Wretchard.com

Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is releasing “Recommended Policy Guidance for Departmental Development of Review Mechanisms for Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO).” Adoption of these recommendations will satisfy the requirements for lifting the current moratorium on certain life sciences research that could enhance a pathogen’s virulence and/or transmissibility to produce a potential pandemic pathogen (an enhanced PPP).

Recommended Policy Guidance for Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight

OSTP Issues “Recommended Policy Guidance for Departmental Development of Review Mechanisms for Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO)”

The survey also found that 68 percent of participants believed that Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s foremost infectious disease specialist, provided trustworthy advice on the pandemic. Dr. Fauci has come under repeated attack from conservative media figures like Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson of Fox News..

Trust in health agencies and Fauci remains strong, a poll finds, but personal doctors score higher.

A majority of Americans believes in guidance from the C.D.C., the F.D.A. and Dr. Fauci, despite misinformation and frequent criticisms.

Fauci added: “So, it was research that was done by qualified people. Right now, when there’s all of this thing about China, that’s a different situation now back then when you’re dealing with qualified, highly respected Chinese scientists. So it isn’t what was made out to be about dealing with really, really bad people. Because those scientists were very well-respected in the scientific community internationally.”

Fauci praises Wuhan scientists and defends funding of bat coronavirus research

Dr. Anthony Fauci praised the “qualified, highly respected Chinese scientists” the National Institutes of Health collaborated with at the Wuhan Institute of Virology over the years, defending NIH’s funding of bat coronavirus research in China.

Nearly every politician now in office or who won reelection on the promise of a return to the “normal” old global world will fail in his pledge as it becomes clear that the pandemic and the new Cold War with China have changed things deeply.

Host nation expected an economic windfall and global recognition. But amid pandemic, a disgruntled populace just wants it all to go away.

The 2021 Olympics Are Turning Into a $20 Billion Bust for Japan

The host nation expected an economic windfall and global recognition. But amid pandemic, a disgruntled populace just wants it all to go away.

Seen on the Internet: “My God I’ve been on self lockdown since this 16 March 2020.In a period of 15 months I only went out of house for errands, government transactions, and vaccination.” It’s that moment when you realize that you’ve wandered into a dungeon.

Fauci’s denials, however indignant won’t end the controversy over his involvement in Wuhan. The reason is simple. The scale of the catastrophe is just too big to be dismissed without a thorough look. Fauci may well be innocent but with the majority of the public now convinced a lab accident was the cause, according to a Harvard-Politico poll a mere denial will no longer suffice.

It’s sad to watch people who used to be respected conservative names in liberal media wandering in search of an audience, victims of a shift in audience composition. Big names that suddenly aren’t who are the last to know. The tide has moved on leaving them stranded in some shrinking pool. Maybe some wave will carry them back out among the big fish. Or maybe this is it.

In a way it’s better to say “I am Nobody” than “I used to be important”.

The chief health officer of New South Wales, Australia, told reporters Tuesday that in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, citizens should avoid talking to each other.

Australian health officer tells citizens to not talk to each other — ‘even … your next-door neighbor in the shopping center’ — to prevent COVID spread

The chief health officer of New South Wales, Australia, told reporters Tuesday that in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, citizens should avoid talking to each other.
What did the doctor say? “Whilst it’s human nature to engage in conversation with others — to be friendly — unfortunately th..…

The Paris prosecutor’s office announced it is investigating the suspected widespread use of the Pegasus spyware to target journalists, human rights activists and politicians in multiple countries.

Phones of Macron and some French ministers targeted in Pegasus affair, according to French media

The cell phones of French President Emmanuel Macron and 15 members of the French government may have been among potential targets in 2019 of surveillance by spyware made by the Israel-based NSO Group…

Most Americans now believe that the coronavirus leaked from a laboratory in China, according to a new POLITICO-Harvard poll that found a dramatic shift in public perception of Covid-19’s origins over the last year.

POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Americans believe Covid leaked from lab

Opinion on the lab leak scenario, once seen as a fringe theory, has shifted dramatically.

The Biden administration blacklisted seven Chinese officials over violations of the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, a bill signed into law by former President Donald Trump in July 2020. President Trump ended the special economic status granted to Hong Kong in response to China’s drive to erode the territory’s autonomy guaranteed by the Communist regime under the “one country, two systems” policy when it took control of the territory in 1997.

China Threatens to Deal a “Head-on Blow” to U.S. Over Sanctions on Chinese Officials

U.S. Treasury blacklists seven Chinese officials under Trump-era Hong Kong Autonomy Act.

1619 Project writer Nikole Hannah-Jones said she believes Cuba is the most equal country in the western hemisphere. She noted how Cuba was one of the most ‘equal’ and ‘multiracial’ countries in the with ‘very little inequality’ between black and white people living there.

1619 Project founder says communist Cuba among ‘most equal’ countries

1619 Project writer Nikole Hannah-Jones said she believes Cuba is the most equal country in the western hemisphere. She believes the communist country could serve as a model for integration.

From what I can tell Cuba is in trouble for 4 immediate reasons:

1. The demise of Venezuela’s Daddy Oilbucks largesse;
2. The collapse of the tourism industry;
3. The pandemic;
4. The lack of FX to import food and other essentials due to the abolition of their dual currency system

Together they add up to no hay nada.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Western allies formally blamed China on Monday for a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and asserted that criminal hackers associated with the Chinese government have carried out ransomware and other illicit cyber operations.

Microsoft Exchange hack caused by China, US and allies say

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Western allies formally blamed China on Monday for a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and asserted that criminal hackers associated with the Chinese government have carried out ransomware and other illicit cyber operations.

The first signs of catastrophe were detected nine days ago by a satellite orbiting 500 miles above the tranquil hills around the Rhine river

Germany knew the floods were coming, but the warnings didn’t work

The first signs of catastrophe were detected nine days ago by a satellite orbiting 500 miles above the tranquil hills around the Rhine river.Over the next few days a team of scientists sent the German

Few pause to think that their phones can be transformed into surveillance devices, with someone thousands of miles away silently extracting their messages, photos and location, activating their microphone to record them in real time… in the coming days the Guardian will be revealing the identities of many innocent people who have been identified as candidates for possible surveillance by NSO clients in a massive leak of data.

Huge data leak shatters lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance

Our investigation shows how repressive regimes can buy and use the kind of spying tools Edward Snowden warned us about

New at the Belmont Club. Discernment and reasons of the heart are the secret to survival.

If the Origin of the Pandemic Proves to be a Lab Leak

Technology can kill you