The Cause of COVID is Apparently Tired Old News

During the height of COVID, corporate news couldn't stop pumping out (often incorrect and misleading) articles about COVID (see bottom of this article). Now that new information is available, corporate media has gone radio silent.  Nothing to see here, even though new information points to U.S. government responsibility for one of the greatest societal disruptions ever.  In contract, Public, founded by Michael Shellenbeerger, continues to vigorously investigate the cause and responsibility for COVID.  Consider this excerpt from Alex Gutentag's recent article: "US And Chinese Scientists Made Plans To Engineer Coronaviruses Like SARS-CoV-2, New Documents Show: Was EcoHealth Alliance’s 2018 DEFUSE proposal a blueprint for bioweapons-related experiments that led to the Covid-19 lab leak?"

This historical evidence, as well as the scientific record, suggests that individuals involved in biodefense and pandemic preparedness may have been responsible for engineering the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The defense and preparedness push that gained funding and momentum after 9/11 appears to have become a self-fulfilling prophecy. In attempting to stop pathogens from transmitting to humans, scientists appear to have achieved the opposite.

The response to Covid-19 employed the same biodefense planning and structures. The National Security Council worked to craft Covid-19 policies, and Department of Defense officials were heavily involved in vaccine development and distribution. Out of 90 Operation Warp Speed leaders, 60 were military officials.

Despite the controversy surrounding Covid’s origin, the Department of Defense awarded a new $3 million grant to EcoHealth Alliance in December 2022. Gain-of-function research is largely continuing apace. Chinese scientists now claim to have created a mutated Covid-19 variant that killed humanized mice. The scientific value of this experiment is unclear.

Across the US, there are privately-operated “invisible” biolabs that slip through the cracks in federal regulation. Last year public health officials found that one of these secret privately-owned biolabs in California was mishandling 1,000 laboratory mice and samples of various infectious diseases.

What did Public Health get wrong about COVID? Consider this tweet thread by "Elizabeth Bennet,"a real-life pediatrician, commenting on Jay Bhattacharya's tweet:

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The U.S. Constitution as a Formality When it Comes to Warmongering

According to the U.S. Constitution, only Congress has the power to declare war. Modern U.S. Presidents keep forgetting to seek consent of Congress. It's only war. It's only our Constitution.

How long has it been since we followed the clear dictate of our own Constitution?

The last time the United States formally declared war, using specific terminology, on any nation was in 1942, when war was declared against Axis-allied Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania, because President Franklin Roosevelt thought it was improper to engage in hostilities against a country without a formal declaration of war. Since then, every American president has used military force without a declaration of war.

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FIRE takes aim at California’s DEI Regimen

Greg Lukianoff writes:

From a legislative or regulatory standpoint, the single biggest threat I have seen to free speech and academic freedom on campus has been the DEI requirements implemented by the California Community Colleges system. In an effort to combat these requirements, FIRE sued the California Community Colleges Chancellor and the members of its Board of Governors, as well as the State Center Community College District.

In the case, FIRE is representing six tenured professors, each of whom teach at one of three Fresno-area community colleges within the State Center Community College District. Under the new regulations, all of the more-than-54,000 professors who teach in the system must incorporate “anti-racist” viewpoints into classroom teaching and pledge allegiance to contested ideological viewpoints. This includes requiring professors to “acknowledge” that “cultural and social identities are diverse, fluid, and intersectional,” and to develop “knowledge of the intersectionality of social identities and the multiple axes of oppression that people from different racial, ethnic, and other minoritized groups face.”

Under these regulations, faculty performance and tenure will also be evaluated based on professors’ commitment to and promotion of these government-mandated viewpoints. As our client, Reedley College professor Bill Blanken, said, “I’m a professor of chemistry. How am I supposed to incorporate DEI into my classroom instruction? What’s the ‘anti-racist’ perspective on the atomic mass of boron?

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