In a moment of rare bipartisan denunciation, Democrat Representative Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) confronted Dr. David Morens, longtime advisor to Dr. Fauci: “Sir, I think you’re going to be haunted by your testimony today.”
Dr. Morens, a senior scientific advisor at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has been embroiled in controversy following revelations of his attempts to seemingly conceal embarrassing information about his personal friend and NIH grant recipient, Dr. Peter Daszak, President of EcoHealth Alliance. Morens’s attempts to evade Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests laid bare yesterday in front of the Select Committee on COVID-19 were eye-opening and disturbing.
Dr. Morens frequently used his personal email to conduct official business, explicitly to avoid FOIA scrutiny. He emailed a colleague in May 2020: “So you and Peter and others should be able to email me on gmail only.”
In other uncovered correspondence, Dr. Morens openly discussed methods to delete federal records to prevent their release under FOIA: “I learned from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIAed, but before the search starts, so I think we are all safe. Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to Gmail.”
In one particularly shocking email, Dr. Morens asked Dr. Peter Daszak for monetary reimbursement – specifically a “kickback” – for his assistance in editing EcoHealth Alliance’s grant compliance efforts. Although this allegation has yet to be confirmed, the email reads: “…do I get a kickback???? Too much fooking money!”
Under testimony, Dr. Morens claimed that this was simply “black humor” and “joking” with his friend Peter Daszak – who is now under disbarment from NIH grants following serious mismanagement of grants to his company EcoHealth Alliance.
In addition to Dr. Morens’s FOIA endrun revelations, the emails also contained unprofessional and misogynistic comments. He seemingly disparaged CDC Director Rochelle Walensky attributing her appointment to her sex: “Well, she does wear a skirt…”
Representative Mary Miller-Meeks (R-IO) confronted Dr. Morens on these issues: “You’re trusted with one of the highest positions in government to combat public health crises. And instead of doing your job, you’re too busy worried about avoiding FOIAs and challenging someone’s position because they happen to wear a skirt.”
Morens apologised but seemed to downplay the significance of his comments: “…it was the same snarky, joking stuff”. But Rep. Miller-Meeks was having none of it. She interrupted: “That’s not a snarky joke. That is an underlying behaviour that indicates how you approach women and how you think of women, and it’s disgusting.”
At the heart of the matter is what Dr. Morens was doing to hide information to protect Peter Daszak and even Dr. Fauci from embarrassing revelations of their actions during the COVID-19 pandemic. In emails, Morens discussed back-channeling information to Dr. Fauci to avoid FOIA requests: “I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail, or hand it to him…” Confronted by these emails, Morens dismissed them: “There are some elements of this that I don’t think are being understood.”
Additional emails further reveal Fauci’s involvement in offline communications, potentially undermining U.S. Government operations by assisting Dr. Morens’s efforts to share internal NIH information with Dr. Peter Daszak.
For instance, Dr. Morens shared confidential information marked (For Official Use Only) with Daszak: “Please feel free to share any docs that I’ve sent to you, with Tony. Hopefully, you can do that in a way that avoids FOIA, and if not possible, just show him stuff on screen share on Zoom.”
Dr. Morens and Dr. Fauci have collaborated and co-authored numerous papers and articles over the years but Morens seemed to downplay his relationship with Dr. Fauci: “I never gone out with him to have a beer.”
Representative Michael Cloud (R-TX) read the email regarding the “FOIA lady” instructing him on how to avoid the information requests. Morens objected: “She gave me [no info] about avoiding FOIA.” Cloud pushed back: “So you were lying then but you’re telling us the truth now?” Morens dug deeper: “I was making a joke with Peter, I said something like ‘I have a way to make it go away’ but that was just a euphemism.”
These past few weeks have been busy for the Select Committee of COVID-19, headed by Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R_OH). They have long requested the disbarment of EcoHealth Alliance and Peter Daszak from the NIH, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has initiated formal proceedings. The May 15th, 2024 memorandum from HHS underscores the severity of EcoHealth’s compliance failures, emphasising the need for exacting oversight in public health research.
As background to all of this, the ideological framework that Fauci and Morens have consistently promoted over two decades of co-authorship gives some colour commentary on where the stringent pandemic policies originated. Their collaboration began with largely technical papers on infectious diseases, yet over time, their recommendations expanded significantly in ambition.
Their earliest publications together (which started in 2004) seemed to show cautious optimism for tackling infectious diseases without breaching individual rights or governance norms. By 2007, their tone had noticeably shifted. In an article on the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, they warned against complacency and hinted at the necessity for heightened vigilance.
In their 2012 work, ‘The Perpetual Challenge of Infectious Diseases’, they moved even further, declaring eradication – rather than just mitigation – as the new goal, emphasising a radical new approach to managing infectious diseases.
Their evolution was cemented in a 2016 article on the Zika Virus. In it, they posited that human behaviours and modern societal structures were significant contributors to the emergence of diseases.
…in our human-dominated world, urban crowding, constant international travel and other human behaviours combined with human-caused microperturbations in ecologic balance can cause innumerable slumbering infectious agents to emerge unexpectedly. In response, we clearly need to up our game…
The implications of crowds spreading sickness are not new, but the corollary here is that human actions need strict regulation to prevent future outbreaks, a policy evolution that would have significant impacts just four years down the line.
The culmination of these ideas appeared starkly in their widely-cited 2020 Cell Magazine article in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, Fauci and Morens argued for transformative changes in human behaviour and infrastructure to live “in greater harmony with nature”. They contended that human behaviours fundamentally disrupt the “human-microbial status quo”, leading to disease outbreaks.
This article was a watershed, revealing their vision of a restructured society to prevent pandemics – an ideological stance that has drawn criticism for its potentially authoritarian overtones.
Fauci and Morens’s advocacy for “rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence” was more than a scientific proposal; it was a call for a societal overhaul.
They seem to pine for yesteryear without all the hustling and bustling: “Since we cannot return to ancient times, can we at least use lessons from those times to bend modernity in a safer direction?”
Nothing epitomises the U.S. Government’s response to the pandemic like the loaded phrase: “bend modernity in a safer direction”.
Now, with Dr. Morens’s skirting FOIA requests and promoting ways to “[make] it all go away” – the hubris is laid bare for all to see.
The deceitful actions of Drs. Morens, Daszak and Fauci, their evasion of FOIAs and their backroom dealings have severely undermined public trust. As these revelations come to light, it is crucial for us to demand greater transparency and integrity from our public health officials. Only then can we restore faith in our health institutions and ensure they truly serve the public good.
Justin Hart is an executive consultant with over 25 years experience creating data-driven solutions for Fortune 500 companies and Presidential campaigns alike. Mr. Hart is the Chief Data Analyst and founder of RationalGround.com which helps companies, public policy officials and even parents gauge the impact of COVID-19 across the United States. This article was first published by the Brownstone Institute.
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Fishy Richie Sushi Knicknacky is just another billionaire, another reality-free, logic-free, morality-free, WEF retard. If he is PM I am starting midfielder for Spurs. He was installed for a reason. Not to ‘save us’ from economic or energy issues, nor from Green Fascism and coming crises including another LD (for Gaia). But to build the gallows that he or some other globalist puppet will use to hang us as they push for the great reset where bug food, social credit, no energy, bird choppers, solar panels, no cars only skateboards or roller blades, endless mRNA stabs and no genders rule.
Oh come on man these guys are going to literally save earth from ppl like us!!! Plus the diving and food are great there.
Sino Sunak or Rishi Rich. Which is basically saying the same thing.
Does anyone in politics care about birds these days?
Just the opposite. The gallows they build will be used for these politicians and health authorities (criminals) who are responsible for murdering their own citizens. Stop right now and recognise it will not be us going to the gallows, it will be them. The truth is coming out. Excess deaths due to,the covid vaccinations piling up. Serious adverse events by the thousands. Oh no, these criminals will be brought to,justice. It is only a matter of time.
Try going to Mailonline and posting that mate. They would wet themselves and ban you for life, yet strangely they say that “readers comments are not necessarily the views held by the Mailonlne”——-So what are they so scared of? Why hide behind algorithms and wokery? I have had a comment removed for having the word “africa” in it. When I reposted it with “a f r i ca” the comment was accepted. —-By the way I will play alongside you in the Spurs midfield
Like Truss, he has been called in ‘to have a word’.
No such need with Boris, who is still firmly owned by his woke WEF wife.
Still all a cockup, Toby?
Or maybe he’s taking a page out of the Boris Johnson ‘trying to have it both ways’ playbook, making it look as if he doesn’t want to, but he’s being forced to.
It worked for Johnson. He had people believing he was really on their side for ages. He’s given himself up now, though, rushing off to COP26 when he’s no longer in office. Hoping to get back on his masters’ good side.
Time for the Brits to speak up please. Had enough of the clowns running the show? Then tell them you have had enough? And you don’t want them spending your hard earned money on one more clown show?
Did Liz trust call America and announce “it’s done” when the nordstream pipeline was attacked? Just asking.
I prefer Darren Grimes’ take on this U-turn
“Rishi WILL now attend the COP climate conference. Personally, I’m delighted. I can’t think of anything more important for our Prime Minister to do than hobnob with world leaders during an international gas shortage on how we can make that shortage 10 times worse.”
The fact is Net Zero will beggar this nation. But that’s what the WEF appears to want. Sunak is THEIR man.
Apparently a “Net Zero Exit” group is set to start up (GB News this evening).
Why do people believe in Santa Claus, sorry I mean klaus what’s his name? People put this old man away in your sock drawer. He is a has been. Think about you and your family and how you would like to live the rest of your life.
Definitely no global elitist puppeteering taking place. When will the doubters, particularly those who have had significant positive impact within the DS (e.g. Toby – btw, I appreciate everything you’ve done Toby), start to seriously question their own, rather naïve, beliefs?
He hates us so much that he wants to speed up the process of making us poorer by taking life’s necessities from us, destroying our standard of living. Thanks Rishi you complete see you next Tuesday.
All plants and animals (including us) react to climate change; always have done. However, who told him to go? KC3 perhaps? Not that he will ever admit it, but his reputation is well understood.
Yes this is true we are somewhat adapted to our environment. However humans arent that well adapted as regards our ability to withstand the climate at these latitudes without shelter/warmth. Remember we are a species evolved in the tropics/sub tropics, who left only yesterday in evolutionary terms. We would rapidly die even in temperate climbs during a winter without warmth through an energy source.
Rishi Sunak has admitted “not enough” asylum claims are being processed, but promised to fix the system.
Code for “not enough illegal invaders are being accepted for permanent settlement”.
According to the Albanian government it’s our fault for not giving out enough visas for gangsters and cannabis farm employees. WTF?
The poor guy is confused. One day he is going to a conference the next day he isn’t. Immigrants being processed in warp speed, system broken, he will fix it. Doesn’t know where to turn to next. Just visited London, dear god, what an armpit of a place. Can you add it to your to do list Rishi?
I still think London has a certain charm though in smaller doses than I once was able to tolerate.
Investing in ‘renewables’ = investing in abstractions – details please. .
What ‘renewables’ can be invested in that are equivalent, and ‘alternatives’ (another abstraction) to fossil fuels?
Germany has invested hundreds of billions of €uro in ‘renewables’ and ‘alternatives’ over the last 25 years, built 30 000 windmills, has the most expensive energy of any industrial Country, has disconnected hundreds of thousands of Germans from their electricity supply for non-payment of bills, yet still has an economy and society dependent on natural gas and 30 coal-fired power stations with more being built, and is chopping down forests to supply wood to burn this Winter.
In what World it Sunak and the other nitwits living?
In a world of large kick backs from billionaires.
They’re not “renewables” they’re “unreliables”
The only positive from this is that he won’t be here doing something even less useful.
I think I shall have to go shopping to find a larger pair of pliers, because it looks like I’m going to need them the next time I come face to face with these deranged morons.
Climate change: yes, s*ck it up, humans.
Man-made: no, or at most very little and then neither possible nor necessary to address.
CO2 the main driver, problem and target:
Don’t be ridiculous.
As such, the sentence shall be fixed like so:
“There is no long-term prosperity with action on climate change.”
And no current one with solely suicidal action on reducing CO2 emissions, as we are sadly forced to witness.
I could go on but – WEF stooge.
I am far more alarmed by Sunak’s appearance at COP27 than by Hancock’s appearance at IAC22. #RepealTheClimatChangeAct
So stunning. So brave, Rishi.
“There is No Prosperity Without Action on Climate Change”
Headlines don’t come any more Orwellian than that.
Or any more wrong.
Or any more scientifically incoherent
So there is COP27, the WEF, the WHO, the IMF, the Bank for International Settlements, etc, etc, etc..
And these global institutions have an ever increasing influence on our lives. E.g. Masks, e.g, COVID jabs, e.g. the banning of combustion engine cars etc. etc. etc..
But anyone who suggests we are edging towards global government is a conspiracy nut.
Rishi Sunak will review the pledges he made during his summer Tory leadership campaign, No 10 has said.
The prime minister will examine “whether now is the right time to bring them forward,” his spokeswoman said.
Evidently he took a call from his boss, Klaus.
Losely related to this: Yesterday, I got a lengthy e-mail from Thames Water explaining why there’s still a hosepipe ban in Berkshire. They claim that – after months of dry weather nobody except they themselves noticed – despite it has been raining, raining and raining since start of September, England is still on the brink of turning into a waterless desert because all this water mysterically evaporate without having any positive effect at all all the time.
Is it possible to get five people together here to start an official petition to the UK government (requires six email addresses in total) to order these climate clowns to actually lift their temporary water usage restrictions once it became clear that all their claims have been baseless from the start? Otherwise, this hosepipe ban will – in all likeliness – remain in place until next summer, when the months of unusually dry weather (summer being unusal due to 3/4 of the seasons not being summer) card can be played again.
Happy to sign up if you are happy to do the writing.
I’m not terribly good at this (read: completely awful, actually), but it can’t hurt (one hopes) to try.
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I’ve made a petition – will you sign it?
Click this link to sign the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/627363/sponsors/new?token=flUuCZSdiU8Hp0943CML
My petition:
Make water companies actually ‘lift’ temporary water usage restrictions.
There’s still a ‘temporary’ hosepipe ban in Berkshire because Thames Water basically claims that rain has no effect on water levels in England. This is – frankly – ridiculous. There is no water shortage in England.
This is nothing but political climate change posturing originally
based on predictions that we’d see “months of dry weather” made at the
end of August. We’ve seen the exact oppsite of that, two months of
very wet weather, with more to come. Hence, there’s no reason for
keeping water usage restrictions in place which don’t make any
sense. Nobody will want to use a hosepipe to water the lawn for about
the next six months.
Done. Thanks.
I have also sponsored your petition, just hope it will do some good.
Judging from the standards for petitions, it’ll probably be judged that the matter is out of scope for petitions to the UK government if it gets 5 signatures. OTOH, maintaining that – during this time of the year and the present weather – a hosepipe ban is necessary to ensure the safety of the English water supply is utterly bizarre. That’s just an aribtrary restriction because of pressure by political campaign groups and supposedly private companies certainly shouldn’t have to power to issue diktats like that (at least, that’s my humble opinion on the topic).
Done.
Tried to sign but got a message saying “we’re checking to make sure it meets our standards” type message???
It got 5 signatures yesterday and is now on hold until this check is complete. I expect it to be thrown out. But thank you.
I applaud you! ATM I am getting a notice: We’re checking this petition5 people have already supported Rainer Weikusat’s petition.
We need to check it meets the petition standards before we publish it.
Please try again in a few days. But PLEASE put this link up in other conversations… I will try again later.
Re ‘There is No Prosperity Without Action on Climate Change’
Well Britain introduced the concept of catastrophic manmade Climate Change to the world political stage via a speech by Margaret Thatcher in 1988, and has been ‘taking action’ on it more vigorously than any other country ever since –
All of which explains why our prosperity over that time has been racing forward to hitherto unknown heights…
Oh.
It is not the “climate doomsday cult” it is not ‘folly’ it is not Greta it is not accidental!! These are all distractive adjectives. The objective truth is more sinister, it is the ‘great reset’, the WEF you will be happy and own nothing,the cabal One World Order. Net Zero is one of their control mechanisms. Globalist cabal are in control of our parliament.
Indeed.
“No prosperity without action”.
Absolute rubbish of course. Whatever difference the UK may or may not make to the climate through government policy, it will absolutely be cheaper to build strategically placed sea walls, irrigate, or whatever else might (or might not) be necessary.
You have to visit a timberyard to see anything more wooden than Sunak. Gone by May.
Eventually some bright spark will invent a way to sequestrate all that wicked poisonous carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, at which point all green plants die, swiftly followed by all life on earth.
He’s lost what little regard I had for him. He should have thanked Boris profusely for representing him at the holiday event and stayed in the UK. Will he roll over so easily about everything? Boris has won again…
Depressingly predictable!
For those naive enough to believe Sunak was a better bet as Prime Minister because of his intellect – what in god’s name are you smoking?!! This rapidest of reverse ferrets shows him to be as thick as all the other watermelons and eco loons.
Of course he will go I’m sure as part of the support for the great reset he always intended to. He is a globalist and the last person on earth we should have as PM of our once proud country. Fortunately he only has two years to do his damage to us and I just hope the Reform party can develop sufficiently well to kick him and all his supporters out of our politics.
The entire political class speak with one voice on all the covid, climate, gender, race, equality, diversity, and other assorted PC agenda’s. So what choice does the public have when no matter who you vote for they are all spouting the same wokery and PC drivel?
What a load of you know what. If Rishi was soooooo serious about climate change, which we all know he isn’t, he would with immediate affect ban diesel cars, buses, lorries and taxis. Why is he such a flipping liar? Wouldn’t the people of the rubbish strewn city of London like a clean city, without rats and clean air to breath. Sorry suckers your lying pm will spend your money to attend another bs conference about what they are going to do, never do it and make you do loads of things that will ruin your lives, like pay more and more ”green taxes”, drive only electric cars that cost a fortune and the Uk couldn’t possibly supply enough electricity if just 10% of the population went electric, increase your taxes to travel by air in the name of “green”. honestly, this government is the home of the most dishonest excuses for a gov’t the country has ever seen. Integrity, honesty, compassion flushed down the toilet along with your last dime
Rishi—–Why not just admit you got a cuff bout the ear for not attending from your Davos bosses. They gave you a right rollicking didn’t they? But Rishi, it is precisely Renewables and the one and half trillion cost of NET ZERO that is removing prosperity, not bringing it. Renewables have doubled our energy bills long before this Ukraine situation as we are all forced to pay for the thousands of part time turbines that require 100% back up from gas. The very same gas that phony planet savers want rid of as soon as they can, and for all the millions of smart meters that are installed to curtail our energy use, under the guise of saving us money. —-You and the rest of your one world government planet saving con artists are fooling some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.