News Round-Up
19 April 2025
by Toby Young
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by Will Jones
It's increasingly clear the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan. But could it have been made in the USA? Will Jones says there's a clue in the fact that China only seemed to learn of the leak once the sequence was published.
Four years after the advent of Covid lockdowns, what precisely was the point of the hell we went through, asks Jeffrey Tucker. Who did it and why? Why did it last so long? Why has there been no official accounting?
What was there to like in the Covid era, asks Ramesh Thakur. Billions, if you were Big Pharma. Unchecked power, if you were Big State. More control over the world's governments, for the WHO. Misery for the rest of us.
The notion that all these top scientists were inept is implausible, says Debbie Lerman. Rather, they were playing the part they were given by the security apparatus that took charge and treated Covid as bioterrorism.
A conspiracy of pandemic preparedness zealots at the start of 2020 planted the seeds of the ensuing lockdown craziness, but by April this had given way to the petty authoritarianism of fools, argues Eugyppius.
Pfizer has a long history of paying out vast sums in out-of-court settlements to avoid prosecution on criminal charges resulting from the fraudulent promotion and injury and death arising from use of its products.
Tony Blair has called on the Government to introduce a national digital ID card and, frighteningly, a poll shows that more than half of Brits supported such an invasive and high-risk surveillance project.
The first suggestion Covid came from a lab appeared in Radio Free Asia on Jan 9th 2020, even before the first death, when the CIA-linked outlet pushed the idea that Covid was a bioweapon. So what's really going on?
How suspicious should we be that US intelligence analysts picked up on what they deemed a dangerous novel virus in China at a time when there's no evidence China had picked up on it or was concerned?
A 2007 pandemic plan from the US Government has come to light, already setting out the intention to ban large gatherings "indefinitely", close schools and businesses and quarantine close contacts to wait for a vaccine.
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