Biosafety Labs in the USA. The Virtual Biosecurity Centre lists 13 operational or planned BSL4 laboratories within the USA. I understand the following to be the status at 2014 or thereabouts. This site hosts some interesting videos for consideration (again up to 2014). This centre seems to have ceased posting sometime around 2014.
apologies for the crappy formatting.
Operational
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention* Atlanta, GA
Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases- Shope Laboratory University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX
Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design Georgia State University Atlanta, GA
Galveston National Laboratory University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX
Integrated Research Facility National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Ft. Detrick, MD
Rocky Mountain Laboratories Integrated Research Facility, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Hamilton, MT
Texas Biomedical Research Institute San Antonio, TX
Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services Department of General Services of the Commonwealth of Virginia Richmond, VA
Expanding
United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases Department of Defense, Frederick, MD
Awaiting Regulatory Approval
National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL) Boston University, Boston, MA
Planned or Under Construction
National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), Department of Homeland Security, Manhattan, KS
National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC), Department of Homeland Security
Fort Detrick, Maryland
So this gives a substantial base for human error to leak all over the floor and all the way home. I guess the next trick would be to correlate all those urgent scientific publications with these locales and perhaps even co-locate vaping incidence and other pneumonia-like illnesses that seemed out of character with known viral infections.
A separate search for BSL-3 level labs was not revealing yet I assume there are those too. Then there are all those US managed offshore sites throughout the world.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 14 2021 11:53 utc | 104

To karlof1
Did you see this back at the end of April, just after the Ukraine/Belarus/Czech blowups?

“As far as the relations between Russia and Europe are concerned, I still believe that the UK is playing an active and a very serious subversive role. It withdrew from the European Union, but we see no decrease in its activities on this track. On the contrary, they are trying to influence EU member states’ approaches to Russia to the maximum possible extent.”
……
“At the same time, you know, they send us signals, they propose establishing contacts. This means, they do not shy away from communication [with Russia], but try to discourage others. Again, probably [this can be explained by] their desire to have a monopoly of these contacts and again prove that they are superior to others.”

https://sputniknews.com/world/202104281082747408-lavrov-warns-reversing-minsk-agreements-could-lead-to-massacre-in-donbass/
That is extraordinary. For a seasoned diplomat like Lavrov to call out the Brits in public.
Burning his bridges with Perfidious. Outing Merkel for the foolish coward that she is.
And NOW we have a “summit” between Putin and Biden.
The same Biden that “took tea at Windsor Castle with the Queen”.
Any thoughts?

Posted by: John Cleary | Jun 14 2021 13:25 utc | 106

NYT quietly gives up on the crazy Wuhan Lab Leak Theory, calls for a recoup in American soil:
There Will Be Another Pandemic — Are We Prepared For It?
–//–
Face-saving:
Did Israel Just Have a Constitutional Revolution?
No. It just lost the fucking war.
Rule of Thumb: heads of State who lose a war are generally removed (see: Pashinyan). This is a human truth since at least the time of the Romans.
–//–
Feeding the Hungry, One Wholesome Meal at a Time
The American Pravda, openly talking about mass hunger in the USA proper.
Interesting times.
–//–
Pfizer, AstraZeneca … or Both? A Mixed Approach May Hold Promise.
Pathetic attempt to make a complete failure of logistics and of capitalism look like a revolutionary discovery of biological sciences.
–//–
The Owl of Minerva flies:
“The USSR respected us more”: Europe humiliates Poland

Moreover, Zobro [Zbigniew Zöbro, Prosecutor General of Poland] agreed to the point that the Soviet Union showed more respect for Poland and its legal system than the current European Union. Accusing the EU of showing “arrogance and a colonial vision of Poland,” the minister dropped a phrase that many perceived as seditious: “I cannot remember a single secretary from Moscow who wrote to Wojciech Jaruzelskior to his predecessors a letter demanding the withdrawal of any claim to a Polish court. Even in those days, it seemed that Poles made their own decisions within the framework of real socialism, rather than following the directives and instructions of Moscow officials. ”Until recently, such comparisons were unthinkable in a country where the glorification of the communist system was officially prohibited.

So, spit it out: how was the propaganda campaign against the USSR broke out during the 1990s. Because we historians already know the economic situation in the Iron Curtain wasn’t as bad as they tell us today (because we have the numbers).
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@ Posted by: Mao | Jun 14 2021 8:04 utc | 94
The opposite was the case: capitalism tried to destroy China in 1989; China saved itself from capitalism in 1989. I think the joke would work if you substituted “1989” for “1978” or, to give more sophistication to the joke, for “1972” (“The Handshake”).
But, to be historically precise, the joke doesn’t work. Capitalism won much more than China in 1972, because it removed China from the Soviet camp (greatly weakening it), while the fate of China continued to be nebulous until at least 2001, when its unexpected acceptance by the WTO (it was being blocked by more than a decade by then) finally “vindicated” Deng Xiaoping’s retreat of 1978. I’m not saying Deng didn’t know what he was doing – he knew, because he was a Marxist – but, up until 2001 (or, definitely, 2012), China’s numbers were impressive, but didn’t reflect in the sectors that characterize a superpower (high technology, R&D, medium standards of living) – China was treated like another India by the West (even though it wasn’t).
Even from the point of view of the “opening up” aspect of the reforms, the joke doesn’t work. It doesn’t work for one very simple reason: in Marxist theory, socialism is not an alternative to capitalism, but its historical successor. Socialism, by definition, can only be born out of capitalist development. There’s no competition between two systems, but merely the dying out of an old one and the birth of a new one. The Soviets also knew that: before geopolitical situation forced them to adopt the doctrine of “Socialism in One Country”, the Bolsheviks tried by all means possible to break the economic blockage by the capitalist superpowers of the time. There was even a “faction” in the Bolshevik Party that theorized industrialization of the USSR could only be achieved through foreign investment from the advanced capitalist countries (whose main adept was Leonid Krasin). The only reason the Bolsheviks didn’t do their own “reform and opening up” was because they literally couldn’t, not because they didn’t want it.

Posted by: vk | Jun 14 2021 14:26 utc | 108

From the Politico link:
Other senators highlighted the potential for central bank digital wallets to be used to deliver government aid more directly to people who don’t have bank accounts. A digital dollar could also be designed to have more high-tech benefits of some cryptocurrencies, like facilitating “smart contracts” where a transaction is completed once certain conditions are met.
This “proposed” digital currency – which is not a proposal at all, the elites are definitely determined to roll it out – has to be understood in terms of the following 5 key questions:
1) Who is behind it?
2) What is the established historical record of their actual behaviour and methodology?
3) What is the future of the US dollar reserve currency, and of the US dollar in general?
4) What happens to the financial empires of those behind question (1) if the US dollar completely collapses?
5) What turnkey operation has just been taking place, and what were its preparatory phases?
(1) Who is behind it? The privately owned US Federal Reserve, i.e. the half-dozen key banking families – Rothschild, Rockerfeller, Goldman Sachs, et al, who between them own about 90% of Planet Earth. As far as I know the original proposal – in the public domain – for such a currency came from the Chairman of the Bank of England, Carney (also an American) a couple of years ago or so; but I am sure he was only acting as proxy for key establishment elites including the monarchy, i.e. the key objectives and modalities are sure to have been researched and sketched out even before that. The Bank of England is also privately owned by Rothschild et al, but the extreme private wealth of the monarchy certainly also has a key role.
(2) What is the established historical record of their actual behaviour and methodology? The question says it all, I don’t need to spell it out. For hundreds of years these half-dozen families have engineered wars to play State against State, while extracting hideous profits from both sides, and have manipulated these wars to engineer their political and financial advantage, to generate ever more and more wealth for their own pockets at the expense of the ordinary people, and at the same time they have manipulated the political structures to amass ever increasing political power for the elites – and especially those half-dozen families – over ordinary people. The Rothschilds, for example, financed both sides of the Napoleonic wars, and manipulated all the European monarchs.
(3) What is the future of the US dollar reserve currency, and of the US dollar in general? Well, everybody knows the dollar system is swinging on the verge of total collapse. The western economic system has been so completely sucked dry by the financial parasites (especially those same half-dozen families), that it cannot do anything else but implode. Russia and China are almost ready with a viable, more popular and more just alternative to the western neoliberal/neoconservative extractive win-lose system, in the form of a win-win multipolar world economic system based on a basket of sovereign currencies and the international legal system founded in the United Nations Charter. The US dollar system depends on the whole of the rest of the world financing US wars and US weapons manufacturing, and the entirety of the US empire depends on US debt being financed by the rest of the world and the dollars being recycled. See the writings of Michael Hudson for an explanation, nobody has explained it more clearly and more concretely.
(4) What happens to the financial empires of those behind question (1) if the US dollar completely collapses? The financial interests of all of the half-dozen key banking families in (1), together with the rest of the western elites, are critically tied in with the US dollar system and the system of global recycling of US dollars. If the US dollar collapses, the US Empire collapses. Financial collapse means – for most people – total financial loss; but the topmost elites can also profit out of financial collapse, just as they did during the Great Depression, when they bought up stocks and shares for virtually nothing, and amassed colossal wealth as a result. When the dollar collapses and the US Empire collapses, the top elites want to position themselves to ensure that they will monopolise ownership of virtually everything – including all potable water resources, food supply especially staples, energy, medicine, the apparatus of political control (“security”), and education. The system that follows will be a neo-feudal one based on serfdom, wage-slavery, and extractive labour – the diametric opposite of democracy – in other words the same as the present system but ramped up 10,000 fold and with all pretences completely thrown away (fig leaf no longer required).
5) What turnkey operation has just been taking place, and what were its preparatory phases? Of course, the turnkey operation is Covid-19, perfectly placed to destroy economies worldwide (especially developing economies); perfectly placed to take over ownership of resources and other key assets in third world and second world economies around the world, after the economic destruction of Operation Covid-19; perfectly placed to hugely tighten the cordon of political control around every individual, and to gradually eliminate the last vestiges of personal freedom; perfectly placed to turn upside down people’s attitudes to freedom and enable their willingness to give up their freedom; perfectly placed to generate virtually unlimited fear porn, through rigorous control of the narrative, rigorous control of establishment [pseudo] “Science”, and rigorous control of fear as a political resource. What were the preparatory phases to the Covid-19 operation? Of course, above all, 9/11 and the “War on of Terror”, which initiated the large-scale demolition of human freedoms and rights, and enabled the hard fought-for personal legal rights built up over the last century to be systematically upturned and destroyed. The precursor to 9/11 was the much less noticed Omagh massacre in Northern Ireland in 1998, which bears striking resemblances to 9/11 in terms of the advance-prepared legal changes pushed through the British Parliament without a single word of debate, which similarly started the systematic destruction of all legal personal protections, although on a much smaller scale than 9/11. Subsequent preparatory phases to Covid-19 include a host of subsequent terrorist actions around the globe especially in the USA, UK, France and other western countries, which always shared two key features: (a) links of the patsies to western intelligence agencies; and (b) subsequent exploitation of the event to enhance fear and justify further progressive tightening of the security apparatus and further progressive destruction of personal liberties and rights.
[NOTE: It is not a priori necessary to my argument to assume that the initial release SARS-Cov-2 virus was intentional. It is possible that the initial release of the virus – almost certainly not in China as it was present in the USA and Europe months earlier, and most probably in the USA in July 2019 – may have been an accidental leak from Fort Detrick. The initial leak, apparently in July 2019, was covered up, and is still actively being covered up. There is some evidence that the US military seems to have been infected before the appearance of the virus in Wuhan, and it may have been introduced into Wuhan either accidentally or intentionally under cover of the International Military Games, and numerous US military participants in the games were medically evacuated under suspicious circumstances. All of this evidence however is still not clear. An assumption that the leak from Fort Detrick was accidental and that the subsequent introduction to China was also accidental is perfectly sufficient for the rest of the argument – in any case it is crystal clear that the western elites have taken maximum possible advantage of the virus to further the objectives set out elsewhere in this comment. Even if one were to assume that the virus developed naturally from or via some other animal and naturally “jumped” to humans, the overall argument is still unchanged – it is crystal clear that the western elites have taken maximum possible advantage of the virus to further the objectives set out elsewhere in this comment. This is especially so in the USA and the UK.]
The digital currency is the Sequel to Covid-19.
The unsustainability of the current western economic system and its impending and inevitable collapse has been clear to the top elites in the US and in its European vassels for many years. For at least two decades it has been an open secret amongst the elites and their servants that all of the economies of the major western and NATO countries, and of the EU itself, have been massively bankrupt, a fact only covered up by fraudulent and deceptive accounting and with the connivance of the major international accounting firms. The inevitability of the collapse of the US dollar, also, has been approaching and accelerating for quite a few years. As to the collapse of the US Empire itself – it is clear that the US elites have been getting ever more desperate to stave off collapse of their empire for some years, that they are acting in ever more perverse and self-destructing ways, and that almost all of their efforts to stave off collapse have instead made such collapse ever more inevitable and ever more immediate. That fact is very much a manifestation of human nature when in the final stages of extreme panic. The top western elites though are supranational, and pride themselves on being supranational. It is thus also possible that they may have consciously decided to sacrifice the US Empire – and even to hasten and to accentuate its demise – if they consider that in so doing they enhance their opportunities to profit from the economic collapse and to consolidate even further their strangle-hold of power in whatever emerges from the ashes. The manifestation of the Covid-19 operation gives numerous hints that that may be their plan. The extraordinary self-destruction of the international reputation of the US through the mindless political war between Trump and Non-Trump ever since his election in 2016 (and, to some extent, even before that) might perhaps also be better understood in the context of a deliberate sacrifice of the US Empire in preparation for what is intended to follow it – i.e. a deliberate tarnishing of the US international image in the eyes of all those whose eyes were still resolutely closed to reality, in order to facilitate support for its disintegration.
The digital cryptocurrency is to be seen as the sequel to Covid-19, as the preparatory phase behind the complete and final elimination of all degrees of freedom and individuality in the International Serfdom that our Dearly Beloved elites have planned for us after the Great Reset. The digital cryptocurrency will first be promoted as a convenience for consumer lifestyle, as a means for delivering social benefits, and whatever else can be incentivised to encourage initial acceptance. It will be heavily promoted, like the instant coffee that is heavily subsidised in supermarkets to attract customers through the doors. There will be gifts galore – just enough to encourage salivation and ultimate addiction. Ultimately, though, the aim will be to eliminate all other national currency (especially cash) so that no other type of financial transaction is possible.
The key, though, is (a) its virtually unlimited potential for political control of dissidents (and parallel incentivisation and corruption of non-dissidents); and (b) its unlimited potential for unlimited corruption by those with ultimate control over the cryptocurrency and who control access to its backdoors – i.e. the half-dozen banking families who own the key private central banks including the US Federal Reserve and the UK Bank of England. At a keystroke, unlimited amounts of cryptocurrency can be either created or destroyed, transferred from one person to another (without knowledge or consent of those from whom it is taken), and ledgers falsified. The total amount of cryptocurrency in circulation can be changed in an instant and in secret – whether to enrich the actor, to destroy an opponent actor, to destroy an opponent State or force its acquiescence, or to force externally unpredictable market fluctuations that the actor wishes to profit from. There are no limits. In this regard we need to pay particular attention to item (2) above – the historical record of the actions, intrigues and manipulations of the top banking families, over the last several hundred years. These people have no scruples, no morals, there is no limit to what they will descend to if given the opportunity. The cryptocurrency gives limitless such opportunities. The cryptocurrency will with certainty have secret backdoors, through which everything can be manipulated and all ledgers bypassed or counterfeited.
Today the primary means of controlling politicians and senior civil servants is almost certainly through blackmail. (Why else, for example, would politicians of the Empire’s vassel states so often act so contrary to obvious national interests? Why else would paedophilia be so widespread in the top echelons of society?) With a digital currency, however – and particularly so in its latter stages after access to real currency has been reduced or eliminated – every official from the toilet cleaner up to the Prime Minister can be minutely controlled, incentivised or inhibited, punished or rewarded at will. This process can even be automated using AI – anyone expressing contrary ideas on Facebook can be punished and terrorised by making digital currency suddenly vanish. Anyone posting comments on (or even reading) an alternative website such as Moonofalabama can likewise be detected by global surveillance, identified, and punished. The ultimate purpose of a [western*] digital cryptocurrency is to enable the tools for ultimate political coercion – at every level from the macro level down to the nano level – and especially linked to AI.
Digital cryptocurrency is the closing door. After the door has closed, there is only Big Brother, there is no other. That is, apart from the “Speakeasy” in Russia and China, and in the multipolar world they are building. That is why Russia and China must be destroyed at all costs, so that there will be no other.
Let me come back to the quotation at the top,
Other senators highlighted the potential for central bank digital wallets to be used to deliver government aid more directly to people who don’t have bank accounts. A digital dollar could also be designed to have more high-tech benefits of some cryptocurrencies, like facilitating “smart contracts” where a transaction is completed once certain conditions are met.
The last part of the second sentence suddenly takes on a whole new meaning, doesn’t it?
That’s all you need to know about any US or UK digital cryptocurrency.
* Both the Chinese Digital Yuan and its Russian counterpart are different – they are asset-backed digital currencies fully backed by gold and oil, and fully independently verifiable. The US and UK digital currencies will be neither asset-backed nor independently verifiable. How do I know that? Firstly because they do not possess the necessary assets to back them, and secondly – go back to those first five points. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck.

Posted by: BM | Jun 14 2021 15:18 utc | 110

Re; California drought. Of which I know virtually nothing.
The growing of Cotton is water intensive. Think of the dried up Aral “sea”, which is a result of Stalin having what he thought was a good idea.
Think also of the problems of Indias’ small scale cotton growers and Monsanto (or whatever it is called now after the “Bayer” downward merger).
Bt. Cotton is also water intensive as opposed to the parsimonious local Indian version.
I presume (without proof) that the version used in California is mainly a Bt (Gm) version.
Which doesn’t help the locals. Maybe revising of the types of agricultural production might help to alleviate the water situation. Even though it does seem a bit late for that,
******
BM | Jun 14 2021 15:18 utc | 108
Excellent. Thanks.
One comment. If the Elite expect to be able to profit from a destruction event, then they will have to use some form of “currency” or medium of exchange.
Could this be “debt” in it’s crudist form. ie. Everyone else (including National states) have debts, except themselves. They are the ones behind who control the issuing of debt as well. Since one proposition (by Schwab and the reset) was to issue debt to all, as a means of control (without an agreed debt you cannot eat, etc.), then “cryptocurrency” becomes superfluous as would any other form of transaction.
Then it follows on that the “prise de controle” is designed to be concentrated on the visible “capitalist” world first. ie. The US, EU, India, Brazil and all the other countries that take on debts from whatever source. (WB, IMF, Bonds and other Private investment, etc). We come back to the same financial sources, but this time as individuals or individual “families”. This may not be so evident in places such as Russia (but very few others), who would then be expected to “toe the line” later.
Even China could be vulnerable in a second phase.

Posted by: Stonebird | Jun 14 2021 16:05 utc | 112

Full transcript of Putin NBC interview – in case it hasn’t been posted already:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/transcript-nbc-news-exclusive-interview-russia-s-vladimir-putin-n1270649

Posted by: the pessimist | Jun 14 2021 17:47 utc | 114

“Global Times Exclusive with Russian ambassador: What position would Russia take in case of an armed conflict between China and US?”
Starts with Q about summit. The ambassador performs a nice dodge of the headline’s provocative question.
Pepe Escobar’s G-7 Review looks into the relabeling of the Great Reset into B3W.
Alastair Crooke continues his evaluation of Occupied Palestine, his essay summarized by Strategic-Culture:
“So fatigued by their own rhetoric have Israeli and western leaders become, that they will not think or say that Israel has run out of options.”
This announcement is getting little notice:
“Iran says it’s reached agreement with US on lifting of Trump-era economic sanctions.”
Still need to see the deeds done instead of hearing/reading the talk, IMO.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 14 2021 18:16 utc | 116

I don’t see any substantive difference between the transcripts, which is a good thing. As an American I am pleased that NBC did the interview and published an accurate and complete transcript. I hope that the full transcript get some eyeballs, not just the extracts and sound bites that will be spoon feed via the traditional outlets.
As for why the summit Mr Putin explains that there are important issues to discuss and the Russian side is prepared to do so – provided the Americans are willing. {arms control, cyber crime, ans possible prisoner exchanges are specifically mentioned while conflict zones such as Syria or Ukraine are implied]. As most people here would know the Russians remain prepared for substantive, respectful, dialogue between peers and believe in that process as important/essential under any and all circumstances.
I find it amusing that when Simmons starts worrying about running out of time Mr. Putin says “It’s ok, I determine the time” and continues with his responses.
In general the Russian perspective is well known to anyone who has bothered to read the transcripts of the many Putin speeches and statements posted over the past decade and I didn’t read anything too surprising here, but perhaps it will be educational for at least some in the West. Clearly that was one of Mr. Putin’s objectives when agreeing to the interview and he says so a number of times.

Posted by: the pessimist | Jun 14 2021 20:55 utc | 118

Dr Matthew Meselson one hour address and Q&A to the Federation of American Scientists 2012.
From the introduction:

The United States has a large biodefense infrastucture across many different government agencies, which seeks to reduce the risks associated with a potential attack using biological weapons.
In this talk and Q&A session from June 26, 2012 in Washington, DC, Dr. Matthew Meselson, a renowned expert in chemical and biological defense and arms control, discusses the need for increased oversight of U.S. biodefense research and the benefits this could provide to the international community.
Event page, with speaker bios and more information: http://www.fas.org/press/events/20120…
Dr. Meselson’s slides: “>http://www.fas.org/_docs/Meselson-26J…

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 14 2021 21:49 utc | 120

Uncle T@119, I think the US collaborators were taking advantage of the Wuhan lab to get risky research that might be impossible in the US done rapidly. This kind of genetic engineering work, and related bio-weapons research, is a huge and dangerous boondoggle, much of it carried out overseas for various reasons (none of which are laudable). Much of it very secret and without responsible oversight. Pointing fingers at the Russians over some imagined “novichock” ‘incredibly deadly’ nerve agent ought to be seen as just a bad joke. Who produced the deadly ‘weaponized’ anthrax that was deployed after 9-11?

Posted by: the pessimist | Jun 14 2021 22:11 utc | 122

b,
please do some research and then a good report on the recent election in Peru of the socialist Castillo and the current attempt by that neo-fascist presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori to get the thing overturned.
I’d be very interested to see what you’d come up with in your super-sleuthing about Fujimori and how much influence/how the US is exerting pressure to annul or overturn the election, which is incredibly close, I believe about 0.5% difference between the two candidates
Even how much influence the US and its regional puppets had in the pre-election etc.
Even yahoo news is called her claims, “Fujimori’s unsubstantiated claims of fraud…”

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 15 2021 2:29 utc | 124

‘Chinese virus’, a block buster coming to a cinema near you.
From the same producer who gave you the epic Contagion and more…

Chinese invaded India in 1962
CCP coup in INdon 1965
TAM MASSACRE 1989
Tibet genocide 2008
Xinjiang genocide 2009
HK repression 2014
HK brutalities 2019
Chinese virus 2020
Uighurs rape camps 2021
TAM commemoration 2021

Tip of an iceberg
FUKUS [UK, US],
The wolf that keep howling wolf

It’s remarkable how much of the propaganda that America creates about China feels like projection. The United States, which frequently censors dissenting voices, persecutes Muslims and disfavored ethnic groups, is controlled by an oligarchic corporate regime that keeps half of its own people in poverty, and perpetuates the largest empire in history, is accusing China of all the atrocities that it’s committed itself.

https://rainershea612.medium.com/why-the-u-s-spreads-lies-about-china-ad19eb649b99

Posted by: denk | Jun 15 2021 2:56 utc | 126

Posted by: the pessimist | Jun 14 2021 20:55 utc | 118
I hope that the full transcript get some eyeballs, not just the extracts and sound bites that will be spoon feed via the traditional outlets.
Just look at the Guardian’s headline:
“Vladimir Putin refuses to guarantee Navalny will survive prison”
@Karlof1
Thanks for the link, I read the interview in Russian since Putin always comes softer and duller when translated, as the line mentioning Gorbachev with the same tired argument by the gringo journo that the promise not to expand NATO was not on paper, therefore recognizing that the US word is just a fart in the wind, but the salt and pepper is lost since Putin answers, “the fool was fooled with four fists”, a rhyme in Russian and calling Gorbachev by his name, a damned fool.
The line that pessimist refers to, “Its me who marks the timing here”, really made me laugh. I think Putin should not give any interviews to US journos, the problem with those guys is that they live in the alternative universe of their own making, and they come across as obsessed fools, just look at the heading by the Guardian, why should the president guarantee the life of a particular petty criminal? It is just insane, and the script of Alzheimer Biden was given away, no serious business, just Navalny, Novichok, White Helmets, Luka dictator and the same BS they been feeding the plebs since time inmemorial.

Posted by: Paco | Jun 15 2021 5:20 utc | 128

Note how King Donkey Rear.org tries to smear the poster vk by not-so-subtle association with conspicuous trollery.
It’s funny when trolls who think Marxism is just Identity Politics on steroids try to show off the socialist chops they think they earned by reading a couple Wikipedia articles.
The NDI needs to step up their game and hire better talent.

Posted by: William Gruff | Jun 15 2021 12:18 utc | 130

Nickel-posters bragging about their salaries when their labor is just piecework? Fascinating! As I always point out, western society is delusional from top to bottom.

Posted by: William Gruff | Jun 15 2021 13:14 utc | 132

@ Posted by: donkeytale | Jun 15 2021 4:58 utc | 128
That’s the merit of the Chinese version of socialism. They correctly interpreted Marx’s theory that socialism is the successor, not the competing, system of capitalism.
Socialism is the child of capitalism, not its direct competitor from the outer space. It will be through the extreme development of capitalism (monopoly, financial capitalism) that socialism will be born (and, in the process, will kill capitalism). The Chinese understood that at the end of the 1960s-1970s, and that’s why they survived and the USSR didn’t (Brezhnev simply declared the USSR already was “advanced/developed socialism” – the Soviet version of the End of History – and that doctrine put an end for any hopes of progress for Soviet socialism).

Posted by: vk | Jun 15 2021 14:26 utc | 134

vk @Jun15 14:26 #136
I think you misread donkeytale’s comment.
!!

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jun 15 2021 15:18 utc | 136

@ uncle tungsten.. i know you were asking about bioweapon labs on the planet.. this is one that you are probably aware of, but fwiw here it is anyway..
Russia claims US running secret bio weapons lab in Georgia
there was a women investigative journalist who had written a number of articles on this bio weapons lab, but i forget her name right now… if i remember i will share..
of course the usa is claiming it is russian disinfo…

Posted by: james | Jun 15 2021 15:50 utc | 138

uncletungsten @ 51
Much of what you seek will be found at flemingmethod.com
Go to ‘More’ at right side of banner, then the list of publications on covid-19. It is mostly the historical record you seek.
The authors of the SARS-COVID19 virus have been freely publishing about their work for at least 15 years. The record is simply enormous. There aren’t any gaps in the record. Everything is there. Not everything is at the site just mentioned, a lot is. Try also Fleming’s videos.
Thank you a thousand times for being curious and for trying to find information. I am trying to step back from this site because of the knowitalls who have no information whatsoever but love to run their mouths. Signal to noise ratio here has gone south.

Posted by: oldhippie | Jun 15 2021 17:11 utc | 140

Frank Zappa called Reagan a bumbling narcoleptic, which was true. I wonder what he would have said about Biden? I really miss Frank.

Posted by: Shadow | Jun 15 2021 17:58 utc | 142

Paco @144–
Thanks for providing that article; it’s quite helpful both specifically and generally. I’m going to post it on the current thread along with an excerpt or two as it seems many are incapable of doing machine translation.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 15 2021 20:19 utc | 144

Gaza is being bombed.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Jun 16 2021 4:46 utc | 146

Paul @148–
Cordell Hull was a very important member of FDR’s cabinet as Secretary of State, but he oddly resigned at the end of November 1944 prior to the end of the war citing health reasons but lived on for another decade. And given what we now know about the anti-UN 5th Columnists within State, many questions arise about Hull’s ability to manage his department thanks to Stephen Wertheim’s Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy, of which a preview can be read here.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 16 2021 16:01 utc | 148

@ karlof1 | Jun 16 2021 18:11 utc | 150 who wrote
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And since there’s no real fusion research program operating within the Empire, national security could be the only plausible reason for such a program, particularly if cloaked in Exceptionalism, Manifest Destiny and thus pseudo-patriotism.
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What about the cloak of religion? How about adding that, thanks. And, you have laid out clearly how national security (which is a myth in a world of global private finance but I digress), will be cloaked in all the myths and delivered through the media that has a pseudo-brain-lock on most Plato’s Cave Display users……the Overton Window is only what appears on the wall at the back of the cave…..

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jun 16 2021 18:27 utc | 150

IVM guerilla follow-up
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/whats-the-deal-with-ivermectin-and-covid/
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2021/06/16/2003759259
https://www.namibian.com.na/102579/read/No-evidence-on-ivermectin—medicines-council
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2021/06/16/clinic-raided-for-offering-ivermectin-to-covid-19-patients/
https://mb.com.ph/2021/06/16/phs-ivermectin-clinical-trials-eyed-to-be-conducted-by-july-1-dost/
https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/miscellaneous/covid-19/despite-death-spike-brazils-petrobras-prescribes-ivermectin-to-employees-with-covid/
All from the last 48 hours

Posted by: Mina | Jun 16 2021 19:41 utc | 152

Karma is a bitch,
the martyrs of 2011 are calling for revenge!
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20210616-ivory-coast-awaits-return-of-ex-president-gbagbo-10-years-after-arrest

Posted by: Mina | Jun 16 2021 21:09 utc | 154