Guest Post by Jonathan Turley
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Energy Department has concluded that the COVID pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak.
The conclusion is reportedly based on a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress. Many will be exploring why the scientific evidence of a lab leak was so slow to emerge from intelligence agencies.
However, for my part, the most alarming aspect was the censorship, not the science.
There will continue to be a debate over the origins of COVID-19, but now there will be an actual debate.
For years, the media and government allied to treat anyone raising a lab theory as one of three possibilities: conspiracy theorist or racists or racist conspiracy theorists.
Academics joined this chorus in marginalizing anyone raising the theory. One study cited the theory as an example of “anti-Chinese racism” and “toxic white masculinity.”
As late as May 2021, the New York Times’ Science and Health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli was calling any mention of the lab theory as “racist.”
She embodies the model of the new “advocacy journalism” at the Times. Reporters who remained wedded to the dated view of objective journalism were purged from the ranks of The Times long ago.
Mandavilli and others made clear that reporters covering the theory were COVID’s little Bull Connors. She tweeted wistfully “someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not yet here.”
However, one former New York Times science editor Nicholas Wade chastised his former colleagues for ignoring the obvious evidence supporting a lab theory as well as Chinese efforts to arrest scientists and destroy evidence that could establish the origin.
Others in academia quickly joined the bandwagon to assure the public that there is no scientific basis for their theory, leaving only racist or politics as the motivation behind the theory. In early 2020, with little available evidence, two op-eds in The Lancet in February and Nature Medicine went all-in on the denial front.
The Lancet op-ed stated, “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that Covid-19 does not have a natural origin.”
We were also supposed to forget about massive payments from the Chinese government to American universities and grants of some of these writers to both Chinese interests or even the specific Wuhan lab.
No reference to the lab theory was to be tolerated. When Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) merely mentioned the possibility in 2020, he was set upon by the usual flash media mob. The Washington Post ridiculed him of repeating a “debunked” coronavirus “conspiracy theory.”
In September 2020, Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a virologist and former postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong, dared to repeat the theory on Fox News, saying, “I can present solid scientific evidence . . . [that] it is a man-made virus created in the lab.” The left-leaning PolitiFact slammed her and gave her a “pants on fire rating.”
President Joe Biden accused Trump of fanning racism in his criticism of the Chinese government over the pandemic and his Administration reportedly shutdown the State Department investigation into the possible lab origins of the virus.
When Biden later revived an investigation into the origins, he was denounced as “sugar-coating Trump’s racism.”
The categorical rejection of the lab theory is only the latest media narrative proven to be false. The Russian collusion scandal, the Hunter Biden “Russian Disinformation,” the Lafayette Park “Photo Op” conspiracy, the Nick Sandmann controversy, the Jussie Smollett case, the Migrant Whipping scandal.
On the lab theory, media like the Washington Post piled on senators like Cruz and Cotton for mentioning the lab theory only later to admit that it could be legitimate.
All of those experts and writers who were called racists or suspended by social media were simply forgotten in media coverage.
That is why this is really about censorship.
The media guaranteed that we did not have a full debate over the origins of the virus and attacked those who had the temerity to state the obvious that there was a plausible basis for suspecting the Wuhan lab.
None of this has diminished demands for more censorship. Even after Twitter admitted that it wrongly blocked The New York Post story before the 2020 election, Democratic senators responded by warning the company not to cut back on censorship and even demanded more censorship.
Recently, the Twitter Files revealed an extensive and secret FBI effort to censor citizens on social media.
This included undisclosed efforts by members like Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Cal.) to get Twitter to ban a columnist and target critics. In a House hearing, democratic leaders like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md). called for more censorship and opposed investigations into the censorship efforts.
These same figures in politics and media are just moving on to the next approved narrative.
President Biden previously called for more censorship and accused Big Tech of “killing people” by not censoring more views deemed “COVID misinformation.”
The opposite is true. By suppressing alternative scientific and policy views, the public was denied a full debate over mask efficacy, vaccine side effects, COVID origins and other important issues. Many of those questions are only being recognized as legitimate and worthy of debate.
Censorship does not, as President Biden claims, save lives.
It is more likely to cost lives by protecting approved views from challenge. It does not foster the truth any more than it fosters free speech. Whatever the origin of COVID-19 may be in China, the origins of our censorship scandal is closer to home.
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By pretending to be censored from discussing the “lab leak” gatekeeping tools like Turley lend credibility to the disinfo that scamdemic arose from a lab leak. Nothing is farther from the truth. The very fact that the scamdemic had been gamed prior to the so called outbreak and the Pentagram poured millions in organizations associated with bio-weapons should be any critical thinkers first clue as to the origins of this bio-psyop .
Ron Unz as done all the heavy lifting on this subject , whilst asshats like Deep Shekels pwnd Turley spread the lie.
Over the last year I have produced a long series of articles explicitly making the case that the Covid virus was released in a deliberate biowarfare attack against China (and Iran). Taken together, these pieces have been viewed some 250,000 times. Yet with a few rare exceptions, the material has been considered far too radioactive to have been acknowledged anywhere in the alternative media, let alone by its mainstream counterpart. The following are the most substantial elements of the series:
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-covid-epidemic-as-lab-leak-or-biowarfare/
Treasure trove here.
https://www.unz.com/page/covid-biowarfare-articles/
“Senior health officials who war-gamed the impact of a coronavirus hitting the UK, warned four years before the onset of Covid-19 of the need for stockpiles of PPE, a computerised contact tracing system and screening for foreign travellers, the Guardian can reveal.
The calls to step up preparations in areas already identified as shortcomings in the government’s response to Covid, emerged from a previously unpublished report of a health planning exercise in February 2016 that imagined a coronavirus outbreak.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/07/coronavirus-report-warned-of-impact-on-uk-four-years-before-pandemic
“Geneva, Switzerland, 15 October 2019 – The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will host Event 201: a high-level simulation exercise for pandemic preparedness and response, in New York, USA, on Friday 18 October, 08.45 – 12.30 EDT.
The exercise will bring together business, government, security and public health leaders to address a hypothetical global pandemic scenario. It will also feature a live virtual experience from 08.50 – 12.30 EDT to engage stakeholders worldwide and members of the public in a meaningful conversation of difficult high-level policy choices that could arise in the midst of a severe pandemic.”
https://www.weforum.org/press/2019/10/live-simulation-exercise-to-prepare-public-and-private-leaders-for-pandemic-response/
“… federal spending data shows that EcoHealth has a long and profitable relationship with the Pentagon, receiving $41.91 million in awards since fiscal year 2008. That’s more than three times the next-largest amount awarded to it by any other agency over the same period ($13.17 million from the Department of Health and Human Services).
Of the $41.91 million, $37.61 million was awarded to EcoHealth Alliance by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), which describes its mission as “to protect the United States and its allies by enabling the DoD and international partners to detect, deter, and defeat WMD and threat networks.”
https://nypost.com/2021/07/01/pentagon-gave-millions-to-ecohealth-alliance-for-wuhan-lab/
USED TO HAVE…ha ha ha.
“Whether or not someone believes these conspiracy theories, it is instructive to consider whether the SARS-CoV-2 virus would make a so-called “good” biological weapon. Many countries around the world (including the United States, Iraq, former Soviet Union, United Kingdom, Japan, and Canada) used to have biological weapons programs, and some others (China, North Korea, and Iran) are suspected of continuing to develop biological weapons.
The Threat Of Use Can Cause Panic. This can be effective if the intent is to cause havoc from the threat alone. Certainly, we have seen the devastating social impact that has occurred as a result of SARS-CoV-2, as people fear getting infected in the workplace, schools, or in other community areas, so it gets a plus for this property.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/coronavirusfrontlines/2020/08/21/a-defense-expert-explores-whether-the-covid-19-coronavirus-makes-a-good-bioweapon/?sh=56b659e47ece
Either the virus doesn’t exist, or it does exist and was cooked up in a lab (most likely a US DTRA lab) and was released — not leaked.
If USGov now claims a lab leak (3 years after the fact), I am now firmly in the camp that that’s bullshit.
flash – It’s a fear campaign, designed to implement what you posted above – “a computerised contact tracing system” The rest is BS. No viruses, so no gain of function. As nobel prize winning, recovered “virologist” Stefan Lanka states when asked what are the doing in the bio labs? Answer – Nothing, They dress up in balloon suits and the test tubes are empty.
100% correct!
It’s all BS. It doesn’t exist. It was
all just a lie to have people accept the deadly shots.
I am always interested in what effete popinjays are talking about from inside the Beltway.
I see that the revised narrrative will be to blame the Chinese for what our overlords did to us, that’s rich.
By suppressing alternative scientific and policy views, the public was denied a full debate over mask efficacy, vaccine side effects, COVID origins and other important issues. Many of those questions are only being recognized as legitimate and worthy of debate.
They are worthy of ridicule and derision.
The “origins” of the flu are now in the “are viruses even real?” category.
All trust in the medical establishment is gone. No single group in modern memory has more effectively signed their own death warrant than physicians. Their words mean absolutely nothing because it is clear that they do not actually practice medicine, they carry out the orders of the political class. An executioner has more honor.
And why was this secret report issued by the Energy Department? What role do they play in investigation Chinese labs? This makes zero sense.
“This makes zero sense.” Correct.
None of this bullshit made sense from the get go.
Now the question is: Why this now, what are they distracting us from ?
They are distracting us from taking away ALL their murderous toys and then extracting a memorable price for their psychopathic schemes.
The light of a First Turning is out there somewhere.
Are they limited hanging-out China to avoid attention on Ukraine labs ?
Wuhan leak ‘ admission ‘ hits the wires just before Tuesdays hearings in DC.
Imagine that.
Last time for clarity. The intensely bioengineered (but low lethality) virus was deliberately released, and the resultant “plandemic”, complete with horrifying and useless mitigation measures, rigorous suppression of effective treatments, censorship of the truth and data, and the willing complicity of the MSM and medical community was rolled out. The express purposes of the entire scam were to force the public to take the even more engineered deadly jab and to increase mindless compliance with government decrees and mandates. The next bioweapon released will be much more leather and the response by TPTB will be more tyrannical by orders of magnitude.
Dr. Wan warned about ongoing gain of function research in hemorrhagic viruses. No doubt paid for by the America.
Nope. Only thing released will be a fear campaign.
There was never any virus, therefore no plandemic. What we had was a scamdemic!
On Oct 18, 2019 the opening ceremony for the Wuhan Military World Games was held on the same day that Event 201 began in NYC that “simulated” a pandemic outbreak of a novel coronavirus. The USA team stayed at a hotel one block from the Wuhan wet market and placed 35th overall, beaten by the likes of Mongolia and Uzbekistan and potentially proving that microbiologists do not make good athletes.
Did I forget to mention that exactly one month prior on Sep 17 SOFR interest rates spiked overnight from 2.20% to 5.25% effectively paralyzing the global flows of $USD? And prior to that on Aug 7, Kary Mullins died of a mysterious lung infection – reported under the general term pneumonia -who was a huge public critic of St. Fauci and whose PCR test the entire pandemic narrative rested. Dead men indeed tell no tales.
It’s all going according to plan – the merger of “health”, “finance”, and control. Here’s the script.
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2017/spars-pandemic-scenario.pdf
And is it any coincidence that –
2019: WHO declared World Health Emergency
1353: End of Black Death
2019 – 1353 = 666
In the battle for control of the world there are no rules.
They could not allow the inventor of the PCR to publicly say that it was not a test and that it could not tell you that you were sick, when they had planned to use it to test for a non existent virus and create false positives in order to carry out their murderous agenda. It was not a coincidence that he happened to die just before the campaign started. They murdered him.
Smoke and mirrors, wet market then , lab leak now, if it becomes necessary to galvanize public opinion against China, intentional by the CCP. None true ? Well if the USG says so it must be a lie.
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