Month: February 2021

A lawyer who represented President Trump in the Democrats’ second BS impeachment attempt has been censored.  David Schoen says he was canceled by a law school after having previously been given an offer to teach.  The cancellation is due to Schoen working for the President.

The Daily Mail reported yesterday:

An attorney who represented President Trump during his second impeachment trial claims he has been ‘cancelled’ by a law school after they rescinded their offer to have him teach a class there.

David Schoen, 63, made the revelation during an interview on Newsmax Thursday night, but stopped short of naming the school.

‘I had hoped to teach a law school class in the fall,’ Schoen told network anchor Greg Kelly.

‘I had been in talks with a law school about teaching a civil rights course. I’ve got 36 years of experience as a civil rights lawyer, working major cases. I love being around the students.’

However, Schoen says he contacted the school prior to accepting President Trump’s offer to work on his trial team and administrators told him they would no longer be interested in having him join the faculty.

‘I was told it would be [an impediment]. Some faculty and students would feel uncomfortable to have me on campus if I were getting involved in this case.

‘I felt that was a sad commentary, quite frankly,’ Schoen declared.

C-SPAN showed Schoen at the BS impeachment hearing:

The Democrats and their accomplices’ actions are similar to the Nazis before World War II and Lenin and Mao.  Yet they call God-loving, America-loving Trump supporters names like “fascists”.  Maybe we need more people like Schoen in academia so our students can learn more than communist fascist propaganda.

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Hollywood’s love affair with Gov. Andrew Cuomo seemed innocuous at first.
Cuomo is a Democrat, and nearly every entertainment platform exists to promote Democratic politicians. That’s done either by generic fawning or avoiding inconvenient truths tied to said politicians.
So Cuomo’s extended love-fest with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Ben Stiller and other stars appeared par for the progressive course. Yet anyone savvy enough to browse all the media, not just the corporate press, knew something was seriously wrong with the adulation.
To paraphrase Chris Isaak, the governor had done “a bad, bad thing.”
 
 
His policies directly led to thousands of elderly people dying in nursing homes due to COVID-19. In Cuomo’s defense. the nation got caught flat-footed by the virus, and mistakes were made across the board.
Not everyone denied said mistakes, though, while promoting a book on his heroic leadership.
Cuomo did just that. Now, the receipts are coming in.
The media is dragging its feet on Cuomo’s potentially criminal negligence, which includes covering up the number of dead in his state. Some Democrats are demanding answers, though, and it may be a matter of time before Cuomo’s reckoning arrives.
For that Hollywood owes every single American a massive apology. Let’s not stop there, though. Celebrity Nation grossly mislead us on more than a few occasions. The following four ways spring immediately to mind.
 
Net Neutrality
 
Call it one of many, “the sky is failing” movements centered in Hollywood. Three years ago, the Trump administration’s FCC repealed Net Neutrality, a decision many celebrities decried as the end of the Internet, if not worse.
Both the Writers Guild of America West and the Directors Guild of America savaged the decision. Celebrities decried the ruling, too, predicting soaring Internet prices and a decrease in free speech.
“The medium that allows us to be great artists is under threat. Without a free and open internet, so much music, writing, film, art, culture, passion, and creativity would be lost,” they wrote. “For the artists of the future, and the culture of the future, we will not be silent.”
The latter did happen, but that came courtesy of Big Tech authoritarians, not anything connected to Net Neutrality. And most stars cheered on this development sans a molecule of irony.
 
Russian Collusion
 
Hollywood spent month after month obsession on this gargantuan Fake News story. They had a good excuse, though. The corrupt media led them along, sharing anonymous sources and other tactics to create a scandal where one didn’t exist.
Yet Team Late Night focused endless jokes on the subject, with Stephen Colbert famously calling President Donald Trump Vladimir Putin’s BLEEP holster.
 
 
Showtime even made a two-part miniseries that pretended all the revelations we’ve seen over the past year debunking the narrative never happened. The Comey Rule just snagged two Golden Globe nominations for peddling a Whitman’s Sampler of lies and distortions.
 
Defund the Police
 
The death of George Floyd changed America. Celebrities hoped that change would include less police officers walking the beat.
Celebrities like Natalie Portman, John Legend, Lizzo, Taraji P. Henson, The Weeknd, Jane Fonda, Common, America Ferrera and Brie Larson demanded we “defund the police.” Some got cute with the verbiage, but the message was clear. We’d be a safer society with less gainfully employed cops.
We now know what happened next. Some cities did reduce the number of police officers. Other officers were attacked, marginalized or simply retired rather than endure the cultural tsunami against their profession.
And, as a result, crime soared in major American cities in 2020, including Portland, Seattle, Chicago and New York..
The situation in Minneapolis, ground zero for the Defund movement, is almost comical if there weren’t so many lives at stake. Violent crime shot up more than 20 percent in the city, enraging locals who bore the brunt of those numbers.
… residents begged the city to hire more officers, citing longer response times and increased violent crime.
The city is doing just that, essentially admitting what fewer police means to everyday Minneapolis residents.
None of this affected stars with salaries large enough to enjoy safe, secure homes and security guards should the need arise.
 
Trump Is Hitler
 
Sarah Silverman and Louis C.K. helped start this noxious, fact-free movement. President Trump is either the new Hitler or a Nazi out to kill those who don’t look like him. We heard it across the celebrity culture for four years. Fading comedy king Judd Apatow screeched it. Linda Ronstadt, Eva Longoria, Kumail Nanjiani and more did the same.
Joss Whedon, credibly accused of harassment by a growing number of ex-colleagues, predicted Trump would start rounding up and killing gay people.
So where was the Hitler-like results? Reason just reported how similar the Biden administration’s border policies are to Trump’s, one area where the Hitler-Trump analogies blossomed.
It was hyperbole on steroids, and we’ll never hear an apology for it or any of the aforementioned movements.
It’s ironic that Hollywood cowers in fear of Cancel Culture, and various stars spit out hostage-like apologies when busted by the Woke Police. They won’t apologize for these far more legitimate wrongs, though.
[Cross-posted from Hollywood in Toto.] 

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A brand-new interview from Wednesday of former president Donald Trump on Newsmax has been taken down from YouTube.

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A Black Lives Matter activist who participated in riots following the August police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha was charged Friday with a felony for allegedly kicking in a door at the Kenosha Public Safety Building and saying he wanted to break an officer’s fingers. Clyde McLemore, 62, of Zion, Illinois, was charged Friday…

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The entire school board of one California school district has quit after their comments trashing parents were captured on video. The Oakley Union Elementary School District school board president, Lisa Brizendine, was the first to resign, followed by fellow board members Kim Beede, Erica Ippolito and Richie Masadas, according to Fox News. The trustees were…

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Race and gender in hiring are two keys to financial success for top McDonald’s executives, according to the company as it sets its course for the future. A press release on the McDonald’s website says that part of the bonuses awarded to top company executives will be based upon their efforts to hire women and…

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According to a Gallup poll published this week, nearly two-thirds of American adults believe that the Democratic and Republican parties “do such a poor job representing the American people that a third party is needed.” Gallup reported that this is the highest percentage of U.S. adults desiring a third party since it started polling on…

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Say goodbye to personal responsibility. A Louisiana woman, fresh out of göt2b Glued brand hairspray, decided to use Gorilla Glue spray as a substitute. After going through with her idea, though, she discovered that she couldn’t wash the spray out, which she had expected she would be able to do. Instead, she had to visit…

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Guest post by Col. Lawrence Sellin (Ret.)  

Despite exhaustive international research efforts, a natural source for the COVID-19 virus, whether directly from bats to humans or through an intermediate animal host, has not been identified.

Since the onset of the pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party, together with the support or acquiescence of the majority of the Western scientific community, have insisted that the COVID-19 virus was a naturally-occurring, animal-to-human transmission.

However, there is still no convincing scientific evidence that the COVID-19 virus originated from any natural source, whereas the evidence for a laboratory origin is extensive and increasing.

In the end, it is simply a matter of whether you want to believe a narrative shaped by those with vested interests or you want to believe the facts.

The genetic engineering and related laboratory techniques to manufacture a virus like COVID-19 have existed for more than 20 years.

Over time, those techniques have only become more sophisticated, such that it is now impossible to distinguish between a natural and a man-made virus.

The COVID-19 virus has a number of unique structural features that cannot be explained as products of a natural evolutionary process.

Those anomalies primarily affect the COVID-19 virus’ extraordinarily high infectivity rate of +100,000,000 compared to, for example, the 8,096 in the first 2002-2004 SARS pandemic.

That increase in infectivity is directly related to the enhanced ability of the COVID-19 virus to bind to and enter human cells, both of which can be achieved by laboratory manipulation.

The COVID-19 virus binds to human cells 10-20 times better than the 2002-2004 SARS virus (1,2).

From the beginning, the COVID-19 virus appeared to be well-adapted (3,4) even pre-adapted (5) for binding to human cells.

The COVID-19 virus did not undergo the same mutation and adaptation to humans over time as did the 2002-2004 SARS virus, but was already, from the beginning, resembling late-stage SARS infections, suggesting pre-adaptation (5).

Such pre-adaption for human infection can be accomplished in the laboratory by repeatedly exposing coronaviruses to genetically-engineered mice that have the human receptor, a process known as serial passage.

Since 2007, Chinese scientists have used humanized mouse models to experiment with coronaviruses starting with the 2002-2004 SARS virus (6).

The second unique feature of the COVID-19 virus affecting infectivity is the presence of a furin polybasic cleavage site, a structure that facilitates membrane fusion between the virus and human cells.

The furin polybasic cleavage site is essential for human infection (7) and is a structure known by Chinese scientists to also enhance pathogenicity (8), but a structure not found in any bat coronaviruses closely related to the COVID-19 virus (7).

The unique COVID-19 virus polybasic cleavage site insertion is a short sequence of the amino acids, proline-arginine-arginine-alanine or “PRRA.”

The combination of genomic nucleotides that codes for the two joint arginines (RR), a double cytosine-guanine-guanine or CGG-CGG sequence is extremely rare, being the only instance of it in the entire COVID-19 viral genome (9).

In addition, the presence of the structurally rigid amino acid proline in the PRRA insert is also unusual. It causes the furin polybasic cleavage site to protrude from the surrounding structure making it more accessible to the enzymes on the human cell surface, thereby facilitating virus entry.

Coupled with the surrounding structure, insertion of a rigid proline could increase antigenicity, making vaccine development easier, but such a feature is not advantageous to a virus undergoing natural evolution.

In 2004, at the end of the first SARS pandemic, a U.S. patent, entitled “Inserton of Furin Protease Cleavage Sites in Membrane Proteins and Uses Thereof” was filed describing how furin polybasic cleavage sites could be artificially inserted into viruses.

During the 17 years since that patent was filed, it has only been cited 23 times, one of which was by Chinese People’s Liberation Army-trained scientists Shibo Jiang and Shuwen Liu, who, in 2013, were artificially inserting furin polybasic cleavage sites in experiments involving viruses (10).

Shibo Jiang, Shuwen Liu and their Chinese colleagues, many of whom have connections to the People’s Liberation Army and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, would become major players in the coronavirus research leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic.

I have only provided the most obvious anomalies, but there are far more examples indicating that the COVID-19 virus was created in a laboratory.

After the first SARS pandemic, scientists attempted to predict the emergence of future outbreaks by experimenting with the structural features of bat coronaviruses, including genetic engineering.

It was hoped that such experiments could provide insight about how animal to human transmission evolves and, thus, be better prepared to prevent a pandemic by having the platforms in place for rapid diagnosis, treatment and vaccine development.

Instead, the laboratory manipulation of coronaviruses actually resulted in an artificial acceleration of evolution and the emergence of an entirely unique and more infectious pathogen, whose development can be documented in the chronology of scientific articles published between the first SARS pandemic and the onset of COVID-19.

Based on the available scientific evidence, the COVID-19 virus was the product of “gain of function” research, not a natural transmission from an animal host to humans.

Gain of function research is defined as when a naturally-occurring virus is genetically or otherwise manipulated to make it either more contagious, more lethal, or both.

There are only two reasons for conducting gain of function research, (a) to understand the structural features and actions of a virus to create a vaccine in anticipation of a potential disease outbreak or (b) to create a biological weapon, or both.

It is most likely that China was conducting parallel development of a unique genetically-engineered coronavirus pathogen and a vaccine to treat it.

One such approach has been the development of live-attenuated vaccines like those used for the childhood diseases measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox, in which a weakened or “attenuated” form of the virus that causes the disease is manufactured.

Because live-attenuated vaccines are so similar to the natural infection that they help prevent, a strong and long-lasting, even life-time immune response can be produced.

In a 2018 scientific article (11), Dr. Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina, a long-time collaborator with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, offered a strategy for the development of a broad-spectrum, live-attenuated vaccine for coronaviruses.

Baric also identified the inherent danger of live-attenuated virus vaccines, that they have been shown to revert back to their original pathogenic state after administration to a recipient.

China’s People’s Liberation Army acknowledged the advantages of live-attenuated COVID-19 vaccines for rapid development and the induction of high immune responses (12).

In two of my articles (13,14), I cited evidence supporting the argument that the COVID-19 virus originated in connection with China’s vaccine development program, in which, either the virus itself leaked or a live-attenuated virus reverted to its deadly form after human vaccination and escaped from laboratory containment or another controlled facility.

Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is retired from an international career in business and medical research with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. His email is lawrence.sellin@gmail.com

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