China and Russia flood web with coronavirus outbreak lies blaming U.S.; State Dept. fights back

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Russia and China flood web with coronavirus outbreak lies blaming U.S.; State Dept. fights back

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By Guy Taylor – The Washington Times, March 15, 2020

China, Russia and Iran are flooding the global information space with false claims about the new coronavirus, according to U.S. officials, who say one of the biggest lies — that the virus that causes COVID-19 is a U.S. bioweapon and was brought to China by U.S. Army personnel — is just the latest in a “surge of propaganda” aimed at undermining America’s image on the world stage.

Beijing, Moscow and Tehran are using a vast web of social media accounts, fake news outlets and state-controlled global satellite media to promote false claims by academics and, at times, government officials to blame Washington for the crisis now gripping most of humanity.

The head of a key State Department counterdisinformation office said U.S. officials are ramping up their own efforts to counter lies about the new coronavirus that were first seeded by Russia in January and that China is now pushing in a bid to make Beijing appear as a superior global power to the United States.

U.S. Special Envoy Lea Gabrielle, who leads the department’s Global Engagement Center, told The Washington Times on Sunday that the Chinese are “engaged in an all-out aggressive campaign to try to reshape the global narrative around the coronavirus, essentially to the degree of trying to provide an alternate reality of what has actually happened since December.”

Ms. Gabrielle made the assertion in an exclusive interview amid a widening row between Washington and Beijing that burst into public view last week when the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry suggested on Twitter that the U.S. military might have brought the coronavirus to the Chinese city of Wuhan.

Teams of international scientists, including several from inside China, have agreed for more than a month that the virus came from a “wet market” in Wuhan — where fish, poultry and other animals are slaughtered on the premises — and that any other claims about the virus’ origins are bogus.

But Ms. Gabrielle and other U.S. officials say that has not stopped three of the world’s top purveyors of state-sponsored propaganda, led by China, from pouncing in a moment of global panic to try to sully America’s image.

“Two narrative tracks that we’re seeing advanced by China is malign information trying to finger the U.S. as the origin of the coronavirus, and then the second narrative track is what we call ‘Brand China,’ which is the [Chinese government’s] effort to try and turn the crisis into a news story about the supremacy of the Chinese Communist Party as opposed to democratic systems that have allegedly mishandled the crisis,” Ms. Gabrielle told The Times. “So [it’s] basically a ‘China good, everyone else bad’ narrative.”

“We’ve seen China mobilize its global messaging apparatus, and this includes state media, Chinese diplomats writing articles in local or overseas media to basically push out the overall narrative that depicts China as the world’s model and global leader under the Chinese Communist Party,” she said. “This has caused us to have to react with a full-spectrum activation of our own public messaging and diplomatic engagement, and really just having to push access to fact-based information by our own communicators so they’re able to counter these false narratives with local audiences.”

The Global Engagement Center is spearheading the effort, with a goal of reminding audiences that authoritarian regimes clamp down on the free flow of truthful information and use government-controlled organs to spread lies.

Inside the U.S. response

It’s anything but easy.

The risk is always there that U.S.-government information operations can backfire and draw accusations of using propaganda. There is also concern that drawing attention to false narratives might serve to promote those lies.

“Once a false narrative is out there, it’s almost impossible to undo, and repeating that false narrative when trying to correct it reinforces it,” said Ms. Gabrielle. “So it makes it very tricky.”

The Global Engagement Center operates mainly behind the scenes at the State Department, which does not publicize the number of people working inside the center. It grew in recent years from the now-dissolved Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications.

In the Obama-era, the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications was a hub through which U.S. officials used Facebook and Twitter to disseminate anti-jihadi messaging worldwide. Then came the 2016 U.S. elections.

American intelligence findings that Russia used social media to meddle in U.S. democracy prompted Congress to reconstitute the Global Engagement Center with a broader mission: to expose and counter foreign state and nonstate propaganda aimed at undermining the U.S. and its allies around the world.

A core tenet was the establishment of an “Information Access Fund,” a mechanism that can be used to channel funding to outside organizations that engage in a range of counterdisinformation efforts in several countries.

By 2018, U.S. officials were comparing the Global Engagement Center’s mission to that of a Cold War-era initiative pushed by the Reagan administration, the Active Measures Working Group. U.S. officials used the operation to expose and undermine Soviet propaganda and subversion in Europe.

The circle of lies

On the novel coronavirus, the Global Engagement Center’s radar went up in January around a Russian government-backed effort to “seed the disinformation space with the notion that the virus was created by Americans,” Ms. Gabrielle said. The center, she added, discovered a “Kremlin-sponsored” push to spread lies that the virus was created either by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation or in a U.S. government lab.

U.S. officials responded by circulating information showing how the lies began with Russian officials and were promoted in a coordinated effort via Russian state-sponsored social media accounts and Russian government-owned global media such as Sputnik and RT, as well as through swarms of fake personas online and conspiracy websites pretending to be news outlets.

Some international media initially ran big with the information, but the Chinese and Iranians have doubled down with their own disinformation campaigns built from the original claims seeded by the Russians, Ms. Gabrielle said.

“We’ve tracked a surge in their disinformation and propaganda operations, and they’re picking up and promoting what were originally false claims pushed by the Kremlin,” she said. “They are mutually reinforcing each other in efforts to flood the information space with false narratives. So it’s basically a convergence of Russian, Chinese and Iranian disinformation operations.”

The Russians have also ramped up their efforts, with RT promoting false claims by military commanders from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps about the origins of the coronavirus based on Russia’s earlier disinformation campaign.

“So Russia pushes out a false narrative, the IRGC then parrots that narrative, then RT tweets it out as though it came from the IRGC chief in the first place,” Ms. Gabrielle said. “Another example we’ve seen is the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian, who used Twitter to highlight a false narrative from a source that’s already been identified as a supporter of Russia’s disinformation ecosystem.”

Mr. Zhao tweeted Thursday in English that it “might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan” and that the “US owe us an explanation!” He also promoted the “Centre for Research on Globalization” or “GlobalResearch.ca,” a discredited Canada-based operation that published an article under the headline “Further Evidence That the Virus Originated in the U.S.”

U.S. officials were outraged by the tweet. “GlobalResearch.ca is a disinformation outlet based in Canada that we’ve seen pushing out Kremlin narratives,” said Ms. Gabrielle, who added that disinformation promotion by Russia, Iran and China converged before the coronavirus outbreak but has now taken on expanded momentum.

Murky waters ahead

The Zhao episode has added tension to an already fraught U.S.-Chinese relationship.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman’s tweet may have been a response to comments last week by National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, who chastised Beijing for initially covering up the coronavirus outbreak. He said the cover-up “probably cost the world community two months.”

The Zhao tweet may also have been an attempt to subversively respond to President Trump’s assertion Wednesday that COVID-19 is caused by a “foreign virus” and “we all know where it came from.”

Either way, the administration’s response to Mr. Zhao was swift. Chinese Ambassador to Washington Cui Tiankai was summoned Friday to the State Department, where David R. Stillwell, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, expressed strong disappointment with the Chinese disinformation.

A senior U.S. official told The Times on background that the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman’s tweet “was a tipping point for us at a very senior level within the State Department [and] we decided we’re not going to let this continue further.”

He said U.S. officials decided to draw a “line in the sand.”

“We are going to make a concerted and public effort to counter disinformation by any regime on this because there are lasting consequences. The Chinese and Russians and Iranians are putting out these conspiracy theories and false narratives. It is deeply irresponsible, not just for America, but for the world. We’re in the middle of a global pandemic that is unprecedented. The fact that these regimes are taking the time to deflect blame from their own actions is deeply irresponsible.”

The question is whether the damage has been done.

“Once a lie is out there in the information space, there’s no silver bullet. I don’t have a false-information-zapping bazooka. I wish I did,” said Ms. Gabrielle. “What we do have are best practices and, in the case of the lies that are out there right now, that means engaging through our official platforms to counter them.”

She stressed that the Global Engagement Center is playing “the long game,” and that means engaging credible voices that can support truthful narratives worldwide.

What you want to do is essentially create an environment where populations and audiences are less vulnerable to disinformation in general,” Ms. Gabrielle said. “Best practices for countering false narratives long term are more strategic in nature.”

“We’ve also supported things like the development of secure networks for investigative journalists in sensitive environments to help enable them to share information,” she said.

Exposing previous examples of disinformation by questionable sources, she said, is part of the effort to “flood the space” with accurate information. That, she said, can involve “engaging third-party credible voices, for example, non-U.S. government voices to be able to get the truth out there.”

Third-party voices can include fact-checking organizations, nongovernment organizations, investigative journalists, other governments, local community leaders or social media influencers, she said. “We work with organizations worldwide to do that long-term approach of increasing resiliency, decreasing vulnerability and then inoculating audiences to disinformation.”

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Joe Engineer
Joe Engineer
4 years ago

China probably developed the virus to create the havoc we are seeing in the economy.

Maybe the globalists had a hand in it too. All to defeat Trump.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Joe Engineer

If China developed the virus to create the havoc … then, they’re doing a p-ss poor job, compared to what Mexico did a decade ago, with the Mexican Swine Flu. Killing, original count, close to 17,000 Americans. However, after further research, that number was kicked up to around 60,000 Americans that died from the Mexican Swine Flu.
If this is the best that China can do (under 70 Americans dead, so far) … they better outsource their “havoc” creating virus work to Mexico. Mexico seems to be FAR better at it than China.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Achmed, Marc is back….I know you must feel terible that Marc had Marloway, Melbrinck and Haroldin down vote you. LOL!

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

“Achmed, look what he’s done to me! Help!” Don’t you start crying, little Felix. Isn’t it a wonderful sign of poetic justice when you get a taste of your own bitter medicine for a change? I think it is!

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Where, oh where, is Bertram? What have you, little marci, done with Bertram?

Nori
Nori
4 years ago

Finally feed your starving camel, Ach, it is the only creature in this world that not only depends on you (through adverse circumstances), but loves you tooth and nail!

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

It’s supposed to be female. Your daily camel urine shower as an Arab is coming up. Then everyone will understand what you mean by “covered in excrements”. You are not “Laurence of Arabia”, but Camel Lover Blowjob.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

You do realize, no your intellect is FAR too inferior …. But, when little marci the girly kraut replies to little marci the girly kraut .. What you type is directed towards yourself. Are you actually TOO stupid to realize such? Oh, wait. YES you are.
Poor, poor little marci he excrement covered girly kraut. The poor pathetic little thing. I truly pity it.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago

Who do you expect to read all this? Your camel doesn’t care about your monologues. Your little universe. But everyone else detests what you do. Give yourself to your camel “Arabella” without boring the world.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Poor little marci the excrement covered little girly kraut. Poor, poor pathetic little marci. I truly pity you.
Where’s Bertram?

Nori
Nori
4 years ago

Your camel lady shakes her head behind you: “This guy is even dumber than our species!”

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Poor little marci the girly kraut. At what power of magnification did you have to view that? No camel could be within a mile, as your stench, from being an excrement covered little girly kraut runs them away.
Where’s Bertram?

Nori
Nori
4 years ago

“What a delight to feel Arabella’s hot stream of urine on the tip of my tongue!”

You really think you’re not a little pervy?

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Rubbing yourself with the pungent urine smell is indeed not only against the etiquette of all camel ladies.

Whenever Arabella meets like-minded sisters in the caravanserai, they worry: “Hasn’t that perverse Achmed even provided a portable rubber pad for his sexual preference?”

“Arabella” is not only degraded and abused by you as a woman, but also as an animal. She simply wants to be free, just as every living individual in this world instinctively rejects and doggedly refuses any closeness to such “camel riders” like you!

The longer I think about what the poorest camel girl has to suffer daily, the more I become an camel activist, yes, even a camel feminist! They have no choice but to avoid you and escape.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Like everything, Achmed’s love of animalistic camel toes has one consolation: human women are ignored by him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_toe

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Within the entirety of your life, has ONE single solitary woman ever given you so much as the time of day? Poor little marci the girly kraut. Why do you continue to HUMILIATE yourself?
You poor, poor pathetic little thing. I truly pity you.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

There’s little marci the girly kraut talking to itself about camel urine, once again. TOO funny. Why do you insist upon HUMILIATING yourself?
You poor, poor pathetic little thing. I truly pity you.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

What are you doing, little marci the girly kraut, having camels stream urine on your tongue.
Come back when you are competent, at least at first grade primary school level, in English. Until then, little camel sucker, stick to kraut sites. You won’t HUMILIATE yourself nearly as much.
You poor, poor pathetic little thing. I truly pity you.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Hello again, little marci the excrement covered girly kraut.
Where’s Bertram?

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Actually, I’m somewhat offended when they don’t. Did I say something wrong? What, oh what, has little marci done with Bertram?

tatka150
tatka150
4 years ago
Reply to  Joe Engineer

Right on! It exactly how does it look to people who can connect the dots. Even their attacks on US in respect of the nature of this virus tells me that they do it in purpose. Because “the best defense is a good offence”

VTS
VTS
4 years ago
Reply to  tatka150

Never, never trust communists.

tatka150
tatka150
4 years ago
Reply to  VTS

Yes, it’s true. I was born and raised in the former Soviet Union. I know all about it.

VTS
VTS
4 years ago
Reply to  tatka150

The whole premise of communist society is utopian and therefore a lie.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago

Honestly, anyone, especially Americans who fall for this fake-news from Russia and China, is an out-and-out dullard. It betrays the edicts of despotism, totalitarianism, are based on the Big Lie. There will be Americans who, like 9-11, lay blame at the foot of the American presidency, many of whom were of the Hollywood Bolshevist accord.

The likes of Biden and Mad Bernie have the solution to resolving the Coronavirus; it, in the devoid minds of the Democrats, Trump’s fault, not China or the EU nations who handled this crisis with reckless abandonment. I read an article in a Canadian news site that is supposedly conservative, also, criticized Trump handling of this crisis. It seems the world by-and-large prefers to dump upon Trump by condemning him, not China or nations’ such as Iran and the EU, whose lackadaisical handling of the virus is proven ineffective, if not disastrous.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

funny, this whole hysteria virus (pun intended) what did the real last pope do during H1N1?

Jay Dillon
Jay Dillon
4 years ago

People need to be aware that the USA was the source of the CoViD-19 SARS-CoV-2 virus being sold and transferred to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) for further work. This is the testimony of Dr. Francis Boyle, one of the world’s premier authorities on biowar technology and viral outbreaks. (See: Dr. Francis Boyle, in banned dot video, and in infowars.) He claims that this virus (which some also claim was previously worked on at Fort Detrick for “gain of function” military bioweapon application) – – was tested at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, then urgently authorized and promoted as a bioweapon to be given further enhanced “gain of function” genetic engineering and testing. This authorization and approval was given by US NIH under the Obama Administration. For a short time a controversy arose, and this virus was banned from further “gain of function” work, but that ban was lifted and, during the Obama administration, the virus was transferred to China. This was done even though US scientists must have known that WIV had been the source of a deadly SARS outbreak previously – – the BSL-4 lab in Wuhan was known to be a “leaky” or poorly run facility. Since US scientists must have known this, it looks increasingly likely that this new “leak” could have been arranged very deliberately as a “false flag” operation against China, or alternatively, China itself could have been targeted by moslem operatives inside Obama’s (subverted?) US NIH (remember, Obama is strongly suspected as a Muslim Brotherhood operative and asset, .. so strongly suspected in fact, that many would laugh to hear him named as a mere “suspect” for this treason). Regardless, these proliferating BSL-4 (Biosafety Level 4) biowarfare labs proliferating worldwide are a deadly menace to all of humanity – Their continued operations and continued “gain of function” work on deadly pathogens should be tried as a war crime against all of humanity. Something worse could easily be in the pipeline once we’ve survived CoViD-19, if we do survive. For example, Ukraine alone has 4000 microbiology labs according to one source ( I don’t know where I saw that number, but here’s some background info which may be relevant: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK196149/

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Mar, did I touch a nerve?
I see Marloway, Melbrinck and Haroldin are my down votes again. No Betram?

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
4 years ago
Reply to  Jay Dillon

Even if work on the virus may have been done in American labs … that does not mean it is a false flag or that it was created by or released by malevolent Americans attempting to harm China or the Chinese …

Now OTOH …

American labs are notoriously “leaky” because

… brilliant scientists and engineers will be fired at the drop of a hat

… quota quacks and pinheads rule – and profit from the Chinese “Thousand Talents” IP theft program

… Chinese spies are paid to come and “diversify” us with “multi-cultural” stealing – and if you don’t like it see point one …

Am I saying the Chinese may have stolen this virus and may have subsequently let it, or a relative, slip out of their labs because they’re sloppy and unprofessional? … No, I’m just saying it’s possible and far more likely than unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.

If anyone asks why I believe this …

… this message will be disavowed in a New York minute since Orange is not my color even if Orange Man is my President.

eassa
eassa
4 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

The Wuhan Virus came out of China and China alone is responsible. The world, and most importantly, the U.S., should send China a bill for all the costs inflicted during the Wuhan Virus take-down.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
4 years ago
Reply to  eassa

Absolutely … it’s just like Chernobyl … assuming the virus chains were stolen from an American lab.

In the Chernobyl case, the Soviets stole the plans for a GE reactor fair and square and their engineers promptly fixed the mistakes they found in the plans … which … should have given them a clue that the plans were mere drafts. The design was from 1952 btw. Then they kept the thing going once they had it built until an idiot came in and melted the place down.

The Wuhan Coronavirus is China’s Chernobyl … and if it was not for Google and Apple and the other social media spy apps … I think the Chinese have had enough.

you and yours have a wonderful week!

AlgorithmicAnalyst
AlgorithmicAnalyst
4 years ago

First step: ban all trade with China.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Trump is decoupling from China on trade, slowly but surely.
For agricutlure they are a good trading partner but NOT for our core industries. Trump has successfully knocked China down as they were over taking OUR economy with trade.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Marc,

Doesn’t it get tiring, logging on and off to be
Marloway, Melbrinck and Haroldin?

tatka150
tatka150
4 years ago

They still manufacturing antibiotics for us and even Ibobruphen. Otherwise- you are absolutely correct. US and Europe should seriously investigate it and send them a bill. I hardly can figure out how many digits would be the number, not even talking about the innocent lives lost.

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago
Reply to  tatka150

500 trillion and sell all us assets

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago

It’ll never happen… Globalism is coming…

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Ah but the LIBERALS want you to belive that Trump is in bed with Russia! After all Russia helped get Trump elected. LOL!!!! This is why Obama, back in 2016, didn’t do anything about Russia and Russia really didn’t have any influence on the 2016 election outcome. Obama didn’t want Trump winning either. It was all set up for Hiledbeast and she managed to screw that up.

Does anyone believe that China, Russia or Iran wants TRUMP re-elected? Russia, China and Iran would like to RETURN to Obama’s “flexibility” and anti American support. Oh how they would LOVE either BIDEN or SANDERS as our next President!

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Ah but the LIBERALS want you to belive that Trump is in bed with Russia! After all Russia helped get Trump elected. LOL!!!! This is why Obama, back in 2016, didn’t do anything about Russia and Russia really didn’t have any influence on the 2016 election outcome. Obama didn’t want Trump winning either. It was all set up for Hiledbeast and she managed to screw that up.

Does anyone believe that China, Russia or Iran wants TRUMP re-elected? Russia, China and Iran would like to RETURN to Obama’s “flexibility” and anti American support. Oh how they would LOVE either BIDEN or SANDERS as our next President!

Commieobamie
Commieobamie
4 years ago

Better STOCK up on TP, Pepto Bismol, and Kaopectate! Cause it’s a pandemic!!!

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/diarrhoeal-disease

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Commieobamie

LOL!
WHO has very little credibility. The virus has nothing to do with bowel movements or lack thereof.

eassa
eassa
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

WHO is in bed with China.

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago
Reply to  eassa

The WHO and the CDC is a bunch of idiot experts…

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Thanks for the down votes Marc!
They’re all there except for Betram.
Will Betram ever appear again?

eassa
eassa
4 years ago

Trump needs to add up all the costs due to this Wuhan virus and send China/Xi the bill! Force a deal that China deduct from our debt what their Wuhan virus is costing the U.S.!

Only fools would believe China or Russia.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  eassa

I am hoping that more companies will willingly LEAVE China. China is so dishonest. You really can’t trust them.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Agreed, they are the chink in the armor.

VTS
VTS
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Yeah. Tell this to Biden Bloomberg and majority of establishment in US. They owed communist China their wealth. They love China and hate America.

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

good luck with that

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago
Reply to  eassa

Included in that bill needs to be the monetary hit to all our retirement accounts caused by the adverse effect on the stock market –

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

Birds of a feather flock together.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago

Saudi Barbarian superyacht sunken in Greece. Unfortunately not because of too many muslim fakefugees on board, because this will never happen. https://www.the-sun.com/news/544248/saudi-prince-superyacht-capsize-sink-greece/

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Where’s Bertram?

Nori
Nori
4 years ago

Ask himself, Mahmoud, in Ahmadinejad? UR
world famous for extremely stupid questions.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Why, hello, little marci the girly kraut.
Where’s Bertram?

Nori
Nori
4 years ago

Your perfect English was learned directly from Shakespeare, Yankcrank.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Shakespeare, if your addressing they playwright, did not compose in ASE. You, having such an extremely limited command of English, not to mention a seriously inferior intellect, are unable to grasp such.
Where is Bertram?

Nori
Nori
4 years ago

Unsubstantiated allegations are not facts, camel casanova.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

What “Unsubstantiated allegations”? I only stated facts. Of course, your intellect is FAR to inferior to understand such. You poor, poor pathetic little excrement covered girly kraut. I truly pity you.
Where’s Bertram?

itchy
itchy
4 years ago

The west fell for it….US UK, France, Aust, Italy, Canadia, Germ, all have fallen for the biggest beat up in history. Mean while…China, Russia, India, Mexico are ticking along nicely… What a Bunch of putz’s we are. We self paralyzed our economies and China is buying our gold and stocks at a discount right under our noses because we all have week knees. China will now have the biggest economy by 2025 and even Trump wont be able to stop that…..

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  itchy

Trump has been trying to stop China…..No one else bothered.

Rick Gouveia
Rick Gouveia
4 years ago

Only medical professionals are allowed to give medical advise; so we should make laws that only medical professionals are allowed to be politicians??

Rick Gouveia
Rick Gouveia
4 years ago

USA on the precipice of civil war, Muslim supremacists declare global jihad. I also have reason to believe that Trump’s sudden travel ban from Europe was mainly to block the influx of Marxist and Muslim mercenaries. https://barenakedislam.com/2020/03/16/michigan-based-muslim-supremacist-advises-muslims-in-america-not-to-abide-by-any-man-made-law-that-contradicts-sharia-law/

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

it’s true

VTS
VTS
4 years ago

Watch how Adam Schiff and the gang of democrooks start investigation of Trump administration for attacking poor China with boological weapon. Those godless bastards are not on our side.

VTS
VTS
4 years ago

Watch how Adam Schiff and the gang of democrooks start investigation of Trump administration for attacking poor China with boological weapon. Those godless bastards are not on our side.

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago

America manufactured CV19 in a North Carolina University… paid by taxpayers…

Then the University sold CV19 to the Wuhan Lab for a profit…

Neat way to help fund Universities… aye?

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  sumsrent

LOL!

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999
sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago

The American government has failed miserably in containing CV19…

The massive lying idiot Trumpo… is an idiot!!!

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

CHINA HAS LAUNCHED WORLD WAR III and NO ONE HAS NOTICED!
“Teams of international scientists, including several from inside China, have agreed for more than a month that the virus came from a “wet market” in Wuhan — where fish, poultry and other animals are slaughtered on the premises — and that any other claims about the virus’ origins are bogus.”
Clever propaganda, partially true but designed to point the finger of blame on the US. The ChiComs are admitting the Wuhan Flu is a bioweapon and having been caught are launching the only possible defense: TOGDI, meaning the Other Guy Did It. They are counting on the barking of the Dog Fart Media to spread this propaganda around the world. What the ChiComs have done, folks are launching World War III. They have launched an attack as treacherous as the attack on Pearl Harbor or on the World Trade Center. This attack will kill tens of thousands of people, disrupt our economy bringing chaos to our societies. It is obvious that faced with a failing economy the CHICOMS needed an excuse to tighten their grip on the country and to stifle any and all dissent. Most importantly to shift the blame for the collapse to another source. They first released this virus in Europe and the US. For reasons, unexplained it was released on Iran as well. Perhaps, this was a diversion or suited some ChiCom plan yet unrevealed. We are now faced with both a pandemic and a new World War.

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

You are so far out of the loop… it’s pitiful…

My advice… do some research before spewing you nonsense…

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago
Reply to  sumsrent

Exactly,please tell, what do you find inaccurate. The ChiComs have already admitted its a bioweapon. Now, do you believe the US spread it? If so, you are a troll.

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

America created CV19… yes… it;s a Bio Weapon… designed to kill…

Whether China released it intentionally is pure speculation…

However… the massive lying idiot Trumpo (trumpet mouth) is failing at containing CV 19 from spreading here in the USA…

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago
Reply to  sumsrent

Thanks for revealing yourself as a ChiCom troll. Hopefully, you will be tracked and locked up quickly. In war time traitors such as yourself spreading disinformation are shot.

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago
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jerrys
jerrys
4 years ago

Long article and hard to digest.
Rumor that low level employee at Wuhan bio facility took dead animals that should have been cremated and sold them in the wet market.

I remember few years ago we sent teams to Ireland to dig up plague bodies, collect the virus’s and bring them to the US for study. What could go wrong?

Hand washing is a start. gargling with salt water is an equally necessary preventive.

I wonder what will happen when power plant employees are sick at home. Life without power will be a bitch!

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago
Reply to  jerrys

America created CV19… manufactured in the North Carolina University… and then sold to the Wuhan Lab…

American taxpayers paid NCU to create the virus so they could create the vaccine… in order to create the vaccine… they have to create the virus first…

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  jerrys

True, Life without power will be a bitch …when several EMP’s explode in space over Nevada and Virginia knocking out the US power grid because it is not hardened. More fuel transportation will be impossible. Later after 60+ nuclear power plants use up emergency 2 week fuel reserves there will be Chernobyl style meltdowns across the country.

North Korea’s Satellites Could Unleash Electromagnetic Pulse Attack

https://www.newsmax.com/peterpry/emp-johnson-pyongang/2019/03/07/id/905980/

A Super-EMP weapon could be relatively small and lightweight, and could fit inside North Korea’s Kwangmyongsong-3 (KMS-3) and Kwangmyongsong-4 (KMS-4) satellites. These two satellites presently orbit over the United States . . . The south polar trajectory of KMS-3 and KMS-4 evades U.S. Ballistic Missile Early Warning Radars and National Missile Defenses, resembling a Russian secret weapon developed during the Cold War, called the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) that would have used a nuclear-armed satellite to make a surprise EMP attack on the United States.”

The Congressional EMP Commission Chairman’s Report (available from Amazon.com) in “Are North Korea’s Satellites An EMP Threat?” answers affirmatively, noting technology transfer from Russia to North Korea of Super-EMP weapon technology:

“They said North Korea could test a Super-EMP weapon ‘in a few years.’ The 2006 and subsequent low-yield tests do not appear to have been failures because North Korea proceeded with weaponization.

“In 1997, Andrey Kokoshin, then Russia’s First Deputy Defense Minister, stated Russia was deploying a new generation of advanced nuclear weapons ‘that have no counterparts in the world’ including EMP weapons and ‘ultra-small warheads weighing less than 90 kilograms.’ Such weapons would be small enough for North Korea’s satellites.”

Ambassador Henry Cooper, former Director of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, and a preeminent expert on missile defenses and space weapons, has written numerous articles warning about the potential North Korean EMP threat from their satellites:

North Korea…could use its demonstrated satellite launcher to carry a nuclear weapon over the South Polar region and detonate it . . . over the United States to create a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) . . . The result could be to shut down the U.S. electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all Americans — as the EMP Commission testified over eight years ago. (Sept. 20, 2016)

>>> At least the blanket of radiation, coast to coast, will kill the Wuhan Virus.

jerrys
jerrys
4 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

And where are our NEUTRON BOMBS ??? Would be just the ticket for NK. We could put a stop to lots of these threats with our air-fuel bombs in surgical strikes..
In the meanwhile, like rust, islam never stops!

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  jerrys

…where are our NEUTRON BOMBS?

The major powers …say they dismantled them all.

I don’t believe it.

Wibble
Wibble
4 years ago

Skulduggery Afoot?
There is an allegation that the Chinese stole a Coronavirus sample from a Level 4 biomedical laboratory in Canada which was intended for weaponisation development at the Chinese Biowarfare facility not far from Wuhan, China, and that this virus subsequently escaped into the wild before fully weaponised. There are those who very much want to blame the USA for what we are all currently going through but there is a very large alternative signpost pointing in the direction of China. Below I repost 3 links which flesh out the available information on this.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/mystery-surrounds-ouster-chinese-researchers-canadian-laboratory

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/did-china-steal-coronavirus-canada-and-weaponize-it

https://principia-scientific.org/creator-of-us-bioweapons-act-says-coronavirus-is-a-bio-weapon/

Giving further credence to the probability that China is responsible for the world’s coronavirus woes is the following report in the New York Post.

https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/dont-buy-chinas-story-the-coronavirus-may-have-leaked-from-a-lab/

stephen5970
stephen5970
4 years ago

Repeat the lie enough times and the useful idiots will believe it (and keep repeating the lie).

Just waiting for Bernie and his friends to start repeating this too.

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago

The chinese are expelling American journalists? we need to do the same to theirs –

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago

soros funded the creation labcomment image

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

Teams of international scientists, including several from inside China, have agreed for more than a month that the virus came from a “wet market” in Wuhan — where fish, poultry and other animals are slaughtered on the premises — and that any other claims about the virus’ origins are bogus. This is misinformation.The covid-10 virus is a WMD released by the Chicoms.

created4el
created4el
4 years ago

Somehow the Chinese blaming the US for something “almost” seems like the Democrats blaming Trump and Republicans of something… and it turns out, in the Democrat’s case, they are always the ones who are guilty of whatever it is they are accusing Trump and the Republicans of…

So, the Chinese is blaming the US for covid meanwhile in Wuhan, there is a facility where they work with viruses to make vaccines… is it possible that covid-19 is indeed a bio-weapon but not engineered by the US but by the Chinese which was released on their own people, perhaps accidentally? The “rumor” has it that lab animals that “survived” whatever treatment they were given were being sold to the slaughter house probably so that some lowly lab worker could make a few extra bucks. If this was indeed done, doing so would be a pathway to releasing an bio-engineered virus. If this is true, this is kind of like a bomb maker being blown up by their own bomb due to their mishandling of the explosives.

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