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  1. 21 hours ago, Bevo said:

    https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/reps/icymi-dr-paul-pens-op-ed-for-fox-news-the-great-covid-cover-up-shocking-truth-about-wuhan-and-15-federal-agencies/

    April 9, 2024

     

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a new op-ed for Fox News, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, discussed the fifteen federal agencies that knew the EcoHealth Alliance and Wuhan Institute of Virology were seeking federal funding in 2018 to create a virus similar to COVID-19.

    You can read the op-ed published in Fox News here or below:

    How vast was the Great COVID Cover-up? Well, my investigation has recently discovered government officials from 15 federal agencies knew in 2018 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was trying to create a coronavirus like COVID-19.  

    These officials knew that the Chinese lab was proposing to create a COVID 19-like virus and not one of these officials revealed this scheme to the public. In fact, 15 agencies with knowledge of this project have continuously refused to release any information concerning this alarming and dangerous research.

    Government officials representing at least 15 federal agencies were briefed on a project proposed by Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

    This project, the DEFUSE project, proposed to insert a furin cleavage site into a coronavirus to create a novel chimeric virus that would have been shockingly similar to the COVID-19 virus. 

    For years, I have been fighting to obtain records from dozens of federal agencies relating to the origins of COVID-19 and the DEFUSE project. Under duress, the administration finally released documents that show that the DEFUSE project was pitched to at least 15 agencies in January 2018.

    What does this mean?

    It means that at least 15 federal agencies knew from the beginning of the pandemic that EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology were seeking federal funding in 2018 to create a virus genetically very similar if not identical to COVID-19.

    Disturbingly, not one of these 15 agencies spoke up to warn us that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been pitching this research. Not one of these agencies warned anyone that this Chinese lab had already put together plans to create such a virus.

    Peter Daszak concealed this proposal. University of North Carolina scientist Ralph Baric, a named collaborator on the DEFUSE project, failed to reveal that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had already proposed to create a virus similar to COVID-19. 

    And now we know that 15 agencies heard the proposal and when each agency discovered that COVID-19 was strangely similar to DEFUSE’s proposed virus creation, not one agency head stepped forward to warn the public that the virus might be man-made and therefore already adapted to transmit freely among humans.

    Not surprising to some of us, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) was not only briefed on Wuhan’s desire to create this virus, NIAID was actually listed as a participant in the initial DEFUSE pitch. Fauci’s Rocky Mountain Lab was named as a partner alongside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the proposal.

    These documents also reveal that a scientist whose lab has received millions of dollars from EcoHealth was also part of the original plan to create these chimeric coronaviruses. This researcher, Ian Lipkin, also later became one of the authors of “Proximal Origins,” a journal paper commissioned by Fauci and National Institutes of Health head Francis Collins to throw shade on anyone arguing that the virus might have come from the lab. Yet, Ian Lipkin never revealed to the public the DEFUSE proposal. 

    Did NIAID warn us? Did Anthony Fauci warn us? No! All lips remained sealed. 

    Millions of people died from COVID-19. We now know that over 15 government agencies, as well as the investigators Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric, Ian Lipkin and scientists at NIAID’s Rocky Mountain Lab, all knew of the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s desire to create a coronavirus with a furin cleavage site, a virus pre-adapted for human transmission.

    And no one spoke up. We only know of this DEFUSE proposal because a whistleblower, one brave Marine, Lt. Col. Joseph Murphy, came forward with the truth.

    Likely, hundreds of people in the government knew of this proposal to create a COVID-19-like virus and virtually every one of these people chose to keep quiet, to obscure, and ultimately to conceal information that might have saved lives by letting the world know this was no sleepy animal virus with poor transmission. 

    No, all evidence suggests COVID-19 was a laboratory-enhanced virus purposefully adapted for human transmission.

    Shame on all those who covered up the DEFUSE project! Of course, they all should be punished but likely won’t. At the very least, though, the perpetrators should be made to admit the truth and Congress should finally put in place sufficient oversight to make sure dangerous gain of function experiments are sufficiently vetted and, if necessary, prevented.

    one question...

     

    How many agencies??? not quite clear on that.

  2. 9 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Car alarm guy needs to commit seppuku immediately. 

    Is there a story to this?

    It is nearly constant by hole 4

  3. 48 minutes ago, Orale said:

    Fucking hell. I'm sorry to hear that. We'd probably just end up selling if it came to that. I can't imagine our tenants accepting that pass through expense, and I wouldn't blame them. 

    Problem is they are going to eat the expense(and by that pass on to customers or go out of business) no matter who the landlord is. 

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  4. On 4/6/2024 at 5:10 PM, mr. sunshine said:

    Michael shooting Solotzo and McCluskey in their heads is the greatest moment in cinematic history. I'll suffer your slings and arrows and stand behind that statement 

    Michael flipping the gun in the air always bugged the shit out of me.

  5. It’s not just “climate events” causing renewal rates to skyrocket it’s the cost to replace losses.  Meaning a lag effect of inflation and a key source of inflation stickiness.  The only options are work with a good broker to shop the coverage, increase prices to cover the cost, and take on more self-insurance risk.

     

    It’s been largely ignored that multiple nationwide carriers have been withdrawing coverage from areas with the largest recent claims. Those state will be forced to backstop the issue, which will of course trickle up to the federal government.  It’s going to get worse before it gets better.

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  6. That is very weird.

    no women’s bracket?  What?  I assume she is saying women’s NCAA tournament didn’t have a bracket till 2022.  That’s not remotely correct.

  7. 1 minute ago, troph said:

    Tell me you don’t have an ability to empathize with others and see a situation from another’s perspective without telling me you can’t or don’t. 

    No, I directly said I haven’t considered that another poster could need help from their mother to post on Surly.  Knowing that now I would not interact with Derka adversely.  Picking on someone with a handicap is bullshit and I don’t do that.
     

    By the same right the general tenor of this place is irreverent.  If it gets to a place where mothers start being involved there is a serious issue that needs a solution.  


     

     

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  8. 1 minute ago, troph said:

     

    If both of y’all were paying attention, the young man has health problems and mental health issues. He can’t really work and lives at home still. Bob was concerned with bullying and had personal interactions with derka and it included his mom, the most important relationship in his life. When I meet folks to talk about important shit, my wife might be there because she’s the most important relationship in my life. It really doesn’t take a lot of understanding or effort to get what happened. Especially when you realize some of us have no issue meeting folks from here IRL and Derka and Blacklab are in that camp.

    Frankly, I don’t have issue with someone who needs help getting help.  
     

    Generally, I don’t consider the possibility someone is going to involve their mother in situations where I spend my free time.  I’m glad to mix it up and have taken shit and given it.  I wasn’t being a wiseass when is said it has me pretty dumbstruck.  I generally have not interacted with Derka but this makes alot of sense based on what I have seen.  I just thought he was a different kind of guy.

    I guess its a risk of semi-anonymous interaction.  

  9. 1 hour ago, Grimas said:

    who cares if you and you momma and a mod had discussions

    This is the most bizarre point of this whole escapade.  Someone actually involved their mother in a Surly argument and the mod took that in stride and crafted some sort of detente that included input from a posters MOTHER….  What the actual fuck?

    Truthfully it has me dumbstruck and questioning some life decisions.

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