Researching pathogens in the Ukraine since 2014 …
I know I shouldn’t be surprised when our Propaganda institutions, a.k.a. MSM, sweep vital information under the carpet. It still takes my breath away however when they do so in a concerted ‘effort’. Alright, so there were the ‘Oscars’ last night which meant that extra pixels had to be spent on dresses and speeches and ‘celebrities’ posturing. I have no idea what went on – life’s too short to waste on that ‘entertainment’.
Of course, the inevitable ‘war news’ had to be given lots and lots of space as well. One quick scan of the headlines showed that there’s been nothing new: “Russia bad” and ”Mr Z demands”. The remaining space was given over to ‘Royal News’ and to the now infamous Biden pronouncement.
Starting with that one first: Biden did say in his speech in Poland: “For Gods’ sake, this man cannot remain in power”. Immediately afterwards, the great “he didn’t mean what he said” spin machine was started:
“A White House official issued a comment minutes later saying that Biden was not calling for regime change. The President’s point was Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change,” the official said.” (paywalled link)
That statement came in the new, modern form for official government communications – a tweet. Ever since, US politicians and spin doctors have swamped the MSM with reassurances that Biden really didn’t mean to call for Putin to be dealt with ‘terminally’, or for regime change, for example by Mr Blinken (link). The wannabe Napoleon waded in as well yesterday, telling the world that he’d never say such a thing (link). No, of course not – Macron would prefer to remove Putin without prior announcement.
So, you see: our MSM simply haven’t got the space or time to address the issue of US biolabs in the Ukraine and elsewhere. They also haven’t got the time to address the very unsavoury fact that Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was involved, earning lovely stacks of money.
The whole sordid tale about that laptop and the emails therein, about why the US MSM sat on that information – that is another story. Suffice it to say that amongst those emails was proof that the Bidens were up to their necks in the bio lab funding sleaze – remember, Biden sen was the Vice President at the time this kicked off in 2014.
On Friday 25th March 2022 the DM published a proper report (link) on this scandal. It should have been top news, copied by the rest of our MSM. After all, there’s the connection to covid which is still kept on the backburner, to be used to clobber us with when necessary. This report though did see the light of day and was updated on Saturday. I suspect that the work and the research had already been done because this news item appeared world-wide:
“MOSCOW, March 24. /TASS/. US President Joe Biden must provide explanations regarding his son Hunter’s involvement in the operation of biological laboratories in Ukraine, Russia’s State Duma speaker, Vyacheslav Volodin, said on his Telegram channel on Thursday. “US President Joe Biden himself is involved in the creation of biolaboratories in Ukraine. An investment fund run by his sun [sic!] Hunter Biden funded research and the implementation of the United States’ military biological program. It is obvious that Joe Biden, as his father and the head of state, was aware of that activity,” Volodin said.” (link)
We remember that Russian military officials had produced papers, documents and letters relating to those biolabs in the Ukraine. Those were immediately pooh-pooh’d as ‘propaganda’. Even now, the two papers which have currently published their articles are quoting ‘intelligence experts’ labelling the Russian claims as ‘propaganda’. The New York Post has this lovely example of squirming (my emphasis):
“Hunter Biden’s ventures raised the eyebrows of a former CIA officer. “His father was the vice president of the United States and in charge of relations with Ukraine. So why was Hunter not only on the board of a suspect Ukrainian gas firm, but also hooked them up with a company working on bioweapons research?,” Sam Faddis told the Mail. ‘It’s an obvious Russian propaganda attempt to take advantage of this. But it doesn’t change the fact that there does seem to be something that needs to be explored here.” (link)
Yes, daring to mention that proof for US involvement in Ukrainian biolabs, actually exists is – propaganda. Here’s more, from the report in the DM (my emphasis):
“Intelligence experts say the Russian military leader’s allegations were a brazen propaganda ploy to justify president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and sow discord in the US. But emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptop show he helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Metabiota, a Department of Defense contractor specializing in research on pandemic-causing diseases that could be used as bioweapons.” (link)
There’s also something which is of huge concern for us as it goes to the question of how and why that covid virus appeared, with the well-known consequences for our health, for our economy, and for the denial of our civil liberties. Right at the bottom of the DM report there’s this:
“Metabiota [one of those Ukrainian ‘Biden labs’] also has close ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), suspected to be the source of the COVID-19 outbreak. […] Chinese scientists performed gain of function research on coronaviruses at the WIV, working alongside a US-backed organization EcoHealth Alliance that has since drawn intense scrutiny over its coronavirus research since the COVID-19 pandemic. […] Metabiota has been an official partner of EcoHealth Alliance since 2014, according to its website.” (link)
No, this doesn’t mean Hunter Biden and Metabiota were directly involved in creating covid. However, it does mean that for years sleaze and corrupt financing instruments were used across the world for biolabs creating pathogens, with the involvement of US departments.
It does mean that far more people have known for a long time about US bioweapons research in biolabs across the world, that Ukrainian oligarchs and US citizens like Hunter Biden earned nice sums of dollars. It does mean that the shrill accusations of ‘Russian propaganda’ are feeble attempts to cover up what happened.
Pres Biden and his propaganda mouthpieces have preemptively tried to blame Russia for ‘bioweapon attacks’ as soon as the documents regarding the existence of these biolabs were published by Russia. Now the same ‘intelligence experts’ are trying to imply that Putin used the existence of these biolabs as ‘reason’ for this war. Words simply fail me!
I leave you with news from two “EU voices”. One is a statement from Mr Borrell, the EU’s ‘Foreign Secretary’, who ‘fears’ that this war and the sanctions ‘could push Russia closer to China’ (link). Crikey – who could possibly have seen that coming!
The other statement is … precious indeed. It’s about a possible ‘ban’ on Russian diamonds on which the Belgian diamond industry depends. A Belgian minister said: “that Western sanctions “must have a much bigger impact on the Russian side than on ours.” (link) – but of course! Make Russia deliver what the West needs to keep their economies going while ‘degrading’ the Russian economy. Perhaps Mr Putin will demand that diamonds also be paid for in roubles? I’m sure the Belgians will comply.
After all, diamonds are forever, aren’t they …
I hope Johnson is selling all these arms he is sending to Ukraine. Then they can pay us back over a number of years like we had to do to America after The second world war.
We cannot afford to give them away.
Mike…..my guess is that these 6000 conventional stinger missiles Boris Johnson has promised to supply the Ukraine are those that the government have purchased from the manufacturers and therefore from our own stockpile of weaponry. This man thinks we are all as stupid as he patently is. I am hoping that his ruddy useless party gets a thoroughly deserved hammering in May, and that he loses his Uxbridge parliamentary seat in the 2024 general election and that the fake Conservatives are booted from power for a very long time indeed. He and they are a walking disaster zone, and the problem is that the Labour are even worse if that is possible..
Hear, hear Colin!
“this doesn’t mean Hunter Biden and Metabiota were directly involved in creating covid.”
True, but it’s like the lid is slowly, far too slowly and always mentioning the Russians even when they were not involved, being lifted on a foetid pit, heaving with corruption. Creatures of every kind, crawling hither and thither, pursuing their own motives but intermingling in the dark, in the decay.
Hunter was on the board of Burisma, which is owned by oligarch Igor Kolomoysky; the same who groomed Mr Z for the Presidency through the TV series made by his production company and who allegedly bankrolled the 2004 coup, allegedly organised by the US’s Victoria Nuland. So it appears the man who funds Zelenski also funds (’10% for the big guy’) Biden. But still nothing to see here, folks. Kerry, Pelosi and Romney also each have a child on the board of a Ukranian company. The same scam: US government funds pour in to in Ukraine, whilst a parent company pays the offspring of Senators via a seat on their board, a percentage of the proceeds of which finds its way back to the Senator.
Point of interest. At least 33 pharmaceutical companies have headquarters or main offices in Kiev, alone: including, Roche, AstraZeneca, Merck, GSK, Johnson&Johnson, Bayer, Novartis. Who knew?
BTW, the gas and oil is still flowing and being paid for, as are the dividends to Rishi’s wife whose company has not been sanctioned, and the rouble is recovering.
Projection must surely have reached its apogee with Biden saying Putin is not fit for office and should be replaced. The irony would be painful if it were not so serious.
Phil – there may well be sound business reasons why the Pharma big boys have a main area office in Ukraine. FFS, Ukrainians need medicines, medical devices and diagnostics as do their pets, just like the rest of us. This is not a primitive backwater. Also companies will set up to serve a region where it is easy or there is a tax advantage. Ireland did, and I think still does attract Pharma because of its beneficial tax rates if you are setting up a business which actually employs locals (as opposed to a registered business address to get the favourable tax rate)
As for corruption and cronyism – seems to be hardwired into homo sapiens. The disgusting greed being exposed over PPE procurement is a case in point and – worse – I have direct experience, as have friends, of the utter corruption in UK politics and the vile lengths they will go to in order to prevent a new party displacing the entrenched scum. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Fair point on the possible reasons for a glut of Pharma; but we’ll see what comes out in the wash.
Just because there are genuine public health biolabs, does not mean that there are not some malign facilities hiding in plain sight in the crowd, funded by the U.S, built by U.S. contractors and run exclusively by Americans. The US Embassy listed them on its website until the war began, when the PDFs were hastily removed, some dating back to 2012. Luckily we still have the wayback machine.
If they are doing genuine research for the good of mankind, why are the Americans so concerned to destroy everything and terrified at them falling into the hands of Putin? He probably wants to cure cancer too.
And I do agree about the worldwide corruption in politics, business and high places; I may borrow ‘entrenched scum’, if you have no objection. Brilliant. And with your earlier comments on the Clintons, Trump, Daszak, Wuhan, etc, ar spot on.
But you let yourself down by slipping into narrative-speak by referring to a ‘biolab believer.’ You are quite capable of arguing your corner without that. And don’t forget, it is only a few weeks since the existence of US bio labs in Ukraine at all, was just a mad conspiracy theory.
Apparantly, there are some 150 PR firms, many in Washington but around the West, using their video and imaging software working with Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry. The war may be real but much of what we see and hear about it is not. The techniques honed and practiced during the pandemic and the war in Ukraine will not be abandoned. The next Orwell or Huxley will have mountians of material to use assuming another comes along at all.
Once sane people whose judgement I respected have fallen big time for the ‘good Ukraine/bad Russia’ hype. Boris said Ukraine was a ‘perfectly innocent country’, nothing like the Big Lie eh? Like ‘Take back control of our borders’.
Ukraine poised to unleash deadly new weapon to rain hellfire on Putin’s troops and tanks: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1587041/Ukraine-new-us-weapon-swithblade-vladimir-putin-troops-tanks-invasion-update
But of course it’s OK if Ukraine uses WMD. It’s just bad if Russia does it.
Exactly right Debbie, such warped ‘reporting’ from our thick meedja.
Russell, I agree. Any positive news about UKIP if you are still involved with the party. I hope it puts up sufficient candidates in the May 2022 elections to give the electorate some choice apart from the same old same old. The leadership needs to start pushing out its message so it gains some traction with the voters, but I don’t see any mention of the party anywhere, and the same can be said of Reform UK as well, the latter of which is a dead loss.
Hi Colin, I hope you’re well. Sadly, I believe UKIP is a sunken old ship and has been for a long time. It cannot be refloated. Reform are useless, Tice is too nice, waffles and avoids the big issues. He’s also being ‘managed’ by people who are NOT on his side, they’re taking salaries and steering him in the wrong direction.
If you’re on Telegram find a man called GONZALO LIRA – he’s in Kharkov, sending out some gruesome video of what the Ukrainian forces are up to, good guys my arm. Paul Joseph Watson has posted some of the horrors. ALSO on YouTube ALEX CHRISTOFOROU, incredible ‘other side’ of the news.
I’m only now checking out links which have come in over the weekend because I needed to have a pause not just for the sake of my eyes but also to keen sane.
So here’s a must-read article which explains how the BBC ‘Ukrainian war reporters’ for whom we’re shelling out a few extra million quid, remember?, are getting their ‘war news’:
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/26/the-bbcs-ukrainian-war-messager/
And they dare call news in Russian media ‘propaganda’!
Good report Viv. Biden and his crooked regime only exist because of a corrupt, compliant media. If it was a level playing field they’d have been laughed off stage long ago.
Seems to me that almost everything about the Democrat’s ‘win’ in 2020 was corrupt and dependent on the never ending Trump bashing. If you think Biden and son are corrupt try the Clintons.
As for Trump getting elected with Russian connivance? Really? Doesn’t Russia and the bigger threat – China, depend on the US being weak? At the start of this Trump was derided – again- for ‘praising’ Putin. IMHO, my memory is that Trump praised the dodgy dictators in public when he actually met them (think N.Korea) to induce a bit of ‘feel good’ but I bet none of the little jumped up tyrants would have risked messing with him.
Biden is so clearly suffering from dementia I find myself feeling sorry for him (I know… I shouldn’t) and with dementia the inhibitions are gone, they don’t dissemble – so of course he came out with what we all think in private.
Those of you interested in the ongoing investigation into the shady dealings of Daszak’s ECO Health Alliance and Wuhan Institute should read Ridley & Chan’s ‘Viral’ and, if you use Twitter, follow Alina Chan and members of D.R.A.S.T.I.C. like The Seeker.
Should we be surprised if they collaborated with labs in places other than China? Of course not, partly because science is international and partly because for a time the dodgier gain of function proposals were blocked in the USA.
That there were THAT many ‘biolabs’ in Ukraine is likely to be a figment of someone’s imagination – I have seen one list, posted incidentally by a biolab ‘believer’ which suggests to me that a number of them were exactly what I’d expect most of the public health & veterinary labs in Ukraine to be – exactly what our labs at Colindale, the NIBSC and New Haw in Surrey are.
As far as I am concerned Biden is as bad as Johnson, both blasting off their mouths without thinking about the consequences. Both awful leaders, both devoid of any tact or diplomacy, and both seemingly devoid of any common sense, and both devoid of any friends on the international political stage. However both like the sound of their own voices, and both full of their own self importance, and both thick as two short planks. In fact both are indeed planks full stop, and we need to be permanently rid of both.
Hear hear Colin