I don't know what Markson and the Australian are up to. It's about the strangest one-two journo-editor combo I've read since Kathy Scruggs reported for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the Olympic Park bombing in 1996, and totally fucked it up, falsely accusing, and using so-called Voice of God reporting (no named sources). Markson's got gods aplenty on her side, and they're all crazy, Coke bottles falling all over the place here. The Australian's reports from May to now have not been widely carried outside of Australia, except in fringe rightwing publications. The science-free reporting couldn't have been more daft than if Borat's teenaged daughter-reporter Tatar, after getting the official Trump administration word on the origins of Covid-19 from Rudy Giuliani, had gone back to Kazakhstan and revealed, Glenn Greenwald style, What Really Happened in Wuhan. And Giuliani's irresponsible utterances (for f*ck's sake, he's revealing sensitive, if not national-security details to a foreign teen just to impress her!) seem to have been the product of an ICC lawsuit filed by the rightwing Freedom Watch, which claims China committed genocide when it unleashed the inscrutable Satan Bug.
Somehow the Australian failed to note the American connection to the biowarfare threat; and that the 'hush-hush' talk thereof is not secretive but public. Last year, I wrote a piece, "The Age of Synthetic Biology: Start the War Games!" that introduces an American Scientific framework for the research and production of, among other things, gain-of-function-induced novel viruses. I derived my facts from the book, Biodefense in the Age of Synthetic Biology, put out by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The authors tell us,
"synthetic biology makes it possible to synthesize genomes and use those to generate, or 'boot,' copies of naturally occurring organisms in the laboratory, opening new opportunities for the acquisition of existing, regulated pathogens" and "synthetic biology tools could be used to synthesize and boot entirely new organisms, potentially incorporating genetic material from multiple existing organisms."
Such synthetic manipulation of biology (and chemistry) are terrifying to contemplate, but, so far as we know, America, not China, leads the way in such lab research. The miraculous development of a Covid-19 vaccine in record time by so many Big Pharma labs suggests very advanced technology at work.
Dr. Fauci is currently under MSM siege, especially from the right, for his supposed knowledge of gain-of-function activity at the Wuhan lab. His voluminous email collection is now being combed for evidence that he encouraged the Chinese to continue with the dangerous research that Obama had closed down funding for in 2014. Any continued g-o-f research, which Fauci is on the record as supporting (seeing potential for vaccine development, not WW3), would have to be conducted overseas. Critics of Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), claim he snuck around Trump to get funding to Wuhan and DJ didn't know anything about it, according to the Weekend Australian. Of course, be that as it may, the vaccine development benefits Fauci argued for seem to have come to fruition through the DARPA P3 government-private-academic coalition that made the miraculous (and under-reported) burgeoning vaccines possible. This activity happened under Trump. (And, sure, maybe behind his back, too. You get the feeling that there was a lot of goofy backstabbing and nefarious deep state hijinks going on.) Key here is that the vaccines are, essentially, a military miracle. That's where the story is.
There's considerable tension in the Asia-Pacific region right now. Folks are worried about crackdowns in Hong Kong. Renewed tensions in Taiwan (probably amplified by the American delivery to Taipei of Covid-19 vaccines.) The threat China represents to the USA's global monetary hegemony (another Wall Street meltdown could be catastrophic for Americans). Accidental erasures of references to Tiananmen Square in search engines (Baida Bing).
Out of this tension, it may be that the Australian chooses to present a posture of solidarity with the Americans by its reporting on the the origins of the virus. But it's hard to see how such leading invective and unsound allegations re: Wuhan help future relations between Australia and China. Again, there is no MSM publication inferring that the Chinese were preparing for WW3 featuring synthetic biological weapons. I guess we'll just have to pace on this very urgent public-interest matter until Sharri Markson delivers her baby book in September.
Meantime, the renewed effort to get a calm, scientific explanation for the Wuhan outbreak takes a hit with this sensationalist piece; it inflames emotions and politics and further drives investigators off-course from events, intentionally or otherwise. All in all, in the haze that follows, we forget that it's just one more rolling pearl harbor event. Just another turd blossom in the hot dumpling soup of our steaming reality.
Who needs MSG?
(Article changed on Jun 10, 2021 at 10:52 PM EDT)
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