Top U.S. Tech Execs Attended Conference Sponsored By Chinese Communist Group Which Pushed COVID DisInfo Campaign

Executives from American tech giants such as Facebook and Google attended an annual conference organized by the Cyberspace Administration of China, the body responsible for leading the Chinese Communist Party’s digital campaign to censor factual narratives and push fraudulent information about COVID-19.

The unearthed attendance of U.S. tech leaders to the World Internet Conference follows leaked documents from the Chinese Communist Party revealing that its Cyberspace Administration – which spearheaded the conference – was tasked with deploying legions of hundreds of thousands of people online.

These individuals, comprising China’s “wu mao” army, were deployed to combat negative narratives about the Chinese government and peddle misinformation to create a facade that China was adequately containing the virus.

Firewall Fealty.

Conceived in 2014, the annual World Internet Conference is organized by Chinese Communist Party bodies including the Cyberspace Administration of China, the State Council Information Office, and several municipal governments.

In addition to Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping speaking at the conference, companies that have been identified by the Department of Defense as assisting the Chinese military for over two decades such as Huawei, China Telecom, and China Electronics Technology Group, have routinely attended.

Other Chinese companies such as Tencent and ByteDance, whose own the controversial WeChat and TikTok apps, have participated in the conference alongside a bevy of high-level Chinese Communist Party officials.

And the conference’s goal of increased technological collaboration between China and the U.S. is misguided, as the prospect presents a hotbed for government-sanctioned intellectual property theft, espionage, hacking, and cyberattacks.

Despite this, American companies including Microsoft, LinkedIn, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon have participated in the state-run event. In 2017, Apple Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai took high profile speaking roles at the event.

Another mainstay in the pro-China lobby group, the National Committee on U.S. China Relations, also sent its President Stephen Orlins to speak at the conference. In 2017, for example, Orlins wanted to ensure that “the internet serves the complementary, rather than the conflicting, interests” of China and the U.S.

Conferences & Collaborators.

American tech companies liaising with Chinese Communist Party linked firms and party members at the World Internet Conference is not an isolated incident.

This exposé follows a long list of National Pulse reporting calling out the same companies for attending a host of conferences bankrolled by the Chinese Communist Party with companies such as Huawei, Tencent, and ByteDance in attendance.

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/fb-tech-conference-china/

Top Scientists Questioned COVID Lab Origin In Explosive Emails; Concerns Grow Over 'Impartial' WHO Probe

Top-level scientists and government doctors in the United States suggested that COVID-19 could have originated from human activities, with one asking if it may have been deliberately engineered, according to the Daily Mail.

The emails were obtained via the freedom of information act (FOIA), and detail communications between University of North Carolina epidemiologist Ralph Baric - whose team created chimeric viruses in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Baric has admitted that viruses can be made without any signs of manipulation.

The epidemiologist joined discussions among a group of experts in Government and universities brought together by an official at the US Department of Homeland Security after reports of a strange new respiratory virus killing people in Wuhan.

The chain of correspondence was given the jocular subject tag of Red Dawn. On February 10 – the day one official wrote that China had stopped including its asymptomatic cases in data, thus making it appear to the world that its outbreak was slowing – they were joined by Mark Keim, a former White House adviser on disaster prevention.

He offered the group – which included the senior medical officer in the department’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office – a nine-point list of ‘situational assumptions’ that began by clearly stating: ‘The novel virus could be anthropogenic rather than zoonotic.’ -Daily Mail

"We know that both anthropogenic and zoonotic pathogens exist," Keim told the Mail, adding that while most epidemics are zoonotic (animal origin) in nature, scientists should only eliminate theories - such as the lab hypothesis - based on firm evidence. "We have to be careful about making assumptions that have no proof," he added.

In a March 5 email, another participant "suggested this is engineered," referring to COVID-19, to which Baric - who manipulated viruses with the Wuhan scientists - responded firmly, saying "There is absolutely no evidence that this virus is bio-engineered."

Meanwhile, scientists at the National Academics of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine changed a draft of a White House report to exclude a footnote saying 'this does not preclude an unintentional release from a laboratory studying the evolution of coronaviruses.’

"If you start weighing evidence, there’s a lot to consider from both scenarios," says virus expert Trevor Bedford, who said last week that "we could not say definitely whether emergence into human population occurred via zoonosis or lab escape."

"I still view zoonosis as the most likely scenario, but I still view this as not definitive," he added.

Meanwhile, scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have had to divulge details about bat coronavirus samples in their possession, which they have admitted were linked to the deaths in 2012 of three miners from a similar respiratory disease. Shi Zhengli, a renowned Wuhan-based virologist who has worked closely with Baric and is known as Batwoman for her expeditions to gather samples in caves, had to clarify a paper in Nature magazine written with two colleagues at the top-security laboratory after inconsistencies were spotted.

This highly-influential paper, sent on the day China belatedly admitted to human transmission, disclosed the existence of a virus called RaTG13 that is the closest known relative to Sars-Cov-2, with more than 96 per cent genetic similarity. It was sampled from a horseshoe bat and stored at their lab.

Other experts questioned why more information was not shared about this strain. It later emerged the name was changed from another virus identified in a 2016 paper –but, unusually, was not cited and obscured links to the dead miners. -Daily Mail

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/top-scientists-pondered-covid-lab-origin-explosive-emails-while-concerns-grow-over-beijing

Read the rest of the report here.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9071191/Will-learn-truth-China-pandemic-writes-IAN-BIRRELL.html

Government, Not Coronavirus, Is Killing Small Businesses

A video of a confrontation between Ventura County, California health officials and restaurant owner Anton Van Happen has gone viral. The health officials were ordering Mr. Van Happen to close his business because he allegedly violated California’s ban on outdoor dining. Mr. Van Happen asked the health officials if the government will pay his employees and his rent while his business is indefinitely closed.

Mr. Van Happen is hardly the only small business owner worried about how to pay bills during the lockdowns. Many small businesses operate on a narrow profit margin, so being forced to “temporarily” shut down or limit the number of customers they can serve is a virtual death sentence.

The lockdowns have already caused as many as 200,000 small businesses to permanently close. Lockdowns, by shrinking the number of employers, lead to long-term unemployment or lower wages for many workers.

While governments have terrorized small businesses, they have typically deemed the big chain stores “essential businesses” so they can remain open. The lockdowns are thus another government policy that gives big businesses a competitive advantage over their smaller competitors.

The benefits big businesses get from the lockdowns — including fewer competitors, more customers, and a job market with more workers competing for fewer jobs — may explain why many big businesses are not fighting the lockdowns. Instead, most big retail chains are requiring their workers and customers to wear masks. Many big businesses may soon deny service to those who refuse to receive a Covid vaccine.

One would think that progressives who claim to oppose policies that benefit big corporations like WalMart, Target, and Amazon would oppose the lockdowns. Sadly, even many progressives are unquestioningly parroting the Covid propaganda and demonizing those who dissent.

By slowing down the development of herd immunity among the population, the lockdowns could put those truly at risk in greater danger. Lockdowns have also had negative effects such as increases in drug and alcohol abuse and increases in domestic violence. Meanwhile, many schoolchildren are deprived of the opportunity to interact with their teachers and their peers. Instead, these children are subjected to the fraud of “virtual learning.”

Resistance to Covid tyranny is growing as more people figure out that lockdowns and mandates are both unnecessary and harmful. This resistance was largely started by small business owners faced with a choice between obeying the government or making sure they, and their employees, can feed their families. Small business owners have been leaders in recent anti-lockdown protests across America.

Eventually the resistance will grow to the point where the politicians will be forced to either double down on authoritarianism or admit the lockdowns were a mistake. Either way, those of us who know the truth must resist the Covid tyranny until government officials no longer terrorize small businesses for the crime of serving willing consumers.

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/december/21/government-not-coronavirus-is-killing-small-businesses/

Two Owners of New York Pharmacies Charged in a $30 Million COVID-19 Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering Case

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-owners-new-york-pharmacies-charged-30-million-covid-19-health-care-fraud-and-money

Christmas Tales: Santa Claus is More Real Than New Government COVID Claims

One of the things which makes the holiday season so enchanting are the tales Santa and his reindeer, making that impossible trip on Christmas Eve to deliver presents and cheer to wide-eyed younglings around the world. In 2020, Government has sought to muscle-in on the marketplace of myths with a competing set of fables of its own, suitable for adults and children alike.

Ever since March, the Government, in conjunction with its media partners, has erected a god-inspiring pandemic PR machine which is now in full-spin mode over the holiday season, with politicians continuing to ply the public with new weekly plot twists. and harrowing stories of ‘new strains’ of the no longer novel coronavirus – prompting bombastic calls to ‘Cancel Christmas‘ and throw the nation into a third lockdown. This, supposedly to save lives and to ‘protect the NHS.’

But how many of these claims by persons in positions of authority are true, and how many are contrived?

Just as when mum and dad have to break it to the kids that Santa is just a children’s fable, it’s high time we finally level with the public and reveal that underpinning this Christmas folly are nothing more than a fanciful woven basket of assumptions and myths. They are:

‘The ICUs are overrun, we’re running out of hospitals beds!’

‘A new mutant strain is on the loose, and it’s 70 percent more contagious!’

The ‘R number’ is above one!

‘The real danger are asymptomatic spreaders!’

As it turns out, each of these widely-held assumptions are about as real as Santa, but in the absence of any noticeable adults in the room, this Christmas pantomime looks set to continue.

There is No Hospital Crisis

For months, the mainstream media have allowed government ministers like Matt Hancock and Jonathan Van-Tam to promulgate the idea that there’s a deadly pandemic which is still raging through the country, and that the number of COVID patients is approaching equal levels to the peak last April. We must lockdown now in order to Save the NHS™, or so the narrative goes. However, upon examination of the government’s own data sets, such hysterical claims favoured by tabloid headline writers and BBC anchors do not even remotely resemble reality. According to a recent report, the UK’s NHS data clearly shows that the country’s hospitals are in fact quieter than this time last year. Therefore, any suggestions by UK government ministers and officials that hospitals are ‘overrun by COVID patients’ is simply false. Some key data points from that report:

Average intensive care ward occupancy down to 75 per cent from 84 per cent from the same time last year

15,465 people in hospital with Covid in England on Wednesday compared to 18,974 on worst day in spring

But statistics suggest the health service is, overall, coping better with its workload than it did last winter

The Mail Online report goes on to state that, “statistics suggest the health service is, overall, coping better with its workload than it did last winter. A greater proportion of ward beds are free, intensive care units have more room and A&E departments aren’t yet turning ambulances away more often than usual – with the exception of a bad day at one NHS trust in the Midlands. And the occupancy figure does not take into account bolstered capacity at the mothballed Nightingale hospitals, which went unused after being built during the first wave in case wards were overrun with Covid, or the thousands of additional beds commandeered from the private sector for the same purpose.”

https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/12/21/christmas-tales-santa-claus-is-more-real-than-new-government-covid-claims/

Snow job! SolarWinds ‘Russian hack’ story proves the media writes US foreign policy, not the White House

As incoming nominees of a future Biden administration have stopped short in naming a culprit in the SolarWinds hack, the media – playing judge, jury and executioner – has levelled blame on the usual suspect.

Did anyone actually believe that Russia would escape a major US election season without a ceremonial tarring and feathering by the media? It’s almost as though frantic journalists, unable to sell the ‘Trump Beats Biden with Kremlin Collusion’ narrative, have dreamt up this latest work of pulp fiction to keep the ball of ‘Russian villainy’ bouncing into the next US administration. Heaven forbid, after all, if the media just sat by and let protracted peace break out between Washington and Moscow.

Indeed, when SolarWinds – a software platform that counts among its clients the Pentagon, State Department, Justice Department, and the National Security Agency – suffered an alleged hack, the Washington Post jumped on the evil Russia connection faster than Ian Fleming.

“The Russian hackers… breached email systems,”wrote Ellen Nakashima and Craig Timberg in the Post without, once again, offering a stitch of evidence (Timberg, readers may recall, is the journalist who relied on a shady outfit known as PropOrNot to report, wrongly, that some 200 news outlets were peddling Russian-inspired “fake news.”). Quoting those always available “people who spoke on the condition of anonymity,” the tag team claimed that the “scale of the Russian espionage operation appears to be large.”

Ironically, the most reliable real-life entity that Nakashima and Timberg quoted in their story comes by way of the Russian Embassy in Washington, which called the reports of Russian hacking “baseless.”

But never mind. If the Bezos-empire publication says Russia is the guilty party then who are we mere mortals to ask any questions. So now we’re off again to the ‘blame Russia’ races.

At this point, it must be asked: who is more responsible for writing US foreign policy, the mainstream media, with their never-ending supply of ‘anonymous sources’ to substantiate their fantastic assertions, or the US government? That question seems reasonable after listening to interviews with freshly appointed members of the Biden administration, who apparently never got the memo about ‘Russian baddies’.

Jennifer Granholm, for example, the energy secretary nominee, committed the cardinal sin of not recognizing the ‘Russian bogeyman’ in an interview with ABC talking head, George Stephanopolous.

“We don’t know fully what happened, the extent of it, and, quite frankly, we don’t know fully for sure who did it,” Granholm said, leaving Stephanopoulos, deprived of clickable Russophobic sound bites, looking dejected and forlorn.

Perhaps Stephanopoulos was anticipating that Granholm would simply regurgitate media talking points about Russia’s unproven hack, like the absolutely reckless one put out by Reuters.

Reporting on the SolarWinds hack, the Reuters article screamed ‘Russia’ from the opening gates. Yet not a single living person is quoted from the incoming Biden administration to take responsibility for a claim that has real-life consequences, especially when some members of Congress are calling the electronic breach an “act of war.”

“President-elect Joe Biden's team will consider several options to punish Russia for its suspected role in the unprecedented hacking of US government agencies and companies once he takes office, from new financial sanctions to cyberattacks on Russian infrastructure, people familiar with the matter say.”

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/510373-solarwinds-hack-russia-media/

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intel agencies which in turn they are owned by the banks yes

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Climate Change Is the New Fed Mandate

Officially, Congress sets the Fed's priorities but the Fed has independence on how to carry out its mandates. Unofficially, the Fed just adopted its own new mandate.

The Evolution of an Idea

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond explains the Evolution of an Idea.

Since 1977, the Federal Reserve has operated under a mandate from Congress to "promote effectively the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long term interest rates" — what is now commonly referred to as the Fed's "dual mandate." The idea that the Fed should pursue multiple goals can be traced back to at least the 1940s, however, with shifting emphasis on which objective should be paramount.

That snip is from 2011 and matches what the Fed has said over the years.

I do not believe I see the words "climate change" anywhere in the "dual mandate".

Fed Joins Climate Change Network

Despite climate change being no part of the Fed's mandate the Fed Joins Climate Network, to Applause From the Left.

The Fed’s board in Washington voted unanimously to become a member of the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System.

“The public will expect that we do figure out what are the implications of climate change for financial stability, and that we do put policies in place,” Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, said this month at a Senate hearing. “The broad response to climate change on the part of society really needs to be set by elected representatives — that’s you. We see implications of climate change for the job that you’ve given us, and that’s what we’re working on.”

Greening of the Fed

"We see implications of climate change for the job that you’ve given us, and that’s what we’re working on," said Powell.

Excuse me for asking but when did Congress add climate change to the Fed's list of mandates?

Given the Fed has blown three economic bubbles in succession, has never spotted a recession in advance, and is totally clueless about price stability, perhaps it ought to stick to monetary policy.

Then again, if the Fed were to abandon monetary policy and just let the free market work, that could be an adequate tradeoff for letting the Fed pontificate on climate change.

https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/climate-change-is-the-new-fed-mandate

Pork City: Here Are The Most Ridiculous Pet Projects In $900 Billion Stimulus Package

And now, on to the pork… which includes billions to foreign countries, US military weapons purchases which go above and beyond their budgets, $40 million for the Kennedy Center, and nearly $200 million so that federal HIV/AIDS workers overseas can buy cars and car insurance, among other things.

FOREIGN HANDOUTS:

A minimum of $3.3 billion in grants to Israel.

NEVER MIND $3.3 BILLION IN GRANTS TO ISRAEL pic.twitter.com/AqXzPjaL7o

— based tomboy respecter (@inteldotwav) December 21, 2020

Also included is $453 million to Ukraine, on top of the $400 million Trump eventually released. No word on how much of that goes to the 'big guy.'

COVID RELIEF SENDS $453m TO UKRAINE pic.twitter.com/1WoPRUl3E9

— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) December 21, 2020

$10 million for "gender programs" in Pakistan.

The Covid relief bill also includes $10 million for “gender programs” in Pakistan pic.twitter.com/7kivucCjvY

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 21, 2020

$1.3 billion to Egypt, and $700 million to Sudan.

$130,265,000 to fucking backwoods-ass Nepal pic.twitter.com/MosD3HJJ8O

— based tomboy respecter (@inteldotwav) December 21, 2020

SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION TO SUDAN

ONE POINT THREE BILLION TO EGYPT

IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ECONOMIC CRISIS pic.twitter.com/NPWpq6Xyuq

— based tomboy respecter (@inteldotwav) December 21, 2020

$135 million to Burma, $85.5 million to Cambodia, $1.4 billion for an "Asia Reassurance Initiative Act," and $130 million to Nepal.

The Stimulus Bill:

The gov't closes the economy. You lose your job. You face eviction.

$600 for all your troubles.

Meanwhile they send:

$135 million to Burma

$85.5 million to Cambodia

$1.4 billion for "Asia Reassurance Initiative Act"

$130 million to Nepal

They hate you. pic.twitter.com/95U2Qt4uNa

— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) December 21, 2020

BOMBS AWAY

$4 billion for Navy weapons procurement, $2 billion for Space Force and $2 billion for Air Force missiles.

$4 billion for Navy weapons procurement. pic.twitter.com/luzf8EPMwm

— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) December 21, 2020

$2 billion for Space Force! pic.twitter.com/SBcSCKSIh4

— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) December 21, 2020

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pork-city-here-are-most-ridiculous-pet-projects-900-billion-spending-package

Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. launches pro-America film company to make movies that 'support our country'

About time

Antonio Sabato Jr. — an American actor who was blacklisted by Hollywood over his support for President Trump — is teaming up with other conservative entertainment figures to launch a pro-America film studio and make movies that "support our country."

In an interview with "The Kyle Olson Show" on Saturday, the 48-year-old actor detailed the launch of ConFlix Studios, saying that conservatives in America have been "eagerly waiting" for entertainment that celebrates the country, rather than denigrates it.

"We are patriots who want to keep going and support our country, support our law enforcement, support the history of our country, the Constitution, the flag, our soldiers, and so much more," he said.

Sabato Jr., who is known for his roles in "Melrose Place," "The Bold and the Beautiful," and "General Hospital," lamented that the entertainment world has "moved away from supporting our country in so many ways," but that this movement has created a void that his studio hopes to fill.

He wants to produce films that "support our country, support our God, support our flag," he stated.

The film studio, which Sabato Jr. has been working hard to launch since earlier this year, already has its first script. The forthcoming project, "Trailblazers," is set to feature a host of well-known conservative stars, including Scott Baio, Dean Cain, Kevin Sorbo, and Stacey Dash.

According to IMDB, "Trailblazers" will tell the story of "a band of siblings who were once robbers, thieves and killers of the west, decide to fulfill their father's dying wish of abandoning their life of crime and pursuing the path of the holy."

During his interview, Sabato Jr., an evangelical Christian, also said the film is "a Western where God is the protagonist of the story" that portrays "a great family fighting for what is right."

Sabato Jr. worked as a successful actor for more than 30 years before his support for Trump resulted in the death of his career. In March, the actor detailed how he had to sell his possessions, relocate, and find new work in order to provide for his family after being blacklisted by Hollywood elites.

"It's been terrible. It's mind-blowing. It's a disgrace," he told Variety in a phone interview. "It's tough, because if you're in that environment in Hollywood and you have something to say that they don't like, they're going to let you know."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/antonio-sabato-jr-conflix-studios

Congress unveils $2.3 trillion government spending and virus relief package

Congress unveiled a $2.3 trillion spending package Monday just hours before its expected passage in both chambers, funding the government though the end of the fiscal year and providing relief to a coronavirus-battered economy.

The package includes a $1.4 trillion omnibus bill based on a 2019 spending deal, which consists of $740.5 billion in defense spending and $664.5 billion for domestic programs.

It also includes a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill, which congressional leaders agreed to over the weekend.

The combined $2.3 trillion package is among the largest spending bills ever considered by Congress and follows the $2.2 trillion CARES Act passed in late March.

While the COVID-19 relief bill focuses on extending unemployment, providing stimulus checks and boosting small businesses, the omnibus includes a broader set of policy issues, such as transportation, agriculture, health, homeland security and foreign operations.

“As I prepare to depart the House after 32 years of service, I could not be more pleased that we are concluding this Congress with a bipartisan agreement to provide the certainty of full-year funding for all of government and urgently-needed coronavirus relief to save lives and livelihoods,” said outgoing House Appropriations Committee Chair Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), the first woman to lead the panel.

The includes several Democratic priorities previously approved by the House as well as provisions reflecting Senate GOP objectives.

It includes a 3 percent pay raise for the military and a 1 percent pay raise for the civilian federal workforce.

The National Institutes of Health would receive a $1.25 billion boost, raising the budget to $42.9 billion, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would get a $125 million boost, to $7.9 billion.

The omnibus also included $1.375 billion for 56 miles of President Trump’s border wall, an issue that has become a central obstacle in passing spending legislation during his presidency. That is the same amount approved last year, though President-elect Joe Biden is not expected to use billions in emergency defense funds to bolster the project like Trump has.

The omnibus does not include Democratic language that would have blocked Trump’s executive order lifting protections for civil servants and helping political appointees to remain in government posts after Biden takes office.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/531164-congress-unveils-23-trillion-government-spending-and-virus-relief-package