast to explain his research, which he says proves a lab leak is the only possible cause.

“What came out of the study was that [the coronavirus] was optimally designed to infect and transmit between humans, and every other animal species was below human. There is no evidence [that] virus was in humans prior to, October, November, December 2019. The only plausible answer is it saw human cells in the laboratory.”

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WATCH: Nina Burleigh joins Petrovsky for Part 2 of the podcast. Burleigh’s upcoming book is called ‘Virus’ and is available as a pre-order today at most booksellers like Amazon.

Study BLOCKED

Petrovsky initially struggled to gain public attention for his study because he says the virology community is concerned that disclosure would hurt their reputation and future funding.

“It was just being blocked, and it still hasn’t officially been published to this day. We think we might be on the cusp of getting it accepted nine months after we submitted it. It’s quite extraordinary. And it’s a very innocent paper.”

Author and journalist Nina Burleigh will soon publish ‘Virus’, out May 18. Burleigh says the scientific community must take a stand. “I think people like David Relman at Stanford, if more people would come out and say, it’s quite possible that this is an accident, then they have to come back and make some changes,” Burleigh said.

One question does remain unanswered: Was the virus accidentally or deliberately released? That’s a question few people want to answer or even entertain.

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Some people believe the Council for National Policy is the biggest domestic threat to American democracy. Narativ interviews Anne Nelson and Dave Troy on the CNP’s dystopian agenda.Anne Nelson wrote the book about the CNP. In “Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right,” Nelson explores the evolution of the right wing’s umbrella council from its roots in social conservatism to the radical extremism it supports today.

Nelson’s recent article detailed how members of the CNP helped organize the Jan 6 ‘Stop The Steal’ event. She joins Zev Shalev along with disinformation researcher Dave Troy.

PART 1: DEEP BACKGROUND

Dave reveals the CNP’s roots in U.S. intelligence and Anne reveals how the CNP helped organize the Jan 6 attempted coup. 

PART 2: EXTREME MACHINE

Anne and Dave discuss ways democrats can respond to the CNP.

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(And How To Win It.)

Science confirms Donald Trump’s actions and inactions caused at least 40% of Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. Amid the grief, are we missing the reason he did it? Part 1.

How do you measure the toll? You can count the bodies or cite the unemployment rate but neither adequately captures the human loss of the last four years. Half-a-million lives taken, thousands more with long-term injuries, so many shattered careers, and the vanished hopes of many Americans.

We glaze over the numbers, and we sigh at the hopelessness of it all. It’s often felt like the world of pain will continue until our apocalyptic destruction. This outcome is neither true nor inevitable, yet just the thought of it paralyzes us into inaction.

We need to dislodge from that narrative and see our current situation for what it is. Nobody wants to be at war, especially not right now. Still, we can’t find our battle footing, we can’t unite against a common enemy, we can’t fulfill our promise to future generations if we don’t acknowledge the cold hard truth: we’re at war.

This war isn’t fought with tanks and missiles, but rather with deception and manipulation. The goal remains the same as traditional conflict: one nation(s) inflicts maximum damage and casualties until another country submits to its rule or demands.

The first shot of deception in this war was fired when Donald Trump was elected as U.S. president.

Although he was legitimately elected, Trump was not an American president. He is a Russian intelligence asset. According to former KGB officer Yuri Shvets in Craig Unger’s American Kompromat, the Russians began grooming Trump at the height of the Cold War when the KGB still existed. He remains under the influence of Russia’s intelligence services until today.

But even if you doubt Trump’s ties to Russia, or you shrug at his $200 Million loan from China, the tale of his presidential tape speaks volumes:

Trump will go down in shame. The only president impeached twice, whose approval rating never crossed over 50%, and the only POTUS to attempt a violent coup. 

His overt and sycophantic appeasement of the autocrats who pulled his puppet or purse strings was an early public giveaway of his treacherous intentions. His policies made it clear he was acting on orders from the Kremlin, Beijing, or Riyadh. 

As Hong Kong democracy protesters appealed for our help against China’s clampdown on democratic rights on the island, the U.S. didn’t respond. Trump’s silence will remain an indelible act of democracy’s submission to tyranny. His abandonment of the Middle East to archaic patriarchies and kingdoms has extinguished the hope that equality and freedom could have ushered in for the region’s people. Generations worldwide will equate America’s intentional collapse in response to coronavirus as the loss of American hegemony. 

This is not how American presidents act. This is how a puppet president acts, who climbed to power in an unholy alliance of white supremacists, Christian fascists, catholic extremists and facilitated by a gang of foreign dictators and kleptocrats.

If it were up to me, Congress would strip Trump of his titles and rescind every action he took, including nullifying the appointments of three Supreme Court justices and hundreds of federal judges, and throw him in jail.

But it isn’t up to me. And while there are impressive efforts to reverse four years of destructive policies, and equally determined efforts to prosecute Trump, we cannot erase the last four years’ events, nor are we likely to see him gracefully exit the stage. 

Trump was installed as an act of war against us and our way of life, and as long as he can antagonize Americans or sow chaos, he’ll remain a dangerous force in U.S. politics. He’ll be here until he and his enablers are banished; until we win the war.  

A Wartime President, but not ours

We usually measure war by the physical destruction, by the number of deaths and injuries caused by combat or the miles ceded to the enemy. It’s hard to fathom we are the victims of war without seeing the actual destruction around us. But that does not mean the destruction is not happening. 

General Valery Gerasimov is the Chief of Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces, the Kremlin’s top soldier and the author of a war doctrine that bears his last name.

The Gerasimov Doctrine declares you can achieve significant destruction using what the Russians call hybrid warfare, which blends soft military tactics, intelligence operations, influence and information campaigns, active measures and cyber warfare.

A hot war without bullets.

The results are often more dramatic than conventional war and come with a deepening sense of mystery and a frustrating inability to reciprocate. As one former KGB officer said, “It’s not easy to find the black cat in a dark room, especially if the black cat isn’t there.” 

The alliances began well before 2015, but it entered a new phase that year when a gang of Middle-East leaders chastened by eight years of principled Obama rule and an Arab Spring joined an ill-conceived secret axis of powers behind America’s back.

Along with an already allied China and Russia, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman, his Emirati counterpart Mohammed bin Zayed, Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu, and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi struck a new alliance.

The Middle East leaders wanted to realign the region’s balance of power by using brute force to solve previously intractable issues without much regard for human life or rights. This axis would later provide cover for Russia and Turkey to rampage across Syria to bolster Bashar al-Assad’s rule, driving out the Kurds, America’s loyal allies in the region.

But in 2015, the axis was missing one thing: an amenable U.S. politician who would not only back their plan but could be elected as U.S. president. They eventually found their candidate in Donald Trump.

Trump utilized an Israeli social media manipulation firm, PSY Group, to help engineer his victory. According to Volume 5 of the Senate Intelligence Report, the Saudis and Emiratis picked up the tab for part of that operation under Erik Prince’s direction. Prince is bankrolled by China.

They also found a domestic base of support in America’s wealthy, Christian, and often-racist white elite through Prince.

I call this partnership between these Axis powers and their domestic enablers the “enemies of democracy’; others use the terms ‘anti-democratic’ or ‘authoritarian’, but no matter what you call them, they represent an existential threat to America as we know it.

There are two mindset shifts we need now. The first is to behave as if we are at war because we are. The second is to allow ourselves a little imagination.  More on the first later, but for the second, we need to expand our world view.

A PERFECT CONFLUENCE

Vladimir Putin spent the afternoon of the 2016 U.S. presidential election in the Kremlin with his Chinese counterpart Premier Li Keqiang. The two leaders inked a new deal to cement their countries’ alliance, while Trump was declared the next president of the U.S.A

Across the world in New York City, Putin’s trusted delegate Kiril Dmitriev received a text from a business associate. “Putin has won,” it read.

The next day, Putin congratulated Trump warmly on his victory. Xi Jinping followed with his congratulations and an invitation for the newly elected president to visit.

There is a tendency in the American mindset to organize events into specific categories. A pandemic falls into the health category and cannot possibly also be an instrument of malign foreign power. Foes are foes ,and friends are friends, but other nations don’t always share such binary thinking.

It’s even more challenging to accept that an American president was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Still, it’s now a matter of scientific fact that Trump’s failed response to the pandemic contributed significantly to the 500,000 deaths attributed to Covid-19.

500,000 is more people than died in combat in all of America’s wars against foreign enemies, combined. The U.S. represents only 5% of the world’s population but accounts for 20% of global Covid-19 deaths. How could the world’s leading economy with the leading scientific minds account for one-fifth of the world’s deaths?

A growing body of scientific research proves Trump’s failure to respond to the pandemic directly resulted in mass death. Among the most conservative but well-regarded estimates is that Trump caused at least 40% of all Covid deaths. That’s 200,000 deaths based on the current death toll.

And the U.S. also leads the world in the number of Covid-19 cases. That total number indicates an unimaginable long-term health crisis is on our horizon. Some studies suggest as many as one-third of Covid-19 sufferers face long-term health issues related to coronavirus six months after contracting the disease.

I can’t shake the memory of Trump’s super-spreader campaign events last August. He knew he was spreading Covid-19, especially after contracting it himself. The only reason he would be so cavalier and destructive is if Big Pharma, China or Russia somehow incentivized him to spread the disease.

On the global stage, China has reaped the rewards of Trump’s mishandling of coronavirus in terms of trade and foreign influence. Russia too has expanded its influence through military conquest, which Trump didn’t challenge and, in some cases, even supported. Russia and China have also combined efforts to expand their military footing in the Arctic, leaving the U.S. and Canada at greater risk.

Today, more than a year after the Coronavirus pandemic first tore through Wuhan, China, Xi is all but declaring victory over the U.S. “The biggest source of chaos in the present-day world is the United States,” Xi Jinping is quoted as saying. “The East is rising and the West is declining.”

This statement would have seemed foolish four years ago, but is far less so after Trump’s term in office.

It’s no wonder Putin and Xi Jinping were so quick to congratulate Trump on his 2016 election victory, and the Chinese leader was so eager to host Trump on a state visit to China. During that state visit, Trump showed Xi a video of his granddaughter Arabella serenading her ‘Grandaddy Xi’ in perfect Mandarin.

By contrast, it took Xi and Putin weeks to acknowledge President Biden’s win in 2020.

If 500,000 dead, a long-term health crisis, the devastation of our economy and our plummeting global standing are not the result of war, what is? Is there another way to rationally explain this confluence of tragedy that somehow struck the United States with such wicked timing?

To put it in blunt terms, Trump is a Russian asset and his negligence in dealing with the coronavirus, which originated in China, appears to have been to the net benefit of China and its Russian ally, and to the extreme detriment of the United States.

You can read part two of ‘The War We’re In‘ here.

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Psychiatrists tried to warn us about Donald Trump. They were shut down.

Watch Part 3 of Covidgate. We learn of a coordinated effort to suppress warnings about Donald Trump’s mental health.

Lyndon B. Johnson was re-elected in a landslide in 1964 partially because American voters were increasingly concerned Johnson’s Republican challenger, Barry Goldwater, would lead the U.S. into nuclear war with Russia.

Over half of psychiatrists polled by Fact magazine that year responded that the Arizona Senator was mentally unfit to be president. Goldwater sued the magazine and won his case.

Despite clear evidence the poll itself was poorly structured and the results misrepresented, in 1973, chastened mental health practitioners adopted a new rule into their code of ethics named after Goldwater.

“[I]t is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion [on a public figure] unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization,” Rule 7a reads.

Duty To Warn

The rule, and psychiatry in general, has mostly stayed clear of presidential politics until Donald Trump was elected president, which is when a group of mental health professional gathered at Yale university for the ‘Duty to Warn’ conference.

The conference attendees concluded mental health professionals did have a responsibility to warn the public if they were concerned about a public person’s state of mind. And they were very worried about Donald Trump’s, whom many believed displayed the clear characteristics of someone with Anti Social Personality Disorder.

In other words, Trump is a sociopath.

The conference was organized by Dr. Bandy X. Lee who went on to curate a New York Times bestseller called “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump”.

The book became a runaway success and Dr. Lee began doing the TV rounds warning the public of the real dangers caused by a Donald Trump presidency. That’s when a scathing op-ed in the New York Times scolded Dr. Lee’s efforts. An an op-ed, she later discovered, which was backed by the America Psychiatric Association.

Goldwater’s Ghost

At the heart of the APA’s criticism was the Goldwater Rule.

Almost instantly, Dr. Lee noticed the mood shift. She claims she was booked and then cancelled by TV producers seventy times.

I can attest to one of those times. I was one of them.

In 2018, while doing a short tour of duty in Canada to launch a national Sunday morning show, one of the producers pitched Dr. Lee as a guest. I opted for another segment for a myriad of sound editorial reasons, but the New York Times editorial did factor into my thinking, such is the power of a vaunted institution like the Times.

In the ensuing weeks and months, Dr. Lee noticed something else. She claims her quotes were systematically deleted out of previously published New York Times articles.

The Goldwater Rule seems at best misguided. After all, In 1964, Americans heeded the warnings about Goldwater’s mental state and delivered Johnson one of the most decisive election victories since 1820.

But at its worst, the Goldwater Rule provides cover for literal madmen to assume the highest offices of power. Any reasonable person would agree that mental health practitioners should warn the country if there is clear evidence of danger.

Things Will Get Worse

The 1973 Goldwater Rule is relic, which decades after its adoption, looms over our current existential crisis. The APA ought to revisit it and Dr. Lee deserves the gratitude of a community and the indebtedness of her profession. We should also heed her warning. She published her book in 2017, and three years later she believes if Donald Trump stays in office, things will get far worse. Dr. Lee’s new book “Trump’s Mind, America’s Soul” will be out soon.

These days, we could do with Goldwater’s spirit from a later chapter of his political career, when he told Nixon he had to resign, and Nixon did. We don’t have Republican Senators like that anymore.

In the coming weeks and months, we’ll be forced to confront many societal structures and long-held beliefs which have outlived their usefulness or their times. The Goldwater Rule serves as a timely reminder not to cling on to a past that no longer makes sense.

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By attempting to construct an elaborate narrative, Donald Trump has exposed his own cover-up.

Donald Trump’s coronavirus infection has spread to more than 100 people in and outside the administration.

Zev Shalev continues to make the case for an independent investigation into the Trump’s administration’s Covid-19 contagion. The White House has repeatedly refused to reveal when Trump last had a negative coronavirus test, citing HIPAA privacy laws.

In part 2, Zev and his guests explore Trump’s attempt to shape the narrative of this explosive scandal, which has unwittingly revealed a clumsy cover-up.

@Lincoln’sBible and Dr. Bandy X. Lee, author of the upcoming “Trump’s Mind, America’s Soul” join Zev.    

Watch Part 2 above; Listen to Part 2 below.

Watch Part 1 here.

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Did the coronavirus leak from a Wuhan lab?

By the time you start reading this post or watch the latest podcast, your mind has probably been bombarded by an extraordinary amount of disinformation from the U.S. and China over whether the coronavirus leaked from a Chinese virology lab? China obviously denies this possibility but the US isn’t so sure.

The global dispute resulted in an extraordinarily rare statement from the director of national intelligence confirming the U.S. is exploring claims the coronavirus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

My independent investigation reveals that while the virus appears to be naturally occurring, it likely originated from cultures in the high security P4 laboratory in Wuhan.

These are my findings.

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There is much more to the disinformation war than meets the eye. Trump’s claims are also a strategic attempt to paint Democrats and Joe Biden as soft on China.

“This is what happens in a disinformation war. Two sides that are involved in something together start pretending to fight with each other. We saw it in Syria when Russia accused Turkey of profiting off the sale of ISIS oil. The truth is that faux fight was a smokescreen to hide the fact that they were both profiting off the sale of ISIS oil in Syria. The same thing is happening here.”

“What Happened in Wuhan?”

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The symmetry between Chinese President Xi and Donald Trump’s strategies is too hard to ignore. Are the two leaders intentionally sickening the world?

Over the last four years, many of us who write about the Trump administration have suspected that behind the Russian interference and the Saudi connection is a China rising story. Beijing’s involvement has been visible on the fringes, but there were limited apparent ties to the Trump Administration to arrive at a conclusive collusion story. 

As #COVID-19 has become an everyday reality for most of us, the symmetry between Trump and Xi’s strategy has become more apparent. In the latest podcast, I break down why I think Xi and Trump are deliberately sickening the world and why America remains completely divided by it. 

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Does SARS-CoV-2 slow down during Summer?

The National Academy of Sciences‘ Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats has weighed in on the question: Does the spread of the Coronavirus slow down in warmer conditions?

NAS claims studies have shown reduced transmission of the virus under warmer and humid conditions in the lab. One study found the virus does survive longer than other known pathogens like flu, monkeypox, tuberculosis or the 2002 SARS but still less than in colder conditions.

Out of the lab, the virus still spreads in countries with warmer weather but the countries with the biggest outbreaks all occurred during the northern Winter and early Spring and have subsided as the temperatures climbed.

More people are outside in the Summer which may help social distancing.

The unknown factor is the limited research into the two strains of SARS-CoV-2. One strain appears to have been more dominant in Europe and the East Coast of the USA and the other in Asia.

Here’s the National Academy of Sciences report on the Coronavirus survival in Summer.

Google has published a fully interactive map which allows local newsrooms (and anyone else frankly) access to a real-time visualization of COVID-19’s contagion in their local districts or anywhere in the U.S.

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