1/ This is amazing. In July, @theintercept had one of its most dishonest partisan hacks, @RobertMackey, basically call @RandPaul a liar and deranged conspiracy theorist over and over for suggesting Fauci funded research that could've caused the pandemic:
2/ But yesterday, the very same @theintercept admits it sought documents about Fauci-funded research by EcoHealth (Peter Daszak's group) that "raise additional questions about the theory that the pandemic may have begun in a lab accident."
3/ Specifically, the documents the Intercept sought -- which I'll bet any amount of money they thought would debunk Paul & vindicate Fauci -- instead did the opposite (oops). The docs more than ever link Daszak's research to possible COVID origins.
4/ Even when they accidentally do reporting that undermines liberal political causes, Intercept editors have to make sure they stay loyal. The admit that Daszak's highly risking research was funded by NIAID, but never once mention the name "Fauci," the Director of that agency:
(and just by the way: this is why I also found irrational and incomprehensible the insistence by some on the left that that lab-leak theory shouldn't be investigated - even if it's true - due to fears of stoking Cold War hatred of China. The research was also *US*-funded and led)
Exactly. It was Daszak who spearheaded the Lancet letter very early on in the pandemic to mock and dismiss the *possibility* that the virus could have leaked from a lab, insisting it was zoonotic, knowing that it was his Fauci-funded research at risk:
One last point on the politics. I never thought it should matter: we should know either way how COVID started, *obviously*.
But I always found the US/China lab-leak theory far less inflammatory (and, you know, racist) than assuming it came from the eating habits of the Chinese.
Anyway, whatever their motives were and however flagrantly they went out of their way to avoid even mentioning the name "Fauci" -- despite how central he is to the story -- @theintercept just did more to advance the lab-leak theory than anyone in months:
Read this thread from @R_H_Ebright about what these new documents published today by the Intercept show about Fauci, EcoHealth Alliance, and what we now know about the origins of COVID:
Inacreditável que Alexandre de Moraes esteja constantemente concentrando em si próprio a figura de suposta vítima, investigador policial, promotor e o juiz - em seus próprios interesses.
Não há democracia onde uma pessoa pode investigar criminalmente o jornalismo que a reporta.
@lf_ponde @folha Aqui também: um ótimo artigo de @lygia_maria sobre a visão perturbada e perigosa de Moraes, a marca registrada de uma mentalidade tirana:
Que qualquer crítica ou questionamento feita ele é em si "um ataque à democracia" e, portanto, um crime.
There are few people in the democratic world more powerful or tyrannical than Moraes. He believes he is Brazilian democracy itself, and thus any criticisms of him are a criminal attack on the state.
Brazil's left views him as a deity, since he censors/imprisons their opponents.
On Tuesday, we began reporting in @Folha on a massive archive of data we obtained from his chambers between his top aides (6gb).
After the first day, the left united to defend him because they see him as infallible, and he called our reporting a plot to destroy democracy.
It's hard to explain the cult-like adoration the left has for him. No matter what he does - ban people from the internet or imprison them with no due process or trial - they go online and type "Eu autorizo, Xandão!" (we support you, Great Alexandre!).
Not even herd animals are this flagrant about it. You tell me how and why corporate media constantly speaks from the same exact script this way, verbatim. #KamalaIsJOY
I find it so interesting when long-obvious truths suddenly are acknowledged in mainstream circles.
Here, in the WPost, even @TaylorLorenz (!!) admits that the hordes of #Resistance freaks and anti-Trump obsessives are as conspiratorial and deranged as what they claim QAnon is:
Here's @SohrabAhmari in the @NewStatesman on how many prominent liberals -- not anonymous Twitter trolls but major DNC donors and academics -- are deranged and drowning in moronic conspiracy theories.
@SohrabAhmari @NewStatesman Just by the way: a non-trivial sector of the Brazilian left still believes the 2018 stabbing attack on Jair Bolsonaro was fake -- despite doctor testimony, his multiple surgeries, etc. -- and now believes the same about the attack on Trump.🇧🇷
Also: US corporate media always tries to deny "journalist" status to anyone who actually does real adversarial reporting against the US Govt, rather than just doing a Natasha Bertrand of writing down what CIA orders.
Assange won multiple journalism awards around the world:👇