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The Russians are Coming (Again)

Cal Thomas

Israeli firm unveils kit to diagnose coronavirus,

as 2nd team works on a vaccine

by timesofisrael.com ~ An Israeli firm said Thursday it has developed a kit to test for the coronavirus, sending its stocks soaring as the world hunts for an effective way to confirm who is carrying the fast-spreading contagion... Hod Hasharon based BATM said production on the quick diagnostic kit was underway at a facility in Rome owned by Adaltis, which manufactures various medical testing devices. Health officials have urged the development of rapid testing devices to screen who may have the virus, as questions have arisen about current diagnostic tools’ ability to flag carriers. Health officials have also worried about overtesting and deluging health systems with false positives that will lead to public panic. The debate over testing has taken on added urgency as the number of cases worldwide has climbed past 82,000, including over 2,800 reported deaths, with cases now present on every continent and dozens of countries. BATM said in a statement that its test’s ability to successfully screen those carrying COVID-19 had been verified by several labs and hospitals, and that customers in several countries had expressed interest. It did not provide details. It said the test met criteria set out by the US-based Centers of Disease Control and that it was working with European research institutions to develop “a price point suitable for large scale production.” The company’s stock rose 16.4% on the London Stock Exchange and 9.3% in Tel Aviv’s boursa Thursday, making it one of the few winners on an otherwise brutal day on the trading floor. Separately, Israel’s state-funded Migal Galilee Research Institute said it had identified similarities between COVID-19 and Infectious Bronchitis Virus, which affects poultry, that could allow it to develop a vaccine to battle the deadly outbreak. It said it was working to quickly adapt its IBV vaccine for use against COVID-19. Human trials have not yet been approved... https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-firm-says-it-developed-kit-to-diagnose-coronavirus/?utm_source=The+Weekend+Edition&utm_campaign=weekend-edition-2020-03-01&utm_medium=email

CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient

for days, California hospital says

By PETER SULLIVAN

{ thehill.com } ~ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initially declined to test a California patient for coronavirus because of narrow testing criteria... delaying the identification of a new possibly pivotal case, according to officials at the hospital treating the patient. UC Davis Medical Center wrote in a memo to staff that the patient was transferred from another hospital on Feb. 19 with a suspected viral infection. The hospital requested coronavirus testing, but the CDC initially declined because the patient, who had not recently traveled to countries with outbreaks or been in contact with someone with the virus, did not meet the testing criteria. It was not until Sunday that the CDC agreed to do a test, and the results then came back on Wednesday as positive. Officials said the case could mark a turning point as the first case of the virus spreading among the general public in the United States, because there is no known origin for it. “Upon admission, our team asked public health officials if this case could be COVID-19,” the UC Davis Medical Center said in a statement, referring to coronavirus. “We requested COVID-19 testing by the CDC, since neither Sacramento County nor California Department of Public Health is doing testing for coronavirus at this time.” “Since the patient did not fit the existing CDC criteria for COVID-19, a test was not immediately administered,” the statement added. “UC Davis Health does not control the testing process.” In a statement on Thursday afternoon, the CDC said it is concerned by the reports but said their records showed the CDC only learned of the case on Sunday, and requested specimens for testing that same day." CDC is concerned about reports that testing for COVID-19 for the California patient announced on February 26 was delayed as a result of CDC," an agency spokesman said. "We are investigating this carefully...

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/484903-cdc-declined-to-test-new-coronavirus-patient-for-days-california-hospital

HHS Secretary Azar -vs- Chris Wallace

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The media is initiating panic about the Coronavirus in 2020 the same way the media attempted to manufacture panic about an upcoming U.S. recession in 2019... Everything about Coronavirus is hyped with purpose. The CDC official who lit the fuse to create the panic was Dr. Nancy Messonnier who read a script handed to her by resistance operatives inside government. Dr. Messonnier is Rod Rosenstein’s sister. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar appears on Fox News to discuss Coronavirus COVID-19 while a gleeful Chris Wallace excitedly questions Azar about “millions of people hoarding food”, and how the virus will eliminate all life on planet Earth by Tuesday.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/01/sunday-talks-hhs-secretary-azar-vs-chris-wallace/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvY_HXZplwQ&feature=emb_title

Mike Pence’s talk with

liar-Nancy Pelosi about the coronavirus

by renewedright.com ~ President Trump selected Mike Pence to lead his administration’s coronavirus task force. Pence’s first move was to reach out to Congress to try and get everyone on the same page about the government’s response... But Mike Pence’s talk with liar-Nancy Pelosi about the coronavirus did not go like anyone expected. Vice President Pence understands the seriousness of the coronavirus situation. Pence’s instinct is to put country first and work with Democrats on a united and bipartisan response to that situation. Unfortunately liar-Nancy Pelosi and Chuck scumbag-Schumer only saw the coronavirus as an opportunity to score political points. In a phone call with Vice President Pence, Speaker liar-Pelosi ripped Pence as unequipped and unqualified to manage the federal government’s response. The Vice President took the high road in response during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News. “The president also directed me to reach out. I spoke to Speaker liar-Pelosi. I spoke to Sen. scumbag-Schumer. […] They were good conversations,” Pence began. Pence also sought to reassure viewers that unlike the Democrats Donald Trump and the rest of his administration realized this was a moment where everyone needed to cast off their partisan jerseys and come together as Americans. Vice President Pence told Hannity “the president said to me, look, I want you to reach out to the Republican and Democrat leadership. Because we want to push politics aside, we want to make sure we get the resources that we need to respond to this, to make sure the CDC, all of our agencies, have the support that they need.” Pence also sought to reassure Americans that while the current risk of infection was low, the administration was prepared for any outcome including a severe outbreak. The Trump administration understands that it needs to undertake a competent and robust response to the coronavirus. If they manage the situation, the politics will take care of itself and the Democrats will pay a price for their partisan stunts in a time of national crisis. https://renewedright.com/mike-pences-talk-with-nancy-pelosi-about-the-coronavirus-did-not-go-like-anyone-expected/

William Barr shut down CNN with

one message they did not want to hear

by patriotpulse.net ~ Fake news CNN and other so-called “mainstream” media outlets keep telling Americans one giant lie. So-called “journalists” maintain that they are objective truth seekers... But William Barr shut down CNN with one message they did not want to hear. Attorney General Barr spoke to the 2020 National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville, Tennessee. During his speech Barr took on the Fake News Media as a hopelessly biased institution that views the world through the lenses of its liberal hive mind. “Today in the United States, the corporate – or ‘mainstream’ – press is massively consolidated,” Barr told the crowd. “And it has become remarkably monolithic in viewpoint, at the same time that an increasing number of journalists see themselves less as objective reporters of the facts, and more as agents of change. These developments have given the press an unprecedented ability to mobilize a broad segment of the public on a national scale and direct that opinion in a particular direction.” Barr noted that a unified press damaged democracy by whipping up a tyranny of the majority. “When the entire press ‘advances along the same track,’ as Tocqueville put it, the relationship between the press and the energized majority becomes mutually reinforcing,” Attorney General Barr continued. “Not only does it become easier for the press to mobilize a majority, but the mobilized majority becomes more powerful and overweening with the press as its ally. This is not a positive cycle, and I think it is fair to say that it puts the press’ role as a breakwater for the tyranny of the majority in jeopardy. The key to restoring the press in that vital role is to cultivate a greater diversity of voices in the media.” Christian Americans are specifically under assault from the mainstream press. Homosexual marriage became legal in America largely after a sustained campaign by the Fake News Media and Hollywood to normalize it. Once it became legal, the press and its activist allies moved on to demanding Christian bakers, florists and wedding photographers violate their sincerely held religious beliefs to participate in homosexual weddings.

https://patriotpulse.net/william-barr-shut-down-cnn-with-one-message-they-did-not-want-to-hear/#gf_1461

Rush Limbaugh Gives Encouraging Update

on His Health, Says 'God Is Good'

By Carmine Sabia

{ westernjournal.com } ~ Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh just delivered some bad news to the liberals who cheered the news of his cancer... It is important to note that not all liberals were elated by the news, but many were, and the announcement he made Thursday is definitely not music to their ears. “I get treated every day. I get treated every day at 1 p.m., folks, within a five-minute window here at the top of the hour, 1 p.m., and then again at 11 p.m. Every day. And then four times a week I have to do something else, which I’m not gonna describe and I’m not gonna explain or any of that,” Limbaugh said in an update on his website. “But it’s ongoing. It’s been two weeks now. It’s not enough time to know anything, although I’m extremely optimistic about it for a host of reasons, not the least of which — and I mean this from the bottom of my heart — is all of you. “I believe God is good. I believe that there is good in everything that happens. “Let me give you an example of that. It’s not good for me that I have contracted this. But there’s good in it. There’s good in it maybe for other people who might be inspired to change their life, so they don’t get it or whatever — there’s good in everything, if you just look for it. And ultimately there’s gonna be good in it for me. It already has been good for me.” He thanked his audience for the kindness they have shown him and said that he continues to stay positive. But Limbaugh said he will not be issuing daily reports on his condition or his treatment because he does not want it to be the focal point of the show. “I will tell you that there have been two days this week I got up, I said, ‘Gosh, I can’t do it.’ I’ve tried to, you know, not artificially push myself here every day as a sign of toughness. I’ve tried to push myself every day here because this is what I love doing. This is my natural, normal, happy state and place. “But there have been a couple days this week when I got up and said, ‘Oh, I can’t do it today.’ But I pushed through. And once I got here and got started, it was a long three hours of show prep, jeez, I could barely stay awake, I was all kinds of stuff.” Still, he said, it is the love of his country and the prayers and dedication of his fans that help get him out of bed and to the studio. “The program starts, the microphone goes on, and magic happens. And in about 20 minutes, when this is over, I’m gonna decompress like you can’t believe. I don’t know what it is,” Limbaugh said. “And there are gonna be days where I’m gonna cave to it and not be here, and when those days happen, just chalk it up to the fact that it’s fatigue because that’s the primary thing that I have to deal with,” he said. It is incredibly sad that people could be so filled with partisan hatred that they would wish a man dead, but they do exist. Limbaugh has his faith in God, his fans and the prayers of millions. That is worth more than all of the hatred liberals can give him. https://www.westernjournal.com/rush-limbaugh-gives-encouraging-update-health-says-god-good/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriottribune&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance

The Russians are Coming (Again)

Cal Thomas

The Russians are like the devil. Each gets blamed (or credited) with more than they are responsible for.

Intelligence officials recently went to Capitol Hill where, according to The Hill, “they briefed the House Intelligence Committee about Russia interfering in the presidential race in an effort to get Trump re-elected.” The initial presumption was that Russian President Vladimir Putin favors Trump’s re-election. Why would he when he has someone more closely associated with his ideology than Trump? That would be the self-described Democratic Socialist, Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

But wait. Following closely on this unspecific leak to (where else?) The New York Times, we now hear that Russia wants commie-Sanders as the next president. Perhaps it’s out of gratitude because he and his wife honeymooned in the Soviet Union. Ah, nostalgia.

The intelligence briefing was classified, but as with charges that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, no details have emerged that prove the Russian “collusion” narrative. Other than disinformation campaigns on social media (and plenty of disinformation has and will continue to be generated here at home through mainstream media) we have still not heard any specifics on how Russia managed to change a single vote in 2016, or how they supposedly intend to do so this time around. Upon hearing of the intelligence briefing, Putin’s press secretary told Russian state-run media, “This is another in a series of paranoid reports, and we regret to say that their number will grow as the election approaches. They certainly have nothing to do with the truth.”

The reason Democrats are again raising the prospect of Russian interference is to undermine the credibility of this year’s election should Trump win again, as seems increasingly likely. Democrats have been unable to stomach, not only his 2016 election, but also his economic successes. They fear their party will lose what remaining but dwindling appeal it might still enjoy. That’s why in the debates among Democratic presidential candidates one hears of an America that isn’t recognizable to most citizens. For them, America is a bad country, a place of racism, sexism, inequality and misery only they can fix, though previous Democratic presidents who have made similar diagnoses of America’s “faults” have done nothing to repair the damage to which they have arguably contributed. Trump appears to have stolen their issues and they have no fallback position.

As for the credibility of American intelligence, consider their record during George W. Bush’s administration, beginning with weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which were never found, resulting in the deaths of many in the unnecessary war that followed.

This Russian interference claim seems like a setup and an invitation for the House to conduct even more investigations and possibly new articles of impeachment after the election, assuming Democrats maintain their House majority. A recent Gallup poll shows record high approval (49 percent) of the president’s policies. Forty-three percent of independents polled now support the president — the highest percentage during Trump’s entire presidency. We’ll see if that translates into Republican victories in races for the Senate and House.

According to Gallup, “The latest survey finds a further increase in national satisfaction, with 45 percent now satisfied, the highest since February 2005.”

Democrats have always needed a boogeyman to run against. Recall “The Gingrich who stole Christmas” line disparaging then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich on a Time magazine cover in the 1990s. Democrats have also demagogued Republicans for not helping the poor and for being racist. That is a harder sell with the African-American unemployment rate at record lows and wages rising for virtually all groups. According to the Census Bureau, the poverty level is as low as its been in 11 years.

Russia has become the default boogeyman of the left. That is what makes commie-Bernie Sanders the ideal candidate for Russia and the other socialist-communist states he has praised, because in his heart he is at one with them. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/68865?mailing_id=4892&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4892&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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