I just realized something astounding. I am pretty sure now that the Wuhan coronavirus in China is a biowarfare weapon. Am also convinced it could never have escaped from any level P4 containment facility. This means that someone must have released it outside of, but right next to the Wuhan P4 lab, but it did not come from that lab. That P4 lab merely merely furnished ‘plausible deniability’. Consider: the US’s (ostensibly) biggest p4 biolab is located in Fort Detrick at Frederick, Maryland, a small city of ~70,000 people located way in the backwoods.
The Chinese made a terrible blunder by locating a P4 biolab near the center of a very highly urban region. This fellow says the Wuhan coronavirus is a biowarfare weapon, and he sounds very credible to me:
Francis Boyle: Wuhan Coronavirus is an Offensive Biological Warfare Weapon
https://youtu.be/TsyujjitOFM?t=494

Posted by: blues | Feb 4 2020 9:22 utc | 203

A fraud in Iowa is ongoing:
With Sanders headed to victory, Iowa Democratic Party blocks release of caucus results
If I were an American, I would gather popular support right now and try to mount the most pressure possible, because, if let loose, the people counting the votes will get their way.

Posted by: vk | Feb 4 2020 11:46 utc | 205

From the Grauniad (so you don’t have to read it): “…[the app that supposedly failed to aggregate votes in the Iowa caucuses] was apparently developed by a firm literally called “Shadow”, partly funded by the Pete Buttigieg campaign.”
I have mentioned before that Butt-gig is an obvious CIA mole – hell, it is too obvious to call a “mole”, it’s a nearly open CIA asset. Now it is revealed that the outfit that developed the vote-rigging software is called “Shadow” and is associated with Butt-gig?
The CIA’s Harvard frat boys think themselves brilliant and they believe that you, Dear Readers, are morons. They love ridiculing you by announcing their presence in not-so-subtle code right to your face, confident that you are too stupid to ever figure it out.

Posted by: William Gruff | Feb 4 2020 12:14 utc | 207

@ In re> “shadow” and the queer kid ringer (since he says he is) and all of the Jolly Intelop Guys spinning their web…these remind me that “fiction” is free to say true things, and fun here on the gallows steps as Lady Empire screws around. Humor, it’s History rhyming as Farce.
See YT 7/10 Animal House Court Scene , especially at 0:40 and 1:55
Well, what did you expect? Of course this means that “they” are terrified. Gee, too bad.

Posted by: Walter | Feb 4 2020 12:29 utc | 209

You know when I create a voting app for an election, I think I’ll name it “Daylight” or “Stand up”, the fact these hack frauds would even consider naming their voting app “Shadow” shows their true contempt for the American voter. The Political elite have become so used to massaging voters to the acceptable candidates they now see obvious election fraud as a valid tactic as long as the correct ideological candidate wins.

Posted by: Kadath | Feb 4 2020 12:58 utc | 211

I have been reading the very informative Mintpressnews article about Israeli Mossad and assorted military inteligence (fronts) private company start apps for cybersecurity/services ties with international corporations and American public institutions and military installations:
Manufacturing Fear
How Government and Media Are Prepping America for a Failed 2020 Election
Russia, China and Iran are already being blamed for using tech to undermine the 2020 election. Yet, the very technologies they are allegedly using were created by a web of companies with deep ties to Israeli intelligence.
by Whitney Webb
January 28th, 2020
https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-israel-intelligence-2020-elections-cyber-security/264361/
It tells the story that Mossad runs simulations for a Chaos 2020 American elections. Article is 6 days old.
Now HERE IS THE CATCH:
Been watching IOWA Bernie Sanders elections related news sources. Almost everyone used a common phrase: “CHAOS elections” in IOWA.
DID ISRAEL JUST HACKED BERNIE???

Posted by: Qparticle | Feb 4 2020 13:13 utc | 213

I just went back to re-read the Intercept article. Fact is that Bernie was leading in the polls according to numbers its campaign collected from nearly 40 percent of precincts, tabulated by its campaign organizers.
I wanted to make that clear. So what now??!
And Trump is crowing on twitter and crowning himself the only winner. I can’t stand this anymore. I think I’m gonna be sick.🤮

Posted by: Circe | Feb 4 2020 14:00 utc | 215

NO IT’S NOT RUSSIA, BUT GUESS WHO???
Pro-ISRAEL Buttigieg backer Seth Klarman is top funder of group behind Iowa’s disastrous voting app
And Ziofascism isn’t in control?
If this clusterfuck proves anything now, it’s that ISRAEL and the ZIONIST estblishment are trying to stop Bernie from winning the nomination!!!

Posted by: Circe | Feb 4 2020 14:25 utc | 217

Circe at 145 wrote: I find it sad that people here believe that Trump and Brexit represent the collapse of the Empire when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.
I suppose by Empire is meant Pax Americana, or the US and its dependencies and vassals.
EU submission to the US has always been pretty constant (post WW2) but tricky nonetheless. It is a big block.. its touted ‘values’ – free movement(s), peace and prosperity, regulated commerce, and even in recent years some attempts at taxing GAFAMs, going after tax havens, oil and energy links with other countries, regulating banking, etc. etc. – don’t sit terrribly well with the US.
A first overt EU split arose re. the Iraq war, with Tony Blair putting alliance with the US above the EU (other EU were against.) This was repaired somewhat by the violent coup in Ukraine and its subsequent control and the invasion of Lybia….both of which were care of Obama and in the former, principally Merkel, the latter, Sarkozy. (Btw, that is not peace and prosperity..) Remember, Obama spoke out against Brexit, the old order of US control of one large entity, EU, as opposed to that of multiple pesky smaller entities, worked well. (Btw the largest US milit. occupation is in Italy, not Germany, imho.)
Trump has always shown he doesn’t support the existence of the EU and considers NATO too expensive, useless, etc.
Forward, GB will become a US vassal, a kind of 50- + state. GB hopes to strengthen ties (trade of course but not only, though the public info is about movement and trade) with the other 5-eyes (> didn’t see anything about a FTA beween GB and China!..) who may be uninterested, reluctant, make symbolic moves only, for various reasons too long to go into. One might even be that they see the new GB as a rival in SE Asia (?)
To accomplish anything, GB will need the support and protection of the US (and I wonder how much US money poured into Brexit agit-prop?) along the lines of – I was going to type Israel – but that is an exceptional example.. Which means that GB will have to join, for ex., efforts towards War with Iran (today’s front-line obsession.) A bad calculation for British ppl.
So Circe it is a mixed bag – a gradual erosion of US power (which is real, see rise of Russia and China) leads to creating more directly controlled dependencies, and GB does have an army!

Posted by: Noirette | Feb 4 2020 14:44 utc | 219

Here’s a nice overview on how masses of metadata is useful – for deanonymization
Harvard de-anonymization study
I’ve mentioned amiunique.org – take that single data point representing online history, then add in a couple more data points such as location, physical address, phone number, social media ID/history, known relatives, etc and you can pretty much de-anonymize anything. More degrees of freedom/variables = less uniqueness/anonymity.
The intel agencies certainly have this level of detail down to single location/time stamps (location being a small area as opposed to a point); if they don’t, they’re incompetent.
The ads for “find that phone number” or “find that person” – at least some are “gray” databases which use precisely the above techniques to filter through to the target person.

Posted by: c1ue | Feb 4 2020 15:09 utc | 221

Tareq Haddad, the journalist who resigned from Newsweek over his editors’ refusal to publish a story on OPCW whistleblowers’ revelations, has launched his own YouTube channel “Conversations” where he interviews independent journalists and analysts.
I watched an episode with Eva Bartlett (1:13:15) and I enjoyed it. I liked how the same story of becoming increasingly suspicious of the Western media narrative was told from two opposing sides: that of an MSM journalist and that of a citizen activist/journalist. Turns out, Eva’s work on Syria was one of the reasons Tariq started questioning the narrative in the first place. He told Eva of how he was trying to find a way to quote her in one of his articles.
Please consider supporting Tariq with views, subscriptions to his channel (if you have a YouTube account) or money (Patreon, PayPal).

Posted by: S | Feb 4 2020 15:42 utc | 223

Once again, the Mob is in charge..George Bush disappeared the government that Americans were so proud of, and the mobites moved in <=the mobites, a race of people who for centuries have made the other guy do their fighting, have placed themselves in charge. Elections that have no visible source of integrity, remote voting, satellite controlled, election machines, apps capable to forward only one result and laws the 12 amendment that makes elections fake and a corona virus that selectively restrains anti corruption. .

Posted by: snake | Feb 4 2020 17:58 utc | 225

thanks b4real.. the top group eating each other makes sense.. it is bound to happen sooner or later.. i think they play in derivatives and it is like an insane monopoly board game that ordinary people are generally not interested in.. unfortunately money is so central to what people do with one another – exchange..the financial system at present is a big ponzi scheme.. it is working for a few and screwing the rest.. democracy is a facade to keep the focus away from the financial design.. at this point people are seeing the facade of democracy for what it is – a facade… whether they can peer behind the screen to see how they have been manipulated for so long remains to be seen..

Posted by: james | Feb 4 2020 19:01 utc | 227

Trump now has his mini nukes. A good chance they will be used against Iran.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nuclear-pentagon/u-s-deploys-more-survivable-low-yield-nuclear-weapon-for-launch-from-submarines-idUSKBN1ZY2EQ?il=0
“The U.S. Defense Department said on Tuesday the Navy had fielded a low-yield submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead, something the Pentagon believes is needed to deter adversaries like Russia but which critics say lowers the threshold for using nuclear weapons.”

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 4 2020 20:00 utc | 229

: blues | Feb 4 2020 9:22 utc | 204 I seen dis b4
Don’t fall for the con, sure it’s a weapon. They made the Chinese spy, let him swipe the germs and take ’em home. He carried the real germ, but it was the ringer. At the same time Agent “sam” carried the germ too, and released it outside the gaes of BSL4 in Wooohann. It’s a classic double tap con. The Chinese probably did not leak it out. Some fink working for Ft D did. The con requires that the mark blames hizzzelf, otherwise it’s a zero sum game.
An’ yeah Boyle iz da man!

Posted by: Walter | Feb 5 2020 12:19 utc | 231

c1ue at 223 I am curious why you think GB will “become” a US vassal, as opposed to already is. You yourself..
In the sense that the vassalage will have to be acknowledged publically, openly displayed as the US will demand that, it it part of the price.
The alliance aka submission will be across the board in many areas and sort of patchy stabs at this or that minor thing in many areas (e.g. in banking, military, etc.) will take place over time. I expect the first signs will be in trade – chloro chicken, med prices, all that.
So the change is in public status, in respect accorded, in perceived alliances, perhaps as you imply not really a deep, fundamental change, I’d agree…Some even say GB was a tool of the US since 1945 and only in the EU to control, influence, sabotage…. (not my pov.)
The public status matters in world affairs, ex. relation with the EU, who “loathe” Trump (which cutely lets them imply “not the US, just Trump” hinting at “we will sit it out until a new Obiman appears”, etc.)

Posted by: Noirette | Feb 5 2020 15:25 utc | 233

@Noirette #234
Interesting. I don’t personally agree that the UK’s population, nor the Queen, would accept public vassalage – but time will tell.

Posted by: c1ue | Feb 5 2020 15:52 utc | 235