Liberal Phony "fact-checkers" collaborated to hide the real origins of COVID

 

In yet another black mark for social media censorship, it turns out that one of the key figures in the blocking of the February 2020 Post opinion column that floated the COVID lab-leak theory had a huge vested interest in suppressing the idea.  

Prominent virologist Danielle Anderson served as one of the loudest voices condemning Steven Mosher’s prescient and since-vindicated column, which explained that the pandemic might have started at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. But now it turns out she was deeply involved in the risky gain-of-function research that many analysts now believe may have led to the initial COVID outbreak. 

That is, she was protecting her own work, and that of her colleagues, from scrutiny and/or ill repute.

Anderson called our story “appalling” and “infuriating” and said claims that the institute was a bioweapons-research facility were “simply false.” Yet her name appeared on grants for projects working with coronaviruses, including one from the National Institutes of Health to Peter Daszak, a central figure in the global effort to demonize any talk of an unnatural origin for COVID (along with Anthony Fauci and other infectious-disease bigwigs).

Like most of the regular media, Facebook got conned into cracking the whip, banning our opinion piece as disinformation.  

Eventually, the State Department determined that the institute had “collaborated on publications and secret projects with China’s military” and built “a published record of conducting ‘gain-of-function‘ research to engineer chimeric viruses.” Plus, China’s government “prevented independent journalists, investigators and global health authorities from interviewing researchers” at the institute. 

Now the lab-leak theory has gained wide acceptance as a possibility. But we’ll likely never know for sure: Thanks to Anderson & Co., there was no pressure for an early independent investigation of the lab, and Beijing has surely destroyed any evidence.

It’s fresh proof that the fact-checking industry is more than merely dishonest and partisan, it’s dangerous — and that the effort to obscure the virus’ source came from the highest levels not just in China, but here at home. 

DeSantis Will be "me'zakeh" Biden with the Mitzvah of "Hachnosis Orchim" sending plane of migrants to Biden’s summer home

 

President Biden made light of the potential arrival of migrants at an airport near his “summer White House” in Delaware on Tuesday by sarcastically inviting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to the area.

During an unrelated event at the White House, Biden brushed off a reporter’s question about DeSantis’ apparent plan to send a planeload of migrants to the president’s home state, just days after targeting a posh liberal enclave in Massachusetts.

“He should come visit,” Biden cracked.

“We have a beautiful shoreline.”

Earlier, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the White House was bracing for the migrants’ pending arrival.

“We have received word of the flights,” Jean-Pierre said during an afternoon briefing.

“We are coordinating closely with state officials and local service providers who are prepared to welcome these families in an orderly manner as they pursue their asylum claims.”

Record Number of New Yorkers Moving to Florida

 

The COVID-driven rush of New Yorkers into Florida has turned into a stampede — with no end in sight.

A record-breaking number of Empire State residents switched their driver’s licenses to the Sunshine State version last month, according to a Post analysis of Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles data.

A total of 5,838 New Yorkers made the switch in August — the highest recorded number for a single month in history, the numbers show.

Year to date, 41,885 New Yorkers have handed over their licenses after moving south, a torrid pace that’s pointing to a new annual record.

Some observers had speculated that the outbound flow would ease with COVID receding and cities opening back up.

But the latest figures suggest otherwise.

Don Lemon Suggested Royal Family Should Pay Reparations. What Happened Next Is the Stuff of Legends.

 

CNN’s @DonLemon tells royal commentator Hilary Fordwich the royal family should pay reparations — immediately regrets it pic.twitter.com/LotCfBoAym

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 20, 2022

 “England is facing rising costs of living, a living crisis, austerity budget cuts, and so on. And then you have those who are asking for reparations for colonialism, and they’re wondering, you know, $100 billion, $24 billion here and there, $500 million there,” Lemon explained. “Some people want to be paid back, and members of the public are wondering, ‘Why are we suffering when you are, you know, you have all of this vast wealth?’ Those are legitimate concerns.”

Her response was epic. After initially giving the impression that she agreed with Lemon, she schooled him royally.

“Well, I think you’re right about reparations in terms of if people want it, though, what they need to do is you always need to go back to the beginning of a supply chain,” Fordwich replied. “Where was the beginning of the supply chain? That was in Africa, and when it crossed the entire world, when slavery was taking place, which was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery? The first nation world to abolish it, it was started by William Wilberforce, was the British. In Great Britain, they abolished slavery.”

She continued, “Two thousand naval men died on the high seas trying to stop slavery. Why? Because the African kings were rounding up their own people, they had them on cages waiting in the beaches. No one was running into Africa to get them. And I think you’re totally right.”

The look on Lemon’s face was priceless. Fordwich succeeded in agreeing with him, although for different reasons than he was obviously suggesting. And she wasn’t done with the lesson.

Biden’s “Unity” Event Bans Chassidim but Invites Antisemite Al Sharpton

 

Two well-known Charedim, and possibly other orthodox Jews, were apparently snubbed by President Biden last week.

Biden held a “unity” summit, but ironically excluded multiple religious Jews, including Duvi Honig. In addition the White House barred journalist Jake Turx from participating in the main event.

Making this especially painful was the fact that the orthodox community has been targeted by the exact hate crimes that the event was specifically designed to tackle.

The summit was requested by antisemite Al Sharpton following a mass shooting in Buffalo of 10 black shoppers. The event brought together hundreds of minority activists and community leaders, yet Orthodox Jews, who proportionally may be the biggest victims of hate crimes, struggled to be allowed in.

A group of four journalists from Ami magazine led by Turx were banned from the main event: a speech by Biden that was attended by hundreds.

For First Time In 2000 Years, 5 Kosher Para Adumahs Land In Israel

 

Temple Institute has exciting news to share about a major advance in efforts to raise a red heifer whose ashes can be used for purification-a huge step toward the building of the Holy Temple! Live FB feed at 5 PM Israel (USA, 10 AM Eastern - 7 AM Pacific) https://t.co/fpcF9xG7yU pic.twitter.com/jC1HbVquea

— Temple Institute (@TempleInstitute) September 15, 2022

 Hundreds of people gathered at Ben Gurion airport to witness an amazing and rare sight: Five kosher red heifers (Parah Aduma) which can be used for the purification of the dead.

For nearly 2000 years there has been no possibility for Jews to purify themselves are coming into contact with the dead, but the heifers, which have been checked and authorized by a number of rabbis, could enable this mitzvah to be fulfilled in the near future. According to the Rambam, the red heifer rites will be renewed at the time when Moshiach is near.

Iranian Forces Murder 5 of their own citizens During Protest Over Woman’s Death

 

Video of 10 years old child in Iran getting carried by a man after being shot in her head crate anger among Iranians.
Thu regime doesn't hesitate when it comes to murdering! The same regime try to convince the rest of the world that they didn’t murder #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/XvjUD1WJ7t

— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) September 19, 2022

 

More from Divandarreh, ##Kurdistan province: Kurdish youths "captured" two #Iranian police officers, beating them and forcing them to beg for their release.

Another example of the "barrier of fear" being broken. pic.twitter.com/bPQWayDCqG

— AbuAliEnglish (@AbuAliEnglishB1) September 19, 2022

Video of the Iranian people attacking their oppressors, the police, in Tehran today. #MahsaAmini #Iran pic.twitter.com/C4oIGQgKQj

— Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) September 19, 2022

 Iranian security forces killed five protesters who took to the streets of the capital on Monday to protest the death of a young woman who had been detained for violating the country’s conservative dress code.

Security forces fired on protesters in Iran’s Kurdish region, according to a report by the Hengaw Human Rights Organization. Five were killed, 75 were wounded, and at least 250 people were arrested.

Magen David Yeshiva asks transgender teacher to leave amid uproar over her identity

 

Talia Avrahami, a transgender woman who left her position at a Brooklyn yeshiva, after a controversy over her identity.

With her husband and daughter 

A transgender woman left her teaching position at an Orthodox Jewish New York City day school this week, after an uproar over her identity.

The teacher, Talia Avrahami, has faced widespread harassment in the past week over the issue and agreed on Friday to leave her position at the Magen David Yeshivah in Brooklyn.

“It’s sad to see that some people want to derail our lives,” Avrahami told The Times of Israel. “We’re questioning whether or not our entire lives are ruined or not. It’s tough.”

The school told her she was not a good fit for the social studies class.

The religious Jewish day school, or yeshiva, sent an email to parents over the weekend, saying, “Please be advised that beginning Monday, September 19th, your child will have a replacement teacher for Social Studies.”

“We respect this former instructor and after mutual agreement have parted ways in an amicable and professional manner,” the school told The Times of Israel. Avrahami said she could not discuss details of her resignation.

The incident has been widely discussed in online public forums in the religious New York Jewish community.

Avrahami was asked to leave days after the school’s “parents night,” when the students’ parents visit the school to meet with teachers.

One of the parents apparently filmed Avrahami introducing herself and the video spread quickly online and in group chats, stoking controversy, as some accused her of being a man masquerading as a woman.

Avrahami has since been targeted online and in person. She was attacked on social media, community sites ran stories with accusatory headlines, and she started receiving harassing messages from strangers, as her phone number and social media accounts circulated.

Lebanon Arrests American Yeshiva Student as a Spy then releases him

 

Lebanese security forces arrested an American Jew last week after finding out he had recently been in Israel, according to a Monday report.

He was detained in Beirut and released after several days, the Kan public broadcaster reported.

Lebanese authorities apparently suspected the man of espionage or collaborating with Israel, the report said.

The man in his 20s had recently studied in a Jerusalem yeshiva and arrived in Lebanon after visiting Cyprus. He intended to travel from Lebanon to the Kurdish region of Iraq, the report said.

Officials involved in the case told Kan that after the man arrived in Lebanon and went to his hotel, Lebanese security forces arrested him there because they had discovered he ordered the hotel reservation from Israel.

His passport also had markings indicating it had been used in Israel.

The incident was kept quiet in Lebanon, as American officials, including Congress members, pressed for the man’s release, the report said.

He was eventually released on Thursday or Friday and traveled from Lebanon to the United Arab Emirates, Kan reported.

The report comes as Israel and Lebanon navigate delicate US-brokered negotiations over access to offshore gas reserves.

Israel and Lebanon are technically at war and do not have diplomatic ties, and the powerful Lebanese Hezbollah terror group has repeatedly threatened Israel over the gas fields.

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said Monday the negotiations to end the maritime border dispute were in their “final stages.”

Prime Minister Yair Lapid expressed optimism but said Israel will extract gas from the Karish offshore field with or without an agreement.

A Conversation in Shul about the "Shidduch Crises"

 

A conversation in shul recently took place on a Sunday morning between a prominent lawyer talmid chochom and a mechanech.  The subject of the conversation was about a Kollel for single bochurim. The conversation went something like this:

Mechanech:  “The aim is to create Torah scholars for the next generation that are fully proficient in seder nezikin and Choshain Mishpat.  Twenty-five bochurim would be hand-picked for their commitment to learning Torah b’hasmadah, for their ability to study Torah in great depth, and for their ehrlichkeit.  The Kollel would pay the bochurim $50,000 per year in order to ensure that their financial needs would be met – allowing them to learn undisturbed.  The only condition of the Kollel is that the twenty-five bochurim must commit to remain in the Kollel until the age of forty, and to remain single during the duration.”

The response from the lawyer was, “WHAT?  That is against halacha!”

“Why?  It is for Torah growth.”

“But until forty?  I have never heard of such a thing.  Chazal tell us that one must marry young.  This is something that Gedolei HaDor, the einei yisroel must pasken.  And I highly doubt that this question was brought up to them.”

“But think of the future benefits..  Don’t you see the advantages of such an idea?”

“Yes, but I also see the disadvantages – The Gemorah encourages everyone to marry young.  Also, it would exasperate an already catastrophic shidduch situation.”

“Okay, but what would you say if they knocked down that last requirement to 35 years of age.  There are plenty of bochurim that do get married at 35.  Then would you agree that it is a good idea?”

“Absolutely not!  We don’t change what Chazal tell us – no matter what.”

“Well, you wouldn’t disagree with it  if it was until age 30.  If they adjusted the requirement until age 30 – then you would surely be behind it, no?”

“I would ask Gedolei Torah.  I would not go a day longer than what the Gedolim would say. But I still think that they would never agree to such an idea.