SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN "MY RECORD SPEAKS FOR ITSELF, I WILL VOTE FOR ANYTHING THAT MAKES RED CHINA STRONGER!"

Silicon Valley, and the Chinese Connection to Coronavirus Infection

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After Feinstein was elected to the Senate in 1992, Blum continued profiting off their ties to China. A the same time, the freshman lawmaker was pitching herself as a “China hand” to colleagues, even once claiming “that in my last life maybe I was Chinese.” HARIS ALIC

FEINSTEIN HAS SPENT HER POLITICAL LIFE STALKING THE HALLS OF CONGRESS SNIFFING OUT DEALS THAT PUT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN HER POCKETS.

SHE HAS AVOIDED PROSECUTION BY VOTING AGAINST ANY ETHICS BILLS AND HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM'S HANDING OUT "CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION" BRIBES TO EVERY DEMOCRAT OUT THERE!

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/07/she-ranks-as-one-of-most-corrupt-and.html

IN THE November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics experts.

“All in all, it was an incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red China than other any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon

“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes.  This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan  AMERICAN THINKER.com

Senator Who Employed Chinese Spy Endorses Joe Biden for President

 

HARIS ALIC

  

A high-profile U.S. senator with professional and personal ties to China — including once employing one of its spies — is backing former Vice President Joe Biden amid mounting questions over his son’s business dealings with the communist regime.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a former chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, announced her endorsement of the former vice president on Tuesday, claiming to have witnessed Biden’s “fortitude” and leadership during their overlapping tenures in Congress.

Feinstein said in a statement:

I’ve worked closely with Vice President Biden and I’ve seen firsthand his legislative ability, his statesmanship, and most importantly his moral fortitude (NO, IT’S NOT A JOKE, BUT THEN FEINSTEIN IS THE MOST SELF-SERVING CORRUPT POL IN U.S. HISTORY). During his time in Congress and in the White House, Joe Biden has been a tireless fighter for hard working (ILLEGALS) MEXICAN families.

Josh Hawley Proposes to Hold Chinese Accountable for Coronavirus Outbreak

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SEAN MORAN

14 Apr 202014

2:25

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) proposed legislation on Tuesday that would open up the Chinese government to litigation in American courts for its failure to contain the coronavirus outbreak.

Hawley introduced the Justice for Victims of COVID-19 Act, which would eliminate China’s sovereign immunity and create a private right of action against the Chinese government for gagging whistleblowers and withholding critical information regarding the coronavirus. Hawley’s legislation would also create a Justice for Victims of COVID-19 Task Force at the State Department to lead an international investigation into China’s handling of the pandemic and to obtain compensation from the Chinese.

He said in a statement on Tuesday:

There is overwhelming evidence that the Chinese Communist Party’s lies, deceit, and incompetence caused COVID-19 to transform from a local disease outbreak into a global pandemic. We need an international investigation to learn the full extent of the damage the CCP has inflicted on the world and then we need to empower Americans and other victims around the world to recover damages. The CCP unleashed this pandemic. They must be held accountable to their victims.

The Justice for Victims of COVID-19 Act would:

• Make the Chinese government liable for civil claims in U.S. courts by establishing a private right of action.
• Allow courts to freeze the Chinese government so victims can enforce their claims.

Hawley also recently introduced the Li Weliang Global Health Public Health Accountability Act with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) to allow sanctions against foreign officials who suppress information about international public health crises.

Hawley’s legislation follows as other lawmakers have also called to hold China accountable for spreading the coronavirus.

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) unveiled the Stop China-Originated Viral Infectious Disease (COVID) Act of 2020, or the Stop COVID Act, which would amend the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) to allow the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic and let the DOJ file claims against the Chinese Communist Party in the United States.

Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.

China's miserable bid to clean up its image falling flat

By Monica Showalter

After inflicting the coronavirus on the world, China thinks it's got a public relations problem, to say the least. Now it's trying to spiff up its image.

Which isn't working. Something this big isn't a job for the ad-men.

According to the Washington Post:

President Xi Jinping held a flurry of phone calls with world leaders to promise aid. More than 170 Chinese medical experts were dispatched to Europe, Southeast Asia and Africa. State media outlets flooded the Internet with photos of Chinese masks arriving in 100 countries and stories questioning the epidemic’s origins. Ambassadors inundated international newspapers with op-eds hailing the sacrifices Beijing made to buy time for other countries without acknowledging how the outbreak erupted in the first place.

One month later, that campaign has yielded mixed results. In many cases, it has outright backfired.

Defective masks, late arriving goodies, and outrageous propaganda that has been publicly blasted by America's leadership is generally behind the failure.

Their big mistake is in thinking that this is a problem that public relations can fix.

Fact is, the central problem is that the Chinese leadership covered this matter up and allowed a highly contagious disease to spread throughout the world, killing more than 100,000.

They hid the source of the problem by denying that there was a problem at all and telling organizations they seem to easily manipulate, such as the World Health Organization, that there was no human to human transmission. Nothing to see here, nothing to worry about.

They failed to shut their airports to travel until 5 million potentially exposed people got out, spreading the problem throughout the world while still hiding the problem. They hoarded medical supplies and bought up quite a few on world markets, leaving the rest of the world with nothing, and revealing their unreliability as a global supplier, a pretty selfish one at that. Worse still, they jailed dissident medics who first sounded the alarm (the main one died in jail), threw the sick by force into pens, and may have thrown at least some of the infected into furnaces. They also covered up the source of the problem by scrubbing clean the wet market where the virus is believed to have either originated or else taken off. And there is still that unsolved issue of whether the novel coronavirus started in a lab, or maybe started in a lab and accidentally spread into a nearby wet market, or something else. U.S. investigators who sought to help pinpoint the origin in order to devise a plan to prevent its spread, were of course kept out of the country. Vilest of all, once they realized they had soiled their image and made themselves internationally unpopular, they spread the absolute lie that the killer virus was brought in by visiting U.S. servicemen.

These aren't problems that a good public relations campaign is going to fix.

The Chicoms who did this are going to be lucky if they just lose their special status as the only representative of China and the rest of the world doesn't go ahead and extend recognition to Taiwan, whose response to the outbreak has been exemplary. After that, they can decide if they want to still trade with the world or not trade with the world, the U.S. is more than capable of replacing them in manufacturing. There are plenty of Americans who want to sue the pants of off them and some are going to try. Meanwhile, U.S. investors already are showing leeriness toward investing in U.S. stocks after that performance, Thursday's IBDLive revealed just that sentiment.

People who work in public relations can tell you that when a screwup is so big, so global, so mighty, so overwhelming, spin control does not work. The only way out when the problem is big is to admit guilt, pay reparations, and put in place significant reforms. We see that approach going on with the FBI scandal, and we see that with the Catholic Church pedophile scandals. Germany after Hitler is pretty much the original model for this.

China still thinks its problem is one that spin control can handle.

Which is why it's backfiring, as the WaPo notes. They have in fact killed off all confidence in their global ambitions and aren't likely to get out of this one. So long as President Trump is president and their enablers are out on their ear, their efforts are going to fall flat. Sure, some lefties are attempting to repeat their propaganda in a bid to Get Trump (CNN here), but the ugly reality remains widespread that China is guilty here, in so many ways, and needs to make real amends.

The Chicoms who did this need to admit their coverup guilt, to start, on all fronts where they attempted to hide the truth.

They need to end the wet markets with exotic animals, a relic of the Mao starvation period where people learned to eat anything. No more bat soup. No more pangolin chops.

They need to provide a full reckoning of the laboratory theory of the disease's orgin, and how it may be connected to the wet market origin theories.

They need to come clean about their own death tolls, which most experts believe are a lot higher than they are claiming.

They need to answer questions about those furnaces.

They need to leave their own citizen journalists, who first alerted the world to the problem, alone.

They need to drop their underhanded sponsorship of the World Health Organization and end their medding in such bodies in general.

They need to repudiate their propaganda blaming America and apologize.

Outside that, any PR is total nonsense. If they can't do that, their legitimacy remains in question and one can only hope that their time in power remaining is short. Let what happens, happen.

Image credit: Pixabay public domain

Josh Hawley Proposes to Hold Chinese Accountable for Coronavirus Outbreak

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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

SEAN MORAN

14 Apr 202014

2:25

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) proposed legislation on Tuesday that would open up the Chinese government to litigation in American courts for its failure to contain the coronavirus outbreak.

Hawley introduced the Justice for Victims of COVID-19 Act, which would eliminate China’s sovereign immunity and create a private right of action against the Chinese government for gagging whistleblowers and withholding critical information regarding the coronavirus. Hawley’s legislation would also create a Justice for Victims of COVID-19 Task Force at the State Department to lead an international investigation into China’s handling of the pandemic and to obtain compensation from the Chinese.

He said in a statement on Tuesday:

There is overwhelming evidence that the Chinese Communist Party’s lies, deceit, and incompetence caused COVID-19 to transform from a local disease outbreak into a global pandemic. We need an international investigation to learn the full extent of the damage the CCP has inflicted on the world and then we need to empower Americans and other victims around the world to recover damages. The CCP unleashed this pandemic. They must be held accountable to their victims.

The Justice for Victims of COVID-19 Act would:

• Make the Chinese government liable for civil claims in U.S. courts by establishing a private right of action.
• Allow courts to freeze the Chinese government so victims can enforce their claims.

Hawley also recently introduced the Li Weliang Global Health Public Health Accountability Act with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) to allow sanctions against foreign officials who suppress information about international public health crises.

Hawley’s legislation follows as other lawmakers have also called to hold China accountable for spreading the coronavirus.

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) unveiled the Stop China-Originated Viral Infectious Disease (COVID) Act of 2020, or the Stop COVID Act, which would amend the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) to allow the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic and let the DOJ file claims against the Chinese Communist Party in the United States.

Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.

How Long has the Chinese Coronavirus Really Been in America?

By Brian C.Joondeph, MD

Buried behind news headlines screaming about social distancing, ventilators, and death counts is the timeline and origins of the Chinese coronavirus in America. At the daily task force briefings, media dimwits seek only to play “gotcha” with the president, begging him to take responsibility for anything and everything and quibbling over which governor asked for how many ventilators and when.

Yet they are surprisingly incurious over the origins of this virus and when it first appeared in the U.S. The basketball player and scarf lady (Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx) are happy to use models to look forward, but hopefully can take a look backward, too.

It’s hard to know where we are going if we don’t know where we have been. The forward models having been changing faster than spring weather. In mid-March, without social distancing and other measures, per the IHME model, the U.S. was looking at 2.2 million deaths.

The IHME model reduced its death projection in early April to 100,000 to 240,000 even assuming social distancing measures in place. At the time of this writing, the model now projects only 60,415 deaths, only 3% of original predictions. What changed? Social distancing was in already in place when the death predictions dropped by a factor of four.

Not to minimize any deaths, but in perspective, this is the fatality count for a bad flu season. 61,000 died in the 2017-18 flu season.

Models can also look backward, which as any gambler knows, is a much better way to win than looking forward. What do the models say about when the Wuhan virus first appeared in America?

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The New York Times reports, that through analyzing viral genomes, “The coronavirus began to circulate in the New York area by mid-February.” If was circulating at that time, it’s logical to assume that it first appeared weeks or months before that, perhaps in December or January.

The early cases may have been attributed to the flu. Even sick flu patients can wind up in an ICU on a ventilator. In December or January, American physicians would not have known of COVID-19 and there certainly weren’t any tests for it. Our local ICUs had some nasty flu cases in December and January, many requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), typically reserved for the sickest of the sick patients.

California noticed the same. From Patch on January 10:

So far this flu season, California health officials have identified 19 outbreaks since the start of the flu season on Sept. 29. Through Jan. 4, 70 people have died from the flu statewide, according to state officials.

Influenza activity began increasing in early November in California, which was a few weeks earlier than other recent seasons. Influenza activity in California continues to increase. Since influenza is unpredictable, we do not know how long the high level of activity will last and what the overall severity level of the season might ultimately be.

How many of those cases were from the coronavirus? Without an awareness of that flu strain or a test, we may never know. But the “anecdotal evidence,” so despised by the basketball player, logic suggests that the Chinese virus may have arrived in California last fall.

Fortunately, President Trump instituted a travel ban on Jan. 31 restricting entry into the U.S. of those who were recently in China. Italy didn’t lock down cities until late February with Trump banning travelers from Europe on March 11.

The China travel ban may have helped California, but not New York, as genomic analysis revealed that most of the New York cases came via Europe, not directly from China.

In my home state of Colorado, “Health officials now believe the new coronavirus was circulating in Colorado as early as mid-January, about six weeks before the state even had the ability to test people for the disease.” These individuals, if extremely sick, might test negative for influenza and other known viruses, yet might still have a rough course just as the current COVID-19 patients are experiencing.

Again, if cases were circulating in the U.S. in mid-January, first cases were a month or two earlier, some symptomatic, some asymptomatic, but all below the radar.

Where were these first patients coming from? U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports, “Some 14,000 people flew into the U.S. from China each day — almost 5 million for that year.” Let me repeat, 14,000 people each day.

This was likely higher during the Christmas holidays with American students studying in China, and vice versa, returning home in December, then back to school in January. How many of these young people were asymptomatic carriers, bringing the Wuhan virus to parents, grandparents, and their professors?

Interestingly New York was hit much harder than California despite the stay-at-home order for California March 19 versus March 22 in New York, only a three-day difference. It is likely infected individuals arrived in California first, due to its proximity to China, unlike New York where infected patients arrived via China through Europe.

But New York also had an early and deadly flu season. As reported in late December,

State health officials said the total number of confirmed cases this season in New York is 8,253 with one official saying there are “more cases at this point in time than the past three flu seasons.

California had a flatter case curve compared to New York. Perhaps warmer winter weather and a lower population density in most of California compared to New York City slowed the spread, allowing natural herd immunity to develop.

Tracing back further, when did cases first appear in China? According to medical journal The Lancet, the first case in Wuhan was identified on December 1, 2019. From one case to, “A cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause occurred in Wuhan starting on Dec. 21, 2019.”

If the first case was noted on Dec. 1, there were likely cases in the month or two before, asymptomatic, mild, or severe, but attributed to the flu, not a virus yet unknown.

Peeling the onion back further, did this virus originate in a wet market or a level 4 biosecurity lab, coincidently located in Wuhan? Did this virus develop naturally or was it engineered? If it came from a lab, was it released accidentally or deliberately? Interesting questions without answers.

The Epoch Times tries to answer these questions via a documentary video on the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus. Will China answer those questions? President Trump should invite President Xi to a task force briefing and see if any intrepid journalists ask these questions rather than blow smoke up his derriere. Don’t hold your breath. Communist governments have a propensity to control the news, just as the Soviets did following the Chernobyl disaster.

It appears that this virus first developed last fall, much earlier than reported, and was promptly brought to the U.S. via some of the 14,000 passengers from China to the U.S. each day. Flu cases began appearing in the U.S. in late fall and early winter, worse in number and severity than in typical seasons.

Although a rapid influenza test exists, there can be false positives and false negatives. No one can be certain how many of these cases might have been coronavirus rather than influenza.

Some were getting extremely sick and dying, others recovering, much like we are seeing now, but today we have a name for it, unlike last fall. Have the models factored in such an early origin for the virus? Probably not, which is why the models are continuously downgraded, each more in line with some of the U.S. population already being infected beginning late last fall.

China, working with the World Health Organization, downplayed or suppressed news from China, leaving the rest of the world to play catch up. Fear mongering from the media and inaccurate models not reflecting the early origins of coronavirus lead to most of the world shutting down their economies for weeks or months.

Perhaps the smart set got it wrong. Let’s see if any curious journalists ask the basketball player or scarf lady if the Chinese coronavirus was already here late last fall. Or will the silent war continue?

Brian C. Joondeph, MD, is a Denver-based physician and freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in American Thinker, Daily Caller, Rasmussen Reports, and other publications. Follow him on Facebook,  LinkedIn, Twitter, and QuodVerum.