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Brad Johnson, President, and retired CIA Senior Officer and Chief of Staff. Insight into current events from an intelligence angle.

Why did China corner the PPE market early in 2020?

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Brad Johnson it is March 28th of 2020
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the year of the zombie apocalypse
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there has been some news that I think
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changes the complexion of this entire
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event quite a bit during it looks to me
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least going by memory which is faulty
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granted but it looks to me that during
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the period of time where China was
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either denying that this thing was real
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was happening or they were covering up
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for it various ways at that same time
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Chinese agents in Australia were buying
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up literally tons of all the materials
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that Australia would have needed to
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protect himself from this bug and having
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it shipped to China and the Chinese even
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bragged about it on social media this
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photographs that they published with
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them sitting in front of skiff after
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skiff after skiff container loads of
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face masks and Lysol and all the things
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that might be needed to protect their
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own people and staff from this virus
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they were denying existed or that wood
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could pass from person to person at one
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point they were saying that it wouldn’t
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with their with their spokes with people
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the the World Health Organization saying
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it couldn’t pass from person to person
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also at that time Canadian Prime
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Minister allegedly Canadian Prime
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Minister Justin Trudeau had bought I
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think I think the number is 16 tons of
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these same supplies and this is back in
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January I think it was and was shipping
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it and shipped it to China which is why
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you could not get a face mask or any of
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this kind of equipment at drugstores and
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the drug stores were reporting that
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their warehouses had none and didn’t
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know when they’d be getting any and this
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is when news just started to trickle out
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about it so what my question is does
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that not change the complexion of great
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deals it’s that not in fact make this a
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hostile action
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you know I think you make a fine point
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with that and and there that does lend
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itself to to that argument that you can
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say that this was indeed hostility
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because they were taking away from
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resources from people that they knew
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we’re going to need them in the near
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future based on what China was doing and
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and what China knew was coming and so
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they bought up all that stuff before
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everybody was four warrant to use for
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themselves leaving everybody else to
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fend for themselves against this trick
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you know this is the common 19th fairly
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serious problem so yes I think you could
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certainly say that was an act of
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aggression and I’ve been looking at the
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dates and kind of following this and
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trying to figure out what was really
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going on and and anyone who watches our
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interviews will have heard me make
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reference to one common law that I like
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I say I refer to quite often and that is
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that basically it’s it’s usually a thing
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of power and money every once in a while
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it’s sex but it’s usually power and
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money and in this case I think looking
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back at this and if you look at how this
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all got kicked off and started and the
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timing of the different things the early
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on when this was starting to really
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break loose in China what happened was
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was it was the period of the Chinese New
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Year and the Chinese New Year is is the
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biggest festival time in China hundreds
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of thousands of tourists come in and
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it’s when they make the the largest
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amount of their money from tourism it is
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a huge industry for China the new years
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and this took place early on and if you
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look what happened with all of these
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millions of people coming in Chinese
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living elsewhere and other tourists but
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coming in going into these areas this is
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where that exposure took place where it
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first got kicked out into the rest of
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the world in mass and that’s what we’ve
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seen a lot of Chinese living in Italy
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for example terrible problems there and
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Iran terrible problems there and that’s
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where this exodus came from so I’m I’m
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thinking on it at this point is that the
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the Chinese
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you that there was a problem did nothing
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about it because of the money and they
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knew that they stood – you know they
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were gonna make billions of dollars off
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of the new year and they didn’t want to
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let that opportunity go and so then they
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were buying up at the same time they’re
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buying up all of his stuff using Canada
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and other countries buying up all that
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knowing what would happen but then
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taking care only of themselves and kind
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of the frosting on the cake you know all
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this is going on on China was saying oh
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no closed borders
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none of this now President Trump had his
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act together for which the left
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mainstream media and Democrats you know
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all condemned it and at the time but he
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was the one saying okay we’re closing
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the borders of China cuz clearly there’s
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a problem here and we don’t want it
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spreading to the United States and so he
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had his act together but the left all of
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them the Democrats and mainstream media
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they’re all saying he’s a racist and you
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saw this worldwide movement from the
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left saying the same thing in Italy they
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were having a big propaganda campaign
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saying oh oh you know hug a Chinese
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person today to show that we’re not
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racist pigs and so the disease spreads
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like wildfire and so all of this is
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being done while China makes its
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billions of dollars and now as soon as
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that’s done they crack down on everyone
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in China and start trying to control the
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disease use these materials they’ve kind
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of bought up from every of the rest of
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the world as you started off talking
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about how Canada was involved in this
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and now at the end of it here we are and
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what is trying to do they close their
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borders so now China is defending itself
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closing its borders and everybody on the
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Left was saying how racist that is
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leading into this and so and another
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aspect of this that I see going on is
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now there’s quite a little argument
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brewing over the origin of this so I
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think this is one of those again one of
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those areas where you see the left
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organize you have China acting in
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conjunction with Russia in many ways
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acting in combination with the
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mainstream media and the Democrats so
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you have this socialist international
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all cooperating together on arguing that
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this this new Kovach 19 was just this
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accident
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if nature just happened and it came from
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bats and in the mainstream media
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reporting here in the United States you
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say they’ll say oh this this theory that
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it was a weaponized version is
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completely debunked and you know there’s
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no evidence of any of that and but yet
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the independent scientists looking at it
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or when we’ll wait a minute there’s
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these four mutations in this one
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mutation yeah okay maybe two you know
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not likely but you know conceivable but
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for for mutations for mutations that
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none of the other SARS family of viruses
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which Cove in nineteen is none of those
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others have any of these mutations so
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you have this one virus that something
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gets for came from back that’s maybe
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coming through another animal or
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whatever but if you if you look at that
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these the photographs of this Kobe
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nineteen exist on the National Institute
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for Health website so that act that
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independent scientists have access to
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this they’re going in and looking at it
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and they’ve identified these four
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mutations based on that and they’re
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arguing how can four mutations have
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taken place by pure coincidence
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enchantments and that statistically that
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should almost impossible and so that’s
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the argument on one side we have people
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the scientists looking at these things
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and we’ll wait a minute
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look at this this this and this now you
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can’t tell me that’s natural and now of
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course nobody’s had a chance well at
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least the independent scientists were
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aware of you don’t we don’t have access
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to to this full studies yet to see if
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they can go back and find where those
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mutations came from that is the answer
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that we need to get to because that’s
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absolute proof if this was something
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that was done on purpose in a lab or was
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some sort of natural occurrence but
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nobody’s studying that and I would say
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to everybody there is a big indicator
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that there’s a problem because that can
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be brought up to light immediately and
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you know the best and brightest should
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be put on that right away let everybody
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dig it and find out where this stuff
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came from but right now everybody’s
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absorbed by fighting the kovat virus and
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you have the mainstream media and the
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Democrats all trying to to cover up an
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open investigation of it now who are the
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people that the left is using to argue
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against it and it’s the university
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system we all know that the university
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system United States is very tightly
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controlled by the left
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it is not an even-handed thing they’re
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just like everybody else out there the
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World Health Organization leadership
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that guy is a radical radical Marxist
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Leninist he’s been associated with
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groups that have been involved with
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violent Marxist Leninist revolution he’s
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an extreme left guy totally in bed with
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China so he’s just spouting whenever the
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party line is from China and the
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university system here the same thing
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we’ve seen a professor from Harvard
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University go to jail the head of their
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chemistry department for spying for
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China now they’ve got this thousand
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lights program and believe they call it
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where they reach out to all the
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universities in the United States and
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they’re working with them and how do
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they exert that control by giving
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funding for research and all of these
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sorts of things as part of this sharing
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of information and that’s how they’re
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there in part influencing or controlling
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our university system so the one thing I
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can guarantee you is you can’t trust
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what the universities say you can’t
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trust what the mainstream media says you
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can’t trust the Democrats say you can’t
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trust what the World Health Organization
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says and you can’t trust what China says
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because those are all one thing and we
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all know the Chinese are lying and these
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guys are getting their information in
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conjunction with the Chinese so we all
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know they’re lying and the independent
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voices that are out there taking a look
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at this trying to report on things that
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they’re looking at going oh wait a
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minute this doesn’t make sense
09:46
how could you argue that this comes from
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bats when it has these four mutations
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that just doesn’t make sense
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and yet the mainstream media is saying
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oh this is completely debunked well
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really who debunked it when where and
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who was it that debunked it that wasn’t
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paid off by the Chinese so it’s just one
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of those things that the more we dig
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into this the more we look at it the
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worse it looks and I think this is all
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headed down the line well what we’re
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going to find out in the long run is
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that this is a a experiment that escaped
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from the Chinese level for lab in Wuhan
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and it has infected a lot of people and
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that the Chinese deliberately did not
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crack down at first because of the
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Chinese New Year’s because of the money
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they were going to make and I think
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that’s where this is all headed I think
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that’s where it’s all going to boil down
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to everything indicates that and they’re
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very few if any
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contraindications everyone that’s
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against it is against this this what I’m
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laying out for political reasons where I
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don’t care about the politics what I
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care about is where this came from and
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of course how to stop it and all of that
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but I think everyone’s China is
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certainly afraid that they’re going to
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be asked for reparations or condemned by
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the world and that’s of course why we
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see this propaganda program that they
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and the Russians have that they’re
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targeting the rest of the world to try
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to convince everybody that this Wuhan
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virus is something that escaped from the
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US military or that the US military did
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it on purpose and planted it in China so
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that’s you know they’ve laid out their
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argument we know why they’re doing it
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you know they’re not telling the truth
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and we know they’re lying I’m trying to
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blame others so it’s it’s just it’s
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fairly clear I mean you just look at
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this operationally from the intelligence
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perspective and all the facts fit so I
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think where this is headed is very clear
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it’s going to be I don’t think the
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Chinese let it loose in China on purpose
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but I think it escaped their lab they
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weren’t prepared for how highly
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infectious this disease is and then
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rather have the money the leadership
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would look at it and go well we can
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afford to lose a million people but we
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can’t afford to lose billions of dollars
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of income and I think that was the
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decision they made they didn’t care
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about out spread to the rest of the
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world and like I say I think that’s
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where this is headed
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I think it’s all Chinese fault and I
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think they did it for money just just to
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riff a bit on the idea if they don’t
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care if they lose a million people given
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China’s history of fighting wars of
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attrition one wonders what the Chinese
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military strategists would be willing to
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sacrifice in terms of Chinese lives to
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shut down the entire Western economy
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that is an excellent question now this
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is getting highly speculative at this
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point because we have zero information
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on this and no way to know it’s a
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hypothetical I think sorry it’s a
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hypothetical
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I’m very hypothetical but I I certainly
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would not put it past the Chinese I
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would expect them to find it fully
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acceptable if if they lost a million or
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two million people in the most populous
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country in the world if it to lose two
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or three or four or five six million I
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think they would find that acceptable
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losses if they thought that they could
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greatly expand their sphere of influence
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especially if it was a direct sphere of
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influence and we know for an absolute
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fact that they’re very dedicated and
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have poured millions and billions of
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dollars into expanding their influence
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and control in the South China Sea
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basically you could look at it as kind
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of the old Silk Road and controlling the
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trade and and all those aspects this is
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one of the things they’re very dedicated
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to doing so if they could take
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essentially establish themselves as
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overlords if you will of Asia by
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sacrificing say five million people by
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five million Chinese people I think they
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would do that in an absolute heartbeat
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I mean Chairman Mao murdered or allowed
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to die more of his people than anyone
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else has ever killed anywhere I mean he
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in that sense killed far more than
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Hitler or Stalin or anybody else so that
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is the same party that’s the same
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Communist Party the same leadership
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philosophy that existed then and we know
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from Tiananmen Square and other examples
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the following Gong the leaders they’re
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perfectly willing to imprison everybody
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they have to and kill anybody they have
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to in order to maintain control and
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that’s the one thing that they’re
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interested in in a communist party that
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is maintaining control and keeping
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control and getting rid of anybody that
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wants to get in the way of that
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