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VIDEO: State Dept. Claims Assange Hurt U.S. "National Security". Question: Did Exposing "Collateral Murder" Video Hurt National Security? WikiLeaks has also been demonized because of Russiagate, but a new report by cybersecurity expert James Bamford charges it was Israel that colluded with Trump campaign. State gives no response as yet. https://husseini.substack.com/p/video-state-dept-wont-give-specifics

On Tuesday, April 18, 2022: Activists with "Jail Fauci" T-Shirts Crash Hearing on Covid Origins. Representatives Bicker and Blame China While Minimizing Scrutiny to US Institutions. https://husseini.substack.com/p/activists-with-jail-fauci-t-shirts

https://husseini.substack.com/p/rumi-this-place-is-a-dreamyou-wake This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. But there’s a difference with this dream. Everything cruel and unconscious done in the illusion of the present world, all that does not fade away at the death-waking. It stays, and it must be interpreted. All the mean laughing, all the quick sexual wanting, those torn coats of Joseph — they change into powerful wolves that you must face. The retaliation that sometimes comes now, the swift, payback hit, is just a boy’s game to what that other will be. You know about circumcision here. It’s full castration there. (laughs) And this groggy time we live — And this groggy time we live, this is what it’s like: A man goes to sleep in the house where he has always lived, and dreams he’s living in another house in another town. In his dream, he believes the reality of the dream town. He doesn’t remember the bed he’s sleeping in his house in. The world is that kind of sleep. The dust of many crumbled cities settles over us like a forgetful dream. The dust of many crumbled cities settles over us like a forgetful dream. But we are older than those cities. We began as a mineral. We emerged into plant life and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states — except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again. This is how a young person turns toward a teacher. This is how a baby leans toward the breast, without knowing the secret of its desire, yet turning instinctively. Humankind is being led along through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping — though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are. there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream and that will eventually startle us back to the truth — of who we are. Hopefully soon.

https://husseini.substack.com/p/gain-of-function-research-of-concern Transcript of the Hawley-Ebright Exchange on Gain-of-Function Research of Concern and Bioweapons Hawley: “Doctor Ebright, let me ask you about the merits of gain-of-function research because I was struck by something you said in your written testimony. You said, ‘gain-of-function research has no civilian practical applications.’ From a research perspective, then what, why do it? I mean, what’s the, what’s the value, the real value of gain-of-function research?”Ebright: “Not a matter of value but incentives, particularly incentives within the academic research ecosystem. Gain-of-function research of concern is fast and easy, much faster and much easier than vaccine or drug development. And gain-of-function research is publishable, and gain-of-function research is fundable. With those four incentives in place: fast, easy, fundable, and publishable, the research will be performed. Eliminate any one of those incentives and it will not be." [Notice that Ebright has offered a solution to the problem here: Stop funding Gain-of-function research of concern and it will be stopped. But instead, Hawley goes to China. Also notice, Ebright’s argument is at odds with the position popularized by Jon Stewart that somehow science is the problem, that Hawley: So thinking about China for a second, what is China's interest in gain-of-function research?Ebright: They have witnessed the United States leading the way with gain-of-function research. Most gain-of-function research of concern performed today has been performed either in the U.S. with U.S. funding, or overseas with U.S. funding. China has wished to be part of that and has participated in gain-of-function research of concern in China with U.S. funding and has also supported gain-of-function research of concern in China entirely through Chinese programs.Hawley: So let me ask you this. Gain-of-function research and bioweapons, what is the connection there? I mean, what role does gain-of-function research play? Ebright: "As I mentioned, there are no civilian practical applications. There are immense bioweapons practical applications. As you've heard from Dr. Esvelt, the potential pandemic pathogens that can emerge from such studies are potential weapons of mass destruction, inexpensive, accessible, easily distributed weapons of mass destruction."

From March 9, 2023 https://husseini.substack.com/p/breaking-state-dept-continues-to

From https://husseini.substack.com/p/video-from-feb-2020-is-it-a-complete https://husseini.posthaven.com/questioning-the-cdc-is-it-a-complete-coincidence-that-chinas-only-bsl4-is-in-wuhan Journalist Sam Husseini: Obviously the main concern is how to stop the virus and deaths and so on. But I think that we should look into the origins of this. Is it the CDCs contention that there's absolutely no relation to the BSL4 lab in Wuhan? It's my understanding this is the only place in China with a BSL4 lab. We in the United States have I think two dozen or so and there have been problems and incidents. Some of them have been shut down out of concerns of leakage of potential pathogens. And it's an ethical struggle in the United States about gain of function research. That is, research that actually attempts to make pathogens more lethal. China is a very opaque society [with a] totalitarian regime. We have no idea, or I don't know, you tell me: Do you have any idea of what kind of research could potentially be done? I'm not contending that this was intentional in any way. I'm just asking is it a complete coincidence that this outbreak happened in the one city in China with a BSL4 lab and shouldn't we be having at least some of the discussion about the ethics of some of the research that happens here? Thank you. CDC's Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat: Thank you for those comments. Based on everything that I know about what is going on with this outbreak and the research that's being conducted, well as the genomic sequences that have been posted and the comparison with animals strains, the pattern that we're seeing is quite consistent with emergence from animal to human acquisition and adaptability or mutations that permit the virus to be easily spread between people. There's some emerging research about, you know, the virus itself is related to bat viruses, that's what the SARS virus and the MERS virus. But there was an intriguing report about pangolin sequencing -- an animal that is apparently a large part of the wildlife trade around the world, with 99 percent similarity. But what our scientists tell us is you actually need more like 99.9 percent similarity for us to understand origin. The animal origins and the circumstances of the emergence of this virus are really important to understand and it's one of the key questions that the global community wants to look into. Schuchat: In terms of the question about gain of function research and laboratory issues. Very important for us as a scientific community to have practices that protect researchers and their laboratory workers as well as the community around them and that we use science for the benefit of people. So I am closely involved in this response and everything that I've seen so far is very consistent with the animal to human spread that we've seen other zoonotic origin. Husseini: May I follow up on that -- just -- I mean, the two things don't necessarily preclude each other. That is, the Chinese lab could well have acquired the bat [virus]. It's one or two thousand miles away -- the caves where the bats are [from] that are allegedly the cause. So wouldn't -- the two things aren't mutually exclusive, are they?Schuchat: Yeah, let me leave a comment. Information is critical and having the very best information available to those who -- to everyone, to be able to protect themselves, their families, their communities is essential. In the midst of new infections, it is very common for rumors to emerge that can take on life of their own. So as you mentioned, a laboratory in the center of what else is happening in that province -- I'm reminded of concerns we heard when I was in Sierra Leone in 2014 with the Ebola response. There was a concern that there was a hemorrhagic virus research center in Sierra Leone, and maybe that's where the virus had come from. It was a key rumor that had to be overcome in order to help control the outbreak. So based on everything that I know right now, I can tell you the circumstances of the origin really look like animals to human. But your, your question, I heard.

Feb 27, 2023 Sam Husseini questions Ned Price Transparency for China, but not for USAID, which funded EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. From: https://husseini.substack.com

Feb 27, 2023 Sam Husseini questions Ned Price. https://husseini.substack.com

Sam Husseini questioning Ned Price. From https://husseini.substack.com From February 27 2023

From https://husseini.substack.com/p/james-abourezk-radical-senator I was actually general counsel for the government of Iran here in Washington at that time, for the embassy here in Washington. It was about two weeks after the embassy was taken over, I decided I'd go over and try to obtain the release of the hostages. So I went over and I negotiated with [Abolhassan] Banisadr, who was then chairman of the Revolutionary Council. And I worked out a deal with him. I -- what the Iranians wanted was to air their grievances against the United States, of which they had many at that time, by the way. You know, we had supported the Shah while he was torturing and killing Iranian citizens. They had found, by the way, in the basement of the American Embassy a CIA counterfeiting operation, counterfeiting [Iranian] money. … They were very upset about that.… And so anyhow, I -- knowing this -- I said to Banisadr, "Look, if you want to air your grievances, I think, in return for the release of the hostages, that I can get the US Senate to hold big publicized hearings allowing you to do just that." Well, we worked out a deal. It'd be a three-step deal, where we would announce the hearings, he would release the hostages and then we would have the hearings. And he said, "All right. You take that to the Senate and I'll take it to the Revolutionary Council. We'll try to work it through." So I called Senator Byrd, who was of West Virginia, who was majority leader, and proposed it to him. I called him from Iran. Then when I got back from Iran, I called him up and he said, "Well, the administration is opposed to that kind of a thing." Because Jimmy Carter at that time was standing tough. He was trying to look like he didn't want to negotiate.

I questioned Carter once, asking one of my go-to questions. In April 2007 I rather gingerly asked the former president at the National Press Club about why no administration, including his own, would acknowledge Israel’s nuclear weapons. He responded: “When I was president, I did not comment on Israel’s nuclear arsenal. But it’s generally known throughout the diplomatic and scientific world that Israel does have [a] substantial arsenal.... I don’t think it’s up to the U.S. government, president or officials to announce that another country does indeed have or have not nuclear arsenal if they themselves don’t acknowledge it.... "But the other nuclear powers, including India and Pakistan, now and the five original ones announced it themselves." But that twisted the actual record. Before Pakistan announced it had nuclear weapons, Carter himself cut off aid to that country because of its nuclear program. In April of 1979, the New York Times reported: "Intelligence reports indicating that Pakistan is acquiring the ability to make nuclear weapons led the Carter Administration today to cut off economic and military assistance." ... -- For more, see: https://husseini.substack.com

Archbishop Desmond Tutu's last article admonished Biden to abide by Glenn-Symington amendment and cut off billions in funding to repeated nuclear proliferator Israel. See: https://husseini.substack.com/p/state-dept-claims-we-follow-the-law

The Israeli author Miko Peled, author of The General's Son, has talked about the Israeli context as, on the one hand you have Netanyahu, who will not acknowledge that Israel drove out Palestinians 1948, and now you have people on the right wing of Israel calling for another expulsion of Palestinians that Netanyahu claims never happened.

Ahead of Blinken Trip, State Dept. Refuses to Acknowledge Israel's Nuclear Weapons and Ethnic Cleansing