Cotton sent a letter to Raytheon chief executive Gregory Hayes on Tuesday, insisting that the company provide to him any staff training materials on diversity, equity and inclusion. He also asked Hayes to disclose information on any companies or individuals that the missile maker pays to present such classes. “One …
Read More »‘Who shot Ashli Babbitt?’ Trump asks, floating theory ‘head of security’ for top Democrat could have pulled trigger
In a Sunday interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, Trump described Babbitt as an “innocent, wonderful, incredible woman” and once again demanded that the identity of the shooter be released. “People want to know [who shot Ashli Babbitt] and why,” the former president claimed. Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was …
Read More »Jon Stewart, no! Ex-Daily Show host baffles fans by endorsing Wuhan lab leak theory that’s now apparently OK to discuss on TV
Appearing as the first guest on the first post-lockdown live show of his onetime Daily Show colleague Stephen Colbert on Monday night, at one point Stewart went on a rant about the origin of the coronavirus. “Oh my god, there’s a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China, what do we …
Read More »Stop hyping up ‘China threat theory,’ Beijing tells NATO, which labeled it ‘systemic challenge’ to security
The 30-nation military bloc said on Monday that “China’s stated ambitions and assertive behavior present systemic challenges to the rules-based international order and to areas relevant to Alliance security.” In particular, they noted that China is “rapidly expanding” its nuclear arsenal and conducts military drills with Russia. The NATO countries …
Read More »Push of Covid-19 ‘lab leak’ theory ‘no different’ from Iraq WMD lies – Chinese Embassy
The origin of Covid-19 is a subject of scientific inquiry that should not be politicized, embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu tweeted, adding: “The campaign to politicize the study of origins and smear China is no different from the lies about Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) 12 years ago.” The …
Read More »Same hype, different day? Beijing says US reporter pushing Covid lab-leak theory also fueled debunked Iraq WMD narrative
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin took aim at Michael R. Gordon, a national security correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and one of the authors of the report that added fuel to speculation about Covid-19’s lab origin. “Not long ago, Michael R. Gordon, an American journalist, by quoting a so-called …
Read More »Scientist who helped lead charge in squelching Covid-19 lab-leak theory BACKTRACKS, points to ‘disturbing information’ – media
Peter Palese, who runs a lab named in his honor at New York’s Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, was among 27 scientists who signed an influential statement in February 2020 blasting suggestions that Covid-19 may have leaked from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. “We stand together to strongly …
Read More »Republicans have politicized intelligence to push the Wuhan Lab leak theory – but Biden has called their bluff
On May 26, 2021, CNN broke a story which claimed that the Biden administration terminated a State Department investigation, launched in the fall of 2020 by former President Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the intent of which was to prove a controversial and disputed theory that Covid-19 originated …
Read More »It’s no surprise the Covid lab leak theory persists in the US, given its history of biological weapons
On Wednesday evening, after new claims surfaced in the Wall Street Journal, President Joe Biden issued an executive order requiring US intelligence to investigate Covid’s origins – and the specific consideration that it was a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology – giving it 90 days to do so. …
Read More »Now even Fauci accepts the lab leak theory of Covid-19 is ‘possible.’ Will the fact-checkers admit they were wrong? Of course not
According to his nemeses, Fauci has held his position for so many decades due less to his talent as a doctor and more to his relentless media schmoozing and glad-handing. This has served him well during the Covid-19 pandemic, which saw the same media that was supposed to be covering …
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