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Opinion: COVID lab leak is a scandal of media and government censorship
New York Post ^ | February 26, 2023 | By Jonathan Turley

Posted on 02/26/2023 1:52:43 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Energy Department has concluded that the COVID pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak.

The conclusion is reportedly based on a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress. Many will be exploring why the scientific evidence of a lab leak was so slow to emerge from intelligence agencies.

However, for my part, the most alarming aspect was the censorship, not the science.

There will continue to be a debate over the origins of COVID-19, but now there will be a debate.

For years, the media and government allied to treat anyone raising a lab theory as one of three possibilities: conspiracy theorist or racists or racist conspiracy theorists.

Academics joined this chorus in marginalizing anyone raising the theory. One study cited the theory as an example of “anti-Chinese racism” and “toxic white masculinity.”

These same figures in politics and media are just moving on to the next approved narrative.

President Biden previously called for more censorship and accused Big Tech of “killing people” by not censoring more views deemed “COVID misinformation.”

The opposite is true. By suppressing alternative scientific and policy views, the public was denied a full debate over mask efficacy, vaccine side effects, COVID origins and other important issues. Many of those questions are only being recognized as legitimate and worthy of debate.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; democrats; election2020; journalism; press; virus; wuhan

1 posted on 02/26/2023 1:52:43 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How does a society properly deal with such as this?


2 posted on 02/26/2023 1:56:44 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ever notice how conservative voices are always listed as Opinion, but liberal voices never get that tag even it’s 100% conjecture.


3 posted on 02/26/2023 1:57:19 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Department of Energy? Sure, it was a lab leak.

But it’s up to the Department of Energy to determine that? Who knew?


4 posted on 02/26/2023 2:00:45 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The answer is, and always was, Orange Man Bad. Lie, cheat, and steal elections no matter the cost.


5 posted on 02/26/2023 2:07:18 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

IDK, think it was the usual flu ( cuz there was NO flu that year)

PCR test was a joke

fake media footage
fake narrative
fake scam


6 posted on 02/26/2023 2:07:20 PM PST by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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To: MtnClimber

… How does a society properly deal with such as this? …

Tall tree. Short rope.


7 posted on 02/26/2023 2:14:04 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: All

The media had a meltdown when Trump said this
Video April 2020: Trump say YES he has seen evidence COVID leaked from a lab
https://rumble.com/v2b2aw8-april-2020-trump-say-yes-he-has-seen-evidence-covid-leaked-from-a-lab.html


8 posted on 02/26/2023 2:29:05 PM PST by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998

Energy Dept. Finally!
Fish and Game-——soon to announce.
Dept. Of Water——almost.
FibBIes -——Wet Market leak.
SeeIaaaa——2 kids with Matches !

.
.
But They All agree it WASN’T a
Chinese Weapon.
.
Our Intelligence/media/pharma/GOV
has got the American people so
Twisted up We Are literally being
Hung by our Own Rope!


9 posted on 02/26/2023 2:41:44 PM PST by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: MtnClimber

How does a society properly deal with such as this?
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Have you noticed that the ‘lab leak’ is now all the rage - - again? I don’t believe it for a minute. This entire attack on humanity has been staged by DARPA from the very beginning. I believe the attack is U.S. based, just like the Norstream bombing was in an entirely different venue and circumstance. The ‘lab leak’ for covid is just a cover. As George Webb has correctly assessed, the Wuhan games was the aerosaled launch event.


10 posted on 02/26/2023 3:45:26 PM PST by iontheball
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To: nevermorelenore

Two Things:

One: It wasn’t the usual flu, not by a long-shot!

Two: It wasn’t a “lab-leak” (as in, accidental)!


11 posted on 02/26/2023 3:49:58 PM PST by old school
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To: MtnClimber

Tomahawk into Three Gorges. Drown them all.


12 posted on 02/26/2023 5:45:51 PM PST by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: nonliberal

Anyone from the liberal media, the US Government, or the Vatican is always lying, always.


13 posted on 02/26/2023 6:26:24 PM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: MtnClimber

I wonder if the topic itself is pre-emptive to information that is on its way out?

Musk bought a crime scene with the Twitter purchase.

One has to wonder, how much time would it take to comb through the volume of evidence and decide on the best way to expose it to the world?

The diabolical scandals and the less noteworthy.


14 posted on 02/26/2023 8:19:37 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All
Worth the quick watch....

BEEN SAYING IT SINCE DAY ONE!!! pic.twitter.com/qdSKybbgsR— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) February 27, 2023

15 posted on 02/26/2023 8:21:17 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
With link....

BEEN SAYING IT SINCE DAY ONE!!! pic.twitter.com/qdSKybbgsR— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) February 27, 2023


16 posted on 02/26/2023 8:22:08 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What’s leaking is the changing narrative. Anybody with a brain should have realized they were being lied to right off the bat.


17 posted on 02/27/2023 5:51:04 AM PST by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: iontheball

Lab leak

Balderdash!

Lab LAUNCH❗️

Of a Chinese/Fauci Bio-Weapon.

An act of war.

1 million dead in USA

7 million in the rest of the world.

Millions would have been saved with preventive meds.

Ivermectin and Hydroxyclorquine.

Illegal to use a Vaxx if there are meds that work

Fayci said no they don’t, so used a medicine that kills 50% of ppl that get it.

Remvesimir I believe.

Fauci knew from its use years earlier.

He needed dead bodies to get rich and have power of control.


18 posted on 02/28/2023 7:57:23 PM PST by Syncro (Facts and Truth.)
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