Vials labeled "Smallpox" found in Pennsylvania lab freezer have no trace of virus, CDC says
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Frozen vials labeled "Smallpox" that were discovered in a freezer at a vaccine research facility in Pennsylvania "contain no trace of virus known to cause smallpox," federal health officials said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that testing showed the vials contain "vaccinia, the virus used in smallpox vaccine" and not the variola virus, which causes smallpox.
The CDC had said Monday that the vials "were incidentally discovered by a laboratory worker" who was wearing gloves and a face mask while cleaning out the freezer. The CDC said no one was exposed to the contents.
Mark O'Neill, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Department of Health, told the New York Times that the vials were found at a Merck facility in Montgomery County.
It was not clear why the vials were in the freezer. The CDC said it was "in close contact with state and local health officials, law enforcement, and the World Health Organization" about the findings.
Smallpox is a deadly, infectious disease that plagued the world for centuries and killed nearly a third of the people it infected. Victims suffered scorching fever and body aches, and then spots and blisters that would leave survivors with pitted scars.
The United States ended routine childhood vaccination against the disease by the early 1970s and said the last natural outbreak in the country occurred in 1949. In 1980, the World Health Assembly declared smallpox eradicated.
There are two sites designated by the WHO where stocks of variola virus are stored and used for research: the CDC facility in Atlanta and a center in Russia.
Smallpox research in the United States focuses on the development of vaccines, drugs and diagnostic tests to protect people against smallpox in the event that it is used as an agent of bioterrorism, according to the CDC.
Half of Americans believe China is world's leading economic power
Record 63% say economic power of China is critical threat to U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Forty-five percent of Americans now say China is
the greatest enemy of the U.S., more than double the percentage who said
so in 2020. That year, Americans were equally as likely to say either
China or Russia was the U.S.'s greatest enemy. The current shift
coincided with a period when the global economy and human activity were
severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in
China.
Americans' Perceptions of the U.S.'s Greatest Enemy
What one country anywhere in the world do you consider to be the United States' greatest enemy today?
2021 Feb 3-18
2020 Feb 3-16
Change
%
%
pct. pts.
China
45
22
23
Russia
26
23
3
North Korea/Korea
9
12
-3
Iran
4
19
-15
Iraq
2
7
-5
Afghanistan
1
1
0
United States itself
1
1
0
Mexico
1
--
1
Saudi Arabia
--
1
-1
Middle East (non-specific)
--
1
-1
Japan
--
1
-1
Israel
--
2
-2
Syria
--
1
-1
Pakistan
--
1
-1
Gallup
The Feb. 3-18 poll also finds favorable views of China among U.S. adults falling for the second straight year, putting the figure at a historically low 20%.
The rise in perceptions of China as the United States' greatest enemy
is accompanied by a sharp decline since 2020 in those mentioning Iran
(down 15 percentage points to 4%), as well as four-to-five-point
declines in mentions of Iraq and North Korea and smaller declines in a
handful of other countries.
Perceptions of Russia as the United States' greatest enemy, now 26%,
were essentially unchanged from a year ago when 23% named it. But it is
down from 32% who did so in 2019 when it ranked first overall. The 9% of
Americans who view North Korea as their country's greatest enemy is a
noticeable turn from previous years when rhetorical tensions, military
escalations and missile testing were more elevated. In 2018, 51% named
North Korea as the greatest enemy.
Americans' Perceptions Over Time
Over the past several years, there have been noticeable fluctuations
between the country perceived as the nation's greatest adversary; China
last ranked No. 1 in 2014, Russia topped the list in 2020, 2019 and
2014, and North Korea ranked highest in 2018 and 2016.
Prior to China, Russia and North Korea's top rankings, Americans
named Iran (2006-2008, 2011 and 2012) and Iraq (2001 and 2005) as the
United States' greatest enemy.
Line graph. Americans' perceptions that China, Russia or North
Korea/Korea as the U.S. greatest enemy. Now 45% say China is the
greatest enemy, 26% Russia and 9% North Korea/Korea.
While North Korea continues to hold the overall record high of 51% as
the U.S.'s greatest enemy, that focus has now shifted to its ally and
primary benefactor, China.
There are noticeable partisan differences in perceptions of the
greatest enemy of the U.S, with Republicans naming China as the top
country and Democrats citing Russia. While 76% of Republicans name China
as the greatest enemy, 43% of independents and 22% of Democrats do so.
Conversely, close to half of Democrats name Russia (47%) compared with
one in four independents (24%) and just 6% of Republicans.
Who Is the World's Leading Economic Power?
While Americans perceive China as the country's top enemy, half also
believe that China is the world's leading economic power. This
perception has noticeably increased since 2020, likely because of the
COVID-related decline in the U.S. economy in the past year. While China
has made strong progress in its overall GDP growth, it remains the
world's second-largest economy to the United States.
Since 2000, Americans have alternated between choosing China or the
United States as the leading economic power, often influenced by the
current health of the U.S. economy. The 50% of Americans perceiving the U.S. as the top economic power a year ago was the highest in two decades, reflecting the nation's strong economic performance just before the pandemic.
Far fewer Americans select the European Union (5%), Japan (4%),
Russia (2%) or India (1%) for this distinction. Of these, only Japan has
been chosen by 10% or more in Gallup's trend since 2000, with those
instances occurring more than a decade ago.
Americans' Perceptions of the Leading Economic Power in the World Today
Which one of the following do you think
is the leading economic power in the world today -- [ROTATED: The
United States, The European Union, Russia, China, Japan, India]?
China
United States
European Union
Japan
Russia
India
%
%
%
%
%
%
2021 Feb 3-18
50
37
5
4
2
1
2020 Feb 3-16
39
50
4
4
2
1
2018 Feb 1-10
44
42
5
4
2
1
2016 Feb 3-7
50
37
4
5
2
1
2014 Feb 6-9
52
31
5
7
2
2
2013 Feb 7-10
53
32
2
8
2
2
2012 Feb 2-5
53
33
3
7
*
2
2011 Feb 2-5
52
32
3
7
2
1
2009 Feb 9-12
39
37
7
10
2
1
2008 Feb 11-14
40
33
7
13
2
2
2000 May 18-21
10
65
4
16
2
*
Gallup
A separate question in the survey asks Americans which country they
think will be the leading economic power in 20 years. The public's views
are more evenly split on this question, with 46% choosing China and 40%
the United States. Again, this is a switch from last year when the
majority (53%) predicted the U.S. would have this role, nearly matching
the record high 55% selecting the U.S. in 2000.
No more than 4% foresee the European Union, Japan, India or Russia achieving this distinction in 20 years.
Record High See Chinese Economic Power as Critical U.S. Threat
A new high of 63% of Americans says the economic power of China is a
critical threat to the vital interests of the U.S. in the next 10 years.
An additional 30% describe it as an important, but not critical,
threat.
The 63% who believe China's economic power is a critical threat is up
from 46% the last time the question was asked in 2019 and is more than
10 points above the prior highs of 52% in 2013 and 2014.
Line graph. Americans' perceptions of Chinese economic power as a
critical threat to the U.S. 63% of Americans now view Chinese economic
power as a critical threat, 30% an important one and 7% not important.
Views that China's economic rise is a critical threat to the vital
interests of the United States have climbed among all party groups.
Today 81% of Republicans, 59% of independents and 56% of Democrats view
China's economic rise as such a threat. In 2019, fewer in all party
groups held that view, including 54% of Republicans, 47% of independents
and 37% of Democrats.
Bottom Line
Perceptions of China as the greatest enemy of the U.S. are at a high
point in Gallup's trend at the same time its favorable rating is at a
low point. The specific concern some Americans have over China, namely
its economic power, is identified as a threat to the vital interests of
the U.S. by most Americans. In addition, half of Americans view China as
the leading economic power in the world today. These developments make
U.S. foreign policy toward China especially important, as the tension
between the two nations has only grown over the past decade during
"Each of our visits to the doctor will be available to a large number of people, which will make our health condition subject to a large number of abuses, because this data will be treated like all other data, and even slightly ill people will find it difficult to find a job," says Mislav Kolakušić.
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A Croatian Member of Parliament is sounding the alarm about the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Commission’s plan to impose a medical dictatorship in the name of fighting future pandemics.
Mislav Kolakušić, a lawyer who was elected as MEP in 2019, broke down how the “psychopaths” in charge of the EU and other governments who caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people with their COVID-19 mismanagement now want to turn over citizens’ private medical data to the pharmaceutical industry.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has proved to us that we are surrounded by a large number of psychopaths who run countries and govern Europe, and whose decisions can lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands and even millions of of European citizens,” Kolakušić said in a video address on Tuesday.
“During the pandemic, many citizens died because they were not provided with medical care as a large number of wards in hospitals were closed or did not receive patients.”
“In Croatia alone, 50% fewer medical examinations and operations were performed in hospitals,” he continued. “A large number of people died because they were infected with hospital bacteria during frequent and medically unjustified ventilator treatments. Three of my friends died that way. I hope that I will be able to ensure that those responsible do not go unpunished.”
Kolakušić blasted the “idiots or psychopaths” who forced the COVID injections upon European citizens, noting “there is no evidence of their effectiveness in preventing disease or transmitting the infection.”
“Now these same idiots or psychopaths – I’m not sure what they really are – want to make all of our medical data, medical history and accompanying findings, lab findings and discharge letters available to the industry,” he stressed.
“Due to the large number of often and intentionally caused diseases and deaths, the pharmaceutical industry was justifiably named ‘Pharmaceutical Mafia.’ Each of our visits to the doctor will be available to a large number of people, which will make our health condition subject to a large number of abuses, because this data will be treated like all other data and even slightly ill people will find it difficult to find a job.”
“Today, most people are aware that there are a lot of people to whom human lives are nothing but numbers in a game of power and money,” he added.
Kolakušić also spoke on the floor of the EU Parliament last week warning that the EU elite is “creating a new EU electoral system designed for a small political cartel that has nothing to do with citizens.”
“Unfortunately, there are growing efforts to transform the EU into a highly centralized, controlled and undemocratic political structure,” he said.
At least 23 Western leaders, with the backing of the World Economic Forum (WEF), called for the creation of a Pandemic Treaty helmed by the WHO to make the world more “resilient” to future “health emergencies.”
“The main goal of such a treaty would be to strengthen the world’s resilience to future pandemics through better alert systems, data sharing, research and the production and distribution of vaccines, medicines, diagnostics and personal protective equipment, they said,” the WEF reported.
Critics of the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty claim it’s simply a backdoor to the beginning of global governance by turning over medical sovereignty of 194 countries to the United Nations.
The World Council for Health condemned the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty in a letter as a “threat to sovereignty and inalienable rights.”
“The proposed WHO agreement is unnecessary, and is a threat to sovereignty and inalienable rights. It increases the WHO’s suffocating power to declare unjustified pandemics, impose dehumanizing lockdowns, and enforce expensive, unsafe, and ineffective treatments against the will of the people,” the council wrote.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. wins presidential elections in Philippines: Preliminary results
Marcos, son of president who ruled Philippines
for over 30 years, expresses gratitude to supporters who helped him
during last 6 months
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Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has won the Philippines’ presidential elections, local media reported Monday, citing preliminary results.
Marcos,
heir apparent to the political dynasty of the late Ferdinand Marcos,
who ruled the Philippines for over 30 years, got over 29.6 million votes
as of the latest count, with closest rival Leni Robredo far behind with
14.1 million, The Manila Times reported.
He expressed gratitude to the supporters who helped him over the last six months.
"Any
endeavor as large as this does not involve (just) one person," Marcos
said in his first public remarks following preliminary results.
“It involves very, very many people working in very, very many different ways, and to all of them, I thank you.”
A
record 67 million Filipinos were registered to vote in the general
elections, also casting ballots for legislators, senators, and local
administrators, along with the president and vice president.
Ballot counting started soon after polling stations closed on Monday.
When the vote is confirmed, the six-year term of outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte is also set to come to an end.
Metabiota, the US company
funded by US Department of Defence’s Threat Reduction Agency (“DTRA”) to
operate biolabs in Ukraine, was founded by Nathan Wolfe who is linked
to the Global Virome Project, EcoHealth, World Economic Forum and
Jeffrey Epstein.
Wolfe, directly and/or through
Metabiota and its sister non-profit Global Viral, is not only been
funded by various branches of US Department of Defence but, is also
funded by Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca and CIA venture capital company
In-Q-Tel. And this is merely scratching the surface of those backing
the biolabs in Ukraine.
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In Part 1 we explained what products
and services Metabiota sells, who their customers are and how badly they
handled the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014-2015.
In Part 2 we explored the common links
between USAID, US Department of Defence, EcoHealth and Metabiota. How
EcoHealth is linked to the CIA, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the
development of the Covid spike protein bioweapon while Metabiota is
linked to US Military biolabs in Ukraine often run by experts in
biological weapons and biological terrorism.
Citing reasons entirely independent to the above, Dr. Masahiro Matsumura concluded in his article ‘Ukraine as Biden’s Sacrificed Pawn’:
“The current Russia-Ukraine war has been consequent on the globalist
mismanagement of the US hegemonic decline in which President Biden has
continually played a central role for more than a decade.”
Callahan and Biden
Currently the lead investor in Metabiota is Pilot Growth Management. Pilot Growth’s co-founder and CEO is Neil Callahan who also sits on Metabiota’s Board of Advisors.
Callahan is also former Managing Director and co-founder of Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (“RSTP”). His name appears many times on Hunter Biden’s hard drive. Hunter Biden being US President Joe Biden’s son.
RSTP, Rosemont Seneca Partners and Rosemont Realty are offshoots of Rosemont Capital, an investment fund founded in 2009 by Hunter Biden and Christopher Heinz,
John Kerry’s stepson. In 2015 24 investors financed Metabiota to the
tune of $30 million with RSTP being lead financial backer. RSTP’s
website, www.rstp.com, no longer exists.
Hunter Biden’s attorney told the Organised Crime and Corruption
Reporting Project (OCCRP) in 2020 that Biden had divested himself from
his holdings in RSTP before a controversial investment in mbloom in late
2015. However, emails reviewed by FOX Business
showed that Hunter Biden was in regular communication with RSTP leaders
and had investment interests in multiple RSTP funds in 2016 and 2017,
despite his attorney claiming he “severed his relationship” with RSTP.
RSTP’s financing of Metabiota was during the period, 2008 to 2017,
when Black & Veatch and DTRA signed contracts for the construction
and operation of biolabs in various countries. Under these contracts for
biolabs in Georgia and Ukraine Metabiota, Black & Veatch’s
subcontractor, signed a $18.4 million federal contract.
During a 2016 meeting in Lviv, Ukraine, representatives of Black & Veatch and Metabiota
discussed biological security, safety and surveillance with
representatives of Ukraine, Poland and the United States. It was amid
these clandestine projects, in 2015, Google-funded Metabiota to the tune
of $1 million and RSTP was Metabiota’s lead financer.
IQT, formerly Peleus and In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit venture capital
firm based in Arlington, Virginia. It invests in high-tech companies to
keep the CIA, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest
in information technology in support of US intelligence capability.
Not many people may be aware of IQT
which has backed some of Silicon Valley’s most prevalent advents,
influencing widely used Google apps and possibly even Facebook.
Google was spawned by the CIA,
via Stanford University, and has carried out several contracts with the
agency throughout its existence. In 2004, Google bought the company Keyhole, which had originally been funded by IQT.
Dr. Nathan Wolfe
is the founder and chair of Metabiota. He is also a World Economic
Forum (“WEF”) Young Global Leader and so it is no surprise Metabiota was
awarded Technology Pioneer by WEF in 2021.
The image above is taken from a lengthy and detailed twitter thread
by Bobby Rajesh Malhotra. Unfortunately, the thread is not available
on Thread Reader so in the event it is removed from twitter we have
copied this thread and attached it below.
Wolfe also founded the non-profit
Global Viral and is director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative
(“GVFI”). In 2008, GVFI received $5.5 million from Google and $5.5
million from Skoll Foundation “to detect early evidence of future
pandemics.” “We want to stop viruses dead in their tracks – their
animal tracks – before they jump to humans,” noted Dr. Mark Smolinski,
Google.org’s Threat Detective.
Wolfe has served on a number of
advisory and editorial boards, including, since 2004, the editorial
board of EcoHealth and since 2008, DARPA’s Defence Science Research
Council (“DSRC”).
According to his biography on University of Houston, he has received research support
totalling over $20 million in grants and contracts from the Google.org,
The Skoll Foundation, NIH, the National Science Foundation, the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Geographic Society, Merck
Research Laboratories and various branches of the US Department of
Defence.
For USAID’s PREDICT project, two of
the core partners being EcoHealth Alliance and Metabiota, Wolfe was a
co-author, together with EcoHealth’s Peter Daszak, of a 2017 study on
coronaviruses in bats. PREDICT was a forerunner of the more ambitious
Global Virome Project (“GVP”).
GVP is a founding member of The Trinity Challenge,
a £10m challenge to protect the world against future pandemics in
collaboration with global business and academic leaders. In 2020 Dame Sally Davis,
UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance, “was immensely proud to
launch The Trinity Challenge” together with Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
of the World Health Organisation.
The Trinity Challenge – A global coalition, 14 September 2020 (4 mins)
Although Wolfe was one of initiators of GVP in 2018, on their website he isn’t shown as being directly involved. However, Edward Rubin,
Metabiota’s Chief Scientific Officer, is a board member of GVP. And it
was Rubin who, in 2016, attended a Rockefeller Foundation forum
alongside Daszak to discuss the GVP.
In an interesting twitter thread
– linking Wolfe and Metabiota to EcoHealth, DARPA, the Wuhan Institute
of Virology and World Economic Forum – HashTigre shared an image of page
from a book Wolfe wrote in 2012 titled, “The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age,” where he thanked friends including deceased paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and biotech venture capitalist Boris Nikolic.
Nikolic was named as the “back-up executor” on Epstein’s will and Wolfe has been photographed hanging out with Ghislaine Maxwell on multiple occasions.
“Always nice to see a name from
Epstein/Maxwell associate Nathan Wolfe’s CIA funded company Metabiota—as
the first name on an article related to dangerous virus collection
tactics/research in China,” HashTigre tweeted.
Corporate Media’s Shifting Narrative on Biolabs in Ukraine
We conclude this series of articles
where it began – biolabs in Ukraine. We know independent media and
citizen journalism is managing to keep up to date on events but how are
USA’s corporate media faring? Epoch Times’ Truth Over News sums it up in a recent report.
The corporate media’s narrative
creation in response to widespread reports of biolabs in Ukraine has
truly been something to behold, Truth Over News begins.
Truth Over News: From Denial to Changing Narrative. How the Ukraine Biolab Story Unfolded, Epoch Times, 17 March 2022 (1 min)
What the shifting corporate media
narrative shows us is we must keep sharing the truth because, however
small the effect may seem, together we can make a difference.
