Speaking the truth

Coco sometimes finds it difficult to see the wood for the trees when trying to decide what is really important about recent pieces of news speculation over the contents of which has been perhaps been suppressed for six or more years. When the Director of a Government organisation resigns, for personal not political reasons, and on the last working day, 19 June 2026, releases that which had been classified, then you, dear reader, might be forgiven for thinking that perhaps the resignation was political after all, and perhaps more so when the content of the disclosures are considered.

But to think in that way would be to impugn the integrity of the outgoing directress, whom we could not call a whistle-blower for she was acting in her official capacity as Director of National Intelligence of the government of the United States. The press release may be found here: Fauci Funded Wuhan Lab Research That Sparked COVID.

Given that the press release, and supporting documents, however impugn the integrity of another it may become a case of ‘you said-I said’ unless the evidence stacks up correctly. The Director seems to think that it does. Do you?

There is also an official video a copy of which may be found on Rumble. If you want to skip the adds this link to the playlist may still work. The link above may cease to work if rumble apply a no-cross-origin policy. The script may be found below1.

The cache of documents may be found here, but the same links are on the official dni.gov site.
COVID-19 Release Index
COVID-19 Release Part 1
COVID-19 Release Part 2
COVID-19 Release Part 3
COVID-19 Release Part 4

Perhaps this clip from an Academy of Medicine meeting my help you. It is also on rumble.

Other interesting links may be:
DNI Gabbard Reveals Evidence of U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Global Biolab Program
And perhaps less interesting:
Pandemic
Fearful
Health Care or Profit
Unvaccinated?
Conspiracy or no conspiracy
Rosalind Franklin
Pizza or Tennis: a diplomatic incident?
Fake News?
Exposing the truth
Proscription

So what is the conclusion of the matter? Is it that someone did not speak the truth, or is it that what was being done was being covered up, or is it that what was being covered up should not have been being done?

  1. Before the COVID pandemic, Dr. Fauci, as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, provided millions in U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, work which is now widely viewed as the source of the unintentional lab leak that sparked the pandemic.
    In support of President Trump’s maximum transparency mandate, today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents that expose exactly how Fauci worked with politicized career leadership in the intelligence community to in directing U.S. funding for this dangerous research that caused immeasurable harm and countless lost lives. These documents expose Fauci’s direct role in influencing and manipulating IC assessments on COVID-19 and how Fauci lied to Congress in 2024 when under oath he denied knowledge of or participation in discussions with intelligence officials about viral research. We also received testimony from multiple intelligence community whistleblowers who reported retaliation for challenging the intelligence community’s manipulation of intelligence on the virus’s origins, once again revealing a clear pattern of suppressing dissent, silencing critics, and burying the truth. Dr. Fauci’s close relationships with the intelligence community enabled him to assume three key roles that shield him from scrutiny.
    First, Dr. Fauci funded dangerous gain-of-function coronavirus research linked to big pharma and their pursuit of universal vaccines worth trillions of dollars.
    Second, Dr. Fauci was the behind-the-scenes advisor who, alongside his hand-picked so-called experts, pushed the intelligence community to endorse a natural animal origin to hide all of this in a deliberate attempt to cover up the truth and shift the blame and attention away from Fauci’s own actions.
    Third, Dr. Fauci became the nation’s pandemic pundit and he publicly pushed lies, disinformation, and censorship using every platform available.
    Now, according to hundreds of reviewed emails which are included in this release, the intelligence community almost always incorporated Fauci’s recommendations. He promoted a fraudulent paper whose publication he helped prompt as legitimate information for intelligence community consideration. Senior analysts praised Dr. Fauci not as a policymaker, but as what they called an unbiased while deliberately ignoring experts who might dissent from Fauci’s narratives.
    Now, Fauci didn’t stop there. He blatantly lied to Congress under oath during his 2024 testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus pandemic, denying that he ever spoke to any intelligence agency about COVID. Now, the correspondence I’m releasing today directly contradicts his sworn testimony. Now, we receive statements from multiple whistleblowers revealing that the intelligence analysts who dared to challenge Dr. Fauci’s COVID origin conclusions, faced threats of retaliation, marginalization, and many suffered career setbacks.
    For example, a contractor was terminated just days after coming forward to ODNI as a whistleblower.
    Another example, those who advocated for the lab leak hypothesis or expressed dissenting views were reminded by their managers that leadership would determine which analysts would be promoted and which would not. The message was clear. Go along or be punished.
    Senior leaders also sought to undermine whistleblowers by removing anonymity, which is required in the whistleblower process, as they made their complaints, and also insisting that their managers or attorneys be present during OD&I meetings where these whistleblowers were coming forward with their testimony. Obviously, creating an atmosphere of intimidation.
    The COVID pandemic caused tremendous hardship and pain for millions of our fellow Americans and countless people around the world. And after years of lies and censorship and cover-ups,the American people deserve transparency, truth, and accountability. The tactics that were used to hide the truth are straight from the deep state playbook. Politicized self-serving leaders like Dr. Fauci covered up their own wrongdoing and abuses of power, manipulated intelligence, lied to Congress, and undermined a duly elected president by restricting his access to the vital facts he needed to keep the country safe.
    Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence
    19 June 2026 ↩︎

Lymphoedema Awareness Day 2025

In 2025 many people are suffering with lymphoedema and face many challenges in daily life and lack of hope. This short video highlights some of the global challenges that are delaying the development of effective lymphoedema care worldwide. Lymphoedema affects the poorest populations and even many high income countries do not have a centre of excellence available to them. The International Lymphoedema Framework is a registered charity working with its national partners to improve care as well as joining with other international societies that have a similar aim.

Lymphoedema Awareness Day 2025. © ILF 2025

Lipedema – the debate

There is a debate in the world of Lipedema which Coco now spells not as Lipoedema in order to avoid the suggestion that oedema (water based fluid) is present in the dsytrophy which is called lipedema1. Coco has referenced the debate in other articles – here and here. The video referenced below produced by Colin Mockery (is that a pen name like Coco?) is quite long but an excellent literature review for anyone who has either the smallest interest in lipedema or who is looking for an example of how to review literature and present the results of such a review. The reader must understand that in saying this Coco is not condoning the conclusions of this particular review. Coco is merely saying it is a good example of a review. For an assessment of the conclusions of the review the reader must look elsewhere, in particular any reply that may have been prepared by any of those who were subjects of the review.

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Lipedema

Sometimes it is hard to obtain a list of the things that can go wrong after or during surgery, though best practice dictates that patients should be provided with full information in order that they may give informed consent to the intervention – it occurs to Coco that perhaps the insurance standard of the utmost good faith should be applied to the contract – but at the ITALF 2024 conference held in the auditorium at the Atheneum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum in Rome we were presented with such a list,

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Famine in Africa

Digging riverbeds to find water

The article posted by the BBC Digging riverbeds in Zimbabwe in desperate search for water reminds us of the dire famine in much of south central Africa. The Zimbabwe Partnership Trust has for several years supported communities in Zimbabwe including by financing the drilling of bore-holes to provide water for agricultural projects and schools in remote regions. ZPT is focussed this year very much on the relief of famine in those communities where it has been working through trusted local partners.

Fake News?

Coco had only visited the site in order to check whether British or US spelling was being used to describe the class of medical facility which are called health centres, and not to examine whether fake news were being promoted, and whilst the video may contain much accurate information about the response of the government to the outbreak of covid-19, it began on a rather bad foot.

Coco is talking about this item on YouTube:

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