Transcript of “COVID USA with Larry Romanoff – April 1, 2020”

  

Transcript of “COVID USA  with Larry Romanoff – April 1, 2020”  

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKVnIxQzfvs

Published April 7, 2020

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Larry Romanoff discusses many of his articles including:

“China’s Coronavirus: A Shocking Update, Did the Virus Originate in the US? Japan, China and Taiwan

Reports on the Origin of the Virus”;

“Humanity at the Crossroads – Connecting the Dots to Our Brave New World”;

“Why Is the US Apparently Not Testing for the COVID-19 Coronavirus?”;

Six unexplained viral outbreaks in China during the trade war necessitating US imports;

Research into the origins of the coronavirus;

Gene sequencing of all of the different strains;

All strains exist only in the US;

Wuhan Seafood Market not the origin of the virus;

Wuhan BSL4 lab not a bioweapons lab; over 1,000 leaks from US BSL 3 and 4 labs in five years;

Enormous Ft. Detrick bioweapons lab shutdown for 6 months;

China virus 100% Chinese specific, same with SARS;

Harvard kicked out of China for illegally collecting Chinese DNA;

CDC ordered American physicians not to test for coronavirus;

Italy and Iran geopolitical targets;

CDC produced flawed tests and then none at all;

CDC part of the US military;

Economic devastation.”

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Viruses. It's like children of a parent. You cannot have a child appearing by itself. It has to come from some place.

And in this case, there are five sort of so-called parents. And only the US has all five.

Korea, Taiwan had one variety. Same as England, actually. China had an entirely different one from the others. It was much more lethal than the one in Korea.

And different countries had different types.

Iran and Italy sequenced theirs and discovered that it was different from the one that was in China, so their infections did not come from China. They came from someplace else.

But the someplace else could only have been the US because that was the only place that those varieties existed.

Bonnie Faulkner: I'm Bonnie Faulkner. Today on Guns and Butter, Larry Romanoff. Today's show: COVID USA.

Larry Romanoff is a researcher, journalist and author. He is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms and owned an international import-export business.

He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai's Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior executive MBA classes.

Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of 10 books generally related to China and the West.

Today we discuss several of his most recent articles in his series on the novel coronavirus, including “China's coronavirus: A Shocking Update. Did the virus originate in the US?”, “Japan, China and Taiwan: Report on the origin of the virus”, and  “Why is the US apparently NOT testing for the COVID 19 coronavirus?”

Larry Romanoff, welcome.

Larry Romanoff: Thank you.

Bonnie: I've read with interest many of the articles you've written in your series “Tracing the Outbreak and Spread of the Coronavirus”.

When did you first start studying the coronavirus outbreak? And what got you started on this line of inquiry?

Une discussion démocratique sur la liberté d'expression

Sowing Seeds of War by Paul Craig Roberts

 

Sowing Seeds of War

March 24, 2021 

Sowing Seeds of War

Paul Craig Roberts

China Is Losing Patience with Washington. “You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry,” China tells Washington, and China is getting angry.

Beijing warns US and its UK, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand puppets to give up pretending they constitute “world opinion.”  https://www.rt.com/news/519004-china-five-eyes-west-xinjiang/ 

This rebuke to the “Five Eyes” follows a strong dressing down delivered by Yang Jiechi, a ruling member of the Chinese government to the Biden regime at the Alaska talks.  Yang Jiechi told the US delegation that “the United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength.”  In other words, who do you think you are?  Where did you get the idea that your self-serving position constitutes international public opinion and that you can lean on us to comply with your position?

In their most recent public statements President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov have stopped pleading with the West to be nice.  Putin acknowledged that Washington only wants a hegemonic relationship with Russia, a relationship inconsistent with Russian sovereignty, and Lavrov said that the EU’s hostility to Russia could result in Russia breaking off relations with Europe.  

Washington is probably too arrogant to hear what it is being told.  This is why I am concerned that Washington’s hegemonic aspiration can result in a devastating war.  It is easy to rouse Americans, especially patriotic Trump supporters, against Russia and China.  The American Establishment did not allow Trump to improve relations with Russia, but it did permit him to worsen relations with China.  But what sense does it make for Trump supporters, defined by the Biden regime as “Trump insurrectionists,” “enemies of democracy,” and “America’s greatest threat,” to support the Biden’s regime’s propaganda against Russia and China?  

Washington and its presstitutes sound like a broken record with their complaints about human rights violations in China and Russia’s alleged poisoning of Navalny, Washington’s man with whom to replace Putin. Washington’s hypocrisy does not impress China and Russia.  Washington’s puppet states go along with it, but most of the world regards the US as the human rights abuser with its 20 years of destrution of Muslim countries and its evil, inhuman, and illegal treatment of Julian Assange.  Whatever human rights violations China and Russia might have committed, they pale in comparison with Washington’s enormous crimes against humanity, crimes that include protection of Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians.

The long years of Washington’s hypocrisy has, I fear, destroyed world respect for Washington’s veracity and integrity.  I am afraid that China and Russia have concluded that it is impossible to come to terms with a government whose words are limited to propaganda. The resulting Russian and Chinese lack of trust in Washington, together with Washington’s quest for hegemony, makes the danger of war high.

There doesn’t seem anything to do about this risk from within the US.  Judging from the content of most articles on Johnson’s List, a daily collection of articles about Russia, Russian studies in the US are no longer serious and consist largely of accusatory propaganda that presents Russia as Washington wants Russia presented.  

Americans do not understand the risks that Washington is taking with China and Russia, because the media do not explain the facts and the risks to them. Stephen Cohen, recently deceased, was perhaps America’s last academic Russian expert.  He and I shared the concern that Washington’s intent to damage Russia was sowing the seeds of war. For our efforts, we were labeled “Russian dupes.”  For intelligent commentary on Russia, a person turns to The Saker and Andrei Martyanov, not to university departments of Russian studies. Unfortunately for understanding, all who put truth in the way of Washington’s propaganda are dismissed as “pro-Kremlin.”

Silencing the voices of sanity is how wars come about.

EPILOGUE -- Captain America - The Man with Two Brains -- March 21, 2021

  

 

 Captain America - The Man with Two Brains

By Larry Romanoff for the Saker Blog,March 21, 2021

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Introduction – If America Dissolves… 

Bernays and Propaganda – Part 1 of 5

Bernays and Propaganda - Part 2 of 5 -- The Marketing of War 

Bernays and Propaganda - Part 3 of 5 –– Democracy Control 

Bernays and Propaganda - Part 4 of 5 --The Transition to Education and Commerce

Bernays and Propaganda – Part 5 of 5 — Propaganda Continues Unabated

Epilogue - Captain America --The Man with Two Brains

 

 

An earlier essay titled, "If America Dissolves . . ." formed an introduction to the series on Bernays and Propaganda. This essay functions as the epilogue.

 

I will briefly repeat here several observations I made earlier, in order to develop a point that requires some elaboration.

 

In the essay titled The Utopia Syndrome, I mentioned Elizabeth Anderson's theory of what I call 'The Propaganda Mask', which states that when political ideals or the 'official story' diverge too widely from reality, the ideals or the official narrative themselves become a kind of mask that prevents us from perceiving the gap. When the tenets of the propaganda are too far removed from factual truth, the victims lose their ability to separate fact from fiction and become unable to recognise the discrepancy between their ideals and their actions, or between their convictions and the truth. In the same essay I outlined that Americans are guilty of what I call 'the Utopia Syndrome', comparing themselves not with the real world of their actions but with some utopian standard of ideals that exists only in their own imaginations, a world of fancy and illusion divorced from reality. Next, I noted the black and white mentality that pervades America, the result of their Christianity and the work of Bernays, whose methods of manipulation of the public mind created a kind of binary mentality. Bernays claimed the excessive emotional loading in his propaganda could produce only a limited range of powerful emotional responses in his victims, forcing one's emotional switch into a binary 'on or off' mode, with no other choices.

 

Paul Craig Roberts -- Does Europe Stand With Biden Against Russia?

 

Does Europe Stand With Biden Against Russia?

March 22, 2021 

Does Europe Stand With Biden Against Russia?

Paul Craig Roberts

“President” Biden, who stole a presidential election and murdered American democracy, accuses the President of Russia of being “a killer.”  Do Europe’s politicians agree? 

Yes, apparently. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has just pronounced Russia “Britain’s top security challenge.”  The British PM, shilling for the armaments and nuclear weapons industry with an eye on those future directorships, promises more military spending. The British can’t have better health care or lower taxes, because of the threat of Russia. What a joke!  No amount of British arms spending could deter a real threat from Russia. If Russia wants Britain, Britain is helpless. Britain could spend its entire GDP on armaments, and the country would still be defenseless against Russia.

This ignorant nonsense from the British government has been going on for years. In 2015 British defense minister Michael Fallon alleged that Russia is a “real and present danger” to Europe’s security and declared President Putin to be “as great a threat to Europe as Islamic State.”

In 2018 the British army chief, General Mark Carleton-Smith declared Russia to be a “far greater threat” than Islamic terrorism, which raised the question why the British were fighting Islamic terrorism rather than the “far greater threat.”