Forbes Magazine: The Coronavirus Was Detected In Sewage In March Of 2019, Far From Wuhan, China 福布斯雜誌：2019年3月在遠離中國武漢的污水中檢測到冠狀病毒by Eric Mack Jun 26, 2020, 08:38pm EDT
As new cases of Covid-19 reach record levels in the United States, there’s new evidence the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes the disease has been with us much longer than previously thought.
Researchers from the University of Barcelona say they detected the virus in sewage samples were collected in the Spanish city on March 12, 2019. That’s several months before the first cases that would lead to the current pandemic were officially identified in Wuhan, China in early December.
It’s previously been reported sewage samples suggested the coronavirus was present in Spain in mid-January of this year, over a month before the first case was confirmed there.
The team analyzed frozen waster water samples from nine different dates between January 2018 and December 2019. All the samples came back negative for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material, except for low levels that were found in the March 12, 2019 sample.
It’s a little odd, to say the least, that the coronavirus popped up only once in Barcelona’s wastewater nearly a year before Spain reported its first cases.
“When it’s just one result, you always want more data, more studies, more samples to confirm it and rule out a laboratory error or a methodological problem,” Dr Joan Ramon Villalbi of the Spanish Society for Public Health and Sanitary Administration told Reuters. “It’s definitely interesting, it’s suggestive.”
In their summary of their findings, the team makes a point to note the oft-repeated theory that some particularly rough influenza cases that were reported in the months prior to the new coronavirus emerging may have actually been Covid-19 cases.
“It has been suggested that some uncharacterized influenza cases may have masked COVID-19 cases in the 2019-2020 season,” the Barcelona researchers write.
“Those infected with COVID-19 could have been diagnosed with flu in primary care by mistake, contributing to the community transmission before the public health took measures,” adds co-author Albert Bosch in a statement. Bosch is also president of the Spanish Society of Virology.
It’s important also to note that this research has not yet been peer reviewed, which is a key part of the scientific vetting process prior to publication in a journal. However, given the need for information on the origin and spread of the pandemic, many scientists are publicly sharing and promoting their data prior to publication, but it should still be treated as preliminary and taken with a grain of salt.
A preprint draft of the research is available on the medRXiv server.
Video: Larry Yu & Joseph Leung – Singtao TV San Francisco California – China digital currency will be the gold standard. US lack confidence never seen before afraid Americans finding out the success of China. US corruption is written into law and through negotiations in congress how to split the money controlled by Republicans and Democrats such as the military programs and the proposed infrastructure projects. 美國加州舊金山星島TV視頻: 余錦光和梁建鋒: 中國數字貨幣將成為世界標凖. 美國缺乏前所未有的信心, 害怕美國人發現中國的成功. 全面封鎖所有中國正面信息. 美國的腐敗被寫入法律, 並通過國會談判如何分配軍事計劃和擬議的基礎設施項目等黑金. https://vimeo.com/558179393 https://youtu.be/-J7VgH1vAVk https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/503476864208977/?d=n
美國加州舊金山星島TV視頻: 余錦光和梁建鋒: 十億人口的西人鄉村俱樂部(美國,加拿大,澳洲,英國,歐洲-切記住在這些國家的有色人種包括中國人是二等或三等會員)的福利是由全球其他國家的六十億人口提供(非洲提供原材料,中國包裝). 但中國把西人俱樂部的如意算盤打亂了. 中國不願意祇做包裝而且還要製造新產品像華為的5G. 中國也富起來. 其他國家好像印度和其他東南亞國家也跟隨中國. 中國提倡一帶一路幫助更多國家富起來不願做西人奴隸. 西人鄉村俱樂部會員當然不高興. 以前是六十億人口服務他們, 因為中國不聽話,不再是東亞病夫,最少有三十億加中國的十億人口和西人鄉村俱樂部會員爭資源. 所以西人鄉村俱樂部會員用盡一切方式一切下流手段要打死中國. Video: Larry Yu & Joseph Leung – Singtao TV San Francisco California The welfare of the AngloSaxon Country Club members (U.S., Canada, Australia, UK, Europe – please take notice People of Color especially Chinese has 2nd or 3rd class memberships) with a population of one billion people is provided by six billion people from other countries around the world (Africa provides raw materials and China handles packaging). However, China puts the AngloSaxon Country Club’s wishful thinking on Disrupted. China is unwilling to just make packaging, start making new products like Huawei’s 5G. China has also become rich. Other countries like India and other Southeast Asian countries have followed China. China advocates the Belt and Road Initiative to help more countries get rich. The members of the AngloSaxon Country Club are certainly not happy. In the past, six billion people served them, because of China, at least three billion plus one billion Chinese people competing for resources with the members of the AngloSaxon Country Club. Therefore, the AngloSaxon Country Club members use all means and everything including obscene means, fake news and propaganda want to destroy China. https://vimeo.com/558110763 https://youtu.be/6ZHKxgXPmnU https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/503392384217425/?d=n
How many more democracy US want to overthrow? Syria’s presidential elections this week were a resounding success against a backdrop of 10 years of brutal, relentless war imposed on the Arab country by the United States and its NATO partners. 美國還想推翻多少個民主國家? 在美國及其北約夥伴對這個阿拉伯國家進行了 10 年殘酷無情的戰爭的背景下，本週的敘利亞總統選舉取得了巨大的成功.
After a decade-long torment from terrorist mercenaries deployed covertly by the Western powers, as well as overt aggression from NATO military forces illegally attacking the country and from cruel economic sanctions warfare, the people of Syria remain defiant and independent.
President Bashar al-Assad was re-elected for a fourth seven-year term after winning 95 percent of votes cast. The achievement is stunning. It completely refutes – indeed makes a mockery of – the Western narrative depicting Assad as a “tyrant”.
Despite all the grueling hardships, the Syrian people turned out in droves to vote on Thursday. The turnout was over 78 percent with more than 14 million votes cast out of an eligible 18 million electorate.
There is no way the Western governments and their servile corporate media can spin this epic demonstration of popular defiance to their nefarious intrigues for regime change in Syria. Hence, the total silence among Western media about the election result. That silence is at once hilarious and damning of Western guilt over the real nature of the war in Syria. It was always a foreign war of criminal aggression. If there was any justice prevailing in this world, Western politicians by the dozens should be tried for war crimes.
Before the election this week, the United States, Britain, France, and other NATO powers tried to smear the Syrian democratic will, labeling the ballot as neither fair nor free.
Well, the sheer numbers of people turning out to vote and the subsequent scenes of jubilation across Syria tell another story, one that confounds the Western propaganda and exposes the criminality of the NATO powers and their toxic media.
The Syrian nation has refused to bow after years of NATO-backed terrorism in their country. They have chosen their president – again.
The same kind of shameful silence in Western media has been seen numerous times before when the Syrian army liberated towns and villages from Western-backed terrorists. When people came out to greet their Syrian army liberators, the Western media simply ignored the reality despite having told their consumers beforehand that the Syrian army and their Russian allies were committing slaughter against “rebels” and civilian populations.
Not one Western mainstream media outlet has followed up to report on how Syrians feel about being liberated and of having their peaceful lives restored. That’s because Syrians would praise the leadership of Assad, the courage of the army, and the crucial help of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. In other words, the West’s lies would be demolished by the truth, and so their media are compelled to ignore and keep silent.
For everyone around the world who desires justice and peace and the defeat of imperialism, the victory from Syria’s election is a glorious day to celebrate. Congratulations are due to President Assad. But more so to the people of Syria who showed that it is possible to stand up to the real tyranny, that of the United States and its lawless NATO rogue allies who wanted to destroy Syria in order to install their own puppet regime. Despite unspeakable barbarities inflicted on the peace-loving people of Syria, they have remained steadfast in their unity and determination for independence, regardless of their different religions. The NATO ploy of trying to incite a sectarian war among Syrians failed because they knew all along who their real enemy was. For those willing to see reality, Syria exposes the forces of evil in this world. The Western lying media tell us that Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, and so on, are “bad” and are threatening global peace. The Americans and their NATO partners lecture and pontificate about “rules and order”. When it is they who are caught in the headlights of truth: they tried to destroy a country just like they have countless others. But that country – Syria – just showed its spectacular strength to overcome the evil designs of the United States and its minions in NATO.
Lamentably, Syria faces more trials and challenges from the continuing economic warfare being waged by US and European sanctions. Reconstruction from a decade of NATO aggression will not be easy. But with the help of Russia, China, Iran, and others, the Syrian people will win finally. They have just shown their invincible resilience beyond any doubt.
Video footage withheld by Western Medias: June 4th is a day to celebrate by the 1.4 billions Chinese to remember the Color Revolution funded by CIA at Tiananmen Square on Jun 4, 1989 had failed. 30 years later, CIA/NED tried again in Hong Kong in June 2019 also failed. But Western Empire has not stopped. 每年六月四日是中國14億人民慶祝擊敗由美國中情局策動利用香港和台灣反華分裂分子在中國推動顏色革命的六四天安門事變. 三十年後在六月2019美國中情局/民主基金會在香港再次推動顏色革命再次失敗. 但西方帝國並沒有因此而放棄. https://vimeo.com/557806591
Sinovac vaccine 2nd Chinese dose greenlighted by WHO, ‘more to follow’ by Leng Shumei and Hu Yuwei Jun 01 2021
Sinovac staff members on COVID-19 production line. As the US keeps making promises without actual moves and India, a previous major global vaccine manufacturer, is struggling to fulfill their production contracts amid the serious domestic COVID-19 epidemic, China is taking the leading role to support the global anti-pandemic fight in expanding international supply as much as possible, providing reliable doses with impressive protection data.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday greenlighted COVID-19 vaccine produced by China’s Sinovac for emergency use, which is a prerequisite to become a provider for COVAX.
“Today, I’m happy to announce that the Sinovac-CoronaVac vaccine has been given WHO Emergency Use Listing after being found to be safe, effective and quality assured following two doses of the inactivated vaccine,” WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference on Tuesday.
“Furthermore, the easy storage requirements of CoronaVac make it very suitable for low-resource settings. It is now the eighth vaccine to receive Emergency Use Listing by WHO. It’s now crucial to get these lifesaving tools to the people that need them quickly,” Tedros noted.
The decision further demonstrated that China not only has the willingness and the means to help in the global anti-pandemic fight, but the capability to do so, Feng Duojia, president of the China Vaccine Industry Association, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
Also on Tuesday, Chinese state-owned vaccine producer Sinopharm rolled out its first batch of COVID-19 doses prepared for the global vaccine sharing scheme COVAX in Beijing after the vaccine was approved by the WHO on May 7 for emergency use.
Sinopharm has made some improvements on the special batch for COVAX, including applying packaging all in English and designing a sticker called vaccine vial monitors (VVM) that could show temperature variations – Sinopharm is also the world’s first producer that has attached VVM on COVID-19 shots, Zhu Jingjin, vice president of China National Biotec Group (CNBG), a subsidiary of Sinopharm that is responsible for the group’s COVID-19 vaccine research and production, said at a ceremony to mark the first COVAX shots from China on Tuesday.
QR codes are on the outer packaging for international monitoring and supervision, and the company has improved the instruction information, according to Zhu.
China has promised to provide the COVAX scheme with 10 million shots of COVID-19 vaccines. Chinese companies are putting their best efforts into ensuring the delivery, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a routine press conference on Tuesday.
“China will continue to support related companies in enhancing communication and coordination with the COVAX program and make China’s contributions to securing an early victory in the global fight against the epidemic,” Wang noted.
Leading supplier
China had supplied a cumulative 300 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines overseas by mid-May, contributing to vaccine accessibility and affordability, especially in developing countries.
Sinovac, a major Chinese provider in the overseas market, has supplied 600 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines overall across 46 countries and regions including the domestic market upon regulators’ approval as of Monday, the company revealed.
The company has distributed about 260 million doses to regions outside China while giving the domestic market about 340 million as of Monday, according to a Global Times calculation based on claims made by Sinovac that overseas supply accounts for three-quarters of its domestic supply so far.
More than 430 million doses of Sinovac’s vaccine have been administered globally, including in China. That is, one in every five doses of the COVID-19 vaccine administered globally is from Sinovac, company spokesperson Liu Peicheng said at a press conference on Tuesday.
To date, Sinovac has been inspected by seven international drug regulators from Indonesia, Brazil, Chile, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and the WHO. It has five production bases in China, which can achieve an annual capacity of 2 billion doses, and has issued local production authorization to more than five countries including Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Egypt.
CanSinoBIO, the primary one-dose vaccine producer in China, has distributed more than 10 million doses globally so far, while securing more doses for high-risk areas, the Global Times learnt from CanSinoBIO on Tuesday.
Sinopharm has vaccinated more than 300 million doses globally, including in the Chinese mainland, the company told media at the end of May.
So far two Chinese vaccines have been greenlighted by WHO for emergency use.
Experts noted that in the future, more Chinese producers will obtain WHO approval and join the global anti-epidemic battle to display China’s contribution and responsibility in the battle, which is vital to the world, while the US sits on piles of vaccine stock but turns a blind eye to the struggle, and the world’s major vaccine producer India gets busy tackling its own deadly outbreak.
US President Joe Biden, heeding widespread calls to step up his response to the pandemic’s surge abroad, said on May 17 that his administration would send 20 million doses of federally authorized COVID-19 vaccine overseas in June – the first time he has pledged to give away doses that could be used in the US, the New York Times reported.
That is in addition to the 60 million doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine he pledged last month, though those doses are not approved for domestic use and cannot be released until regulators deem them safe, the report said.
Meanwhile, India’s largest vaccine producer the Serum Institute is struggling to meet domestic demand and says it will not be making doses available for export until the end of the year. The Indian government is aiming to ramp up production to cope with the pandemic, with a pledge to produce at least two billion doses between August and December this year, media reported.
“China is now the world’s largest exporter of vaccines, especially for many developing countries. We are most moved by the fact that, although China has its own mandate to vaccinate 1.4 billion people, it still distributes some of its vaccines to other countries with similar needs,” the ambassador of Ecuador to China, Carlos Humberto Larrea Dávila, told the Global Times on May 26, adding that “China should be an example for the international community.”
Outstanding protection
With more and more places around the world starting to use and trust Chinese shots, the outstanding protection efficacy of the shots in various countries and regions revealed recently has refuted some Western media’s long-existing smearing and doubts over China-made vaccines.
CoronaVac, the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Sinovac, showed impressive efficacy in preventing the SAR-CoV-2 variant discovered in Brazil as data indicates that deaths and hospitalizations caused by the virus in the town of Serrana, in the region of Ribeir?o Preto, decreased by 95 percent and 86 percent from February to April, after close to 60 percent of residents in the town were vaccinated.
The obvious protection rate in Serrana proves that the Sinovac’s vaccine is effective against the mutant P1 strain that spread in Brazil. However, its effectiveness against the strain that was discovered in India – currently circulating in Guangzhou’s latest outbreak – is still being studied, Sinovac’s spokesperson told the Global Times.
Indonesia tracked 128,290 health workers in capital city Jakarta from January to March and found that the Sinovac vaccine protected 98 percent of them from death and 96 percent from hospitalization as soon as seven days after the second dose, Pandji Dhewantara, a Health Ministry official who oversaw the study, was quoted as saying by Bloomberg in a press conference on May 12.
Final results of Phase III clinical trials conducted in Turkey revealed in March also showed that Sinovac’s vaccine can prevent 83.5 percent of symptomatic cases and 100 percent of hospitalization and severe illness.
According to the results of a study with 31,000 participants from more than 100 nationalities conducted in the UAE revealed on May 26, two COVID-19 vaccines developed by Sinopharm prevented symptomatic infections by 72.8 percent and 78.1 percent respectively.
Hungary, the only EU country that is using Chinese vaccines, said it plans to produce Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine in a local factory in a bid to help Hungary realize self-sufficiency in vaccine production from the end of 2022, Reuters reported.
Video: COVID-19 ORIGIN PROBE 2021: Biden Wants To Hit Two Birds With One Stone to framed and demonize China! 2021 年 COVID-19 起源探測：拜登想用一塊石頭打兩隻鳥來陷害和妖魔化中國！With its wiretapping scandal exposed again, it looks so hilarious that it called on its allies to boycott Huawei to maintain network security. Instead of keeping its allies’ safety, it is more worried about the inability to engage in large-scale wiretapping and surveillance activities on its partners, as Huawei does not have the back orifice as other brands. https://vimeo.com/557638671 https://youtu.be/-C8z1vjN8rM https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/502785327611464/?d=n
AMERICAN EMPIRE, BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, COMMENTARY, MILITARISM, PENTAGON, PROPAGANDA, U.S. US Troops Die for World Domination, Not Freedom May 31, 2021
On Memorial Day, Caitlin Johnstone says it’s important to block the propaganda that helps feed a steady supply of teenagers into the imperial war machine.
Vice President Kamala Harris spent the weekend under fire from Republicans, which of course means that Kamala Harris spent the weekend being criticized for the most silly, vapid reason you could possibly criticize Kamala Harris for.
Apparently the likely future president tweeted “Enjoy the long weekend,” a reference to the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, instead of gushing about fallen troops and sacrifice.
That’s it, that’s the whole entire story. That silly, irrelevant offense by one of the sleaziest people in the single most corrupt and murderous government on earth is the whole entire basis for histrionic headlines from conservative media outlets like this:
Harris, the born politician, was quick to course correct.
“Throughout our history our service men and women have risked everything to defend our freedoms and our country,” the veep tweeted. “As we prepare to honor them on Memorial Day, we remember their service and their sacrifice.”
Which is of course complete bullshit. It has been generations since any member of the U.S. military could be said to have served or sacrificed defending America or its freedoms, and that has been the case throughout almost the entirety of its history. If you are reading this it is statistically unlikely that you are of an age where any U.S. military personnel died for any other reason than corporate profit and global domination, and if you are it’s almost certain you weren’t old enough to have had mature thoughts about it at the time.
Whenever you criticize the U.S. war machine online within earshot of anyone who’s sufficiently propagandized, you will invariably be lectured about the second World War and how we’d all be speaking German or Japanese without the brave men who died for our freedom. This makes my point for me: the fact that apologists for U.S. imperialism always need to reach all the way back through history to the cusp of living memory to find even one single example of the American military being used for purposes that weren’t evil proves that it most certainly is evil.
But this is one of the main reasons there are so very many movies and history documentaries made about World War II: it’s an opportunity to portray U.S. servicemen bravely fighting and dying for a noble cause without having to bend the truth beyond recognition. The other major reason is that focusing on the second World War allows members of the U.S. empire to escape into a time when the Big Bad Guy on the world stage was someone else.
From the end of World War II to the fall of the U.S.S.R., the U.S. military was used to smash the spread of communism and secure geostrategic interests toward the ultimate end of engineering the collapse of the Soviet Union. After this was accomplished in 1991, U.S. foreign policy officially shifted to preserving a unipolar world order by preventing the rise of any other superpower which could rival its might.
A 1992 article by The New York Times titled “U.S. Strategy Plan Calls For Insuring No Rivals Develop,“ reporting on a leaked document which describes a policy known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine after then-Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Paul Wolfowitz, reads as follows:
“In a broad new policy statement that is in its final drafting stage, the Defense Department asserts that America’s political and military mission in the post-cold-war era will be to insure that no rival superpower is allowed to emerge in Western Europe, Asia or the territory of the former Soviet Union.
A 46-page document that has been circulating at the highest levels of the Pentagon for weeks, and which Defense Secretary Dick Cheney expects to release later this month, states that part of the American mission will be ‘convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests.’
The classified document makes the case for a world dominated by one superpower whose position can be perpetuated by constructive behavior and sufficient military might to deter any nation or group of nations from challenging American primacy.”
This is all U.S. troops have been fighting and dying for since the Berlin Wall came down. Not “freedom”, not “democracy” and certainly not the American people. Just continual uncontested domination of this planet at all cost: domination of its resources, its trade routes, its seas, its air, and its humans, no matter how many lives need to risked and snuffed out in order to achieve it. The U.S. has killed millions and displaced tens of millions just since the turn of this century in the reckless pursuit of that goal.
And, as Smedley Butler spelled out 86 years ago in his still-relevant book War is a Racket, U.S. military personnel have been dying for profit.
Nothing gets the gears of industry turning like war, and nothing better creates chaotic Wild West environments of shock and confusion during which more wealth and power can be grabbed. War profiteers pour immense resources into lobbying, think tanks and campaign donations to manipulate and bribe policy makers into making decisions which promote war and military expansionism, with astounding success. This is all entirely legal.
It’s important to spread awareness that this is all U.S. troops have been dying for, because the fairy tale that they fight for freedom and for their countrymen is a major propaganda narrative used in military recruitment. While poverty plays a significant role in driving up enlistments as predatory recruiters target poor and middle class youth promising them a future in the nation with the worst income inequality in the industrialized world, the fact that the aggressively propagandized glorification of military “service” makes it a more esteemed career path than working at a restaurant or a grocery store means people are more likely to enlist.
Without all that propaganda deceiving people into believing that military work is something virtuous, military service would be the most shameful job anyone could possibly have; other stigmatized jobs like sex work would be regarded as far more noble. You’d be less reluctant to tell your extended family over Christmas that you’re a janitor at a seedy massage parlor than that you’ve enlisted in the U.S. military, because instead of congratulating and praising you, your Uncle Murray would look at you and say, “So you’re gonna be killing kids for crude oil?”
And that’s exactly how it should be. Continuing to uphold the lie that U.S. troops fight and die for a good cause is helping to ensure a steady supply of teenagers to feed into the gears of the imperial war machine. Stop feeding into the lie that the war machine is worth killing and being killed for. Not out of disrespect for the dead, but out of reverence for the living.
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Video: I was told frequently that Chinese students studying abroad like US refused to return to China to contribute to the motherland because US has a lot of money. Fortunately, not everyone who studies in US or abroad has the same ideas of loving money. Let us listen to their stories常聽人說,中國留學生不想回國為祖國作出貢獻是因為美國錢多.幸好不是每個留學有同樣愛錢的想法.讓我們聽他們的故事吧.
I think the essence of the 2 stories are no family members of the 2 need them to send home money.
Most foreign students came to US for graduate school. They have used up their parents resources to send them to University in China for undergraduate studies, the resources China provided to educate them, they came to US paying 4-8x tuition fee the Americans are paying to study, abandoned their parents, their country, just because of money and money alone, they don’t return home. Do you know how many grieving parents in China. Some said once I become US Citizens will bring them to US (maybe for babysitting only), have they asked if their parents wanted to come, gave up their friends and relatives to come to a stranger country that they don’t speak the language, died lonely and sad. I heard hundreds of these sad stories from my clients since 1980. Extremely selfish kids!
The 2 stories I shared, they gave up substantial higher incomes to return to China to help China like so many overseas Chinese before them.
I am expecting 1,000s of former Chinese students lives in US will be returning to China each year in the foreseeable future as US no longer welcome People of Color, especially Chinese. In fact it is no longer safe to live in US as 1,000s of hate crimes targeting Asians and Chinese each year. Don’t give Biden a free ride, he is as bad as Trump. Trump is 真小人, Biden is 偽君子. They both tried to out doing each other to promote hatred and fake news against Chinese and China. Chinese in America just like the women and children at the Middle East shall become collateral damage.
Johnson Choi Biz 