A perfect encapsulation of the lies and disinformation fed to the public by the medical establishment.

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Dr. daszak visits his laboratory

While poking around the net looking for information of the I came across this article from March 12, 2020, published by the Yale School of Medicine and Diversity: To think that people believed and acted on this garbage makes me sick.

Calling COVID-19 the “Wuhan Virus” or “China Virus” is inaccurate and xenophobic

This week, my colleagues logged on to Twitter to see “#ChinaVirus” and “#WuhanVirus” trending in the United States. Most posts were written with dismay from people who couldn’t believe some government officials were influencing others to refer to COVID-19 (also known as the Coronavirus) this way.

While there is understandable unease flowing through Americans and people around the globe about the increasing spread of COVID-19, it’s important to remember that words matter and the language we use has power.

As vice chair of diversity, equity, and inclusion for pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine, I feel compelled to speak out. In the weeks since COVID-19 has been circulating, Asian-Americans and Asians around the world have noted a spike in discrimination and xenophobic attacks. Public transit riders have encountered hostile interactions and people simply walking down the street have experienced microaggressions — which I prefer to call veiled aggressions, because there is nothing “micro” about them for the person on the receiving end.

This behavior, and the stigma associated with referring to an illness in a way that deliberately creates unconscious (or conscious) bias, can keep people from getting care they may desperately need to get better and prevent others from getting sick. When faced with this type of constant, heightened discrimination our friends, neighbors and colleagues of Asian-decent can feel uncomfortable in places they should feel welcome, included, and safe. This type of discrimination may also put their mental health at risk. The CDC has noted that health care workers and people who’ve recently traveled to areas where COVID-19 is circulating are facing increased discrimination and stigma, too.

In mid-February, the Asian American Journalists Association called on the media to be mindful and accurate in their reporting on COVID-19. As medical professionals dedicated to equity and inclusion, we must use our platforms to deliver accurate information to help educate our patients and communities. Pathogens do not discriminate. What someone looks has no bearing on how likely they are to be sick from COVID-19.

Here’s what we can all do.

DO: Talk about the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
DO NOT: Attach locations or ethnicity to the disease; this is not a “Wuhan Virus,” “Chinese Virus,” or “Asian Virus.” The official name for the disease was deliberately chosen to avoid stigmatization.

We can better prevent the spread of COVID-19 and protect those who may have it when we speak about it with accuracy, empathy, and care — something we should all be committed to.

DO: Talk about “people who have COVID-19,” “people who are being treated for COVID-19,” “people who are recovering from COVID-19,” or “people who died after contracting COVID19.”
DO NOT: Refer to people with the disease as “COVID-19 cases” or “victims.”

DO: Talk about people “acquiring” or “contracting” COVID-19.
DO NOT: Talk about people “transmitting COVID-19,” “infecting others,” or “spreading the virus” as it implies intentional transmission and assigns blame. Criminalizing or dehumanizing terminology creates the impression that those with the disease have somehow done something wrong or are less human than the rest of us, feeding stigma, undermining empathy, and potentially fueling wider reluctance to seek treatment or attend screening, testing and quarantine.

DO: Speak accurately about the risk from COVID-19, based on scientific data and latest official health advice.
DO NOT: Repeat or share unconfirmed rumors, and avoid using hyperbolic language designed to generate fear like “plague,” “apocalypse,” etc.

DO: Talk positively and emphasize the effectiveness of prevention and treatment measures. For most people, this is a disease they can overcome. There are simple steps we can all take to stay safe.
DO NOT: Emphasize or dwell on negativity or messages of threat. We need to work together to help those who are most vulnerable.

We can better prevent the spread of COVID-19 and protect those who may have it when we speak about it with accuracy, empathy, and care — something we should all be committed to.

Dr. Marietta Vazquez is a professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases & General Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine; Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Director Yale Children’s Hispanic Clinic (Y-CHiC); and Diversity Officer for the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI).

Francis Collins may have retired, but the Godfather of Wuhan is still going strong

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What Is Your Career Path After Killing Millions of People? A Nice Sinecure Spreading Lies

David Strom

In a just world, Peter Daszak would be rotting in jail waiting for his execution warrant. 

He was Fauci's conduit to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, pouring millions of dollars into gain-of-function research that ultimately created the COVID-19 virus, Tens of millions died, the freedom of billions was stolen, children's lives were ruined, trillions of dollars were wasted, and citizens around the world were weaponized against each other to stir unrest and civil strife. 

Far more than Fauci, who ultimately was a sociopathic bureaucrat who committed most of his crimes to cover his own ass after he realized he helped fund the murder of millions, Daszak was responsible for much of the evil the world has witnessed over the past 5 years. 

As the Trump administration defunds all the USAID-backed censorship organizations and Big Tech turns its back on the oppressive speech policing that has characterized our discourse over the past several years, yet another "accountability" project aimed at calling inconvenient facts "disinformation" has sprouted out of thin air, and Daszak is in the thick of it. 

Announced yesterday, the Accountability Journalism Institute is an evolution from something called the "OptOut Media Foundation," which seems to be a propaganda outlet pushing far-left Narratives™. If you go to their website you find that their partners are all the usual leftist suspects like The Nation. 

Much more at the full article, but here are Strom’s concluding paragrphs:

Even the Biden administration cut all ties with Daszak and banned the federal government from doing business with him and the EcoHealth Alliance because they illegally funded gain-of-function research and lied repeatedly to the federal government. They failed to report their work and their findings, and were found to be fundamentally untrustworthy. 

In all likelihood they used US federal dollars to fund the research that created COVID-19. 

That is who Daszak is. 

He is going to be your fact checker, folks. It's like asking Jeffrey Dahmer to cover food for the New Yorker. 

Usually, tabloid headlines wildly overstate the actual facts of a case. Not this time,

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born in boston, raised in berkeley

You can read the NY Post’s article if you wish, but here’s the actual news release from the California District Attorney’s office:

Defendant Trevor Colombano, 38 years old of Santa Rosa, was sentenced today by the Honorable Dana Simonds to a term of probation after he pled “no contest” to charges including mayhem (with a further allegation that he used a deadly weapon,) assault with a deadly weapon (with a further allegation that he inflicted great bodily injury upon the victim,) as well as sexual battery. The District Attorney’s Office, the Court’s Probation Department, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and the victim, all recommended or requested Colombano be sentenced to state prison.

On October 28, 2023, the victim took her dog for a walk in Santa Rosa on a sunny Saturday afternoon. She stepped outside of her apartment on Sonoma Avenue near Howarth Park and was approached from behind by Colombano. Colombano rubbed his erect penis on the victim’s buttocks, and when she rebuffed his advances, brutally attacked her. Colombano struck the victim on her head several times with a closed fist, and the attack then took a horrific turn when Colombano retrieved a landscaping rock and repeatedly bashed the victim’s face with it. The attack occurred while the victim’s 13-year-old daughter and 13-year-old cousin looked on helplessly. It only stopped when two bystanders wrestled Colombano to the ground and held him until Santa Rosa police arrived. The victim was left with several lacerations to her scalp and a full-thickness laceration to her lip. The injuries required 17 sutures, 5 staples, and left her permanently disfigured. Colombano also ripped off the victim’s shirt and bra during the attack.

The victim gave an emotional statement to the Court at Colombano’s sentencing, stating, “When you have a stranger attack you in the way I was attacked, it felt like my ability to be strong was taken away from me. I have cried more in the last six months than I have in my entire lifetime…my daughter and my little cousin, both thirteen at the time, had to witness the whole thing…I cannot even put into words the feeling of not being able to protect yourself or your child at the same time.” The victim has since moved out of the State of California and asked the Court to sentence Colombano to prison.

Colombano faced a maximum prison sentence of 9 years, in addition to 18 months in the county jail for his crimes. Prior to trial the defendant pled guilty to all charges against him, with no sentencing agreements by the district attorney. At yesterday afternoon’s sentencing hearing the district attorney’s office asked for the 9-year prison sentence to be imposed.

The Court’s Probation Department also recommended a prison sentence, noting “the defendant is statutorily limited from receiving probation and we cannot, even after much effort considering the complexities, favorable, and mitigating factors involved in this case, identify any factors that mark this matter an unusual case for probation consideration.” The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation agreed and recommended a prison sentence as well. The Honorable Judge Dana Simonds disagreed, citing Colombano’s cannabis consumption and stress as contributing factors, and referenced mental health issues in sentencing him to probation, and allowing for his release from custody.

District Attorney Rodriguez stated, “Justice was not served in this case. The victim was walking her dog on a public street in Sonoma County and minding her own business when Mr. Colombano viciously attacked her while her 13-year old daughter and niece looked on. He sexually assaulted the victim and then beat her in the face with a rock to the point of hospitalization and permanent disfigurement. This woman will be permanently scarred for the rest of her life, both physically and emotionally.  Her daughter and niece’s sense of safety and well-being will never be the same. Mr. Colombano is a menace to public safety, period, and should be sitting in prison. That won’t happen. As there is no further action legally allowable for our office, the community, and more importantly, the victims will have to live with the consequences of this sentence. I am incredibly disappointed in the outcome of this case.”

Putin's Puppet?

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“And this will restore gas service directly to chuck schumer’s grill”

American LNG: After 'Drill, Baby, Drill' It's Finally 'Sell, Baby, Sell' Time Again

Biden “paused” LNG exports to Europe, so that continent turned to Russia for supply and thereby helped finance Russia’s war against Ukraine.

...Europe spent $255B on Russian energy and totalled $893B since the start of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.  

On the other hand, Europe has provided Ukraine $73B in aid, of which 35% are loans, and $53B in military aid.   

At what point does the level of absurdity reach a tipping point? Europe has funded both sides of the war.  

They virtue signal over Ukraine while simultaneously bankrolling Russia’s war machine.

Trump’s undone Biden’s action and the gas is flowing east again. That’s very bad news for Putin, but because we’ve been told that the dictator controls our president, it will be interesting to learn how this is actually all part of a devious plan to benefit the Russians.

Waiting with bated breath.

That horse left the barn long ago, and you and your co-conspirators are the ones who shooed it out and locked the stable door behind it

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soon to be seen in a post office near you

I’d thought the old bastard had cleared out his desk and left the premises months ago, but at least he’s gone now.

Ousted Director Francis Collins Demands Americans Pay ‘Utmost Respect’ to NIH

Dr. Francis Collins has abruptly retired after being stripped of his directorship by new HHS boss RFK Jr. and left a resignation letter on the dung heap:

“NIH is the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world. It is the main piston of a biomedical discovery engine that is the envy of the globe. Yet it is not a household name.  It should be.  NIH supports everything from basic science to clinical trials, providing the foundation of many breakthroughs.  When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on NIH research over many decades.  When you hear about sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on many years of research supported by NIH. It has also been the largest supporter of global health research in the world, winning us many friends and colleagues from across the globe.  I have loved being employed by this extraordinary, life-giving institution for 32 years. I will continue to devote my life in other ways to seeking knowledge and enhancing health, to healing disease and reducing suffering, and to doing what I can to bring together our fractured communities around the shared values of love, truth, goodness, and faith.  As I depart NIH, I want to express my gratitude and love for the men and women with whom I have worked side-by-side for so many years. They are individuals of extraordinary intellect and integrity, selfless and hard-working, generous and compassionate. They personify excellence in every way, and they deserve the utmost respect and support of all Americans.”

A friend of mine who’s in his mid-30s recently told me that he’d graduated from school as a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, and as an earth scientist whose job takes him outside into the field for days at a time, he considers himself a staunch environmentalist. But, he said, he increasingly saw articles and claims in his area of expertise: chemical pollution; hydrology; etc. that, although asserted as fact, he knew to be untrue, and he grew uneasy.

“Then came COVID”, he said, “and the bullshit that was being spewed by “scientist authorities” cured me of, first, trusting anything coming out of the CDC and NHI, and the all the other stuff I’d been hearing and trusting from other parts of the government, and that was it.”

And so another conservative was born; thank you, Francis.

Yo, moron: your hall pass just expired

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gooder and harder

State Department revokes first visa of foreign student linked to 'Hamas-supporting disruptions'

The State Department has revoked the visa of a student who participated in protesting in favor of Hamas, a move in line with President Donald Trump's call for canceling visas of students involved in the anti-Israel demonstrations on college campuses.

…. "Yesterday evening, we revoked the first visa of an alien who was previously cited for criminal behavior in connection with Hamas-supporting disruptions," the State Department said. "This individual was a university student. ICE will proceed with removing this person from the country."

The State Department reviewed over 100,000 student visas and none were revoked during the Biden administration, despite all the anti-Israel protests and disruptions on college campuses. 

Trump has repeatedly called for foreign students attending American universities to have their visas revoked for supporting Hamas and other terror groups. 

Upon taking office in January, he signed an executive order to combat antisemitism. 

"To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you," Trump is quoted in a fact sheet issued by the White House. "I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before."

IF AI CAN TRACK DOWN AND EXPOSE FUNDING FOR PERUVIAN TRANSGENDER MICE DANCE TEAMS, IT CAN DIG UP THESE VERMIN


…. On Thursday, Axios reported that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-fueled "Catch and Revoke" effort to cancel the visas of foreign students who appear to support designated terror groups.

"Those who support designated terrorist organizations, including Hamas, threaten our national security," he wrote on X. "The United States has zero tolerance for foreign visitors who support terrorists. Violators of U.S. law — including international students — face visa denial or revocation, and deportation."

This is HUUGE! — for Perkins Coie, anyway

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The Law Firm That Laundered the Russia Hoax Has Been Stripped of Security Clearances

The law firm that produced the Steele dossier on behalf of the Clinton campaign and laundered the Russia hoax against President Donald Trump during his first term no longer has access to classified or sensitive U.S. government information. 

"This is an absolute honor to sign. What they've done is just terrible. It's a weaponization, you could say weaponization against a political opponent, and it should never be allowed to happen again," Trump said before signing an executive order stripping the firm of security clearances. 

More background on Perkins Coie courtesy of RealClearInvestigations: 

Michael A. Sussmann, a partner in Perkins Coie, a law firm representing the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements to the FBI about his clients and their motives behind planting the rumor, at the highest levels of the FBI, of a secret Trump-Russia server. After a months-long investigation, the FBI found no merit to the rumor.

The grand jury indicated in its lengthy indictment that several people were involved in the alleged conspiracy to mislead the FBI and trigger an investigation of the Republican presidential candidate -- including Sullivan, who was described by his campaign position but not identified by name.

The Clinton campaign project, these sources say, also involved compiling a "digital dossier” on several Trump campaign officials – including Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, and Carter Page. This effort exploited highly sensitive, nonpublic Internet data related to their personal email communications and web-browsing, known as Internet Protocol, or IP, addresses.

Perkins Coie is one of the biggest of the big international law firms and has its tentacles embedded everywhere there’s a dollar to be extracted: From NYC to Silicon Valley to the mother lode of all corporate and government money, Washington. If none of its thousands of lawyers have a security clearance, there goes their lobbying and much of its corporate work and there would go the firm.

Which won’t happen, I predict. There are Perkins Coie alumni seated in federal courts around the country, and it will be a simple matter to get one of them or, really, and D.C. judge to issue a stay of Trump’s order, and then keep everything in abeyance until Democrats return to power in 2028 or even 2036.

But it’ll be fun to watch them squirm.

So crazy, it just might work; something better had

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Stephen Green has a brianstorm, and a suggestion:

An Army of DIY Drones

Sometimes a small story gives you a big idea, and today it's a report this week out of Ft. Campbell, Ky., where soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division launched a deadly new DIY project. Taking inspiration from the Russo-Ukraine War and a dash of "necessity is the mother of invention," soldiers are 3D printing their own drones.

The unit was faced with a couple of problems when it came to procuring the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) its soldiers needed to stay lethal in a combat environment increasingly dominated by tiny flying bombs and surveillance systems. 

One problem was the old Army attitude where soldiers were disciplined for losing assets, even though drones are supposed to be cheap, plentiful, and expendable. Changing a military mindset is never easy, but seeing what drones could do in the Russo-Ukraine War got the job done. 

The second problem was political, or "fiscal constraints," as the 101st's CO, Maj. Gen. Brett Sylvia delicately put it. "Based off of the fact that we still don’t necessarily have a budget," he told Defense Scoop this week, "we’ve been operating under a continuing resolution [since the beginning of fiscal 2025], and there are some fiscal constraints associated with what we’ve been doing now."

That's the problem with Congress's irresponsible reliance on continuing resolutions instead of doing its actual job of producing a budget every year. Our armed forces are stuck with the same amount of money for the same items each year, regardless of what our men and women require to perform their missions.

Gen. Sylvia said, "The team went back and said, 'OK, well, if we can’t buy anymore, let’s start making our own.'" Then they did just that, courtesy of 3D printing and a small budget for off-the-shelf motors, remote controls, and the like.

Sylvia also said that the 101st spent “a bunch of money” last year to purchase just 20 or so UASs, including drones from Skydio, for a major training exercise involving the division's 2nd Brigade. Since then — and at a fraction of the cost for Pentagon-approved UASs — they've been able to 3D print more than 100 small drones.

Left unsaid: no contractors' palms were greased, no procurement officer was promised a cushy job at Lockheed after retirement, and no congresscritters were treated to steak and scotch at a D.C.-area steakhouse. Some soldiers used inexpensive gear and a little imagination to roll their own — designing cheap drones that served their needs, not some gold-plated kit that padded a contractor's bottom line. 

“What works in a lab with a very technical expert may not necessarily work with a 19-year-old soldier who’s out there in the rain and the mud. We got to figure out how do we do that. We got to get it out there quicker,” Sylvia said. It takes about 18 hours to "print" a single drone airframe, but the Army is looking into ways to speed that up.

That's the part of this little story that gave me a big idea: local fundraisers, held all across the nation, to buy 3D printers and supplies for your local Army, Air Force, Navy, or Marine unit. Active duty? Reserves? National Guard? These 3D printers are so inexpensive now that it wouldn't take much effort to cover them all.

What will they come up with? Nobody knows, and that's the whole point. But with the entire military making local decisions — fast and cheap — about each unit's actual needs, the possibilities are endless.