in this thread, @dpmarse does some really excellent detective work in figuring out a plausible explanation of the "potential synergies" between Metabiota's involvement in Ukraine biolabs and Hunter Biden's new friends in US-installed Ukraine regime.
one of the articles linked uphtrad by @dpmarse shows that, already in 2010, Hunter Biden and his pals were seeking to expedite transfer of advanced technology and government influence to China. No wonder Hunter and Joe Biden were of interest to China.
Hongtu Liu, putatively connected to Eric Schwerin and Bidens, was senior author on 1999 article on hepatitus virus outbreak in Qingdao. I wonder if he was called in to research COVID origins??
Hongtu Liu was also senior author on research concerning Ebola virus in Sierra Leone - a country and topic on which Metabiota specialized and received generous US government funding.
it looks like he is a mathematical modeler of spidemics. Same trade as Niall Ferguson, Ontario Science Table and so many others. Not someone who develops treatment.
I've seen some evidence that Metabiota is in same sort of business - mathematical modeling of disease spread. While math may seem complicated to laymen, it's trivial for undergrad math students, even high school math types.
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there's an odd loose detail about the four "alter ego"s used by Guccifer 2 in his alteration of metadata in June-July 2016 that has teased me for years. FN and I chatted about it recently with no real solution. I'll explain briefly.
As well known, in original drop at his wordpres blog, Guccifer 2, both seemingly pointlessly and at price of calling authenticity into question, opened and immediately re-saved 4 documents, with result that user metadata modified to Felix Edmundovich (in Cyrillic), Cheka founder.
it was immediately proclaimed by numerous computer security professionals as an "opsec error" revealing that Guccifer 2 was a Russian intel agency. This confidence always seemed misplaced to me, since no one would interpret a username of J Edgar Hoover as proof of FBI presence
100% agree. There seems to have been a fork in the road in 1991 in which we in the West took the wrong fork. Russian democracy movement was flush with victory over communism.
Matlock reminds us that it was victory of Russian democrats - not US arms manufacturers and corporations
but instead of welcoming Russia, NATO more or less re-invented itself as a sort of mean girls' sorority whose entire subsequent purpose was the exclusion of Russia, demonizing and marginalizing it to make it into the enemy they desired
in the process, NATO expanded to include all the east European countries which had been the primary perpetrators of the Holocaust, thus further transforming its focus from liberal western European nations to amplifying eastern European grudges and ideologies
Ukrainian government is now officially publishing racist ideologies long espoused by Ukrainian neo-Nazis. US and NATO claim that such ideology was fringe, but it isn't. It's fundamental to understanding conflict.
Claims of Ukraine government have to be read to be believed. They say that Ukrainians come from pure Slavic stock, while Russians are a form of mongrel ("mixed" with Ugro-Finnic tribes).
Facebook has recently announced that it now permits of Azov Battallion, currently being cheered on by US media for its defense of Mariupol. Azov Battallion was founded by Andrii Biletsky, now leading militia in Mariupol.
in early 1990s, component republics of Yugoslavia (Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia etc) declared independence and soon recognized by western nations, but separations of Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk have been denounced by west. Is there a principled difference? Or merely partisanship?
I've done some preliminary googling and encountered a seemingly astonishing response to Donetsk/Lugansk by the recently separatist Balkan republics.
aa.com.tr/en/europe/west… the various Balkan republics, each of whom unilaterally declared independence from Yugoslavia, denounce corresponding declarations by Donetsk and Lugansk as "violation of international law"
@ProfMJCleveland@Pimpernell13@15poundstogo@themarketswork If Joffe's stories were based on data acquired by Neustar as subcontractor to Azure Government under strict confidentiality, seems to me that his claims that he was legally entitled to tell stories to FBI, CIA, OIG, Senate Armed Services, NYT, Mother Jones, etc are questionable
@ProfMJCleveland@Pimpernell13@15poundstogo@themarketswork second, without knowing identity of vendor, it's hard to know what issues arose. For example, identification of Danchenko (or Joffe) raised all sorts of questions and issues that couldnt be even thought of until they were identified.