Archive for 2020
April 15, 2020
CHINA SYNDROME: Sources believe coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab as part of China’s efforts to compete with US. “COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan laboratory not as a bioweapon, but as part of China’s effort to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China’s government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News. This may be the ‘costliest government coverup of all time,’ one of the sources said.”
Flashback: Time to put China on lockdown for its dishonesty amid coronavirus crisis.
MAKE CHINA A PARIAH STATE: Six Days in Hubei: How China’s lies and intimidation cost the world its last chance to stop a pandemic. “China lied; people died. And that brings us to why. It’s hard to imagine, although not impossible, that China would have gone to all this trouble just to cover up a viral jump from animals to humans in a wet market in Wuhan. It’s certainly possible, because dictatorial communist regimes will overreact in weird and irrational ways even to natural disasters. However, it certainly seems more likely that Beijing had more specific incompetence to cover up — namely, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its work on the very same classes of coronaviruses from bats, work that prompted a series of State Department warnings about the potential for a leak and a global disaster. We can’t know for sure, because China is still lying while people are dying.”
That they are lying helps us to know.
Related: Time to put China on lockdown for its dishonesty amid coronavirus crisis.
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NEVER LET A PANDEMIC GO TO WASTE: Virginia is gone; Gov. Ralph Northam of ‘blackface’ and ‘Klan robes’ infamy signs far-left agenda into law.
As predicted by America’s Newspaper of Record in January: Gov. Northam Says Virginia Should Be Kept Comfortable While Lawmakers Debate Whether to Kill It.
MOST JOURNALISTS ARE DUMB PARTISANS, AND KATY TUR IS NOT BOOSTING THEIR COLLECTIVE IQ:
ANALYSIS: TRUE. S.G. Cheah: The Media Is Ignoring Rape Accusations Against Joe Biden Because They Value Their Careers More Than The Truth.
To be fair, they value a lot of things more than the truth.
TYLER O’NEIL COVERS President Trump’s Chinese Coronavirus Press Conference.
THIS DOESN’T SURPRISE ME: 15% of heart attack sufferers experience PTSD symptoms, study finds.
IF CHINA VIOLATES THE TEST-BAN TREATY, WE SHOULD IMMEDIATELY BUILD AN ORION SPACESHIP AND GO CLAIM THE MOON: Possible Chinese Nuclear Testing Stirs U.S. Concern: Beijing might secretly be conducting small nuclear tests at its Lop Nur site, report says.
China might be secretly conducting nuclear tests with very low explosive power despite Beijing’s assertions that it is strictly adhering to an international accord banning all nuclear tests, according to a new arms-control report to be made public by the State Department.
The coming report doesn’t present proof that China is violating its promise to uphold the agreement, but it cites an array of activities that “raise concerns” that Beijing might not be complying with the “zero-yield” nuclear-weapons testing ban.
The concerns stem from the high tempo of activity at China’s Lop Nur test site, extensive excavations at the site, and Beijing’s purported use of special chambers to contain explosions.
Another factor feeding U.S. suspicions is the interruption in past years of data transmissions from monitoring stations on Chinese territory that are designed to detect radioactive emissions and seismic tremors.
“Don’t trust China. China is asshole.”
Of course, maybe it’s the Chinese who are building an Orion. Don’t say you weren’t warned. Nearly two decades ago!
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: New York Times Allowed Biden Team to Edit Story on Sexual Assault Allegation.
INSIDE EVERY LIBERAL IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT: RFK widow Ethel Kennedy ‘loves’ Che Guevara, ‘has a subversive streak.’
Because Che was definitely a big fan of “subversives.”
Flashback: Tim Blair on Che Guevara: “So, for many, the question remains: how did such an incurable doofus, sadist and epic idiot attain such iconic status? Because lefties are suckers for a pretty picture.”
(classical reference in headline.)
HE MEANS NONHUMAN PREDATORS: Predator Defense With a Handgun.
NORTH CAROLINA GOV. ROY COOPER IS GETTING SOME PUSHBACK ON CIVIL LIBERTIES:
Backstory here.
UPDATE: From the comments: “To paraphrase and update Tom Wolfe, ‘The dark night of fascism is always descending on Americans due to the actions of Republicans and yet lands only in areas under Democratic Party control’.”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Blowback for Gretchen Whitmer as Protesters Jam Downtown Lansing. The protest, called “Operation Gridlock,” involved thousands of cars descending on the Capitol.
Related: Michigan Gov. Whitmer faces fierce backlash over strict stay-at-home order. When NBC News reports that a Democrat is in trouble, you know they’re in trouble.
Plus, I love this:
“People always say: ‘Conservatives never protest because they are too busy working,'” the event page says. “Well, guess what. You’re not working — so it’s time to PROTEST.”
Heh.
THE GHOST OF HUGO CHAVEZ COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: Obama Says Bernie Sanders’s Ideas Are ‘Critical’ to ‘Rebuilding Our Economy.’