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The Washington Post report last week saying that U.S. Embassy officials in China warned the State Department in Washington as early as January 19, 2018, about inadequate safety at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) lab, in addition to scientists conducting risky research on coronavirus from bats. The U.S. embassy in Beijing had sent U.S. science diplomats to the WIV lab, which had distinguished itself in 2015 as “China’s first laboratory to achieve the highest level of international bio-research safety (known as BSL-4). WIV issued a news release in English about the last of these visits, which occurred on March...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Hebrew Worship Words Zammar Psalm 66:2Sing the glory of his name;     make his praise glorious. Psalm 71:22 I will praise you with the harp     for your faithfulness, my God; I will sing praise to you with the lyre,     Holy One of Israel.. Psalm 144:9 I will sing a new song to you, my God;     on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you, New International Version (NIV)(End of Scripture Passage) . "Zammar", means to play a stringed instrument in praise to the Lord. Strong's Concordance 2167 zamar: to...

Morning "That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death." Hebrews 2:14 O child of God, death hath lost its sting, because the devil's power over it is destroyed. Then cease to fear dying. Ask grace from God the Holy Ghost, that by an intimate knowledge and a firm belief of thy Redeemer's death, thou mayst be strengthened for that dread hour. Living near the cross of Calvary thou mayst think of death with pleasure, and welcome it when it comes with intense delight. It is sweet to die in the Lord: it is a covenant-blessing...

Emma Lazarus could not imagine, when writing the 1883 sonnet inscribed on the Statute of Liberty, that the words of lines 10 and 11 -- “Give me your tired, your poor,/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” -- would bear such relevance to the situation now being endured by American citizens under government lockdown thanks to a global pandemic midwifed by scientists in a Chinese viral research lab in Wuhan. The Wuhan pandemic is a liberal/progressive dream come true. It gives them the recession they have prayed for to oust President Trump. Their reason for getting up in the...

Keeping the U.S. economy indefinitely closed will very literally destroy the country as we know it. We've taken extraordinary measures for more than a month to avoid the worst-case public health scenario, but those steps have resulted in north of an unprecedented 22 million jobless claims. We now have to recalibrate our response and address the economic devastation. Any mention of that fact is greeted by Democrats and liberals in the media as a gleeful invitation to kill a million citizens, but here are the facts: From everything we’ve seen so far, the coronavirus is statistically deadly for a minority...

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma on Sunday announced that the Trump administration would begin requiring nursing homes to report confirmed coronavirus cases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Speaking at a White House briefing, Verma said that the new guidelines would also mandate that nursing homes communicate with patients and their families when one of their residents tests positive for COVID-19. "It’s important that patients and their families have the information that they need and they need to understand what’s going on in the nursing home," Verma said, adding that the initiative...

He's on-the-air. One of America's very best Talk Radio Show Hosts, IMO: Chris Plante from WMAL in DC. His show is the "prep work" for many other shows. And, unlike the others, he pulls no punches, tells it like it is and doesn't take any guff from liberal, leftist or commie/socialist/fascist callers. He's the guy we'd all like to sit down with and have a cheeseburger and a cold one, while talking about the state of America, and the crazies who are pulling the strings, behind-the-scenes. Get a fresh refill of your favorite coffee, a warm croissant, the Hoppe's Cleaning...

Sacca Protesters from all over the country assembled over the last few days to voice their displeasure to stay-at-home orders as economic conditions deteriorate. Despite decrees from their governors to stay at home, Americans organized protests demanding an end to the coronavirus lockdown. Over the past week, protests have erupted across the country — from California to Colorado to Texas to Michigan to Ohio to New Jersey. Residents from blue states and red states have demonstrated their desire to get out of their homes and return to their jobs.

At Sunday's White House coronavirus task force briefing, CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang asked President Trump why he didn't "warn" people that the virus was spreading while he was holding MAGA rallies. WEIJIA JIANG, CBS NEWS: Since you shared with us something else that you saw on TV today. I have a question about something you said Thursday. You said you were angry because information about the virus should have been told to us earlier and a lot sooner. "People knew it was coming and people did not want to talk about it." Many Americans are saying the...

Rep. Adam Schiff spent months launching secret impeachment hearings, never thinking his conduct would be called into question. He is now caught in the crosshairs of a formidable government agent, Mr. Brendan Carr, Federal Communication Commissioner. The impeachment may be over, but Mr. Carr is formally investigating Rep. Schiff for violating privacy laws -- more like obliterating ethical boundaries -- by setting up his own surveillance state to target the president’s allies. Carr is currently uncovering the diabolical nature of the congressman’s “surveillance state.” At the time, Schiff resorted to such desperate measures because he didn’t have much of an...

It’s just the flu, bro. Lawmakers in DC are putting together a plan to get America back to work. Why do these people feel the need for elaborate planning? I wished they would have declared “Mission accomplished! The curve is has been flattened and hospitals aren’t overrun - everyone back to work!”. They aren’t saving lives. They are wasting money and destroying families and businesses. I saw a study in Massachusetts that they tested 200 random people for antibodies and 33% had the antibodies (but no symptoms). This is almost everywhere and it will be everywhere in the near future....

Fire Tower Bear Attack, 1958 Black-Bear iStock-648818154 It was dark outside the little cabin near the fire tower in the Oregon mountains in 1958. Eight-year-old David Conner and his two younger sisters had gone to bed. He had not yet fallen asleep. It was quiet.His mother's screams sundered the peaceful night.  Time and memories would be divided into two parts. Before the night of the bear, and after.He jumped from the bed and scrambled toward the kitchen. The kitchen light was on. On his left was his mother. On the right was the kitchen window over the sink, with a...

There’s a new virus spreading through the halls of Congress -- bailouts. First it was small businesses, then big businesses, then even federal agencies. The latest to put their hand out in a desperate attempt to grab taxpayer money is the media. Last week, a coalition of groups led by the News Media Alliance and the National Association of Broadcasters wrote to Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell asking for cash. Your cash. My cash. These industry groups are so upset that we’re not sufficiently supporting their businesses that they’d like to use the power of government to take our cash...

“The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul” (Proverbs 20:2 KJV).

This is a very long and very politicized article. However, it is the first article I have seen that explains in detail what the problems were. Summary - the CDC test resembles a widely used WHO designed test that locates two segments of the virus genome. The CDC added a third test. That test more precisely distinguished the SARS-One virus from the novel SARS-Two virus. That test worked perfectly. However, each test comes with "negative control samples" of highly purified water. If those samples turn positive, it means there is contamination somewhere in the test process. That is what happened...

The government is telling us to wash our hands and use disinfectants on surfaces around us to kill the coronavirus. While that may help somewhat, most people cannot possibly hit every area. That is where disinfection companies are coming in to save the day. They are desperately needed because the coronavirus can survive for hours or days depending on the type of surface. These companies are one of the necessary steps toward the end of the lockdowns in order to prepare businesses for re-opening. But will the biased media spread the message of how important this service is and how...

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Facebook released its first county-by-county maps Monday showing the prevalence of self-reported COVID-19 symptoms based on data it has collected. The maps, which will be updated daily, are meant to help health officials allocate resources and decide where parts of society can be reopened. They use information from a voluntary survey Facebook has been prompting users to take. The survey, operated by the Carnegie Mellon University Delphi Research Center, is designed to help health researchers identify COVID-19 hot spots earlier. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the goal is to give state officials a sense of where they may need to...

China is up and running while the virus released in Wuhan has sickened the world. Is this the biggest intelligence failure in modern history?

According to local accounts, two healthcare workers from a Denver-area hospital blocked lines of trucks and cars campaigning against the state government’s COVID-19 stay-at-home order. Hundreds of protesters defied social distancing laws on Sunday and gathered at the Colorado State Capitol in Denver calling for lockdown measures to be lifted and for nonessential businesses to reopen. Karen was part of an army of protesters who crammed the capital city’s streets in an event called ‘Operation Gridlock’, to show their opposition to social distancing and lockdown measures. Tensions boiled over when a small group of nurses and healthcare workers took it...