The World Health Organization is under fire after Taiwan released the contents of a December email inquiring about the person -to-person spread of COVID-19, which it says was ignored by the organization and further denied to provide adequate information about how to fight the virus.
(CLICK)Taiwan is accusing the WHO of downplaying the severity and spread of the coronavirus in an attempt to pander to China, even after Taiwan sounded the alarm about at least seven cases of atypical pneumonia that they were aware of in Wuhan, where the virus originated.
When asked about the cases by the media, Taiwan said China’s health authorities said, “The cases were believed not SARS; however samples are still under examination, and cases have been isolated for treatment,” according to the contents of an email sent by Taiwan’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention to the WHO on Dec. 31.
“I would greatly appreciate it if you have relevant information to share with us,” the email said.
The flood gates have opened, liquidity has been poured into economies the world over; this is the result of the Wuhan Coronavirus which has paralyzed the economic output of states and countries. The United States is rolling out $2.2 trillion on top of the primary liquidity shoveled into the banking system by the FED. Effectively we will see the race to the bottom. How so?
Remember Weimar, where money was everything but real. By the time the man in the street realized what happened, his fortune went up in flames, or shall we say, went down in flames. Without a gold standard, States are given Carte Blanche of printing fiat paper to their heart desires.
But before they know it, hyperinflation will roar its ugly head. And that is what happened in the Weimar Republic, to pay for war debt, the market was flooded with marks. This was subsequent of the releasing the mark’s ties to gold. Sounds familiar doesn’t it.
A loaf of bread in Berlin that cost around 160 Marks at the end of 1922 cost 200,000,000,000 Marks by late 1923. By November 1923, the US dollar was worth 4,210,500,000,000 German marks. You say it can’t happen here, but wait, they said a pandemic can’t happen here, but it did. Only the shadow knows what will happen next.
The 50 Trillion German Mark seen above.
GOLD, the store of value when the value of currencies is fungible. Will $100 become $1,000 or will $100 become $1. When the music stops there will be only one survivor. No need to tell you who, but we will anyway; those who hold the Gold will rule the roost. So in the finale we shall see the battle of currencies, which one will come out on top is the question. Let the games begin.
China stifles coronavirus research in apparent bid to control narrative, analysts say.
Two websites for leading universities in China seem to have published and then deleted academic research about the origins of the coronavirus, according to a report.
The Wuhan university appeared to have published and then deleted posts about academic research that China’s ministry of science and technology needed to approve before publication.
Similar apparent censorship turned up in the form of deleted posts originally published on April 9 by the school of information science and technology at Fudan University in Shanghai.
“They are seeking to transform it from a massive disaster to one where the government did everything right and gave the rest of the world time to prepare,” Kevin Carrico, a senior research fellow of Chinese studies at Monash University, told The Guardian.
“There is a desire to a degree to deny realities that are staring at us in the face … that this is a massive pandemic that originated in a place that the Chinese government really should have cleaned up after SARS,” he added.
China’s science and technology ministry had announced on April 3 that academic researchers needed to report their coronavirus findings to officials within three days or be terminated.
The news outlet noted that China’s President Xi Jinping published an essay in March that included “tracing the origin of the virus” a national priority; the science and technology ministry referenced the essay shortly before the universities changed tunes.
On New Year’s Eve, China informed the World Health Organization of a “mysterious pneumonia outbreak” spreading through Wuhan, an industrial city of 11 million.Video
The government closed a seafood market at the center of the outbreak, moved all patients with the virus to a specially designated hospital and collected test samples to send to government laboratories. Doctors were told to stay quiet; one who issued a warning online was punished. He later died of the virus.
The Pentagon was said to have first learned about the new coronavirus in December from open-source reports emanating from China. By early January, warnings about the virus had made their way into intelligence reports circulating around the government. On Jan. 3, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], Robert Redfield, received a call from his Chinese counterpart with an official warning.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said he was alerted to the virus around the same time — and within two weeks was fearful it could bring about a global catastrophe.Video
Quickly, U.S. intelligence and public health officials started doubting China’s reported rates of infection and death toll. They pressed China to allow in U.S. epidemiologists — both to assist the country in confronting the spread and to gain valuable insights that could help buy time for the U.S. response. U.S. officials also pressed China to send samples of the virus to U.S. labs for study and for vaccine and test development.
On Jan. 11, China shared the virus’ genetic sequence. That same day, the National Institutes of Health started working on a vaccine.
Ultimately, the U.S. was able to get China’s consent to send two people on the WHO team that traveled to China later in the month. But by then precious weeks had been lost and the virus had raced across Asia and had started to escape the continent.
Contrary to the common diatribe that all Democrats and their alter-ego media consistently tow the progressive line, Governor Cuomo’s recent kudos for President Trump dispels that paradigm.
NEW YORK GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO PRAISES DONALD TRUMP FOR RESPONDING ‘VERY QUICKLY’ TO CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo thanked President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on Monday for responding “very quickly” to the coronavirus outbreak in the state.
The governor praised them during a press conference on Monday morning in which he provided updates to the coronavirus situation in New York.
“The fairness dictates that kudos where kudos are due, and here the vice president and the president responded very quickly. So, I want to thank them for that,” Cuomo said.
Contrary to the conventional opinion, well at least for those on record, Lindsey Graham has hit the proverbial nail on the head. Senator Graham is recommending that the United States cancel some of the debt owed to China. Now that is a plan.
On Fox News Thursday in discussion with Sean Hannity, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made an extraordinary statement: That he wants the United States to “cancel” some of the national debt held by the Chinese government as punishment for allowing the coronavirus to spread beyond its borders.
“I want to get the medical supply chain back in the United States, and I want to start canceling some debt that we owe to China, because they should be paying us, not us paying China,” said Graham. “So I think you’re going to see a bipartisan pushback against China to punish them so severely to deter them in the future.
Putting aside the thorny legal question of whether a foreign country can be legally held at fault for the spread of a deadly disease, there is a big problem with what Graham is proposing: the 14th Amendment.
The amendment, one of the three “Reconstruction Amendments” passed in the wake of the Civil War, contained a clause at the end that was designed to prevent Southern politicians — who historically wielded outsized power in Congress — from canceling the U.S. war debt, which could have shielded the white landowners who led the war effort from having to pay taxes: “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.”
At a bare minimum, this amendment would appear to make it unconstitutional to “cancel” Treasury bonds held by the Chinese government or businesses. But it might go even further than that — some have interpreted the phrase “shall not be questioned” more literally, to mean that public officials are bound not to say anything that would make creditors “question” the validity of the public debt. If that is the case, then Graham would have violated the Constitution simply by saying he wants debt held by China to be canceled.
THE STORY HAS NOT BEEN WRITTEN YET, but when this is all over we shall see what price China will pay. And we guaranteed that it will be in spades. China is currently on a political campaign by supplying respirators, masks and other various supplies to countries in need. This is pure and simple the Zeitgeist of the day. And as the sun comes up, the countries of the world are licking the ass of China. However, it won’t be long before most countries who China patronized with construction projects, loans and whatever realized that they were patsies.
Take Italy for example, does anyone think that the Italians are happy with their relationship with China today. After the virus became known in Wuhan, the Chinese fled to Lombardy causing multitude of deaths, hard aches and illnesses. Italy has been devastated in more ways than one. And we shall see what price they will pay. We can almost guarantee that the Ndrangheta of Calabria and La Costa Nostra will be involved. Our bet is they will make China a deal that they can’t refuse. Count on it! Italians, like Albanians don’t forget.
Giving aid to and abetting the enemy (Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.) Senator Diane Feinstein has recommended that the United States give Iran $5 large, that is FIVE BILLION to fight the Wuhan Coronavirus. Now that is a great idea, however there are no strings attached. We have no problem with helping people, but there are documents to sign, but most of all a regimen to follow is a definite mandate. Our number one priority is to force Iran to dismantle all of their nuclear facilities under United States guidance from day one. Additionally, we the United States must demand full access to the entire country of Iran.
The Commie Chinese Government is guilty of Mass Murder. In cahoots with the WHO they have literally murdered hundreds of thousands. Additionally, they have caused economic havoc the world over, costing countries trillions upon trillions of dollars. The cost and total damaged will not be known for several years, but our back of the envelope estimate is somewhere in the hundred trillion range.
A suit must be filed in the World Court. China must pay for their crimes.
An obsessive woman denied is an obsessive woman full of rage. Nancy Pelosi fits the bill. From Day 1 she has gone on with uncontrollable anger against President Donald J. Trump. She will not let up, her. Trump has gotten under her skin. She is distraught, she has been battered; she is on a rampage with no end in sight. If she was a private citizen, a restraining order would have been issued by the police for harassment. Her rage is fueled by an underlying disease called HATE. Yes HATE. She is a hater. PELOSI IS A STALKER.
It is almost inconceivable that Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is launching yet another investigation aimed at undermining President Trump. How does the woman sleep at night?
Here we are, in the midst of a horrific health and economic crisis, and House Speaker Pelosi wants, once again, to squander our nation’s resources by playing politics. She is setting up a select House committee to “assure that the taxpayer dollars are being wisely and efficiently spent”; but also, she said, to “examine all aspects of the federal response to the coronavirus.” In effect, an unlimited investigation, with subpoena powers to boot.
Should you wonder about her ambitions, consider that she put Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., who called the emergency coronavirus bill a “tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision,” in charge of the inquiry.
Maybe that was a reward for Clyburn providing the pivotal endorsement for Joe Biden, on the cusp of the South Carolina primary, helping the former vice president leap ahead in the race for the Democratic nomination. That pleased Establishment Democrats like Pelosi; Clyburn deserves a reward.
Never mind that the House already has an Oversight Committee; never mind that, as Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pointed out, “Congress already wrote oversight provisions into the latest funding package.”
No, Queen Nancy wants her new investigation, no matter how it damages and divides the country. Imagine pulling our health officials off the front lines even for a minute to testify before legislators more interested in scoring soundbites than solving the nation’s problems.
In case you haven’t noticed, the coronavirus task force looks exhausted; they have been working, we hear, 20 hour days trying to cope with this monster disease. The last thing they need is a lot of nit-picking Democrats trying to trip them up.
We get it. Congress is on the sidelines and President Trump is getting way too much press to make his opponents happy. And, his approval ratings are heading higher even as Democrats criticize his every move. But for heaven’s sake: this is a national emergency – not the time for political showboating.
Sure, Congress should oversee the hundreds of billions of dollars heading to struggling Americans courtesy of the CARES Act. Heaven knows someone should be supervising the enormous release of taxpayer money. For instance, it would be fascinating to know why $25 million was funneled by Pelosi to the Kennedy Center, even as that organization had already decided to lay off its employees.
But judicious oversight, we know, will not be the focus of the committee she has formed.
Just as her impeachment effort yielded nothing good for her party, so will this new investigation please only determined Democrats and further alienate all-important independent voters.
Instead, Democrats will ferret out instances in which President Trump underplayed the urgency of the coronavirus threat, or cases where different federal agencies tripped over each other, causing overlapping orders and waste, or other problems that arose while mobilizing the vast federal government against the deadly virus.
There will be plenty of those, of course. That’s called the fog of war and when the war is waged suddenly and hugely against a new and invisible threat, the fog is dense.
But for fair-minded Americans sick of partisan politics and who see a national crisis as a good time to holster the pistols, Pelosi’s newest assault on the president will be yet another dud. Just as her impeachment effort yielded nothing good for her party, so will this new investigation please only determined Democrats and further alienate all-important independent voters.
Those Independents generally decide elections; it is they who have been boosting the president’s approval ratings of late. The New York Times reports that many who did not previously vote for Trump have been impressed by the vigor and determination with which he has commanded the public and private sectors to attack this deadly disease. They appreciate that mistakes will be made, but that the president is doing “the best with the information he had.”
Those same independents were repulsed by Pelosi’s impeachment effort. As the pointless political maneuver finished up in February, Trump scored record-high ratings from that group. They saw the Democrat-led investigations as partisan game-playing, and they were right.
The newest round of House “gotcha” will play out in the same way. Democrats will call health officials from President Obama’s team to testify that Trump should have ordered ventilators earlier or imposed a federal lockdown sooner. Republicans will counter with reports detailing Obama’s failure to rebuild spent federal stocks of critical supplies like ventilators. The GOP will show clips of Pelosi encouraging people on Feb. 24 to visit San Francisco’s Chinatown for the Lunar New Year celebration, claiming it was “perfectly safe” to be there.
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