[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Senators are demanding answers about a laboratory in Montana where US taxpayer money was used to manipulate coronaviruses before the pandemic.
DailyMail.com revealed last week how government-sponsored researchers infected bats with a 'SARS-like' virus in 2018 as part of a collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is at the center of the Covid cover-up scandal.
Republican Senators Joni Ernst, from Iowa, and Eric Schmitt, from Missouri, will today send a letter to the National Institutes of Health demanding 'to learn more about potentially risky research’ carried out at Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML).
The senators’ letter, seen by DailyMail.com, reads: ‘There is no room for error and no excuse for carelessness, since even a minor mishap can be catastrophic when dealing with dangerous biological agents, especially those with pandemic potential.’
The letter lays out 10 questions, including how many live bats are currently being housed at the lab and future planned experiments.
The senators' letter highlighted the lab had previously reported a number of protocol breaches, including a mouse infected with an Ebola-like virus escaping its cage and roaming free for a day and unauthorized individuals, including a child, found wandering near the lab’s primate facility.
The CDC was not alerted immediately about the breaches because, the letter states, lab officials 'did not believe they needed to report the escaped rodent but later did when instructed to by CDC officials.'
The revelation last week was met with anger among politicians who said it revealed eerie ties between the NIH, which was under Dr Anthony Fauci's leadership at the time, and the Chinese lab feared to have sparked the global Covid-19 pandemic.
It also exposed the controversial research tactics being funded by American taxpayer dollars.
The 2018 collaboration saw Rocky Mountain researchers infect 12 Egyptian fruit bats that had been acquired from a shady, 'roadside' Maryland zoo.
The animals were infected with a 'SARS-like' virus called WIV1-coronavirus to study the virus' behavior and transmissibility. The virus had been shipped from the Wuhan lab the FBI believes caused the Covid pandemic, though the research determined the novel virus could not cause a 'robust infection.'
Rocky Mountain Laboratories was constructed in 1928 in Hamilton, Montana, and is a 'state-of-the-art biomedical research facility,' the NIH said. A key component of the facility is its research into vector-borne diseases, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease, as well as coronaviruses and antibiotic-resistant diseases.
Now, the lab is spending $125 million in Covid-19 funds to construct a new biosafety level 2 lab that will support animal breeding, holding and experiment programs, as well as quarantine for animals classified as biosafety levels 3 and 4.
The new facility will also expand RML’s capabilities for studies involving exotic species, including bats.
The senators added they are also concerned about the work the NIH is doing with the non-profit scientific research organization EcoHealth Alliance.
Senator Joni Ernst told DailyMail.com in a statement: 'We have watched the horror movie of Chinese state-run Wuhan Lab’s experiments on coronaviruses in bats, and I have worked to defund Ecohealth’s dangerous projects.
'To willingly allow the sequel to happen at the taxpayers’ expense is plain batty. But under Fauci’s leadership, Rocky Mountain Lab has increased its risky research of pandemic potential.
'We cannot allow what happened in Wuhan on our own shores, which is why I’m working to prevent any future lab leak.'
The RML has a long and ongoing history of collaborating with the organization, which the lawmakers describe as ‘the virus-hunting group that steered US taxpayer dollars into the Wuhan Institute for research on bat coronaviruses.’
They said EHA violated the health agency’s grant policies by not notifying officials when EHA’s subcontractor, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, enhanced coronaviruses in its labs and repeatedly refused requests to provide documents about those experiments, which, the senators claim, could contain crucial clues about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The senators added: ‘Needless to say, we are deeply concerned [the] NIH continues to invite this shady organization to collaborate, especially on pandemic prevention studies, since the group has thus far not prevented any pandemics, but may have caused one.
‘Quite frankly, it sounds way too much like a bad sequel to a horror movie, featuring the same cast of characters and predictable plot.
‘We would, therefore, like to learn more about RML’s past, present and future experimentation with select agents and dangerous pathogens as well as collaborations with EcoHealth Alliance.’
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There is part of northern lower Michigan where I have a huge number of cousins. For decades I've been scanning one of the local papers obituary columns for news of any of them passing on. Starting about Nov. 2019 I noticed a huge spike in death listings among the elderly -- that is a basic took of all epidemiologists, simply to note whether the trend line of deaths is steady or suddenly going upward. The upward spike indicates something new is at loose among the population of an area. I mentioned this to many of my relatives up there at the time. When COVID was announced, I had a notion that it had been loose among the population months prior to it even being identified. I've not read much news coverage about autopsies / post mortem studies indicating whether or not COVID was very common in the USA starting in about October 2019.
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Yes, Grom. But now the free staff/stuff is being doled out to their replacements and it seems they are getting wise to that. Maybe it'll smarten 'em up to some other matters as well. We can only hope.
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^So, after two generations of free staff, they'll go back to being citizens?
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Joe still has the chest feeder vote locked up, shackled and duct taped to a chair.
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The donkey sniffs, winking seductively.
"We're not much for thinking deductively,
We voters with uteruses...
And Chinese computeresses...
But, boy, are we free reproductively!"
EXCLUSIVE: I have Uncovered screenshots from the X account of Dawn Marie Engoron, the wife of Leftist NYC Judge Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing the civil fraud against President Trump shows that she has been posting attacks on Trump from her account @dm_sminxs as the trial is… https://t.co/LynqZsciizpic.twitter.com/07xcIo7Kma
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Who is Fran Engoron 70 of NY NY who advises investors to do the exact same thing Arthur Engoron had put Trump on trial for doing? Just curious. Ran across her general info early this morning.
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Are they going for a slam-dunk reversal on appeal, or what?
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There has been much talk about gag orders but I am more susceptible to my gag reflex after seeing the judge shirtless. He is as beefy as Don Knotts.
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Wait, he is married? To a woman?
Cuz those pics look classic post-recess bath house ads.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Early results from Seattle's Tuesday election have revealed that the three defund the police City Council incumbents are trailing behind their moderate challengers.
Given that it’s Seattle, those moderates are no doubt still firmly far left.
Seven of nine council positions are up for election this cycle. Four incumbents, including Marxist Kshama Sawant, decided not to run again,
...and thank goodness for that!
leaving several seats open as the Emerald City continued to deal with the fallout of the council’s radical policies on public safety, homelessness, and addiction.
Councilmember Tammy Morales, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, who advocated in favor of looting during the riots that rocked the city in 2020, was trailing her challenger Tanya Woo (45 to 54 percent) for the South Seattle District 2 position. This district includes some of the hardest hit areas by the spike in crime since the council voted to defund the police in 2020.
Over 600 officers have fled the department since 2020.
Woo ran on the issue of public safety, representing the Chinatown/International District, which has been one of the areas hardest hit by crime.
Incumbent Dan Strauss, currently representing District 6, is barely leading challenger Pete Hanning (51 to 49 percent). Strauss also supported defunding the police and was proposing more taxes for his second term.
Strauss was pummeled by constituents for failing to address rampant drug use and homelessness in parks in the district. Hanning accused Strauss of being a "political wind sock" in his decision-making.
Councilmember Andrew Lewis is trailing retired Navy officer Bob Kettle, 56 to 44 percent. The former city prosecutor, who had a track record for not prosecuting prolific offenders, supported the defund the police movement and caved to activists. He initially scuttled a bill making drug possession illegal in the city, which led to a de facto legalization of narcotics.
He sounds like a perfect Soros DA.
Lewis proudly posted a selfie with his fellow councilmembers, including Strauss, marching with Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... against the city’s police during the riots of 2020 that preceded the deadly autonomous zone.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Addressing the news that the House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed Biden family members and an associate, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre The Talking Mop
called the investigation into Biden family overseas dealings a "baseless smear campaign."
Noting that the news was just breaking and referring news hounds to the Oversight representatives, Jean-Pierre said, "I will have to say something that I've said many times. This is an investigation that has been going on for a year now and has turned up zero evidence of wrongdoing by the president, because there is none."
"But Republicans continue to double down on a baseless, baseless smear campaign against the president and his family, instead of being focused on the American people's needs, what they're asking for, what is it that they really truly want us to focus on."
"They continue to double down on this, and there are a lot of important issues that we need to deal with, not just us here in the White House, but also Congress: national security, the economy, health care, gun violence, that's what we should be focusing on, but they continue to try to smear this President and his family on a baseless, baseless investigation."
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Hunter Biden, James Biden, and Biden family associate Rob Walker on Wednesday afternoon.
The House Oversight Committee chairman has also requested additional Biden family members and their associates to appear for transcribed interviews including Sara Biden, Hallie Biden, Elizabeth Secundy, Melissa Cohen, and Tony Bobulinski.
Hunter Biden is ordered to appear before Congress on Dec. 13, James Biden on Dec. 6, and Rob Walker on Nov. 29.
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[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] On Tuesday, voters in Northampton County, Pennsylvania took to the polls to cast their ballots in the municipal election. Using digital voting machines, residents made their choices, which were then recorded on a printed slip.
While the vast majority of votes were recorded properly, it was quickly revealed that for one question on the ballot regarding the retention of two Pennsylvania Superior Court judges, the "yes" and "no" options on the paper copy were the opposite of what had been punched in on the computer.
As the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reports, voters were asked to choose "yes" or "no" as to whether Judges Jack Panella and Victor Stabile should be retained for another 10-year term. Due to a coding error, however, whichever answer was chosen for Panella showed up for Stabile, and vice versa.
Upon being informed of the issue, authorities investigated and discovered that while the paper slips were inaccurate, the computers had properly recorded the actual answers to their memory cards.
"What you read and what the computer reads are two different things," Northampton County director of administration, Charles Dertinger, said during a presser later in the day. "The computer does not read the text that is printed out."
An estimated 300 voting machines, the entirety of those in the county, were impacted by the error, however officials quickly obtained a court order allowing them to continue being used.
In an interview with the AP, Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure called it a "relatively minor glitch" and reiterated that "everybody's vote's going to count."
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2nd most fair election. They almost tied but one Penn county mucked it up.
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[MAIL] The so-called 'porn Dem,' Susanna Gibson, lost her Virginia House of Delegates race Tuesday, after webcam videos of her having sex with her husband were exposed.
Republican businessman David Owen bested Gibson by less than 1,000 votes, final results showed.
Gibson's race was one of the most watched during Tuesday's off-off-year elections after she became embroiled in an eyebrow-raising scandal involving livestreaming sex acts with her husband for tips.
Her district was also rated one of the seven most competitive in the commonwealth, as Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin tried to retain the House of Delegates and flip the Democratic state Senate, in order to enact a 15-week abortion ban.
While Democrat Gibson fell short, so did Republican Youngkin, who lost control of the House of Delegates and failed to flip the state Senate, meaning he'll be facing divided government the next two years, killing any sort of conservative agenda.
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"The most dangerous place in... uh... ma'am?"
An old delegate gasped and drawled, "Damn!"
As Eileen Filler-Corn
Closed her eyes -- "Please, no pr0n!" --
Gibson rams her en route to the cam.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] On Wednesday, Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... appeared on ABC's The View and, once again, compared Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... to Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... In a rant about the threats posed by those with authoritarian tendencies, the former secretary of state and failed Democratic presidential candidate mentioned Der Fuhrer and the Don in the same breath, appearing to treat them as equivalent.
"People would get legitimately elected, and then they would try to do away with elections, do away with opposition, and do away with the free press,"On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton appeared on ABC's The View and, once again, compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.
In a rant about the threats posed by those with authoritarian tendencies, the former secretary of state and failed Democratic presidential candidate mentioned Der Fuhrer and the Don in the same breath, appearing to treat them as equivalent.
"People would get legitimately elected, and then they would try to do away with elections, do away with opposition, and do away with the free press," Clinton began. "Hitler was duly elected, right? So all of a sudden, somebody with those ... dictatorial, authoritarian tendancies would be like 'ok we're gonna shut this down, we're gonna throw these people in jail, and they didn't usually telegraph that."
"Trump is telling us what he intends to do," she continued. "Take him at his word. The man means to throw people in jail who disagree with him, shut down legitimate press outlets, do what he can to literally undermine the rule of law and this country's values."
Earlier in the interview, Clinton said that if Trump were to win in 2024, it would spell "the end of our country as we know it."
"I don't say that lightly," she added. "I hated losing, and I especially hated losing to him because I had seen so many warning signals during the campaign."
Clinton claimed that she tried to give Trump a chance after he was elected in 2016, but that "from his innauguration on it was nothing but accusing of things, making up facts ... everything that I worried about."
"I think he'd be even worse now," she suggested, "because he was somewhat restrained in the first term ... so now he is going to ... find people who have no principles, no conscience."
Clinton began. "Hitler was duly elected, right? So all of a sudden, somebody with those ... dictatorial, authoritarian tendancies would be like 'ok we're gonna shut this down, we're gonna throw these people in jail, and they didn't usually telegraph that."
"Trump is telling us what he intends to do," she continued. "Take him at his word. The man means to throw people in jail who disagree with him, shut down legitimate press outlets, do what he can to literally undermine the rule of law and this country's values."
Earlier in the interview, Clinton said that if Trump were to win in 2024, it would spell "the end of our country as we know it."
"I don't say that lightly," she added. "I hated losing, and I especially hated losing to him because I had seen so many warning signals during the campaign."
Clinton claimed that she tried to give Trump a chance after he was elected in 2016, but that "from his innauguration on it was nothing but accusing of things, making up facts ... everything that I worried about."
"I think he'd be even worse now," she suggested, "because he was somewhat restrained in the first term ... so now he is going to ... find people who have no principles, no conscience."
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Nobody cares what she has to say anymore.
I care, in a clinical sense. My mother is the most bitter and resentful person I've ever known. Hillary takes these notions to a stratospheric level I can barely comprehend; must be tied to the entitlement gene or something. Any armchair psychiatrists out there who'd like to weigh in here - have at it.
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Last time I checked it wasn't Trump accused of:
Murdering enemies, Covering up her husband flings, NDA bribery, blackmail, and the deaths of 10's of 1,000's due to P-Poor Sec. Of State mgt.
Plus Hillary's campaign and mgt style has a National Democrat Socialist agenda. Which is what NAZIS were.
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Trump believes that rational thinking and hard work would allow anyone to succeed, plus apathy and laziness should not be rewarded, so we can't have that.
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"Trump is telling us what he intends to do," she continued. "Take him at his word. The man means to throw people in jail who disagree with him, shut down legitimate press outlets, do what he can to literally undermine the rule of law and this country's values."
#8
Make no mistake about it, there are people in the USA who belong in "camps."
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Hey... when Hillary and Bill came to my old school section in the University (long after I was gone and it had gone totally degenerate) they were attempting to recruit radical left supporters for Bill's first run at governor of Ark.. Only then the remaining folk still in that school in the late 70s were LGBQ and deranged druggies... so..
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If Hillary's friends are reading this... yes the place with the word "Centennial" in it's name and founded by the Maoist who had taken the young communists to visit the PRC in 1964 and later helped Kissinger set up his back door to China under Nixon.
"Hamas, we know, embeds missiles, embeds command-and-control units in civilian areas."
"Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional."
But she & her LSD political party leadership side with PLO/Palestine/HAMAS/Arab Islamic Spring & gave IRAN Plane loads ($$$Billions) to fund terrorism ?
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The women on the The View are nasty, ugly and dishonest. They're all like Hillary. They have that kind of ugly that comes from inside because they have evil, ugly, twisted personalities. They can wear all the makeup they want and it would still show. They could all wear masks and the ugliness in their souls would still show. Only gullible, soft-headed women who do not think for themselves could watch that show. The fact that they have an audience shakes my faith in humanity.
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The words "Hillary Clinton" are very useful. They tell me that I can stop reading thre article immediately. Sort of like "Kardashian."
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I guess that counts as Hillary's contribution to Kristallnacht remembrance. Classy lady...
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Somebody want to tell her that there are a lot of her supporters who are finding that guy en vogue at the moment?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as 
