I see it’s been over a month since I wrote this:

 

Anniversary Stars

Why now, this day, this swallow time?

The flight swoops, riveted I gulp

Their bubbling kettle richness. Count,

Or try as back and forth,

High and low they fly.

I reach eleven, their streamers

Scissor-slice warm air, cue chatter

Test new words, collective chaos:

Phrase frenzy, wildness, thrilling air.

 

Before dawn stirs, night slows the clouds.

Rising, survey bright starlit voile-hung scene.

Nightshirt grabbed, I soft tread silence,

Black terrors grip my mind. I count my way, down.

Wellies pulled, door seal creaks, drawn on with cobbled care.

The wind gusts, tropically, old oak moans.

I made the yard. Stood straight and stretched,

Spread-eagled hands reached up and back,

Feet braced, neck stretched, eyes primed. I am,

Fleshed ground-fixed, earthly star, in awe.

 

Waiting, wide-eyed count those myriad

Tiny, distant grains, Swift-Tuttle sourced

Their shooter-streaks revealed so high above

Sheet silvered shocks. This ancient cwm unmoved.

Flash, hidden soundless dramas distant to this

Stellar glittered sky. I turn. I slowly spin.

 

 

Locked, not knowing where to look. I am alone.

Warm and silent, space and earth speak

As one, unheard. I try, yearn, listen,

Bask, glow. No wishes yet, not now.

Past fourteen, and my neck calls time.

Inside, stairs climbed, yet where hides sleep?

Dreams wait, Perseid drenched, once more.

 

15/08/2024

 

It was indeed a very special 16 hours which inspired this. In what the Met Office has recorded as a cool August, and indeed the coolest summer season since 2015, we had a rare warm weather window around the middle of August. This happened just after the flight of ‘our’ last two swallow chicks, and there was a single brief session of excited happy play-flying as up to eleven appeared over the house, yard and surrounding sky. Whilst there’s already a fair range of accepted collective nouns for such groups of swallows, I’m not sure any of these really captured my observed experience of watching this animated display for maybe half an hour, before they all dissipated.

Which is why I trialled frenzy, wildness, thrilling as alternatives.

The second part of the poem links to the following morning around 3.00am, when I was woken, rarely, by the need to pee. The clouds and heavy shower which had been hanging around when we went to bed had miraculously parted as I tweaked the bathroom curtain. I could see bright stars. I reckoned I’d (rarely) managed to carefully swing out of the bed without it creaking and Fiona waking, but the challenge was making it downstairs in complete darkness without switching the light on.

Fortunately for several months, I’ve begun to challenge myself, inspired by the late and wonderful Dr. Michael Moseley to do several simple things to help both muscle strength and more importantly balance as the years creep by. Pulling on socks whilst standing on one leg was the first easy one, rather than taking the easy option of sitting on the bed. Focusing your eyes on the floor helps greatly, for the first few attempts. I soon realised that as with training my brain to remember the 8 digit log in code for my WordPress site from a single quick glance, our brain’s still have sufficient vast underutilised capabilities. It just takes repeated practice of unfamiliar tasks to bring them into efficient play. 

The next physical challenge involved standing on one slightly flexed leg with arms outstretched. Then closing your eyes eyes, and trying to stay upright! Very tricky initially to get past just a few seconds, before you topple over. But again, I soon discovered that one can train the brain to balance the body by relying less on visual cues, and more on proprioceptive (position sense) messages from limbs and feedback from the ear’s semi-circular canals. Gradually it’s possible to manage this position for at least 30 seconds on each leg, by which time you’re really beginning to feel the leg muscles. Or at least, I am.

Thus encouraged, I thought I’d try walking both up and down the stairs – a single straight flight of about 13 treads- without holding the hand rail, and with eyes closed. The first time coming down was extremely unnerving. One’s conscious brain is screaming out the risk of a serious fall. But once again, with time and practice, it becomes second nature if you take it slowly and concentrate on where heels are (on the way down) – pushed back to the risers, and where the toes are pushed into the risers (on the way up).

Finessing this to include walking upstairs holding two cups of tea, one in each hand, and eyes tight shut, first thing in the morning seemed a logical extension. Which becomes a straightforward task with practice, even sensing where the top stair is, and making the necessary left turn and additional step down to make it into the bedroom. At which point I’m a little more in danger of making a fool of myself.

My most recent simple postural exercise came after a  knowledgeable friend who teaches Fiona bowspring yoga once a week, commented how she was worried that my posture was becoming increasingly stooped. Probably too much time weeding, and poor position leaning forward in front of computer screens. The spreadeagled star position, flat against a door, bum pushed up and back, head stretched up and back, arms stretched up and high, certainly has helped to stretch my back more appropriately. But holding this position first thing in the morning for 4 minutes while the tea brews is always a challenge.

Particularly if I forget to start the timer…

Notwithstanding all this practice, it was still unnerving creeping down the stairs that very early morning with no light at all, and then out into the yard along the cobbles to look for Perseids. On a near tropical, 20 degree evening, I was not only treated to a fabulous display, but also a succession of distant, silent sheet lightning flashes. Looking at weather charts the following morning, these probably were from distant thunderstorms beyond Bristol, and off the Pembrokeshire coast.

A fortnight later, I was able to share the magic of stargazing with two of our visiting grandchildren, and although we didn’t see as many shooters, we spotted a few passing satellites. That night, I nipped out again around 3.00am and for the first time witnessed two processions of satellites – first 10, then twenty seconds later another 11. All closely positioned following identical West to East tracks, just South of the sky above our our yard. And just as regularly placed as carriages in a train. Which is indeed what they are known as, as I then discovered.

They’re collections of satellites which are forming part of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network. Thanks to a wonderful Starlink Tracker webpage, I was able to check that what I’d seen were the 21 satellites launched by Starlink mission 8-10:

“On August 31, at 07:43 GMT (03:43 a.m. EDT), SpaceX launched the 190th batch of 21 Starlink internet satellites. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA. This mission boosted the total number of Starlink satellites launched to 6,977 units.”

If you check out the above page, you’ll see that such missions are taking off roughly 8 times a month. Shortly after launch, all the satellites in a mission (between 15 to 56) appear close together in a train, as I’d observed, since they travel at the same altitude and speed, and orbit the earth in a cluster. However after a few days at a pre-determined time, each satellite ascends into its operational orbit. For observers, this means that they separate from the line of the train. Once they reach their permanent orbit, they become much harder to spot in the sky.

If you want to see just how numerous this network now is, have a look at this real time map of the world with slow moving pin pricks of light on it. Already there are huge numbers of satellites above us. Clearly they help with modern communications. Do they have any negative impacts? Short, or even worse long term? On us or other life forms? Difficult to determine, I guess, since who’s going to be able to assess this, and nothing has ever been tried on this scale before. I read that the latest satellites from mission 8 onwards were going to be coated with anti-reflective treatments, so they don’t create visual interference of the night skies. From my observation, this doesn’t seem to be working that well.

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I was asked to write a guest blog for Ann Chilcott’s excellent Beelistener blog last month, which meant a flurry of extra writing and another longish video to edit. (Since making this video, one of our 6 hives has evidently failed. Can you guess which one from the levels of activity shown by each colony on a single day in July, and then a month later?)

Since this flurry of computer activity, the weather, vital jobs including finally managing to paint the house woodwork and finish the annual white washing, national and more personal events have stymied creative efforts. Along with a huge amount of reading around what I shall call ‘political’ topics of interest in the UK. One of the ongoing major jobs over recent weeks has been continuing to harvest green hay from our upper hay meadow, and using it to import seeds into the 4 fields which are/have never been cut for hay at present.

In addition I’ve had a big session cutting, and then raking off Sharp-flowered Rush, Juncus acutiflorus from our lower wet meadows, hopefully just before seeds get dropped. The rush in the lower fields are now 99% Sharp-flowered. Which is nothing like the problem that Soft Rush, Juncus effusus, which used to dominate these fields, presents, since it does die down a little over the winter and never forms such dense clumps. With sufficient grazing pressure in late spring, our native-breed Tor ddu sheep will also happily graze it off. While I cut and raked, William did great work amalgamating the cut material into large piles which will simply be left to rot down.

Whilst we’re now getting some diversity of plants in these meadows from a little bit of green hay, and selected seed scattering in the past, there’s nothing like the full range of flowers that we now have in the hay meadows. It might seem that removing surplus herbage as ‘green’ hay is an easy option – after all there’s no repeated turning need to dry the hay. Just cut, leave a few hours and remove.

The problem of course is that with minimal wilting the green hay is both bulkier and heavier, than when it’s completely dry. Plus instead of dragging down to the hay shed, the big bags end up being dragged right to the bottom of our hill, and out into the extremities of the lower fields. Then they have to be manually forked or flung out, in clumps small enough not to cause complete stifling and killing of the grass beneath.

It thus becomes a much more physically demanding job than even our self-inflicted manual hay making. However, once the seeds are introduced, over time ever more diverse swards should result, with benefits not only for our livestock, but many invertebrates. I can’t think I’ll be able to continue this process for many years, but it should lay the foundations for all of the property’s pasture to be rich and varied over many years ahead. And this year’s growing season has been an exceptional one for plant growth, with no period of drought stress all year, and generally benign  temperatures, even if light levels have been much lower than usual.

Once the seeds have fallen to the ground, been trodden in by the sheep, and in due course small plants are established in these fields, they’ll tend to be self sustaining and form their own populations, regardless of subsequent management. Unless over time one aggressive plant species, such as the aforementioned Soft Rush, begins to dominate and take over, as happens in many local fields.

The clearest idea of just how valuable spreading green hay can be as a rich source of varied grass and flower seed has come from last year’s project helping Andy, who took a couple of big bags of our green hay last year to spread onto the roadside strip of just imported builder’s ‘topsoil’ outside his new build house near Llangranog. Many thanks to Andy for taking these photos, around a year after the green hay was scattered and for his care in weeding out a few thugs like docks and brambles that came in with the soil. Already there’s a great covering with many flowers obvious, and I’m sure it’ll fill in with more diversity next year.

So it seems green hay can be a very effective, more interesting option than a simple grass-only dry seed source, for anyone contemplating a new lawn area on bare soil.

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Last month I made another short What3Plants video of 3 plants which, having established in recent years, now have significant visual and invertebrate appeal throughout  August and into September: Common Knapweed, Centaurea nigra, Devil’s Bit Scabious (DBS), Succisa pratensis, Indigo Woodland Sage, Salvia forsskaolii.

Another wonderful combination of plants for intermingling in our climate and conditions to bring both colour and height to our magic multicultural matrix garden. All seem to coexist well and are brilliant nectar and pollen sources for a large number of flies, bees and butterflies. All can be grown quite easily from seed.

The Salvia is almost the only one of the genus to survive with us, if one can keep the slugs away from young seedlings, which soon grow to be large low-growing mats of hairy leaves. We’ve found it to be really tough. The developing flower shoots also appeal to slugs, but once they’ve grown taller, they escape damage and this year all 3 plants have grown flowers around 80-100 cm tall. The Salvia probably gives the longest season of flower, lasting many weeks and is the first to open its flowers. All 3 produce side-shoot flowers to extend the flowering period.

Usually they attract many butterflies as well as the bumblebees, honey bees and hoverflies shown in the video, however this year has been a dreadfully poor one for butterflies, with us not even reaching our usual Welsh Fifteen moment. The plants’ other benefit is that if left alone, they attract in small flocks of Goldfinches, which love the seeds of the knapweed and DBS. A delight to watch first thing in the morning in the rain, as they sit and pluck seeds in flocks of up to 15, this year.

There are other plants growing in this area which give us additional colour at this time – Crocosmia, Lysimachia, and still some late Geraniums, but these 3 plants have the most impact en-masse for both us and the insects.

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For a musical interlude, I’m going to feature a probably very familiar melody. Pretty much the same descending notes, but interpreted across genres and centuries in several different ways. I’ll begin with the first version, which had me struggling to think of what the tune reminded me of. A song I’d never heard Fleetwood Mac perform before, but the penultimate track on their excellent ‘Mirage’ album from 1982. “In the Eyes of the World“. Recorded at Château d’Hérouville, outside Paris. Nothing I read about the song referenced its clear influence. You can either sample the remastered sounds on the CD I bought, or watch the grainy live version from their launch tour, and assess how spaced out they all were.

But what energy. And can you stop your feet tapping.

Eventually I twigged. It was based on Pachelbel’s Canon in D major. Originally scored for 3 violins and basso continuo, and played below (sounding a bit more traditional) in this widely watched version from the classical New York Brooklyn duo, performing in what looks like a stripped out warehouse:

But here’s the thing.

Most will recognise this tune, and in its day it was popular for baroque German composer Johann Pachelbel, who composed it sometime between 1680 and 1706. However, like his other compositions, his Canon in D soon fell out of fashion, and lay forgotten in the classical repertoire until the late 1960’s when the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra recorded it. Its popularity quickly grew and by the 1970s the piece’s chord progressions were used in a variety of pop songs. Although click this link, and you’ll see that Fleetwood Mac doesn’t get a mention.

There’s a wonderfully intelligent sketch by John Finniemore, from his Radio Souvenir Programme, Series 6 episode 3, which plays around with this troubled background to Herr Pachelbel’s “One Hit Wonder/Loose Cannon”. It will bring a smile to you faces, I’m sure.

The opening lyrics of the Fleetwood Mac song written by Lindsey Buckingham also seem appropriate for what’s about to follow in the rest of this post:

I’m tellin’ you people, tell you no lie
My heart was breakin’, I’ll tell you why
Back and forth, lies unfurl
In the eyes, in the eyes, in the eyes of the world.

Many years later, Fleetwood’s Mac live version had morphed significantly, and partly due to the absence of Christine McVie for this tour. The group were ageing fast. The backing had swelled dramatically, yet the energy and passion remains. All driven on by Pachelbel and Buckingham’s inspired genius.

The same theme just re-interpreted.

Funnily enough such interpretations are correctly viewed as just that. Re-interpretations, with no serious consequences or fallout. Although some may possibly be outraged by such distortion and deviations from the original, one could, I hope, calmly debate this and not come to blows. It is after all, ‘mere’ music – as far as I’m aware.

Sadly such generally benign views of different interpretations don’t seem to hold in other areas of life these days…

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And now, as some other comedians used to say, for something completely different. A small part of which has kept me from posting of late.

But involving a little bit of thinking, assessment and interpretation. However, probably not topics that one could calmly debate across the UK with some/many readers of this post, in the way that one could mull over the merits of the above ‘covers’ of Pachelbel.

Do the numbers 731 bring anything to mind for you? They didn’t to me until very recently.

With this dubious number themed introductory teaser, I’m delving into recent events, and book releases. Last month the world’s media were full of images and stories of the sunk super-yacht, Bayesian. Which in a violent mini-tornado, quickly sank killing its owner, Dr. Mike Lynch, his daughter and several other high-flying members of his party. Digging a little beyond the speculation of how the yacht came to meet its fate, I was more interested in why it came to be called “Bayesian” by its last owner, Dr. Mike Lynch. Lynch was an extremely wealthy British tech entrepreneur, who’d set up a number of companies and was sometimes referred to as the UK’s answer to West Coast American brains such as Bill Gates, but “his genius was actually quite different, and on a superior mathematical scale”.

Influenced by his PhD at Cambridge on neural networks (machine learning), the boy from Essex who’d won a scholarship to Cambridge, soon focused on probability and adaptive behaviour patterns. At the root of all of his work was ‘Bayes’ theorem, named after the British vicar mathematician, Thomas Bayes. Lynch described Bayes and his work thus:

“Despite his ground-breaking work, we actually know relatively little about Thomas Bayes. He was an English country vicar living in Tunbridge Wells, and during his life he was eminent enough to become a Fellow of the Royal Society.

The story goes that he tried to use mathematics to investigate a proof which sought to establish the existence of God. Whether this is true or not, he certainly did establish Bayes’ theorem, which is an incredibly elegant way of combining what you know, what you measure and what you think you know (sic-bold).

It can meld the objective and the subjective. Bayes’ work has gone on to become the underpinning of our modern AI age. Everything from smartphones, Siri, modern economics, autonomous vehicles, genomics to trying to locate lost airliners is underpinned by Bayesian inference.”

So Bayes’ theorem, though it may be unfamiliar to many of us, clearly has both great merit, and is widely accepted, at least amongst high tech researchers.

Dr. Lynch had realised this early on and it formed the basis of the 3 companies he set up, or became heavily involved with: Autonomy, DarkTrace and Featurespace. He sold Autonomy to Hewlett Packard (HP) in 2011 for $11 billion. The following year HP began a legal case claiming fraud against Lynch and the former Vice president of finance at Autonomy, Stephen Chamberlain. British courts rejected the charge, yet HP pursued the action in the USA and eventually Britain agreed to Lynch’s extradition. He was arrested at dawn from his home, flown to the USA, and only after a lengthy house arrest and court case were he and Chamberlain again found not guilty of all charges earlier this year. He returned to the UK 3 months ago, and the holiday on his yacht was one of the ways means of celebrating his court victory. By an extremely strange coincidence of events, his co-defendant, Chamberlain, died the day after the Bayesian sank, 3 days after being hit by a car whilst out jogging.

I’d first discovered the concept of Bayesian mathematics, just over 4 years ago, in my attempt to understand in more detail what the actual incidence of Covid 19 clinical disease cases was, during the febrile early period of the ‘pandemic’. Rather than the daily reported numbers of ‘cases’ which was simply based on the numbers of positive ‘PCR’ tests. So it was that I discovered the work of Professor Norman Fenton, who attempted to flag up very early on the inherent dangers of projecting the likely path of the Covid pandemic, without taking into account the serious problems with the accuracy and sampling methodology of the speedily developed and rolled out PCR test.

I’m including his video again, since the first couple of minutes use very simple diagrams to illustrate the problems of relying on a (PCR) test with both accurate 99% true positive rates (the sensitivity of the test) but also with 90% true negative tests, (the specificity of the test). In other words where the test correctly identifies 90% of the true negatives, however also meaning of course that 10% of the negatives aren’t identified as negatives, but rather as false positive cases). So what are the consequences of this when wanting to work out the probability that a single person who tests positive using this PCR test, actually has been infected with the virus. i.e. is a true clinical case of the disease, and not a testing artifact?

What do you reckon? Fenton explains that most people, including most doctors, would estimate the chances of a positive test implying that the person had a real Covid infection was about 90%. I would probably have thought much the same thing. (And bear in mind this video was produced in May 2020, quite soon after PCR test numbers were really being ramped up).

90%? Right? Wrong! Big time.

I’ll leave aside one of the founding pillars of what was drummed into us trainee vets decades ago. Use a good history taking, clinical examination and assessment of actual symptoms to arrive at a diagnosis. Then maybe use selected additional tests to supplement, and, maybe or maybe not, confirm you diagnosis. NEVER fish with tests first, since they’re nearly always flawed with such sensitivity, specificity or subjective interpretive issues. Yet this is what the ‘developed’ world with money to burn, or so it seemed, opted to do with SARS Covid19.

Fenton takes one through the maths very clearly with a simple graphic – before getting onto the much harder to grasp mathematical formulae of how how using Bayes theorem helps to unravel just how likely it is, (OR NOT) that someone with a positive PCR test actually has the Covid infection. And shockingly reveals that the probability of a positive test result indicating that the person really does have the infection isn’t the 90%-ish level most thought it was, but more like just 9%. Running this through the steadily accumulating data generated in the early months of Covid only confirmed Fenton’s opinions of what was going on.

We clearly should have been told this, at the time shouldn’t we? Since it was actual real cases of infection that should have been the basis of state policy decisions as to how to manage the disease.

Why mention this again now? I notice Professor Fenton, and his co-author and researcher Professor Martin Neil, have just released an appropriately titled book, for a devout Christian: “Fighting Goliath: Exposing the flawed science and statistics behind the COVID-19 event”. Notice the last carefully chosen word of the book’s title – ‘event’, and not ‘pandemic’. You can watch and listen to both authors respond to a series of intelligent questions and learn about their long journey of discovery, on “British Thought Leaders”, below:

Meanwhile I also learned that another leading light who had been delving into the murky background of Covid, tests and vaccine developments and procurement policies and in particular the development of the PCR test itself, Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, was arrested in extraordinary circumstances, flown back to Germany, and has been kept in solitary confinement, for 10 months. In many ways much worse than Dr. Mike Lynch’s treatment at the hands of “the law”. It dawned on me that some of Fuellmich’s previous big cases, as a German/American based commercial lawyer taking on big corporations who have behaved in corrupt ways to the cost of ordinary consumers, wouldn’t have endeared him to the German authorities – he and his firm blew the scandal on VW Dieselgate, and also issues at Deutsche Bank.

Fuellmich was extremely scathing about the German scientist, Christian Drosten, who very rapidly worked up the PCR test in January 2020. But then Drosten had had a trial run with producing a similar test in double-quick time for the SARS outbreak in 2003. He knew that there would be huge financial rewards from the global roll out of not just such test kits, but also the ancillary reagents and lab equipment needed to run them.

It also seemed to have been forgotten in 2020, that Drosten made clear that for the 2003 SARS virus, “from a diagnostic point of view, it is important to note that nasal and throat swabs seem less suitable for diagnosis, since these materials contain considerably less viral RNA than sputum. Sensitivity of clinical samples by PCR was about 63% for nasal swabs and just 32% for pharyngeal swabs”. And on top of all of this, the lead scientist who developed the PCR (Polymerase chain reaction) methodology in the 1980’s, and was awarded a Nobel prize for his efforts, Kary Mullis, cautioned against ever using a PCR test means to detect an actual viral clinical infection at very high levels of concentration/thermal cycling – whilst considering it being used to detect the AIDS virus. Mullis died in 2019, so wasn’t around to comment on the Covid-19 PCR test roll out. But to get an idea of the scope for its variation/inaccuracies and the complexity of how it operates, look at how Public Health England described the processes used.

Needless to say there are plenty of recent counter claims about Feullmich on-line to deter anyone listening to his message about what he and the investigative committee he set up, learned about Covid. And several links have of course now been taken down. However, should you wish you can see/listen to this German/American lawyer speaking, thanks to subsplash, by clicking here.  And ask yourself, why does an apparently successful lawyer take on this sort of a challenge? Because he smelled several rats, perhaps? Whatever he’d anticipated, I bet in his worst nightmares, it didn’t include this style of arrest and incarceration.

Finally, by way of returning to the number sequence I mentioned earlier, Unit 731 was set up by the Japanese authorities in captured Heilongjiang province in NE China, as a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army. It engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It’s estimated that between 1936 and 1945, roughly 14,000 victims were experimented on and murdered in the actual physical Unit 731. This is dwarfed by the probable 300,000 to 500,000 individuals who also died due to infectious illnesses directly caused by the activities of Unit 731 and its affiliated research facilities.

I mention this here, since it’s only come to my attention thanks to the latest comprehensive book “The Wuhan Cover Up: and the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race”  by Robert Kennedy JNR, which I’ve nearly finished reading, although it’s a book to be read in small chunks, I think, filled as it is with a prosecuting lawyer’s detail, and multiple American acronyms.

Should you even glance through the list of atrocities performed by this group, headed up by Japanese doctor/General Shirō Ishii, or better still read Kennedy’s book, you’d discover what happened at the end of WWII to Ishii, and many of his team members. As shocking as the atrocities themselves, which are almost too horrific to read about, there were no significant trials and capital punishment. Not even imprisonment for the responsible key figures.

Instead they were viewed as being far too valuable and knowledgeable for the USA’s own bioweapons programme. So, aided by the fledgling CIA which was set up in 1947, many of these war criminals were quietly spirited back to share their secrets with American researchers. Apart from the few that the Russians captured in Manchuria and made it back to help with Russian bioweapons research, with a few at least being imprisoned.

This backdrop is just part of the early backstory to what has happened with such research in China, America and elsewhere over many decades, in both weaponising infectious agents and honing suitable ‘delivery’ systems. Work on generally benign coronaviruses to make them infinitely more dangerous to human beings, has been going on for much of this twenty first century . All under the recently coined benign reference of ‘gain of function’. Such enhancement of infectivity and morbidity of coronaviruses was eventually achieved, and widely known about in the relevant niches of scientific and intelligence communities, for many years before the virus made it out from the lab in Wuhan and into the big wide world. No doubt for this reason, detailed multi-agency coronavirus pandemic exercises were taking place in the U.S.A. in 2019. Though I don’t recall this ever being widely broadcast at the time!

It’s also partly why the French CEO of Moderna, Stéphane Bancel, raced to get his mRNA vaccine technology patented in 2019 – just a few months before the SARS CVID19 virus began its journey around the world. Why the rush? Partly because Bancel had added insight – he was previously CEO for French company BioMérieux. The very company which the Chinese government had employed to develop and construct their shiny new 3 highest biosecurity level 4 labs ( the very first to be set up in China). The first of which was at Wuhan. Interestingly BioMérieux, walked away from this project late in the day when they realised that implementation of several critical necessary details required to maintain biosecurity wasn’t happening on the ground in the Wuhan lab.

Out of many review comments of ‘The Wuhan Cover-Up’ which I could include, perhaps this one might suffice to make any reader at least consider what Kennedy is telling us in this book – nightmarishly uncomfortable though it might be:

“The Wuhan Cover-Up will blow out of the water the international disinformation campaign by US and Chinese government officials and their bribed scientists that COVID-19 somehow magically jumped out of the Wuhan wet market. Kennedy’s book will provide the ammunition needed for us lawyers to hold them all legally accountable for this Nuremberg Crime against Humanity.”
–Professor Francis A. Boyle, author of the U.S.A.’s Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989

Kennedy outlines in his book that Boyle’s Anti-terrorism Act has been largely ignored or side-stepped in the decades since by the key bioweapons research influencers, industries and agencies in the U.S.A.

Bad as the gain of function research and initial cover up of this research and the lab leak was, the calamity of much of the world’s response to Covid has compounded many societal problems. Which is still playing out through increased excess sickness, disease, mortality and economic fallout across many Western countries which pushed the novel “vaccinations” the hardest. There’s little appetite in the UK, or indeed the US to reflect on this.

Perhaps a little more in Australia, in part I suppose because none of the major novel ‘vaccine’ companies are Australian based corporates. Click here for the very latest push by multi-disciplinary legal and medical experts in Australia, spearheaded by detailed reports and 2 letters sent to the Australian Prime Minister over the last week, by Russell Broadbent MP, one of the longest serving members of the Australian parliament. And here, just 4 days ago is his follow up letter

which as you can read included a detailed and readable “Science Summary – Consequences of synthetic DNA contamination” (of novel Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines – sic) – together with the list of 52 eminent international medics and health professionals who prepared this summary.

The headline to takeaway from their report is that:

“There is compelling evidence that excessive synthetic foreign DNA encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles can integrate into human cells, potentially leading to genomic instability, cancers, immune system disruption, and adverse hereditary effects.”

Here in the UK, our own Prime Minister seems more likely to be focused on explaining the strange backdrop to his own lockdown broadcast. Rather than considering any of this new evidence about the level of extraneous DNA contamination in many batches of Moderna and Pfizer mRNA ‘vaccines’. And what this might mean for the short term or longer term effects on the human cells that this extraneous DNA finds its way into.

Professor Fenton made very little impression at the time with his important statistical analysis, and he’s suffered massively afterwards in being cancelled from most media and academic circles. It’s extremely difficult to find a platform to publish alternative views these days. A consistent theme that Kennedy also explores in his book, and in many ways this was the most valuable insight I gained from reading it. Understand just who funds and thus controls most of the (mainstream, legacy, and even scientific) media, and it’s clear why many seem to sing from the same hymn sheet.

Sadly, unlike Pachelbel’s musical interpretations, and as Galileo discovered to his cost, to rock the establishment’s scientific agenda and narrative has often been a lonely and risky thing to do. It seems to me that given the UK’s current political leadership with their determined and serious approach to ‘public service‘, and very clear views of what is right, wrong, and ‘the rules‘ (?), it’s as well to make one’s own enquiries to be aware of counter arguments and interpretations.

And not to be conned into thinking that objections to the herd view are all simple ‘conspiracies’ or ‘mis-information’.

(I should add all the current government’s apparent hypocrisy is happening in spite of the on-hand expertise of the most highly paid member of government, Sue Gray, the ex-Director General of Parliament and the Civil Service’s  Propriety and Ethics team. It seems there are almost daily revelations about their somewhat shaky start to transparent government.: Click here. for more about the largest ever, and only just revealed by ‘Open Democracy’, £4 million donation to the Labour Party – from whom, where, when and how it was revealed to avoid public scrutiny and interpretation, just before this year’s general election.

I’m also intrigued to discover that not one, but two new books, tackling the same troubling backdrop to our new Prime Minister’s progress to Downing Street, but from very different perspectives, are pencilled in for publication in early 2025.

Curiouser and curiouser, I’d say.

Click for more about Paul Holden’s “The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Labour Together, and the Crisis of British Democracy”. and Alex Nunn’s “Sabotage: The Inside Hit Job That Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn”)

After the horrors of Unit 731’s work, never mind Bayesian mathematics, the Chinese authorities would certainly have had a longstanding embedded awareness of bioweapons and their potential impacts on the population. Whether banned by international treaties, or not. Whether to be used again against them, or for pre-emptive purposes.

An area of defensive/offensive strategy surely too significant to ignore. Right? Or wrong? I wonder what a poll of the public would have to say about this question?

But should Western countries really still be pursuing such dangerous research so actively? As always, follow the funding involved, and for this, Kennedy’s book is a revelatory goldmine.

I’m guessing Lindsey Buckingham was thinking more personally than politically when he penned these lines, but his lyrics seem remarkably pertinent to me, just now.

I’m tellin’ you people, tell you no lie
My heart was breakin’, I’ll tell you why
Back and forth, lies unfurl
In the eyes, in the eyes, in the eyes of the world.