veteranstoday--2020-05-24--Toes and Soles of Fossilized Footprints are Now 3-D Digitized

Ancient Toes and Soles of Fossilized Footprints Now 3-D Digitized for the Ages While walking in the shadow of their people ’ s sacred volcano , Maasai villagers in 2006 stumbled across a set of curious footprints .
Clearly made by human feet , but set in stone , they appeared to be the enigmatic traces of some long-forgotten journey .
Now scientists have teased out some of story behind those ancient prints and the people who , with some help from the volcano , left them behind .
It begins while they were walking through the same area as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 10,000 years .
“ It ’ s kind of amazing to walk alongside these footprints and say , ‘ Wow , thousands of years ago somebody walked here .
What were they doing ?
What were they looking for ?
Where were they going ?
’ ” says Briana Pobiner , a paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian ’ s National Museum of Natural History with the Human Origins Program .
Pobiner is one of the scientists who has studied the prints at Engare Sero in Tanzania during the 14 years since their initial discovery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ produced an intriguing theory to explain what the walkers were doing on the day when impressions of their toes and soles were preserved on a mudflat .
Pobiner and her colleagues , in a study recently published in ..read more :

Ancient Toes and Soles of Fossilized Footprints Now 3-D Digitized for the Ages
by Brian Handwerk/Smithsonianmag.com
While walking in the shadow of their people’s sacred volcano, Maasai villagers in 2006 stumbled across a set of curious footprints. Clearly made by human feet, but set in stone, they appeared to be the enigmatic traces of some long-forgotten journey.
Now scientists have teased out some of story behind those ancient prints and the people who, with some help from the volcano, left them behind. It begins while they were walking through the same area as the Maasai—separated by a span of perhaps 10,000 years.
“It’s kind of amazing to walk alongside these footprints and say, ‘Wow, thousands of years ago somebody walked here. What were they doing? What were they looking for? Where were they going?’” says Briana Pobiner, a paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History with the Human Origins Program. Pobiner is one of the scientists who has studied the prints at Engare Sero in Tanzania during the 14 years since their initial discovery.
An in-depth footprint analysis has now produced an intriguing theory to explain what the walkers were doing on the day when impressions of their toes and soles were preserved on a mudflat. Pobiner and her colleagues, in a study recently published in ..read more:


veteranstoday--2020-05-25--The Harm of the Anti-Vaccination Movement

The Harm of the Anti-Vaccination Movement The World Health Organization ( WHO ) has just listed the anti-vaccination movement as one of the top health threats for 2019 .
This article addresses the major public health concern regarding misinformation , confusion and outright hoax involving recommended childhood vaccinations and resultant anti-vaccination attitudes of large segments of the general population .
Recent studies show an alarming number of adults are not getting the flu shot and not getting their children vaccinated for the measles , a highly contagious and dangerous disease once considered eliminated by Public Health officials .
As a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ remember standing in line in the school gym with all the other kids in my neighbourhood to get my polio vaccination .
We all got a sugar cube that contained the vaccine .
Every kid in the neighborhood was in the same line ; not one parent kept their child home .
Even at that young age , I understood what was happening .
I remember being happy to be receiving the vaccine , because I knew that polio was a horrible disease that put little children in iron lungs and left them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ community who had been afflicted with polio , and I knew that by getting my “ sugar cube , ” it would prevent me and all the other kids from getting the disease .
The polio vaccine program was one of the greatest public health success stories in history and the disease has since been virtually wiped out in America .
In 2017 , the WHO reported only 22 cases worldwide ( 3 ) .
And yet , today there are anti-polio vaccination researchers who deny that the polio vaccine works and claim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hygiene , manipulation of data and under-reporting of cases .
The anti-vaccination movement and its false beliefs are killing both children and adults .
In 2018 , 80,000 Americans died from complications of seasonal influenza ( 5 ) , and yet only 57 % of adults have received or planned to receive the flu shot for the 2018-19 season ( 2 ) .
Moreover , some American parents are rejecting the American Pediatric Association ( APA ) and the Centers for Disease Control ( CDC ) recommendations for childhood vaccinations .
The current @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the publication of a paper in The Lancet by a former doctor and researcher , Andrew Wakefield , which suggested a connection between the measles , mumps , and rubella ( MMR ) vaccine and development of autism in young children .
Even though the study has been discredited and Wakefield has been disgraced over his fraudulent findings , the study had done its damage by striking the fear of a vaccination-autism link in parents .
This led to an historic low rate of children receiving the MMR vaccine .
The hoax has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 100 years and is credited with bringing about outbreaks of diseases that had otherwise eradicated ( 4 ) .
While overall MMR vaccination rates remain high in the United States , there are some anti-vaccination “ hotspots ” where vaccination rates are well below the levels needed to protect the population ( 13 ) .
As a result , measles , which once killed tens of thousands every year and had been eliminated due to childhood vaccinations , is once again causing illness ( 8 ) .
As of late December 2018 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ measles outbreak has spread from Ocean County to Passaic County , bringing the number of confirmed cases of this extremely dangerous and contagious disease to 24 .
According to NJ Department of Health , the first case involved a person who contracted the disease overseas in Israel .
In a related incident , eighty Ocean County residents were exposed to the measles at a private event .
The NJ Department of Health stated most of the people infected were those that “ were not age-appropriately up-to-date with the Measles , Mumps and Rubella @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Pertussis , also known as whooping cough , was once virtually eliminated due to childhood vaccination programs in the 1940 ’ s , but now is making a major comeback .
This is a potentially life-threatening disease for children and especially infants .
In 2012 , there were over 48,000 cases with over 20 deaths , mostly in infants .
According to the CDC , this was the most cases seen in over 50 years ( 12 ) .
Although anti-vaccination rates are not solely to blame for the resurgence of pertussis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ children is lower than the national average were 2.5 times more likely to see a high number of pertussis cases than other areas ( 3 ) .
The pertussis vaccine , unlike other vaccines like those for polio and measles , does not provide lifetime immunity , so researchers expect a slow rise in whooping cough cases , especially among older people who have lost their immunity known as “ the end of the honeymoon period.
” Researchers today are always working on better and more effective vaccines and currently looking into whether @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cough should be getting more frequent booster shots .
Children who have not received all five of the recommended doses of DTaP are eight times more likely to get the whooping cough than children who did .
The CDC recommends that all children be vaccinated and that parents follow the guidelines for scheduled and maternal vaccinations ( 12 ) .
The annual influenza vaccination has perhaps the worst rate of compliance with CDC and APA recommendations .
The confusion , mistrust and misinformation among the public led to an historic , record-breaking year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the U.S. in the 2017-18 season , when fewer than half of Americans got the flu shot ( 6 ) .
Many people do not think the influenza ( “ the flu ” ) is dangerous and do not understand the benefits of the vaccination that they should receive every year .
The flu should not be taken lightly and is a huge public health concern .
Influenza is very dangerous to adults with pneumonia and other illnesses related to the flu and to small children with immune and other serious medical conditions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or older get vaccinated against the flu every year ( 7 ) .
Adults are five times more likely to die from complications of the flu if they do not get vaccinated and the flu shot has been found to prevent deaths by up to 65 % for otherwise healthy children ( 8 ) .
Otherwise healthy school age children are a prime target for influenza , and vaccination can prevent the spread to other children , their families and communities .
Last year 185 children in the U.S. died from complications of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CDC estimates that 80 % of the children who died did not get a flu shot ( 9 ) .
CDC research from previous flu seasons shows that 85 % of children who die from the flu each year were not vaccinated ( 7 , 8 ) .
The CDC estimated that in the 2016-2017 flu season the flu shot prevented 5.3 million illnesses , 2.4 million medical visits and 85,000 hospitalizations .
It is not just young children at risk ; in the last flu season 58 % of the people hospitalized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the flu were over 65 years old ( 7 , 8 ) .
In the digital age , false information can spread rapidly ; this has certainly contributed to an increase in anti-vaccination sentiments in the United States and other developed countries .
In addition , the near-eradication of many of the diseases prevented by vaccinations has led to a casual attitude toward the seriousness of these diseases .
Despite overwhelming medical research and documented scientific evidence , many people still believe in dangerous myths and outright false information about vaccination programs such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ MMR vaccine .
This is very troublesome and a major public health threat to the rest of us .
With the declaration of the WHO naming vaccine hesitancy as a top ten health threat of 2019 , perhaps more light will be shed on the misinformation campaigns and more effort will be made by governments and Public Health departments to correct the record .
Acknowledgements : The author would like to thank Chandler Berke for their research assistance .
• Does polio still exist ?
Is it curable ?
( 2018 , March @ @ @ @ @ @ @ //www.who.int/features/qa/07/en/ • Growing number of U.S. children not vaccinated against any disease .
( 2018 , October 12 ) .
Retrieved from https : //www.cbsnews.com/news/more-us-children-not-vaccinated-against-any-disease/ • Helft , L. , & Willingham , E. ( 2014 , September 24 ) .
Why is Whooping Cough Back ?
Retrieved from https : //www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/whooping-cough/ • Hussain , Ali , Ahmed , & S , H. ( 2018 , July 03 ) .
The Anti-vaccination Movement : A Regression in Modern Medicine .
Retrieved from https : //www.cureus.com/articles/13250-the-anti-vaccination-movement-a-regression-in-modern-medicine • Olive , J. K. , Hotez , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ & Nolan , M. S. ( 2018 , June 12 ) .
The state of the antivaccine movement in the United States : A focused examination of nonmedical exemptions in states and counties .
Retrieved from https : //journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article ?
id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002578 • Sheldon , C. , & NJ Advance Media .
( 2018 , December 21 ) .
More Ocean County residents sickened in continuing measles outbreak .
Retrieved from https : //www.nj.com/news/2018/12/more-ocean-county-residents-sickened-in-continuing-measles-outbreak.html

Abstract
The World Health Organization (WHO) has just listed the anti-vaccination movement as one of the top health threats for 2019. This article addresses the major public health concern regarding misinformation, confusion and outright hoax involving recommended childhood vaccinations and resultant anti-vaccination attitudes of large segments of the general population. Recent studies show an alarming number of adults are not getting the flu shot and not getting their children vaccinated for the measles, a highly contagious and dangerous disease once considered eliminated by Public Health officials.
Main Article
As a small child in 1962, I distinctly remember standing in line in the school gym with all the other kids in my neighbourhood to get my polio vaccination. We all got a sugar cube that contained the vaccine. Every kid in the neighborhood was in the same line; not one parent kept their child home.
Even at that young age, I understood what was happening. I remember being happy to be receiving the vaccine, because I knew that polio was a horrible disease that put little children in iron lungs and left them crippled. I knew people in my community who had been afflicted with polio, and I knew that by getting my “sugar cube,” it would prevent me and all the other kids from getting the disease.
The polio vaccine program was one of the greatest public health success stories in history and the disease has since been virtually wiped out in America. In 2017, the WHO reported only 22 cases worldwide (3). And yet, today there are anti-polio vaccination researchers who deny that the polio vaccine works and claim the success is essentially due to improved hygiene, manipulation of data and under-reporting of cases.
The anti-vaccination movement and its false beliefs are killing both children and adults. In 2018, 80,000 Americans died from complications of seasonal influenza (5), and yet only 57% of adults have received or planned to receive the flu shot for the 2018-19 season (2). Moreover, some American parents are rejecting the American Pediatric Association (APA) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommendations for childhood vaccinations.
MMR
The current anti-vaccination movement is most strongly fueled by the publication of a paper in The Lancet by a former doctor and researcher, Andrew Wakefield, which suggested a connection between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and development of autism in young children. Even though the study has been discredited and Wakefield has been disgraced over his fraudulent findings, the study had done its damage by striking the fear of a vaccination-autism link in parents. This led to an historic low rate of children receiving the MMR vaccine. The hoax has been called the most damaging medical hoax in 100 years and is credited with bringing about outbreaks of diseases that had otherwise eradicated (4).
While overall MMR vaccination rates remain high in the United States, there are some anti-vaccination “hotspots” where vaccination rates are well below the levels needed to protect the population (13). As a result, measles, which once killed tens of thousands every year and had been eliminated due to childhood vaccinations, is once again causing illness (8).
As of late December 2018, in New Jersey, an ongoing measles outbreak has spread from Ocean County to Passaic County, bringing the number of confirmed cases of this extremely dangerous and contagious disease to 24. According to NJ Department of Health, the first case involved a person who contracted the disease overseas in Israel. In a related incident, eighty Ocean County residents were exposed to the measles at a private event. The NJ Department of Health stated most of the people infected were those that “were not age-appropriately up-to-date with the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine (13).
Pertussis
Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, was once virtually eliminated due to childhood vaccination programs in the 1940’s, but now is making a major comeback. This is a potentially life-threatening disease for children and especially infants. In 2012, there were over 48,000 cases with over 20 deaths, mostly in infants. According to the CDC, this was the most cases seen in over 50 years (12).
Although anti-vaccination rates are not solely to blame for the resurgence of pertussis, regions where the vaccination rate among children is lower than the national average were 2.5 times more likely to see a high number of pertussis cases than other areas (3).
The pertussis vaccine, unlike other vaccines like those for polio and measles, does not provide lifetime immunity, so researchers expect a slow rise in whooping cough cases, especially among older people who have lost their immunity known as “the end of the honeymoon period.” Researchers today are always working on better and more effective vaccines and currently looking into whether people who have received vaccinations for whooping cough should be getting more frequent booster shots. Children who have not received all five of the recommended doses of DTaP are eight times more likely to get the whooping cough than children who did. The CDC recommends that all children be vaccinated and that parents follow the guidelines for scheduled and maternal vaccinations (12).
Influenza
The annual influenza vaccination has perhaps the worst rate of compliance with CDC and APA recommendations. The confusion, mistrust and misinformation among the public led to an historic, record-breaking year for hospitalizations and deaths among children in the U.S. in the 2017-18 season, when fewer than half of Americans got the flu shot (6).
Many people do not think the influenza (“the flu”) is dangerous and do not understand the benefits of the vaccination that they should receive every year. The flu should not be taken lightly and is a huge public health concern. Influenza is very dangerous to adults with pneumonia and other illnesses related to the flu and to small children with immune and other serious medical conditions. The CDC recommends everyone 6 months or older get vaccinated against the flu every year (7). Adults are five times more likely to die from complications of the flu if they do not get vaccinated and the flu shot has been found to prevent deaths by up to 65% for otherwise healthy children (8). Otherwise healthy school age children are a prime target for influenza, and vaccination can prevent the spread to other children, their families and communities. Last year 185 children in the U.S. died from complications of the flu (9). The CDC estimates that 80% of the children who died did not get a flu shot (9). CDC research from previous flu seasons shows that 85% of children who die from the flu each year were not vaccinated (7, 8). The CDC estimated that in the 2016-2017 flu season the flu shot prevented 5.3 million illnesses, 2.4 million medical visits and 85,000 hospitalizations. It is not just young children at risk; in the last flu season 58% of the people hospitalized in the U.S. due to complications from the flu were over 65 years old (7, 8).
Conclusion
In the digital age, false information can spread rapidly; this has certainly contributed to an increase in anti-vaccination sentiments in the United States and other developed countries. In addition, the near-eradication of many of the diseases prevented by vaccinations has led to a casual attitude toward the seriousness of these diseases. Despite overwhelming medical research and documented scientific evidence, many people still believe in dangerous myths and outright false information about vaccination programs such as the annual flu shot and the MMR vaccine. This is very troublesome and a major public health threat to the rest of us. With the declaration of the WHO naming vaccine hesitancy as a top ten health threat of 2019, perhaps more light will be shed on the misinformation campaigns and more effort will be made by governments and Public Health departments to correct the record.
Acknowledgements: The author would like to thank Chandler Berke for their research assistance.
References


veteranstoday--2020-05-25--Trump and Pompeo Back Down From Iran as Second Tanker Reaches Venezuela

Sputnik/Moscow : The second tanker follows the first of five Iranian vessels carrying an estimated total 1.53 barrels of gasoline between them .
The first vessel , the ‘ Fortune ’ , successfully reached Venezuela the day before , and was escorted into the port by the Bolivarian Navy .
A second Iranian oil tanker , the ‘ Forest ’ , entered the Exclusive Economic Zone ( EEZ ) of Venezuela early Sunday , met by the country ’ s navy .
It followed the first tanker from Iran , the Fortune , that successfully reached the Venezuelan coast a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are expected to arrive to Venezuela from Iran .
The five vessels are carrying an estimated 1.53 million barrels of gasoline between them .
According to reports , the Venezuelan navy ship PO-13 Yekuana escorted the Forest after it entered the EEZ .
As the Forest was approaching the Latin America country , reports emerged that the tanker was being shadowed by the US-flagged offshore supply ship ‘ Adam Joseph ’ – the same vessel that reportedly followed the Fortune on Saturday .
This comes amid fears that the US could use military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the allegations , Tehran warned Washington that the White House will “ face retaliation ” if it tries to prevent the Iranian fleet from arriving to Venezuela .
Both the Iranian and Venezuelan oil sectors are suffering because of sanctions imposed by the US .
For the Latin American country , the sanctions have , among other difficulties , resulted in a gasoline shortage .

A second Iranian oil tanker, the ‘Forest’, entered the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Venezuela early Sunday, met by the country’s navy. It followed the first tanker from Iran, the Fortune, that successfully reached the Venezuelan coast a day before.
Congratulations!!! to the Iranian Oil Tanker Forest the SECOND Oil Tanker of 5 that has now entered Venezuela EEZ! Long Live Iran Long Live Venezuela ⚓🇮🇷❤🇻🇪⚓ Mabruk to All!!!😍 pic.twitter.com/RkhqODtwSq — Suribelle (@Suribelle1) May 25, 2020
Three more oil tankers are expected to arrive to Venezuela from Iran. The five vessels are carrying an estimated 1.53 million barrels of gasoline between them.
According to reports, the Venezuelan navy ship PO-13 Yekuana escorted the Forest after it entered the EEZ.
#Breaking
The US Vsl Adam Joseph stay at anchor.#Forest tanker is passing to #EEZ while the US vsl watching Her. pic.twitter.com/Ayh123uyi6 — Sayed Abolfazl🇮🇷🇻🇪🇷🇺🇾🇪🇱🇧🇸🇾 (@IRI_SEAMAN) May 25, 2020
As the Forest was approaching the Latin America country, reports emerged that the tanker was being shadowed by the US-flagged offshore supply ship ‘Adam Joseph’ – the same vessel that reportedly followed the Fortune on Saturday.
This comes amid fears that the US could use military force against the Iranian tankers. Responding to the allegations, Tehran warned Washington that the White House will “face retaliation” if it tries to prevent the Iranian fleet from arriving to Venezuela.
Both the Iranian and Venezuelan oil sectors are suffering because of sanctions imposed by the US. For the Latin American country, the sanctions have, among other difficulties, resulted in a gasoline shortage.


veteranstoday--2020-05-25--Before Demanding Access to Wuhan, US Should Lift Veil on Its Secret Bioweapon Labs

Sputnik/Moscow : The US accusations against Beijing over the so-called “ cover-up ” of the supposed Wuhan lab origins of COVID have raised questions about the US network of secretive bio labs located near the borders of Russia and China , as well as Washington ’ s decades-long resistance to the creation of an international transparency mechanism for bioweapons research .
The Wuhan Institute of Virology ( WIV ) first received a clinical sample of the unknown virus that later became known as SARS-CoV-2 on 30 December 2020 , Wang Yanyi , an immunologist and director of the institute , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ denouncing the Trump administration ’ s claims that the novel coronavirus escaped from the Wuhan bio lab as “ pure fabrication ” .
US Has Been Opposing Int ’ l Biosafety Verification Mechanism for Decades The Trump administration has repeatedly urged Beijing to grant access to Wuhan virology labs to American and other foreign inspectors .
However , the People ’ s Republic rubbished Washington ’ s claims about the virus ’ origins and expressed doubts that the so-called “ independent ” investigation pushed for by the US would be unbiased and objective @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China and the alleged non-transparency of its bio research have turned the spotlight on the US ’ own bioweapons programme .
On 13 May , Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov raised the issue of US biological laboratories established overseas , most notably in the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation ( SCO ) , and in former Soviet republics .
Since 2001 , Russia , China , and many other countries have advocated for the creation of a verification mechanism within the framework of the Convention on the Prohibition of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( Biological ) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction to ensure biosafety and transparency with regard to biological research across the world .
Still , the US remains “ just about the only country ” which has categorically opposed this proposal for roughly 20 years , according to the Russian foreign minister .
The analyst alleges that “ there is no bioweapons research programme in any other country with the scope of the US programme ” .
In mid-April , Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova did not rule out that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ third countries “ to develop and modify various pathogenic agents , including for military purposes ” .
Earlier , the issue was discussed by Secretary of Russia ’ s Security Council Nikolai Patrushev in his November 2019 op-ed for Rossiyskaya Gazeta : the Russian security chief signalled concerns about the Pentagon ’ s network of overseas biological labs “ which conduct research on infectious diseases and where biological weapons can be made ” .
The Chinese are concerned about the US ’ domestic and overseas bio experiments , which remain no less shrouded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ community than their Russian counterparts .
In early May , the People ’ s Liberation Army ’ s English-language website published “ Ten questions the US needs to offer clear answers to the world ” .
One of these questions touches upon the US ’ avian influenza virus modification experiment , which was described by Science Magazine , the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ) , in February 2019 .
The journal reported that in 2018 , a US government review panel “ quietly approved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus that were previously “ considered so dangerous that federal officials had imposed an unusual top-down moratorium on such research ” since they could potentially enable the pathogen to jump to humans .
Yet another question listed in the PLA list is about bio research conducted at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ( USAMRIID ) , located in Fort Detrick , Maryland , before and after April 2020 .
According to The New York Times ’ August 2019 report , “ safety concerns at a prominent military germ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down research involving dangerous microbes like the Ebola virus ” .
On 1 April 2020 , the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) restored the full operating capability of the USAMRIID , but the details of the shutdown remained unclear .
“ What is the truth behind ?
” the PLA website asks .
Similarly , the Chinese website questions the scope and purpose of US bio research overseas : “ Why does the US keep tight-lipped about it ?
” it asks .
At a press conference on 8 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chunying pointed out that while China has only two P4 ( biosafety level 4 ) laboratories dealing with dangerous viruses , the US has 13 bio labs of that kind which are “ either in operation , under expansion or in planning ” .
She noted that in addition , the US has 1,495 medium containment facilities ( P3 ) , “ not including many other labs it built in territories of the former Soviet Union , like in Ukraine and Kazakhstan , and in many other places around the world ” .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Leak if It Fails to Curb COVID ?
As for the US avian flu experiments , the Finnish analyst highlights that gain-of-function ( GOF ) studies are believed to be highly controversial .
“ The US imposed a four-year moratorium on funding for GOF work , but new research , like the H5N1 influenza study have now resumed .
It is impossible to know if similar studies are done in the biological defence programme ” , he says .
What ’ s more troubling is that given the US failure to contain COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the individualist ideology and the huge economic inequality ” , the question arises as to whether the US would be able to effectively tackle a potential virus spread if it escaped either from its domestic or overseas labs , the analyst notes .
Chinese daily newspaper Global Times suggested that by building bio labs overseas , the US is seeking to avoid a potential leak accident , as well as legal problems and pressure from US media and anti-war groups .
Citing Chinese military experts , the media outlet put forward an assumption @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigation of American bio labs worldwide at the UN to pressure the US into giving long-overdue answers to the questions about its secretive research .

Sputnik/Moscow: The US accusations against Beijing over the so-called “cover-up” of the supposed Wuhan lab origins of COVID have raised questions about the US network of secretive bio labs located near the borders of Russia and China, as well as Washington’s decades-long resistance to the creation of an international transparency mechanism for bioweapons research.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) first received a clinical sample of the unknown virus that later became known as SARS-CoV-2 on 30 December 2020, Wang Yanyi, an immunologist and director of the institute, told CGTN broadcaster on 23 May, denouncing the Trump administration’s claims that the novel coronavirus escaped from the Wuhan bio lab as “pure fabrication”.
US Has Been Opposing Int’l Biosafety Verification Mechanism for Decades
The Trump administration has repeatedly urged Beijing to grant access to Wuhan virology labs to American and other foreign inspectors. However, the People’s Republic rubbished Washington’s claims about the virus’ origins and expressed doubts that the so-called “independent” investigation pushed for by the US would be unbiased and objective. Washington’s verbal attacks against China and the alleged non-transparency of its bio research have turned the spotlight on the US’ own bioweapons programme.
On 13 May, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov raised the issue of US biological laboratories established overseas, most notably in the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), and in former Soviet republics.
“There is a fairly dense network of these laboratories along the perimeter of the Russian Federation and near Chinese borders”, Lavrov told journalists, revealing that Moscow had signed a memorandum of understanding on biosecurity with Tajikistan and is holding similar talks with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, and other neighbours in the post-Soviet space.
Since 2001, Russia, China, and many other countries have advocated for the creation of a verification mechanism within the framework of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction to ensure biosafety and transparency with regard to biological research across the world. Still, the US remains “just about the only country” which has categorically opposed this proposal for roughly 20 years, according to the Russian foreign minister.
“This is another indication of American exceptionalism”, says Petri Krohn, Finnish political analyst and cybersecurity specialist. “It can safely be assumed that the United States biological defence programme is ‘developing pathogenic agents’. This is allowed under the Biological Weapons Convention as long as it is for defensive and not offensive purposes. Similar ‘gain-of-function’ (GOF) research has been done quite openly and transparently by civilian scientists”.
The analyst alleges that “there is no bioweapons research programme in any other country with the scope of the US programme”.
In mid-April, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova did not rule out that the Americans were using such bio labs in third countries “to develop and modify various pathogenic agents, including for military purposes”. Earlier, the issue was discussed by Secretary of Russia’s Security Council Nikolai Patrushev in his November 2019 op-ed for Rossiyskaya Gazeta: the Russian security chief signalled concerns about the Pentagon’s network of overseas biological labs “which conduct research on infectious diseases and where biological weapons can be made”.
US Domestic & Overseas Bio Experiments Raise New Questions
The Chinese are concerned about the US’ domestic and overseas bio experiments, which remain no less shrouded in secrecy and non-transparent for the international community than their Russian counterparts.
In early May, the People’s Liberation Army’s English-language website published “Ten questions the US needs to offer clear answers to the world”. One of these questions touches upon the US’ avian influenza virus modification experiment, which was described by Science Magazine, the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in February 2019.
The journal reported that in 2018, a US government review panel “quietly approved” experiments with the avian H5N1 influenza virus that were previously “considered so dangerous that federal officials had imposed an unusual top-down moratorium on such research” since they could potentially enable the pathogen to jump to humans.
Yet another question listed in the PLA list is about bio research conducted at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), located in Fort Detrick, Maryland, before and after April 2020. According to The New York Times’ August 2019 report, “safety concerns at a prominent military germ lab have led the government to shut down research involving dangerous microbes like the Ebola virus”. On 1 April 2020, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) restored the full operating capability of the USAMRIID, but the details of the shutdown remained unclear. “What is the truth behind?” the PLA website asks.
Similarly, the Chinese website questions the scope and purpose of US bio research overseas: “Why does the US keep tight-lipped about it?” it asks.
“I think these questions are legitimate to ask”, says Rob Kajiwara, a Hawaiian human rights activist. “I’m not saying that I think COVID-19 is a weapon, but we are well aware that the US has a long history of biological and chemical warfare”.
At a press conference on 8 May, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying pointed out that while China has only two P4 (biosafety level 4) laboratories dealing with dangerous viruses, the US has 13 bio labs of that kind which are “either in operation, under expansion or in planning”. She noted that in addition, the US has 1,495 medium containment facilities (P3), “not including many other labs it built in territories of the former Soviet Union, like in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, and in many other places around the world”.
Will US be Able to Contain Hazardous Leak if It Fails to Curb COVID?
According to Petri Krohn, the USAMRIID “is likely to have the largest collection of naturally occurring viruses and their genomes”. He presumed that “one of the main functions of the satellite laboratories in the former Soviet Union and around the world is to collect these viruses”.
As for the US avian flu experiments, the Finnish analyst highlights that gain-of-function (GOF) studies are believed to be highly controversial. “The US imposed a four-year moratorium on funding for GOF work, but new research, like the H5N1 influenza study have now resumed. It is impossible to know if similar studies are done in the biological defence programme”, he says.
What’s more troubling is that given the US failure to contain COVID-19 “because of the diverse cultures, the individualist ideology and the huge economic inequality”, the question arises as to whether the US would be able to effectively tackle a potential virus spread if it escaped either from its domestic or overseas labs, the analyst notes.
Chinese daily newspaper Global Times suggested that by building bio labs overseas, the US is seeking to avoid a potential leak accident, as well as legal problems and pressure from US media and anti-war groups. Citing Chinese military experts, the media outlet put forward an assumption that Beijing and Moscow could initiate an investigation of American bio labs worldwide at the UN to pressure the US into giving long-overdue answers to the questions about its secretive research.
The views and opinions expressed in the article do not necessarily reflect those of Sputnik


veteranstoday--2020-05-25--Antiviral Remdesivir Improves Time to Recovery from COVID-19

The investigational antiviral remdesivir is superior to the standard of care for the treatment of COVID-19 , according to a report published today in the New England Journal of Medicine .
The preliminary analysis is based on data from the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial ( ACTT ) , sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ( NIAID ) , part of the National Institutes of Health .
The randomized , controlled trial enrolled hospitalized adults with COVID-19 with evidence of lower respiratory tract involvement ( generally moderate to severe disease ) .
Investigators found that remdesivir was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disease who required supplemental oxygen .
Findings about benefits in other patient subgroups were less conclusive in this preliminary analysis .
The study began on Feb. 21 , 2020 and enrolled 1,063 participants in 10 countries in 58 days .
Patients provided informed consent to participate in the trial and were randomly assigned to receive local standard care and a 10-day course of the antiviral remdesivir intravenously , developed by Gilead Sciences , Inc. , or local standard care and a placebo .
The trial was double-blind , meaning neither investigators nor participants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The trial closed to enrollment on April 19 , 2020 .
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Peer-reviewed data shows remdesivir for COVID-19 improves time to recovery
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The investigational antiviral remdesivir is superior to the standard of care for the treatment of COVID-19, according to a report published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The preliminary analysis is based on data from the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT), sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. The randomized, controlled trial enrolled hospitalized adults with COVID-19 with evidence of lower respiratory tract involvement (generally moderate to severe disease). Investigators found that remdesivir was most beneficial for hospitalized patients with severe disease who required supplemental oxygen. Findings about benefits in other patient subgroups were less conclusive in this preliminary analysis.
The study began on Feb. 21, 2020 and enrolled 1,063 participants in 10 countries in 58 days. Patients provided informed consent to participate in the trial and were randomly assigned to receive local standard care and a 10-day course of the antiviral remdesivir intravenously, developed by Gilead Sciences, Inc., or local standard care and a placebo. The trial was double-blind, meaning neither investigators nor participants knew who was receiving remdesivir or placebo.
The trial closed to enrollment on April 19, 2020. On April 27, 2020 (while participant follow-up was still ongoing), an independent data and safety….read more:
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veteranstoday--2020-05-24--WUHAN-GATES – 10. SHADY PLOT: EU Summit with 4 Gates’ NGO, Big Pharma & FB before Pandemic

“ So do not be afraid of them , since there is nothing hidden that should not be revealed , and no secret that should not be revealed ” .
Jesus Christ – from the Gospel of Matthew ( 10 , 26 ) For the avoidance of misunderstandings , I state that I do not want to dwell on the need or not for a global vaccination plan : a too complex and controversial topic on which unfortunately there is no real world scientific debate but a univocal thought of the dominant mainstream out of which every minimal objection is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I want to demonstrate the anti-ethics of an immunization plan promoted by millions of dollars by Bill Gates , prophet of the current pandemic , who is in a blatant macroscopic conflict of interest having deals with big pharma destined to speculate on it and by financing the political parties of the rulers who decided to test it in Italy and will be called to evaluate it in the future in the whole world for the emergency from CoVid-19 .
This circumstance has taken on disturbing contours after the multiple discoveries documented @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of American and European DEM rulers for the experimentation of dangerous and lethal laboratory superviruses in China in a project that seems suited not only to the dominance in the health field but also in geopolitical and warlike .
In the previous 19 reportages we have exposed clues , authoritative opinions and scientific research on the theory of a pandemic triggered by a bacteriological weapon of deadly mortality and complexity , to the point of appearing ( even to scientists ) calibrated to target specific ethnic groups , after being built with biogenetic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in the now more lucrative than noble mission of looking for vaccines , or for a deliberate conspiracy for other evil purposes , as it now seems almost certain , is what we are trying to verify in every possible direction .
Today we try to make the second synthesis of the last 9 ( like the one in Bio-Weapon 10 , link below ) in order to make it easier for those who have been discouraged by the biblical length of others to read it .
We do this by unveiling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the European Commission in the entire cycle of events related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus called by us Wuhan-Gates ( any reference to truly existing people is purely coincidental… ) .
We called the investigations so not because the supposed diabolical plot of the Deep International State took place entirely there but due to the name of the populous city of Hubei recurs continuously , leading me to suspect that precisely in that place the intelligence of various countries – at least three of the Anglo-Saxon counter-espionage alliance “ Five-Eyes ” are heavily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the next report – he hid the evidence .
Knowing that the dictatorship of the communist regime could punish with capital punishment any repentant “ deep throat ” or “ whistleblower ” as it is fashionable to call them in the USA after RussiaGate and UkraineGate .
SUSPICIOUS SUMMIT IN BRUSSELS BEFORE THE PANDEMIC This is instead the time to reveal or remember the names of those Italian and American Dem politicians who hover behind a pandemic too perfect to be casual .
His shady plots begin in 2004 in China thanks to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the ex-olive tree leader Romano Prodi ( see WuhanGates 9 , summary below ) and tangle around the world until the final “ party ” with the outgoing president Jean-Claude Juncker .
This is the prophetic and shamefully suspect summit for the “ Global Vaccination ” organized by the same institution in Brussels on 12 September 2019 together with the World Health Organization attended by the leaders of various NGOs ( CEPI , GAVI , EDCTP ) created and / or supported by Bill Gates , represented by Joe Cerrell , Managing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s see which are these subjects .
CEPI is the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations is is an alliance to finance and coordinate the development of new vaccines presented by Gates in Davos Forum 2017 , GAVI is an international organisation created in 1999 by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with $ 750 millions initial fund to improve access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world ’ s poorest countries .
But much more interesting is European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership ( EDCTP ) is to reduce @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in health .
The European Union will provide up to € 683 million for the current 10-year programme ( 2014-2024 ) , provided this is matched by contributions from the European EDCTP member countries .
It ’ s joined by 14 European countries ( Austria , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Ireland , Italy , Luxembourg , Netherlands , Norway , Portugal , Spain , Sweden , UK ) and 16 African countries ( Burkina Faso , Cameroon , Congo , Ethiopia , Gabon , The Gambia , Ghana , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Senegal , South Africa , Tanzania , Uganda and Zambia ) .
This is one of his goal : « As part of EDCTP ’ s capacity building efforts , the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations ( EFPIA ) and the EDCTP signed a Memorandum of Understanding in January 2013 to implement a fellowship scheme that offers placements in European-based companies to individual researchers and clinical staff from sub-Saharan Africa working in the implementation of clinical trials .
Furthermore , the European Commission and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2013 to cooperate in the fight against PRDs ( poverty-related diseases ) » reads on official website EDCPT .
« The WHO/TDR Career Development Fellowships ( CDF ) programme , which has been supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations ( IFPMA ) , offers targeted training in research and development within pharmaceutical companies and product development partnerships ( PDPs ) to develop highly skilled local personnel for disease-endemic LMICs ( low- and middle-income countries ) to enhance competencies in clinical trials for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ broad range of infectious diseases of poverty » .
This is why managers of drug manufacturers took part in the Brussels summit ( all the names of the participants are in the dossier below the image ) such as Nanette Cocero of Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group .
GSK did not need to be present due to it ’ s as a multinational controlled directly by Bill Gates ( CoronaVirus Bio-Weapon 3 and WuhanGates 1 reports , see below summary ) .
The question arises : we are sure that the captains of the pharmaceutical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their products even with serious inconveniences as happened in Georgia a few years ago with the death of 79 human guinea pigs ( WuhanGates 5 , see below summary ) , we have as a priority people ’ s health with respect to their understandable businesses ?
The answer is in the titles of the round tables : “ In vaccines I believe ” or “ The magic of the sciences : accelerating research , development and innovation of vaccines ” are some of the topics dealt with in an absolutely monochordic key @ @ @ @ @ @ @ … Among the excellent speakers are the Minister of Social Affairs of Belgium , the Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , the head of the health section of UNICEF , the Pentagon Surgeon General , the president of the Pasteur Institute .
of Paris , and the representatives of FACEBOOK and the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the African one RA .
This conference took place three months before the discovery of the CoVid-19 epidemic , so named precisely because the first “ official ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But it was held only a month before the World Military Games which took place right in Wuhan and from which some athletes of the various armies returned with a mysterious and serious influence ( WuhanGates 6 , see below summary ) .
But above all it was held a month before Event 201 , the virtual exercise on a CoronaVirus pandemic funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and already ended up in the crosshairs of the international media which did not however catch one of the main protagonists of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a former CIA deputy director .
Just from there we start briefly before seeing the concatenation of the other facts .
It is not a conspiracy title but conspiracy-logy : that is , the study of a conspiracy , all too evident for the increasingly well-founded suspicion that the new strain of CoronaVirus is a bacteriological weapon hand-sucked or intentionally released .
In the first reports of this first cycle of investigations , American biological warfare experts supported him : former White House consultant Francis Boyle and Jeff Brown , founder with other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Truth Commission .
So it was the Chinese Communist Party that accused the US after some scientists from their country discovered the different lethality of two CoVid-19 strains with four very killer Spike amino acids of the “ killer ” protein .
This brought to mind the investigations of the Bulgarian investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva on the 25 top secret laboratories of the Pentagon ( US State Department ) opened mainly in Georgia and Ukraine , after the colored revolutions supported by the globalist plutarch George Soros , where studies on bacteriological weapons @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Among the most suspicious superviruses , however , there is the chimeric SHC014 created in Chapel Hill in 2015 in the biosecurity laboratories of the University of North Carolina thanks to a contribution from USAID , the American government agency used by the Central Intelligence Agency to finance its projects .
It is the supervirus that the Leonardo RAI3 scientific transmission also spoke about .
At the time she was deputy director of the CIA was the lawyer Avril Haines , longtime Dem former consultant to Joe Biden in Congress , expert @ @ @ @ @ @ @ institution of Democratic area ) , who in the same year was called by the former president Democrat Barack Obama , supported in the election campaigns by super-donors Gates and Soros , to become deputy White House National Security Advisor until the arrival of Donald Trump .
She was one of the organizers of Event 201 , funded by Gates , in collaboration with the John Hopkins Center of Health Security .
John Brennan , her head at the CIA , one of the alleged directors of the fake RussiaGate dossier against Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ JH University , among those who publicly praised the existence of the Deep State on the occasion of the UkraineineGate .
However , the reference of the lawyer Haines to the need for a World Order at a conference in 2018 in which he prophesied the pandemic like Gates was sensational .
WUHANGATE – 1- THE SAUDI SPONSORS OF GSK VACCINATIONS IN THE WORLD Why be surprised then if it turns out that John Hopkins University , together with Columbia University where Haines is a researcher , are among the authoritative partners of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York that funded the international project PREDICT 2 with the aforementioned USAID ( CIA ) launched in 2009 by the Obama administration ?
Other EHA supporters also include Chinese and Saudi universities .
In 2014 the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia joined the USA in the VPDs vaccine immunization action package ( vaccine-preventable diseases ) launched in 2014 by the Global Health Security Agenda ( GHSA ) , a partnership between 67 nations of the world to accelerate specific plans of the World Health Organization .
Obama , together with former Italian Prime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Democratic Party , has therefore identified Italy as a pilot project for the 10 mandatory vaccines for all school-age children .
After the resistance of Parliament , the plan became law with the new PD government of Paolo Gentiloni in 2017 giving way to an increase in the vaccine production of GlaxoSmithKline , pharmaceutical leader in the world and despite a tremendous precedent for a bribe of the SmithKline paid to the Minister of Healthcare Francesco De Lorenzo in the 90s .
In 2017 , as if it were to honor a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ London increased its stake in the Saudi Arabia branch Glaxo from 49 % to 75 % with good profits for the Arab governmental members of Banaja KSA Holding .
This was done under the leadership of the new CEO Emma Walmsley , non-executive director of Microsoft Corporation as discovered by Gospa News .
WUHAN-GATES – 2 .
TRACKS OF HIV IN THE CORONAVIRUS Up to now there are normal crap of international political-economic trafficking for the “ good health ” of the children to be bombed with 10 vaccines , including the dangerous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vibrant protests of many Italian pediatricians .
But the yellow of the pandemic becomes a thriller when we trace the disturbing results highlighted by some Indian researchers in the analysis of the SARS-Cov-2 virus , so called because it is a genetic relative of the Acute Severe Respiratory Syndrome that killed 814 people in Asia in 2003 .
There would be inserts from HIV , the AIDS pathogen .
According to the Kusuma School of Biological Sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi ( IIT Delhi ) , the virus was most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sensational news appears and disappears from the scientific community within 24 hours because the research is mysteriously withdrawn .
WUHAN-GATES – 3 .
THE WINNER OF NOBEL : “ HIV IN SARS-COV-2 ” The scoop of Gospa News proves to be well founded .
By a miraculous coincidence two days after the distinguished French virologist Luc Montagnier , winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 precisely for discovering human immunodeficiency related to HIV and for having isolated two strains in the 80s , not only confirms the study Indian but claims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the help of biomathematician Jean-Claude Perez and therefore to have the certainty that SARS-CoV-2 was built in the laboratory with molecular biology .
His interview with the microphones of the French podcast of medicine “ Pourquoi Docteur ” pierces the veil of silence but this is not enough to induce repentance to his colleagues , who are even deniers of the hypothesis of the articular virus they are competing against , with the mainstream media , to discredit Montagnier .
The Nobel Prize winner , first professor at the Pasteur Institute in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Shanghai , remains graniticc on his positions and increases the dose with a twenty-minute interview on French TV CNEWS .
He defends the Indian biologists claiming that they have been “ forced to retract ” and goes into the details of his scientific research by reiterating that “ the virus is not natural ” .
Luc Montagnier adds a phrase that becomes a track for our investigations : « The United States is aware .
They funded part of the research done in Wuhan ’ s labs and this is published .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chinese affair .
” It ’ s so true !
As ascertained by Gospa News , the laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology is a partner of the PREDICT 2-USAID project wanted by Obama and on which the shadow of the CIA hovers .
We therefore discover that there are two superviruses created in Wuhan and reworked in the USA .
So , thanks to the notes of the same studies published on the Pnas website ( US Prot .
National Academy of Science ) , there is an implicit confirmation of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ « pseudotype experiments were similar to those that used an HIV-based pseudovirus , prepared as previously described and tested on HeLa ( Wuhan Institute of Virology ) cells that expressed ACE2 orthologists » .
Whoever denies even the possibility of the virus built in the laboratory lies knowing that they are lying !
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WUHAN-GATES – 5 .
THE AFFAIRS FOR THE BIG-PHARMA PENTAGON ’ S PARTNER Among the drugs used to treat CoVid-19 infection there are retrovirals used against AIDS .
Among these , the most widespread in the world that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the pandemic , is that of the American big-pharma GILEAD Remdisivir .
That ’ s a Pentagon partner in mysterious and lethal experiments in Georgia whose , for a certain period , chaired by a politician from the Deep State even feared by Henry Kissinger , the historic American Secretary of State .
He is Donald Henry Rumsfeld twice Secretary of the Defense Department in Washington .
The drug Remdisivir from GILEAD allows the company to make a significant leap on world stock exchanges in just two months because it becomes one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Who is the first to patent its use ?
Just Wuhan ’ s laboratory !
Who is among the shareholders of the American pharmaceutical corporation : one of the main donors of the Stars and Stripes Democratic Party : George Soros .
The political-financial-pharmaceutical thriller becomes a horror nightmare … At the World Military Games held in Wuhan in mid-October 2019 , many athletes fell ill with a powerful and anomalous influence from which it is difficult to heal .
The French pentathlete Elodie Clouvel declares this to the television station Loire7 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Treviso fencing champion and Olympic gold champion in Beijing 2008 , confirms it to local newspapers .
The suspicions that have been around for months become almost certain : the epidemic spread to Wuhan , and perhaps elsewhere , well before December .
For some it was scattered in China by US soldiers , Intel sources claim with nano-drones thanks to CIA infiltrators , for others it was the Chinese who infected the foreigners .
According to Gospa News , agents from both countries piloted by the Deep State and not by their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ confidential file , publicly known but buried in the archives of UNODA , the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs in Geneva , raises suspicions against the USA for the SARS-COV-2 pandemic that exploded in the context of a war biological secret of financial , Masonic , military and intelligence powers .
Thanks to this OSINT document , recovered by the grace of Divine Providence , we ascertained that only in the year 2015 , during the Barack Obama administration , the Stars and Stripes Government granted $ 824 million for the study @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of level 2,3 or 4 operating on the national territory .
We have viewed many researches wich was just specifically for various strains of CoronaVirus and some of those extremely dangerous .
A shock video from 1952 that was declassified reveals the power of the US Navy in biological warfare as early as 1950 .
WUHAN-GATES – 8 .
THE BIO-ENGENEER CONFIRMED THE HIV IN THE SARS-2 Among the various scientific studies published in recent months is that of the French bioengineer Pierre Bricage , former speaker at UNICEF and NATO .
Based @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he confirms the studies of Indians and Perez-Montagnier on the traces of HIV in the SARS-CoV-2 virus that triggered the pandemic killing more than 300 thousand people .
Impossible to summarize the impressive amount of technical analytical findings therefore we report only the lapidary sentence written by this scientist in his study : « This virus can not have emerged spontaneously from natural mutations and recombinations of wild strains , it is a genetic chimera with artificial insertions of modified genes , an engineered genome of a coronavirus inside a capsid of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I spent nights reading dozens of bio-chemical scientific studies published in the last 15 years to confirm the construction of recombinant chimeric viruses in the laboratory with the insertion of HIV sequences in different SARS viral strains .
I discovered a dozen of which 7 in China , including 3 only in Wuhan .
It is the mathematical proof that the scientific community continues to lie knowing that it lies in denying the existence and probability that SARS-CoV-2 may have been artificially produced and contains amino acids from the AIDS pathogen .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the confirmation of an obsessive political plan on the search for vaccines for viruses that ARE NOT EXISTING yet , started by the European Commission in 2004 after the SARS epidemic of 2003 .
It is the EPISARS program launched with a budget of 2 million euros .
by the presidency of Romano Prodi .
A portion of that money was destined to finance the dangerous experiments with the construction of superviruses in the Wuhan laboratory ( and in one in Beijing ) .
MONEY , VIRUSES AND VACCINES BETWEEN ITALIAN AND @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a professional career in China and the USA : since 2010 as a professor at the CEIBS ( China Europe International Business School ) in Shanghai and since 2017 as a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences ( Cambridge , Massachusetts , USA ) .
But it had instead been contested in Italy in 1995 when he was the author of the preface of the Italian version of a book by George Soros , disliked by many Italians for the speculation that devalued the lira in 1992 but still became the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a list of MEPs listed as reliable in a project that caused a sensation in the media in 2019 .
The visit of the owner of the Open Society of New York at Palazzo Chigi in May 2017 to the then Prime Minister of the Italian PD Government , Paolo Gentiloni , a few months before the approval of the Decree Lorenzin for the 10 mandatory vaccines , agreed by Obama with his predecessor Matteo Renzi .
From November 2019 , Gentiloni was then “ promoted ” to European Commissioner thanks to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and 5 Star Movement thanks to the mediation of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella , former PD deputy , former Minister of Secret Services from 1998 to 1999 and deemed very close to the CIA also by virtue of his father ’ s political career in the first temporary administration of Palermo created in 1943 by the Anglo-American Allies just landed in Sicily , very easy tanks to Lucky Luciano mobsterof Two World .
The collaboration between European and American Dems had intensified with the former Mayor of Rome Francesco Rutelli @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the disappearance of 25 million euros from his party La Margherita ( sentenced only the treasurer ) , was vice president of the Council ( deputy PM ) during the short Prodi government ( 2006-2008 ) and in 2007 he was among the founders of the Italian Democratic Party ( PD ) after receiving the visit of Hillary Clinton , future Secretary of State with Obama , together with the then Mayor of Florence Matteo Renzi , who later became secretary of the Pd ( 2013-2018 ) and prime minister ( 2014-2016 ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Against two relatives of Renzi , his brother-in-law Andrea Conticini and his brother Alessandro Conticini , the Florence Prosecutor has requested the indictment for improper ownership and self-laundering ( Alessandro ) and money laundering ( Andrea ) in relation to 6.6 million dollars out of a total of 10 disbursements for childcare in Africa .
The donations under investigation came from the Pulitzer Foundation through Operation Usa , on whose board the historic Senator Dem sat Senator Gary Hart , Obama ’ s right-hand man as vice president of the National Security Committee @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time of direct disbursements by Anthony Lake , nominated in this position by Obama after Bill Clinton nominated him for the CIA without obtaining the congress placet .
Only the foundation of Operation Us complained , Unicef gave up .
First of all , there were the 2 million euros disbursed by Prodi for the dangerous experiments of the Wuhan Institute of Virology which was then financed by USAID in the shadow of the CIA .
After all this there were the millions gained by GSK thanks to the vaccination immunization plan imposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government of Gentiloni ( premier ) and Renzi ( party secretary ) .
Until the pinwheels of millions of euros on the Atlantic Ocean route were transformed into internal scandals to parties and private companies , the question was of the interested parties , their electors and the judiciary .
Now that those laboratory superviruses are suspected of being the cause of a pandemic that has killed more than 32 thousand people in Italy , over 90 thousand in the USA and more than 300 thousand in the world , so much so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the meeting in Brussels has appeared providential months before , on those intrigues between politics , national health plans and pharmaceutical affairs , clarity must necessarily be made before the Italians , the Americans and the whole of humanity .
It is a primary duty especially of the current President of the Italian Republic in order to deny being the « true cultural epidemic of this country » as claimed in Parliament by the deputy Sara Cunial precisely in relation to the vaccine projects of Gates & Co…

“So do not be afraid of them, since there is nothing hidden that should not be revealed, and no secret that should not be revealed”.
Jesus Christ – from the Gospel of Matthew (10, 26)
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
For the avoidance of misunderstandings, I state that I do not want to dwell on the need or not for a global vaccination plan: a too complex and controversial topic on which unfortunately there is no real world scientific debate but a univocal thought of the dominant mainstream out of which every minimal objection is considered. an act of aggrieved majesty.
I want to demonstrate the anti-ethics of an immunization plan promoted by millions of dollars by Bill Gates, prophet of the current pandemic, who is in a blatant macroscopic conflict of interest having deals with big pharma destined to speculate on it and by financing the political parties of the rulers who decided to test it in Italy and will be called to evaluate it in the future in the whole world for the emergency from CoVid-19.
This circumstance has taken on disturbing contours after the multiple discoveries documented by Gospa News on the economic support of American and European DEM rulers for the experimentation of dangerous and lethal laboratory superviruses in China in a project that seems suited not only to the dominance in the health field but also in geopolitical and warlike.
In the previous 19 reportages we have exposed clues, authoritative opinions and scientific research on the theory of a pandemic triggered by a bacteriological weapon of deadly mortality and complexity, to the point of appearing (even to scientists) calibrated to target specific ethnic groups, after being built with biogenetic engineering.
Whether this happened by chance, in the now more lucrative than noble mission of looking for vaccines, or for a deliberate conspiracy for other evil purposes, as it now seems almost certain, is what we are trying to verify in every possible direction.
Today we try to make the second synthesis of the last 9 (like the one in Bio-Weapon 10, link below) in order to make it easier for those who have been discouraged by the biblical length of others to read it. We do this by unveiling another puzzling discovery that lengthens the shadows on the European Commission in the entire cycle of events related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus called by us Wuhan-Gates (any reference to truly existing people is purely coincidental…).
We called the investigations so not because the supposed diabolical plot of the Deep International State took place entirely there but due to the name of the populous city of Hubei recurs continuously, leading me to suspect that precisely in that place the intelligence of various countries – at least three of the Anglo-Saxon counter-espionage alliance “Five-Eyes” are heavily implicated, as we will see in the next report – he hid the evidence. Knowing that the dictatorship of the communist regime could punish with capital punishment any repentant “deep throat” or “whistleblower” as it is fashionable to call them in the USA after RussiaGate and UkraineGate.
SUSPICIOUS SUMMIT IN BRUSSELS BEFORE THE PANDEMIC
This is instead the time to reveal or remember the names of those Italian and American Dem politicians who hover behind a pandemic too perfect to be casual. His shady plots begin in 2004 in China thanks to a program of the European Commission chaired by the ex-olive tree leader Romano Prodi (see WuhanGates 9, summary below) and tangle around the world until the final “party” with the outgoing president Jean-Claude Juncker.
This is the prophetic and shamefully suspect summit for the “Global Vaccination” organized by the same institution in Brussels on 12 September 2019 together with the World Health Organization attended by the leaders of various NGOs (CEPI, GAVI, EDCTP) created and / or supported by Bill Gates, represented by Joe Cerrell, Managing Director of his foundation.
Let’s see which are these subjects. CEPI is the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations is is an alliance to finance and coordinate the development of new vaccines presented by Gates in Davos Forum 2017, GAVI is an international organisation created in 1999 by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with $750 millions initial fund to improve access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world’s poorest countries.
But much more interesting is European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) is to reduce the social and economic burden of poverty-related in health. The European Union will provide up to € 683 million for the current 10-year programme (2014-2024), provided this is matched by contributions from the European EDCTP member countries.
It’s joined by 14 European countries (Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, UK) and 16 African countries (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia).
This is one of his goal: «As part of EDCTP’s capacity building efforts, the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) and the EDCTP signed a Memorandum of Understanding in January 2013 to implement a fellowship scheme that offers placements in European-based companies to individual researchers and clinical staff from sub-Saharan Africa working in the implementation of clinical trials. Furthermore, the European Commission and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding in June 2013 to cooperate in the fight against PRDs (poverty-related diseases)» reads on official website EDCPT.
«The WHO/TDR Career Development Fellowships (CDF) programme, which has been supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA), offers targeted training in research and development within pharmaceutical companies and product development partnerships (PDPs) to develop highly skilled local personnel for disease-endemic LMICs (low- and middle-income countries) to enhance competencies in clinical trials for drugs, vaccines and diagnostics on a broad range of infectious diseases of poverty».
This is why managers of drug manufacturers took part in the Brussels summit (all the names of the participants are in the dossier below the image) such as Nanette Cocero of Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group. GSK did not need to be present due to it’s as a multinational controlled directly by Bill Gates (CoronaVirus Bio-Weapon 3 and WuhanGates 1 reports, see below summary).
The question arises: we are sure that the captains of the pharmaceutical corporation industry, in need of testing their products even with serious inconveniences as happened in Georgia a few years ago with the death of 79 human guinea pigs (WuhanGates 5, see below summary), we have as a priority people’s health with respect to their understandable businesses?
The answer is in the titles of the round tables: “In vaccines I believe” or “The magic of the sciences: accelerating research, development and innovation of vaccines” are some of the topics dealt with in an absolutely monochordic key and even a little overflowing of fanaticism …
Among the excellent speakers are the Minister of Social Affairs of Belgium, the Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the head of the health section of UNICEF, the Pentagon Surgeon General, the president of the Pasteur Institute. of Paris, and the representatives of FACEBOOK and the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the African one RA.
This conference took place three months before the discovery of the CoVid-19 epidemic, so named precisely because the first “official” cases were identified in December 2019. But it was held only a month before the World Military Games which took place right in Wuhan and from which some athletes of the various armies returned with a mysterious and serious influence (WuhanGates 6, see below summary).
But above all it was held a month before Event 201, the virtual exercise on a CoronaVirus pandemic funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and already ended up in the crosshairs of the international media which did not however catch one of the main protagonists of the meeting revealed instead from Gospa News: a former CIA deputy director. Just from there we start briefly before seeing the concatenation of the other facts.
COVID19 BIO-WEAPON – 10. THE PLOT: CIA & NEW WORLD ORDER
It is not a conspiracy title but conspiracy-logy: that is, the study of a conspiracy, all too evident for the increasingly well-founded suspicion that the new strain of CoronaVirus is a bacteriological weapon hand-sucked or intentionally released.
In the first reports of this first cycle of investigations, American biological warfare experts supported him: former White House consultant Francis Boyle and Jeff Brown, founder with other journalists and international authors of the Bioweapon Truth Commission. So it was the Chinese Communist Party that accused the US after some scientists from their country discovered the different lethality of two CoVid-19 strains with four very killer Spike amino acids of the “killer” protein.
This brought to mind the investigations of the Bulgarian investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva on the 25 top secret laboratories of the Pentagon (US State Department) opened mainly in Georgia and Ukraine, after the colored revolutions supported by the globalist plutarch George Soros, where studies on bacteriological weapons are also carried out biogenetic and ethnic.
Among the most suspicious superviruses, however, there is the chimeric SHC014 created in Chapel Hill in 2015 in the biosecurity laboratories of the University of North Carolina thanks to a contribution from USAID, the American government agency used by the Central Intelligence Agency to finance its projects. It is the supervirus that the Leonardo RAI3 scientific transmission also spoke about.
At the time she was deputy director of the CIA was the lawyer Avril Haines, longtime Dem former consultant to Joe Biden in Congress, expert on bio-weapons of the NTI (private institution of Democratic area), who in the same year was called by the former president Democrat Barack Obama, supported in the election campaigns by super-donors Gates and Soros, to become deputy White House National Security Advisor until the arrival of Donald Trump.
She was one of the organizers of Event 201, funded by Gates, in collaboration with the John Hopkins Center of Health Security. John Brennan, her head at the CIA, one of the alleged directors of the fake RussiaGate dossier against Trump, is also a Senior Fellow for JH University, among those who publicly praised the existence of the Deep State on the occasion of the UkraineineGate. However, the reference of the lawyer Haines to the need for a World Order at a conference in 2018 in which he prophesied the pandemic like Gates was sensational.
Here the last news on virus built in bio labs and the summary of 21 reports. Now we discover the political disturbing ties.
MONEY, VIRUSES AND VACCINES BETWEEN ITALIAN AND AMERICAN DEMs
The economist Prodi then made a professional career in China and the USA: since 2010 as a professor at the CEIBS (China Europe International Business School) in Shanghai and since 2017 as a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).
But it had instead been contested in Italy in 1995 when he was the author of the preface of the Italian version of a book by George Soros, disliked by many Italians for the speculation that devalued the lira in 1992 but still became the occult plutarch of the European Union thanks to a list of MEPs listed as reliable in a project that caused a sensation in the media in 2019.
The visit of the owner of the Open Society of New York at Palazzo Chigi in May 2017 to the then Prime Minister of the Italian PD Government, Paolo Gentiloni, a few months before the approval of the Decree Lorenzin for the 10 mandatory vaccines, agreed by Obama with his predecessor Matteo Renzi.
From November 2019, Gentiloni was then “promoted” to European Commissioner thanks to the Conte Bis government created by PD and 5 Star Movement thanks to the mediation of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, former PD deputy, former Minister of Secret Services from 1998 to 1999 and deemed very close to the CIA also by virtue of his father’s political career in the first temporary administration of Palermo created in 1943 by the Anglo-American Allies just landed in Sicily, very easy tanks to Lucky Luciano mobsterof Two World.
The collaboration between European and American Dems had intensified with the former Mayor of Rome Francesco Rutelli, who, before the scandal for the disappearance of 25 million euros from his party La Margherita (sentenced only the treasurer), was vice president of the Council (deputy PM) during the short Prodi government (2006-2008) and in 2007 he was among the founders of the Italian Democratic Party (PD) after receiving the visit of Hillary Clinton, future Secretary of State with Obama, together with the then Mayor of Florence Matteo Renzi, who later became secretary of the Pd ( 2013-2018) and prime minister (2014-2016) despite never having been a parliamentarian.
Against two relatives of Renzi, his brother-in-law Andrea Conticini and his brother Alessandro Conticini, the Florence Prosecutor has requested the indictment for improper ownership and self-laundering (Alessandro) and money laundering (Andrea) in relation to 6.6 million dollars out of a total of 10 disbursements for childcare in Africa.
The donations under investigation came from the Pulitzer Foundation through Operation Usa, on whose board the historic Senator Dem sat Senator Gary Hart, Obama’s right-hand man as vice president of the National Security Committee, and through Unicef, at the time of direct disbursements by Anthony Lake, nominated in this position by Obama after Bill Clinton nominated him for the CIA without obtaining the congress placet. Only the foundation of Operation Us complained, Unicef gave up.
First of all, there were the 2 million euros disbursed by Prodi for the dangerous experiments of the Wuhan Institute of Virology which was then financed by USAID in the shadow of the CIA. After all this there were the millions gained by GSK thanks to the vaccination immunization plan imposed by Obama and approved by the PD government of Gentiloni (premier) and Renzi (party secretary).
Until the pinwheels of millions of euros on the Atlantic Ocean route were transformed into internal scandals to parties and private companies, the question was of the interested parties, their electors and the judiciary.
Now that those laboratory superviruses are suspected of being the cause of a pandemic that has killed more than 32 thousand people in Italy, over 90 thousand in the USA and more than 300 thousand in the world, so much so that the maxi vaccine plan planned by the meeting in Brussels has appeared providential months before, on those intrigues between politics, national health plans and pharmaceutical affairs, clarity must necessarily be made before the Italians, the Americans and the whole of humanity.
It is a primary duty especially of the current President of the Italian Republic in order to deny being the «true cultural epidemic of this country» as claimed in Parliament by the deputy Sara Cunial precisely in relation to the vaccine projects of Gates & Co…
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
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veteranstoday--2020-05-26--USA tries to twist Russia’s arms to end START-3 talks by proxy

The extension of this treaty did not cause much optimism in the past , nor does it inspire any optimism today , given the conditions that Washington is dictating to Moscow to extend START-3 .
The statements that US politicians and officials make at this point sound like ultimatums .
US Special Presidential Representative for Arms Control , Marshall Billingslea , demonstrated a new level of sincerity .
Mr. Billingslea seems to be a diplomat by nature , but his manner of expressing Washington ’ s point of view on pressing international problems makes one doubt that .
According to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a treaty just for the sake of a treaty .
The US president will not sign an agreement that does not reflect today ’ s reality and if it does not do anything to provide greater security for the American people , said Billingslea at an online event organized by the Hudson Institute in Washington .
Billingslea , Trump ’ s arms control negotiator , who was appointed for the post on April 10 , has repeatedly set forth the conditions to extend the 2010 strategic offensive arms treaty .
According to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the negotiating table .
In general , the special representative emphasized , the track record in the field of arms control is “ deplorable.
” He mentioned a standard set of allegations of violation of the treaty on short and medium range missiles , the use of chemical weapons in the UK , and the withdrawal from the Treaty on Conventional Arms in Europe .
Presenting additional conditions , Washington does not try to conceal its goal to pull out from other existing arms control treaties .
And what about Russia ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ involved in strategic stability negotiations .
“ One should take into account the potentials of all nuclear powers at future negotiations .
USA ’ s closest allies having potentials in this area must be involved in the future multilateral process in this field .
It goes about the United Kingdom and France , ” Sergey Ryabkov , Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia said during an online discussion .
As for China ’ s participation in the negotiations , Chinese officials have repeatedly stated that they had no intention to participate in them , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chinese nuclear arsenal with that of the USA or Russia .
Moscow is not ready to do anything in this direction either .
Sergey Ryabkov , who , in fact , will have to negotiate with Marshall Billingslea , said : “ The Americans say : “ Bring us the Chinese to the table.
” For what reason , the question arises .
We know China ’ s position , and we respect it .
The position of the PRC is well known to us .
We treat it with great respect , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expect us to take any efforts to meet their wishes.
” With such an introduction , the success of the negotiations to extend the START-3 Treaty is doomed to failure .
It is worth noting that the treaty expires on February 5 , 2021 .

Pravda – The extension of this treaty did not cause much optimism in the past, nor does it inspire any optimism today, given the conditions that Washington is dictating to Moscow to extend START-3. The statements that US politicians and officials make at this point sound like ultimatums.
US Special Presidential Representative for Arms Control, Marshall Billingslea, demonstrated a new level of sincerity. Mr. Billingslea seems to be a diplomat by nature, but his manner of expressing Washington’s point of view on pressing international problems makes one doubt that.
According to Billingslea, the USA is not interested in a treaty just for the sake of a treaty. The US president will not sign an agreement that does not reflect today’s reality and if it does not do anything to provide greater security for the American people, said Billingslea at an online event organized by the Hudson Institute in Washington.
Billingslea, Trump’s arms control negotiator, who was appointed for the post on April 10, has repeatedly set forth the conditions to extend the 2010 strategic offensive arms treaty. According to Billingslea, Russia should help bring China to the negotiating table.
In general, the special representative emphasized, the track record in the field of arms control is “deplorable.” He mentioned a standard set of allegations of violation of the treaty on short and medium-range missiles, the use of chemical weapons in the UK, and the withdrawal from the Treaty on Conventional Arms in Europe.
Presenting additional conditions, Washington does not try to conceal its goal to pull out from other existing arms control treaties.
And what about Russia?
Moscow believes that US allies should be involved in strategic stability negotiations.
“One should take into account the potentials of all nuclear powers at future negotiations. USA’s closest allies having potentials in this area must be involved in the future multilateral process in this field. It goes about the United Kingdom and France,” Sergey Ryabkov, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia said during an online discussion.
As for China’s participation in the negotiations, Chinese officials have repeatedly stated that they had no intention to participate in them, because it was impossible to compare the Chinese nuclear arsenal with that of the USA or Russia.
Moscow is not ready to do anything in this direction either. Sergey Ryabkov, who, in fact, will have to negotiate with Marshall Billingslea, said:
“The Americans say: “Bring us the Chinese to the table.” For what reason, the question arises. We know China’s position, and we respect it. The position of the PRC is well known to us. We treat it with great respect, and our counterparts in Washington should not expect us to take any efforts to meet their wishes.”
With such an introduction, the success of the negotiations to extend the START-3 Treaty is doomed to failure. It is worth noting that the treaty expires on February 5, 2021.
Source: Pravda


veteranstoday--2020-05-26--Falklands chaos: Argentina’s extraordinary plot to seize back control – ‘Bleeding wound!’

[ Editor ’ s note : 38 years ago , a genocidal tinpot dictatorship seized control of a group of islands and imprisoned it ’ s British inhabitants .
However , no foreign facist regime would ever be allowed to rule over Britons so on this day , 38 years ago , the Royal Marines returned to the Falkland Islands to liberate their countrymen from the brutal jackboot of Galtieri ’ s Junta .
The Junta may be long gone , but Argentine ’ s remain obsessed with ownership of the Falklands , despite their having been a British colony @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s most despised regime even existed .
Ian ] Falklands recalls first loss at Goose Green in May 1982 , and the incarceration of local residents by Argentine forces This year , due to the COVID-19 situation , the commemoration will follow a different format .
Members of the public are asked to respect the settlement ’ s self-isolation policy and not attend .
The Falkland Islands are preparing for the commemoration of significant anniversaries of events from the 1982 conflict when Argentine forces invaded the country .
The first of these will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ May , when a short memorial service will be held at Goose Green to mark the death of Lieutenant Nick Taylor .
Lt Taylor , of 800 Naval Air Squadron , HMS Hermes , died on 4 May , 1982 when his aircraft was shot down over Goose Green .
Every year Goose Green residents , many of whom were incarcerated at the settlement hall during the war , gather to pay their respects and participate in the time-honored Act of Remembrance .
This year , due to the COVID-19 situation , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Members of the public are asked to respect the settlement ’ s self-isolation policy and not attend .
Governor Nigel Phillips CBE and MLA Mark Pollard will lay wreaths , along with a representative from the Goose Green community .
The Reverend Ian Faulds will preside over a short graveside service .
The event will be broadcast by Falklands Radio and FITV and the community ’ s remote participation is welcomed .
You may simply wish to tune in , or share your thoughts and pay your respects on social media .
Plans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for several weeks and are progressing .
These will be shared once they are finalized .
It is anticipated that because of the pandemic and social distancing , the community is unlikely to be able to give thanks in the usual way , but these anniversaries are vitally important , and the Falklands will continue to honor those lives lost and the sacrifices made for the freedom of our Islands .
Sabre-rattling President Alberto Fernandez also issued a threat to fishermen , warning he would sanction fishing companies operating in the Falkland Island @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unveiled his plot to wrestle back control of the British overseas territory with three bills focussed on strengthening the territorial sovereignty of Argentina .
Speaking at the opening of the 138th congressional session , he said : “ Our common home has a bleeding wound in the deepest of our sovereignty feeling , the usurpation of the Malvinas [ Falkland Islands ] , South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands.
” The first bill is the introduction of the National Council of Affairs Referred to the Malvinas Islands to enforce medium and long term @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The second is part of Buenos Aires ’ plot to seize control of the island ’ s seas stating it “ will contribute to consolidate sovereignty rights over resources on the sea bed and subsurface ” .
And the third bill refers to changing the Federal Fisheries Scheme to apply stricter sanctions on vessels “ illegally fishing in those spaces under Argentine jurisdiction or in waters over which Argentina has sovereignty jurisdiction , which includes the Malvinas Islands ” .
His plot comes after President Alberto Fernandez brazenly claimed Argentina will always @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 187 years ago – and winning a war over the territory in 1982 .
He said : “ It is an auspicious day to claim sovereignty , because today , 3 January , 187 years ago the British invaded the Malvinas .
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The Falkland Islands are preparing for the commemoration of significant anniversaries of events from the 1982 conflict when Argentine forces invaded the country. The first of these will take place at 2pm on Sunday 3 May, when a short memorial service will be held at Goose Green to mark the death of Lieutenant Nick Taylor.
Lt Taylor, of 800 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Hermes, died on 4 May 1982 when his aircraft was shot down over Goose Green.
Every year Goose Green residents, many of whom were incarcerated at the settlement hall during the war, gather to pay their respects and participate in the time-honored Act of Remembrance.
This year, due to the COVID-19 situation, the commemoration will follow a different format. Members of the public are asked to respect the settlement’s self-isolation policy and not attend.
Governor Nigel Phillips CBE and MLA Mark Pollard will lay wreaths, along with a representative from the Goose Green community. The Reverend Ian Faulds will preside over a short graveside service.
The event will be broadcast by Falklands Radio and FITV and the community’s remote participation is welcomed. You may simply wish to tune in, or share your thoughts and pay your respects on social media.
Plans for all other commemorations have been underway for several weeks and are progressing. These will be shared once they are finalized.
It is anticipated that because of the pandemic and social distancing, the community is unlikely to be able to give thanks in the usual way, but these anniversaries are vitally important, and the Falklands will continue to honor those lives lost and the sacrifices made for the freedom of our Islands.


veteranstoday--2020-05-25--Senile Trump praises ‘good bloodlines’ of Ford, who was Hitler’s hero

US President Donald Trump addressed the audience at the Ford plant in Michigan on Friday when he took a moment out of his speech to praise the “ good bloodline ” the late Henry Ford had .
Ford , who is famous for the model T-Ford and revolutionizing mass production , was also an antisemite who spent a great deal of his personal fortune in printing and distributing books and pamphlets about the alleged danger Jews present to the US and the world .
While Ford was not the only famous American to hold anti-Jewish views , Adolf Hitler did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kampf as he did Ford .
Trump was praising the Ford company for making ventilators “ with American hands , in the US ” when he broke from his speech and mentioned Henry Ford whom , he said , had a “ good bloodline ” .
Trump then smiled and said “ if you believe in that stuff , you got good bloodline.
” He added that Ford and Thomas Edison are “ looking down ” from heaven , and are “ very proud of what they see.
” Trump has often expressed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a good bloodline , and fantastic skills from having a family connection to people that do , The Intercept reported .
He expressed pride in having “ German blood ” and complimented British business leaders for having “ amazing DNA.
” He also mentioned his uncle , John Trump , who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , as evidence that he too has “ great genes ” and is “ very smart.
” The Jewish Democratic Council of America ( JDCA ) slammed Trump for his choice of words and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heaven .
“ Lauding Ford ’ s ‘ good bloodlines , ’ President Trump echoed a concept used by Hitler to target and massacre Jews during the Holocaust , ” the JDCA wrote .
“ Neo-Nazis and white supremacists hear the President ’ s message of solidarity loud and clear.
” “ We call on the Republican Jewish Coalition to condemn President Trump for his recklessness and dangerous comments , which have made our community less secure , ” they added .
Jonathan Greenblatt , the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for his remarks about Ford , “ an antisemite and one of America ’ s staunchest proponents of eugenics.
” Ford accepted The Grand Cross of the German Eagle in 1938 for his service to the Third Reich .

by HAGAY HACOHEN
Jerusalem Post – US President Donald Trump addressed the audience at the Ford plant in Michigan on Friday when he took a moment out of his speech to praise the “good bloodline” the late Henry Ford had.
Ford, who is famous for the model T-Ford and revolutionizing mass production, was also an antisemite who spent a great deal of his personal fortune in printing and distributing books and pamphlets about the alleged danger Jews present to the US and the world.
While Ford was not the only famous American to hold anti-Jewish views, Adolf Hitler did not praise others in his book Mein Kampf as he did Ford.
Trump was praising the Ford company for making ventilators “with American hands, in the US” when he broke from his speech and mentioned Henry Ford whom, he said, had a “good bloodline”. Trump then smiled and said “if you believe in that stuff, you got good bloodline.”
He added that Ford and Thomas Edison are “looking down” from heaven, and are “very proud of what they see.”
Trump has often expressed his personal belief he has good genes, a good bloodline, and fantastic skills from having a family connection to people that do, The Intercept reported. He expressed pride in having “German blood” and complimented British business leaders for having “amazing DNA.”
He also mentioned his uncle, John Trump, who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as evidence that he too has “great genes” and is “very smart.”
The Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA) slammed Trump for his choice of words and painting the late Ford as residing in heaven.
“Lauding Ford’s ‘good bloodlines,’ President Trump echoed a concept used by Hitler to target and massacre Jews during the Holocaust,” the JDCA wrote. “Neo-Nazis and white supremacists hear the President’s message of solidarity loud and clear.”
“We call on the Republican Jewish Coalition to condemn President Trump for his recklessness and dangerous comments, which have made our community less secure,” they added.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), demanded that Trump apologizes for his remarks about Ford, “an antisemite and one of America’s staunchest proponents of eugenics.”
Ford accepted The Grand Cross of the German Eagle in 1938 for his service to the Third Reich.