veteranstoday--2020-03-02--Shrimpton: No Need To Panic!

Shrimpton: No Need To Panic!

COVID-19 is a threat alright , but there ’ s no need to panic .
The rate of growth in new cases in China is already slowing down and there have been very few deaths outside China , thankfully .
The deaths in China are sad , but the Chinese have brought this upon themselves .
I respectfully agree with the Administration ’ s approach , save that they need to go public on the origins of COVID-19 .
There is no point in the West living a lie .
I stand by my analysis that the virus is airborne @ @ @ @ @ @ @ growth of new cases on board the air-conditioned MV Diamond Princess ?
I suspect that the Cabinet Office and Foreign Office knew it was airborne when the passengers were advised to stay in their cabins .
Put another way protecting the Chinese government is a higher priority for Whitehall than saving lives .
Right now there are some very confused public health officials in Vacaville , CA , who are trying to work out how COVID-19 reached the city .
Since Travis Air Force Base is only about 10 miles away it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know that you ’ re dealing with a genetically modified bio-weapon capable of airborne transmission .
I ’ ll be sending a copy of this column to the good folk in Solano County as a courtesy .
Washington will never tell them the truth .
I still maintain that the quarantine period should be 28 days .
Travel bans on those coming from infected areas make complete sense .
That means closing the border with Mexico and a total ban on travel to and from China .
That will hurt the Chinese but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tough .
As with any intelligence analysis one ’ s opinion should be kept under review .
I now incline to the view that the lethality rate is down around 1 % .
That still makes COVID-19 about ten times as deadly as flu , but it ’ s not the killer the MSM are making it out to be .
My guess is that worldwide deaths will be kept under 50,000 , which sounds bad , but is only around 10-20 % of deaths from flu in a typical year .
Most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or the already sick .
The Chinese might manage to knock off the odd pope and a few thousand vulnerable people in the West , but it ’ s not going to be Armageddon .
It ’ s not even going to be like Nottingham on a Saturday night .
Because the MSM are either fooling themselves or their readers , or both , they haven ’ t thought this through .
If you ’ re a mad Chinese scientist and you ’ ve been told to create a bio-weapon you have a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ problem every nutty scientist who ’ s ever tried to make a killer bug faces – the more lethal your bug the more likely it is to kill the host .
The quicker it kills the host the less likely it is to transmit .
COVID-19 looks to me like it ’ s been designed to cause maximum economic disruption , rather than maximum casualties .
Just look at the chaos it ’ s caused in China , even though the death toll is running at only about 10 % of road deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about 5,000 people a week on their roads . )
The next question is the intended target .
Logic would suggest you guys , but Japan and South Korea are other possibilities .
Launching a WMD attack on a nuclear-armed power with a serious leader would be a lunatic operation .
If a pussy like Joe Biden were to become president I suppose it might make more sense , but there ’ s not much chance of that .
On the other hand a COVID attack in East Asia would risk a blowback @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Korean cult ( they sound worse than the Methodists ! )
is just one example of cross-border links in Asia .
There was a big internal bust-up in China a few years ago , manifesting itself outside the country in the PLA Navy ’ s shoot-down of MH370 .
It is just possible that the Chinese king-ping Jinping came to the same strategic conclusion and having won the internal battle called off the program .
The unintended release of the virus may have occurred as the program was being wound down , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In the UK , as indicated , the priority is on protecting China ’ s WMD programs and sparing the Chinese government embarrassment , at the cost of human life if necessary .
Officials are desperate to conceal the truth about the origins of COVID-19 .
Since airborne transmission is a sign of weaponization the public and doctors are not being told about it .
The calculation is that the additional deaths suppressing the truth will cause , as in the case of the MV Diamond Princess , will not be that many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to cause mass casualties however Whitehall would prefer that to embarrassing the Chinese government , especially if the casualties were mostly British , so long as they weren ’ t civil servants of course .
I should explain that the UK is not a functioning democracy .
Policy is decided by the Cabinet Office and dictated to ministers by officials .
It is not decided upon by the Cabinet .
The Prime Minister is a powerless figurehead , one reason he has shut himself off from the public during the flooding crisis .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Environment Agency to start dredging rivers , the best way to stop these disastrous floods .
Put another way he could order the Environment Agency to stop causing floods , but they would simply refer his order to the Cabinet Office , who would countermand it .
He ’ s only the Prime Minister after all .
The government ’ s strategy for imposing control seems to be restricted to hoping that the Cabinet Secretary will travel to northern Italy for a holiday and catch Coronavirus .
If so it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and women of goodwill in England may hope that Sir Mark will come down with some terrible disease , no offense intended .
Intelligence is about telling truth to power .
This website is about telling the truth to the public , on the theory that in a democracy the people should have power .
Since Germany ’ s role in developing Spanish Flu was revealed after the Iraq War , when Spanish Flu samples were recovered , governments have been running from the truth .
Had they been more willing to face @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Flu pandemic in 1919/20 was the greatest crime in history , murdering between 50 and 100 million people , they would have been readier for the latest variant .
I think it ’ s tolerably clear that COVID-19 is a descendant of Spanish Flu and was developed with covert German technical assistance .
The ChiComs are trying to lie their way out of trouble , but I ’ m not sure it ’ s going to work .
The MSM will kowtow to them but VeteransToday.com won ’ t and we ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about COVID-19 .
Wonderful news came on Saturday morning – Sir Philip Rutnam , the Permanent Secretary ( or , if you prefer , oberführer ) of the Home Office resigned .
His eagerly-awaited departure signalled a great victory over the anti-British state bureaucracy by the talented Home Secretary , Priti Patel .
The Cabinet Office tried to undermine her with a briefing campaign , but failed .
Sadly however Sir Philip ’ s acting replacement has been chosen by Der Kabinettratsführer , ‘ Ritter ’ Mark ‘ von ’ Sedwill , in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as useless .
With the rest of Cabinet being house-trained idiots , no offense intended , Priti Patel is probably now the front-runner to replace Boris Johnson when he goes , possibly in early 2021 .
( The PM has now proposed to his girlfriend , assuming it wasn ’ t the other way round on Saturday , and she is expecting in the autumn , which will allow the PM to resign with dignity to spend more time with his young family . )
Sir Philip is going to take the Home @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unfair dismissal .
The left-wing media are working themselves into a lather of excitement about Priti Patel having to resign if she loses , but this is nonsense .
Of course she ’ s going to lose – Britain no longer has an independent judiciary , sadly , and the Cabinet Office are bound to arrange for a tame judge , of which there is no shortage these days .
Unfair dismissal hearings used to be heard before an ‘ industrial jury ’ consisting of a legally trained chairman , an employers ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CBI and an employees ’ representative , usually nominated by the TUC .
They were actually quite fair and usually came to a sensible decision – I did many an Industrial Tribunal case in the old days , starting in 1982 as a pro bono rep for the Bar ’ s Free Representation Unit .
Under Cabinet Office pressure the system changed .
Unfair dismissal cases are now heard by an employment judge , nominally chosen by the Judicial Appointments Commission but in practice chosen by the Cabinet Office , sitting alone .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a fair hearing , any more than there is before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ( no offense intended ) , nobody ’ s going to be too worried when Priti Patel loses .
Sadly the Cabinet Office had a victory over Dominic Cummings last week when they torpedoed the new defence and security review .
The chairman will be Sir Alex Ellis , who has been handpicked by Der Kabinettratsführer .
No offense to Sir Alex intended , but this is a bit like appointing our community partner Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is to say there are some grounds for concern that he may not fully have grasped all of the core concepts .
The PM ’ s original idea was a review addressing Britain ’ s defense posture and security needs post Brexit .
What will emerge is a review addressing Germany ’ s and China ’ s defense and security needs post-Brexit , or rather how the UK might best address them .
I am not saying that Sir Alex will necessarily kow-tow to the Chinese , but I bet the lunches will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been reduced to having an ‘ input ’ , poor chap , Civil Service speak for being marginalised .
His opinions will be considered before being rejected .
As predicted , nobody is doing anything to rein in those homicidal maniacs , no offense intended , at the CPS .
As anyone who has dealt with serial killers up close knows ( I was forced to share a cell with one ) the kill cycle tends to shorten .
That is to say the gaps between murders tend to narrow .
Having @ @ @ @ @ @ @ managers are no doubt on the prowl for their next victim .
The case against Caroline , by the way , was formally dropped last week .
Fair trials don ’ t happen at Highbury Corner at the best of times , no discourtesy to the court intended , but with a dead defendant the chances of a fair trial were if anything reduced , not that participation by a live defendant would have made much difference to the outcome in this case .
By ‘ Titanic Treaty ’ I don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has effectively vetoed that by foisting the Huawei G5 contract on the government .
I mean the Anglo-American agreement of 2003 ( UKTS 2019 No 8 ) , signed by Secretary Pompeo in November .
The treaty is essentially aimed at blocking the recovery of Titanic ’ s radio equipment .
A well-run US firm , RMS Titanic Inc. , is proposing to do just that , prompting panic in Langley and Frankfurt , from where the CIA is controlled .
Readers of Spyhunter will know why .
In April 1912 the Imperial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Naval Intelligence , arranged for the sinking of the White Star liner RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic in order to murder key opponents of German control of the new Federal Reserve .
Planning for the German attack on France was well advanced , but our community partners needed more cash .
The plan , which was implemented after the sinking , was to have large US corporations purchase $ 100m Medium Term Notes , which would be traded offshore in High Yield Trading Programs , with Germany taking the lion ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two keys to understanding the tragedy : the lookouts spotted the iceberg in ample time for Titanic to have steered clear had First Officer Murdoch wanted to ( the warning time depicted in ‘ von ’ Cameron ’ s movie is a joke ) and the Titanic had two radio sets , not one .
The important transmissions , monitored by the US Navy , were those on the emergency waveband , using the second set .
These were between the Marconi officers on board Titanic , who were working for the Hun @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the iceberg .
As I keep saying , intelligence analysis is an ongoing thing .
In Spyhunter I thought that she was oil-fired cruiser , or possibly an auxiliary , based on the German oil tanker Deutschland , which was in the vicinity of the sinking .
However I was impressed by James Becker ’ s use of a diesel-powered submarine in the plot of The Titanic Secret .
I discounted a sub initially as German U-Boats of that era were essentially coastal vessels , designed for use in the North Sea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the west coast of Ireland in World War II the German submarine campaign would not have been nearly as effective as it was .
Moreover the first German diesel-powered U-Boat , the U-19 , was not commissioned until later in 1912 , although all German official statements about their military have to be viewed with reserve .
The earlier paraffin powered boats however could have made it to the sinking area , particularly with refuelling .
The calm seas would have assisted fuelling and the rv could have been achieved with radio @ @ @ @ @ @ @ German vessel was indeed a U-Boat , which would of course have dived and moved clear as soon as the Titanic struck the ‘ berg .
The Deutschland could easily have carried paraffin in her tanks .
Alternatively a paraffin powered boat such as SM U-16 might have been refitted with the 8-cylinder MAN two-stroke diesels used in U-19 .
Interestingly our community partners failed to surrender U-16 as agreed at the end of the war .
Were they hiding something ?
( She supposedly sank in an “ accident ” en route @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that could mean anything . )
It ’ s vital that the Titanic ’ s emergency Marconi sets ( transmitting and receiving ) are recovered .
They are probably still at their last settings , since neither Jack Phillips nor Harold Bride would have had any reason to suppose that the equipment would ever be seen again .
Titanic was sunk in deep water for a reason .
As the Senate confirmed to me on Friday the State Department have yet to send the treaty to the Hill .
That means that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worth about the same as President Wilson ’ s on the equally silly Treaty of Versailles .
Please contact your Senators and urge that this treaty is stopped in its tracks !
The shameful cover-up of the real reason for the loss of Titanic has gone on for long enough .
Ballot papers have gone out this week .
The Cabinet Office choice , Sir Keir ‘ von ’ Starmer , named for the German agent Keir Hardie , is the runaway favorite .
He would be a disaster as Prime Minister , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a figurehead than poor old Boris Johnson .
There are fewer runners and riders than in the Democratic Party primaries ( alright , primaries and caucuses ! )
, none of them is nearly 80 and none have had heart surgery .
In fact only three candidates made the cut , the others being Rebecca Long-Bailey , Jeremy Corbyn ’ s choice , and republican Lisa Nandy , who seems to want the Queen ’ s job as well as Boris Johnson ’ s .
Between them they have managed to make even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ insignificant feat , given that he ’ s a former Director of Public Prosecutions , no offense intended .
( In fairness he didn ’ t manage to knock over any reality TV presenters . )
There was some goods new from Which magazine this week .
A new report suggests that the CO2 output of modern vehicles has gone up , not down .
This will help green the planet and should increase crop yields , if only by a tiny amount .
The reason of course is not that modern engines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are larger and heavier .
The first generation Golf weighed less than a ton , even the heaviest version .
Curb weight of the eighth generation automobile is anything up to 1.5 tons .
Congratulations are due to the auto industry for helping to green the planet .
Vehicle emissions do not of course affect the climate .
The only way a vehicle could warm the planet would be to tow the Earth closer to the Sun , but you ’ re not going to be able to do that with a VeeDub @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Range Rover for that ! )
Yesterday marked the 78th anniversary of the sad loss of the famous heavy cruiser HMS Exeter in the Sunda Strait .
Part of Dutch Rear-Admiral Doorman ’ s squadron in the Battle of the Java Sea she had been damaged by a hit to her boiler room and was making for Soerabaya when she was caught by the Jap cruisers Nachi and Haguro .
She had fought in the Battle of the Java Sea alongside the USS Houston ( CA-30 , Captain Albert H. Rooks commanding ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1st , again in the most gallant circumstances .
Java Sea was the first large-scale surface engagement in which our two great navies fought alongside each other , the American battle squadron in the Grand Fleet in World War I sadly not having had an opportunity to get to grips with Harry Hun .
Exeter had distinguished herself at the Plate , where she put in good work against our community partner Kapitän zur See Langsdorff in Graf Spee , who was later forced to commit suicide by the Abwehr .
The Director @ @ @ @ @ @ @ absurd treaty restrictions when designing Exeter , although he managed to work in better protection than in the preceding York .
Her main battery , of 6 8 ” /50 cal .
BL Mark VIII guns , was inadequate , but sadly there was no room for more .
Exeter of course had the Mark II mounting , with a maximum elevation of 50 deg.
, training and elevating power having proved insufficient to take full advantage of the 70 deg .
of the Mark 1 , the world ’ s first heavy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for its time .
She may be gone , but this gallant ship and her equally gallant crew are not forgotten , any more than the Houston and her brave crew .

The deaths in China are sad, but the Chinese have brought this upon themselves. I respectfully agree with the Administration’s approach, save that they need to go public on the origins of COVID-19. There is no point in the West living a lie.
I stand by my analysis that the virus is airborne. How else to explain the rapid growth of new cases on board the air-conditioned MV Diamond Princess? I suspect that the Cabinet Office and Foreign Office knew it was airborne when the passengers were advised to stay in their cabins. Put another way of protecting the Chinese government is a higher priority for Whitehall than saving lives.
Right now there are some very confused public health officials in Vacaville, CA, who are trying to work out how COVID-19 reached the city. Since Travis Air Force Base is only about 10 miles away it’s that not difficult, once you know that you’re dealing with a genetically modified bio-weapon capable of airborne transmission. I’ll be sending a copy of this column to the good folk in Solano County as a courtesy. Washington will never tell them the truth.
I still maintain that the quarantine period should be 28 days. Travel bans on those coming from infected areas make complete sense. That means closing the border with Mexico and a total ban on travel to and from China. That will hurt the Chinese but it’s their disease, so tough.
As with any intelligence analysis, one’s opinion should be kept under review. I now incline to the view that the lethality rate is down around 1%. That still makes COVID-19 about ten times as deadly as flu, but it’s not the killer the MSM is making it out to be. My guess is that worldwide deaths will be kept under 50,000, which sounds bad, but is only around 10-20% of deaths from flu in a typical year.
Most of the deaths will be the elderly or the already sick. The Chinese might manage to knock off the odd pope and a few thousand vulnerable people in the West, but it’s not going to be Armageddon. It’s not even going to be like Nottingham on a Saturday night.
Because the MSM are either fooling themselves or their readers or both, they haven’t thought this through. If you’re a mad Chinese scientist and you’ve been told to create a bio-weapon you have a problem. It’s the same problem every nutty scientist who’s ever tried to make a killer bug faces – the more lethal your bug the more likely it is to kill the host. The quicker it kills the host the less likely it is to transmit.
COVID-19 looks to me like it’s been designed to cause maximum economic disruption, rather than maximum casualties. Just look at the chaos it’s caused in China, even though the death toll is running at only about 10% of road deaths. (The Chinese manage to kill about 5,000 people a week on their roads.)
The next question is the intended target. Logic would suggest you guys, but Japan and South Korea are other possibilities. Launching a WMD attack on a nuclear-armed power with a serious leader would be a lunatic operation. If a pussy like Joe Biden were to become president I suppose it might make more sense, but there’s not much chance of that.
On the other hand, a COVID attack in East Asia would risk a blowback onto China herself. That nutty South Korean cult (they sound worse than the Methodists!) is just one example of cross-border links in Asia. There was a big internal bust-up in China a few years ago, manifesting itself outside the country in the PLA Navy’s shoot-down of MH370.
It is just possible that the Chinese king-ping Jinping came to the same strategic conclusion and having won the internal battle called off the program. The unintended release of the virus may have occurred as the program was being wound down, which would help explain the lax biosecurity.
In the UK, as indicated, the priority is on protecting China’s WMD programs and sparing the Chinese government embarrassment, at the cost of human life if necessary. Officials are desperate to conceal the truth about the origins of COVID-19. Since the airborne transmission is a sign of weaponization the public and doctors are not being told about it. The calculation is that the additional deaths suppressing the truth will cause, as in the case of the MV Diamond Princess, will not be that many.
Even if suppressing the truth was to cause mass casualties however Whitehall would prefer that to embarrass the Chinese government, especially if the casualties were mostly British, so long as they weren’t civil servants of course. I should explain that the UK is not a functioning democracy. The policy is decided by the Cabinet Office and dictated to ministers by officials. It is not decided upon by the Cabinet.
The Prime Minister is a powerless figurehead, one reason he has shut himself off from the public during the flooding crisis. He knows that he cannot order the Environment Agency to start dredging rivers, the best way to stop these disastrous floods. Put another way he could order the Environment Agency to stop causing floods, but they would simply refer his order to the Cabinet Office, who would countermand it. He’s only the Prime Minister after all.
The government’s strategy for imposing control seems to be restricted to hoping that the Cabinet Secretary will travel to northern Italy for a holiday and catch Coronavirus. If so it’s not working, much as all men and women of goodwill in England may hope that Sir Mark will come down with some terrible disease, no offense intended.
Intelligence is about telling truth to power. This website is about telling the truth to the public, on the theory that in a democracy the people should have power. Since Germany’s role in developing Spanish Flu was revealed after the Iraq War, when Spanish Flu samples were recovered, governments have been running from the truth.
Had they been more willing to face up to the reality that the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1919/20 was the greatest crime in history, murdering between 50 and 100 million people, they would have been readier for the latest variant. I think it’s tolerably clear that COVID-19 is a descendant of Spanish Flu and was developed with covert German technical assistance.
The ChiComs are trying to lie their way out of trouble, but I’m not sure it’s going to work. The MSM will kowtow to them but VeteransToday.com won’t and we’re not the only website telling the truth about COVID-19.
Sir Philip Rutnam
Wonderful news came on Saturday morning – Sir Philip Rutnam, the Permanent Secretary (or, if you prefer, oberführer) of the Home Office resigned. His eagerly-awaited departure signaled a great victory over the anti-British state bureaucracy by the talented Home Secretary, Priti Patel. The Cabinet Office tried to undermine her with a briefing campaign but failed.
Sadly however Sir Philip’s acting replacement has been chosen by Der Kabinettratsführer, ‘Ritter’ Mark ‘von’ Sedwill, in other words, is likely to be just as useless. With the rest of Cabinet being house-trained idiots, no offense intended, Priti Patel is probably now the front-runner to replace Boris Johnson when he goes, possibly in early 2021. (The PM has now proposed to his girlfriend, assuming it wasn’t the other way round on Saturday, and she is expecting in the autumn, which will allow the PM to resign with dignity to spend more time with his young family.)
Sir Philip is going to take the Home Office to the Employment Tribunal for constructive unfair dismissal. The left-wing media are working themselves into a lather of excitement about Priti Patel having to resign if she loses, but this is nonsense. Of course, she’s going to lose – Britain no longer has an independent judiciary, sadly, and the Cabinet Office are bound to arrange for a tame judge, of which there is no shortage these days.
Unfair dismissal hearings used to be heard before an ‘industrial jury’ consisting of a legally trained chairman, an employers’ representative, usually nominated by the Europhile CBI and an employees’ representative, usually nominated by the TUC. They were actually quite fair and usually came to a sensible decision – I did many an Industrial Tribunal cases in the old days, starting in 1982 as a pro bono rep for the Bar’s Free Representation Unit.
Under Cabinet Office pressure the system changed. Unfair dismissal cases are now heard by an employment judge, nominally chosen by the Judicial Appointments Commission but in practice chosen by the Cabinet Office, sitting alone. Since there’s almost no possibility of a fair hearing, any more than there is before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (no offense intended), nobody’s going to be too worried when Priti Patel loses.
Sadly the Cabinet Office had a victory over Dominic Cummings last week when they torpedoed the new defense and security review. The chairman will be Sir Alex Ellis, who has been handpicked by Der Kabinettratsführer. No offense to Sir Alex intended, but this is a bit like appointing our community partner Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler as Equality and Human Rights Commissioner. That is to say, there are some grounds for concern that he may not fully have grasped all of the core concepts.
The PM’s original idea was a review addressing Britain’s defense posture and security needs post-Brexit. What will emerge is a review addressing Germany’s and China’s defense and security needs post-Brexit, or rather how the UK might best address them. I am not saying that Sir Alex will necessarily kow-tow to the Chinese, but I bet the lunches will be cooked on woks.
Dominic Cummings has been reduced to having an ‘input’, poor chap, Civil Service speaks for being marginalized. His opinions will be considered before being rejected.
The Caroline Flack Corporate Manslaughter
As predicted, nobody is doing anything to rein in those homicidal maniacs, no offense intended, at the CPS. As anyone who has dealt with serial killers up close knows (I was forced to share a cell with one) the kill cycle tends to shorten. That is to say, the gaps between murders tend to narrow.
Having tasted Caroline Flack’s blood CPS managers are no doubt on the prowl for their next victim. The case against Caroline, by the way, was formally dropped last week. Fair trials don’t happen at Highbury Corner at the best of times, no discourtesy to the court intended, but with a dead defendant, the chances of a fair trial were if anything reduced, not that participation by a live defendant would have made much difference to the outcome in this case.
The UK-USA Titanic Treaty
By the ‘Titanic Treaty’ I don’t mean the big treaty. Der Kabinettratsführer has effectively vetoed that by foisting the Huawei G5 contract on the government. I mean the Anglo-American agreement of 2003 (UKTS 2019 No 8), signed by Secretary Pompeo in November. The treaty is essentially aimed at blocking the recovery of Titanic’s radio equipment. A well-run US firm, RMS Titanic Inc., is proposing to do just that, prompting panic in Langley and Frankfurt, from where the CIA is controlled.
Readers of Spyhunter will know why. In April 1912 the Imperial German Secret Service, working with German Naval Intelligence, arranged for the sinking of the White Star liner RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic in order to murder key opponents of German control of the new Federal Reserve.
Planning for the German attack on France was well advanced, but our community partners needed more cash. The plan, which was implemented after the sinking, was to have large US corporations purchase $100m Medium Term Notes, which would be traded offshore in High Yield Trading Programs, with Germany taking the lion’s share of the proceeds.
There are two keys to understanding the tragedy: the lookouts spotted the iceberg in ample time for Titanic to have steered clear had First Officer Murdoch wanted to (the warning time depicted in ‘von’ Cameron’s movie is a joke) and the Titanic had two radio sets, not one. The important transmissions, monitored by the US Navy, were those on the emergency waveband, using the second set.
These were between the Marconi officers on board Titanic, who were working for the Hun, and the German naval vessel stationed by the iceberg. As I keep saying, intelligence analysis is an ongoing thing. In Spyhunter I thought that she was an oil-fired cruiser, or possibly an auxiliary, based on the German oil tanker Deutschland, which was in the vicinity of the sinking.
However, I was impressed by James Becker’s use of a diesel-powered submarine in the plot of The Titanic Secret. I discounted a sub initially as German U-Boats of that era were essentially coastal vessels, designed for use in the North Sea. Indeed without the use of bases on the west coast of Ireland in World War II the German submarine campaign would not have been nearly as effective as it was.
Moreover, the first German diesel-powered U-Boat, the U-19, was not commissioned until later in 1912, although all German official statements about their military have to be viewed with reserve. The earlier paraffin powered boats, however, could have made it to the sinking area, particularly with refueling. The calm seas would have assisted fuelling and the rv could have been achieved with radio assistance.
I now suspect that the German vessel was indeed a U-Boat, which would, of course, have dived and moved clear as soon as the Titanic struck the ‘berg. The Deutschland could easily have carried paraffin in her tanks. Alternatively, a paraffin powered boat such as SM U-16 might have been refitted with the 8-cylinder MAN two-stroke diesel used in U-19. Interestingly our community partners failed to surrender U-16 as agreed at the end of the war. Were they hiding something? (She supposedly sank in an “accident” en route to Scapa Flow but with the Germans that could mean anything.)
It’s vital that the Titanic’s emergency Marconi sets (transmitting and receiving) are recovered. They are probably still at their last settings since neither Jack Phillips nor Harold Bride would have had any reason to suppose that the equipment would ever be seen again. Titanic was sunk in deep water for a reason.
As the Senate confirmed to me on Friday the State Department has yet to send the treaty to the Hill. That means that the Secretary of State’s signature is worth about the same as President Wilson’s on the equally silly Treaty of Versailles. Please contact your Senators and urge that this treaty is stopped in its tracks! The shameful cover-up of the real reason for the loss of Titanic has gone on for long enough.
The Labour leadership challenge
Ballot papers have gone out this week. The Cabinet Office choice, Sir Keir ‘von’ Starmer, named for the German agent Keir Hardie, is the runaway favorite. He would be a disaster as Prime Minister, indeed he would be even more of a figurehead than poor old Boris Johnson.
There are fewer runners and riders than in the Democratic Party primaries (alright, primaries and caucuses!), none of them is nearly 80 and none have had heart surgery. In fact, only three candidates made the cut, the others being Rebecca Long-Bailey, Jeremy Corbyn’s choice, and republican Lisa Nandy, who seems to want the Queen’s job as well as Boris Johnson’s.
Between them they have managed to make even Keir Starmer look sensible, a not insignificant feat, given that he’s a former Director of Public Prosecutions, no offense intended. (In fairness he didn’t manage to knock over any reality TV presenters.)
Global Cooling
There were some goods new from Which magazine this week. A new report suggests that the CO2 output of modern vehicles has gone up, not down. This will help green the planet and should increase crop yields, if only by a tiny amount.
The reason, of course, is not that modern engines are less efficient but that modern vehicle is larger and heavier. The first generation Golf weighed less than a ton, even the heaviest version. Curb weight of the eighth generation automobile is anything up to 1.5 tons.
Congratulations are due to the auto industry for helping to green the planet. Vehicle emissions do not, of course, affect the climate. The only way a vehicle could warm the planet would be to tow the Earth closer to the Sun, but you’re not going to be able to do that with a VeeDub. (You’d need a Range Rover for that!)
HMS Exeter
Yesterday marked the 78th anniversary of the sad loss of the famous heavy cruiser HMS Exeter in the Sunda Strait. Part of Dutch Rear-Admiral Doorman’s squadron in the Battle of the Java Sea she had been damaged by a hit to her boiler room and was making for Soerabaya when she was caught by the Jap cruisers Nachi and Haguro.
She had fought in the Battle of the Java Sea alongside the USS Houston (CA-30, Captain Albert H. Rooks commanding), which was also sunk on March 1st, again in the most gallant circumstances. Java Sea was the first large-scale surface engagement in which our two great navies fought alongside each other, the American battle squadron in the Grand Fleet in World War I sadly not having had an opportunity to get to grips with Harry Hun.
Exeter had distinguished herself at the Plate, where she put in good work against our community partner Kapitän zur See Langsdorff in Graf Spee, who was later forced to commit suicide by the Abwehr. The Director of Naval Construction was seriously hampered by absurd treaty restrictions when designing Exeter, although he managed to work in better protection than in the preceding York.
Her main battery, of 6 8”/50 cal. BL Mark VIII guns was inadequate, but sadly there was no room for more. Exeter, of course, had the Mark II mounting, with a maximum elevation of 50 deg., training and elevating power having proved insufficient to take full advantage of the 70 deg. of the Mark 1, the world’s first heavy dual-purpose gun, an advanced weapon for its time.
She may be gone, but this gallant ship and her equally gallant crew are not forgotten, any more than the Houston and her brave crew.


veteranstoday--2020-03-02--Tulsi: ‘Erdogan Most Dangerous Dictator in the World,’ as Russian Special Forces and SAA Retake Sara

Tulsi: ‘Erdogan Most Dangerous Dictator in the World,’ as Russian Special Forces and SAA Retake Saraqib (new South Front video)

Syrian government forces have managed to retake a strategic city in the southeastern suburbs of the country ’ s northwestern province of Idlib from Turkish-backed militants .
Syria ’ s official news agency SANA reported on Monday that Syrian army soldiers and their allies have entered the city of Saraqib after violent clashes with the extremists and severely hitting their positions and fortified lines .
Battles are still taking place on the outskirts of the city as the Turkish-backed militants are trying to re-enter the area .
Saraqib has a strategic significance as it overlooks the 450-kilometer-long M5 highway .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , near the border with Jordan , and runs all the way north to the city of Aleppo near the Turkish border .
Since 2012 , the M5 had been controlled by various foreign-backed militant groups .
Syrian government forces started regaining parts of the highway in 2014 , but they were only able to take full control during the latest offensive .
Syrian army troops and their allies established control over the highway on February 10 after dealing heavy blows to Takfiris south and west of Aleppo .
The Damascus government began @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Syrian Ministry of Transport announced on February 22 that the highway was officially open to traffic and “ at the full disposal of citizens.
” Russia says its military police in Syria ’ s Saraqib After Syrian forces entered the strategic city of Saraqib , Russia ’ s Defense Ministry announced that its military police had also entered the city “ due to its importance for security.
” The ministry ’ s statement added that the deployment was made to ensure security on the M4 and M5 highways , which connect the cities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Separately , Israeli military forces fired a missile at a civilian car traveling along a road in Syria ’ s southwestern province of Quneitra in the occupied Golan Heights .
SANA reported that the strike took place in the town of Ayn al-Tinah , but no immediate word on casualties in the attack was available .
The Israeli army claimed in a statement that military forces “ identified an attempted sniper attack in [ the ] northern Golan Heights and acted to thwart it , striking the vehicle involved in the attempt.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ was killed in an Israeli drone attack in Quneitra province .
“ A civilian was martyred when his car was targeted by a drone belonging to the Israeli enemy south of the town of Hader , ” SANA reported .
SANA noted that the victim was traveling in his car along a road in Hader village on Thursday , when the Israeli drone fired a missile , killing him on the spot .
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the victim was a member of the “ Syrian resistance to liberate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Governor Humam Dibyat identified the person as Adel Tawil and said he worked at a police station and was targeted while returning home from work .
“ He was innocent .
He was an honorable nationalist , ” Dibyat was quoted as saying by The Associated Press news agency .
Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria after the 1967 Six-Day War and later occupied it in a move that has never been recognized by the international community .
The regime has built dozens of settlements in the area ever since and has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ number of military operations against the Syrian government .
On March 25 last year , US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation , formally recognizing Israel ’ s sovereignty over the Golan Heights .
The announcement came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the White House .
The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates , in a statement at the time , called the US decision a “ blatant attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity ” of Syria .
“ The liberation of the Golan by all available means and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an inalienable right , ” according to the statement carried by SANA , which added , “ The decision … makes the United States the main enemy of the Arabs.
” The Arab League also condemned the move , saying “ Trump ’ s recognition does not change the area ’ s status.
” Iran , Iraq , Russia and Turkey condemned the US move as well .
Meanwhile , at least 19 Syrian army soldiers were killed on Sunday night by Turkish drone attacks in Idlib province .
The Observatory said the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jabal al-Zawiyeh area and al-Hamdiyeh camp in the northwestern Syrian province .
Earlier in the day , SANA said Syrian forces had shot down three Turkish drones over Idlib .
The incidents are part of the serious escalation between Turkey and Syria .
The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said in a statement on Friday that Turkey is supporting terrorist groups in Idlib .

Syrian government forces have managed to retake a strategic city in the southeastern suburbs of the country’s northwestern province of Idlib from Turkish-backed militants.
Gabbard: Erdogan most dangerous dictator in the world https://t.co/ZxPIYCOvfW pic.twitter.com/yYOiNIfvRi
Syria’s official news agency SANA reported on Monday that Syrian army soldiers and their allies have entered the city of Saraqib after violent clashes with the extremists and severely hitting their positions and fortified lines.
https://twitter.com/SANAEnOfficial/status/1234406392716570624?s=20
Battles are still taking place on the outskirts of the city as the Turkish-backed militants are trying to re-enter the area.
Our heroes in Saraqib. "Saraqib is liberated…to Idlib we go" pic.twitter.com/63jcQBK4Nh — Dove Syriana (@DoveSyriana) March 2, 2020
Saraqib has a strategic significance as it overlooks the 450-kilometer-long M5 highway.
#Russia's Air Force and Special Forces actively participated to the operation to retake the town of Saraqib.#Idlib #Syria https://t.co/RgG1Hyi9y8 — Enrico Ivanov ☦ (@Russ_Warrior) March 2, 2020
The M5 highway starts in southern Syria, near the border with Jordan, and runs all the way north to the city of Aleppo near the Turkish border.
Russia has already amassed 16 (!) naval assets off the coast of Syria and now this huge landing ship with 100s of Russian troops on board is about to meet her sisters in arms.https://t.co/Gre3vufjxt — Brasco_Aad (@Brasco_Aad) March 2, 2020
Since 2012, the M5 had been controlled by various foreign-backed militant groups. Syrian government forces started regaining parts of the highway in 2014, but they were only able to take full control during the latest offensive.
Syrian army troops and their allies established control over the highway on February 10 after dealing heavy blows to Takfiris south and west of Aleppo.
#Aleppo University today, brimming with life & students. These faculties were deliberately targeted by Nusra Front – led armed groups embedded in East Aleppo before liberation by #SAA 2016. Now restored to peace & stability. #End_terrorism #EveryInch #Syria #Idleb pic.twitter.com/s9cksSHSlJ — vanessa beeley (@VanessaBeeley) March 1, 2020
The Damascus government began road repair shortly afterwards, and the Syrian Ministry of Transport announced on February 22 that the highway was officially open to traffic and “at the full disposal of citizens.”
Russia says its military police in Syria’s Saraqib
After Syrian forces entered the strategic city of Saraqib, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that its military police had also entered the city “due to its importance for security.”
The ministry’s statement added that the deployment was made to ensure security on the M4 and M5 highways, which connect the cities of Latakia, Damascus, and Aleppo.
Israel targets civilian vehicle in occupied Golan Heights
Separately, Israeli military forces fired a missile at a civilian car traveling along a road in Syria’s southwestern province of Quneitra in the occupied Golan Heights.
SANA reported that the strike took place in the town of Ayn al-Tinah, but no immediate word on casualties in the attack was available.
The Israeli army claimed in a statement that military forces “identified an attempted sniper attack in [the] northern Golan Heights and acted to thwart it, striking the vehicle involved in the attempt.”
On February 27, one person was killed in an Israeli drone attack in Quneitra province.
Foreign Ministry: Supporting terrorism has become a constant strategy of Turkish regime and West policieshttps://t.co/o4JcSgpIoN — SANAEnglishOfficial (@SANAEnOfficial) February 28, 2020
“A civilian was martyred when his car was targeted by a drone belonging to the Israeli enemy south of the town of Hader,” SANA reported.
Syrians condemn Trump’s decision on Golan Heights Syrians rally to protest the recent decision by US President Donald Trump to recognize Israeli “sovereignty” over the occupied Golan Heights.
SANA noted that the victim was traveling in his car along a road in Hader village on Thursday, when the Israeli drone fired a missile, killing him on the spot.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the victim was a member of the “Syrian resistance to liberate Golan,” without elaborating.
Quneitra Governor Humam Dibyat identified the person as Adel Tawil and said he worked at a police station and was targeted while returning home from work.
“He was innocent. He was an honorable nationalist,” Dibyat was quoted as saying by The Associated Press news agency.
All options on table for liberating Golan from Israel, Syria FM warns Damascus delivers a stern warning to Tel Aviv over its occupation of the Golan Heights, saying all options are on the table for liberating the strategic region.
Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria after the 1967 Six-Day War and later occupied it in a move that has never been recognized by the international community.
The regime has built dozens of settlements in the area ever since and has used the region to carry out a number of military operations against the Syrian government.
On March 25 last year, US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation, formally recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. The announcement came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the White House.
World countries blast US on Golan, Syria vows to liberate Israeli occupied territory The Arab League, Russia, Iran, Turkey and Iraq issue strong warnings to the US after President Trump says he will recognize Syria
The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, in a statement at the time, called the US decision a “blatant attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity” of Syria.
Libya will reopen its embassy in Damascus tomorrow with the presence of a delegation from eastern Libya. pic.twitter.com/SyecpVKjDk — Rebuilding Syria (@SyriaRebuilt) March 2, 2020
“The liberation of the Golan by all available means and its return to the Syrian motherland is an inalienable right,” according to the statement carried by SANA, which added, “The decision … makes the United States the main enemy of the Arabs.”
Turkish M60TM Tank was destroyed by Airstrike in #Idlib during the supput to Al-Nusra backed turkish pic by infantmilitario pic.twitter.com/Z3vzvXzVEZ — Yusha Yuseef 🇸🇾 (@MIG29_) March 2, 2020
The Arab League also condemned the move, saying “Trump’s recognition does not change the area’s status.”
Iran, Iraq, Russia and Turkey condemned the US move as well.
Turkish drone attack kills 19 Syrian army soldiers in Idlib
Meanwhile, at least 19 Syrian army soldiers were killed on Sunday night by Turkish drone attacks in Idlib province.
The Observatory said the Turkish drones targeted Syrian army positions in the Jabal al-Zawiyeh area and al-Hamdiyeh camp in the northwestern Syrian province.
Earlier in the day, SANA said Syrian forces had shot down three Turkish drones over Idlib.
The incidents are part of the serious escalation between Turkey and Syria.
The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said in a statement on Friday that Turkey is supporting terrorist groups in Idlib.


veteranstoday--2020-03-02--Free Downloads of 3-D Cultural Heritage Models

You Can Now Download 1,700 Free 3-D Cultural Heritage Models During the first manned lunar landing mission in July 1969 , Apollo 11 ’ s crew lived in a command module dubbed the Columbia .
Currently a priceless artifact in the National Air and Space Museum ’ s collections , the module was the only portion of the spacecraft to return to Earth .
Now , thanks to a new open access initiative spearheaded by Sketchfab , the web ’ s largest platform for immersive 3-D content , anyone with an internet connection can “ re-use , re-imagine and remix @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other historic artifacts—without limitation .
Last week , Sketchfab announced plans to allow organizations to waive all copyright and dedicate their digital models to the public domain .
To mark this milestone in museum digitization and accessibility efforts , the 3-D portal has released a new virtual collection of 1,700 models available for the public to download , print or manipulate however they see fit .
“ With the introduction of the CC dedication for cultural heritage content , Sketchfab continues to foster ongoing artistic and academic reuse of [ 3-D ] data @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” says Sketchfab founder and CEO Alban Denoyel in a statement quoted by Forbes .
“ With thousands of museums , libraries , art galleries , and archaeological projects already using Sketchfab to share their [ 3-D ] data online , the platform wants to make it easy for organizations to align their digital [ 3-D ] collections with their open access policies .
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by Nadine Daher/Smithsonianmag.com
During the first manned lunar landing mission in July 1969, Apollo 11’s crew lived in a command module dubbed the Columbia. Currently a priceless artifact in the National Air and Space Museum’s collections, the module was the only portion of the spacecraft to return to Earth. Now, thanks to a new open-access initiative spearheaded by Sketchfab, the web’s largest platform for immersive 3-D content, anyone with an internet connection can “re-use, re-imagine and remix” the vessel—as well as nearly 1,700 other historic artifacts—without limitation.
Last week, Sketchfab announced plans to allow organizations to waive all copyright and dedicate their digital models to the public domain. To mark this milestone in museum digitization and accessibility efforts, the 3-D portal has released a new virtual collection of 1,700 models available for the public to download, print or manipulate however they see fit.
“With the introduction of the CC dedication for cultural heritage content, Sketchfab continues to foster ongoing artistic and academic reuse of [3-D] data under clear and easily understandable terms,” says Sketchfab founder and CEO Alban Denoyel in a statement quoted by Forbes. “With thousands of museums, libraries, art galleries, and archaeological projects already using Sketchfab to share their [3-D] data online, the platform wants to make it easy for organizations to align their digital [3-D] collections with their open access policies.”


veteranstoday--2020-03-02--Iran Warns Turkey, “You Have Been in Our Sights for a Month…Beware!”

An Iranian military advisory center in Syria has urged Turkey against further escalation of its aggression against the Arab country , reminding Ankara that it has so far refrained from responding to Turkish attacks .
In a statement published by most Iranian news agencies Sunday , the center said it “ demands that the Turkish forces behave wisely , taking the Syrian and Turkish nations ’ interests into consideration.
” “ We assert to the Turkish nation that their sons have been within our range for a month now , and we could have taken revenge , but refrained from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ commanders , ” it added .
It also asked Turkish people to pressure their officials into committing to the standing de-escalation agreements on Syria and thus prevent wider bloodshed .
Ankara has begun directly intervening against Syrian forces as part of a bid to help terrorist groups that are halting Damascus ’ advances in Idlib .
Syria ’ s ongoing offensive in Idlib was launched in August 2019 to oust terrorists from their last major bastion in the Arab country after repeated attacks on Syrian and Russian positions .
Under a deal reached @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sea resort of Sochi in September 2018 , Turkish troops were deployed in Idlib and set up observation posts there .
The agreement required Ankara to oust Takfiri terrorists from the northwestern Syrian province .
But , more than a year into the Sochi deal , foreign-backed terrorists rule supreme in Idlib in close proximity to the Turkish troops .
Turkey is evidently upset by changing conditions on the ground in the wake of the Syrian army advances .
It has deployed massive troops and military equipment in recent weeks to stop Syrian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lending military advisory support to Syria at Damascus ’ request after the Arab nation found itself in the grip of terrorism fueled by foreign countries , including Turkey , in 2011 .
The advisory center recounted how Turkish warplanes had started targeting its members and facilities with volleys of fire and precision missiles after it began assisting the Syrian military .
Early Saturday , the center said , it issued a directive that would prevent the targeting of Turkish positions in Idlib .
The Turkish military , nevertheless , kept up its artillery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it added .
The Iranian outpost said Turkish-backed armed groups began attacking the Syrian military after the center helped it liberate the M5 motorway that links the Syrian capital Damascus to the major western cities of Hama , Homs and Aleppo .
The advisory center said it had dispatched negotiators to the Turkish military to press it on stopping the aggression and insisting on the resolution of the crisis through diplomatic channels .
The Turkish military did not heed the request , sustaining its fire to the point that it led to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ combatants , ” it noted .
The outpost insisted , though , that it would stand by the Syrian government , nation , and military to preserve the Arab country ’ s sovereignty and oust all terrorists .
On Sunday , bodies of 12 defendants of a holy shrine in Syria killed in Idlib were laid to rest in the Iranian city of Qom .
Thousands of mourners also attended a funeral procession and a subsequent burial ceremony in the Lebanese capital of Beirut in honor of five Hezbollah members killed during Turkish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in strikes on a military convoy in the Jabal al-Zawiya area and a base near Maaret al-Numan city , the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said .
The report came hours after Turkey shot down two Syrian warplanes , in an escalating offensive against the Damascus government in Idlib .
Turkish warplanes also bombed the al-Nayrab airfield west of Aleppo city and rendered it unusable , Turkey ’ s official Anatolia news agency reported .
Following weeks of violence in the province , Turkey confirmed a full military operation against Syrian forces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ week in an airstrike blamed on Damascus .
Russia has said the Turkish soldiers were killed outside the de-escalation zone among “ terrorists.
” Syria ’ s official SANA news agency said four intruding Turkish drones were shot down in Idlib Sunday .
A military source also said the army had shut the airspace over the country ’ s northwest , warning that any intruding aircraft would be brought down .
The Russian Defense Ministry also said Moscow could not guarantee the safety of Turkish planes flying in Syria , the TASS news @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the leadership of Russia ’ s military contingent ( in Syria ) can not guarantee the safety of Turkish flights in Syrian skies , ” TASS cited Counter Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev as saying .

Turkey’s aid to terrorists inside Syria and attacks on Iranian forces are not to be tolerated despite strong trade relations with Turkey.
An Iranian military advisory center in Syria has urged Turkey against further escalation of its aggression against the Arab country, reminding Ankara that it has so far refrained from responding to Turkish attacks.
In a statement published by most Iranian news agencies Sunday, the center said it “demands that the Turkish forces behave wisely, taking the Syrian and Turkish nations’ interests into consideration.”
“We assert to the Turkish nation that their sons have been within our range for a month now, and we could have taken revenge, but refrained from doing so on the orders of our commanders,” it added.
It also asked Turkish people to pressure their officials into committing to the standing de-escalation agreements on Syria and thus prevent wider bloodshed.
Ankara has begun directly intervening against Syrian forces as part of a bid to help terrorist groups that are halting Damascus’ advances in Idlib.
Syria’s ongoing offensive in Idlib was launched in August 2019 to oust terrorists from their last major bastion in the Arab country after repeated attacks on Syrian and Russian positions.
Under a deal reached between Turkey and Russia in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in September 2018, Turkish troops were deployed in Idlib and set up observation posts there.
The agreement required Ankara to oust Takfiri terrorists from the northwestern Syrian province. But, more than a year into the Sochi deal, foreign-backed terrorists rule supreme in Idlib in close proximity to the Turkish troops.
Turkey is evidently upset by changing conditions on the ground in the wake of the Syrian army advances. It has deployed massive troops and military equipment in recent weeks to stop Syrian troops from ousting terrorists.
Syria’s UN envoy says Turkey uses the observation posts it has set up in the Arab country’s northwest to level support for terrorists.
Iran began lending military advisory support to Syria at Damascus’ request after the Arab nation found itself in the grip of terrorism fueled by foreign countries, including Turkey, in 2011.
The advisory center recounted how Turkish warplanes had started targeting its members and facilities with volleys of fire and precision missiles after it began assisting the Syrian military.
Early Saturday, the center said, it issued a directive that would prevent the targeting of Turkish positions in Idlib. The Turkish military, nevertheless, kept up its artillery fire against the center’s facilities, it added.
The Iranian outpost said Turkish-backed armed groups began attacking the Syrian military after the center helped it liberate the M5 motorway that links the Syrian capital Damascus to the major western cities of Hama, Homs, and Aleppo.
The advisory center said it had dispatched negotiators to the Turkish military to press it on stopping the aggression and insisting on the resolution of the crisis through diplomatic channels.
The Turkish military did not heed the request, sustaining its fire to the point that it led to “the martyrdom of several of our combatants,” it noted.
The outpost insisted, though, that it would stand by the Syrian government, nation, and military to preserve the Arab country’s sovereignty and oust all terrorists.
Iran, Lebanon hold funeral processions
On Sunday, bodies of 12 defendants of a holy shrine in Syria killed in Idlib were laid to rest in the Iranian city of Qom.
Thousands of mourners also attended a funeral procession and a subsequent burial ceremony in the Lebanese capital of Beirut in honor of five Hezbollah members killed during Turkish attacks in Idlib Friday.
Turkish drone strikes in Idlib province killed 19 government soldiers on Sunday, a London-based war monitor reported.
They died in strikes on a military convoy in the Jabal al-Zawiya area and a base near Maaret al-Numan city, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The report came hours after Turkey shot down two Syrian warplanes, in an escalating offensive against the Damascus government in Idlib.
The pilots ejected moments before the aircraft was hit.
Turkish warplanes also bombed the al-Nayrab airfield west of Aleppo city and rendered it unusable, Turkey’s official Anatolia news agency reported.
Following weeks of violence in the province, Turkey confirmed a full military operation against Syrian forces after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed last week in an airstrike blamed on Damascus.
Russia has said the Turkish soldiers were killed outside the de-escalation zone among “terrorists.”
Syria’s official SANA news agency said four intruding Turkish drones were shot down in Idlib Sunday.
A military source also said the army had shut the airspace over the country’s northwest, warning that any intruding aircraft would be brought down.
The Russian Defense Ministry also said Moscow could not guarantee the safety of Turkish planes flying in Syria, the TASS news agency reported.
“In these conditions, the leadership of Russia’s military contingent (in Syria) cannot guarantee the safety of Turkish flights in Syrian skies,” TASS cited Counter Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev as saying.


veteranstoday--2020-03-02--2,000-Year-Old Roman Soldier’s Dagger Found in Germany

As far as internships go , Nico Calman arguably had an especially good one .
During his stint with the Westphalie Department for the Preservation and Care of Field Monuments in Germany last year , 19-year-old Calman unearthed a 2,000-year-old silver dagger that may have helped the Romans wage war against a Germanic tribe in the first century A.D .
Discovered still in its sheath in the grave of a soldier at the archaeological site of Haltern am See ( Haltern at the Lake ) , the weapon was nearly unrecognizable thanks to centuries of corrosion .
But nine months @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 13-inch-long blade and sheath that once hung from a matching leather belt , reports Laura Geggel for Live Science .
“ This combination of a completely preserved blade , sheath and belt , together with the important information about precisely where they were found , is without parallel , ” Michael Rind , director of archaeology at the Westphalia-Lippe council , tells Oliver Moody of the Times.Dating to the Augustan period , which lasted from 37 B.C .
to 14 A.D. , the blade and its accessories likely had a front row seat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in early Roman history , according to the Times .
At that time , Haltern , which sat …read more :

by Katherine J. Wu/Smithsonianmag.com
As far as internships go, Nico Calman arguably had an especially good one.
During his stint with the Westphalia Department for the Preservation and Care of Field Monuments in Germany last year, 19-year-old Calman unearthed a 2,000-year-old silver dagger that may have helped the Romans wage war against a Germanic tribe in the first century A.D.
Discovered still in its sheath in the grave of a soldier at the archaeological site of Haltern am See (Haltern at the Lake), the weapon was nearly unrecognizable thanks to centuries of corrosion. But nine months of meticulous sandblasting revealed a spectacularly ornamented 13-inch-long blade and sheath that once hung from a matching leather belt, reports Laura Geggel for Live Science.
“This combination of a completely preserved blade, sheath, and belt, together with the important information about precisely where they were found, is without parallel,” Michael Rind, director of archaeology at the Westphalia-Lippe council, tells Oliver Moody of the Times.
Dating to the Augustan period, which lasted from 37 B.C. to 14 A.D., the blade and its accessories likely had a front-row seat to some of the most humiliating defeats in early Roman history, according to the Times. At that time, Haltern, which sat…


veteranstoday--2020-03-03--WHO: “ Covid-19 Very High Global Risk. It isn’t a flu”. 118 Dead in Iran and Italy

« Technically , this is already a pandemic .
The pandemic declaration is only a formal fact : when the international emergency started , the WHO activated the necessary tools to mobilize member states .
If the WHO were to choose this path , on the basis of the data collected , absolutely nothing will change for citizens .
But the WHO will ask the wealthy states for the money needed to control the virus in poor countries , which risk more » .
This was stated by epidemiologist Pierluigi Lopalco , professor of Hygiene and preventive medicine at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ growth of this virus which is arousing the strong concern of the World Health Organization especially in some countries .
For this reason , WHO has for some days raised the global level of the risk of contagion from “ high ” to “ very high ” , until a few days ago so reported only in China , where the number of new cases of CoVid-19 ( or Sars Covid -2 ) is decreasing .
« The number of cases in China continues to decline .
Yesterday , China reported 206 cases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ since the 22nd of January .
Only 8 cases were reported outside Hubei province yesterday .
Outside China , a total of 8739 cases of COVID-19 have been reported to WHO from 61 countries , with 127 deaths » dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesussaid , World Health Organization ’ s general director said in a press-conference on march,2 .
« In the last 24 hours there were almost 9 times more cases reported outside China than inside China .
The epidemics in the Republic of Korea , Italy , Iran and Japan are our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to inform you that a WHO team arrived in Iran this afternoon to deliver supplies and support the government in the response .
A WHO staff member in our Iran country office has now tested positive for COVID-19 .
He has mild disease » WHO DG added .
« This virus is not influenza ( flu – ed ) .
We are in unchartered territory .
We have never before seen a respiratory pathogen that is capable of community transmission , but which can also be contained with the right measures .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would have expected to see widespread community transmission across the globe by now , and efforts to slow it down or contain it would not be feasible .
But containment of COVID-19 is feasible and must remain the top priority for all countries .
With early , aggressive measures , countries can stop transmission and save lives » dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesussaid highlighted .
« We appreciate that people are debating whether this is a pandemic or not .
We are monitoring the situation every moment of every day , and analyzing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and I ’ ll say it again : WHO will not hesitate to describe this as a pandemic if that ’ s what the evidence suggests .
But we need to see this in perspective .
Of the 88,913 cases reported globally so far , 90 % are in China , mostly in one province .
Of the 8739 cases reported outside China , 81 % are from four countries .
Of the other 57 affected countries , 38 have reported 10 cases or less , 19 have reported only one cases , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ already contained the virus and have not reported in the last two weeks .
More than 130 countries have not detected any cases yet » .
The vaccine and treatment to treat coronavirus may be available starting in late summer , early autumn , said American Vice President Mike Pence , who coordinates the US government ’ s response to the emergency that caused the former .
two victims .
Australia ( as reported below ) also reported that the vaccine has passed laboratory tests .
Pence has made it known in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 100 % of the checks on all direct flights arriving from Italy and South Korea in the next 12 hours .
The numbers State by State China : 2,870 victims and China and 79 thousand positives mainly in the province of Hubei Hong Kong : 94 cases and two deaths Macau : 10 cases South Korea : 3,736 cases , 21 deaths Italy : 1,128 positive , 29 victims .
Japan : 951 cases , including those of the Diamond Princess , and 12 dead Iran : 54 dead and 978 infected .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ over 100 cases and two deaths Germany : 66 positive .
United States : 70 positive and one dead Spain : 46 cases Kuwait : 45 cases Thailand : 42 positive and one victim .
Taiwan : 39 cases , one death .
Bahrain : 38 cases .
Malaysia : 29 positive .
Australia : 22 cases and one victim .
United Kingdom : 35 positive and one victim .
United Arab Emirates : 21 positive .
Canada : 20 cases .
Vietnam : 16 .
Norway : 15 .
Iraq : 19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Switzerland : 10 .
Greece : 7 .
Lebanon : 7 .
Netherlands : 7 positive .
Croatia : 7 .
Oman : 6 cases .
Austria : 5 cases Israel : 5 positive Russia : 5 positive .
Mexico : 4 Pakistan : 4 positive .
Finland : 3 cases .
India : 3 cases Philippines : 3 positive .
Romania : 3 .
Czech Republic : 3 .
Brazil : 2 .
Denmark : 2 .
Algeria : 1 .
Afghanistan : 1 .
Armenia 1 .
Azerbaijan : 1 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Cambodia : 1 .
Ecuador : 1 .
Egypt : 1 case .
Estonia : 1 .
Iceland : 1 .
Ireland : 1 .
Lithuania : 1 .
Monaco : 1 .
Nepal : 1 .
New Zealand : 1 .
Nigeria : 1 .
North Macedonia : 1 .
Qatar : 1 .
San Marino : 1 .
Sri Lanka : 1 .
Dominican Republic : 1 .
RAI News source There is nothing to comment on the new dramatic numbers about dead and infected : we have only to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Center for the Study of Existential Risk ( CSER ) of the University of Cambridge in an August report highlighted the dangers of technology in the war field because « a bio-weapon could be built to target a specific ethnic group based on its genomic profile » defining this eventuality « extremely harmful and potentially unstoppable » .
Iran ’ s Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi has tested positive for coronavirus , Iranian state media has reported .
Harirchi has been at the forefront of the country ’ s response to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s health ministry confirmed in a television interview on Tuesday that Harirchi has been infected and is under quarantine .
Schools have been closed across much of the country for the last two days and five of Iran ’ s seven neighbors have closed their borders with the Islamic Republic .
Clashes broke out between protesters and security forces at the weekend , over Tehran ’ s handling of the country ’ s outbreak , local media reported .
The governor of Lombardy has chosen to put himself in voluntary quarantine after one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The governor of Lombardy Attilio Fontana in voluntary quarantine after a collaborator of his staff resulted positive at CoronaVirus .
If the good news comes from Austria that the railway connections with Italy blocked yesterday at the Brenner border have been restored , the CoronaVirus catastrophe appears more and more like a military attack studied in detail ( by the CIA according to our intelligence sources as highlighted in the survey published Sunday 23 February ) .
In Italy , there was the fourth victim in Bergamo and the fifth in Albettone ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then the sixth… In fact , the pandemic hit first of all China , the uncomfortable economic rival of the USA , with almost 80 thousand infected and over 2300 dead : useless to write the exact number because it grows every half hour .
Morbidity has been so devastating in the Wuhan outbreak area that there have been thousands of SARS-CoV-2 victims despite the low mortality rate of 2 % .
While , if the data on the infected in Iran are real and not intentionally contained by the authorities to avoid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country of the Shiites , bitter enemy of the White House allied with the Sunnis of Saudi Arabia and Qatar , is even equal to 20 % and in a few days from the presence of the virus it has already killed 8 people , among 43 infected or perhaps more since the IRNA ( Islamic Republic National Agency ) also releases updates with the dropper .
The main outbreak is in Qom , the site of the most important Shiite mosque and the most powerful military nuclear power plant , where 7 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 4 in Tehran , 2 in Gilan , 1 in Markazi and another in Tonekabon .
The data released by the Iranian Ministry of Health are however to be taken with the benefit of inventory as it could be an extremely provisional and partial budget .
The mortality of 8 people out of 43 infected is , in fact , equal to about 20 % : or almost ten times that found in China , settled around 3 % , and that of other countries such as Italy at 2 % ( 3 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hassan Rohani has signed the decree to re-establish a Special National Committee for the health emergency .
In Italy , on the other hand , the Civil Protection Crisis Unit has already been working for days in close collaboration with the Prime Minister , which is increasingly placing restrictions on the movement of people and places of mass attendance in various Regions .
Finally , we come to Italy where CoronaVirus killed 5 people and brought the number of infected and hospitalized patients to 219 : 167 cases in Lombardy , 27 in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Piedmont , 3 in Lazio .
The Milan Cathedral has been closed and the historic Carnival of Venice has been interrupted .
In 72 hours , the infected thus far exceeded those of Japan ( yesterday 135 ) , affected by the epidemic since the end of January .
Now Italy is the third country in the world for the dead ( after China and Iran ) and also for contagious .
And it has already ascertained a third of the infected of South Corea ( 603 ) , the country most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Korea , the other enemy of the United States , that first opened to accuse the Pentagon of having used a biochemical weapon , such as he then did the Chinese Communist Party ( see previous post ) .
If the increasingly well-founded thesis of the biogenetic weapon is accepted , the motives for a chemical attack can be identified in three factors .
Firstly , a warning to the first European country that signed the Silk Road trade agreement with Beijing , secondly , the restarted dialogues between Italy and Iran on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ baby-genius ” of Luigi Di Maio , Minister of Foreign Affairs , at the height of tensions between Tehran and Washington ( lol ) … Finally , this pandemic is a powerful signal to the vast NO-VAX community that contested the Lorenzin law ( 2017 ) on the 10 mandatory vaccines of the experimental health plan wanted by the American administration of President Barack Obama , within the 40 countries participating in the Global Health Security Agenda , and implemented by the Italian health and pharmaceutical institutions in collaboration with the Anglo-American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the first report about CoronaVirus , Just GSK is now helping the University of Queensland to develop the vaccine on behalf of the British Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations ( CEPI ) .
Australia , a member of the FIVE EYES international intelligence committee ( with the USA , the United Kingdom , Canada , and New Zealand ) has just announced that it has already found the vaccine but that it will now obviously need to be tested first .
read more VEGETAL THERAPY FOR LIKELY DEFENSE FROM VIRUS Could a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ill Italians , at high risk of death , as guinea pigs , as mortality is becoming threatening and morbidity is growing unstoppably and exponentially ?
There are many ways to impose geopolitical-military colonialism : the pharmaceutical one is certainly the most sneaky , cowardly and horrifying …

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy
After the Governors of Lazio and Piedmont regions also the top officer of the Italian Army has been found positive to COVID-19. The Chief of Major State, General Salvatore Farina, resulted yesterday infected by a coronavirus. It is he himself who makes it known.
I underwent the Coronavirus test, proving positive – he explains – I’m fine, I am in isolation in my accommodation, in compliance with the directives issued by the government authorities and with the health protocols envisaged; on the basis of which we are proceeding to verify the contacts we had in the last few days.
I will continue to perform my duties and will be replaced by General Federico Bonato for the activities I cannot take part in. I extend a warm greeting and heartfelt thanks to the women and men of the Army who work to deal with this emergency in the operational, logistics and healthcare sectors».
CoronaVirus has now infected more than 100,000 people worldwide and has killed over 3,000 in a dramatic report very hard to update. The total cases have risen to total cases thus rise to 9.172 in our country, 1,797 more than yesterday. Among these, 7,985 are currently positive, 724 the total healed (+102 over yesterday) and 463 the victims (+97).
The whole of Italy has been declared a “red zone” by the government with all the restrictions on travel and public gatherings already in force in Lombardy and in 14 provinces. In the final document, there are generalized limitations for all of Italy, including the stop to pubs, discos, game rooms, and cinema and theater events and other much more rigorous.
There is no longer a red zone but all of Italy will be a protected area – explains Prime Minister Conte – Here until April 3 – to give just two examples – the movements will be limited, save the possibility of returning to your home, and the bars and restaurants will have to close at 18 and for the rest of the day guarantee distances of at least one meter. Those with a fever of 37.5 are invited to stay at home, those in quarantine are strictly prohibited from going out.
Iran has been the worst-hit country in the Middle East, and the third in the world after China and Italy, with a total of 237 deaths and 7,161 infection cases.
POSTED ON MARCH, 3
Technically, this is already a pandemic. The pandemic declaration is only a formal fact: when the international emergency started, the WHO activated the necessary tools to mobilize member states. If the WHO were to choose this path, on the basis of the data collected, absolutely nothing will change for citizens. But the WHO will ask the wealthy states for the money needed to control the virus in poor countries, which risks more.
This was stated by epidemiologist Pierluigi Lopalco, professor of Hygiene and preventive medicine at the University of Pisa, highlighting the exponential growth of this virus which is arousing the strong concern of the World Health Organization, especially in some countries.
For this reason, WHO has for some days raised the global level of the risk of contagion from “high” to “very high”, until a few days ago so reported only in China, where the number of new cases of CoVid-19 (or Sars Covid -2) is decreasing.
The number of cases in China continues to decline. Yesterday, China reported 206 cases of COVID-19 to WHO, the lowest since the 22nd of January. Only 8 cases were reported outside Hubei province yesterday. Outside China, a total of 8739 cases of COVID-19 have been reported to WHO from 61 countries, with 127 deaths» dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesussaid, World Health Organization’s general director said in a press conference on March 2.
In the last 24 hours there were almost 9 times more cases reported outside China than inside China. The epidemics in the Republic of Korea, Italy, Iran and Japan are our greatest concern. I would also like to inform you that a WHO team arrived in Iran this afternoon to deliver supplies and support the government in the response. A WHO staff member in our Iran country office has now tested positive for COVID-19. He has mild disease WHO DG added.
But it’s impossible to release a real update because in Italy and Iran dead and contagious raise again much more every hour: the thesis of the biogenetic weapon is becoming more concrete…
This virus is not influenza (flu-ed). We are in unchartered territory. We have never before seen a respiratory pathogen that is capable of community transmission, but which can also be contained with the right measures. If this was an influenza epidemic, we would have expected to see widespread community transmission across the globe by now, and efforts to slow it down or contain it would not be feasible. But containment of COVID-19 is feasible and must remain the top priority for all countries. With early, aggressive measures, countries can stop transmission and save lives Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesussaid highlighted.
We appreciate that people are debating whether this is a pandemic or not. We are monitoring the situation every moment of every day, and analyzing the data. I have said it before and I’ll say it again: WHO will not hesitate to describe this as a pandemic if that’s what the evidence suggests. But we need to see this in perspective.
Of the 88,913 cases reported globally so far, 90% are in China, mostly in one province. Of the 8739 cases reported outside China, 81% are from four countries. Of the other 57 affected countries, 38 have reported 10 cases or less, 19 have reported only one case, and a good number of countries have already contained the virus and have not reported in the last two weeks. More than 130 countries have not detected any cases yet.
The vaccine and treatment to treat coronavirus may be available starting in late summer, early autumn, said American Vice President Mike Pence, who coordinates the US government’s response to the emergency that caused the former. two victims.
Australia (as reported below) also reported that the vaccine has passed laboratory tests. Pence has made it known in the meantime that the United States will implement 100% of the checks on all direct flights arriving from Italy and South Korea in the next 12 hours.
UPDATE 1 MARCH 2020
The numbers State by State China: 2,870 victims and China and 79 thousand positives mainly in the province of Hubei Hong Kong: 94 cases and two deaths Macau: 10 cases South Korea: 3,736 cases, 21 deaths Italy: 1,128 positive, 29 victims. Japan: 951 cases, including those of the Diamond Princess, and 12 dead Iran: 54 dead and 978 infected. Singapore: 102 positive. France: over 100 cases and two deaths Germany: 66 positive. United States: 70 positive and one dead Spain: 46 cases Kuwait: 45 cases Thailand: 42 positives and one victim. Taiwan: 39 cases, one death. Bahrain: 38 cases. Malaysia: 29 positives. Australia: 22 cases and one victim. United Kingdom: 35 positive and one victim. United Arab Emirates: 21 positives. Canada: 20 cases. Vietnam: 16. Norway: 15. Iraq: 19 positives. Sweden: 13 cases. Switzerland: 10. Greece: 7. Lebanon: 7. Netherlands: 7 positive. Croatia: 7. Oman: 6 cases. Austria: 5 cases Israel: 5 positive Russia: 5 positive. Mexico: 4 Pakistan: 4 positive. Finland: 3 cases. India: 3 cases Philippines: 3 positive. Romania: 3. Czech Republic: 3. Brazil: 2. Denmark: 2. Algeria: 1. Afghanistan: 1. Armenia 1. Azerbaijan: 1. Belarus: 1. Belgium: 2. Cambodia: 1. Ecuador: 1. Egypt: 1 case. Estonia: 1. Iceland: 1. Ireland: 1. Lithuania: 1. Monaco: 1. Nepal: 1. New Zealand: 1. Nigeria: 1. North Macedonia: 1. Qatar: 1. San Marino: 1. Sri Lanka: 1. Dominican Republic: 1. RAI News source
There is nothing to comment on the new dramatic numbers about dead and infected: we have only to remember a disturbing and authoritative prophecy.
The Center for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) of the University of Cambridge in an August report highlighted the dangers of technology in the war field because «a bio-weapon could be built to target a specific ethnic group based on its genomic profile» defining this eventuality «extremely harmful and potentially unstoppable».
IRAN
Iranian’s vice president for women and family affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar, has contracted the coronavirus. Three high-ranking officials, including Iran’s deputy health minister, were already known to be infected. “Ms. Ebtekar showed signs of infection with coronavirus and was tested. The results came back positive,” IRNA quoted a spokesperson for the vice president as saying. Earlier in the day, the head of the parliamentary security and foreign relations commission Mojtaba Zonnour said he had also tested positive for the virus.
Iran’s Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi has tested positive for coronavirus, Iranian state media has reported. Harirchi has been at the forefront of the country’s response to the outbreak. A spokesperson for Iran’s health ministry confirmed in a television interview on Tuesday that Harirchi has been infected and is under quarantine.
Schools have been closed across much of the country for the last two days and five of Iran’s seven neighbors have closed their borders with the Islamic Republic. Clashes broke out between protesters and security forces at the weekend, over Tehran’s handling of the country’s outbreak, local media reported.
ITALY
The governor of Lombardy has chosen to put himself in voluntary quarantine after one of his collaborators has tested positive. The governor of Lombardy Attilio Fontana in voluntary quarantine after a collaborator of his staff resulted in positive at CoronaVirus.
ITALIANS INFECTED FOR FIVE-EYES’ VACCINE…
If the good news comes from Austria that the railway connections with Italy blocked yesterday at the Brenner border have been restored, the CoronaVirus catastrophe appears more and more like a military attack studied in detail (by the CIA according to our intelligence sources as highlighted in the survey published Sunday 23 February).
In Italy, there was the fourth victim in Bergamo and the fifth in Albettone (Vicenza), a 60-year-old farmer, then the sixth… In fact, the pandemic hit first of all China, the uncomfortable economic rival of the USA, with almost 80 thousand infected and over 2300 dead: useless to write the exact number because it grows every half hour.
Morbidity has been so devastating in the Wuhan outbreak area that there have been thousands of SARS-CoV-2 victims despite the low mortality rate of 2%.
While, if the data on the infected in Iran are real and not intentionally contained by the authorities to avoid panic, the mortality index in the country of the Shiites, bitter enemy of the White House allied with the Sunnis of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, is even equal to 20% and in a few days from the presence of the virus it has already killed 8 people, among 43 infected or perhaps more since the IRNA (Islamic Republic National Agency) also releases updates with the dropper.
The main outbreak is in Qom, the site of the most important Shiite mosque and the most powerful military nuclear power plant, where 7 infected were registered on Sunday, another 4 in Tehran, 2 in Gilan, 1 in Markazi and another in Tonekabon. The data released by the Iranian Ministry of Health are however to be taken with the benefit of inventory as it could be an extremely provisional and partial budget.
The mortality of 8 people out of 43 infected is, in fact, equal to about 20%: or almost ten times that found in China, settled around 3%, and that of other countries such as Italy at 2% (3 out of 150).
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has signed the decree to re-establish a Special National Committee for the health emergency. In Italy, on the other hand, the Civil Protection Crisis Unit has already been working for days in close collaboration with the Prime Minister, which is increasingly placing restrictions on the movement of people and places of mass attendance in various Regions.
Finally, we come to Italy where CoronaVirus killed 5 people and brought the number of infected and hospitalized patients to 219: 167 cases in Lombardy, 27 in Veneto, 18 in Emilia-Romagna, 4 in Piedmont, 3 in Lazio.
The Milan Cathedral has been closed and the historic Carnival of Venice has been interrupted. In 72 hours, the infected thus far exceeded those of Japan (yesterday 135), affected by the epidemic since the end of January. Now Italy is the third country in the world for the dead (after China and Iran) and also for contagious.
And it has already ascertained a third of the infected of South Corea (603), the country most affected by proximity to China and North Korea, the other enemy of the United States, that first opened to accuse the Pentagon of having used a biochemical weapon, such as he then did the Chinese Communist Party (see previous post).
If the increasingly well-founded thesis of the biogenetic weapon is accepted, the motives for a chemical attack can be identified in three factors. Firstly, a warning to the first European country that signed the Silk Road trade agreement with Beijing, secondly, the restarted dialogues between Italy and Iran on Artificial Intelligence, taken up by that “baby-genius” of Luigi Di Maio, Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the height of tensions between Tehran and Washington (lol)…
Finally, this pandemic is a powerful signal to the vast NO-VAX community that contested the Lorenzin law (2017) on the 10 mandatory vaccines of the experimental health plan wanted by the American administration of President Barack Obama, within the 40 countries participating in the Global Health Security Agenda, and implemented by the Italian health and pharmaceutical institutions in collaboration with the Anglo-American multinational Glaxo Smith Kline.
As highlighted in the first report about CoronaVirus, Just GSK is now helping the University of Queensland to develop the vaccine on behalf of the British Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).
Australia, a member of the FIVE EYES international intelligence committee (with the USA, the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand) has just announced that it has already found the vaccine but that it will now obviously need to be tested first.
read more VEGETAL THERAPY FOR LIKELY DEFENSE FROM VIRUS
Could a solution for scientists be to use seriously ill Italians, at high risk of death, as guinea pigs, as mortality is becoming threatening and morbidity is growing unstoppably and exponentially?
There are many ways to impose geopolitical-military colonialism: the pharmaceutical one is certainly the most sneaky, cowardly and horrifying …
© 2020 – Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio – no reproduction without authorization – Gospa News original version


veteranstoday--2020-03-03--Postulating: COVID 19, a Weapon Against China

COVID-19 Coronavirus : A bio-engineered bio-warfare Trojan Horse for a “ pacific ” transition of paradigm shift into a future of Protectionism .
The fact that COVID-19 Coronavirus could be possibly a man made bio-engineered virus had been supported by such an authoritative sources , Chinaxiv among others , that I don ’ t want to waste my energy in the effort of trying to demonstrate it .
So let me consider this fact as a postulate .
Just let me add the very interesting fact that according to bioRxiv this virus appears to be an ethnic weapon , in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ preferably even if not exclusively asian people .
As the Chinese and Korean people .
And in some way , if it is spread elsewhere , it “ works ” also against all human beings , like those living in other countries that for some other different reasons in these times are creating any problems to the United States .
Like Iran or nowadays Italy .
All places where the rate of epidemy spread is higher than the average .
Spread is indeed a key word : as past participle of the verb @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we intend PRC as the main target of such epidemy for its size , population and economic power we must consider globalization itself as the real target .
And possibly even to interdict or at least to delay the chance of an imperial shift , a change in the political , military and economic leadership of Western Countries in which China could/should success to leadership to United States .
But to keep better my feet on the ground it is obvious that the spreading of COVID-19 Coronavirus in PRC doesn ’ t allow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ difficult the pursuance of delocalization and concentration of manufactoring industry in one country or in a very few Far Eastern ones like China , South Korea and Japan .
As it is the snapshot of the present .
In the mean time the spreading of COVID-19 Coronavirus favors and makes it more appropriate a return back to Protectionism by making dangerous the circulation of people and even of goods .
With a crash and a long term very depressive effect on sectors like transports and present logistics as well as Asian Stock Exchanges @ @ @ @ @ @ @ With the additional advantages by means of such epidemy of avoiding a conventional war between China and US and/or an extremely dramatic crash of Stock Exchange followed by a period of Depression , two possibilities that would have been nearly necessary in the case of such a paradigm shift like that from Globalization to Protectionism .
But China is not anymore that of Opium Wars : a Chinese reaction and/or countermeasures may be expected , possibly…

By Claudio Resta VT Italia
The fact that COVID-19 Coronavirus could be possibly a man-made bio-engineered virus had been supported by such authoritative sources, Chinaxiv among others, that I don’t want to waste my energy in the effort of trying to demonstrate it. So let me consider this fact as a postulate.
Just let me add the very interesting fact that according to bioRxiv this virus appears to be an ethnic weapon, in the sense that is engineered to attack preferably even if not exclusively Asian people. As the Chinese and Korean people.
And in some way, if it is spread elsewhere, it “works” also against all human beings, like those living in other countries that for some other different reasons in these times are creating any problems to the United States. Like Iran or nowadays Italy.
All places where the rate of epidemy spread is higher than the average. Spread is indeed a keyword: as the past participle of the verb spread. Possibly intentionally.
But if we intend PRC as the main target of such epidemy for its size, population, and economic power we must consider globalization itself as the real target.
And possibly even to interdict or at least to delay the chance of an imperial shift, a change in the political, military and economic leadership of Western Countries in which China could/should succeed to lead to the United States.
But to keep better my feet on the ground it is obvious that the spreading of COVID-19 Coronavirus in PRC doesn’t allow or at least makes more and more difficult the pursuance of delocalization and concentration of manufacturing industry in one country or in a very few Far Eastern ones like China, South Korea, and Japan.
As it is the snapshot of the present.
In the meantime, the spreading of COVID-19 Coronavirus favors and makes it more appropriate a return back to Protectionism by making dangerous the circulation of people and even of goods.
With a crash and a long term very depressive effect on sectors like transports and present logistics as well as Asian Stock Exchanges and investors portfolio more eastern oriented.
With the additional advantages by means of such epidemy of avoiding a conventional war between China and the US and/or an extremely dramatic crash of Stock Exchange followed by a period of Depression, two possibilities that would have been nearly necessary in the case of such a paradigm shift like that from Globalization to Protectionism.
But China is not anymore that of Opium Wars: a Chinese reaction and/or countermeasures may be expected, possibly…