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'19 shootings in 54 hours. Stunning' Portland police chief slams city's spiraling violence - which has seen it break annual murder record - and blasts furious calls from woke critics to defund his department

  • Portland saw 19 shootings over 54 hours between early last Friday morning and Sunday evening, which the city's police chief called 'stunning'
  • The violence ended with a double homicide in the city's Old Town neighborhood
  • Suspect Michael VanDomelen, 45, was arrested after allegedly shooting the victims, an unidentified man and woman, while he was high on meth
  • Oregon became the first state in the USA to decriminalize the possession of small quantities of any illegal drugs, including crystal meth, in 2020
  • The two deaths are registered as Portland's 71st and 72nd homicide this year, surpassing the city's previous annual record of 70 set in 1987
  • Portland has had about 1,000 shootings with 314 people injured by bullets so far in 2021
  • Homicides increased by nearly 30% across the country from 2019 to 2020, FBI data shows
  • Police have blamed the rise of deadly crime on staff shortages and budget cuts
 
Latest proposal from Democrats, take soc sec, Medicare, food stamps and Medicaid from the unvaccinated.
 
On Wednesday, the NIH sent a letter to members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that acknowledged two facts. One was that EcoHealth Alliance, a New York City–based nonprofit that partners with far-flung laboratories to research and prevent the outbreak of emerging diseases, did indeed enhance a bat coronavirus to become potentially more infectious to humans, which the NIH letter described as an “unexpected result” of the research it funded that was carried out in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The second was that EcoHealth Alliance violated the terms of its grant conditions stipulating that it had to report if its research increased the viral growth of a pathogen by tenfold....

...the NIH letter—coming after months of congressional demands for more information—seemed to underscore that America’s premier science institute has been less than forthcoming about risky research it has funded and failed to properly monitor. Instead of helping to lead a search for COVID-19’s origins, with the pandemic now firmly in its 19th month, the NIH has circled the wagons, defending its grant system and scientific judgment against a rising tide of questions. “It’s just another chapter in a sad tale of inadequate oversight, disregard for risk, and insensitivity to the importance of transparency,” said Stanford microbiologist Dr. David Relman. “Given all of the sensitivity about this work, it’s difficult to understand why NIH and EcoHealth have still not explained a number of irregularities with the reporting on this grant.”
 
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More traffic deaths than usual is being blamed on covid. Uh. I thought people were driving less because of covid?
 
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