text from Chattam House Judging from the text, inhabited by the results of “gain of function” breeding –> [correction] –> text from Chattam House. This house, judging from this output, is inhabited by the results of “gain of function” breeding.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | May 13 2021 20:31 utc | 204

It seems the psychological problems caused the the mere existence of the SARS2 (Covid) may turn out to be more harmful than the disease itself.

Posted by: blues | May 13 2021 20:38 utc | 206

Meanwhile in Europe
Mental well-being has reached its lowest level across all age groups since the onset of the pandemic over a year ago. This is especially prominent among young people and those who have lost their job. 
Existing inequalities are widening because of the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on vulnerable groups. The findings show that difficulties in making ends meet increased significantly among those already in a precarious situation.
Citizens’ satisfaction with crisis support measures has declined dramatically, with only 12% now feeling support measures are fair, down from 22% in summer 2020.
Trust in institutions has plummeted, especially trust in national governments which fell from 4.6 in summer 2020 to 3.9 in spring 2021.
Over a quarter of people living in Europe indicate a hesitancy toward the COVID-19 vaccine
https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/report/2021/living-working-and-covid-19-update-april-2021

Posted by: DG | May 13 2021 21:45 utc | 208

@Grieved, 83

the English court was determined to be as vindictive as it could against Murray, both to hobble him tactically and also to demean him in every way. They’d have deported him to the colonies for life if they could have.

Craig Murray cannot be deported to a colony. He already lives in one. Scotland has a separate legal system from England, so it was a Scottish court which sentenced him. The Lord Advocate is the Head of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscals Service and he is also part of the Scottish Government . This structure which allows a member of the government to be in charge of the prosecution service was decided by Westminster. What you are seeing is a colonial justice system in operation.
Another example of the system in operation is the case of the Scottish journalist Mark Hirst, who, like Craig Murray, supports Scottish independence and Alex Salmond https://gordondangerfield.com/2021/01/11/they-came-for-mark-hirst/

Posted by: cirsium | May 13 2021 23:56 utc | 210

No, that’s 3 beats followed by 2 beats. Time signatures are not fractions.

Posted by: Absurdio | May 14 2021 0:42 utc | 212

@212 DG
I would like to say that your comment could be appropriate to practically any thread. I hope none of us feels inhibited from presenting relevant and collateral facts and observations into any thread where it seems to fit the main subject matter.
And you know that, back up-thread here, I stood up for the coherence of threads, and championed caution regarding off-topic insertions.
The point is that I don’t regard this comment as being especially about Covid, but simply about the state of play in the world we look at, live in and attempt to analyze here continually. It could very appropriately be cited in a discussion of the US economy, which in turn usually has an on-topic bearing on most geopolitical situations we look at.
So, for those who didn’t comprehend in the comment #9 that james was attempting to describe other threads and not this open thread – and, appallingly, there were several – I can only say there was irritation over epidemiological factoids being introduced into other topics, and personally, I am always slightly alarmed when a discussion drifts away from the subject matter.
But also, the overwhelming sociopolitical FACT of the pandemic in the lives of 8 billion (?) people on the planet qualifies it as a matter that is applicable most anywhere. The squeeze against the people by the power is still ongoing, and the year 2020 is no doubt a milestone in history, a watershed when all corrupt forces saw an opportunity to further their corrupt agendas and seized the opportunity with both hands – and are still, every day, jumping all over us in that pursuit.
The pandemic jackboot is completely ongoing in its crushing action and shows no sign of lifting. It matters greatly to see it wherever it appears.
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ps..thanks for the comment, DG. I found it informative, and would have welcomed it in practically any thread. Vaccine hesitancy (vastly different from general antipathy to vaccines) speaks of a huge portion of the populace that does not trust its mainstream sources of assurance. This would be an important statistic in almost any thread, I suggest.
It was I who spoke out about your interjection of the child vaccination in a different thread (I think it was you). I hope it becomes more clear what matters to a thread and what could be taken to an open thread. If not clear, I’m sorry to confuse, but happy to discuss further.

Posted by: Grieved | May 14 2021 0:55 utc | 214

I guess the point I’m trying make is that music is a powerful force and when we hear something beautiful and moving, we assume it must be difficult and complicated. Music doesn’t have to be complicated at all. I wish you well in your study.

Posted by: Absurdio | May 14 2021 0:58 utc | 216

@214 cirsium
Thank you. I thought I probably had some facts wrong there, and your expansion on the matter was very welcome.
I suppose the eclipse of England last century, as its imperial ermine was passed to the shoulders of the USA, has let it off the hook in many ways when it comes to the correct view of what a shit thing it did to the world – and still does apparently – at every turn.
A full account of the bad thing that Imperial England has been, and still very much is, is overdue. And we begin to see these accounts, and they begin to appear in today’s discussions. All very welcome.

Posted by: Grieved | May 14 2021 1:13 utc | 218

i want to thank those who understood where i was coming from in my post @9… for those who joined in later, oblivious to what i had said, i take it from whence it comes.. i’ve learned something about some of the posters here i was unaware of before.. i learned a bit about myself too.. thanks for that too.. moving on..
@ 161 Absurdio.. interesting what you say about nothing being an odd time signature.. i think most musicians i know are just referring simply to the concept that odd numbers on the top of the time signature imply odd time signatures, different from common time and permutations… but i get your point @161 regardless – kids don’t think this way… thanks also for sharing your educational background from university of calgary.. i have a good friend i am going fishing with tomorrow who retired to vancouver island from calgary and went thru the music prog as a classical pianist majoring in performance.. he’s 79 age wise, so it might have been before your time when he went thru the program and the program might have changed quite a bit too… i am not formally trained.. my learning is from playing gigs f/t since 1980… i am essentially a p/t musician now and with covid – a lot of places to gig have shut down and may not come back..

Posted by: james | May 14 2021 2:19 utc | 220

S Colonial Pipeline paid the ransom in crypto currency after all:
“Industry superannuation fund-owned Colonial Pipeline paid $6.5 million to ransomware group DarkSide hours after the major US oil pipeline was crippled by a cyber attack.
According to a Bloomberg report, Colonial paid the ransom, worth $US5 million, to the hacking group last Friday, despite the pipeline owner reportedly saying it had no intention of paying to restore the largest fuel pipeline in the country.
Colonial shut down all four of its major pipelines that service the eastern and south-eastern US as a precaution after it discovered it had been hacked a week ago.
IFM Investors, which is owned by 27 Australian union- and employer-backed industry superannuation funds, owns a 16 per cent stake in Colonial Pipeline, which the infrastructure manager bought in 2007 for $US651 million.
The asset is held in IFM’s $US25 billion Global Infrastructure Fund and IFM is represented on the board of Colonial Pipeline by Jim Wierstra, who is responsible for IFM’s investment operations in North America.
Colonial reportedly paid the ransom to DarkSide in cryptocurrency just hours after the cyber attack, and Bloomberg reported that US officials were told of the payment.”

Posted by: Paul | May 14 2021 2:57 utc | 222

re: Absurdio | May 14 2021 2:38 utc | 225 and james etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v37WLrR4UTM&t=0m55s

Posted by: tucenz | May 14 2021 4:07 utc | 224

@Piotr Berman (205)
I wasn’t sure if that and your two additional ‘myths’ were supposed to be sarcastic (I’m not good at parsing that sort of stuff, at least not until seeking out the context behind it), but I couldn’t really take what Chattam House said seriously. I pretty much stopped reading after what it said about the notion of Crimea (not) being Russian. I’m suspecting bias – anyone else?

Posted by: joey_n | May 14 2021 7:53 utc | 226

Tucenz: it’s pretty natural isn’t it? Nothing complicated when you hear it. I just wish more drivers would actually signal which way they’re going in the roundabout.

Posted by: Absurdio | May 14 2021 9:49 utc | 228

@Old Microbiologist, 108

It is my belief it was created in the US and escaped there.

University of North Carolina researched the infectivity of coronaviruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and staff from University of North Carolina worked at Fort Detrick https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985
https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/unc-epidemiology-study-new-sars-like-virus-may-be-nearly-ready-to-infect-humans/
July 2019 – Fort Detrick is closed because of safety deficiencies https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/08/08/the-cdc-shut-down-an-army-lab-thats-working-on-an-ebola-vaccine/
June-July 2019 – residents die of unusual pneumonia in a nursing home an hour’s drive from Fort Detrick. https://www.mcknights.com/news/mystery-grows-as-3rd-resident-dies-from-still-unidentified-respiratory-illness/

Posted by: cirsium | May 14 2021 10:45 utc | 230

@ Posted by: Perimetr | May 14 2021 13:12 utc | 235
Sir, with all due respect, I think the Republican-Conservatives lost their moral high ground against the Woke Left after a bridge literally fell apart in the Tennessee (a dyed-in-the-wool Red State).
The whole legitimization of Trumpism lies in the fact that it is the reincarnation of Eisenhowerism adapted to the 21st Century: bring manufacturing, bring the infrastructure back. That façade falls when you can’t even maintain the infrastructure you already have.
From the outside world, this fracas between Left and Right in the USA looks like a ridiculous “pot calling the kettle black” catfight. You may fool yourselves there with this Manichean narrative, but you’re definitely not fooling anybody in the rest of the world (except the far-right in Europe and Australia).

Posted by: vk | May 14 2021 14:12 utc | 232

As a separate post with a different view on the same subject – this is an interview with two MDs practising in Kenya. It includes an excellent explanation of how the immune system works, why the treatments listed in my prior post work well again covid19 in its first expression and in any mutations which occur, and why covid is NOT the pressing problem in Kenya; they are still struggling with malaria.https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-kenyan-physicians-say-powers-world-suppressing-effective-early-covid-treatment/5744776

Posted by: Miss Lacy | May 14 2021 14:21 utc | 234

The malaria problem seems to have something to do with the Hla b27 gene. People who have the antigen seem to get malaria more easily, but not die from Covid. Or, they are using hydroxychloriquine prophalactily for malaria and that is protecting them from Covid.

Posted by: Absurdio | May 14 2021 15:23 utc | 236

Even the WHO says so…
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/who-give-vaccines-to-covax-not-children-1.1222896

Posted by: Mina | May 14 2021 16:05 utc | 238

librul @ 196, one of the short sentences in my old classic Greek grammar was to the effect that ‘all men desire the good’. What strikes me at present about the virus and its (I think) waning influence is that when it comes to living and dying, we have been at odds with one another for close now to two years on matters that directly affect everyone, with a swirl of actual dying being hard to dismiss as the usual course of events.
So, belief systems become hard, because we are wanting to help others in our opinions (for the most part), hard to keep to ourselves — we could save a life here or there is the motivation of many posts on the subject.
Thanks to b for allowing us this space to, in effect, propagandize our own beliefs. He’s pretty circumspect about his own, and that is what keeps us coming back. The good as he sees it is a good that most of us can subscribe to, or we wouldn’t do that.
I hope my feeling — that whatever vital issues we have with viral matters are fading because the virus is fading (notwithstanding inevitable tragic upsurges)– means that our pandemonic fluctuations can at last begin to subside. (I’m reading ‘The Idiot’, but I have to monitor my seedlings and also to paint; there is much to do, so I will leave saving the earth to those above me, human or divine.) No one should regret the impulses evident in this thread; it’s just what we need to do, and thanks to be for letting us do it.
All men desire the good.

Posted by: juliania | May 14 2021 17:16 utc | 240

@241 James. Actually I find myself mesmerized by Romanian saxophone music. Because the Romanians hail partly from India, they seem to have imported lots of very interesting and complex rhythms . It’s like snake charmer music played on alto sax. Very long, spun out melodies with all manner of intricate melodies.

Posted by: Absurdio | May 14 2021 17:19 utc | 242

@ 244 juliania… thanks for the update.. enjoy the planting and your book!
@ 246 absurdio… are you talking gypsy music? share a video off youtube if you have one to share.. what i find doing a search is basically django reinhart type sounds..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBrIlJ4RcN8

Posted by: james | May 14 2021 17:56 utc | 244

I don’t actually know what I’m talking about with respect to this type of music. I watch the Romanian hour on the omni channel and they always have these guys dressed in ethnic garb playing alto sax. They’re always filmed in quaint villages or in the countryside surrounded by pretty girls in peasant dresses. I don’t understand a word of what they are saying, but I like the music. It may indeed be Gypsy music. I’ll see if I can find a video

Posted by: Absurdio | May 14 2021 18:19 utc | 246

PS regarding Kenya – of course it could work both ways in that HQC for malaria could be helping the covid cases and vice versa. I don’t have stats on that. Just a thought.

Posted by: Miss Lacy | May 14 2021 18:27 utc | 248

@230 Miss Lacy
Thank you
@241 James
No hard feelings here. We are all in this together.

Posted by: DG | May 14 2021 19:28 utc | 250

Fwiw
About 40-50% of CDC, FDA employees are refusing the COVID-19 vaccine according to Fauci, Marks
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1393278011332612107

Posted by: DG | May 14 2021 22:30 utc | 252

@ DG | May 14 2021 22:30 utc | 256 who provide stats on US Federal employees refusing the vaccine
Thanks for that data point. I find it fascinating that this blatant health care financialization effort was attempted in the way it has been, let alone amazed at how successful it has been. I am surrounded by folks that are vaccinated and think nothing of it. They also think it is normal to force others to conform to their brainwashing.
It will be interesting to see where this goes from here….what a shit show we are living….part of me wants to see a Covid variant run rampant through the US showing these folks how useful their vaccine really is….then maybe we will see an Ivermectin therapy kit developed/distributed like Mexico City

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 14 2021 22:53 utc | 254

@258 psychohistorian
Do me a favor if you can please. I don’t have information on the Mexico City ivermectin therapy kit – astonishingly since I have countless reports, videos and bookmarks, but somehow that one slipped by.
So, if you have info ready to hand – and only if it’s easy and you do – I would appreciate a link or something. Otherwise, it’ll come around again in the flow of updates, so no worries.

Posted by: Grieved | May 15 2021 2:41 utc | 256

All this Israel – Palestine dustoff pretty much blocked the news of China’s Mars rover:
https://www.rt.com/news/523886-china-spacecraft-mars-landing/
Not a china fan but I’m a space fan, good to know the space race is back.

Posted by: Smith | May 15 2021 4:23 utc | 258

@258 Psychohistorian
“ what a shit show we are living….”
Say that again my friend. This situation is having an impact on my interpersonal relations too. Many friends and colleagues had the vaccine and they don’t want to here nothing different. Some of them accused me of being a far right conspiracy theorists which is not the case at all. Politically I’m on the left in general but left’s reaction to this shit show has left me wondering wtf is going on.
I don’t wish bad to no one. I really hope that my friends that had the vaccine will be alright. But every day there is a new thing coming out and I don’t know what the hell is happening.
As I said before I’m deeply concerned about the vaccination of the children and the vaccine passports.
I think the first is scientifically borderline criminal and the second is fascism by any other name.

Posted by: DG | May 15 2021 8:33 utc | 260

@ Norwegian | May 15 2021 9:06 utc | 264 who wrote
”
I used to quote 1984 on current politics, but the reality is much worse than 1984. I am now almost incapable of sleeping at night.
”
As I recall, Norway was one of the recent UN countries to bring forward condemnation of Occupied Palestine so that should be encouraging for you. I am up in the middle of my night for pain management so feel blessed in some way.
I know you have been critical of my postulates in the past but I do believe that we are approaching an inflection point in world politics that hopefully will bring us back from the seeming edge we are on. Continue to remember that part of the elite plan is ongoing hammering of the fear buttons to insure compliance.
I am of the opinion that whatever comes forth now is better than the centuries old drip, drip, drip of fake Freedumb and Dumbocracy and monotheistic religions hiding the social contract jackboot of global private finance. I don’t like the wait any more than others but, because of my new found mental health (16+ months), I am quite calm about what is going on…..I don’t even do meditation anymore because I don’t seem to need it…..GRIN!

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 15 2021 9:39 utc | 262

@Norwegian
Thank you for your sympathy and for the fact that for the first time I don’t feel alone in my struggle against this madness.
As you very well said “ Ordinary people have to find a way to work together to stop the madness.”
For the first time since last November I’m allowed to leave my house without having to notify the authorities with an SMS. As a minister said yesterday “We can’t force the tourists to send an SMS every time they go out so we cancel this responsibility for the Greeks as well”
You understand why Greeks have no trust in the authorities anymore.

Posted by: DG | May 15 2021 14:09 utc | 264

fwiw
“ Researchers in The Netherlands and Germany have warned that Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine induces complex reprogramming of innate immune responses that should be considered in the development and use of mRNA-based vaccines.
Jorge Domínguez-Andrés and colleagues say that while the vaccine has been shown to be up to 95% effective in preventing infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and subsequent COVID-19, little is known about the broad effects the vaccine may have on the innate and adaptive immune responses.”
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210510/Research-suggests-Pfizer-BioNTech-COVID-19-vaccine-reprograms-innate-immune-responses.aspx

Posted by: DG | May 15 2021 14:58 utc | 266

@Norwegian
“this is pure sadism”
It turns out that’s exactly what it is …

Posted by: DG | May 15 2021 16:20 utc | 268

Very good video of Dr Campbell today on Youtube (called “Saturday Update”). Also on how the US and others are letting the Indian variant spread. More contagious, possibly not as lethal, but how the vaccinated ppl will react to it still unknown.
404 Experiment in process, pile on popcorn.

Posted by: Mina | May 15 2021 16:51 utc | 270

I have some information about the casualties of the violance in protests in Myanmar. I am told a large proportion of those shot were shot by SNIPERS – shots to the head. Now, what country, I wonder, has an extensive history of arranging snipers to shoot both sides? Every regular MoA reader knows the answer, I don’t need to spell it out. Universal operating proceedure for all colour revolutions. So did the Myanmar army also get shot by the same snipers? People’s understanding of exactly what happened -even in Myanmar – seems to be be determined exclusively by presumption, which in turn is determined by the international mass media. That is very sad. On occasion the military is said to have shot directly into the crowd. Was that provoked or unprovoked? Nobody seems to know – instead everybody seems to jump automatically to the presumption of guilt but nobody knows whether the military was shot at by snipers first before shooting into the crowd.
From Maidan, Syria, Hong Kong, Thailand etc the precedents seem to be very clear – US-sponsored colour revolutions – of which this is unquestionably one – use covertly placed snipers to shoot at both sides. From Maidan we even had some of the snipers who came forward years later admitting what they had done, who recruited them and that their instructions were explicitly to shoot both sides. If you are a member of security personel facing a menacing crowd of aggressive demonstrators and suddenly find yourself under fire and colleagues are dropping dead around you what is your instinctive reaction? Immediately to shoot blindly at invisible enemies in the crowd? If so, that is precisely what the snipers are there to try to provoke. At Maidan they used snipers recruited from Georgia to minimise compunctions about killing Ukrainians. In Myanmar they may well have used CIA Rohingya assets already engaged in terrorism in Myanmar. Some of them may be Australian Rohingya CIA assets. Certainly Australian passport holding Rohingyas seem to be connected with the trafficking of both Uyghur and Rohingya terrorists across Myanmar borders, most likely under CIA direction. I am just spelling out what seems to me to be the most plausible interpretation.
Obviously, Since the US is organising and directing the protests, they know where the protests will appear before the army/police, therefore they have the opportunity to send snipers to hide there in advance.
There are at least 5 categories of deaths connected with the current protests in Myanmar:
1) Protestors [and also police/army, about which we have little information] shot by US-recruited snipers (false-flag);
2) Police, Army, and other officials shot by violant “protester” thugs, usually dressed in black, using home-made guns, home-made bombs, knives and other weapons;
3) Black dressed “protester” thugs shot by security forces in pure self-defence after the security forces have been violently attacked by those thugs;
4) Protesters (including peaceful protesters) shot in fear and panic by security forces after being attacked by unseen snipers;
5) Innocent civilians stabbed to death by thugs supporting the protesters because they are SUSPECTED to have given information to the authorities – there are MANY such cases;
6) Racial attacks against Chinese people and burning down of their factories and businesses by large groups of black-dressed thugs heavily armed with knives and swords – I am not sure if there have been any deaths in this category.
Are there any cases of the security forces shooting peaceful protesters OTHER THAN in panic when violently provoked as in case (4) above? Nobody knows. But personally I find it unlikely – they are mostly very restrained, and what motive could it possibly serve? the security forces are afraid, and desperately want to reduce tensions not increase them. I suspect they are being advised on mob control by the Russians, who will certainly put pressure on the Myanmar security forces to minimise violence as much as possible.
These mobs are clearly the US proxies not genuine protesters. They call themselves “Generation Z”, are youngsters aged 18 to 24, and refuse to communicate at all with older generations. Like other US proxies they seem to use black as a uniform. For example one of the worst incidents was an attack on police in Bago by youngsters dressed in black and armed with home-made bombs and home-made guns; about 80 people were killed as far as I know in that one event. Also the mobs that burnt down Chinese factories early on in the conflict were also dressed in black, and terrorised residents and factory workers with knives and swords.

Posted by: BM | May 16 2021 4:16 utc | 272

@276 BM
Thank you for this report. I encourage you to re-post it in the next open thread that comes up. I’m not sure how many will see it here, and it deserves wide distribution – but maybe people are still monitoring this thread, I guess we’ll see.
The fate of this color revolution and the patriotic forces fighting against it is very important in the world. We are all grateful for your reports on the situation.

Posted by: Grieved | May 16 2021 4:59 utc | 274