Australia has gone to #15
Australia #15 >>>/qresearch/13341710
Originally Australia #15 >>13342001
WHO Covid-19 report: New Zealand shuts its eyes to appease China
WILL GLASGOW and BEN PACKHAM - APRIL 1, 2021
New Zealand has refused to stand with Australia and its other Five Eyes partners to speak out against a much-criticised World Health Organisation investigation into the origins of COVID in China, as it tries to escape Beijing’s wrath.
The shortcomings of the investigation, which has been highly sensitive in China, were immediately pointed out in joint statements released by the four other Five Eyes nations — the US, Britain, Canada and Australia — as well as Japan, South Korea and eight other countries, and in a separate statement by the EU.
Even WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus himself, who has been criticised for being too conciliatory to Beijing during the pandemic, acknowledged data had been withheld from the investigation team.
“In my discussions with the team they expressed the difficulties they encountered in accessing raw data,” Mr Tedros said at a press conference, which was seemingly censored on the Chinese internet on Wednesday.
“I expect future collaborative studies to include more timely and comprehensive data sharing,” the WHO chief said.
But in Wellington, the Ardern government said it needed more time before it would comment on the report, even though it has been circulating among WHO members for days.
“Our technical experts are currently analysing the report,” a spokeswoman for New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta told The Australian.
“As this is a scientific report, we want to make sure we understand the science before making any comment,” she said.
While Australia’s relationship with China has imploded during the pandemic, New Zealand has become Beijing’s favourite member of the Five Eyes group.
Wellington was rewarded in January with an upgrade in its free trade agreement with China. That was signed as Beijing continued a trade retaliation campaign on more than $20bn worth of Australian exports aimed at punishing the Morrison government for calling for an independent inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus without forewarning Xi Jinping’s administration.
Tony Browne, a former New Zealand ambassador to China, said the Ardern government’s absence from the joint statement was not unexpected.
Noting that he did not want to sound critical of Australia’s approach, the retired diplomat said the Morrison government’s call for an inquiry was “framed in terms that were seen as provocative and even hostile in Beijing”.
“The way that the demand was outlined was seen by China as going beyond health into the political,” he told The Australian.
“Calling China into account for the nature of its political management of the issue might sound like a good thing to do, but you know for certain it’s not going to go anywhere in terms of any sort of co-operative involvement from China,” he said.
The WHO team in their report said they were unable to conclude where or how the virus began spreading, although they believe it most likely jumped from a bat or other animal host to a human.
‘Wuhan lab theory needs further study’
A statement signed by the US, Australia and 12 other countries said it was critical the WHO team be given “full access” so they could accurately study the origins of the coronavirus.
The EU statement said the report was a “helpful first step”, while regretting the late start of the study and the limited availability of early samples and related data.
A theory pushed by the Trump administration that the coronavirus emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan was described as the least likely hypothesis, but Tedros acknowledged the WHO team said that theory required further study.
“Further data and studies will be needed to reach more robust conclusions,” he said.
China’s foreign ministry said Beijing had provided “full co-operation” to the WHO team and then repeated a conspiracy theory about the coronavirus leaking from a military lab in America.
“There is still a big question mark over the lab at Fort Detrick,” the foreign ministry spokeswoman said.
Meanwhile, China’s state-controlled Global Times reported that the virus may have arrived in Wuhan on frozen food brought by foreign participants at the October 2019 Military World Games, a theory with no supporting evidence in the report.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/who-covid19-report-new-zealand-shuts-its-eyes-to-appease-china/news-story/d13e82a36ae8d88fea024beca3bb35b8
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4 Officers Killed and 7 Injured in Madera, Chihuahua Ambush
March 31, 2021
NOTE: It is being alleged that La Línea is behind the attack, but no confirmations or claims of responsibility yet.
The ambush by alleged hitmen left four police officers killed and seven more who were injured in the town of La Concha, municipality of Madera, Chihuahua, according to the state's Public Security Secretariat (SSPE). The officers of the Division of Rural Operations carried out patrolling and surveillance when they were attacked and as soon succeeded in repelling the assault, as alleged members of organized crime fled.
Armed subjects were reportedly stationed at high points along the road.
Preliminary reports highlighted that the assassinated officers were Sergio LE; Efrain RR; Noel Omar RL; and Luis Raúl PG. After the ambush, an operation was deployed to find those responsible, but no further details have been reported. The governor, Javier Corral, has not commented on the crime committed against state agents.
The actions add up to the third attack against state police in the same municipality in the last four months. On November 5, 2020, there was an attack against elements of the State Security Commission, and previous attacks on National Guard personnel. This happened while the uniformed men circulated in a group from the Ejido El Largo Maderal to the municipal seat of Madera.
Chihuahua is a border state that represents part of the so-called “Golden Triangle,” a mountainous region where the planting and production of narcotics has been established for decades. Madera is located just over four hours from the state capital and borders the mountainous area of Sonora.
At the beginning of 2020, on January 17, around 150 hitmen from La Línea broke into the communities Las Pomas de Abajo and Las Pomas de Arriba, in the municipality of Madera, where they burned at least 22 houses and 7 vehicles, in addition to kidnapping an undetermined number of people.
In this municipality, located in the Sierra Tarahumara, there is a bloody war between Los Salazar and Los Jaguares against La Línea, which has left rivers of blood due to executions and criminal acts. At the beginning of October 2019, the information circulated that Francisco Arvizu, El Jaguar, had been killed in a confrontation that took place in Las Pomas, in the municipality of Madera, but it was not confirmed by the authorities.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2021/03/ambush-on-officers-in-madera-chihuahua.html?m=1
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Kun shitting the bed
What was posted and where makes so much worry?
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