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WUHANGATE – 9. HIV inserted in SARS chimeric virus in 2007 (pics). Thanks to Australians & EU Commission Funds

5 – Vaccine for HIV thanks to an influenza “ If they persecuted me , they will also persecute you ; if they have observed my word , they will also observe yours ” .
Jesus Christ – Gospel of John ( 15.20 ) « In this study , a human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) -based pseudovirus system was employed to address these issues .
Our results indicated that the SL-CoV S protein is unable to use ACE2 proteins of different species for cell entry and that SARS-CoV S protein also failed to bind the ACE2 molecule of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the other hand , we demonstrated that after replacement of a small segment ( aa 310 to 518 ) of Rp3-S by the cognate sequence of BJ01-S , the CS protein mimics the function of BJ01-S in regard to receptor usage in the HIV pseudovirus assay system » .
A few lines published on page 1900 of Vol .
82 of the Journal of Virology of February 2008 deny the entire world scientific community .
“ Tricks sometimes work but always self-destruct , ” wrote the Lebanese Christian poet Gibran Kahlil Gibran .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that testifies to the construction in the laboratory of a chimeric CoronaVirus with the grafting of the AIDS pathogen which took place in the very distant December 2007 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology managed by Chinese Academy of Sciences .
Now some geneticists should look for “ the biological bullet ” that really triggered the current pandemic in order to also trace the place where it exploded : accidentally for a test that ended badly or voluntarily for a planetary bacteriological war .
And then see if they coincide … If it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ research center near the Asian outbreak they know much more than they tell – even for the censorship imposed by the communist regime that could entail the death penalty for espionage – there is no certainty that the wrongdoing took place there and not rather in the many US Army research centers or in some countries of the former Soviet Union such as Georgia and Ukraine where the Pentagon , headquarters of the Department of Defense in Washington , manages top secret bio-labs even in the diplomatic shadow of the CIA as highlighted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the declassified video of the US Navy on biological warfare dated 1952 and published exclusively by Gospa News to remember the enormous potential of the Pentagon .
Today , however , we have irrefutable proof that a Genetically Modified Organism had already been engineered in China 13 years ago , with analogous molecular biologic characteristics as the ones found by illustrious scientists in the genomic sequences of the new devastating and highly deadly SARS-CoV-2 viral strain .
But these courageous researchers have been boycotted and disqualified by media and colleagues who have banally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the traces of HIV , by others who have even lied denying the existence of similar tests and by others who have asserted the undertaking to insert one virus into another too complex and expensive .
This is the only true statement but the hundreds of millions of dollars business that has been created around genetic engineering and bio-technologies is now so swirling that it justifies huge funding even from distant institutions such as the European Union … This is only the first , in chronological order , of the experiments carried @ @ @ @ @ @ @ obtained between these two pathogens , therefore defined recombinant .
In fact , there are other subsequent ones made in the laboratory of the province of Hubei even before in 2015 it obtained the BSL-4 biosafety certification .
Many of them , as we have already seen in the report “ CoronaVirus Bio-Weapons 9 ” and in more detail in “ WuhanGate 4 and 5 ” , were conducted with the support of the American government agency USAID , the tool of the powerful Central Intelligence Agency for financial operations abroad aimed also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for democracy ) , and with the contribution of NIAID , the National Institute Alergy Infective Diseases directed by the now lugubriously famous Anthony Fauci .
But in the ocean of virology studies we have found a dozen with the use of the now burning SARS-HIV combination , also previously carried out : in Beijing in 2004 and 2005 , in New York in 2005 , in Switzerland and Taiwan in 2006 .
This happened for a very simple reason that I try to explain even to readers without technical skills .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( ACE2 ) , identified as the receptor of protein S ( Spike ) which becomes the “ killer ” that allows the SARS-Cov virus ( the strain 1 isolated in 2003 ) to attack the cells human , were tested with human immunodeficiency HIV-1 in consideration of the affinity between the two viral agents of influenza / pneumonia and AIDS .
But if all this is so obvious why the theory expressed by the French virologist Luc Montagnier who in 2008 won the Nobel Prize for Medicine just after discovering the functioning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1982 and 1985 the HIV-1 and HIV-2 viral strains , was rejected by the scientific community ?
Who better than he , in the worldwide , can claim to have identified inserts of the AIDS virus in SARS-CoV-2 , which has so far infected more than 4.6 million people and has killed ( directly or indirectly aggravating pre-existing diseases ) more than 309 thousand worldwide ?
Very simple : because in these risky searches for potential vaccines , which can also be used as bio-weapons thanks to the enhancement of laboratory superviruses for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the most important international institutions have taken a hand .
This is confirmed by the 2007 experiment carried out not only by the Wuhan Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences but also by the Cell Proliferation Laboratory of the Ministry of Education at the College of Human Sciences of the University of Beijing , by the East China Normal University of Shanghai , from the Australian food and farmer industries CSIRO Livestock together with the Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases in Geelong .
That experiment from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ largely by the Chinese , through the Ministry of Science and Technology , the Academy of Scienses and National Nature Science Foundation of China for Creative Research , but also by the Oceania ’ s institution just mentioned and from one of the Old Continent … Well yes , dear fellow citizens of the European Union , the most suspected laboratory on the planet , the now infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology , we have also helped him with our tax contributions !
Even Brussels , in fact , has supported research on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) potentially lethal such as the one that ended up in the spotlight of the Leonardo scientific TG3 of RAI3 Italian TV for a 2015 study and which became viral in the media after the outbreak of the pandemic .
As we reported in another article , in reality , the studies on the superviruses were at least 2 but managed by Wuhan in collaboration with the University of North Carolina ( which has carried out one of them mainly in its laboratories ) thanks to the huge and unknown archive of “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infected with patents by the Chinese , for this reason an international partner in biological research .
The news just released by the British Daily Mail that the Beijing government admitted to having destroyed some CoronaVirus samples on January 3 is therefore of little relevance .
In the documentation in our possession we have counted 27 of those SL genetically engineered .
Because the wild ones isolated from horseshoe bats in the USAID project would be around 160 .
But it wasn ’ t the European Parliament that put a potential deadly weapon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Chinese Communist Party .
No .
It was that technical body of political appointment called the European Commission through a specific project called Program EPISARS of which , mysteriously , almost all traces on the web have disappeared… And since the bad news for Italy never fails , it hurts me – but it doesn ’ t surprise me – having to point out that the project was started just when an Italian , Romano Prodi , was appointed to the presidency of the EC , appointed to lead the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political support of the center-left parties of L ’ Ulivo ( Olive Tree ) , to the excellent relations with its predecessor Mario Monti , a link between politics , speculators of high finance and the Bilderberg consortium , and finally the king of international globalists .
I refer to the strategic alliance with the occult plutarch George Soros , manipulator of dozens of MEPs but above all financier of the US Democratic Party which with President Barack Obama has launched the plan of 10 mandatory vaccines for Italy .
Just Gospa News @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the New York Open Society is also a big shareholder in the Californian big pharma Gilead : the one that is making money on the pandemic thanks to a retroviral born precisely to fight HIV as shown in the previous dossier .
The controversy Honoris Causa conferred on Soros by the Faculty of Economics of the University of Bologna chaired by Stefano Zamagni , head of the Olive Tree for social policies and human resources , aroused many controversies on October 30 , 1995 .
That ’ s happened in front of Prodi @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1996 , also gloating for the preface to the Italian version of the Hungarian tycoon ’ s book , disliked by many Italians for leading speculation on the Lira which in 1992 blew up public debt .
But we will talk more about these sinister political intrigues in an even more puzzling forthcoming reportage .
Well on April 1 , 2004 the Prodi commission .
of which Monti himself was a member , set aside a budget of almost 2 million euros ( exactly 1,906,539 euros in grant No .
511063 ) to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Acute Respiratory Severe Syndrome which in 2003 had killed 814 people in Asia infecting more than 80 thousand and making people fear even worse .
This promptly happened as if the Deep State really wishing to impose the New World Order had meticulously engineered it … « Were there other ‘ human ’ CoV able to induce respiratory diseases ?
Would we have the appropriate diagnostic tools to differentiate SARS from the flu , during acute respiratory infections ?
Would neutralising antibodies play a role in protecting against re-infection ; if yes , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the rapid decline in protective immunity associated with other human CoVs ?
» these are the questions that EPISARS asked in the project by answering in the final document .
« The SARS epidemic has been exemplary in that it gave the scientific and the public health community the opportunity to study the emergence of a virus in human populations at a time both epidemiological and virological tools were available for in-depth studies .
The results were remarkable , with the control of the epidemic within six months .
EPISARS has markedly contributed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ identification of the horseshoe bats as reservoirs for SARS-like coronaviruses , and with the documentation of the crucial role played by the masked palm civets in the spread of the disease to humans .
Needless to say , our contribution , although very significant , is one piece of a gigantic effort putting together international organisations such as the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) , national sentinel surveillance systems , and first-class laboratories » .
Pure rhetoric pompous of the worst self-celebrations … Judging by the 309,000 dead today , there is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ helped to create , rather than prevent , new epidemics !
Indeed , it certainly stimulated those experiments deemed dangerous and ethically doubtful by Professor Montagnier for the viral combination SARS-HIV , detected in the new CoronaVirus strain of the current pandemic also by a group of Indian scientists of the Kuzuma School of Biology in New Delhi who according to the Nobel Prize winner were then “ forced to retract ” the published study .
Montagnier , today head of the department of Tao Jong University in Shanghai where he currently lives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the famous Pasteur Institute in Paris until 2000 , later becoming an emeritus academic of the CNRS of that university .
Well do you know who was the European Union contact person for the EPISARS project in Wuhan Institute of Virology ?
Just the Pasteur institute , which however has removed all information about that program as it appears on the Cordis website , the only one in the EU to report a few news since even the official web address EPISARS is no longer reachable … It is therefore very probable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than what he revealed in the interviews and published in his official study on Research Gate since the Wuhan laboratory was opened in 2004 also thanks to a collaboration of China with France , which was later replaced in support by the US government agency USAID from 2009 thanks to the PREDICT 2 project .
It was also funded by Eco HealthAlliance , a private New York NGO supported by the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson , repeatedly convicted of serious violations , and also by American , Chinese and Saudi universities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same plan , however , includes among the Global Partners the World Health Organization , the NIAID of Fauci , capable of providing 3.7 million dollars to Wuhan , and the CDC ( Center for the prevention and control of diseases ) .
In the WuhanGate 8 report we published a worldwide preview of the research of another French professor , Pierre Bricage who not only demonstrated the validity of the thesis of his colleagues in India on the traces of HIV in SARS-Cov-2 but added surprising analytical details thanks to his great @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that allowed him to become director of the Department of Biological Engineering of the University of Pau ( Beaume , Pyrénées-Atlantiques ) and lecturer also for NATO .
« This virus could not have emerged spontaneously by natural mutations and wild strains recombinations , it is a genetic chimaera with artificial insertions of modified genes , an engineered genome of a coronavirus within a capsid of a Human Immunodeficiency Virus ( HIV ) » wrote in his study in which he elaborates a bio-chemical hypothesis so perfect in describing the different lethality of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the new CoronaVirus may be a bio-genetic weapon calibrated to target ethnic groups in a different way , as supported by authoritative experts .
« Isn ’ t it possible to make a coronavirus biomimetic of HIV ?
Isn ’ t it technologically possible to modify an ancestor of SARS-CoV-2 to produce a biomimeticcoronavirus of HIV so as to develop a potential AIDS vaccine ( Du et al.
, 2009 ) ?
» Professor Bricage then mentions some research generically ( with the exception of one which we will discuss separately because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) .
Here , however , we will analyze in detail those where the so-called recombinant based on chimeric viruses created in the laboratory and therefore called SARS-Like , all initialed SL , appears , always starting from the experiments conducted in 2007 in Wuhan thanks to funds from the European Commission .
The text of the study “ Difference in Receptor Usage between Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ( SARS ) Coronavirus and SARS-Like Coronavirus of Bat Origin ” is proof of disbelief … « We cloned and expressed the bat R. pearsonii @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ACE2 proteins from human , palm civet , and R. pearsonii to support infection by HIV-based pseudoviruses containing different S protein constructs .
Our results indicated that the bat SL-CoV ( Rp3 ) S protein is unable to use ACE2 for cell entry regardless of the origin of the ACE2 molecule .
We also demonstrated that the human SARS-CoV S can not use bat RpACE2 as a functional receptor .
On the other hand , we demonstrated that after replacement of a small segment ( aa 310 to 518 ) of Rp3-S by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CS protein mimics the function of BJ01-S in regard to receptor usage in the HIV pseudovirus assay system » .
For us , bio-chemistry laymen , we can not understand much of the technical language .
We just need to know that the combination between the two powerful and lethal pathogens is undoubtedly mentioned , but above all that they are talking about the replacement of small segments referring to the humanized BJO1-S antibody based on HIV .
Inevitable that Bricage ’ s words come back to me in reference to the analysis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can not be considered genetic heir to that of 2007 just described , lacking a molecular comparison , but it would have been created in a way analogous according to nine Indian and two French scientists … « The changes observed in its protein sequences ( 3 inserts coming from gp120 HIV and 1 insert from HIV gag ) all increase the density of positive charges on the surface of these molecules .
Such a non-random change involves the use of a protein engineering software tool to screen the genetic modifications prior to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid-19 pandemic .
At least today we know that those tools in Wuhan already had them as far back as 2007 where we could conclude the article here but the connections with other studies are interesting .
To get to today ’ s discoveries , I turned my eyes red on the computer and on the tablet reading the titles and leafing through dozens of searches .
In the end I discovered that many secrets of molecular biology are in the notes under the heading Materials and Methods : the « HIV-based pseudoviruses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) » reads a link that takes us back in time to the capital of the China .
The research is from 2005 and titled “ Identification of Two Critical Amino Acid Residues of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Spike Protein for Its Variation in Zoonotic Tropism Transition via a Double Substitution Strategy ” and we mention only an example passage .
« Pseudotyped Viruses—HIV-luc/SARS pseudotyped viruses were generated as described previously ( 23 , 24 ) .
Briefly , 10 _g of pNL.4.3.Luc.E_R_ ( HIV-luc ) ( 25 ) and 10 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plasmids were co-transfected into 2 _ 106 293T cells by the standard calcium phosphate precipitation method ( 26 ) .
Plasmids—Mutant S genes were generated by site-directed mutagenesis in the context of expression plasmid pTSh ( 17 , 23 , 24 ) , which contains the humanized BJ01 S gene using a QuikChange kit ( Stratagene ) .
To construct a series of the C-terminal Fc-S ( amino acids 14–520 ) genes , we amplified the coding sequences between the N-terminal 14 and 520 residues of the S protein from the full-length S @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with primers : forward 5_CGCGGATCCATGGATGCAATGAAGA-3_ , reverse for 5_CCGGAATTCGATCAGGTCGGTGC-3_ » .
If you want to play the little chemist , get yourself uno Stratagene : the original QuikChange Site-Directed mutagenesis kit is used to make point mutations , switch amino acids , and delete or insert single or multiple amino acids .
Let ’ s go back for a moment to SARS-Cov-2 , the 2020 killer described by meticulous Professor Bricage in reference to the sequences that he Montagnier and the Kuzuma School of Biology have identified as HIV : « None of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ random single-point mutation .
This type of mutation usuallyaffects only 1 amino acid and not a defined protein pattern ( a series of specifically changed amino acids ) .
A point mutation can also cause a shift in the reading frame , but this usually results in a non-functional protein » .
Effective Stratagene !
May be very expensive… But the Chinese do not know about costs for technology , especially if , as in the case of the 2005 study just mentioned , the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the « Sixth Framework Program “ EPISARS ” from the European Commission » .
The same university had also conducted in 2004 the experiment denominated “ Expression cloning of functional receptor used by SARS coronavirus ” : « When human ACE2 cDNA was transduced into NIH3T3 cells , the ACE2 expressing NIH3T3 cells could be infected with HIV/SARS pseudovirus .
These data clearly demonstrated that ACE2 was the functional receptor for SARS-CoV » reads n the study .
Let ’ s leave China for a moment and go to Switzerland where in 2006 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Saint Gallen started looking for “ Towards a coronavirus-based HIV multigene vaccine ” .
« Human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) infection represents one of the major health threats in the developing world .
The costly treatment of infected individuals with multiple highly efficient anti-HIV drugs is only affordable in industrialized countries .
Thus , an efficient vaccination strategy is required to prevent the further spread of the infection .
The molecular biology of coronaviruses and particular features of the human coronavirus 229E ( HCoV 229E ) indicate that HCoV 229E-based vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ highly efficient vaccines » .
This study , certainly pragmatic as chilling , brings to mind an ironic phrase of the French professor Bricage : « Could we not protect ourselves from AIDS while only risking a simple cold ?
What couldbe more dull and benign than a cold ?
» the professor wondered in his research after also highlighting some possible side effects that we will analyze in the next article .
In the same year the National Health Research Institutes , from Miaoli in Taiwan worked in exactly the opposite direction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against SARS CoV infection ” but inside there is always the SARS / HIV pseudovirus .
But the first real “ Design of recombinant protein-based SARS-CoV entry inhibitors targeting the heptad-repeat regions of the spike protein S2 domain ” was published in April 2005 by the Department of Molecular Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences which created and strengthened the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a center of excellence .
We could stop here to demonstrate the falsehood of that scientific community that has declared the possibility of inserting HIV sequences in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But we don ’ t want to do wrong to the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute of the New York Blood Center which in 2005 developed the research for a vaccine based on the recombinant protein rOv-ASP-1 which proved to be a powerful adjuvant « was confirmed in mice vaccinated with a 37-mer peptide from the S protein of SARS-CoV and an HIV-1 gp120-CD4 chimeric polypeptide antigen » .
“ Cross-species transfer of viruses : implications for the use of viral vectors in biomedical research , gene therapy and as live-virus vaccines ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ published in October of that same year by the GMO National Institute of Public Health and the Environment in Bilthoven ( Netherlhands ) .
But of all it is the only “ bioethical ” and also prophetic because it aims to “ assess the risk to the activity ” that others now take for granted .
Much more disturbing , however , the molecular biogenetics experiment of four researchers from the School of Life Sciences of Xiamen University in the province of Fujian in China focused in 2006 on “ Preparation of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Multiple Virus Assays ” where as test they have « Vwe tried to directly package a 1200-nucleotide–long foreign RNA sequence containing gene fragments of hepatitis C virus ( HCV ) , HIV-1 , severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 1 ( SARS-CoV1 ) , and SARS-CoV2 into the original armored RNA production vector pAR-1 ( 8 ) » .
6 – OTHER RESEARCHES BY WUHAN WITH THE AIDS PATHOGEN In 2009 , however , the Wuhan Institue of Virology again published the study “ Immunogenicity difference between the SARS coronavirus and the bat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” in wich « the immunogenicity of the SL-CoV S protein ( S ( SL ) ) was studied and compared with that of SARS-CoV ( S ( SARS ) ) .
DNA immunization in mice with S ( SL ) elicited a high titer of antibodies against HIV-pseudotyped S ( SL ) .
The sera had low cross-reactivity , but no neutralization activity , for the HIV-pseudotyped S ( SARS ) » .
Another research similar even in the title “ Immunogenicity of the spike glycoprotein of bat SARS-like coronavirus ” was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ directed like all the others by Shi Zhengli , the head of the Center for Research on Infectious Diseases , not surprisingly nicknamed “ Bat Woman ” in China .
« To gain insight into the basis of this difference , we established a recombinant adenovirus system expressing the S protein from SL-CoV ( rAd-Rp3-S ) to investigate its immune characterization .
Our results showed that immunized mice generated strong humoral immune responses against the SL-CoV S protein .
Moreover , a strong cellular immune response demonstrated by elevated IFN-γ and IL-6 levels @ @ @ @ @ @ @ However , the induced antibody from these mice had weaker cross-reaction with the SARS-CoV S protein , and did not neutralize HIV pseudotyped with SARS-CoV S protein » we read on papers .

Report Summary
5 – Vaccine for HIV thanks to an influenza
6 – Other researches in Wuhan wuth AIDS’ patogen
“If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have observed my word, they will also observe yours”.
Jesus Christ – Gospel of John (15.20)
VERSIONE ORIGINALE IN ITALIANO
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
«In this study, a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-based pseudovirus system was employed to address these issues. Our results indicated that the SL-CoV S protein is unable to use ACE2 proteins of different species for cell entry and that SARS-CoV S protein also failed to bind the ACE2 molecule of the horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus pearsonii. On the other hand, we demonstrated that after replacement of a small segment (aa 310 to 518) of Rp3-S by the cognate sequence of BJ01-S, the CS protein mimics the function of BJ01-S in regard to receptor usage in the HIV pseudovirus assay system».
A few lines published on page 1900 of Vol. 82 of the Journal of Virology of February 2008 deny the entire world scientific community.
“Tricks sometimes work but always self-destruct,” wrote the Lebanese Christian poet Gibran Kahlil Gibran.
It is the “smoking gun” that testifies to the construction in the laboratory of a chimeric CoronaVirus with the grafting of the AIDS pathogen which took place in the very distant December 2007 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology managed by Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Now some geneticists should look for “the biological bullet” that really triggered the current pandemic in order to also trace the place where it exploded: accidentally for a test that ended badly or voluntarily for a planetary bacteriological war. And then see if they coincide …
If it is in fact ascertained that in the research center near the Asian outbreak they know much more than they tell – even for the censorship imposed by the communist regime that could entail the death penalty for espionage – there is no certainty that the wrongdoing took place there and not rather in the many US Army research centers or in some countries of the former Soviet Union such as Georgia and Ukraine where the Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense in Washington, manages top secret bio-labs even in the diplomatic shadow of the CIA as highlighted in previous reports.
Just look at the declassified video of the US Navy on biological warfare dated 1952 and published exclusively by Gospa News to remember the enormous potential of the Pentagon.
Today, however, we have irrefutable proof that a Genetically Modified Organism had already been engineered in China 13 years ago, with analogous molecular biologic characteristics as the ones found by illustrious scientists in the genomic sequences of the new devastating and highly deadly SARS-CoV-2 viral strain.
But these courageous researchers have been boycotted and disqualified by media and colleagues who have banally supported the thesis of a casual presence of the traces of HIV, by others who have even lied denying the existence of similar tests and by others who have asserted the undertaking to insert one virus into another too complex and expensive.
This is the only true statement but the hundreds of millions of dollars business that has been created around genetic engineering and bio-technologies is now so swirling that it justifies huge funding even from distant institutions such as the European Union …
This is only the first, in chronological order, of the experiments carried out in Wuhan with a chimeric supervirus obtained between these two pathogens, therefore defined recombinant. In fact, there are other subsequent ones made in the laboratory of the province of Hubei even before in 2015 it obtained the BSL-4 biosafety certification.
1 – MONDIALISTS HANDS ON DANGEROUS GMO SARS-HIV
Many of them, as we have already seen in the report “CoronaVirus Bio-Weapons 9” and in more detail in “WuhanGate 4 and 5”, were conducted with the support of the American government agency USAID, the tool of the powerful Central Intelligence Agency for financial operations abroad aimed also at masked coups (the so-called regime-change for democracy), and with the contribution of NIAID, the National Institute Alergy Infective Diseases directed by the now lugubriously famous Anthony Fauci.
But in the ocean of virology studies we have found a dozen with the use of the now burning SARS-HIV combination, also previously carried out: in Beijing in 2004 and 2005, in New York in 2005, in Switzerland and Taiwan in 2006 .
This happened for a very simple reason that I try to explain even to readers without technical skills. The reactions of the angiotensin 2 converting enzyme (ACE2), identified as the receptor of protein S (Spike) which becomes the “killer” that allows the SARS-Cov virus (the strain 1 isolated in 2003) to attack the cells human, were tested with human immunodeficiency HIV-1 in consideration of the affinity between the two viral agents of influenza / pneumonia and AIDS.
But if all this is so obvious why the theory expressed by the French virologist Luc Montagnier who in 2008 won the Nobel Prize for Medicine just after discovering the functioning of human immunodeficiency and before, between 1982 and 1985 the HIV-1 and HIV-2 viral strains, was rejected by the scientific community?
Who better than he, in the worldwide, can claim to have identified inserts of the AIDS virus in SARS-CoV-2, which has so far infected more than 4.6 million people and has killed (directly or indirectly aggravating pre-existing diseases) more than 309 thousand worldwide?
Very simple: because in these risky searches for potential vaccines, which can also be used as bio-weapons thanks to the enhancement of laboratory superviruses for testing, many nations of the world and the most important international institutions have taken a hand.
This is confirmed by the 2007 experiment carried out not only by the Wuhan Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences but also by the Cell Proliferation Laboratory of the Ministry of Education at the College of Human Sciences of the University of Beijing, by the East China Normal University of Shanghai, from the Australian food and farmer industries CSIRO Livestock together with the Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases in Geelong.
That experiment from the Hubei Province research center was also funded largely by the Chinese, through the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Academy of Scienses and National Nature Science Foundation of China for Creative Research, but also by the Oceania’s institution just mentioned and from one of the Old Continent …
Well yes, dear fellow citizens of the European Union, the most suspected laboratory on the planet, the now infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology, we have also helped him with our tax contributions!
Even Brussels, in fact, has supported research on these recombinant chimeric superviruses, based on SARS-Like (SL-coded) or close to the study subject Sars-Cov, lethal such as the one that ended up in the spotlight of the Leonardo scientific TG3 of RAI3 Italian TV for a 2015 study and which became viral in the media after the outbreak of the pandemic.
As we reported in another article, in reality, the studies on the superviruses were at least 2 but managed by Wuhan in collaboration with the University of North Carolina (which has carried out one of them mainly in its laboratories) thanks to the huge and unknown archive of “chimeric virus” and other genetic material infected with patents by the Chinese, for this reason an international partner in biological research.
The news just released by the British Daily Mail that the Beijing government admitted to having destroyed some CoronaVirus samples on January 3 is therefore of little relevance. In our documentation we have counted 27 SL samples, some of which are then used for genetically engineered recombinants.. Because the wild ones isolated from horseshoe bats in the USAID project would be around 160.
But it wasn’t the European Parliament that put a potential deadly weapon in the hands of the cynical scientists of the Chinese Communist Party. No. It was that technical body of political appointment called the European Commission through a specific project called Program EPISARS of which, mysteriously, almost all traces on the web have disappeared…
And since the bad news for Italy never fails, it hurts me – but it doesn’t surprise me – having to point out that the project was started just when an Italian, Romano Prodi, was appointed to the presidency of the EC, appointed to lead the “Council of Ministers EU thanks to the political support of the center-left parties of L’Ulivo (Olive Tree), to the excellent relations with its predecessor Mario Monti, a link between politics, speculators of high finance and the Bilderberg consortium, and finally the king of international globalists.
I refer to the strategic alliance with the occult plutarch George Soros, manipulator of dozens of MEPs but above all financier of the US Democratic Party which with President Barack Obama has launched the plan of 10 mandatory vaccines for Italy. Just Gospa News has discovered that the self-styled philanthropist of the New York Open Society is also a big shareholder in the Californian big pharma Gilead: the one that is making money on the pandemic thanks to a retroviral born precisely to fight HIV as shown in the previous dossier.
The controversy Honoris Causa conferred on Soros by the Faculty of Economics of the University of Bologna chaired by Stefano Zamagni, head of the Olive Tree for social policies and human resources, aroused many controversies on October 30, 1995. That’s happened in front of Prodi, candidate and future left premier in 1996, also gloating for the preface to the Italian version of the Hungarian tycoon’s book, disliked by many Italians for leading speculation on the Lira which in 1992 blew up public debt. But we will talk more about these sinister political intrigues in an even more puzzling forthcoming reportage.
2 – EU COMMISION PRODI FINANCED THE TESTS IN WUHAN
Well on April 1, 2004 the Prodi commission. of which Monti himself was a member, set aside a budget of almost 2 million euros (exactly 1,906,539 euros in grant No. 511063) to assist China in researching SARS: the Acute Respiratory Severe Syndrome which in 2003 had killed 814 people in Asia infecting more than 80 thousand and making people fear even worse. This promptly happened as if the Deep State really wishing to impose the New World Order had meticulously engineered it …
«Were there other ‘human’ CoV able to induce respiratory diseases? Would we have the appropriate diagnostic tools to differentiate SARS from the flu, during acute respiratory infections? Would neutralising antibodies play a role in protecting against re-infection; if yes, would such immunity be long-term, knowing the rapid decline in protective immunity associated with other human CoVs?» these are the questions that EPISARS asked in the project by answering in the final document.
«The SARS epidemic has been exemplary in that it gave the scientific and the public health community the opportunity to study the emergence of a virus in human populations at a time both epidemiological and virological tools were available for in-depth studies. The results were remarkable, with the control of the epidemic within six months. EPISARS has markedly contributed to this outcome, notably with the identification of the horseshoe bats as reservoirs for SARS-like coronaviruses, and with the documentation of the crucial role played by the masked palm civets in the spread of the disease to humans. Needless to say, our contribution, although very significant, is one piece of a gigantic effort putting together international organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO), national sentinel surveillance systems, and first-class laboratories». Pure rhetoric pompous of the worst self-celebrations …
Judging by the 309,000 dead today, there is a well-founded suspicion that the program instead helped to create, rather than prevent, new epidemics! Indeed, it certainly stimulated those experiments deemed dangerous and ethically doubtful by Professor Montagnier for the viral combination SARS-HIV, detected in the new CoronaVirus strain of the current pandemic also by a group of Indian scientists of the Kuzuma School of Biology in New Delhi who according to the Nobel Prize winner were then “forced to retract” the published study.
Montagnier, today head of the department of Tao Jong University in Shanghai where he currently lives, was director of the Virology Unit of the famous Pasteur Institute in Paris until 2000, later becoming an emeritus academic of the CNRS of that university.
Well do you know who was the European Union contact person for the EPISARS project in Wuhan Institute of Virology? Just the Pasteur institute, which however has removed all information about that program as it appears on the Cordis website, the only one in the EU to report a few news since even the official web address EPISARS is no longer reachable …
It is therefore very probable that the Nobel Prize winner knows much more than what he revealed in the interviews and published in his official study on Research Gate since the Wuhan laboratory was opened in 2004 also thanks to a collaboration of China with France, which was later replaced in support by the US government agency USAID from 2009 thanks to the PREDICT 2 project.
It was also funded by Eco HealthAlliance, a private New York NGO supported by the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, repeatedly convicted of serious violations, and also by American, Chinese and Saudi universities as described in WuhanGate 1. The same plan, however, includes among the Global Partners the World Health Organization, the NIAID of Fauci, capable of providing 3.7 million dollars to Wuhan, and the CDC (Center for the prevention and control of diseases).
3 – CHIMERIC VIRUSES SARS INFECTED WITH HIV
In the WuhanGate 8 report we published a worldwide preview of the research of another French professor, Pierre Bricage who not only demonstrated the validity of the thesis of his colleagues in India on the traces of HIV in SARS-Cov-2 but added surprising analytical details thanks to his great experience in the head of molecular genetics that allowed him to become director of the Department of Biological Engineering of the University of Pau (Beaume, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) and lecturer also for NATO.
«This virus could not have emerged spontaneously by natural mutations and wild strains recombinations, it is a genetic chimaera with artificial insertions of modified genes, an engineered genome of a coronavirus within a capsid of a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)» wrote in his study in which he elaborates a bio-chemical hypothesis so perfect in describing the different lethality of the current pandemic to reinvigorate the suspicion that the new CoronaVirus may be a bio-genetic weapon calibrated to target ethnic groups in a different way , as supported by authoritative experts.
«Isn’t it possible to make a coronavirus biomimetic of HIV? Isn’t it technologically possible to modify an ancestor of SARS-CoV-2 to produce a biomimeticcoronavirus of HIV so as to develop a potential AIDS vaccine (Du et al., 2009)?» Professor Bricage then mentions some research generically (with the exception of one which we will discuss separately because it is wrapped in a huge mystery).
Here, however, we will analyze in detail those where the so-called recombinant based on chimeric viruses created in the laboratory and therefore called SARS-Like, all initialed SL, appears, always starting from the experiments conducted in 2007 in Wuhan thanks to funds from the European Commission. The text of the study “Difference in Receptor Usage between Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus and SARS-Like Coronavirus of Bat Origin” is proof of disbelief …
«We cloned and expressed the bat R. pearsonii ACE2 gene and examined the abilities of ACE2 proteins from human, palm civet, and R. pearsonii to support infection by HIV-based pseudoviruses containing different S protein constructs. Our results indicated that the bat SL-CoV (Rp3) S protein is unable to use ACE2 for cell entry regardless of the origin of the ACE2 molecule. We also demonstrated that the human SARS-CoV S cannot use bat RpACE2 as a functional receptor. On the other hand, we demonstrated that after replacement of a small segment (aa 310 to 518) of Rp3-S by the cognate sequence of BJ01-S, the CS protein mimics the function of BJ01-S in regard to receptor usage in the HIV pseudovirus assay system ».
For us, bio-chemistry laymen, we cannot understand much of the technical language. We just need to know that the combination between the two powerful and lethal pathogens is undoubtedly mentioned, but above all that they are talking about the replacement of small segments referring to the humanized BJO1-S antibody based on HIV.
Inevitable that Bricage’s words come back to me in reference to the analysis of SARS-Cov-2 which, we repeat, cannot be considered genetic heir to that of 2007 just described, lacking a molecular comparison, but it would have been created in a way analogous according to nine Indian and two French scientists …
«The changes observed in its protein sequences (3 inserts coming from gp120 HIV and 1 insert from HIV gag) all increase the density of positive charges on the surface of these molecules. Such a non-random change involves the use of a protein engineering software tool to screen the genetic modifications prior to doing them» the bio-engineer wrote on Covid-19 pandemic.
4 – STRATAGENE, THE KIT FOR GENETIC MUTATIONS
At least today we know that those tools in Wuhan already had them as far back as 2007 where we could conclude the article here but the connections with other studies are interesting. To get to today’s discoveries, I turned my eyes red on the computer and on the tablet reading the titles and leafing through dozens of searches.
In the end I discovered that many secrets of molecular biology are in the notes under the heading Materials and Methods: the «HIV-based pseudoviruses were prepared as described previously (37)» reads a link that takes us back in time to the capital of the China.
The research is from 2005 and titled “Identification of Two Critical Amino Acid Residues of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Spike Protein for Its Variation in Zoonotic Tropism Transition via a Double Substitution Strategy” and we mention only an example passage.
La ricerca è del 2005, si intitola “Identificazione Di Due Residui Di Aminoacidi Critici Della Grave Sindrome Respiratoria Acuta Proteina Spike Di Coronavirus Per La Sua Variazione Nella Transizione Del Tropismo Zoonotico Doppia strategia di sostituzione” e ne citiamo solo un passaggio esemplificativo.
«Pseudotyped Viruses—HIV-luc/SARS pseudotyped viruses were generated as described previously (23, 24). Briefly, 10 _g of pNL.4.3.Luc.E_R_ (HIV-luc) (25) and 10 _g of S gene or its mutant-expressing plasmids were co-transfected into 2 _ 106 293T cells by the standard calcium phosphate precipitation method (26). Plasmids—Mutant S genes were generated by site-directed mutagenesis in the context of expression plasmid pTSh (17, 23, 24), which contains the humanized BJ01 S gene using a QuikChange kit (Stratagene). To construct a series of the C-terminal Fc-S (amino acids 14–520) genes, we amplified the coding sequences between the N-terminal 14 and 520 residues of the S protein from the full-length S gene and the corresponding mutant S genes with primers: forward 5_CGCGGATCCATGGATGCAATGAAGA-3_, reverse for 5_CCGGAATTCGATCAGGTCGGTGC-3_».
If you want to play the little chemist, get yourself uno Stratagene: the original QuikChange Site-Directed mutagenesis kit is used to make point mutations, switch amino acids, and delete or insert single or multiple amino acids.
Let’s go back for a moment to SARS-Cov-2, the 2020 killer described by meticulous Professor Bricage in reference to the sequences that he Montagnier and the Kuzuma School of Biology have identified as HIV: «None of these 4 inserts may result from a random single-point mutation. This type of mutation usually affects only 1 amino acid and not a defined protein pattern (a series of specifically changed amino acids). A point mutation can also cause a shift in the reading frame, but this usually results in a non-functional protein».
Effective Stratagene! May be very expensive… But the Chinese do not know about costs for technology, especially if, as in the case of the 2005 study just mentioned, the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics of the University of Beijing was also supported by the «Sixth Framework Program “EPISARS” from the European Commission».
The same university had also conducted in 2004 the experiment denominated “Expression cloning of functional receptor used by SARS coronavirus”: «When human ACE2 cDNA was transduced into NIH3T3 cells, the ACE2 expressing NIH3T3 cells could be infected with HIV/SARS pseudovirus. These data clearly demonstrated that ACE2 was the functional receptor for SARS-CoV» reads n the study.
5 – HIV VACCINATION THANKS TO INFLUENZA
Let’s leave China for a moment and go to Switzerland where in 2006 the Research Department of the Kantonal Hospital in Saint Gallen started looking for “Towards a coronavirus-based HIV multigene vaccine”.
«Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection represents one of the major health threats in the developing world. The costly treatment of infected individuals with multiple highly efficient anti-HIV drugs is only affordable in industrialized countries. Thus, an efficient vaccination strategy is required to prevent the further spread of the infection. The molecular biology of coronaviruses and particular features of the human coronavirus 229E (HCoV 229E) indicate that HCoV 229E-based vaccine vectors can become a new class of highly efficient vaccines».
This study, certainly pragmatic as chilling, brings to mind an ironic phrase of the French professor Bricage: «Could we not protect ourselves from AIDS while only risking a simple cold? What couldbe more dull and benign than a cold?» the professor wondered in his research after also highlighting some possible side effects that we will analyze in the next article.
In the same year the National Health Research Institutes, from Miaoli in Taiwan worked in exactly the opposite direction: “Identification of synthetic vaccine candidates against SARS CoV infection” but inside there is always the SARS / HIV pseudovirus.
But the first real “Design of recombinant protein-based SARS-CoV entry inhibitors targeting the heptad-repeat regions of the spike protein S2 domain” was published in April 2005 by the Department of Molecular Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences which created and strengthened the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a center of excellence.
We could stop here to demonstrate the falsehood of that scientific community that has declared the possibility of inserting HIV sequences in SARS-Likes as far-fetched and too laborious.
But we don’t want to do wrong to the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute of the New York Blood Center which in 2005 developed the research for a vaccine based on the recombinant protein rOv-ASP-1 which proved to be a powerful adjuvant «was confirmed in mice vaccinated with a 37-mer peptide from the S protein of SARS-CoV and an HIV-1 gp120-CD4 chimeric polypeptide antigen».
“Cross-species transfer of viruses: implications for the use of viral vectors in biomedical research, gene therapy and as live-virus vaccines” is the eloquent title of the study published in October of that same year by the GMO National Institute of Public Health and the Environment in Bilthoven (Netherlhands). But of all it is the only “bioethical” and also prophetic because it aims to “assess the risk to the activity” that others now take for granted.
Much more disturbing, however, the molecular biogenetics experiment of four researchers from the School of Life Sciences of Xiamen University in the province of Fujian in China focused in 2006 on “Preparation of a Chimeric Armored RNA as a Versatile Calibrator for Multiple Virus Assays” where as test they have «Vwe tried to directly package a 1200-nucleotide–long foreign RNA sequence containing gene fragments of hepatitis C virus (HCV), HIV-1, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 1 (SARS-CoV1), and SARS-CoV2 into the original armored RNA production vector pAR-1 (8)».
6 – OTHER RESEARCHES BY WUHAN WITH THE AIDS PATHOGEN
In 2009, however, the Wuhan Institue of Virology again published the study “Immunogenicity difference between the SARS coronavirus and the bat SARS-like coronavirus spike (S) proteins” in wich «the immunogenicity of the SL-CoV S protein (S(SL)) was studied and compared with that of SARS-CoV (S(SARS)). DNA immunization in mice with S(SL) elicited a high titer of antibodies against HIV-pseudotyped S(SL). The sera had low cross-reactivity, but no neutralization activity, for the HIV-pseudotyped S(SARS)».
Another research similar even in the title “Immunogenicity of the spike glycoprotein of bat SARS-like coronavirus” was also published in February 2010 and was directed like all the others by Shi Zhengli, the head of the Center for Research on Infectious Diseases, not surprisingly nicknamed “Bat Woman” in China.
«To gain insight into the basis of this difference, we established a recombinant adenovirus system expressing the S protein from SL-CoV (rAd-Rp3-S) to investigate its immune characterization. Our results showed that immunized mice generated strong humoral immune responses against the SL-CoV S protein. Moreover, a strong cellular immune response demonstrated by elevated IFN-γ and IL-6 levels was also observed in these mice. However, the induced antibody from these mice had weaker cross-reaction with the SARS-CoV S protein, and did not neutralize HIV pseudotyped with SARS-CoV S protein» we read on papers.
The “Construction of reference material based on Lentivirus for the RT-PCR detection of Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus” is instead the September 2019 study conducted by Wuhan virologists with compatriots of the Ningbo International Travel Healthcare Center.
«In this study, the MERS-CoV RNA fragments, including upE, ORF1b and N, were packed into particles similar to the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)» reads the Abstract in reference to however, a different strain than that of CoVid-19’s horseshoe bats.
Beyond the outcome of the experiments and without going into the merits of the specific sequences, what matters is the acclaimed association between the AIDS virus and those of the CoronaVirus just as the Indian researchers, Bricage and Montagnier claim that occurred in the SARS-CoV- 2. The fact that since 2010 there is only one published research is not a reason for tranquility but rather …
Suffice it to recall, as demonstrated in the Pentagon bio-laboratory dossier of the WuhanGates 7 report, that the Lothar Salomon Test Facility in Dugway (Utah) kept its activity hidden from UNODA, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs in Geneva, as in the 2015 Biological Weapons Convention annual report, no report was made available “under the security and policy review of DoD 5230.09” by the US Department of Defense although tests are also conducted with the use of viruses in the military center and prions thanks to a $ 1.5 million loan.
Or it is sufficient to highlight that between the lines of the 2007 Wuhan study «a MAb (Monoclonal Antibody) against p24 of HIV was generated by the HIV group of the Wuhan Institute of Virology» there is a very suspicious revelation: “results not published”.
Those searches have therefore been kept well secret. In the following years, when the USAID (CIA) government agency began funding research in Wuhan, the HIV magic word practically disappeared from the few SARS studies. But we managed to track her down in the midst of even more disturbing experiments on vaccine-military “dual-use” superviruses for “gain of function”.
As we explained in the CoronaVirus Bio-Weapon 9 report, this term entered the “forbidden” lexicon of the BSL-4 biosafety labs only from 2014 and indicates an enhancement of a pathogen in a similar way, at a conceptual level, to the enrichment of the uranium for a nuclear warhead. With the tremendous difference that it is invisible like the current pandemic, as also recalled by the video of the US Navy on the bacteriological war dating back to 1952.
Precisely for this reason, it is also necessary to consider the possibility that the Chinese laboratory that has been targeted by the media can only be the scapegoat artfully predestined by a much more complex conspiracy. This obviously would mean that SARS-CoV-2 is truly a bio-weapon as more and more experts claim thanks to more and more clues.
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
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veteranstoday--2020-05-17--US threatens ICC with ‘consequences’ if it acts on war crimes complaint against Israel filed by ‘fak

US threatens ICC with ‘consequences’ if it acts on war crimes complaint against Israel filed by ‘fake’ Palestinian state

Russia Today : Arguing that Palestine doesn ’ t “ qualify as a sovereign state ” and that the International Criminal Court lacks jurisdiction over Israel , US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has threatened “ consequences ” for any “ illegitimate ” probes .
Following his trip to Israel this week , Pompeo issued a brief statement , denouncing the ongoing efforts by the ICC to investigate allegations of war crimes against Palestinians , including the use of live ammunition against protesters , the demolition and shelling of civilian homes and infrastructure , and forcible relocations as part of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ occupied territories .
“ The United States reiterates its longstanding objection to any illegitimate ICC investigations , ” wrote Pompeo , blasting the ICC as “ a political body , not a judicial institution , ” and arguing that is has no “ jurisdiction over Israel , which like the United States , is not a party to the Rome Statute that created the Court.
” We do not believe the Palestinians qualify as a sovereign state , and they therefore are not qualified to obtain full membership , or participate as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or conferences , including the ICC .
ALSO ON RT.COMTop IDF lawyer tells The Hague to back off , says Israel can probe own alleged war crimesWhile Palestine has yet to achieve fully recognized statehood , the quasi-governmental Palestinian Authority was accepted into the ICC in 2015 .
The US signed the Rome Statute in 2000 , but it was never formally ratified by the Senate .
Israel , too , was an early signer to the statute , but also never finalized its membership in the organization .
Washington repeatedly threatened the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the US itself also scrutiny in the investigation of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Afghan government forces , the Taliban , American troops and intelligence operatives .
ALSO ON RT.COMUS doesn ’ t even need to bully the International Criminal Court — it can ’ t do a thing about the war crimes in Afghanistan anyway

Russia Today : Arguing that Palestine doesn’t “qualify as a sovereign state” and that the International Criminal Court lacks jurisdiction over Israel, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has threatened “consequences” for any “illegitimate” probes.
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Following his trip to Israel this week, Pompeo issued a brief statement, denouncing the ongoing efforts by the ICC to investigate allegations of war crimes against Palestinians, including the use of live ammunition against protesters, the demolition and shelling of civilian homes and infrastructure, and forcible relocations as part of Israel’s settlement projects in the occupied territories.
“The United States reiterates its longstanding objection to any illegitimate ICC investigations,” wrote Pompeo, blasting the ICC as “a political body, not a judicial institution,” and arguing that is has no “jurisdiction over Israel, which like the United States, is not a party to the Rome Statute that created the Court.”
We do not believe the Palestinians qualify as a sovereign state, and they therefore are not qualified to obtain full membership, or participate as a state in international organizations, entities, or conferences, including the ICC.
ALSO ON RT.COM Top IDF lawyer tells The Hague to back off, says Israel can probe own alleged war crimes
While Palestine has yet to achieve fully recognized statehood, the quasi-governmental Palestinian Authority was accepted into the ICC in 2015. The US signed the Rome Statute in 2000, but it was never formally ratified by the Senate. Israel, too, was an early signer to the statute, but also never finalized its membership in the organization.
If the ICC continues down its current course, we will exact consequences.
Washington repeatedly threatened the ICC with sanctions in the past as the US itself also scrutiny in the investigation of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Afghan government forces, the Taliban, American troops and intelligence operatives.
ALSO ON RT.COMUS doesn’t even need to bully the International Criminal Court — it can’t do a thing about the war crimes in Afghanistan anyway


veteranstoday--2020-05-19--COVID, the Math (Don’t read this, we aren’t kidding…pass it up)

Current figures show closed case fatalities down to 21 percent , based on wider testing , now over 2 % ( Trump lying ) , which gives us a higher base of infected that are much less ill .
Originally , beginning of March , it was 36 % .
These are the numbers kept from you .
Without a new , effective treatment , and there are none , hydroxyshit is a useless poison at what was believed to be needed levels , rates will end up between 16 and 12 percent .
Let ’ s take the high @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We have 1,550,294 infected .
Of those , 448,384 are ‘ resolved ’ as cured or dead .
This leaves us 1,106,930 actively engaged with COVID .
21 % of those will die .
This gives us 232,455 currently dying with COVID .
This gives us , then , 324,436 of those currently infected , as dead or dying , but “ dead.
” The CDC lists ( their figure is very low ) 13,284 new cases yesterday .
Of those , 2,790 will die .
Remember , Trump said 6000 a day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the number will be a third of that but who needs statistics and science .
Thus , each day we add between 2000 and 3000 dead to the list which is not at 324,436 .
If you are an optimist and you believe new cases are less serious you can multiply these figures by .75 .
If you believe a new treatment will be found , take that to .68 but there is , thus far , no support for this .
If I were to show you how the curves intersect , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is one more .
The figure for influenza , intended to make you feel better by thinking 80,000 people could die and not impact your life in any way , meaning nobody you know will die , was grossly inflated by orders of Trump .
Real figures are times .1 or less , more like .078 or less than 10,000 .
All CDC figures are without any reference source whatsoever .

Senior Editor
Current figures show closed case fatalities down to 21 percent, based on wider testing, now over 2% (Trump lying), which gives us a higher base of infected that are much less ill. Originally, beginning of March, it was 36%.
These are the numbers kept from you. Without a new, effective treatment, and there are none, hydroxyshit is a useless poison at what was believed to be needed levels, rates will end up between 16 and 12 percent.
Let’s take the high number. We have 95,000 dead.
We have 1,550,294 infected. Of those, 448,384 are ‘resolved’ as cured or dead.
This leaves us 1,106,930 actively engaged with COVID. 21% of those will die.
This gives us 232,455 currently dying with COVID.
This gives us, then, 324,436 of those currently infected, as dead or dying, but “dead.”
The CDC lists (their figure is very low) 13,284 new cases yesterday. Of those, 2,790 will die. Remember, Trump said 6000 a day would die in June. We think the number will be a third of that but who needs statistics and science.
Thus, each day we add between 2000 and 3000 dead to the list which is not at 324,436.
If you are an optimist and you believe new cases are less serious you can multiply these figures by .75.
If you believe a new treatment will be found, take that to .68 but there is, thus far, no support for this.
If I were to show you how the curves intersect, the 500k number is realistic.
Here is one more. The figure for influenza, intended to make you feel better by thinking 80,000 people could die and not impact your life in any way, meaning nobody you know will die, was grossly inflated by orders of Trump.
Real figures are times .1 or less, more like .078 or less than 10,000. All CDC figures are without any reference source whatsoever.
Don’t send this around.


veteranstoday--2020-05-18--Venezuela failed raid: US has a history of using mercenaries to undermine other regimes

Members of the Venezuelan opposition have been accused of conspiring with an American private military company , Silvercorp USA , to invade Venezuela and overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro .
In early May , the Venezuelan military intercepted a group of dissidents and American mercenaries .
The Venezuelan military said it killed eight of the insurgents and captured many others .
It also arrested two men it claims are former US Special Forces soldiers .
No evidence has surfaced to link the US government to the recent attempted invasion – and it has denied responsibility for the incident .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , has also denied involvement in the thwarted coup attempt .
Some of his advisers who were allegedly involved in planning the mission have resigned .
The Washington Post subsequently published an agreement between members of the Venezuelan opposition and Silvercorp , including signatures of two of Guaidó ’ s advisers , though not Guaidó , and the chief executive of Silvercorp .
The US $ 1.5 million ( £1.2 million ) contract outlined Silvercorp ’ s role in the invasion .
One of the detained Silvercorp mercenaries made a televised confession ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hired to capture Maduro and bring him to the US .
The incident has worsened relations between the US and Venezuela , which were already tense .
In March 2020 , the US charged Maduro with “ narco-terrorism ” and offered a US $ 15m reward for his capture .
The Trump administration has also previously considered military options to remove Maduro from power .
These events in Venezuela echo past US secret sponsorship of private armies to overthrow governments elsewhere .
The US has an extended history of sponsoring insurgents and mercenaries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1954 the US supported ex-Guatemalan military officer Carlos Castillo Armas in his efforts to overthrow Guatemalan leader Jacobo Arbenz .
Armas was the leader of a guerilla army that was trained by the CIA of Guatemalan to invade from Honduras and Nicaragua .
The CIA also hired a US company called Civil Air Transport to bomb Guatemala .
Arbenz resigned under pressure and went into exile .
Armas became president of a new authoritarian regime .
Similarly , President Dwight Eisenhower authorised the CIA to subvert the Sukarno government in Indonesia in 1957-58 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to carry out guerrilla attacks and also hired mercenary airline companies for logistics and combat missions .
The American role was exposed in 1958 when the Indonesian authorities downed the aeroplane of Allen Pope , a contractor for Civil Air Transport , the company that had been involved in Guatemala .
The US government tried to deny involvement , stating Pope was a “ soldier of fortune ” motivated by profit .
But the US later quietly withdrew its plans for the forced removal of Sukarno .
In 1961 the CIA tried to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cuba by organising an invasion of Cuban dissidents and mercenary forces in a notorious incident known as the Bay of Pigs .
According to US government documents , the CIA sponsored Cuban exiles that opposed Castro to “ avoid any appearance of US intervention ” .
The CIA trained a Cuban insurgent force called Brigade 2506 and also hired mercenary airline companies for airborne attacks .
Castro ’ s military defeated the US-sponsored invasion .
During the 1980s , the US also secretly hired mercenary forces to support the Contra insurgency against the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CIA mobilised mercenaries to sabotage oil refineries and Nicaraguan ports .
Later , the International Court of Justice ruled against the US for employing mercenaries to place underwater mines in Nicaraguan ports .
The CIA also asked a company called Keenie Meenie Services to conduct “ sabotage operations for the resistance ” against the Sandanista government .
In October 1986 , Eugene Hasenfus , a pilot hired by the CIA , was captured when the Nicaraguan military shot down his plane .
His confessions exposed secret US arms shipments to the Contras and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which revealed secret weapons sales to Iran in order to fund the Contras in Nicaragua in violation of US law .
More recently the US has renewed its commitment to what it calls “ irregular warfare ” .
This includes supporting insurgents , militias and mercenaries to weaken unwanted governments , as well as in its counter-terrorism efforts .
The US has covertly supported private armed forces in countries across the Middle East in the “ war on terror ” .
For example , in 2001 the CIA and Special Forces paid warlord @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power in Afghanistan .
Before the US military invasion of Iraq in 2003 , the US also supported militias fighting against the regime of Saddam Hussein .
The US secretly trained insurgents in attempts to oust President Bashar al-Assad in Syria .
Of course , an extensive record of supporting insurgents and mercenary forces is not evidence that the US was involved in the recent events in Venezuela .
But it does demonstrate that there are precedents for such activities .

Members of the Venezuelan opposition have been accused of conspiring with an American private military company, Silvercorp USA, to invade Venezuela and overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro.
In early May, the Venezuelan military intercepted a group of dissidents and American mercenaries. The Venezuelan military said it killed eight of the insurgents and captured many others. It also arrested two men it claims are former US Special Forces soldiers. No evidence has surfaced to link the US government to the recent attempted invasion – and it has denied responsibility for the incident.
Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan opposition leader, has also denied involvement in the thwarted coup attempt. Some of his advisers who were allegedly involved in planning the mission have resigned.
The Washington Post subsequently published an agreement between members of the Venezuelan opposition and Silvercorp, including signatures of two of Guaidó’s advisers, though not Guaidó, and the chief executive of Silvercorp. The US$1.5 million (£1.2 million) contract outlined Silvercorp’s role in the invasion. One of the detained Silvercorp mercenaries made a televised confession (possibly under duress) that he was hired to capture Maduro and bring him to the US.
The incident has worsened relations between the US and Venezuela, which were already tense. In March 2020, the US charged Maduro with “narco-terrorism” and offered a US$15m reward for his capture. The Trump administration has also previously considered military options to remove Maduro from power.
These events in Venezuela echo past US secret sponsorship of private armies to overthrow governments elsewhere. The US has an extended history of sponsoring insurgents and mercenaries to undermine unwanted foreign regimes.
From Guatemala to Indonesia
In 1954 the US supported ex-Guatemalan military officer Carlos Castillo Armas in his efforts to overthrow Guatemalan leader Jacobo Arbenz. Armas was the leader of a guerilla army that was trained by the CIA of Guatemalan to invade from Honduras and Nicaragua. The CIA also hired a US company called Civil Air Transport to bomb Guatemala. Arbenz resigned under pressure and went into exile. Armas became president of a new authoritarian regime.
Similarly, President Dwight Eisenhower authorised the CIA to subvert the Sukarno government in Indonesia in 1957-58. The CIA supported local insurgent factions to carry out guerrilla attacks and also hired mercenary airline companies for logistics and combat missions.
The American role was exposed in 1958 when the Indonesian authorities downed the aeroplane of Allen Pope, a contractor for Civil Air Transport, the company that had been involved in Guatemala. The US government tried to deny involvement, stating Pope was a “soldier of fortune” motivated by profit. But the US later quietly withdrew its plans for the forced removal of Sukarno.
Bay of Pigs and Nicaragua
In 1961 the CIA tried to overthrow Fidel Castro’s government in Cuba by organising an invasion of Cuban dissidents and mercenary forces in a notorious incident known as the Bay of Pigs. According to US government documents, the CIA sponsored Cuban exiles that opposed Castro to “avoid any appearance of US intervention”. The CIA trained a Cuban insurgent force called Brigade 2506 and also hired mercenary airline companies for airborne attacks. Castro’s military defeated the US-sponsored invasion.
During the 1980s, the US also secretly hired mercenary forces to support the Contra insurgency against the socialist Sandanista government of Nicaragua. The CIA mobilised mercenaries to sabotage oil refineries and Nicaraguan ports. Later, the International Court of Justice ruled against the US for employing mercenaries to place underwater mines in Nicaraguan ports. The CIA also asked a company called Keenie Meenie Services to conduct “sabotage operations for the resistance” against the Sandanista government.
In October 1986, Eugene Hasenfus, a pilot hired by the CIA, was captured when the Nicaraguan military shot down his plane. His confessions exposed secret US arms shipments to the Contras and also helped unravel the Iran-Contra scandal, which revealed secret weapons sales to Iran in order to fund the Contras in Nicaragua in violation of US law.
Irregular war on terror
More recently the US has renewed its commitment to what it calls “irregular warfare”. This includes supporting insurgents, militias and mercenaries to weaken unwanted governments, as well as in its counter-terrorism efforts.
The US has covertly supported private armed forces in countries across the Middle East in the “war on terror”. For example, in 2001 the CIA and Special Forces paid warlord factions to help remove the Taliban from power in Afghanistan. Before the US military invasion of Iraq in 2003, the US also supported militias fighting against the regime of Saddam Hussein. The US secretly trained insurgents in attempts to oust President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
Of course, an extensive record of supporting insurgents and mercenary forces is not evidence that the US was involved in the recent events in Venezuela. But it does demonstrate that there are precedents for such activities.


veteranstoday--2020-05-18--More Trump Idiocy: No Benefit from Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19

In March Trump tweeted : “ HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN , taken together , have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine .
The FDA has moved mountains – Thank You !
” He has continued to support this untested drug since , turning what should have been a minor footnote in the COVID-19 pandemic into a political controversy .
As evidence of putting politics above science , Dr. Rick Bright claims he was removed from his post simply for questioning the promotion of hydroxychloroquine : Dr. Rick Bright was abruptly dismissed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Department of Health and Human Services ’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority , or BARDA , and removed as the deputy assistant secretary for preparedness and response .
He was given a narrower job at the National Institutes of Health .
In a scorching statement , Dr .
Bright assailed the leadership at the health department , saying he was pressured to direct money toward hydroxychloroquine , one of several “ potentially dangerous drugs promoted by those with political connections ” and repeatedly described by the president as a potential “ game @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus .
The Plandemic conspiracy theorists promoted hydroxychloroquine as a cure for the pandemic , suggesting the government ( yes , the same one headed by Trump ) was withholding it to make money off an eventual vaccine .
The right wing media has championed the drug , seeing it , apparently , as a way of supporting Trump , and characterizing any criticism of the drug as a means of undermining the president .
Most enthusiastic among them is probably Laura Ingraham .
In a sly anti-science statement she said : “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ profession .
But they want a double-blind controlled study on whether the sky is blue.
” The implication here is that the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19 is obvious , based on anecdotal evidence and selected preliminary reports , and so why are we wasting our time with further more rigorous study ?
Meanwhile , the majority of the medical profession was appropriately cautious .
David Gorski wrote about it on March 23 concluding : The bottom line is that more data are desperately needed .
Sadly , the French study doesn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needed and has muddied the waters more than clarified whether using hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 is an effective intervention .
I first mentioned in on April 8th , concluding : The probability that hydroxychloroquine will turn out to be an effective treatment for COVID-19 is not zero as there is some encouraging pre-clinical data .
But the probability , based just on pre-clinical data , is extremely low .
Most treatments that look encouraging don ’ t pan out , for a variety of reasons .
It is perhaps more likely that this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from side effects and other unintended consequences ( like depriving people who actually need the drug ) than it will help with the pandemic .
At this point all we can say is that rigorous clinical trials are needed .
But this requires patience , and that is in short supply during a crisis .
Fauci and other experts basically took the position that this drug should be studied , and should not be taken outside a clinical trial , or at least a controlled medical setting .
So who was right , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I think you know the answer .
In the last week four large studies of hydroxychloriquine have been published in prestigious journals , two in the BMJ , one in JAMA , and one in the New England Journal of Medicine .
All four studies were negative – they showed no benefit from hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 .
But let ’ s give a quick summary of each study .
One of the studies , a study from China published in the BMJ , was a controlled trial ( the other three are observational @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moderate patients , 75 randomized to getting hydroxychloroquine and 75 usual care .
The main outcome was negative seroconversion ( blood test for the coronavirus becoming negative after being positive ) .
They also followed clinical outcome and adverse events .
They found : Administration of hydroxychloroquine did not result in a significantly higher probability of negative conversion than standard of care alone in patients admitted to hospital with mainly persistent mild to moderate covid-19 .
Adverse events were higher in hydroxychloroquine recipients than in non-recipients .
The second BMJ article was from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 requiring oxygen therapy .
Here are the numbers : In the weighted analyses , the survival rate without transfer to the intensive care unit at day 21 was 76 % in the treatment group and 75 % in the control group ( weighted hazard ratio 0.9 , 95 % confidence interval 0.4 to 2.1 ) .
Overall survival at day 21 was 89 % in the treatment group and 91 % in the control group ( 1.2 , 0.4 to 3.3 ) .
Survival without acute respiratory distress syndrome at day 21 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ compared with 74 % in the control group ( 1.3 , 0.7 to 2.6 ) .
At day 21 , 82 % of patients in the treatment group had been weaned from oxygen compared with 76 % in the control group ( weighted risk ratio 1.1 , 95 % confidence interval 0.9 to 1.3 ) .
Eight patients in the treatment group ( 10 % ) experienced electrocardiographic modifications that required discontinuation of treatment .
As you can see , there is no effect at all here .
There is no even a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so you can not argue that the study was just underpowered .
Of note , 10 % of the treated patients had to stop the drug because of EKG changes .
Hydroxychloroquine is known to cause dangerous rhythm changes in the heart .
If these patients were not being carefully monitored , they may have suffered cardiac death as a result of treatment .
The JAMA and NEJM studies were both larger studies , involving 1438 and 1446 patients respectively .
The JAMA study was a multicenter study in New York State , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a major hospital in New York City .
And their conclusions , JAMA first : Among patients hospitalized in metropolitan New York with COVID-19 , treatment with hydroxychloroquine , azithromycin , or both , compared with neither treatment , was not significantly associated with differences in in-hospital mortality .
In this observational study involving patients with Covid-19 who had been admitted to the hospital , hydroxychloroquine administration was not associated with either a greatly lowered or an increased risk of the composite end point of intubation or death .
And again , there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
If anything , most of the data was trending negative for hydroxychloroquine , although not statistical significant .
As each of the four article pointed out , this data is not definitive because they are not large randomized double-blind controlled trials ( you know , the kind that Ingraham says is not necessary ) .
But what does that mean ?
Do we have to do such trials ?
I don ’ t think so , even though they are happening .
The current level of evidence , multiple large trials that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with different researchers , all finding no benefit , and if anything a negative or neutral trend , is pretty damning .
This is the level of evidence that would be used to determine if the investment and risk to patients of doing controlled trials is worth it , and the answer would likely be no .
The question we have to ask is this – if there were any benefit from hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 would we be seeing some evidence of that benefit in this data .
The answer is – almost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should be apparent in the existing data .
Of course we can not rule out a tiny effect – the smaller the effect , the larger the trials needed to see it , and we can never rule out a zero effect .
But we can answer the question for an effect big enough to be clinically significant , and that answer is very likely to be – no effect from hydroxychloroquine .
The probability that more rigorous or larger studies will find a significant effect missed by these trials is vanishingly small @ @ @ @ @ @ @ publishing and updating systematic reviews and metaanalysis of all hydroxychloroquine COVID-19 studies in real time to provide updated information .
The most recent one using data published up to May 14th ( so it should include these four studies ) concluded : This systematic review and meta-analysis not only showed no clinical benefits regarding HCQ treatment with/without azithromycin for COVID-19 patients , but according to multiple sensitivity analysis , the higher mortality rates were observed for both HCQ and HCQ+AZM regimen groups , especially in the latter .
Some risk , no benefit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most of the data is observational .
But again , any significant benefit should be showing itself in this data .
Experts were cautious about hydroxychloroquine for a reason .

In March Trump tweeted: “HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains – Thank You!” He has continued to support this untested drug since, turning what should have been a minor footnote in the COVID-19 pandemic into a political controversy.
As evidence of putting politics above science, Dr. Rick Bright claims he was removed from his post simply for questioning the promotion of hydroxychloroquine:
Dr. Rick Bright was abruptly dismissed this week as the director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, and removed as the deputy assistant secretary for preparedness and response. He was given a narrower job at the National Institutes of Health.
In a scorching statement, Dr. Bright assailed the leadership at the health department, saying he was pressured to direct money toward hydroxychloroquine, one of several “potentially dangerous drugs promoted by those with political connections” and repeatedly described by the president as a potential “game changer” in the fight against the virus.
The Plandemic conspiracy theorists promoted hydroxychloroquine as a cure for the pandemic, suggesting the government (yes, the same one headed by Trump) was withholding it to make money off an eventual vaccine.
The right wing media has championed the drug, seeing it, apparently, as a way of supporting Trump, and characterizing any criticism of the drug as a means of undermining the president. Most enthusiastic among them is probably Laura Ingraham. In a sly anti-science statement she said: “I love everybody, love the medical profession. But they want a double-blind controlled study on whether the sky is blue.”
The implication here is that the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19 is obvious, based on anecdotal evidence and selected preliminary reports, and so why are we wasting our time with further more rigorous study?
Meanwhile, the majority of the medical profession was appropriately cautious. David Gorski wrote about it on March 23 concluding:
The bottom line is that more data are desperately needed. Sadly, the French study doesn’t provide us with the data needed and has muddied the waters more than clarified whether using hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 is an effective intervention.
I first mentioned in on April 8th, concluding:
The probability that hydroxychloroquine will turn out to be an effective treatment for COVID-19 is not zero as there is some encouraging pre-clinical data. But the probability, based just on pre-clinical data, is extremely low. Most treatments that look encouraging don’t pan out, for a variety of reasons. It is perhaps more likely that this drug will cause more deaths and harm from side effects and other unintended consequences (like depriving people who actually need the drug) than it will help with the pandemic. At this point all we can say is that rigorous clinical trials are needed. But this requires patience, and that is in short supply during a crisis.
Fauci and other experts basically took the position that this drug should be studied, and should not be taken outside a clinical trial, or at least a controlled medical setting. So who was right, the experts or the political pundits? I think you know the answer.
In the last week four large studies of hydroxychloriquine have been published in prestigious journals, two in the BMJ, one in JAMA, and one in the New England Journal of Medicine. All four studies were negative – they showed no benefit from hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19. But let’s give a quick summary of each study.
One of the studies, a study from China published in the BMJ, was a controlled trial (the other three are observational). This included 150 mild to moderate patients, 75 randomized to getting hydroxychloroquine and 75 usual care. The main outcome was negative seroconversion (blood test for the coronavirus becoming negative after being positive). They also followed clinical outcome and adverse events. They found:
Administration of hydroxychloroquine did not result in a significantly higher probability of negative conversion than standard of care alone in patients admitted to hospital with mainly persistent mild to moderate covid-19. Adverse events were higher in hydroxychloroquine recipients than in non-recipients.
The second BMJ article was from France, and involved 181 patients with COVID-19 requiring oxygen therapy. Here are the numbers:
In the weighted analyses, the survival rate without transfer to the intensive care unit at day 21 was 76% in the treatment group and 75% in the control group (weighted hazard ratio 0.9, 95% confidence interval 0.4 to 2.1). Overall survival at day 21 was 89% in the treatment group and 91% in the control group (1.2, 0.4 to 3.3). Survival without acute respiratory distress syndrome at day 21 was 69% in the treatment group compared with 74% in the control group (1.3, 0.7 to 2.6). At day 21, 82% of patients in the treatment group had been weaned from oxygen compared with 76% in the control group (weighted risk ratio 1.1, 95% confidence interval 0.9 to 1.3). Eight patients in the treatment group (10%) experienced electrocardiographic modifications that required discontinuation of treatment.
As you can see, there is no effect at all here. There is no even a trend toward improvement with the drug, so you cannot argue that the study was just underpowered. Of note, 10% of the treated patients had to stop the drug because of EKG changes. Hydroxychloroquine is known to cause dangerous rhythm changes in the heart. If these patients were not being carefully monitored, they may have suffered cardiac death as a result of treatment.
The JAMA and NEJM studies were both larger studies, involving 1438 and 1446 patients respectively. The JAMA study was a multicenter study in New York State, and the NEJM study was performed in a major hospital in New York City. And their conclusions, JAMA first:
Among patients hospitalized in metropolitan New York with COVID-19, treatment with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, or both, compared with neither treatment, was not significantly associated with differences in in-hospital mortality.
And NEJM
In this observational study involving patients with Covid-19 who had been admitted to the hospital, hydroxychloroquine administration was not associated with either a greatly lowered or an increased risk of the composite end point of intubation or death.
And again, there wasn’t even a beneficial trend. If anything, most of the data was trending negative for hydroxychloroquine, although not statistical significant. As each of the four article pointed out, this data is not definitive because they are not large randomized double-blind controlled trials (you know, the kind that Ingraham says is not necessary). But what does that mean? Do we have to do such trials? I don’t think so, even though they are happening.
The current level of evidence, multiple large trials that are observational but rigorous in different settings with different researchers, all finding no benefit, and if anything a negative or neutral trend, is pretty damning. This is the level of evidence that would be used to determine if the investment and risk to patients of doing controlled trials is worth it, and the answer would likely be no.
The question we have to ask is this – if there were any benefit from hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 would we be seeing some evidence of that benefit in this data. The answer is – almost certainly yes. Any clinically significant effect should be apparent in the existing data. Of course we cannot rule out a tiny effect – the smaller the effect, the larger the trials needed to see it, and we can never rule out a zero effect. But we can answer the question for an effect big enough to be clinically significant, and that answer is very likely to be – no effect from hydroxychloroquine. The probability that more rigorous or larger studies will find a significant effect missed by these trials is vanishingly small.
In addition, scientists have been publishing and updating systematic reviews and metaanalysis of all hydroxychloroquine COVID-19 studies in real time to provide updated information. The most recent one using data published up to May 14th (so it should include these four studies) concluded:
This systematic review and meta-analysis not only showed no clinical benefits regarding HCQ treatment with/without azithromycin for COVID-19 patients, but according to multiple sensitivity analysis, the higher mortality rates were observed for both HCQ and HCQ+AZM regimen groups, especially in the latter.
Some risk, no benefit. They include the usual caveats that most of the data is observational. But again, any significant benefit should be showing itself in this data.
Experts were cautious about hydroxychloroquine for a reason.


veteranstoday--2020-05-18--Muslim Scholars Claim Islamic Faithful Are Immune to COVID-19

Some imams in Somalia are saying Muslims are immune to COVID-19 , going against senior Muslim scholars who have insisted the coronavirus pandemic is a severe threat to all people around the globe .
A medical worker in the country told Al Arabiya English the rumor is putting Somalis at risk and working against efforts to try to educate the population of 15 million about the threat of the outbreak .
“ Some mosques spread this rumor that this disease is only for non-believers , ” said the medical worker , who wished to remain anonymous in fear of societal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Arabiya English .
“ People are very religious in Somalia and we believe what our imams tell us more than any doctor or any government , ” the medical source added .
The statements by certain imams in Somalia go against senior Muslim scholars , who have urged worshippers to heed medical and government guidelines , to suspend mosque services and activities , and to pray at home during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan .
Dr. Mohammed Al-Issa , Secretary General of the Muslim World League ( MWL ) , called on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” during the crisis and said the temporary closure of mosques in some countries across the Islamic world is considered a “ religious duty ” in light of the pandemic .
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ’ s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Sheikh asked Muslims to pray at home during Ramadan , and the Saudi Arabian government suspended mosque services .
The misinformation from the imams in Somalia is fueling the potential COVID-19 catastrophe the country is facing .
Authorities have already confirmed almost 900 cases , despite only having four PCR @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The falsehood that Muslims are protected from the virus is making it “ really difficult ” for the medical community to fight the pandemic , said the source , who said most of the population do not practice social distancing or wear masks , as preventative measures .
The situation in Somalia is just one example of how leaders of many different religions have interfered with COVID-19 public health guidelines .
“ Nothing could be further from the truth ” Some Christian leaders in the United States have continued group worship despite bans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ open for weeks after the outbreak despite public health officials ’ calls for closure .
Last week hundreds of members of an Orthodox Jewish community in hard-hit New York City held a funeral gathering in violation of the city ’ s social distancing measures , prompting condemnation from Mayor Bill de Blasio .
Certain Orthodox Jewish communities place low trust in secular authorities and orders , and have at times interpreted Jewish law as against medical advice such as vaccines .
New Jersey Jewish leader Rabbi Douglas Sagal said nothing in Jewish law @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a way to protect others or abide by legitimate medical advice .
“ These communities are simply influenced by unhealthy community behaviors – perhaps instigated by ignorant individuals and then imitated by others , who mistakenly believe that this is somehow adhering to a more strict religious lifestyle , ” said Rabbi Sagal in an interview with Al Arabiya English .
“ Nothing could be further from the truth , ” he said .
The statements by the imams in Somalia are “ a wake up call ” that the world needs “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are not at odds , ” according to former US Science Envoy Dr. Peter Hotez .
“ Unifying scientific and religious thinking represents one of humankind ’ s great challenges , ” Dr. Hotez , co-director of Texas Children ’ s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development , said in an interview with Al Arabiya English .
Although the areas of modern medicine and traditional faith have often been viewed as distinct , the belief that there is a contradiction between faith and science is a deception , according to Pope Francis ’ top @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a complement .
Science without faith remains without horizon and faith without science remains without support , ” said Gaid in an interview with Al Arabiya English .
“ This is a great lesson of COVID-19 , ” he added .

Some imams in Somalia are saying Muslims are immune to COVID-19, going against senior Muslim scholars who have insisted the coronavirus pandemic is a severe threat to all people around the globe.
A medical worker in the country told Al Arabiya English the rumor is putting Somalis at risk and working against efforts to try to educate the population of 15 million about the threat of the outbreak.
“Some mosques spread this rumor that this disease is only for non-believers,” said the medical worker, who wished to remain anonymous in fear of societal backlash, in an interview with Al Arabiya English.
“People are very religious in Somalia and we believe what our imams tell us more than any doctor or any government,” the medical source added.
The statements by certain imams in Somalia go against senior Muslim scholars, who have urged worshippers to heed medical and government guidelines, to suspend mosque services and activities, and to pray at home during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan.
Dr. Mohammed Al-Issa, Secretary General of the Muslim World League (MWL), called on communities to follow “all health guidelines” during the crisis and said the temporary closure of mosques in some countries across the Islamic world is considered a “religious duty” in light of the pandemic.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Sheikh asked Muslims to pray at home during Ramadan, and the Saudi Arabian government suspended mosque services.
The misinformation from the imams in Somalia is fueling the potential COVID-19 catastrophe the country is facing. Authorities have already confirmed almost 900 cases, despite only having four PCR testing machines in the entire country.
The falsehood that Muslims are protected from the virus is making it “really difficult” for the medical community to fight the pandemic, said the source, who said most of the population do not practice social distancing or wear masks, as preventative measures.