German spies were almost certain that the Covid pandemic originated in a Wuhan laboratory, only for successive chancellors to bury the potentially explosive intelligence assessment, according to reports.
Investigations by the newspapers Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung found that the chancellery of Angela Merkel commissioned the foreign intelligence agency, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), to assess the origins of the virus in 2020.
Canadians await the verdict in the unprecedented trial of Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus, which ended in mid-January 2025.
The longest, most expensive internal prosecution in Ottawa Police history – perhaps in Canadian police history – concluded on Jan. 14th. Police… pic.twitter.com/C9lTjq7K3G
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) March 7, 2025
The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship invited me to address the topic “Can Institutions be Reformed?” at its annual forum in London last month. ARC, founded by Baroness Philippa Stroud and psychologist Jordan Peterson, is a conference that focuses on the West’s failure to cultivate its traditional values, which provided the world with history’s most successful societies.
I asked the audience: Why, at this moment in history, are we asking how institutions should be reformed, or if they even can be? For decades we have been aware that institutions were failing—incompetent, wasteful and corrupt governments; biased and dishonest journalism; agenda-driven schools and universities.
Five years ago in March 2020, schools fell silent as Covid-19 swept across the world. At first, there was a tinge of excitement among some students and staff; it was as if, perhaps, we had been told that the whole country was going to be snowed in for six weeks.
Had the restrictions thawed within a couple of months, the impact on at least some children’s education might even have been positive. New experiences stretch the mind, after all. But it didn’t work out like that. While pubs, restaurants and hairdressers re-opened on 4 July, schools stayed on remote teaching until September.
Canada’s small and medium-sized businesses lost about $60 billion in the first year of pandemic lockdowns, says the country’s national statistical agency.
In a report published on Feb. 18, Statistics Canada said about 47 percent of all small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)—businesses with annual salary expenses of less than $1.5 million—“experienced a drop in gross profit, totalling a loss of nearly $60 billion” from 2019 to 2020.
A Québec police constable who publicly refused to enforce the province’s COVID-19 curfew has been barred from policing for a year.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the Police Ethics Tribunal ruled that Const. Maxime Ouimet’s social media posts undermined public trust and encouraged civil disobedience.
If you asked a man on the Clapham omnibus how many lives the vaccines ‘saved’, I’d be surprised if he has any idea at all. If, by chance he does have an inkling he’ll probably quote the 20 million claim repeated ad nauseum in the media over the past few years.
Politicised agencies and irrational rules alienated parents
Vaccination rates against childhood diseases have been on a downward slide for the past few years in the United States. Nationally, for example, the share of kindergarteners with completed records for the measles vaccine dropped to 93 percent last year, down from 95 percent in 2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Polio, whooping cough, and chickenpox vaccination rates have likewise slumped since the pandemic.
The C.I.A. has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude whether the Covid pandemic emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan, China, or from an accidental leak at a research lab there.
But the agency issued a new assessment this week, with analysts saying they now favor the lab theory.
That shift is based on “the available body of reporting,” although the other theory remains plausible, a spokeswoman for the agency said, adding that the agency will continue to evaluate any available credible new intelligence reporting.
BREAKING: The C.I.A, now under the control of John Ratcliffe, determines the Covid Pandemic Began from a Lab Leak
The C.I.A. denied this for years…
Now we know why Anthony Fauci was pardoned for all crimes after Jan 2014. Because gain of function began in 2014 and he is… pic.twitter.com/VJS9OQknFs
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) January 25, 2025
Dr. Anthony Fauci had his taxpayer-funded security detail pulled, President Trump confirmed during a press conference Friday.
“I think when you work for government, at some point your security detail comes off, and you know, you can’t have them forever,” Trump told a reporter at a hurricane response briefing in Asheville, NC
h/t XC
His Covid cover-up undermined faith in science
In his inauguration speech four years ago, Joe Biden declared his determination to ‘”restore the soul of America”, later insisting that his “galvanising mission” was to show how our democratic system of government, rooted on liberal ideals of freedom and justice, could still deliver for ordinary people in a turbulent world. So how sad and utterly shameful that on his last day in the job, he stained this noble cause by doling out a pre-emptive pardon to a figure who has done so much to destroy faith in both politics and science.
The departed President’s bid to throw a ring of legal protection around Dr Anthony Fauci, his former chief medical adviser, reeks of elitist arrogance, displaying shocking contempt for ordinary citizens. Biden defended this deeply anti-democratic measure — announced only after he entered the Capitol to watch his unwanted successor Donald Trump’s restoration to power — on the grounds he had to protect public servants who were facing “baseless and politically motivated investigations” that might “irreparably damage their reputations and finances”
In the waning hours of Joe Biden’s administration, the outgoing president signed a flurry of pardons and commutations, which included his own relatives, Gen. Mark Milley, and Jan 6 committee members. He also pardoned Anthony Fauci, former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the Covid-19 pandemic.
PayPal has admitted that a prominent children’s rights campaigner was “debanked” during the pandemic after speaking out against school closures and mandatory vaccines.
The US online payments giant told Molly Kingsley, founder of the parent campaign group UsForThem, that her account had been terminated in September 2022 owing to “the nature of its activities”.
Hers was one of a handful of accounts that were frozen by PayPal, all of which belonged to individuals or organisations that questioned the government’s policies during the pandemic.
An Ottawa police detective who investigated potential links between COVID-19 vaccines and infant deaths has launched an $875,000 lawsuit against CBC.
She alleged the broadcaster conducted a malicious campaign against her through false reporting.
