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White House distances itself from Covid ‘lab-leak’ theory

A major newspaper has claimed that the US government believes the Covid-19 pandemic most likely originated in a Chinese laboratory

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan has rejected a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report which stated that a US Department of Energy study concluded that the Covid-19 pandemic was likely the result of a failure of safety practices at a laboratory in China, stating that there is “not a definitive answer” as to the true origins of the virus.

The paper claimed on Sunday that the Department of Energy had viewed “new intelligence” which led them to believe that Covid-19 wasn’t naturally produced in the environment, but rather the result of a so-called ‘lab-leak’ – but it added that it has “low confidence” in its findings.

Responding to the WSJ report, Sullivan said that President Joe Biden has ordered a full investigation into the potential origins of Covid-19 but he stressed the various governmental bodies looking into the matter have yet to reach a unanimous verdict.

“President Biden has directed, repeatedly, every element of our intelligence community to put effort and resources behind getting to the bottom of this question,” Sullivan told CNN on Sunday.

“If we gain any further insight or information, we will share it with Congress, and we will share it with the American people. But right now, there is not a definitive answer that has emerged from the intelligence community on this question.”

The virus was first reported to have been discovered in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province, an area which also features a prominent virology institute which is an active research center for the study of coronaviruses.

The FBI has also backed the lab-leak theory but four other US agencies have determined that natural transmission was the more likely source of the virus. Two other agencies are currently undecided, according to the WSJ.

Last year, extensive studies conducted by the peer-reviewed ‘Science’ journal determined that the initial virus was very likely transmitted to a human from an animal at one of Wuhan’s wet markets.

Further studies into the lab-leak theory are expected to take place in the US in the coming weeks and months, after several Republican lawmakers included investigations into the pandemic’s origins among the key pledges on the campaign trail ahead of last November’s midterm elections.

https://www.rt.com/news/572111-white-house-covid-lab-leak/

China reveals plans to counter Musk’s ‘Starlink’

Beijing has expressed national-security concerns related to the SpaceX network

Chinese researchers are preparing to launch close to 13,000 satellites into a low-earth orbit, in a move which would dwarf – and potentially monitor – Elon Musk’s SpaceX ‘Starlink’ network, which first launched in 2019 and provides satellite internet access to 50 countries.

The project, which is codenamed ‘GW’ and is being led by associate professor Xu Can of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Space Engineering University in Beijing, will see 12,992 satellites operated by the China Satellite Network Group Co launched into orbit, and is designed to improve communications efficiency.

The launch schedule remains unknown but the team led by Xu said that they plan to deploy them “before the completion of Starlink.” They added that this would “ensure that our country has a place in low orbit and prevent the Starlink constellation from excessively pre-empting low-orbit resources.”

The projected number of ‘GW’ satellites would surpass Starlink’s current total of around 3,500. SpaceX plans to have 12,000 devices in its constellation of satellites by 2027, with that figure eventually rising to 42,000.

Xu’s team elaborated that they would place their satellites into “orbits where the Starlink constellation has not yet reached” and that they would “gain opportunities and advantages at other orbital altitudes, and even suppress Starlink.”

The ‘GW’ network could also be equipped with technology to provide “long-term surveillance of Starlink satellites,” the team of researchers added.

Xu and his team also suggested that the Chinese government could form an anti-Starlink coalition with various other governments which would “demand that SpaceX publish the precise orbiting data of Starlink satellites.”

Chinese military figures have previously expressed concern at the national security implications posed by SpaceX’s satellites, and called for the development of “hard kill” technology “to destroy the constellation’s operating system” should it be necessary.

China’s efforts to counter Starlink come amid growing concerns about the potential military applications of the global satellite network. The technology has been used to bolster communications by Ukrainian military forces throughout its conflict with Russia – though SpaceX took steps earlier this month to restrict its use in controlling military drones in the country.

https://www.rt.com/news/572102-china-spacex-musk-starlink/

US Energy Department Now Claims COVID Came from a Lab But US Agencies Still Not Willing to Say COVID Was Dropped Intentionally

The US Energy Department has come out and claimed that COVID was released from a lab. But no American entity has yet to claim that the release was intentional.

The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.

The shift by the Energy Department, which previously was undecided on how the virus emerged, is noted in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office.

“The new report highlights how different parts of the intelligence community have arrived at disparate judgments about the pandemic’s origin. The Energy Department now joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory. Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that it was likely the result of a natural transmission, and two are undecided.”

TGP was the first major publication to report on the Wuhan Lab and the likelihood of COVID being released from that lab. We also reported that the lab was working on live animals and information coming out of China showed that the Chinese reported that the lab was the source of COVID through February 2020.

However, one thing that the experts in the States give China a pass on is whether COVID was released intentionally or not.

Why would the experts in our country who only now report on the lab leak claim that the leak in a lab was a “mishap”?

Last April, Dr. Li-Meng Yan says China released the COVID intentionally. She said that COVID was not an accident. Dr. Li-Meng was a virologist in Hong Kong who fled after the COVID pandemic.

If China did release the COVID pandemic intentionally they had a reason to. Trump was destroying the China economy and they needed to get rid of Trump because they were hurting.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/us-energy-department-now-claims-covid-came-from-a-lab-but-us-agencies-still-not-willing-to-say-covid-was-dropped-intentionally/

Joe Biden Blames the Media When Asked Why So Many Americans Say They’re “Worse Off” Financially Than When He Was Elected (VIDEO)

Joe Biden on Friday sat down for a one-on-one softball interview with ABC’s David Muir to discuss Russia, China, Ukraine, the impending nuclear war and scandals plaguing his adminsistration.

Biden was asked why so many Americans say they are much worse off financially than when he was elected.

According to a left-leaning ABC/WaPo poll, 41% of Americans feel worse off financially under the Biden Administration.

It’s much worse than what the left-leaning polls say.

Inflation rates are at 40-year highs.

30-year fixed mortgage rates are over 7.00%.

Inflation is outpacing wages.

Americans are suffering because of Joe Biden’s tax-and-spend policies.

But he says it’s the media’s fault for reporting on negative news.

“4 in 10 Americans say they’re worse off than when you were elected — only 16% said they’re better off. Why?” David Muir asked Biden.

Biden blamed the doom and gloom headlines.

“You make the ne — I mean you interview for the news. Can you think of anything turn on the television and go, ‘God, that makes me feel good?'” Biden said.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/joe-biden-blames-the-media-when-asked-why-so-many-americans-say-theyre-worse-off-financially-than-when-he-was-elected-video/

Corrupt Democrat New Orleans Mayor One Step Closer to Being Ousted

LaToya Cantrell

The corrupt Democrat New Orleans mayor is one step closer to being ousted.

Recall organizers working to oust LaToya Cantrell from office say they have gathered enough signatures to block her from another term.

Organizers seeking to recall New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell from office said they collected enough signatures to put the city leader’s second term at risk.

“Right now our mayor doesn’t love New Orleans so the citizens and the residents stood up,” Eileen Carter, vice chair of the No LaToya recall campaign, told Fox News. “We’re taking our city back, and we’re gonna save New Orleans.”

The campaign’s chairman, Belden Baptiste, and Carter launched the recall effort to remove Cantrell from office in August 2022. The organizers handed the petition filled with signatures to the Orleans Parish Registrar of Voters office on Wednesday. The Feb. 22 deadline required them to hand in around 50,000 signatures, which the organizers say they exceeded.

“Mayor LaToya, it ain’t that we hate you,” Baptiste told Fox News. “You didn’t do your job, and you’re about to be fired.”

Carter, who worked in the mayor’s social media department for three years, told Fox News it was difficult to watch Cantrell “quiet quit” in her second term. The mayor’s public calendar used to have regular meetings with department heads, but she hadn’t had any on her schedule in over a year as of November, according to a local Fox affiliate’s review of public records.

“It’s like a tale of two mayors,” Carter said. “I don’t think she’s making very good judgment decisions for the city at all, to the point of arrogance.”

Last year LaToya Cantrell came under fire for spending more than $30,000 of taxpayer money to fly first class to Europe.

Meanwhile violent crime is surging in New Orleans.

Cantrell argued the first class flights were for her safety as a black woman and to protect her from Covid.

In a press conference last week, Mayor Cantrell said, “my travel accommodations are a matter of safety, not of luxury…. I need to be safe as I do business on behalf of the city of New Orleans.”

Cantrell’s security guards traveled to Europe in coach.

LaToya Cantrell also partied maskless after imposing a mask mandate for the city of New Orleans.

The Democrat hypocrites partied maskless while the peasants were forced to mask.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/corrupt-democrat-new-orleans-mayor-one-step-closer-to-being-ousted/

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