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summitnews--2020-05-05--18 Million People Entered the UK as the Coronavirus Pandemic Was Raging

18 million people entered the UK in the three months before lockdown with hardly any of them undergoing health screenings or being put into quarantine , it has been revealed .
“ Only 273 people out of 18.1million who came to the country in the three months leading up to the nation-wide lockdown were put into quarantine , ” reports the Mirror .
This means that “ tens of thousands of people were entering from coronavirus-affected countries , ” including Italy and Spain and were then allowed to circulate amongst the general population .
“ On what scientific basis were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one from a Tokyo singled out for extreme attention ?
But not a single flight from Northern Italy , Spain or the US ?
” asked Labour MP Stephen Doughty .
“ The fact that many of these people then likely arrived and travelled onwards across the UK with little or no adherence to social distancing , and with no checks or protections at the border – barely a whiff of hand sanitiser – is deeply disturbing .
Let alone the arrival of 3,000 fans from Madrid as the pandemic picked up speed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ previously highlighted , 100,000 people arriving from foreign countries are still landing at UK airports every single week with virtually no health checks whatsoever .
Meanwhile , Brits who have been under government-imposed lockdown for 6 weeks are being told they might be allowed to go outside for picnics…in a month .
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The families of four people who died from COVID-19 are suing EcoHealth alliance, the New York-based nonprofit that was conducting gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China, before COVID-19 broke out across town.
According to the Aug. 2 lawsuit filed before the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, EcoHealth and its president, Peter Daszak, knew the virus was “capable of causing a worldwide pandemic.”
Not only did EcoHealth help to create a ‘genetically manipulated virus,’ the lawsuit claims, it worked to cover up the origins of the outbreak.
“If we had known the source or origin of this virus and had not been misled that it was from a pangolin in a wet market, and rather we knew that it was a genetically manipulated virus, and that the scientists involved were concealing that from our clients, the outcome could have been very different,” victims’ attorney Patricia Finn told the NY Post.
The families of Mary Conroy, of Pennsylvania; Emma D. Holley, of Rochester, NY; Larry Carr, of Crossville, Tennessee; and Raul Osuna, of Bennington, Nebraska, are seeking unspecified damages. “[The families of the deceased] are definitely in mourning, but moreover they’re enraged because the truth of what really happened appears to be coming forward,” Finn added. Paul Rinker, of Pennsylvania, is also suing Midtown-based EcoHealth and Daszak over the “serious injuries” he suffered from his bout with the bug.
Finn is also suing EcoHealth and Daszak in Nassau and Rockland Counties on behalf of the families of other victims killed by the virus, as well as two who survived.
“This particular case is highly offensive because it appears they knew and concealed the origin of the virus,” said Finn, adding “The treatment or approach taken in dealing with the virus could have been radically different than it was.”
Fauci is simply lying here. Zheng-Li Shi's lab at the WIV and EcoHealth Alliance (which administered NIH subawards to Zheng-Li Shi's lab) were absolutely manipulating viruses (using NIAID funds) in order to see which mutations would make them more dangerous to humans. https://t.co/2MD0oM4sWh — Justin B. Kinney (@jbkinney) August 12, 2023
EcoHealth notably received a re-activated grant from the NIH for over $576,000 in May to study how outbreaks of deadly viruses like SARS, MERS, and now COVID-19 originate from wildlife and transfers to humans, despite failing to meet the NIH’s conditions for reinstatement.
As the Epoch Times noted;
The grant, titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” was originally awarded in 2014 by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Under the terms of the grant, EcoHealth Alliance, a government-funded nonprofit that purportedly engages in research to prevent pandemics, was awarded $3.8 million over five years to assess the spillover potential of bat viruses “using reverse genetics, pseudovirus and receptor binding assays, and virus infection experiments in cell culture and humanized mice.” Put in simple terms, NIAID was paying EcoHealth to genetically engineer and manipulate bat viruses in labs.
In May 2016, the grant was suspended after Erik Stemmy, a NIAID program officer, noticed that federal government funds may have been used for prohibited gain-of-function experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China. At the time, the Obama administration had put in place a moratorium on gain-of-function experiments. However, for reasons that remain unclear, the suspension was lifted in July 2016. At the time, EcoHealth’s president, Peter Daszak, thanked NIAID in an email for lifting the gain-of-function funding pause.
As part of the conditions of the grant, EcoHealth had to file regular activity reports. However, starting in 2018, EcoHealth stopped submitting these reports. EcoHealth would later blame technical difficulties for their failure to submit. The missing reports comprised the critical 2018–2019 timeframe right before the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan.
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In 2014, the Obama administration temporarily suspended federal funding for gain-of-function research into manipulating bat COVID to be more transmissible to humans. Four months prior to that decision, the NIH effectively shifted this research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) to EcoHealth, headed by Peter Daszak.
Notably, the WIV “had openly participated in gain-of-function research in partnership with U.S. universities and institutions” for years under the leadership of Dr. Shi ‘Batwoman’ Zhengli, according to the Washington Post‘s Josh Rogin.
Yet, after Sars-CoV-2 broke out in the same town where Daszak was manipulating Bat Covid, The Lancet published a screed by Daszak (signed by over two-dozen scientists), which insisted the virus could have only come from a natural spillover event, likely from a wet market, and that the scientists “stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.” The Lancet only later noted Daszak’s conflicts of interest.
Meanwhile, as we noted late last year, a Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions interim report from October 27, 2022 titled “An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID19 Pandemic” concluded that the origins of Covid were more likely based in a lab as part of a “research related incident” and not zoonotic.
The report was the result of a “bipartisan Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee oversight effort into the origins of SARS-CoV-2”. It provides a lengthy analysis that reviews “publicly available, open-source information to examine the two prevailing theories of origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus”.
Insanity…
This post was originally published at Zero Hedge


summitnews--2020-05-05--Mayor of Nice Calls For “Health Passports” Giving Citizens Permission to Travel

Three US universities are responding to the coronavirus crisis by creating ( irony of all ironies ) a Chinese style social credit surveillance system that will ‘ score ’ people based on their exposure to the virus .
According to a report from Tech site dot.LA , researchers at the University of Southern California , Emory University , and the University of Texas Health Science Center are jointly working on the system after receiving federal grant funding .
Like the Chinese social credit system , the scheme will consist of a mobile app for contact tracing the virus , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ symptoms of individuals to calculate “ personal risk scores ” .
The score would be used to determine the need “ for quarantine and decontamination , ” according to the report , with “ aggregate risk scores ” also assigned to “ locations like your neighborhood grocery store.
” The universities hope to have a working mobile app by August , in time for the start of the fall semester .
Welcome to the new normal .
Surely the fallout of this system will all be positive .
When the coronavirus vaccine eventually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ updated to show who has had it and who hasn ’ t .
High social credit points for those who have taken it , no travel privileges for those who refuse !
The report notes that “ Countries such as South Korea or China have used location-based digitized contact tracing .
However , it has only been successful because citizens are forced to download it , opt into location monitoring , and regularly check in or otherwise be visited by enforcement authorities.
” “ In that setting where there ’ s 100 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shown it can work , in our setting in the United States , I don ’ t see that really happening , ” said Dr. Jeffrey Klausner , a professor of medicine at UCLA .
“ We have enough problems with governors issuing orders and denying free personal movement , that the idea that people are going to be ordered to download apps to monitor their movement is highly unlikely and probably not constitutional.
” Klausner added , conceding that “ It ’ s going to be difficult to get Americans to agree @ @ @ @ @ @ @ notes that the social credit scoring could “ become problematic if a school or employer requires students or workers reveal them as a condition of receiving a benefit , entering a building or returning to their office.
” “ When you introduce ‘ scoring ’ that takes other factors into account , it complicates everything , and increases the risk that users will be misinformed or discriminated against due to factors beyond their control , ” noted USC ’ s Cyrus Shahabi , a professor of computer science .
Indeed , the Chinese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than 13 million citizens as “ untrustworthy , ” state media recently bragged .
And what heinous behaviour led to the distinction ?
Well , jaywalking for one .
According to Chinese media , other violations stretch to the following : – Bad driving .
– Smoking on trains .
– Buying too many video games .
– Buying too much junk food .
– Buying too much alcohol .
– Calling a friend who has a low credit score .
– Having a friend online who has a low credit score .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
– Criticizing the government .
– Visiting unauthorized websites .
– Walking your dog without a leash .
– Letting your dog bark too much .
The punishment for such a designation as “ discredited entity ” is to be barred from traveling by train or plane .
The system is enforced via facial recognition cameras .
Is this our collective future ?
Apple and Google announced this year that they are working on a Bluetooth applications that will provide contact tracing of the coronavirus using smartphone location data .


summitnews--2020-05-06--Cruz: Hollywood Is ‘Complicit’ In Chinese Censorship; Introduces Bill To Restrict Production

Senator Ted Cruz has introduced legislation that would see Hollywood productions severely limited if they are found to be bowing to Chinese censors .
Appearing on Fox News with Tucker Carlson Tuesday , Cruz charged that Hollywood is “ fully complicit ” in enabling Chinese censorship .
“ The problem of censorship is a massive problem within China .
China ’ s own censorship and coverup of this [ coronavirus ] pandemic helped produce a 257,000 deaths worldwide and when it comes to Hollywood , Hollywood is not an innocent bystander here.
” Cruz urged .
“ Hollywood works with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ willing over and over and over again , there ’ s so much money at stake.
” Cruz noted , explaining that studios regularly change production elements in order to please the communist state so they can make money in China .
The Senator gave examples of the recent Top Gun sequel , wherein China demanded the flags of Taiwan and Japan be removed from the lead character Maverick ’ s flight jacket .
“ What are we saying to the world ?
That Maverick is afraid of the Chinese communists ?
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in regards to the musical film “ Bohemian Rhapsody , ” China demanded that all reference to Queen ’ s lead singer , Freddie Mercury ’ s homosexuality be purged entirely .
“ Pause to think about how many Hollywood producers like to virtue signal about their courage and free speech and artistic integrity and yet they happily try to edit out the fact that Freddie Mercury is gay ?
” Cruz proclaimed , adding “ It ’ s extraordinary.
” The Senator continued , noting “ I pointed this out the other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ me : ‘ How dare Ted Cruz stand up and fight for gay rights.
’ Listen , I am against censorship and against Chinese communists and by the way , I believe in truth , ” Cruz said .
Cruz ’ s bill , called “ The Stopping Censorship , Restoring Integrity , Protecting Talkies Act ” ( SCRIPT Act ) , would ban Hollywood productions from using “ Pentagon assets ” if they enable Chinese censorship .
Many big budget action films require facilitation with the Defense Department to use the latest @ @ @ @

Senator Ted Cruz has introduced legislation that would see Hollywood productions severely limited if they are found to be bowing to Chinese censors.
Appearing on Fox News with Tucker Carlson Tuesday, Cruz charged that Hollywood is “fully complicit” in enabling Chinese censorship.
“The problem of censorship is a massive problem within China. China’s own censorship and coverup of this [coronavirus] pandemic helped produce a 257,000 deaths worldwide and when it comes to Hollywood, Hollywood is not an innocent bystander here.” Cruz urged.
“Hollywood works with the Chinese censors; Hollywood has been willing over and over and over again, there’s so much money at stake.” Cruz noted, explaining that studios regularly change production elements in order to please the communist state so they can make money in China.
The Senator gave examples of the recent Top Gun sequel, wherein China demanded the flags of Taiwan and Japan be removed from the lead character Maverick’s flight jacket.
“What are we saying to the world? That Maverick is afraid of the Chinese communists?” Cruz posited.
Cruz also highlighted how in regards to the musical film “Bohemian Rhapsody,” China demanded that all reference to Queen’s lead singer, Freddie Mercury’s homosexuality be purged entirely.
“Pause to think about how many Hollywood producers like to virtue signal about their courage and free speech and artistic integrity and yet they happily try to edit out the fact that Freddie Mercury is gay?” Cruz proclaimed, adding “It’s extraordinary.”
The Senator continued, noting “I pointed this out the other day and several LGBT magazines began attacking me: ‘How dare Ted Cruz stand up and fight for gay rights.’ Listen, I am against censorship and against Chinese communists and by the way, I believe in truth,” Cruz said.
Cruz’s bill, called “The Stopping Censorship, Restoring Integrity, Protecting Talkies Act” (SCRIPT Act), would ban Hollywood productions from using “Pentagon assets” if they enable Chinese censorship.
Many big budget action films require facilitation with the Defense Department to use the latest equipment and technology.
“We aren’t going to facilitate Chinese communist censorship,” Cruz asserted.


summitnews--2020-05-06--US & UK Intelligence Warn China Is Trying To Hack Bio-Labs Working ON COVID Research

Senator Tom Cotton slammed the communist Chinese government , describing its actions as “ deliberately malevolent ” when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic .
He also suggested that Chinese students should not be allowed to study sciences within the US until the country has been properly held accountable .
Cotton said that he believes China consciously allowed the virus to spread so that the playing field would be levelled , and other countries would also experience economic disaster .
“ Wherever it originated … we know that the Chinese Communist Party was both criminally negligent and incompetent at first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the way they responded to this virus , for their own people and the world , ” Cotton said during a Fox News interview .
“ As early as the second week of December , it was clear that this virus was spreading from person to person .
By late December , it was spreading to doctors in Wuhan hospitals .
Some doctors were trying to blow the whistle on these facts , and the secret police arrived at their doorsteps in the middle of the night.
” Cotton added .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the WHO on December 31 did the world know what was happening .
Yet , still they continued to deny that it was spreading from person to person into mid-January .
That allowed millions of people to leave Wuhan , ” Cotton continued .
“ And then , finally , China continued to pressure the WHO and other countries not to stop international travel from China .
That meant that hundreds of thousands of persons left China after this virus was spread far outside of Wuhan , which allowed the virus to escape @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United States and get to Europe and get to essentially every country in the world.
” the Senator urged .
Cotton noted that China allowed flights to continue in spite of the outbreak “ because they didn ’ t want to see their relative power and standing in the world decline.
” “ They also knew that , once this virus began to spread outside of Wuhan , it would wreak economic havoc throughout China .
And , in fact , China had the first contraction in the first quarter of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 1970s , ” Cotton added .
The Senator charged that China , worried that it would fall behind the rest of the world economically , deliberately allowed the virus to spread .
“ I believe the Chinese communist leaders , when they were aware of those facts by mid-January , made the conscious decision not to explain to the world that it was transmissible between humans , not to shut down travel , not to ask for American or other kind of international scientific help , but to allow this virus to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were going to suffer an economic contraction , they were not going to allow the world to continue to prosper , and China be the only country whose economy was declining.
” Cotton said .
Cotton also urged that it is an injustice that the United States has trained some Chinese nationals to “ go back to China to compete for our jobs , to take our business , and ultimately to steal our property and design weapons and other devices that can be used against the American people.
” “ If Chinese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Shakespeare and the Federalist Papers , that ’ s what they need to learn from America , ” Cotton said , adding “ They don ’ t need to learn quantum computing and artificial intelligence from America .
”

Intelligence agencies in the UK and the US have jointly warned that ‘rival states’ are conducting ‘malicious cyber campaigns’ against universities, pharmaceuticals and research institutes carrying out research on the coronavirus.
A joint advisory published Tuesday by the UK’s GCHQ run National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), stressed that
healthcare workers and medical research officials should up their security amid hacking attempts.
The briefing did not specifically name any countries involved in the cyber-attacks, However, China, Russia and Iran are thought to be behind the attempts to steal information.
The warning described “advanced persistent threat” (APT) groups carrying out the cyber attacks on medical research and healthcare organisations as well as local government “to collect bulk personal information, intellectual property and intelligence that aligns with national priorities”.
The intelligence agencies warned that the attacks consisted of “password spraying” campaigns, which involved repeatedly hitting a target with common passwords in the hope that one unlock sensitive systems.
Sky News reports that institutes in the UK, such as the NHS and pharmaceutical companies, have not successfully been infiltrated, but attacks on research centres elsewhere have been successful.
A security source last night told the Daily Mail that hackers had targeted the ground-breaking research programme at Oxford University.
British foreign secretary Dominic Raab described the attacks as “particularly venal” owing to the fact that they specifically targeted international and national organisations responding to the coronavirus outbreak.
“There are various objectives and motivations that lie behind these attacks, from fraud on the one hand to espionage,” Raab said at the government’s daily briefing Tuesday.
“We expect this kind of predatory criminal behaviour to continue and evolve over the coming weeks and months ahead, and we are taking a range of measures to tackle the threat.” he added.
“We’re absolutely determined to defeat coronavirus, and also to defeat those trying to exploit the situation for their own nefarious ends.” Raab further urged.
The news also dovetails with a warning that states such as China could easily shut down entire western cities by hijacking proposed coronavirus contact-tracing apps and surveillance systems.
The Brookings Institution in Washington published a paper in April written by three leading US academics in the fields of science, tech and law warning that “The issue of malicious use is paramount. Trolls could sow chaos for the malicious pleasure of it. Protesters could trigger panic as a form of civil disobedience. A foreign intelligence operation could shut down an entire city by falsely reporting COVID-19 infections in every neighborhood. There are a great many vulnerabilities underlying this platform that have still yet to be explored.”


summitnews--2020-05-06--US Universities Now Shutting Down ‘Arms Of China’s Propaganda Machine’

Another US university has announced that it is shutting down its Confucius Institute , the organization which is overseen by the Chinese Ministry of Education , amid charges that the ‘ cultural exchange ’ programs are being used by the communist state to indoctrinate Americans and spread Chinese propaganda .
The University of California-Davis is the latest of a string of Universities to axe the Confucius Institute , after heightened concerns among US officials that China is abusing the program .
Chancellor Gary S. May wrote a letter on April 28 to the Hanban division of China ’ s Ministry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The time has come for us to consider new pathways by building on cultural exchange programs like those our Confucius Institute has fostered , ” May wrote .
Speaking to Campus Reform , UC-Davis News and Media Relations Specialist Julia Ann Easley said that “ The Hanban division of China ’ s Ministry of Education announced at the annual meeting of the Confucius Institutes in December that there would be a renewed focus on language instruction.
” “ The focus of the Confucius Institute at UC Davis has been Chinese food and beverage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ instruction .
Because of this , UC Davis is going to explore other ways of working with international universities.
” Easley added .
UC-Davis student Michael Gofman commented that the closure of the program after 7 years is “ absolutely a benefit , ” because “ The Confucius Institute is an arm of the Chinese government ’ s propaganda machine.
” “ The fact that it does dumpling workshops and language training does not change that.
” he added .
The stated aim of the Confucius Institutes is to promote Chinese language and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and facilitate cultural exchanges .
However , US intelligence agencies have previously labeled the organisations as a national security threat , and many universities have since trashed the programs .
In January , the Department of Justice also arrested a professor at Harvard , as well as two Chinese nationals for reportedly acting as foreign agents .
The problem extends beyond the US , with European officials also expressing concerns that China is using the programs to infiltrate and spy on other countries .
Some nations have outright banned the Chinese from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
LONDON , Oct. 22 , 2015– Chinese President Xi Jinping , right , and British Prince Andrew , the Duke of York , unveil the 1,000th Confucius Classroom , the Confucius Classroom at Hautlieu School , in London , Britain , Oct. 22 , 2015 .
Xi attended the opening ceremony of an annual conference of UK Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms in London on Thursday .
( Xinhua/Pang Xinglei via Getty Images ) German Chancellor Angela Merkel ( R ) and XU Lin ( L ) , Director General of Hanban @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Headquarters , stand at the opening event of the Confucius Institute Stralsund in Stralsund , Germany , 30 August 2016 .
The city of Stralsund is now place of residence of a branch of the Chinese Confucius Insitute .
( Photo by Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images ) The UC-Davis closure also comes as the US government vows to hold China accountable for withholding information on and profiting from the coronavirus outbreak .
Congressional Republicans have also expressed concerns that China is attempting to hinder US coronavirus research through such infiltration of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seven House committees delivered a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos this week that warns Beijing is indoctrinating American students .
“ China has strategically invested in U.S. academia to attempt to steal confidential information and technology from U.S. companies , and even the U.S. government , ” the lawmakers state in the letter , pointing to a 2018 report from the Hoover Institution identifying upwards of 110 Confucius Institutes operating on American colleges to facilitate China ’ s espionage and theft of intellectual property .
The Department of Education also instigated an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ determine if they had failed to disclose foreign funding .
In February , the department announced it has uncovered $ 6.5 billion so far in undisclosed foreign funding from Saudi Arabia , Qatar , China and Russia .
The investigation has since been expanded to include Harvard and Yale .
Last year President Donald Trump signed the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act which proposed an ultimatum to universities receiving financial assistance from the Pentagon : close the Chinese propaganda center on campus or lose funding .
Since that time , at least 49 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ according to Human Rights Watch .

Another US university has announced that it is shutting down its Confucius Institute, the organization which is overseen by the Chinese Ministry of Education, amid charges that the ‘cultural exchange’ programs are being used by the communist state to indoctrinate Americans and spread Chinese propaganda.
The University of California-Davis is the latest of a string of Universities to axe the Confucius Institute, after heightened concerns among US officials that China is abusing the program.
Chancellor Gary S. May wrote a letter on April 28 to the Hanban division of China’s Ministry of Education announcing the decision.
“The time has come for us to consider new pathways by building on cultural exchange programs like those our Confucius Institute has fostered,” May wrote.
Speaking to Campus Reform, UC-Davis News and Media Relations Specialist Julia Ann Easley said that “The Hanban division of China’s Ministry of Education announced at the annual meeting of the Confucius Institutes in December that there would be a renewed focus on language instruction.”
“The focus of the Confucius Institute at UC Davis has been Chinese food and beverage culture. It has not offered language instruction. Because of this, UC Davis is going to explore other ways of working with international universities.” Easley added.
UC-Davis student Michael Gofman commented that the closure of the program after 7 years is “absolutely a benefit,” because “The Confucius Institute is an arm of the Chinese government’s propaganda machine.”
“The fact that it does dumpling workshops and language training does not change that.” he added.
The stated aim of the Confucius Institutes is to promote Chinese language and culture, support local Chinese teaching internationally, and facilitate cultural exchanges. However, US intelligence agencies have previously labeled the organisations as a national security threat, and many universities have since trashed the programs.
In January, the Department of Justice also arrested a professor at Harvard, as well as two Chinese nationals for reportedly acting as foreign agents.
The problem extends beyond the US, with European officials also expressing concerns that China is using the programs to infiltrate and spy on other countries. Some nations have outright banned the Chinese from setting up the institutes at their universities.
LONDON, Oct. 22, 2015– Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and British Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, unveil the 1,000th Confucius Classroom, the Confucius Classroom at Hautlieu School, in London, Britain, Oct. 22, 2015. Xi attended the opening ceremony of an annual conference of UK Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms in London on Thursday. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei via Getty Images)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and XU Lin (L), Director General of Hanban, Chief Executive of the Confucius Institute Headquarters, stand at the opening event of the Confucius Institute Stralsund in Stralsund, Germany, 30 August 2016. The city of Stralsund is now place of residence of a branch of the Chinese Confucius Insitute.(Photo by Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images)
The UC-Davis closure also comes as the US government vows to hold China accountable for withholding information on and profiting from the coronavirus outbreak.
Congressional Republicans have also expressed concerns that China is attempting to hinder US coronavirus research through such infiltration of US universities.
Ranking GOP members across seven House committees delivered a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos this week that warns Beijing is indoctrinating American students.
🚨🚨🚨 NEW: 7 top House committee Republicans announce probe into China's infiltration of U.S. colleges “We cannot allow a dangerous communist regime to buy access to our institutions of higher education, plain and simple” – @Jim_Jordan More➡ https://t.co/GwgpkDFkhn pic.twitter.com/C3JQbJIGyJ — Oversight Committee Republicans (@GOPoversight) May 4, 2020
“China has strategically invested in U.S. academia to attempt to steal confidential information and technology from U.S. companies, and even the U.S. government,” the lawmakers state in the letter, pointing to a 2018 report from the Hoover Institution identifying upwards of 110 Confucius Institutes operating on American colleges to facilitate China’s espionage and theft of intellectual property.
The Department of Education also instigated an investigation into several universities last year to determine if they had failed to disclose foreign funding.
In February, the department announced it has uncovered $6.5 billion so far in undisclosed foreign funding from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, China and Russia. The investigation has since been expanded to include Harvard and Yale.
Last year President Donald Trump signed the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act which proposed an ultimatum to universities receiving financial assistance from the Pentagon: close the Chinese propaganda center on campus or lose funding. Since that time, at least 49 schools have closed their Confucius Institute, according to Human Rights Watch.


summitnews--2020-05-06--Video: Senator Cotton Says China Should Provide Evidence To Disprove Coronavirus Lab Leak

Senator Tom Cotton said Tuesday that the onus is on China to produce evidence that will dispute the global intelligence assessment that there is a high possibility that the coronavirus could have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology .
Appearing on Fox News , Cotton said “ all of the evidence — albeit circumstantial — points directly at those labs.
” “ The fact that they use bats , that they research coronaviruses , that they have a history of bad safety practices , that the original person infected with the virus had no contact with the [ seafood @ @ @ @ @ @ @ circumstantial evidence to be sure , ” cotton conceded .
“ But , in intelligence questions , we rarely get direct or conclusive evidence , ” he added .
“ And , if the Chinese Communist Party has evidence to the contrary , they need to bring it forward to the world , ” he asserted .
Cotton continued “ Now , whether the virus was genetically modified or engineered is a highly technical scientific question .
And , the weight of scientific opinion right now , [ says ] that , ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus.
’ But , a naturally occurring virus can , of course , be present in a laboratory where it ’ s being studied.
” “ That is a different question from saying that laboratory may have had bad safety practices and there could have been an accidental breach which was the original source of what has become this terrible pandemic.
” the Senator explained .
Cotton has been pushing for a robust investigation into China ’ s culpability from the beginning of the outbreak .
The Senator has slammed the communist Chinese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deliberately malevolent ” when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic .
He has also suggested that Chinese students should not be allowed to study sciences within the US until the country has been properly held accountable .
Meanwhile , China ’ s UK ambassador has slammed Britain and President Donald Trump for “ poisoning ” their relationship by demanding coronavirus compensation .
Speaking of the lab leak theory , Liu Xiaoming said “ such talks are a political virus .
If they go unchecked they ’ ll poison UK-China relations and even international @ @ @

Appearing on Fox News Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul spoke about how Democrats are acting uncooperatively in the Senate investigation into the origins of COVID, and noted that anyone who still denies the lab leak theory is acting purely in self interest.
“The people of America should realize that the people saying it didn’t come from a lab are self-interested,” Paul asserted, adding that “Tony Fauci approved and gave the money to the lab in Wuhan. So by proving that, he has and shares some culpability in the origins of this virus.”
“He’s always going to deny that it came from the lab, because it comes back to his reputation for having the incredibly poor judgment to send this money to Wuhan,” Paul continued.
“The machinery of government over there is biased, and they’re never going to admit to this. But if you talk to the real scientists – and there’s dozens and dozens of eminent virologists now who have come to the conclusion this came from the lab,” the Senator further noted.
Paul also noted that Democrats are stonewalling the investigation, explaining “I have 30 letters to eight different government agencies. So far, I have no Democrats signing on to help me get any of this information.”
“I’ve approached four Democrat chairmen and most of the information is unclassified, but they refuse to give it. So this is a real problem,” Paul added.
Paul spoke about the consequences of the pandemic and the resulting lockdowns, noting “They damaged our children, particularly the least among us, those who live in poverty, those who have difficult family circumstances.”
“[Lockdowns] did not work. Everybody got COVID eventually, and it wasn’t effective in countries like Sweden that didn’t lock down Their kids, went to school every day. Not one kid died in Sweden. So this was a fallacy promoted by Tony Fauci and the establishment of government,” paul emphasised.
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Paul reemphasised the comments duding another interview on Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla.
The Senator also spoke about the potential indictment of Donald Trump, noting “Nobody yet has really I think fully explained how big a problem this is going to be. This is going to divide the country like nothing has in a long time. It is going to anger a huge part of the country.”
He continued, “I’m talking about a visible, seething anger at taking a president and trying to make a fool of a former president and trying to put him up and take a mug shot of him and arrest him. I think it will divide this country like nothing has ever happened.”
“People need to remember, when Gerald Ford took the, I think, responsible position of not going after Richard Nixon, it was to let the nation heal. And this is something that I think is awful that they’re going to do,” The Senator urged.
He continued, “It’s over something that’s an alleged campaign finance violation that shouldn’t be criminal anyway and ought to be a fine if it is true. And if they if they choose to actually arrest him, you’re going you’re going to see discontent and possibly unrest in the country.”
Paul later tweeted out a call to jail the Manhattan DA, rather than Trump:
A Trump indictment would be a disgusting abuse of power. The DA should be put in jail. — Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 21, 2023
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summitnews--2020-05-06--Professor Lockdown’s Mistress is a Pro-Greta Virtue Signaling Lefty

The married woman who violated the UK ’ s lockdown law to have an illicit affair with the professor responsible for advising the country to go into lockdown is a pro-Greta Thunberg virtue signaling left-wing activist .
Last night it was revealed that government adviser Prof Neil Ferguson , whose warning that 500,000 Brits could die of COVID-19 unless a lockdown was imposed became the basis for government policy , personally violated this lockdown numerous times .
He did so in order to have sex with 38-year-old married mother of two Antonia Staats , who traveled across London to visit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ March podcast uploaded within 24 hours of one of the visits , Staats complained that the lockdown was putting a strain on her marriage .
It subsequently emerged that Staats is a hard-left activist who previously campaigned against leaving the EU , supported Greta Thunberg ’ s climate strike and delivered a petition to 10 Downing Street calling on the government to end fossil fuel subsidies .
Professor Ferguson himself also shared many of Staats left-wing beliefs .
“ The reason for looking into the political affiliations of the scientists and experts who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world during this crisis is that it may throw some light on why those governments have made such poor policy decisions , ” writes Toby Young .
“ Will the vast majority of those advisers turn out to be left-of-centre , like Professor Ferguson ?
I ’ m 99 % sure of it , and I think that will help us to understand what ’ s happened.
” This whole farce once again proves that the most vehement virtue signalers , who are almost exclusively left-wing , always turn out to be the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being silenced by free speech-hating Silicon Valley behemoths who want me disappeared forever .
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summitnews--2020-05-06--Facebook’s New Censorship Czar is Anti-Trump Leftist Who Made Barron a Punch Line

One of Facebook ’ s new “ content oversight board ” members who will decide what information is censored by the social media giant is Pamela Karlan , a leftist who infamously made Barron Trump the punch line of a joke .
“ The independent board , which will be able to overturn Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg ’ s decisions on whether individual pieces of content should be allowed on Facebook and Instagram , is a high-profile response to criticism of how the social media company handles problematic content , ” reports Channel News Asia .
One of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pamela S. Karlan , an American professor of law at Stanford Law School , who made her name for herself for an anti-Trump rant during the impeachment hearings .
“ The Constitution states that there can be no titles of nobility , ” said Karlan during the rant .
“ So while the president can name his son Barron , he can ’ t MAKE him a baron.
” Melania Trump responded to the attack on Barron , a minor , by telling Karlan she “ should be ashamed ” of herself .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ statement “ disgusting ” and she subsequently apologized .
Karlan also once described herself as a “ snarky , bisexual , Jewish women ” and was described by the New York Times as a “ full-throated , unapologetic liberal torchbearer.
” The appointment of Karlan only confirms once again that Facebook is a hyper-partisan bias organization that engages in election meddling by censoring pro-Trump content and bans influential conservatives like yours truly .
Another appointee to the censorship board is Alan Rusbridger , former editor of the Guardian , which is a far-left @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aggressive stifling of free speech to become even more vehement with Kaplan and Rusbridger overseeing it .
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Update (1350ET): The House Judiciary Committee has launched an investigation into a “misinformation” tracking group, the UK’s Center for Countering Digital Hate – which is now being sued by X Corp, formerly Twitter.
According to a letter seen by the Washington Examiner, the Center for Countering Digital Hate is in the crosshairs, as House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has given the nonprofit until August 17, two weeks, to turn over records that could detail the extent of its ties to the Biden White House.
“We know from the Facebook Files that the Center for Countering Digital Hate was working with the White House to censor speech,” said a senior GOP congressional aide. “But how far did it go? Republicans want to find out, and of course subpoenas are on the table if we don’t get answers.”
Jordan’s letter, which was first obtained by the Washington Examiner, is the latest escalation of the GOP’s efforts to investigate how the federal government has, in some cases, coordinated with the private sector to flag certain speech, including speech related to COVID-19, as “disinformation” or “misinformation.” The chairman has recently been publicizing subpoenaed documents from Facebook, now called Meta, showinghow the platform kept in close contact with the Biden administration on content moderation. Further sets of emails produced in connection to that subpoena, which have not been reported on until now and were shared with the Washington Examiner, shed light on Center for Countering Digital Hate’s influence among top Facebook staffers and the highest levels of government. -Washington Examiner
In April 2021, a Facebook employee cited the CCDH’s March 2021 report titled “The Disinformation Dozen” in an email thread dubbed “Vaccine policy,” in which alleged that there “are twelve anti-vaxxers who play leading roles in spreading digital misinformation about COVID vaccines,” with RFK Jr. being one of them.
“We also continue to see pressure from partners and policymakers, including the White House, to remove entities that are seen to be contributing to a large amount of vaccine misinformation content (commonly referred to as the ‘disinformation dozen’ which CCDH asserts are responsible for 73% of vaccine misinformation on Facebook),” the employee’s email continues.
“We continue to monitor these entities on platform, and are reviewing the off platform as well, but do not believe we currently have a clear path for removal of these.”
In his letter to CCDH’s CEO, Imran Ahmed, Jordan writes: “We are interested in understanding the interactions between the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and the federal government in particular, as well as between CCDH and social media companies,” adding “CCDH claims that ‘social media companies erode basic human rights and civil liberties by enabling the spread of online hate and disinformation.'”
Earlier Thursday, Jordan dropped a thread of receipts on Facebook’s relationship with the Biden regime and how they censored unfavorable opinions.
THE FACEBOOK FILES PART 3.
Newly subpoenaed internal notes of meetings between Facebook executives and Biden Admin officials reveal more about the lengths the Biden White House wanted to go to control true speech on Facebook.
🧵 Thread: https://t.co/AeXrs1U8wr — Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 3, 2023
As we’ve previously noted (via Paul Thacker)
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) sprang out of nowhere in late 2017 or early 2018. At the time, Ahmed was leaving a job as a political advisor to members of the British Labour Party and had just written a book. As we chronicle in our just published book The New Serfdom, the dominance of market fundamentalism has been a disastrous experiment that has ripped up social cohesion and solidarity while the gap between the 1 per cent and the 99 per cent has soared to levels not seen since the beginning of the last century. Home ownership, secure employment and fair wages seem like relics of a bygone era. Meanwhile exploitative workplace practices have created a new serfdom leaving many people trapped in insecure, unfulfilling and underpaid work with no escape route. How this background as a political operative prepared Ahmed to brand himself as an expert in disinformation is unclear. His LinkedIn account makes no mention of his work as a political operative in England, although his biography at CCDH states that he is an “authority on social and psychological malignancies on social media, such as identity-based hate, extremism, disinformation, and conspiracy theories.” Ahmed now lives in Washington DC and his organization does not provide a list of funders. In early 2021, CCDH posted a report titled “The Disinformation Dozen” that alleged the majority of COVID vaccine disinformation came from just 12 accounts, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Ahmed released the report just as the Biden administration began their COVID vaccine rollout and shortly before the House held hearings on disinformation at social media companies.
Good question. This appears to be foreign government interference.
Can’t wait to get their donors under deposition! — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 31, 2023
And of course, now the CCDH has their cup out for donations.
CCDH who is known for silencing people including orgs like @FDRLST and @zerohedge are now using the @elonmusk lawsuit to get donations crying about how Elon is “silencing them” and it’s “straight out of the authoritarian handbook” ….This is unbelievable. 🙄 pic.twitter.com/EiWdZA42j8 — Natalie F Danelishen (@Chesschick01) August 3, 2023
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Update (1253ET): Shortly after publication, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) dropped a Twitter thread full of receipts showing the Biden administration’s collusion with Facebook to suppress conservative speech.
“Since it’s a global pandemic, can we give agencies access to targeting parameters that they normally wouldn’t be able to?” said President Biden’s digital director, Rob Flaherty, according to internal company communications.
Rob Flaherty, President Biden’s then-Director of Digital Strategy, repeatedly put pressure on Facebook to explain its content decisions.
“We have to explain to President, Ron, people, why there is misinfo on the internet…” pic.twitter.com/zUZYbKHfA9 — Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 3, 2023
Continued…For example, Flaherty questioned whether Facebook was doing enough to reduce traffic from sites like the @nypost. “I’m curious – NY Post churning out articles every day… What is supposed to happen to that from Policy perspective. Does that article get a reduction, labels?”
But that wasn’t enough for the Biden White House. Flaherty wanted Facebook to go a step further. He wanted Facebook to kick people off its site.
The Biden White House’s effort to censor opposing viewpoints only grew. So, they upped the pressure. Flaherty demanded that Facebook “play ball” and work with the Biden White House on censorship. He called it his “dream.”
But that’s not all. The Biden White House wanted to control what you saw on Facebook. They questioned whether Facebook could change its algorithm so users saw more posts from the New York Times and less from the @realDailyWireand @TomiLahren.
Why did they do that? Because they didn’t think you were smart enough to decide for yourself. President Biden’s head of strategic communications and public engagement for the #COVID19 response, Courtney Rowe, mocked Real America’s ability to determine what’s true and what isn’t.
Facebook knew it had to act. One employee tried to explain to the White House that if the company couldn’t “remove” content, it could at least “contain it.”
But Flaherty continued to press for more content moderation and CONTROL on so-called “bad” content.
And of course, Facebook caved. The company ADMITTED to the White House that it reduced content of certain posts – even if the posts didn’t violate the company’s terms and contained TRUE information. Just read this from a Facebook employee.
These newly subpoenaed meeting notes continue to show the Biden White House’s desire to direct and control content on Facebook. More evidence of the censorship-industrial complex. To be continued…
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Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness,
In new memos recently released by Facebook, the social media giant was pressured by the Biden White House into altering its algorithms so that mainstream news sources would be elevated over conservative sites.
As Just The News reports, the documents over to the House Judiciary Committee following a subpoena detail a series of meetings between Facebook executives and White House Digital Director Rob Flaherty in the spring of 2021. The demands from the White House focused on posts related to the Chinese coronavirus and the efficiency of the COVID vaccines.
In one meeting on April 14th, 2021, Flaherty asked Facebook if it was possible to artificially promote outlets such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, instead the Daily Wire and Fox News, particularly commentator Tomi Lahren.
“If you were to change the algorithm so that people were more likely to see NYT, WSJ, any authoritative news source over Daily Wire, Tomi Lahren, polarizing people,” Flaherty asked.
“You wouldn’t have a mechanism to check the material impact?”
“We have to explain to President, Ron [Klain], people, why there is misinfo on the internet, bigger problem than FB,” said Flaherty, according to the typed notes from Facebook executives.
“Where issues are, what interventions are, how well they are working, for products, want to engage in things that you know to be effective. I don’t even care about specific methodology, you have better, richer data than we’ll ever have.”
Tomi Lahren, who boasted a large following on Facebook, had recently announced that she would refuse to get the COVID vaccine. Meanwhile, Daily Wire had filed a lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s mandate for private workplaces to force its employees to take the vaccine. The Supreme Court eventually struck down Biden’s workplace mandate, while upholding his vaccine mandate for facilities that are funded by Medicare and Medicaid.
“What are the things driving hesitancy on your platform? What is it? How big is the problem? When you are intervening, how are you measuring success?” Flaherty repeatedly grilled the Facebook executives in one meeting.
“Never-before-released internal documents subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee PROVE that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and changed their content moderation policies because of unconstitutional pressure from the Biden White House,” said Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, on Twitter.
Constitutional scholars have also raised the alarm over the revelations, with George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley saying that he has “asked Congress to pass a law barring federal employees from engaging in censorship and targeting of citizens.”
“Agencies have a right to speak in their own voices,” Turley added. “Instead, the Biden Administration sought to engage in what I have called ‘censorship through surrogate.’ This is part of that pattern.”
Turley’s take is reiterated by University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds told Just the News on Wednesday that the First Amendment issue is when the “government is asking people to censor speech, their action is attributable to the government, so both they and the government can be sued.”x
“By working with the government, Facebook exposed themselves to liability,” Reynolds said, noting that they do not “share sovereign immunity” with the government and will “probably very much regret it.”
This post was originally published at Zero Hedge


summitnews--2020-05-07--Professor: Economic Impact of Lockdown Will Cause More Deaths than Coronavirus

Peter Nilsson , a professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at Lund University , warns that the economic devastation caused by lockdowns will cause more deaths than the coronavirus itself .
Nilsson was commenting on Sweden ’ s approach to coronavirus , which unlike virtually every other western country in the world didn ’ t impose a lockdown to fight COVID-19 .
The tactic appears to have worked , with Sweden ’ s ‘ R ’ rate of infection being roughly the same as the UK ’ s , a country which did impose a lockdown .
The country also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and didn ’ t sacrifice its economy , meaning deaths from poverty will be reduced .
Opining that he thinks this will “ prove to be a good strategy in the long run , ” Professor Nilsson said the approach had succeeded in preventing a spike in unemployment .
“ It ’ s so important to understand that the deaths of COVID-19 will be far less than the deaths caused by societal lockdown when the economy is ruined , ” said Nilsson .
“ Why ?
Because of unemployment and all the social @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will hurt and kill people in the future.
” Mikael Rostila , professor at the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Stockholm University , echoed Nilsson ’ s sentiments in arguing that Sweden is now in a much better position than other countries .
“ Sweden could reach heard immunity earlier than other countries which means that the spread of the virus and the number of deaths will decrease since a majority of the population will be immune , ” said Rostila .
“ Other countries that start to reopen now may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So it might be that they have just postponed a severe outbreak.
” As we previously highlighted , a data analyst consortium in South Africa found that the economic consequences of the country ’ s lockdown will lead to 29 times more people dying than the coronavirus itself .
Meanwhile , people across the United Kingdom are demanding their own lockdown be continued indefinitely , with the hashtag # KeepTheLockdown trending number one on Twitter .
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summitnews--2020-05-07--Belgian Intelligence Accuses China Of ‘Bio-espionage’

Belgian intelligence officials have accused China of espionage targeting the county’s biological warfare and vaccine experts.
A report in the EU Observer details reports from Belgium’s homeland security service, the Veiligheid van de Staat (VSSE), dating back a decade showing threats of Chinese military, scientific, and medical espionage.
“This area [biological warfare and vaccines] is of great interest to Chinese [intelligence] services. Both defensively, because China, due to its overpopulation, is very exposed to epidemics, as well as offensively, since it has studied Ebola as an offensive vector”. one of the reports notes.
The VSSE report says that a former Belgian bioweapons expert was targeted by Chinese spies in 2010 while working as a scientist in Brussels:
He was very friendly with a Chinese scientist, whom he had “introduced into the scientific and medical milieu” in Belgium, the VSSE said. But the Chinese scientist used to be a military doctor in the Chinese army, the VSSE noted, and “she might keep too-close ties with her country in general and her former employer in particular”, it added. “She was obviously MSS,” the Belgian security source told EUobserver, referring to China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS).
Another bioweapons researcher, Jean-Luc Gala, was also targeted by China according to the report, during a time he was testing Japanese anti-viral drug Avigan, which is now being researched as a potential coronavirus treatment.
“The VSSE noted that two suspicious Chinese entities had opened offices on a different floor of the same campus building that housed units of the Belgian bioweapons institute.” the report states.
The report also suggest that Beijing has targeted the Belgium office of British pharmaceutical giant and vaccine manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
While the report notes that the suspicions have no direct link to the current coronavirus pandemic, they come at a time when China is under intense scrutiny owing to its attempted cover up of the pandemic outbreak.
Intelligence agencies in the UK and the US this week jointly warned that ‘rival states’ are conducting ‘malicious cyber campaigns’ against universities, pharmaceuticals and research institutes carrying out research on the coronavirus.


summitnews--2020-05-07--Pointless Celebrities Call For World To ‘Not Return To Normal’;  ‘Radical Transformation’ Of Economi

Pointless Celebrities Call For World To ‘Not Return To Normal’;  ‘Radical Transformation’ Of Economies

Millionaire celebrities , who still do not seem to realise that the world does not revolve around them , have rallied behind a call to ‘ end consumerism ’ and not to allow the world to go back to how it was before the virus outbreak .
Over 200 famous people have signed a ‘ plea ’ titled Please , let ’ s not go back to normal , that calls for ‘ radical transformation ’ of economies and for humanity to ‘ examine what is essential ’ .
Those who have added their names to the proposal include Madonna @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Jane Fonda , Marion Cotillard and Monica Bellucci .
Of course , most of these vacuous pointless idiots would not have the wealth , or the platform they are now using to lecture everyday people if they followed their own advice .
“ We believe it is unthinkable to “ go back to normal ” , the letter notes , adding “ Adjustments are not enough .
The problem is systemic.
” “ The ongoing ecological catastrophe is a meta-crisis .
Unlike a pandemic… a global ecological collapse will have immeasurable consequences @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have found time to get behind the campaign between constantly tweeting out videos of themselves complaining about being ‘ imprisoned ’ in their luxurious properties .
“ The pursuit of consumerism and an obsession with productivity have led us to deny the value of life itself : that of plants , that of animals , and that of a great number of human beings , ” the letter also states .
Will these people follow their own decrees ?
Or Will they continue to rake in millions every month , jetting around the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while pointing the finger at the rest of the planet and declaring that it is our “ consumerism ” and excessive lifestyles that have “ brought the world to a breaking point.
” “ We must act now .
It is as much a matter of survival as of dignity and coherence , ” the sickeningly patronising decree concludes .
These people never knew what ‘ normal ’ was .

Millionaire celebrities, who still do not seem to realise that the world does not revolve around them, have rallied behind a call to ‘end consumerism’ and not to allow the world to go back to how it was before the virus outbreak.
Over 200 famous people have signed a ‘plea’ titled Please, let’s not go back to normal, that calls for ‘radical transformation’ of economies and for humanity to ‘examine what is essential’.
Those who have added their names to the proposal include Madonna, Robert de Niro, Cate Blanchett, Jane Fonda, Marion Cotillard and Monica Bellucci.
Of course, most of these vacuous pointless idiots would not have the wealth, or the platform they are now using to lecture everyday people if they followed their own advice.
“We believe it is unthinkable to “go back to normal”, the letter notes, adding “Adjustments are not enough. The problem is systemic.”
“The ongoing ecological catastrophe is a meta-crisis. Unlike a pandemic… a global ecological collapse will have immeasurable consequences,” it continues.
The celebs have found time to get behind the campaign between constantly tweeting out videos of themselves complaining about being ‘imprisoned’ in their luxurious properties.
“The pursuit of consumerism and an obsession with productivity have led us to deny the value of life itself: that of plants, that of animals, and that of a great number of human beings,” the letter also states.
Will these people follow their own decrees? Or Will they continue to rake in millions every month, jetting around the globe, living between multiple mansions, while pointing the finger at the rest of the planet and declaring that it is our “consumerism” and excessive lifestyles that have “brought the world to a breaking point.”
“We must act now. It is as much a matter of survival as of dignity and coherence,” the sickeningly patronising decree concludes.
These people never knew what ‘normal’ was.


summitnews--2020-05-07--Video: As Trump Honors Nurses At White House, Media Accuses Them Of Breaking Social Distancing Rules

As the President hosted a group of frontline nurses and healthcare workers at the White House , a reporter was beset by an overwhelming urge to show that orange man is bad .
“ America ’ s nurses are waging a war against the invisible enemy , ” Trump announced , adding ” They ’ re fighting on the frontlines of the battle risking their health to save lives of fellow citizens.
” Trump made the comments as he met with six nurses and the presidents of the American Nurses Association and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners , to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nurses Day .
Not good enough for the media however , with one reporter immediately accusing the president of sending the wrong message to Americans for not socially distancing and not wearing masks .
“ I ’ m trying to be nice , I ’ m signing a bill and you criticize us , ” Trump shot back .
“ Look , here ’ s a story .
There ’ s not a single thing I can do to satisfy the media , the Democrats , and the fake news.
” Trump asserted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the American Association of Nurse Practitioners Sophia Thomas jumped in , explaining “ We ’ re all COVID-19 free , we were all tested , we ’ re not socially distancing if we ’ re all negative , and we wouldn ’ t do anything to harm our president , obviously.
” Thomas further said that she had reused a mask in New Orleans for a long time , and that PPE was “ sporadic ” for a while where she worked , but was “ manageable.
” “ Sporadic for you , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other people , ” Trump intervened .
This exchange was then reported by the media with headlines such as “ Donald Trump undermines coronavirus nurse after she complained about ‘ sporadic ’ PPE ” and “ Trump rebukes nurse in White House.
” Those reports did not focus on the fact that the nurses all said they had good supplies of PPE .
One of the nurses from New Jersey commented that she can not stand media reports about supposed medical shortages , noting that they unnecessarily worry healthcare staff .
“ It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nurses to work , ” she said , adding “ We ’ re seeing the reality of it , but to hear it on constantly … in reality , I ’ m not seeing it .
I ’ m in a hot zone right now.
” “ You know why ?
Because they ’ re fake news , that ’ s why , ” Trump replied .

As the President hosted a group of frontline nurses and healthcare workers at the White House, a reporter was beset by an overwhelming urge to show that orange man is bad.
“America’s nurses are waging a war against the invisible enemy,” Trump announced, adding ”They’re fighting on the frontlines of the battle risking their health to save lives of fellow citizens.”
Trump made the comments as he met with six nurses and the presidents of the American Nurses Association and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, to sign a proclamation in honor of National Nurses Day.
Not good enough for the media however, with one reporter immediately accusing the president of sending the wrong message to Americans for not socially distancing and not wearing masks.
“I’m trying to be nice, I’m signing a bill and you criticize us,” Trump shot back.
“Look, here’s a story. There’s not a single thing I can do to satisfy the media, the Democrats, and the fake news.” Trump asserted.
Watch:
Defending Trump, the president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners Sophia Thomas jumped in, explaining “We’re all COVID-19 free, we were all tested, we’re not socially distancing if we’re all negative, and we wouldn’t do anything to harm our president, obviously.”
Thomas further said that she had reused a mask in New Orleans for a long time, and that PPE was “sporadic” for a while where she worked, but was “manageable.”
“Sporadic for you, but not sporadic for a lot of other people,” Trump intervened.
“I agree Mr. President, absolutely,” Thomas replied.
This exchange was then reported by the media with headlines such as “Donald Trump undermines coronavirus nurse after she complained about ‘sporadic’ PPE” and “Trump rebukes nurse in White House.”
Those reports did not focus on the fact that the nurses all said they had good supplies of PPE.
One of the nurses from New Jersey commented that she cannot stand media reports about supposed medical shortages, noting that they unnecessarily worry healthcare staff.
“It makes it so much worse for us nurses to work,” she said, adding “We’re seeing the reality of it, but to hear it on constantly … in reality, I’m not seeing it. I’m in a hot zone right now.”
“You know why? Because they’re fake news, that’s why,” Trump replied.


summitnews--2020-05-07--Rand Paul: ‘Reopen The Economy, No More Imaginary Money’

Senator Rand Paul has called for the economy to be reopened , saying that it is the only solution for recovery .
Appearing on Fox News , a bearded Paul said that Americans need to be allowed to go back to work imminently or there will “ continue to be economic calamity.
” “ To people [ who ] ask me I remind them that we have no money , ” Paul urged .
“ We have no rainy day account .
We have no savings account .
The $ 3 trillion that we ’ ve already passed out is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ referring to the already staggering national debt .
“ It ’ s being borrowed basically from China .
So , the irony is we got the virus from China , and now we are going to be more dependent by borrowing more money from China.
” Paul stressed .
“ The only thing that recovers our economy is opening the economy.
” Paul asserted .
The Senator urged that Americans need to be released from “ forcible home arrest ” if any recovery is going to stand a chance .
“ It ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s a lack of commerce .
If you let people have commerce , if you let them trade , if you take them out from forcible home arrest , our economy will recover .
But if you keep everybody under home arrest and say you can not practice your business , you can not sell your goods , there will continue to be economic calamity .
… We don ’ t have any money.
” Paul proclaimed .
Paul also slammed Democratic-run states for wanting to keep the economy shut down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who don ’ t want to open their state , now they ’ re clamoring for federal money to bail them out because no state revenue is coming in .
We don ’ t have any money.
” he urged .
Elsewhere during the interview , the Senator speculated that Barack Obama criticized a GOP-led investigation into Hunter Biden because he was aware of “ corruption problems ” while in office .
“ There ’ s been rumors for quite a while that people within the Obama administration knew about the corruption problems @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the vice president , and maybe even the president about it.
” Paul said .
“ I think that there could be a smoking gun , that there ’ s actually a record of some of these complaints that were going on at the time , ” he added .

There was a shocking number in today’s latest monthly US Budget Deficit report. No, it wasn’t that US government outlays unexpectedly soared 15% to $646 billion in June, up almost $100 billion from a year ago…
… while tax receipts slumped 9.2% from $461 billion to $418 billion, resulting in a TTM government receipt drop of over 7.3%, the biggest since June 2020 when the US was reeling from the covid lockdown recession; in fact never have before tax receipts suffered such a big drop without the US entering a recession.
Needless to say, surging government outlays coupled with shrinking tax revenues meant that in June, the US budget deficit nearly tripled from $89 billion a year ago to $228 billion, far greater than the consensus estimate of $175 billion. One can only imagine which Ukrainian billionaire oligarch’s money laundering bank account is currently enjoying the benefits of that unexpected incremental $50 billion US deficit hole: we know for a fact that the FBI will never get to the bottom of that one, since they can’t even figure out who dumped a bunch of blow inside the White House – the most protected and surveilled structure in the entire world.
And with the monthly deficits coming in higher than expected and also far higher than a year ago, it is also not at all surprising that the cumulative deficit 9 months into the fiscal year is already the 3rd highest on record, surpassed only by the crisis years of 2020 and 2021: at $1.393 trillion, the fiscal 2022 YTD deficit is already up 170% compared to the same period last year.
Again, while sad, none of the above numbers are surprising: they merely confirm that the US is on an ever faster-track to fiscal death, but not before the Fed is forced to monetize the debt once again (one wonders what financial crisis the Jekyll Island folks will invoke this time to greenlight the next multi-trillion QE).
No, the one number that was truly shocking was found all the way on page 9, deep inside Table 3 of the latest Treasury Monthly Statement: the only highlighted below, and which shows that in the 9 months of the current fiscal year, the US has already accumulated a record $652 billion in gross debt interest.
This number was more than 25% higher compared to the Interest Expense payment for the comparable period a year ago, which amounted to $521 billion.
Soaring interest rates, driven by the panicked Fed’s scramble to undo its epic policy failure of 2020 and 2021 when the Fed kept rates at zero for far too long while injecting trillions into various asset bubbles, have been the key driver of the deficit, with the Federal Reserve boosting its benchmark rate by 5% since it began hiking in March last year. Five-year Treasury yields are now about 3.96%, versus 1.35% at the start of last year. As lower-yielding securities mature, the Treasury faces steady increases in the rates it pays on outstanding debt: that’s right – even when the Fed starts cutting rates, due to the delay of rolling over maturing debt, actual interest payments will keep rising for the foreseeable future.
For context, the weighted average interest for total outstanding debt at the end of June was only 2.76%, a level that’s not been surpassed since January 2012, according to the Treasury. That’s up from 1.80% a year before, the department’s data show, and if the Fed indeed keeps rates “higher for longer”, the blended rate on the debt will surpass 4% in one year.
That would be a complete disaster for the US, and it would mean that interest payments on total US debt of $32.3 trillion would hit $1.3 trillion within 12 months, potentially making interest on the debt the single biggest US government expenditure and surpassing social security!
But we don’t even have to wait that long until the exploding interest on US government debt becomes a major talking point ahead of the coming presidential elections. According to the St Louis Fed’s FRED and the BEA, the interest payments by the Federal Government have now surpassed $900 billion for the first time ever, and within a quarter will hit probably rise above $1 trillion, a historic benchmark that will probably begin the countdown to the US Minsky Moment.
One of the most incompetent puppets in the Biden admin (and there are countless), Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, has played down concerns about higher rates. She has instead flagged that the ratio of interest payments to GDP, after adjustment for inflation, remains historically low. The problem with Yellen’s argument is that GDP will crater after the next recession (which will also spark the next financial crisis, one which Yellen will not live to see), but US debt will never again drop in either absolute or relative terms, as the good folks at the CBO have been so kind to make clear to even such intellectual midgets as the former Fed chairwoman.
In short, the endgame has now arrived, and all the US can do now is rearrange the deck chairs.
This post was originally published at Zero Hedge


summitnews--2020-05-07--San Antonio City Council Passes Resolution Declaring “Chinese Virus” to be “Hate Speech”

San Antonio City Council has unanimously passed a resolution that declares the terms “ Chinese Virus ” and “ Kung Flu Virus ” to be hate speech .
President Trump and many of his supporters have used variations of both terms as a reminder that COVID-19 did indeed originate in China .
This prompted the media and leftists to claim Trump was being “ racist ” despite the fact that viruses are routinely named after their place of origin .
Now San Antonio City Council has officially declared such language to be “ hate speech.
” “ Resolution being voted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ morning labels terms “ Chinese Virus ” and “ Kung Fu Virus ” as hate speech and “ all persons are encouraged to report any such antisemitic , discriminatory or racist incidents to the proper authorities for investigation , ” tweeted reporter Jaie Avila .
Apparently , a regular council meeting attendee called Jack Finger tried to speak against the resolution , but his mic was cut off .
Council Member Manny Pelaez said “ hate speech is more dangerous than the virus itself , ” despite the fact that the virus has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was passed unanimously .
Expect similar versions of it to now be passed by councils across the country .
In taking such a stance , authorities are literally amplifying Chinese Communist Party propaganda , which has repeatedly cried “ racism ” when confronted with the fact that Beijing tried to cover-up the severity of coronavirus when it first emerged in Wuhan .
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summitnews--2020-05-07--LeBron James Claims Black People are “Hunted Every Time We Step Foot Outside Our Homes”

Basketball star LeBron James claimed in a tweet that black people are “ hunted every time we step foot outside our homes.
” The tweet was a response to the killing of “ jogger ” Ahmaud Aubrey who was shot after a confrontation with two white men in Georgia who believed him to be a burglary suspect .
The media has spun the incident as Aubrey being “ hunted ” down , despite the fact that video of the incident shows him physically charging one of the other men .
“ We ’ re literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” tweeted James .
“ Can ’ t even go for a damn jog man !
Like WTF man are you kidding me ?
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No man fr ARE YOU KIDDING ME !
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” Not only is LeBron James obviously wrong with his hyperbolic tweet , the opposite is actually true .
FBI statistics show that black people are significantly more likely to murder white people than vice versa , despite them only making up 13 per cent of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 500 killings of white people were attributed to blacks while 229 black lives taken by white killers .
Since white people make up roughly 73 per cent of the population , there are disproportionately more black on white homicides per capita .
When you account for the fact that the overwhelming majority of perpetrators are black males , that brings the figure down closer to 6 per cent .
From 1976 to 2005 , 94 per cent of black victims were killed by other African Americans , a statistic that continued to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ since then and been the norm for over a century .
However , when a black person is murdered by another African-American , it barely makes the news .
So no , black people are not being “ hunted ” every time they leave the house .
The media whips up hysteria surrounding individual incidents to create the false perception that black people are being targeted en masse by whites , which is simply not true .
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Basketball star LeBron James claimed in a tweet that black people are “hunted every time we step foot outside our homes.”
Turns out that’s not true.
The tweet was a response to the killing of “jogger” Ahmaud Aubrey who was shot after a confrontation with two white men in Georgia who believed him to be a burglary suspect.
The media has spun the incident as Aubrey being “hunted” down, despite the fact that video of the incident shows him physically charging one of the other men.
“We’re literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes!” tweeted James. “Can’t even go for a damn jog man! Like WTF man are you kidding me?!?!?!?!?!? No man fr ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!”
We’re literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes! Can’t even go for a damn jog man! Like WTF man are you kidding me?!?!?!?!?!? No man fr ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!! I’m sorry Ahmaud(Rest In Paradise) and my prayers and blessings sent to the….. pic.twitter.com/r1PNxs8Vgn — LeBron James (@KingJames) May 6, 2020
Not only is LeBron James obviously wrong with his hyperbolic tweet, the opposite is actually true.
FBI statistics show that black people are significantly more likely to murder white people than vice versa, despite them only making up 13 per cent of the population.
For example, in 2015, 500 killings of white people were attributed to blacks while 229 black lives taken by white killers. Since white people make up roughly 73 per cent of the population, there are disproportionately more black on white homicides per capita.
When you account for the fact that the overwhelming majority of perpetrators are black males, that brings the figure down closer to 6 per cent.
From 1976 to 2005, 94 per cent of black victims were killed by other African Americans, a statistic that continued to hover around the 90 per cent level since then and been the norm for over a century.
However, when a black person is murdered by another African-American, it barely makes the news.
So no, black people are not being “hunted” every time they leave the house.
The media whips up hysteria surrounding individual incidents to create the false perception that black people are being targeted en masse by whites, which is simply not true.
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summitnews--2020-05-07--Multimillionaire Celebrities Call For End to Capitalism From The Comfort of Their Luxury Mansions

Multimillionaire celebrities have signed a petition calling for an end to capitalism from the comfort of their luxury mansions .
The petition , called ‘ Please , let ’ s not go back to normal ’ , says the COVID-19 pandemic is a “ tragedy , ” but that the “ ongoing ecological catastrophe is a meta-crisis.
” “ The pursuit of consumerism and an obsession with productivity have led us to deny the value of life itself : that of plants , that of animals , and that of a great number of human beings , ” states the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and the destruction of our remaining natural zones has brought the world to a breaking point.
” The petition urges world leaders to not allow everyone to “ go back to normal ” after the coronavirus pandemic is over .
This is yet another example of the sheer disdain these celebrities have for ordinary , working aspirational people .
When they talk of ‘ ending consumerism ’ – they ’ re not talking about people not watching their movies or buying their music ( God forbid ) , they ’ re talking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s living standards while they , the celebrity elite , continue to live like royalty .
While they dance and their giant kitchens and virtue signal about how “ we ’ re all in this together ” during the lockdown , people in the real world are losing their businesses and jobs .
They want to create a vertical economy of princes and paupers where no one outside of their bubble is allowed to elevate themselves .
Meanwhile , once the lockdown is over , they ’ ll continue to travel the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ property while lecturing you about the necessity of eating bugs to save the planet .
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Multimillionaire celebrities have signed a petition calling for an end to capitalism from the comfort of their luxury mansions.
The petition, called ‘Please, let’s not go back to normal’, says the COVID-19 pandemic is a “tragedy,” but that the “ongoing ecological catastrophe is a meta-crisis.”
“The pursuit of consumerism and an obsession with productivity have led us to deny the value of life itself: that of plants, that of animals, and that of a great number of human beings,” states the letter. “Pollution, climate change, and the destruction of our remaining natural zones has brought the world to a breaking point.”
The petition urges world leaders to not allow everyone to “go back to normal” after the coronavirus pandemic is over.
Signatories include Madonna, Robert de Niro, Cate Blanchett, Jane Fonda, Marion Cotillard and Monica Bellucci.
This is yet another example of the sheer disdain these celebrities have for ordinary, working aspirational people.
When they talk of ‘ending consumerism’ – they’re not talking about people not watching their movies or buying their music (God forbid), they’re talking about a reduction in everyone else’s living standards while they, the celebrity elite, continue to live like royalty.
While they dance and their giant kitchens and virtue signal about how “we’re all in this together” during the lockdown, people in the real world are losing their businesses and jobs.
They want to create a vertical economy of princes and paupers where no one outside of their bubble is allowed to elevate themselves.
Meanwhile, once the lockdown is over, they’ll continue to travel the world in private jets and buy expensive beachfront property while lecturing you about the necessity of eating bugs to save the planet.
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summitnews--2020-05-08--Facebook Censorship Council Includes Pro-Muslim Brotherhood Activist

Facebook ’ s new censorship council , which will decide what content gets deleted from the website , includes a pro-Muslim Brotherhood Yemeni activist .
“ The independent board , which will be able to overturn Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg ’ s decisions on whether individual pieces of content should be allowed on Facebook and Instagram , is a high-profile response to criticism of how the social media company handles problematic content , ” reported Channel News Asia .
The “ oversight board ” will include none other than Nobel Laureate Tawakkol Karman , the Yemeni woman who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Arab Spring uprising in 2011 .
Karman ’ s activism includes supporting the Muslim Brotherhood , an Islamist organization that has been blamed for terrorist attacks .
Karman previously denounced arrests of Muslim Brotherhood members and opposed the move to bar the Muslim Brotherhood from participating in Egyptian politics .
In Yemen , the Muslim Brotherhood is led by Abdul Majeed al-Zindani , a Sunni Islamist viewed by the United States as a “ Bin Laden loyalist ” and someone who is listed as a “ Specially Designated Global Terrorist ” by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s tolerance for allowing criticism of Islam on Facebook ’ s platform will be in short supply .
As we highlighted earlier this week , another one of Facebook ’ s censorship czars is none other than anti-Trump Professor Pamela Karlan .
Karlan made a name for herself because of a rant at the impeachment hearings during which she made Barron Trump the punch line of a joke .
Karlan was also described by the New York Times as a “ full-throated , unapologetic liberal torchbearer.
” These are the people who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ violate the social media network ’ s increasingly draconian rules .
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr responded to the announcement of the oversight board by slamming it as a partisan fraud .
“ Meet your new speech police , ” said Carr .
“ Facebook now has an Oversight Board empowered to take down posts.
” “ Got ta be non-partisan people , right ?
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1 is Pam Karlan : testified to impeach @ POTUS , “ baron ” Trump line , Obama DOJ , & NYT calls ‘ full-throated , unapologetic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s decision undermines its claim that posts won ’ t be censored for partisan political reasons .
Karlan testified that ‘ President Trump must be held to account.
’ She wrote *in 2016* that she felt ‘ a responsibility to challenge [ Trump ] in the court of public opinion . '
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summitnews--2020-05-08--EU Defends Bowing To Communist Chinese Censors

The EU has attempted to defend the fact that it allowed the communist Chinese government to censor a letter it wrote before it was published in a Chinese newspaper , erasing a sentence that stated the coronavirus originated in China .
The letter , co-written by the bloc ’ s 27 ambassadors , was published in China ’ s English-language newspaper China Daily on Tuesday .
However , the EU agreed to allow censors to remove the sentence , which stated “ But the outbreak of the coronavirus , in China , and its subsequent spread to the rest of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” “ China has state-controlled media .
There is censorship , that ’ s a fact , ” EU foreign affairs spokesperson Virginie Battu-Henriksson told reporters in an attempt to justify bowing to the Chinese censors .
Henriksson suggested that the EU reluctantly agreed to the amendment because it was better than not being able to communicate with a Chinese audience on ‘ key EU issues ’ , including climate change , human rights and the pandemic response .
It is the second time in the space of two weeks that the EU @ @ @ @ @ @ @ having previously softened criticism of the communist regime in a report documenting how governments have pushed “ disinformation ” about the coronavirus pandemic .
The European Union was set to issue the report until Chinese officials “ quickly contacted the European Union ’ s representatives in Beijing to try to kill the report , ” according to two diplomats .
The EU then “ diluted the focus on China , a vital trading partner.
” German conservative politician Norbert Roettgen criticised the EU ’ s actions , stating “ I am shocked not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ EU ambassadors generously adopt Chinese narratives and then the EU representative on top accepts Chinese censorship of the joint op-ed.
” he added .
“ This story beggars belief , ” another EU diplomat told Politico , asking “ What is the point in letting yourself be censored ?
” The source urged that it was an “ embarrassment ” for the EU , adding : “ The cost of taking a stand and defending what you believe in would have been very small .
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The EU has attempted to defend the fact that it allowed the communist Chinese government to censor a letter it wrote before it was published in a Chinese newspaper, erasing a sentence that stated the coronavirus originated in China.
The letter, co-written by the bloc’s 27 ambassadors, was published in China’s English-language newspaper China Daily on Tuesday. However, the EU agreed to allow censors to remove the sentence, which stated “But the outbreak of the coronavirus, in China, and its subsequent spread to the rest of the world over the past three months…”
“China has state-controlled media. There is censorship, that’s a fact,” EU foreign affairs spokesperson Virginie Battu-Henriksson told reporters in an attempt to justify bowing to the Chinese censors.
Henriksson suggested that the EU reluctantly agreed to the amendment because it was better than not being able to communicate with a Chinese audience on ‘key EU issues’, including climate change, human rights and the pandemic response.
It is the second time in the space of two weeks that the EU has rolled over for Chinese censorship, having previously softened criticism of the communist regime in a report documenting how governments have pushed “disinformation” about the coronavirus pandemic.
The European Union was set to issue the report until Chinese officials “quickly contacted the European Union’s representatives in Beijing to try to kill the report,” according to two diplomats. The EU then “diluted the focus on China, a vital trading partner.”
German conservative politician Norbert Roettgen criticised the EU’s actions, stating “I am shocked not once but twice.”
“First the EU ambassadors generously adopt Chinese narratives and then the EU representative on top accepts Chinese censorship of the joint op-ed.” he added.
“This story beggars belief,” another EU diplomat told Politico, asking “What is the point in letting yourself be censored?”
The source urged that it was an “embarrassment” for the EU, adding: “The cost of taking a stand and defending what you believe in would have been very small.”


summitnews--2020-05-08--Scientific Research Finds That Closing Borders Is Most Effective Way Of Combatting Coronavirus

Scientists in Brazil have found that the countries most affected by the coronavirus spread are the ones who continued to allow unrestricted travel across their borders , prompting further arguments that the most effective method of preventing the spread is tighter frontier controls .
The research , carried out by the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador , suggests that screening and quarantining those coming into countries from outside could have been “ a cheap solution for humanity ” .
The researchers based their analysis on records of 7,834 airports , using online flight databases documenting 67,600 transport routes in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a number of forces , including climate , socioeconomic factors , as well economic and air transport , in an attempt to ascertain how the size of outbreaks was affected in 65 countries which had more than 100 cases .
The overwhelming factor was found to be air travel , leading to a conclusion that it is “ the main explanation for the growth rate of COVID-19.
” The study notes that “ The 2019 – 2020 world spread of COVID-19 highlights that improvements and testing of board control measures ( i.e .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of infected travellers ) might be a cheap solution for humanity in comparison to health systems breakdowns and unprecedented global economic crises that the spread of infectious disease can cause.
” The data tallies with the fact that the US and the UK , which have the first and third highest air travel globally , have also suffered the most COVID-19 deaths with 74,600 and 30,615 , respectively so far .
The US did not close its airports until late March , while Britain ’ s borders have remained completely open with little @ @ @ @ @ @ @ travellers happening at all .
On the other hand , nations like Austria , Denmark and New Zealand closed their borders within days of their first confirmed cases , and have experienced much fewer deaths .
Austria in particular has enacted tight border controls , refusing entry to anyone without a medical certificate confirming they had tested negative for the virus , and placing a mandatory 14 day quarantine on those who do not have them .
The country has suffered just 68 deaths per million of its population , with only 606 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all non-citizens in mid March , only excluding those with ‘ credible purpose ’ such as non-citizen Danish residents .
The Scandinavian nation has recorded just 503 deaths .
The UK , on the other hand has allowed some 18 million people to enter from outside the country with hardly any of them undergoing health screenings or being put into quarantine .
Labour MP Stephen Doughty noted that “ The fact that many of these people then likely arrived and travelled onwards across the UK with little or no adherence to social distancing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the border is deeply disturbing.
” The UK has seen 100,000 people arriving from foreign countries at UK airports every single week , all with virtually no health checks whatsoever .

Scientists in Brazil have found that the countries most affected by the coronavirus spread are the ones who continued to allow unrestricted travel across their borders, prompting further arguments that the most effective method of preventing the spread is tighter frontier controls.
The research, carried out by the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador, suggests that screening and quarantining those coming into countries from outside could have been “a cheap solution for humanity”.
The researchers based their analysis on records of 7,834 airports, using online flight databases documenting 67,600 transport routes in 65 countries.
The scientists factored in a number of forces, including climate, socioeconomic factors, as well economic and air transport, in an attempt to ascertain how the size of outbreaks was affected in 65 countries which had more than 100 cases.
The overwhelming factor was found to be air travel, leading to a conclusion that it is “the main explanation for the growth rate of COVID-19.”
The study notes that “The 2019 – 2020 world spread of COVID-19 highlights that improvements and testing of board control measures (i.e. screening associated with fast testing and quarantine of infected travellers) might be a cheap solution for humanity in comparison to health systems breakdowns and unprecedented global economic crises that the spread of infectious disease can cause.”
The data tallies with the fact that the US and the UK, which have the first and third highest air travel globally, have also suffered the most COVID-19 deaths with 74,600 and 30,615, respectively so far.
The US did not close its airports until late March, while Britain’s borders have remained completely open with little to no testing or quarantining of incoming travellers happening at all.
On the other hand, nations like Austria, Denmark and New Zealand closed their borders within days of their first confirmed cases, and have experienced much fewer deaths.
Austria in particular has enacted tight border controls, refusing entry to anyone without a medical certificate confirming they had tested negative for the virus, and placing a mandatory 14 day quarantine on those who do not have them. The country has suffered just 68 deaths per million of its population, with only 606 overall.
Denmark closed its borders to all non-citizens in mid March, only excluding those with ‘credible purpose’ such as non-citizen Danish residents. The Scandinavian nation has recorded just 503 deaths.
The UK, on the other hand has allowed some 18 million people to enter from outside the country with hardly any of them undergoing health screenings or being put into quarantine.
Labour MP Stephen Doughty noted that “The fact that many of these people then likely arrived and travelled onwards across the UK with little or no adherence to social distancing, and with no checks or protections at the border is deeply disturbing.”
The UK has seen 100,000 people arriving from foreign countries at UK airports every single week, all with virtually no health checks whatsoever.