Fake news journalists need to be called out for their dishonesty
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The theory that the Coronavirus may have originated in a lab in Wuhan is gaining more credibility each and every day. When the world first learned about the coronavirus, after weeks of cover-up by the Chinese Communist government, and their friends in the World Health Organization, we were told the origin of this virus came from a wet market. And the mainstream media insisted that we have full faith in the explanation given by China.
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The theory that the coronavirus may have originated in a lab in Wuhan is gaining more credibility
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each and every day. When the world first learned about the coronavirus, after weeks of cover-up
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by the Chinese Communist government and their friends in the World Health Organization,
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we were told the origin of this virus came from a wet market in Wuhan. We were told to ignore the
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fact that China's only high-security infectious disease laboratory, a lab infamous for its
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controversial research and the Chinese government's secrecy around it, the Wuhan Institute for
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Virology Lab, is located a stone's throw from the wet market where we were told the coronavirus
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originated. But this was simply a coincidence, we were told, and the mainstream media insisted
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that we have full faith in the explanation given by the Chinese government. Dissenting thinkers who
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raised questions about the links between this new coronavirus and China's lone biosafety level
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four laboratory located in the same city, well, they were attacked and maligned, and this includes
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myself. All the way back in January, I raised some concerns. I thought they were valid concerns,
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asked questions just as journalists are supposed to do, questioning the link between the possibility
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that these labs or China's biological warfare program was somehow linked to the deadly virus.
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Now this is the angle that I'm a little bit more worried and concerned about, which is interesting
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because nobody else is covering it. Nobody else is covering it. I noticed this story in the
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Washington Times over the weekend. It says virus hit Wuhan, has two laboratories linked to Chinese
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biological warfare program. So the deadly animal virus epidemic spreading globally may have originated
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in a Wuhan laboratory linked to China's covert biological weapons program, according to an Israeli
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biological warfare expert. Radio Free Asia this week rebroadcasted a local Wuhan television report
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from 2015 showing China's most advanced virus research laboratory known as the Wuhan Institute for
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virology, Radio Free Asia reported. The lab is the only declared site in China capable of working with
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deadly viruses. So Danny Shohan, who is a former Israeli military intelligence officer who has studied
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Chinese biological warfare, said the institute is linked to Beijing's covert biological weapons programs.
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This is a quote from Shohan. Certain laboratories in the institute have probably engaged in terms of
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research and development in Chinese biological weapons, at least collaterally, yet not as a principal
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facility of the Chinese biological warfare alignment, he told the Washington Times. Work on biological
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weapons is conducted as part of a dual civilian military research and is definitely covert, he said in an email.
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Mr. Shohan holds a doctorate in medical microbiology from 1970 to 1991. He was a senior analyst with the
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Israeli military intelligence and biological and chemical warfare in the Middle East and worldwide,
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holding the rank of lieutenant colonel. So that is a little bit concerning. I mean, we don't know
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anything and I'm not going to speculate, but I'm just saying that, you know, an expert who knows what
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he's talking about is linking this. We don't really know exactly what the origins are. Nobody in the media
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is talking about, but it is definitely worth knowing that China's covert biological weapons is centered in
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the exact same city where this virus was originating. I'll just leave it at that. I'm not going to
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speculate, but I think it's interesting. Worth noting, not sure why my colleagues in the mainstream
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media are completely ignoring that fact. But as has become a sad sign of our times,
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agenda-driven journalists quickly attempted to discredit this line of thinking and this line
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of questioning. For example, freelance journalist Justin Ling wrote a column in Foreign Policy
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magazine regurgitating Chinese propaganda and accusing me of spreading misinformation and
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conspiracy theories simply for asking some questions and quoting an Israeli scientist who is also
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raising similar concerns. Well, in the past few weeks, major news outlets around the world have
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begun to revisit and re-question China's initial claims and raise new questions about the origin of
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this coronavirus. On April 2nd, the Washington Post published a widely shared article by senior foreign
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affairs columnist David Ignatius entitled, How did COVID-19 begin? Its original story is shaky. I'm going to read
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from this article because it is really interesting and it really reveals a lot about the questions around the
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origin of the coronavirus. So he says, scientists have identified the culprit as a bat coronavirus through
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genetic sequencing. Bats weren't sold at the seafood market, although that market or others could have sold
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animals that had contact with bats. The Lancelot noted in a January study that the first COVID-19 case
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in Wuhan had no connection to the seafood market. There's a competing theory of an accidental lab release
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of bat coronavirus that scientists have been puzzling about for weeks. Less than 300 yards from the seafood
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market is the Wuhan branch of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers from that
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facility and the nearby Wuhan Institute of Virology have posted articles about collecting bat coronaviruses
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from around China for study to prevent future illnesses. Did one of those samples leak or was hazardous waste
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deposited in a place where it could have spread? Ignatius goes on, he quotes a Rutgers microbiologist and
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biosafety expert who described a December video from the Wuhan CDC that shows staffers collecting bat coronaviruses
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with inadequate personal protective equipment and unsafe operational practices. So this story really,
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really raised eyebrows. It made a lot of people sort of reconsider the initial Chinese claim. So following this
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report, officials in the UK said that they too agreed with the possibility that the virus came out of a laboratory
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in the area. According to a report in the Daily Mail, top British officials stated, quote,
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there is a credible alternative view to the zoonic theory based on the nature of the virus. Perhaps it is no coincidence
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that there is a laboratory in Wuhan. It is not discounted. Well, this week saw several more groundbreaking reports
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that give this alternative theory more credibility. First, the Washington Post released a report this week
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revealing that the U.S. State Department cables warned of safety issues at that same Wuhan lab
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studying bat coronaviruses all the way back in 2018. According to the report, U.S. embassy officials
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visited a Chinese research facility in the city of Wuhan several times and sent two official warnings
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back to Washington about inadequate safety at the lab, which was conducting risky studies on coronaviruses
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from bats. So that was the first indication that we knew that there were problems at these labs and
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that it went all the way to the top within the U.S. government. Okay, second, on Wednesday evening,
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we had a bombshell of a news report from Fox News about the same Wuhan lab and the possibility
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of a leak. So Fox News White House correspondent John Roberts reported that U.S. officials had a high
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confidence that the coronavirus leaked from a Wuhan lab. He asked the question to President Donald Trump
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during Trump's nightly briefing on the coronavirus, and this is what that sounded like.
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John, go ahead. Mr. President, multiple sources are telling Fox News today that the United States
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government now has high confidence that while the coronavirus is a naturally occurring virus,
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it emanated from a virology lab in Wuhan, that because of lax safety protocols, an intern was
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infected who later infected her boyfriend and then went to the wet market in Wuhan where it began to
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spread. Does that correspond with what you have heard from? Well, I don't want to say that, John,
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but I will tell you more and more. We're hearing the story and we'll see when you say multiple sources.
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Now, there's a case where you can use the word sources. On Wednesday evening, Fox News also
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reported that U.S. officials say that Chinese officials not only lied about the origin of the
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virus coming from a wet market in Wuhan in order to deflect blame, but also that they destroyed
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evidence from the lab to prevent a smoking gun. It may have been the costliest government cover-up
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of all time, a U.S. official told Fox News. Look, as the Chinese communist officials ramp up their
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propaganda efforts, working hand-in-hand with the corrupt and discredited World Health Organization,
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it's more important than ever that Canadians know the truth. And that's why it's so important that
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fake news journalists like Justin Ling at Foreign Policy be called out for their dishonesty.
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Journalists are supposed to ask questions and search for the truth, not push Chinese propaganda
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and not shame other journalists for asking what they think are the wrong questions. Justin Ling's
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calm and foreign policy is fake news, and it should be taken down immediately. For True North,