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Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup revelaed late Tuesday that former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci made a secret visit to the Central Intelligence Agency during the COVID-19 pandemic and pressured analysts to reject the lab leak theory. Advertisement “According to information gathered by the Select Subcommittee, Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, played a role in the Central Intelligence Agency’s review of the origins of COVID-19. The information provided suggests that Dr. Fauci was escorted into Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Headquarters—without a record of...

A study published by scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in July, and reportedly circulating widely on Chinese social media this week, concluded that as many as 20 species of coronavirus are “highly likely” to cause an outbreak among humans. The study appeared in Emerging Microbes & Infections in July, the South China Morning Post noted on Sunday, but it began making headlines in Chinese-language media as social media users discovered it and began spreading its conclusions online.

The idea was that China's regime, given a stake in the existing system, would then defend it... By now, however, that bet looks like a mistake history will remember. For as the Communist Party grew stronger, it did not align itself with its Western supporters. On the contrary, it came to believe it could avenge centuries-old grievances and remake the world in its own image. The West's generous approach created the one thing it had hoped to avoid: an aggressive state redrawing its borders by force, attacking liberal values around the world, and undermining institutions at the heart of the...

"We, the people, must hold an overreaching government accountable for violating our most sacred rights". "My position was just tell the American public the truth. There are side effects to vaccines. Tell them the truth and don’t try to package it.” That was Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control during the administration of Donald Trump. Dr. Redfield recently went on record that the government health bureaucracy tried to quash discussion about the ineffectiveness of Covid vaccines. “There was such an attempt to not let anybody get any hint that maybe vaccines weren’t foolproof, which, of course,...

The CIA offered hush money to six CIA analysts who concluded that Covid-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan, China, a “multi-decade, senior-level, current” CIA officer alleged to Congress. The news of the suspected payoff broke in two letters penned by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to CIA Director William J. Burns and former CIA Chief Operating Officer Andrew Makridis. In the letter to Burns, SSCP Chairman Brad Wenstrup and HPSCI Chairman Mike Turner detail the testimony of “a highly credible senior-level CIA officer” who alleged the CIA used a...

JUST IN - CIA rewarded multiple "analysts with significant financial incentives" to change their COVID origins conclusion from a lab leak to zoonosis, according to a "highly credible" whistleblower - U.S. House Select Subcommittee

FIRST ON FOX: A CIA whistleblower told Congress that the agency offered officials on a team investigating COVID-19 origins "significant monetary incentive" to change their positions, from that it originated out of a leak from the Wuhan lab to "unable to determine" the origins, Fox News Digital has learned. Fox News Digital obtained letters House Coronavirus Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner sent to the CIA and a former official. "The Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have received new and concerning whistleblower testimony regarding the Agency’s...

I have become increasing skeptical of much of what is transpiring in our government. AT writers and readers inspire me to question everything. Some recent events have caused me to pause and ask some questions about "why now?" When something was forbidden to even talk or write about for years, and suddenly some agencies are all in on discussing it, I am often left to ask: is this really the thing, or is it perhaps a distraction? For nearly three years, Dr. Fauci and company have destroyed any and all who dared to say COVID leaked from the Wuhan Institute...

UNC-Chapel Hill UNC-Chapel Hill students were urged to shelter in place Monday afternoon after reports that an "armed and dangerous" gunman was on campus. According to local reports, a faculty member was killed by the alleged shooter, who is now in custody.Those reports also identify Tailei Qi, seen here in an undated UNC-CH Applied Physical Sciences student profile photo, as the man arrested and taken into custody. Information from that profile shows that he also studied at Wuhan University:Person of interest Tailei Qi studied at Wuhan University, according to a website run by UNC-Chapel Hill, which collaborated with the Wuhan...

Babies, toddlers, teenagers, and young adults up to 24 years old are dying at 45% above historical levels since the COVID vaccines were introduced, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows. Data compiled by the CDC reveals a sharp uptick of 44.8% in excess mortality in the 0-24 age range beginning in early 2021, when the experimental COVID mRNA shots began to be distributed to the population. When accounting for the fact that 39% of this young age group actually received the COVID injection, the figures extrapolate to 115% all-cause mortality among the vaccinated only, according...

VIDEOIt turned out that there was only one positive outcome from Tony Blinken's recent trip to Australia. While waiting for Blinken's press conference to start an ABC (the Australian ABC, not the American ABC) foreign affairs reporter, Stephen Dziedzic, flat out admitted on hot mic that he dismissed the lab leak theory for strictly ideological reasons. Dziedzic also seemed quite irked that Sky News reporter Sharri Markson turned out to be absolutely RIGHT about the origin of COVID as due to the Wuhan lab leak. He acted as if Markson was just lucky but as Markson revealed, she did something...

A growing number of people, including prominent scientists, are calling for a full retraction of a high-profile study published in the journal Nature in March 2020 that explored the origins of SARS-CoV-2. The paper, whose authors included immunology and microbiology professor Kristian G. Andersen, declared that evidence clearly showed that SARS-CoV-2 did not originate from a laboratory. “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus,” the authors wrote in February. Yet a trove of recently published documents reveal that Andersen and his co-authors believed that the lab leak scenario was not just...

For the fourth summer in a row, Americans are experiencing a COVID-19 surge, this one marked by a rise in hospital admissions, emergency room visits, test positivity rates and wastewater data. The good news: It’s unlikely that most cases will be severe or that the surge will be long-lasting, experts say. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting a rise in testing, though lab testing is not at the levels it was before the public health emergency ended in May. “I do see some early signs that we are heading into another wave. Of course, we don’t...

KEY POINTS: * New Covid vaccines are coming to the U.S. this fall — but many Americans may not take them. * Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are slated to deliver new single-strain coronavirus shots targeting the omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 in September. * Experts told CNBC that public health officials and providers could potentially increase uptake of the shots by communicating that they will likely become a routine part of health care moving forward.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A $5 billion loss: That's how much money should not have been paid out in unemployment benefits during the pandemic. A pandemic, new payment programs and short-staffing created a huge problem for the state's unemployment system. Now there are recommendations to improve it. "It really explains why people who qualified for these benefits had a hard time getting them," said state Rep. LaShawn Ford, D-Chicago. Ford said people in need may have lost out, while fraudsters cashed in. He's reacting to the Illinois Auditor General's report that the Illinois Department of Employment Security overpaid benefits by more...

San Francisco's response to the COVID-19 crisis resulted in one of the lowest coronavirus-related death tolls among U.S. metropolitan cities, a study has found. According to the study conducted by University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers and the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH), the city implemented "one of the most intensive, inclusive and multi-pronged" COVID responses in the U.S., leading to one of the lowest fatality rates among U.S. cities across all ages and ethnicities.

In the wake of the recent discovery of newly disclosed documents by the House Select Subcommittee on the COVID Pandemic, a former State Department investigator insists there is evidence indicating that Dr. Anthony Fauci not only knew about the gain-of-function research at the Wuhan laboratory but also recognized the man-made nature of COVID. It’s well known at this point that scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were conducting gain-of-function research with funding originating from the National Institutes of Health. According to the redacted documents, on Feb. 1, 2020, Fauci wrote a letter acknowledging that while it was still possible...

According to the World Health Organization, there have been 6,947,192 confirmed COVID-19 deaths globally as of June 28. Of those, 1,127,152 occurred in the United States, making the number of Americans killed by the virus more than 19 times the number of American soldiers killed in the Vietnam War.And yet, over three years since the beginning of the pandemic, we still don’t know where the virus originated. The fear is that the next time around, the number of deaths could be much higher; because we didn’t learn from this pandemic, we wouldn’t be as prepared as we should for the...

Former National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease (NAIAD) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and a dozen other directors of the National Institutes for Health (NIH) appear not to have been legally appointed to their offices, according to a year-long investigation by House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans. Mr. Fauci and the others were to serve five-year terms, beginning not later than Dec. 13, 2021, but repeated requests since March 2022 to Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra by the committee for documents verifying the appointments were delayed or ignored, according to GOP committee aides speaking on background. Because...

Almost exactly two years ago RedState broke the story of the defection of CCP counterintelligence official Dong Jingwei to the United States. The “terabytes” of data Dong, the highest-ranking Chinese defector ever, brought with him to the United States included information and data showing “that SARS-CoV-2 was manmade and leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in addition to evidence confirming that the People’s Liberation Army managed the Wuhan bioweapons program (and others).” While it was essentially ignored by the mainstream media and dismissed by the professional former spook crowd, it was a huge story – so huge that RedState...