{"id":257259,"date":"2022-08-11T05:52:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T05:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257259"},"modified":"2022-08-12T09:52:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T09:52:52","slug":"twitter-cancels-russia-over-covid-biowarfare-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257259","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Cancels Russia Over Covid Biowarfare Accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Roy Unz \u2013 The Unz Review Aug 11, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>This morning Russia\u2019s <em>RT<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/560555-twitter-suspends-russian-foreign-ministry\/\">reported <\/a>that Twitter had suspended the official account of Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Twitter has temporarily suspended the account belonging to Russia\u2019s foreign ministry, officials in Moscow have revealed. According to the ministry\u2019s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, the punitive measure was imposed after the diplomats cited a Russian military commander, who had alleged the US could have been behind the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">On Tuesday, Zakharova posted a message on her Telegram channel, saying that on August 5, Twitter \u201c<em>blocked for seven days the official account of the foreign ministry in English.<\/em>\u201d The diplomat explained that the harsh reaction had been triggered by the ministry posting a tweet featuring excerpts from a speech delivered earlier by the head of Russia\u2019s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, General-Lieutenant, Igor Kirillov.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The ministry\u2019s tweet in question cited claims that the United States Agency for International Development could have been behind the Covid-19 pandemic\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The tweet which led to the suspension is preceded by a plaque saying that it \u201c<em>violated the Twitter Rules on sharing false or misleading info that might bring harm to crisis-affected populations.<\/em>\u201d The platform noted, however, that it had chosen to preserve the message \u201c<em>for accountability purposes.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a1\ufe0f Russian MoD unveils new data on military and biological activities of the US and its allies in Ukraine and elsewhere in light of new information. <\/p>\n<p>\u2757\ufe0fWe are considering the possibility that the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USAID?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#USAID<\/a> was involved in emergence of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5tigUP3PWm\">https:\/\/t.co\/5tigUP3PWm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZpNa7fLLG1\">pic.twitter.com\/ZpNa7fLLG1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MFA Russia \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa (@mfa_russia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mfa_russia\/status\/1555203184569745410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After Russia\u2019s war with Ukraine broke out six months ago, numerous harsh Western sanctions have been imposed upon Russia and individual Russians. But this suspension was unprecedented, with no such previous action having ever been taken against an official Twitter account of the Russian government.<\/p>\n<p>This drastic step underscores the enormous gravity of those Russian accusations. If the world began to suspect that Covid was an American bioweapon, the global political landscape might dramatically shift.<\/p>\n<p>Given the importance of this latest development, it\u2019s worth recapitulating the preceding sequence of events.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University is the high-ranking American academic who had chaired the Covid Commission of the <em>Lancet<\/em>, a leading medical journal. In May, he co-authored an article in America\u2019s prestigious <em>PNAS<\/em> journal pointing to the very strong evidence that Covid was bioengineered in a laboratory and called for an independent inquiry into its origins.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2202769119\">A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus<\/a><br \/>\nNeil L. Harrison and Jeffrey D. Sachs \u2022 <strong><em>PNAS<\/em><\/strong> \u2022 May 19, 2022 \u2022 2,800 Words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In that article, he emphasized that the EcoHealth Alliance, heavily funded by our own Department of Defense, had been very actively collecting exactly the sort of viruses that probably constituted the precursor stock to the genetically-engineered Covid virus.<\/p>\n<p>These dramatic claims by leading academic figures should have resulted in major media headlines, but instead they were ignored by virtually all mainstream and alternative media outlets, though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/runz\/an-independent-inquiry-into-the-american-origins-of-covid\/\">I discussed them in a column<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The following month, Prof. Sachs spoke at a Spanish think-tank conference and he strongly suggested that the Covid virus seemed to have emerged from American biotechnology. A few weeks later, <em>RT<\/em> ran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/558191-economist-says-covid-escaped-us-lab\/\">a short item<\/a> highlighting Sachs\u2019s statements, and a clip of his remarks went super-viral a couple of days later, being retweeted more than 11,000 times and accumulating a million views, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/runz\/9000-retweets-and-800000-video-views\/\">I described in a column<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow\ud83d\ude2fProf. Jeffrey Sachs: <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I chaired the commission for the Lancet for 2 years on Covid. I&#39;m pretty convinced it came out of a US lab of biotechnology [&#8230;] We don&#39;t know for sure but there is enough evidence. [However] it&#39;s not being investigated, not in the US, not anywhere.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IYvSJnlv1q\">pic.twitter.com\/IYvSJnlv1q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RnaudBertrand\/status\/1543259218995687424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s populist <em>Daily Mail<\/em> finally decided to cover the story, bringing it to the attention of a mainstream audience:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-10980715\/Covid-leaked-AMERICAN-lab-claims-professor-Jeffrey-Sachs.html\">Covid leaked from an AMERICAN lab and not the notorious Chinese facility at centre of pandemic cover-up, claims top US professor described as \u2018Xi propagandist\u2019<\/a><br \/>\nConnor Boyd \u2022 <strong><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/strong> \u2022 July 4, 2022 \u2022 1,500 Words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following week I noted that the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster had played a major role in the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the Covid epidemic has been perhaps a thousand times greater in its global impact. If the world began to believe that Covid had an American origin, the geopolitical impact would be monumental. And with more than a million Americans dead and two years of lockdowns and disrupted lives, the domestic political consequences would be equally enormous:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/runz\/a-thousand-times-greater-than-the-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster\/\">A Thousand Times Greater Than the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster<\/a><br \/>\nRon Unz \u2022 <strong><em>The Unz Review<\/em><\/strong> \u2022 July 11, 2022 \u2022 2,300 Words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Partly as a consequence of Prof. Sachs\u2019s explosive claims, I was interviewed at the end of July by <em>Sputnik News<\/em>, a mainstream Russian media outlet with 20 million monthly visits. This finally allowed my Covid analysis to reach a much larger and more global audience:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20220731\/us-publisher-what-if-covid-outbreak-is-part-of-the-pentagons-biowarfare-plan-1097973485.html\">US Publisher: What if COVID Outbreak is Part of the Pentagon\u2019s Biowarfare Plan?<\/a><br \/>\nEkaterina Blinova \u2022 <strong><em>Sputnik News<\/em><\/strong> \u2022 July 31, 2022 \u2022 1,500 Words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <em>Sputnik<\/em> article seems to have been one of the most popular on their website, with more than 100 endorsements by readers, and my own column on the controversy also generated strong traffic, with more than 300 comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/runz\/sputnik-scoops-the-daily-mail\/\"><em>Sputnik<\/em> Scoops the <em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nRon Unz \u2022 <em><strong>The Unz Review<\/strong><\/em> \u2022 August 1, 2022 \u2022 1,800 Words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A few days after the <em>Sputnik<\/em> article ran, Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia\u2019s Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces, held a public briefing in which he raised the possibility of American responsibility for the global Covid epidemic. As <em>RT<\/em> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Taking into account the interest of the US administration in the study of narrowly targeted biological agents, such statements force us to take a fresh look at the causes of the novel coronavirus pandemic and the role of US military biologists in the emergence and spread of the Covid-19 pathogen,\u201d<\/em> Kirillov said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Russia now suspects that USAID might have been directly responsible for the emergence of the Covid-19 virus, according to Kirillov, who pointed to a Lancet article by Columbia professor Jeffry Sachs, who suggested that the virus was likely created in a lab with the help of America\u2019s latest achievements in the field of biotechnology\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cThe implementation of the COVID-19 development scenario and USAID\u2019s emergency phasing out of the Predict program in 2019 suggest the deliberate nature of the pandemic and US involvement in its occurrence,\u201d<\/em> Kirillov said.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/560246-usaid-covid-origin-moscow\/\">US Government May Be Complicit in Emergence of Covid \u2013 Russia<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Moscow is assessing the possibility that a Washington DC agency played a part in the creation of Covid-19<\/em><br \/>\nRT Staff \u2022 <strong><em>RT News<\/em><\/strong> \u2022 August 4, 2022 \u2022 500 Words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the Russian Foreign Ministry posted a Tweet providing excerpts from Lieutenant-General Kirillov\u2019s speech, its account was immediately suspended by Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>I have no particular insight into the thinking of the Twitter monitors who suspended Russia\u2019s account, but I suspect that they sincerely regarded those Russian Covid accusations as totally absurd and dangerous, an outrageous \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d having absolutely no basis in reality.<\/p>\n<p>Corporate executives probably draw their understanding of the world from the same media sources as the general public, and if no Western journalists have ever hinted that Covid might have been an American bioweapon, the notion would seem just as unimaginable to a Twitter manager as it would to one\u2019s own next-door neighbor. Those who control the media control the contours of perceived reality.<\/p>\n<p>For more than two years, I\u2019ve been stunned by the complete unwillingness of virtually any mainstream or alternative journalists to take notice of the very strong evidence of American culpability. Just yesterday I sent this note to a member of America\u2019s elite establishment with whom I\u2019ve been friendly for many years:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2026the whole situation just staggers the imagination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For the same of argument, let\u2019s assume I\u2019m correct and there\u2019s at least a pretty good chance that the blowback from an unauthorized biowarfare attack has now killed a million Americans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Can you think of anything in the history of the world let alone the history of America that\u2019s comparable to that? As I argued in one of my recent articles, it\u2019s probably 1000x a greater worldwide disaster than Chernobyl.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">And the notion that absolutely no one is willing to discuss it is just unbelievable. It\u2019s not like Stalin\u2019s NKVD will ship them off to the Gulag if they say anything. I mean it\u2019s one thing if people are fearful of being shot, but it\u2019s another thing if they\u2019re merely fearful of being criticized on Twitter\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I just can\u2019t understand why absolutely no one is willing to take a public stand on this issue. Once all the facts came out more than a year ago, I assumed the dam would break any week.<\/p>\n<p>And his reply:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It is quite amazing.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of August Prof. Sachs gave a long interview to <em>Current Affairs<\/em>, a progressive alternative publication, in which he described the roadblocks his <em>Lancet<\/em> investigation into the origins of Covid had encountered. The scientific members serving under him refused to explore any American role in the creation of the virus and were unwilling to disclose the recent American research in related areas:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">What I\u2019m calling for is not the <em>conclusion<\/em>. I\u2019m calling for the <em>investigation<\/em>. Finally, after two and a half years of this, it\u2019s time to fess up that it might have come out of a lab and here\u2019s the data that we need to know to find out whether it did\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">NIH was actually asked at one point: give us your research program on SARS-like viruses. And you know what they did? They released the cover page and redacted 290 pages. They gave us a cover page and 290 blank pages! That\u2019s NIH, for heaven\u2019s sake. That\u2019s not some corporation. That is the U.S. government charged with keeping us healthy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.currentaffairs.org\/2022\/08\/why-the-chair-of-the-lancets-covid-19-commission-thinks-the-us-government-is-preventing-a-real-investigation-into-the-pandemic\">Why the Chair of the Lancet\u2019s COVID-19 Commission Thinks The US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation Into the Pandemic<\/a><br \/>\nJeffrey Sachs \u2022 <strong><em>Current Affairs<\/em><\/strong> \u2022 August 2, 2022 \u2022 4,300 Words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since April 2020 I have argued that the Covid outbreak was likely due to an American biowarfare attack against China (and Iran), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/runz\/american-pravda-the-covid-epidemic-as-lab-leak-or-biowarfare\/#p_1_49\">just as the Iranians had claimed at the time.<\/a> This undertaking almost certainly occurred without the personal authorization of President Trump, and therefore constituted a \u201crogue operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My own long series of articles has documented the very strong evidence of American guilt, notably including obvious foreknowledge of the Wuhan outbreak. All of the underlying source material was provided in the reporting of establishment media outlets and cannot easily be denied.<\/p>\n<p>But timorous journalists have averted their eyes and refused to take any notice of what had been revealed in their own publications.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/page\/covid-biowarfare-articles\/\">Covid\/Biowarfare Series<\/a><br \/>\nRon Unz \u2022 <strong><em>The Unz Review<\/em><\/strong> \u2022 April 2020-December 2021 \u2022 60,000 Words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ve also presented that same information in a number of podcast interviews, which have now been viewed nearly a million times, including almost 50,000 views in the last couple of days. As the facts they present become more widely known, dramatic political shifts may begin to occur.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that if the executives at Twitter became aware of this factual information, they might have considered the public statements of the Russian Defense Ministry in a very different light.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the most substantial presentations total nearly four hours and are conveniently available on Rumble.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Barrett, <em><strong>FFWN<\/strong><\/em> \u2022 February 16, 2022 \u2022 15m<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"COVID-19 Bio-Attack Smoking Gun!\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/vsi3d0\/#?secret=EAMU86KYZ1\" data-secret=\"EAMU86KYZ1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/vsi3d0\/\">Video Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Geopolitics &amp; Empire<\/strong><\/em> \u2022 February 1, 2022 \u2022 75m<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Ron Unz: COVID-19 Was an &amp;apos;Anti-Economy&amp;apos; Bioweapon by the U.S. Against China [RE-UPLOAD]\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/vv2eh7\/#?secret=czRmKFAT9e\" data-secret=\"czRmKFAT9e\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/vv2eh7\/\">Video Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Red Ice TV<\/strong><\/em> \u2022 February 3, 2022 \u2022 130m<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Covid: An American Biowarfare Attack - Ron Unz\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/vrdj6e\/?t=75#?secret=AEciImvzZ1\" data-secret=\"AEciImvzZ1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/announcement\/twitter-cancels-russia-over-covid-biowarfare-accusations\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since April 2020 Roy Unz has argued that the Covid outbreak was likely due to a US biowarfare attack against China (and Iran), just as the Iranians had claimed at the time. The banning of the official account of Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry after it echoed these allegations lends weight to this claim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":170486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257261,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257259\/revisions\/257261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}