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Just LooK at the increasing murder and destruction rate in out two most populated & once grandest States in our Union :-(

May God help us!

On April 12th, 1861  the traumatic Civil War began  as Confederates hot heads   forces opened first fire, without provocation. on Fort Sumter in  South Carolina.

 

The town of Palma in northern Mozambique was the scene of a horrific attack by Islamist militants a year ago, which left dozens of people dead, forced thousands to flee their homes and put a massive nearby gas project on hold. BBC Africa correspondent Catherine Byaruhanga has been speaking to some of those who survived the assault to see what has changed.

Fear still pervades Palma.

Before the well co-ordinated assault began, the coastal town was packed and bustling - full of those who had come to find work in the area's burgeoning gas industry.

It was also full of thousands of people who had fled violence in other areas of Cabo Delgado, the mainly Muslim province where an Islamist insurgency began in 2017.

The militants are known locally as al-Shabab. They have no link to the Somali group of that name, but have since pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group.

Today, French energy giant Total's multi-billion dollar gas project remains closed.

Some of those who have begun to return home are too afraid to talk to the BBC over the phone, even though the militants have been expelled.

Antònio, one of the contractors who had gone to the town to work in the gas industry, is not hopeful about the future.

Despite the deployment of regional troops to fight al-Shabab, the 36-year-old, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, says he can't see himself returning.

"I don't think myself that I can go back there," he told me over Zoom from his home in southern Mozambique, where he is still struggling to find a job.

He remains traumatised by the events that, four days into the siege that began on 24 March, saw the militants break through the gate of his work compound where he, his brother and other contractors - some from Zimbabwe and South Africa - were hiding in pre-fabricated buildings.

"I heard the gun shooting. [Shouts of] 'Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!' And then when I opened my curtains, I saw one guy standing by the main gate. They were wearing green clothes with a red cloth on their head."

 

The town of Palma in northern Mozambique was the scene of a horrific attack by Islamist militants a year ago, which left dozens of people dead, forced thousands to flee their homes and put a massive nearby gas project on hold. BBC Africa correspondent Catherine Byaruhanga has been speaking to some of those who survived the assault to see what has changed.

Fear still pervades Palma.

Before the well co-ordinated assault began, the coastal town was packed and bustling - full of those who had come to find work in the area's burgeoning gas industry.

It was also full of thousands of people who had fled violence in other areas of Cabo Delgado, the mainly Muslim province where an Islamist insurgency began in 2017.

The militants are known locally as al-Shabab. They have no link to the Somali group of that name, but have since pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group.

Today, French energy giant Total's multi-billion dollar gas project remains closed.

Some of those who have begun to return home are too afraid to talk to the BBC over the phone, even though the militants have been expelled.

Antònio, one of the contractors who had gone to the town to work in the gas industry, is not hopeful about the future.

Despite the deployment of regional troops to fight al-Shabab, the 36-year-old, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, says he can't see himself returning.

"I don't think myself that I can go back there," he told me over Zoom from his home in southern Mozambique, where he is still struggling to find a job.

He remains traumatised by the events that, four days into the siege that began on 24 March, saw the militants break through the gate of his work compound where he, his brother and other contractors - some from Zimbabwe and South Africa - were hiding in pre-fabricated buildings.

"I heard the gun shooting. [Shouts of] 'Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!' And then when I opened my curtains, I saw one guy standing by the main gate. They were wearing green clothes with a red cloth on their head."

 

ROYAL MAIL STEAMER monumental scale was the largest ship in the world and the largest moving man made object too.

The ostensibly unsinkable Titanic sank in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic had an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg and went under the waves :-(

1942 during WW11  Some 75,000 American and Philippine brave defenders on Bataan were forced to surrender to overwhelming Imperial Japanese troops who forced march the prisoners into what became known as the dastardly 'Bataan DEATH  MARCH'; thousands died or were kilerd on route

'I went Mike Tyson on him': Homeowner speaks out after giving illegal alien theft gang member 'major beat down' after catching him in the act - TheBlaze A California homeowner recently gave an illegal immigrant burglary suspect a major pummeling after returning home to find the thief and at least one partner rummaging through his home.What happened?Sal Mercado pulled into the driveway of his Oak Park home on April 1 to find a car parked out front an... www.theblaze.com

Another one to read if you dare. What some have done is reprehensible if not criminal.

FYI, Vanity Fair is left leaning if anything, certainly not conservative.

 

“Redfield, meanwhile, says he realized Fauci, Farrar, and the others had gone behind his back and launched a concerted effort to present the appearance of a scientific consensus that would shut down discussion of the lab-leak theory.

"They made a decision, almost a P.R. decision, that they were going to push one point of view only” he told Vanity Fair. “They argued they did it in defense of science, but it was antithetical to science.”…

Vanity Fair describes in a revealing incident how the NIH officials were hostile to any suggestion by scientists that contradicted the natural origins narrative or placed suspicion on China…told Vanity Fair that he took his preprint paper to Fauci for review because it contained sensitive revelations about the NIH, given that the agency ran the database from which the viral sequences went missing. Bloom realized that the NIH itself had deleted the data, at the request of Chinese researchers at the Wuhan institute, and he wanted Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins to help him find other missing data that could shine a light on the origins of COVID-19.”

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government's top expert on COVID-19, was privately urged by former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield to vigorously investigate both the lab-leak and natural origins theories of virus in early 2020, only to then exclude Redfield from discussions with world-renowned virologists and wage a PR campaign denouncing the lab-leak theory as a conspiracy theory, according to an investigative report.

The explosive report from Vanity Fair reveals new details of how Fauci and former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins strongly pushed back against scientists who raised legitimate questions about the origins of the virus — questions that could implicate the NIH's financial support for the non-governmental group EcoHealth Alliance and risky bat virus research in China.

By analyzing more than 100,000 internal EcoHealth documents, interviewing five former staff members, and speaking with 33 other sources, Vanity Fair's Katherine Eban uncovered how EcoHealth Alliance operated in a world of "murky grant agreements, flimsy oversight, and the pursuit of government funds for scientific advancement, in part by pitching research of steeply escalating risk."

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Her report delves deep inside EcoHealth Alliance, showing how the group's president, Peter Daszak, spent years wooing Fauci — at times literally at D.C. <snip>tail parties — to win federal support for gain-of-function studies at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese lab central to the lab-leak hypothesis of COVID-19's origins. Fauci, in turn, worked with Daszak, Collins, and other top virologists to lead a well-documented campaign discrediting the lab-leak theory, all the while never being completely transparent about their potential conflicts of interest should the theory prove true.

Under Fauci's tenure at NIAID, EcoHealth Alliance received a $3.7 million federal grant in 2014 to study the potential for a deadly new coronavirus to emerge from wild bats in China. The group partnered with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, sub-awarding the lab $600,000 in federal funds, to collect virus samples from bats and analyze them.

In early 2020, the deadly COVID-19 pandemic would be traced back to a seafood market in Wuhan, China, near where the lab is located. Early analysis suggested that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was 96.2% similar to a previously discovered bat coronavirus, which led many scientists to believe the most likely origin for COVID-19 was that it hopped from bats to humans, possibly through an intermediary animal. However, an animal host for SARS-CoV-2 was never discovered. And unique features of the virus led some of the world's top virologists, including those associated with Fauci, to raise the possibility that it was laboratory-engineered.

The fundamental questions concerning COVID-19 are whether EcoHealth Alliance paid for gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab — experiments that make viruses deadlier and more infectious to humans — and whether Chinese scientists, either with federal funding from EcoHealth Alliance or on their own, engineered the SARS-CoV-2 virus before it somehow escaped the laboratory and caused a global pandemic, killing more than six million people.

After the pandemic began, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield asked those questions.

“I personally felt it wasn’t biologically plausible that [SARS CoV-2] went from bats to humans through an [intermediate] animal and became one of the most infectious viruses to humans,” he told Vanity Fair.

As the Chinese government worked to cover up the spread of COVID-19 in late 2019 and through the new year, Trump administration officials desperately sought to learn how the pandemic started. Redfield was aware of a 2015 gain-of-function study funded by EcoHealth Alliance and published by Wuhan lab scientist Dr. Zhengli Shi with University of North Carolina virus expert Dr. Ralph Baric. The study had shown it was possible to manipulate a SARS-like bat coronavirus in a laboratory setting so that it would infect human cells, which researchers believed showed the danger that such a virus could naturally evolve to threaten humans.

The gain-of-function experiments were carried out in Baric's laboratory in North Carolina, but the Chinese scientists had learned his techniques. Redfield questioned whether scientists in Wuhan had gone on to carry out gain-of-function experiments on their own, at a laboratory with insufficient security and little international oversight. Could that be where COVID-19 came from?

According to Vanity Fair, Redfield brought his concerns to Fauci in mid-January 2020. He also shared them with Jeremy Farrar, the director of the U.K. mega-charity Wellcome Trust, and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO). His message was: “We had to take the lab-leak hypothesis with extreme seriousness.”

What happened next is scandalous. A Freedom of Information Act request by BuzzFeed News revealed that on February 1, 2020, at 12:30 a.m., Fauci emailed NIAID principal deputy director Hugh Auchincloss a copy of the 2015 gain-of-function study and wrote, "Hugh: It is essential that we speak this AM. Keep your cell phone on." He told Auchincloss to read the paper and wrote, "You will have tasks today that must be done."

Later that day, Farrar organized a conference call with 11 top international virologists including Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins to discuss what was known about the virus. Astonishingly, Redfield was excluded from the call. According to Vanity Fair, he was not even told it was happening. The person in charge of the agency leading the U.S. government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic was kept out of discussions about the origins of the virus after asking Fauci and Farrar to seriously investigate all the possibilities.

The conference call was held "in total confidence," and the details of the discussion remain shrouded in secrecy. What is known is that before the call, some of the participants, such as Dr. Kristian Andersen, a virologist at Scripps Research, had noted that some features of SARS-CoV-2 "(potentially) look engineered." Andersen told Fauci in an email that several experts who had analyzed the virus "find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory."

But after the call, those involved would condemn the lab-leak hypothesis and those advancing it. Within three days, four of the scientists who raised the possibility of a laboratory origin for COVID-19 signed on to a draft letter declaring that “we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.” That letter, titled, "The Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2," was published in the journal Nature Medicine on March 17. National media outlets seized on the statement, inaccurately referring to it as a "study" that purportedly debunked the lab-leak theory.

Redfield, meanwhile, says he realized Fauci, Farrar, and the others had gone behind his back and launched a concerted effort to present the appearance of a scientific consensus that would shut down discussion of the lab-leak theory.

"They made a decision, almost a P.R. decision, that they were going to push one point of view only” he told Vanity Fair. “They argued they did it in defense of science, but it was antithetical to science.”

A spokesperson for the Wellcome Trust disputed that characterization. "The letter was a simple statement of solidarity with highly reputable researchers based in China and against non-evidence-based theories. Dr. Farrar does not believe the letter was covertly organized. He had no conflict of interest to declare," the spokesperson told Vanity Fair.

Vanity Fair's report recounts several details that have been previously reported by TheBlaze and others, such as Peter Daszak's own campaign to organize scientists to denounce the lab-leak theory as a "conspiracy" and his effusive praise for Fauci's public comments asserting the same. It paints a picture of Daszak as egotistical, gluttonous for federal funds to keep EcoHealth Alliance afloat, and naively trusting of his partners in communist China. He sought to "present the lab-leak hypothesis as a groundless and destructive conspiracy theory," all the while never disclosing that were it true, his own organization would come under intense scrutiny for funding related, risky research at the Wuhan lab.

Yet even after unanswered questions and unlikely coincidences propelled the lab-leak theory into the mainstream, Fauci and Collins continued to play defense for Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance, in public and in private.

Vanity Fair describes in a revealing incident how the NIH officials were hostile to any suggestion by scientists that contradicted the natural origins narrative or placed suspicion on China.

In June 2021, an American scientist named Dr. Jesse Bloom discovered that Chinese researchers appeared to have deleted important data from an NIH database that collects virus samples. He wrote a paper detailing how early genomic sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus had "somehow vanished without a trace," suggesting that this data may provide a clue regarding the origins of COVID-19.

Bloom told Vanity Fair that he took his preprint paper to Fauci for review because it contained sensitive revelations about the NIH, given that the agency ran the database from which the viral sequences went missing. Bloom realized that the NIH itself had deleted the data, at the request of Chinese researchers at the Wuhan institute, and he wanted Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins to help him find other missing data that could shine a light on the origins of COVID-19.

Collins reportedly organized a Zoom meeting to discuss the paper on June 20. He invited outside experts, including Kristian Andersen — who had previously voiced suspicions that the virus looked potentially engineered, only to reverse those suspicions after the call with Fauci — and virologist Robert Garry, to participate on the call. Both of these scientists were also on the secretive conference call put together by Jeremy Farrar more than a year earlier. Bloom was permitted to bring his own support, and he invited evolutionary biologist Sergei Pond and genetic biologist Rasmus Nielsen.

Bloom had sought advice and support for his investigation of COVID-19's origins. Instead, the meeting was reportedly "extremely contentious." Andersen reportedly told Bloom his paper was "deeply troubling" and said it would be unethical to analyze the deleted viral sequences, since the Chinese scientists had wanted them deleted and that was their right.

Andersen — who had himself once declared that "some of the features [of the virus] (potentially) look engineered" — allegedly asserted there was nothing unusual about those early genomic sequences from Wuhan.

According to Bloom's account, a shouting match erupted between Nielsen and Andersen after Nielsen insisted the Wuhan sequences were "extremely puzzling and unusual."

But Andersen made another objection, according to Bloom, stating that he "needed security outside his house, and my preprint would fuel conspiratorial notions that China was hiding data and thereby lead to more criticism of scientists such as himself.” This, of course, is not an objection to the scientific points Bloom raised at all.

When Fauci weighed in, he objected to the preprint paper's description of the Chinese scientists "surreptitiously" deleting the data, telling Bloom his choice of words was loaded and that the reason for the deletion was unknown.

Andersen reportedly made an offer to Bloom: He said he was a screener at the preprint server, which gave him access to Bloom's work before it went public. He offered to either delete the preprint or revise it "in a way that would leave no record that this had been done," Bloom recounted to Vanity Fair. The offer was rejected, said Bloom, who reportedly told Andersen that it would not be appropriate to secretly edit or delete the paper "given the contentious nature of the meeting."

Vanity Fair reports that both Fauci and Collins thought Andersen had gone too far and distanced themselves from his offer. "Just for the record, I want to be clear that I never suggested you delete or revise the preprint,” Fauci said, according to Bloom.

Reached for comment by Vanity Fair, Andersen called Bloom's account "false," and Garry said it was "nonsense." Sergei Pond, however, confirmed Bloom's story as accurate after having it read aloud to him. “I don’t remember the exact phrasing—I didn’t take any notes—but from what you described, that sounds accurate. I definitely felt bad for poor Jesse." He told Vanity Fair that the "charged-up" atmosphere struck him as "inappropriate for a scientific meeting." A spokesperson for Fauci did not comment.

This account is disturbing. At the very least, it shows how Fauci, Collins, and the others strongly pushed back against any criticism of their preferred COVID-19 origins narrative, even dismissing legitimate questions raised by scientists earnestly seeking the truth. There is no scientific reason for silencing that debate. But as the NIH's ties to EcoHealth Alliance and the potential conflicts of interest therein demonstrate, there were plenty of political reasons for doing so.

!954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower held a special news conference in which he spoke of the importance of containing the ev er  threatening spread of communism in Indonesia , illustrating on a usual map:
"You have a row of dominoes  set up, y ou knock the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty it will go over very quickly."

1917 the US entered WW1 as the House joined the Senate in approving a declaration against  Germany that was signed by President Woodrow Wilson.

In  1973 Twin Towers of New York's WORLD TRADE CENTER....ere officially dedicated-
The original commercial towers were  save ly  destroyed murdering some 3,000 innocent people in an unprecedented and   the unprovoked  attack on the USA September 11, 2001  :-(

President Truman signed the generous American aide "Marshall Plan" designed to help European allies rebuild after WW11 and collectively resist the growing menace of encroaching communism.

Israel seized control of Bethlehem

Islamic Palestinians gunman  forced their way  into the Holy Church of the Na Nativity, tje traditional birthplace o Jesus where they began a 39-day standoff ; there were fatalities to unarmed clergy

Nota Bene:

Bethlehem was traditionally populated 80% by majority Christian and 20% Muslim;

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1814 Paris occupied by a coalition of Russian, Prussian and Austrian  forces. The surrender of the French capitol  forced the abdication of Emperor Napoleon.

REMEMBER NIKITA KRUSHCHEV'S PREDICTION 👞

 

When will American citizens wake up????

 

 

Remember Khrushchev’s Prediction?

THIS WAS HIS ENTIRE QUOTE: A sobering reminder. It has been almost 62 years since Russia’s Khrushchev delivered this. Do you remember: September 29, 1959? THIS WAS HIS ENTIRE QUOTE:   "Your children's children will live under communism, You Americans are so gullible.   No, you won't accept communism outright; but we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism.   We will not have to fight you; We will so weaken your economy, until you will fall like overripe fruit into our hands."   "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Do you remember what Russia's Khrushchev said in 1959? Remember, socialism leads to Communism. So, how do you create a Socialist State?   There are 8 levels of control. Read the following recipe:   1) Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people.   2) Poverty - Increase the poverty level as high as possible. Poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them.   3) Debt - Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.   4) Gun Control - Remove the ability of people to defend themselves from the government. That way you are able to create a police state.   5) Welfare - Take control of every aspect (food, housing, income) of their lives because that will make them fully dependent on the government.   6) Education - Take control of what people read and listen to. Take control of what children learn in school.   7) Religion - Remove the belief in God from government and schools because the people need to believe that ONLY the government knows what is best.   8) Class Warfare - Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. Eliminate the middle class. This will cause more discontent, and it will be easier to tax the wealthy with the support of the poor     You should also take note that during the Kennedy administration Nikita Khrushchev told our ambassador at a United Nations conference “You won’t need Russia to destroy you. You will destroy yourself from within.”   How do you spell Socialist?.......”DEMOCRAT”