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Former Seattle Police Chief Says Media Downplayed Violence At CHOP To Make It Appear Peaceful

Former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, who resigned last summer after the Seattle City Council voted to cut millions of dollars from the Seattle Police

“I have now asked the intelligence community to redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in 90 days,” Mr. Biden said. “As part of that report, I have asked for areas of further inquiry that may be required, including specific questions for China.”

Biden Calls for Intelligence Report on Origins of Covid-19

The president has asked the U.S. intelligence community to report to him within 90 days on questions surrounding the origins of the virus as scrutiny persists over a possible laboratory leak in Wuhan, China.

Maybe China believes in itself unlike a certain civilization filled with trendy self-loathing.

Why is ethnic fraud so common in academia? Because it pays. The more important question is why does it pay?

The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t

More than a decade ago, a prominent academic was exposed for having faked her Cherokee ancestry. Why has her career continued to thrive?

The problem with current CRISPR-based gene drive systems is that they can spread indefinitely—potentially affecting every population of the target species throughout the world. It’s unclear how such “global” drives can be safely tested, much less whether nations will ever agree to use them. To return power to the hands of local communities, we devised a new form of drive system called a “daisy drive” that can only affect local environments. The trick was to teach DNA to count and limit gene drive spreading to a pre-programmed number of generations. We hope that daisy drives will simplify decision-making and promote responsible use by allowing local communities to decide how to solve their own ecological problems.

Project Overview ‹ Daisy Drives – MIT Media Lab

Who should decide whether, when, and how to alter the environment? These are hard questions, especially when the decisions will impact people in many differe…

“You gotta go where the action is,” Fauci explained on Tuesday, as he faced questions about the increasingly popular lab-origin theory from Republicans during testimony before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. …

“It would have been almost a dereliction of our duty if we didn’t study this,” Fauci said on Tuesday, meaning that cooperation with Chinese authorities was necessary. “You don’t want to study bats in Fairfax County, [Va.,] to find out what the animal-human interface is that might lead to a jumping of species.”

Fauci defends cooperation with Chinese lab to study coronavirus origins

With questions persisting about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top science adviser to the Biden administration, defended having previously helped fund research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese laboratory where some believe the pathogen known as SARS-CoV-2 …

Europeans gasped with horror when Belarusian authorities forced a Ryanair flight to land in Minsk to detain a young journalist.

Why Belarus’s brazen dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, thinks the West can do little to stop him / Twitter

Is it time to end sanitation theater? Hygiene theater will end right around the time security theater does.

Child in 2019 taking off his shoes prior to boarding plane: “Daddy what’s 9/11?’

Child turning briefly from Zoom in 2039: “Daddy, what’s air travel?”

Is it time to do away with hygiene theatre? Experts say yes / Twitter

Why are Biden and the media suddenly open to the former “conspiracy theory” of a lab origin of the coronavirus pandemic. First it was never purely a conspiracy theory. From the beginning many reputable experts urged the possibility be investigated. What may be happening is the tide is turning within the bureaucratic scientific establishment. As we learn more about the virus and the so-called missing link continues to be missing it is becoming increasingly difficult to blithely accept the original MSM assurance.

What really terrified the dogs chasing the China car was not the lack of science but what to do if they caught it.

WSJ News Exclusive | Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate on Covid-19 Origin

Three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a U.S. intelligence report, fueling debate over Covid-19’s origin.

It has all of the elements of a Jason Bourne plot: A commercial flight carrying a dissident journalist is intercepted by a MiG-29 fighter jet under orders from the strongman president of Belarus.

Who Is Roman Protasevich, the Captive Journalist in Belarus?

Mr. Protasevich, 26, is an exiled dissident whose reach drew an authoritarian ruler into a gambit that outraged Western governments.

New at the Belmont Club. Religions in disguise.

Every Revolutionary is a Prophet of Sorts

Hijacking the kernel of our human operating system

You forgot to mention high tuition and a fantasy world vieew.

The further difficulty with using virtue as a source of foreign policy legitimacy is that the Biden administration keeps denouncing America as racist, neo-colonial, greedy capitalist, transphobic, patriarchal society only recently ruled by a new Hitler.

Can the U.S. Lead a Human-Rights Alliance Against China?

The Biden administration is trying to counter Beijing by highlighting its violations of democratic rights and values. But some of America’s partners hesitate to choose sides—and others have repressive records of their own.

So they can report what should have been said rather than what was.

Reporters have to get quotes approved by White House before publishing: report

The White House is demanding that reporters who conduct interviews with administration officials do so under conditions known as “background with ​quote approval,” Politico reported.

The flying saucer always lands in the Washington mall. Or does it? What would you do if an event occurred which upser your entire stock of conventional wisdom?

UFOs are about to make their way to the U.S. Senate. Here’s what to know.

U.S. intelligence agencies are expected to deliver a report on “unidentified aerial phenomena” to Congress next month, sparking renewed interest in UFOs.

Not peace but protracted war. The new Hamas rocket arsenal creates a persistent threat as do clashes make the possible ‘new normal’ an indefinite low-intensity conflict.

Anthony Fauci said though the US is not requiring everyone get the COVID-19 vaccine, he expects individual businesses will.

Anthony Fauci said he thinks universities, cruise ships, and airlines will require proof of COVID-19 vaccines before letting people in

Fauci, chief medical advisor to the president, said airlines and cruises will likely require customers to show proof of getting a COVID-19 vaccine.

“How to crop an image is a decision best made by people.”

Twitter scraps image-cropping algorithm after allegations of racial bias

After social media exploded with allegations that Twitter’s image-cropping algorithm had a racial bias, the company said it decided to drop automated cropping.