By Paul Homewood

This is getting serious noww.

This is the latest electric bus fire, in Massachussetts:  https://fb.watch/xi8KPPHbfa/

Via https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/5-electric-school-buses-burst-into-flames-in-wilbraham-mass-while-charging-overnight/

Via https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/5-electric-school-buses-burst-into-flames-in-wilbraham-mass-while-charging-overnight/

Craig Rucker

[…]

Woke climate campaigners and profiteers are not having a good day.

Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, said, “the global clean energy boom – worth US $2 trillion last year alone and rising fast – is the economic growth deal of the decade… embracing it will mean massive profits, millions of manufacturing jobs and clean air.”

Sorry, Simon, you’ll have to shake your trillions down from from Europe, Canada and Australia now.

Wenonah Hauter, executive director of “Food and Water Watch,” said that Trump’s actions will lead to “climate change-supercharged disasters – all falling disproportionately on low-income families and communities of color.”

Sorry, Wenonah, the days of holding “low-income families and communities of color” hostage in the name of climate are drawing to a close.  Reality-based energy policy is set to replace politically correct energy boondoggles.

Take a look at the climate, energy, environment and free speech executive orders President Trump signed just hours after taking his oath of office.

We posted them in their entirety to CFACT.org.

A few highlights:

• Withdrawal from the UN’s Paris Climate Agreement
• Halting payments to UN climate funds
• Halting offshore wind turbines
• Eliminating electric vehicle mandates
• Unleashing Alaskan energy and resources
• Unleashing American energy production
• Reforming administration of the Endangered Species Act
• Declaring a national energy emergency
• Thwarting the Green gadflies blocking California’s water resources
• Ending censorship and protecting freedom of speech

[…]

Via https://www.cfact.org/2025/01/21/climate-kleptocrats-reeling-from-trump-executive-orders/

Octopus Game Part III

Press TV (2024)

Film Review

https://www.presstv.ir/doc/Detail/2024/12/29/739923/Octopus-Game-US-military-Ukraine-Israel-American-foreign-policy-documentary-PressTV

Based on interviews with Palestinian refugees and former Haganah members, this episode begins by focusing on the systematic destruction of Palestinian villages in the months prior to Israel’s declaration of independence in 1948. These massacres occurred in parallel to terrorist attacks in Palestine cities that drove the majority of Palestinians from their homes.

Israeli historians have documented at least 70 separate massacres with numerous Palestinian villages being wiped off the map. Typically Zionist terrorists would invade a village, kill all the military age men and then burn all the homes. The filmmakers interview a Palestinian Christian Archbishop who came across mass graves in his village as a child. Many Palestinian females were sexually assaulted, with those who resisted being slaughtered. In describing their 1948 activities, some Haganah veterans  compare their terrorist actions to those of the Nazis under Hitler

The massacres continued following Israeli independence on May 14, 1948, with the three Zionist terrorist groups (Haganah, Irgun and Lehi) consolidating to form the Israel Defense Force. Palestinian Christians and Muslims who survived fled to refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

This episode then fast forwards to events triggered by Hamas’s Al Asqua Flood attack on October 7, 2023. On October 8, Israel began indiscriminately bombing Palestinian civilians, revoked the work permits of all Gaza residents working in Israel and began arresting them as illegal immigrants. According to Israeli historian Ilan Pape, the AoIsraeli historian, Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant declared all Palestinians “animals” and ordered al their food, medicine, water and electricity cut off (a war crime).

In response the Lebanon-based pro-Palestinian militia Hezbollah fired rockets into Israeli-occupied Lebanese territory (with most being shot down by Israel’s Iron Dome* defense system) and European governments organized flights of European Zionists to Israel to assist in the war. Yemen’s Houthi rebels announced they would join the war on the side of the Palestinians if the US re-armed Israel.

*The Iron Dome is an Israeli mobile air defense system, developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries and relying on US-supplied rockets. The system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery shells fired from distances of 4 to 70 kilometers away.

https://www.presstv.ir/doc/Detail/2024/12/29/739923/Octopus-Game-US-military-Ukraine-Israel-American-foreign-policy-documentary-PressTV

By Baxter Dmitry

The Biden administration pulled every trick in the book this week, knowing full well that when Fauci falls, the entire COVID cabal’s house of cards will come crashing down. But here’s the catch: Fauci’s preemptive pardon? It won’t hold up.

With new claims emerging that Fauci is directly responsible for over 100 million deaths, these extraordinary measures are said to be a cornerstone of Trump’s mission—not just to “Make America Great Again,” but to restore health, justice, and accountability to the nation.

Just a few short years ago, the global elite were celebrating what they believed to be their so-called “final solution” for humanity—the COVID mRNA vaccine. Their sinister plan? To inject every single person on Earth, again and again, for decades to come.

But the tides have turned. The so-called biggest scientific breakthrough of the last hundred years is now a crime scene and Albert Bourla and Bill Gates are standing trial in the Netherlands for their roles in orchestrating the COVID plandemic.

As for Dr. Anthony Fauci, his situation is even more dire. Despite receiving a preemptive pardon from Joe Biden in the final hours of his presidency—a desperate move to shield him from justice—the Trump administration has made it clear: Fauci will face justice.

Fauci stands accused of being the worst serial killer humanity has ever known, and he admitted in his own emails that he planned the pandemic.

To underscore the horror of it all, consider this: the COVID vaccination campaign is the first in history to increase excess deaths rather than reduce them. This is the legacy they tried to hide, and now, justice is coming.

There is plenty to discuss. Biden’s desperate move to cover up the crimes of his globalist cartel is set to backfire spectacularly.

It’s called the Streisand Effect. The harder you try to silence something, the louder it becomes.

What’s truly staggering is the hypocrisy: the same people who spent millions and months chasing baseless accusations against Trump are now actively blocking efforts to gather evidence or hold anyone accountable for actual crimes that have taken place.

House Oversight Committee Republicans said, “Joe Biden will be remembered for using his last few weeks in office to shield his son from the law and protect himself.”

Rand Paul stepped up his criticism, directly targeting Fauci as the top priority for investigation and prosecution. He dismissed the impact of Biden’s pre-emptive pardon, making it clear that accountability would come first.

“If there was ever any doubt as to who bears responsibility for the COVID pandemic,” Rand Paul said, “Biden’s pardon of Fauci forever seals the deal. As Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee I will not rest until the entire truth of the coverup is exposed.“

According to constitutional law experts, there is neither a moral nor legal precedent for preemptively pardoning individuals for potential crimes that haven’t even been properly investigated.

Even Biden’s own Department of Justice has acknowledged that accepting a pardon is effectively an admission of guilt. By that measure, Mark Milley, Anthony Fauci, and members of the January 6th committee have just confessed to their crimes.

But let’s be clear: this will not stand. It’s the last, desperate gasp of the crumbling Deep State and their puppet masters—the global elite.

We, the people, have seen through their lies. The strength of this movement has brought forth an administration with a clear and unshakable mandate: to dismantle the global elite and hold them accountable for their crimes against humanity.

Over the years, the modern-day Dr. Mengale has repeatedly slipped up, making a series of shocking admissions that revealed glimpses of his true agenda.

For decades, the elite have been working hand-in-hand with figures like Fauci to introduce infectious agents—and their so-called cures—to the world.

Rest assured, the criminals will face justice. Article II of the Constitution clearly states: “… he (the President) shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.”

Under the Constitution, a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Therefore, an action does not become an “offense” until it has been adjudicated in a court of law.

By this logic, President Biden cannot issue pardons for actions that have not been legally established as crimes. He cannot pardon non-crimes, imagined offenses, or situations where guilt or harm has not been determined in court. To do so would be to usurp the judiciary’s role in determining guilt and accountability.

Trump has made it clear: he will not recognize fraudulent “pardons” and is committed to prosecuting all crimes to the fullest extent of the law.

100 million people plus have died because of the evil Dr. Fauci. The modern-day Josef Mengele lied about everything and destroyed the lives of millions.

Arrest Dr. Fauci. No pardons.

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Via https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/trump-unveils-legally-complex-plan-to-prosecute-fauci-for-crimes-against-america/

If Donald Trump had not decided to pull the U.S. out of the World Health Organization, we could have had a real nightmare on our hands.  The WHO’s “pandemic accord” is scheduled to be finalized by May 2025, and the drafts of that agreement that we have seen so far are extremely alarming.  Can you imagine what the WHO will do during the next global pandemic if it possesses much more power and much more authority than it did during the last global pandemic?  The truth is that we got out of the WHO just in time, and we should be very thankful for that.

Needless to say, the corporate media is not thrilled by this move at all.  The following is the opening paragraph from CNN’s story about Trump’s decision…

President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, in a significant move that drew criticism from public health experts on his first day back in the White House.

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Of all of the executive orders that Trump signed on Monday, this is one that they have really singled out to complain about.

If you have not read Trump’s executive order yet, you can find it on the official White House website.

This is an absolutely massive blow to the World Health Organization.

The United States was their most important member, and now other nations could be tempted to leave as well.

And that is tremendous news for those of us that love freedom.

For the past couple of years, bureaucrats at the WHO have been working on a “pandemic accord” which would result in sweeping changes.  The following description of that agreement comes from the official WHO website…

The pandemic accord is designed to strengthen collaboration and coordination across sectors, and ensure all people—including youth, healthcare professionals, community members, patients, and other members of society—are protected.

If agreed upon, the accord would create incentives and opportunities for greater transparency and collaboration among countries in areas that are key to a global response to pandemic threats. It would also establish means to encourage governments to comply, such as procedures for reporting and accountability.

Ultimately, this “pandemic accord” would grant more power and more authority to the WHO, and it is expected to be finalized by May 2025…

The World Health Organization chief on Tuesday voiced confidence that states could finalise a pandemic agreement by May 2025, despite questions about whether the administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will support it.

The WHO’s 194 member states have been negotiating for two years on an agreement that could increase collaboration before and during pandemics after acknowledged failures during COVID-19.

So what is the bottom line?

The bottom line is that we dodged a bullet, because it appears that the next global pandemic is rapidly approaching.

According to the WHO, the dangerous new strain of the monkeypox continues to spread in three nations in central Africa…

The outbreak of clade Ib monkeypox virus (MPXV) continues predominantly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Uganda, with new travel-related cases identified in previously unaffected countries. Recent travel-associated mpox cases highlight the risk of undetected transmission in countries, emphasizing the need for strengthened surveillance and timely reporting to improve global monitoring and prevent international spread.

And travelers continue to carry this new strain home when they return from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Uganda…

A new case of the monkeypox strain causing global alarm has been found in the UK, health officials have confirmed.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the patient was found in East Sussex but was now under specialist care at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London.

They said the patient — the sixth UK case of the deadly strain to date — had recently returned to Britain from Uganda where the virus is spreading amongst the population.

Personally, I am even more alarmed about the bird flu.

A strain of H5N1 that recently infected a human in Texas is “more adept at replicating in human cells and causing severe disease in mice” than previous strains…

Researchers at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) have identified a strain of bird flu isolated from a human in Texas that carries a distinctive set of mutations, making it more adept at replicating in human cells and causing severe disease in mice. This strain was compared to one found in dairy cattle, and the findings are detailed in Emerging Microbes & Infections.

The discovery underscores a significant concern about the H5N1 strains of bird flu currently circulating in the U.S.: the virus’s rapid mutation when it infects a new host species.

H5N1, which is naturally present in wild birds and deadly to chickens, has recently spread to a wide range of mammals and, for the first time in the spring of 2024, began infecting dairy cows.

And more confirmed human cases continue to pop up all over the country.

In fact, health authorities in San Francisco have no idea how a child in San Francisco just got infected with H5N1…

A child in San Francisco was recently confirmed to be the third human case of bird flu in the United States in which it’s unclear how the person got infected.

Cases have been spreading across the country since April 2024 with 67 confirmed as of Thursday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Most human cases have occurred after coming into contact with infected cattle, infected poultry farms or other culling operations.

Whether it is the bird flu, monkeypox, or something else, it is just a matter of time before the next great global health scare erupts.

When we reach that point, at least we won’t have the WHO ordering us what to do.

And that is something to be very, very thankful for, because the ability to make our own health decisions is one of our most important freedoms.

[…]

Michael’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

[…]

Via https://endoftheamericandream.com/we-got-out-of-the-who-just-in-time/

By Ramzy Baround

A dramatic escape was cited by Israeli media as the reason that Yuval Vagdani, a soldier in the Israeli army, managed to escape justice in Brazil.

Vagdani was accused by a Palestinian advocacy legal group, the Hind Rajab Foundation, of carrying out well-documented crimes in Gaza. He is not the only Israeli soldier being pursued for similar crimes.

According to the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (KAN), more than 50 Israeli soldiers are being pursued in countries ranging from South Africa to Sri Lanka to Sweden.

In one case, the Hind Rajab Foundation filed a complaint in a Swedish court against Boaz Ben David, an Israeli sniper from the 932 Battalion of the Israeli Nahal Brigade. He is also accused of committing war crimes in Gaza.

The Nahal Brigade has been at the heart of numerous war crimes in Gaza. Established in 1982, the brigade is notorious for its unhinged violence against occupied Palestinians. Their role in the latest genocidal atrocities in the Strip has far exceeded their own dark legacy.

Even if these 50 individuals are apprehended and sentenced, the price exacted from the Israeli army pales in comparison to the crimes carried out.

Numbers, though helpful, are rarely enough to convey collective pain. The medical journal Lancet’s latest report is still worthy of reflection. Using a new data-collecting method called ‘capture–recapture analysis’, the report indicates that by the first nine months of the war, between October 2023 and June 2024, 64,260 Palestinians have been killed.

Still, capturing and trying Israeli war criminals is not just about the fate of these individuals. It is about accountability – an absent term in the history of Israeli human rights violations, war crimes, and recurring genocides against Palestinians.

[…]

Via https://original.antiwar.com/ramzy-baroud/2025/01/21/the-gaza-genocide-the-fall-of-israels-immunity/

According to TIME, the Biden administration’s three key objectives in Ukraine were all “achieved”. Nonetheless, “success” on these fronts “provides little satisfaction” to some of the former President’s “closest allies and advisers.” Green was quoted as saying Washington’s purported victory in Ukraine was “unfortunately the kind of success where you don’t feel great about it,” due to Kiev’s “suffering”, and “so much uncertainty about where it’s ultimately going to land.”

‘Direct Conflict’

One objective was “avoiding direct conflict between Russia and NATO.” Miraculously, despite the US and its allies consistently crossing Moscow’s clearly stated red lines on assistance to Kiev, providing Ukraine with weaponry and other support Biden himself explicitly and vehemently ruled out in March 2022, on the grounds it could cause World War III, and greenlighting hazardously escalatory strikes deep inside Russian territory, so far all-out hot war has failed to materialise. On this front perhaps, the former President can be said to have triumphed.

However, another “was for Ukraine to survive as a sovereign, democratic country free to pursue integration with the West.” This prospect dwindles daily, as the proxy war’s frontline teeters constantly on total collapse. Kiev is facing an eventual and seemingly inevitable rout of some magnitude, with the conflict likely settled solely on Russia’s terms, and Zelensky – or whoever replaces him – having no negotiating position to speak of. In December 2024, Empire house journal Foreign Policy even openly advocated cutting Kiev out of eventual peace talks.

Biden also “wanted the US and its allies to remain united.” It is this objective that most obviously failed, and quite spectacularly. As this journalist has repeatedly documented, British intelligence has consistently sought to escalate the proxy conflict into all-out war between the West and Russia, and encouraged Kiev in its maximalist aims, to the extent of covertly plotting grand operations for the purpose, and training Ukrainians to execute them. London’s overriding ambition, per leaked documents, is “to keep Ukraine fighting at all costs.”

The Western media has acknowledged Ukraine’s calamitous August 2024 invasion of Russia’s Kursk region was to all intents and purposes a British operation. London provided a vast welter of equipment to Kiev “central” to the effort, and “closely” advised their Ukrainian counterparts on strategy. The aim was to draw Russian forces away from Donbass and boost Kiev’s bargaining position, which has proven a staggering embarrassment on both fronts. But there was a wider, more insidious goal behind the incursion.

Britain openly and eagerly advertised its fundamental role in the Kursk misadventure to bolster public support at home for continuing the proxy war, and “persuade key allies to do more to help.” In other words, to normalise open Western involvement, and create the “direct conflict” the Biden administration was so keen to avoid. London was also at the forefront of pressuring NATO member states to permit Ukraine to use foreign-supplied weaponry and materiel inside Russia, which could likewise produce their long-sought hot war against Moscow.

Several Western countries – including the US – have offered such authorisation. Yet, Russia has consistently responded to strikes deep inside its territory with heavy duty counterattacks, which Kiev has been unable to repel. Meanwhile, London’s invitation to its allies to become more overtly involved in the proxy war was evidently rebuffed. In November 2024 too, pro-government outlet Ukrainska Pravda published a startling investigation, documenting in forensic detail how the October 2023 – June 2024 Krynky operation was, à la Kursk, essentially British.

Never spoken of by Ukrainian officials today, the nine-month effort saw wave after wave of British-trained and equipped marines attempt to secure a beachhead in a river-adjacent village in Russian-controlled Kherson. Poorly prepared, many died attempting to reach Krynky, due to relentless artillery, drone, flamethrower and mortar fire. Of those that survived the nightmarish journey, most were then killed under a constant and ever-intensifying blitz, in marsh conditions. Russia’s onslaught grew so inexorable, evacuating casualties or providing forces with even basic supplies became borderline impossible.

Survivors of the Krynky catastrophe – one of the absolute worst in military history – who spoke to Ukrainska Pravda revealed it was hoped the beachhead would be a “game-changer”, opening a second front in the conflict, allowing Kiev’s invading marines to march upon Crimea and all-out victory in the proxy war. They hoped to recreate the June 1944 Normandy landings – D-Day. It is all too easy to envisage British intelligence filling the heads of their Ukrainian trainees with such fantasies.

‘Settle Up’

Fast forward to today, and Britain and France are openly discussing sending “peacekeepers” to Ukraine, to “help underpin” whatever “post-war settlement” emerges between Kiev and Moscow. This is after in February 2024, French President Emmanuel Macron suggested formally deploying his country’s forces to Ukraine to halt Moscow’s advance. The proposal was summarily dropped and forgotten when Russian officials made abundantly clear each and every French soldier dispatched to the frontline would be killed without hesitation, and Paris could become a formal belligerent in the war.

It appears the “peacekeeping” plan is likely to suffer the same fate. On January 20th, coincidentally or not the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, CIA-created Radio Free Europe published an explainer guide on why sending European troops to Ukraine is “a nonstarter”. Among other things, as the Russians are unambiguously winning, they are unlikely to offer many concessions, particularly allowing foreign soldiers to occupy Kiev’s territory. Furthermore, “as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Moscow can block any peacekeeping mission.”

As if the message to London and Paris wasn’t emphatic enough, two weeks earlier, at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Trump made numerous comments reiterating his commitment to ending the proxy war. “We’re going to have to settle up with Russia,” he declared. Notably, the President sympathised with Moscow’s “written in stone” determination Kiev not be enrolled into NATO, warned the situation “could escalate to be much worse,” and stated his hope the conflict could be wrapped up within six months.

Markedly, Zelensky was not invited to Trump’s inauguration. In a January 6th interview with Newsweek, the Ukrainian President – typically never one to shy away from international jollies – said he was unable to attend, as it wasn’t “proper” to do so “during the war”. Amusingly, Trump’s son Donald Jr. has rubbished Zelensky’s narrative, claiming he – “a weirdo” – had specifically “asked for an invite” on three occasions, “and each time got turned down.”

For Berlin, Kiev, London, Paris, and NATO more widely, the writing couldn’t be on the wall any more plainly. Whatever reveries they may have of maintaining the proxy war any longer – Britain recently signed a 100-year-long partnership with Ukraine, under which London will “explore” building military bases on Kiev’s soil – they all ultimately remain imperial vassals, wholly dependent on US financial and military support to exist. Save for a major false flag incident, Trump’s message can only be received among the military alliance.

[…]

Via https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/its-official-us-abandoning-ukraine

By John Leake as published by Courageous Discourse on 19 January 2025

HHS Action Referral Memo announces that “Dr. Daszak lacks the present responsibility to participate in United States Federal Government procurement and non-procurement programmes.”

On January 17, 2025 – just three days before President Trump is to be sworn in – Congress issued a press release with the following statement:

Today, after an eight-month investigation, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cut off all funding and formally debarred EcoHealth Alliance Inc. (EcoHealth) and its former President, Dr. Peter Daszak, for five years based on evidence uncovered by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

As far as I can tell, the New York Times did not report this story, though the New York Post did.

More interesting than the superficial news reporting is the HHS Action Referral Memorandum recommending that Dr. Peter Daszak be barred from participating in United States Federal Government procurement and non-procurement programmes.

The Memorandum also states:

Dr. Peter Daszak was the President and Chief Executive Officer of EHA [EcoHealth Alliance] from 2009 until his termination, effective 6 January 2025. Dr. Daszak was the Project Director (PD)/Principal Investigator (PI) for Grant Number 1R01AI110964-01.

I am not sure what to make of this document, which is written in such an arcane and convoluted style that it challenges the attention span of even the most focused reader.

I have been researching this story for four years, and I found the following paragraphs the most intriguing:

9. In a letter dated 28 May 2016, the NIAID contacted EHA concerning possible GoF [gain-of-function] research based on information submitted in its most recent Year 2 RPPR. The NIAID notified EHA that GoF research conducted under Grant Number 5R01AI110964-03 would be subject to the 17 October 2014, United States Federal Government funding pause, and that per the funding pause announcement, new United States Federal Government funding would not be released for GoF research projects that may be reasonably anticipated to confer attributes to influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses such that the virus would have enhanced pathogenicity and/or transmissibility in mammals via the respiratory route. In the letter, the NIAID requested that EHA provide a determination within 15 days of the date of the letter as to whether EHA’s research under Grant Number 5R01AI110964-03 did or did not include GoF work subject to the funding pause.

10. In a letter dated 8 June 2016, EHA provided a response to the NIAID’s 28 May 2016 letter. EHA explained that the goal of its proposed work was to construct MERS and MERS-like chimeric CoVs in order to understand the potential origins of MERSCoV in bats by studying bat MERS-like CoVs in detail. EHA stated that it believed it was highly unlikely that the proposed work would have any pathogenic potential, but that should any of these recombinants show evidence of enhanced virus growth greater than certain specified benchmarks involving log growth increases, or grow more efficiently in human airway epithelial cells, EHA would immediately: (1) stop all experiments with the mutant, (2) inform the NIAID Programme Officer of these results, and (3) participate in decision-making trees to decide appropriate paths forward.

11. Based on the information provided by EHA, the NIAID concluded that the proposed work was not subject to the GoF research pause. In a letter dated 7 July 2016, however, the NIAID informed EHA that should any of the MERS-like or SARS-like chimaeras generated under the grant show evidence of enhanced virus growth greater than 1 log over the parental backbone strain, EHA must stop all experiments with these viruses and provide the NIAID Programme Officer and Grants Management Specialist, and WIV Institutional Biosafety Committee, with the relevant data and information related to these unanticipated outcomes.

Note that various statements in the above paragraphs are inconsistent with what Baric et al. state in their 2015 paper ‘A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronavirus shows potential for human emergence’ – a research paper funded by the NIAID EcoHealth Grant “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.”

As the authors state in the section on biosafety and biosecurity:

Reported studies were initiated after the University of North Carolina Institutional Biosafety Committee approved the experimental protocol (Project Title: Generating infectious clones of bat SARS-like CoVs; Lab Safety Plan ID: 20145741; Schedule G ID: 12279). These studies were initiated before the ‘US Government Deliberative Process Research Funding Pause on Selected Gain-of-Function Research Involving Influenza, MERS and SARS Viruses’ [see HERE]. This paper has been reviewed by the funding agency, the NIH. Continuation of these studies was requested, and this has been approved by the NIH.

As I noted in my series of essays titled ‘The Great SARS-CoV-2 Charade’, one of the silliest lies told by Dr. Anthony Fauci has been his insistence that NIAID did not approve gain-of-function work by EcoHealth.

Fauci has repeatedly asserted this in a loud and vexed tone, as though he is outraged by the mere proposition. And yet, Ralph Baric and his colleagues – including Zhengli-Li Shi at the Wuhan Institute of Virology – plainly state in their 2015 paper that their gain-of-function experiments, performed in Baric’s [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] UNC lab and Zhengli-Li Shi’s lab in Wuhan, were grandfathered in, given that they were funded before the 2014 Pause.

Another statement (in paragraph 11 of the recent HHS Action Referral Memo) that deserves special scrutiny is the following:

In a letter dated 7 July 2016, however, the NIAID informed EHA that should any of the MERS-like or SARS-like chimaeras generated under the grant show evidence of enhanced virus growth greater than 1 log over the parental backbone strain, EHA must stop all experiments with these viruses and provide the NIAID Programme Officer and Grants Management Specialist, and WIV Institutional Biosafety Committee, with the relevant data and information related to these unanticipated outcomes.

Again, it’s tough to interpret this statement, given that Baric et al. had, by their own admission, already generated chimaeras that “replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titres equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV.”

Let’s review what Baric et al. state in their ‘Abstract’ about the functionality of the chimaeric virus (named SHCOI4-MA15) they claimed to have generated. Using humanised mice (genetically modified to have primary human airway cells) as their experimental animals, the authors state:

Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system², we generated and characterised a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone.

The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titres equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV. Additionally, in vivo experiments demonstrate replication of the chimeric virus in mouse lung with notable pathogenesis.

To this day, no legal authority that I am aware of has investigated the question: What became of the chimaeras SHC014-MA15 and WIV1-MA15? The latter chimaera was documented by Baric et al. in their March 2016 paper titled ‘SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence’-a chimaera “that replaced the SARS spike with the WIV1 spike within the mouse-adapted backbone.”

What did the Wuhan Institute of Virology (“WIV”) do with these chimaeras? Did its researchers continue to modify and experiment with these chimaeras?

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Via https://expose-news.com/2025/01/21/ecohealth-alliance-fires-peter-daszak/