Back In The Wuhan Labs...

Per CNN, Team Biden is giving the lab leak a serious look, although no one is leaking stories of compelling new evidence:

Washington (CNN)Senior Biden administration officials overseeing an intelligence review into the origins of the coronavirus now believe the theory that the virus accidentally escaped from a lab in Wuhan is at least as credible as the possibility that it emerged naturally in the wild -- a dramatic shift from a year ago, when Democrats publicly downplayed the so-called lab leak theory.

Still, more than halfway into President Joe Biden's renewed 90-day push to find answers, the intelligence community remains firmly divided over whether the virus leaked from the Wuhan lab or jumped naturally from animals to humans in the wild, multiple sources familiar with the probe told CNN.

 

Meanwhile, the head of WHO said the lab leak hypothesis is still on the table and is asking China to be a teensy bit more forthcoming. Fun quote:

 

“I was a lab technician myself, I’m an immunologist, and I have worked in the lab, and lab accidents happen,” Tedros said.

 

 

Comments

[boris]

Hello again.

[Narciso]

So far behind the mark

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/daszak-fauci-email-reveal-coronavirus-research-with-wuhan/

[Narciso]

Tedros shpuld be facing a special tribunal for his negligence in the matter

[henry]

Hi Boris. How are things out your way?

[henry]

Natural … nobody buying?

Accidental … that should shut up the rubes.

Rubes: bio warfare attack on freedom. Funny coincidence, neither our canoes nor guns have chips. Your big tech lackeys can’t track that. Sucks to be you.

[MissMarple2]

I always post right before a new thread.

Welcome back bubarooni and Boris!

[clarice]

Gee, not long ago you could be banned for life from FB, Twitter and UTube for making such a suggestion. And, IIRC, like so many things the WaPo and NYT would call you nuts in so many words for such a suggestion. My head spins.

[clarice]

Boris!!!!

[Narciso]

As mark steyn pointed out, it was largely directed at countries that had concessions in pre revolutionary china iran was the exception so was australia

[Narciso]

So many official findings are incomplete

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9791837/amp/FBI-tried-flip-Saudi-official-suspected-assisting-9-11-hijackers.html

[Narciso]

This guy didnt want to be freddy pantangeli.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Destroying the evidence surely doesn't help the CCP's case.

[Narciso]

It seems the truth is farthest from a goal

https://humanevents.com/2021/07/16/scoop-biden-doj-presentation-teaches-that-inner-city-violence-caused-by-white-supremacist-ideology-racism-and-police/

[Jane]

Hey Boris! How are you?

[Narciso]

So black rifle coffee wants to try its luck with black bloc, who do they think they are fooling.

[Narciso]

Carried over

https://t.co/VMfGB8hCPf?amp=1

[Narciso]

You live on the west coast boris or the midwest

[Narciso]

Our fishwrap is thoroughly useles

https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/07/16/floridas-covid-case-increase-coincides-rising-delta-variant/7983153002/

Do they know if they had two shots or one or none

[Neo]

Judge orders U.S. to close DACA program to new applicants, calling it illegal

only took, what ? .. 5 years

[MissMarple2]

GUS!

Why so many Scots and Welsh settled in Appalachia - the Appalachians and the Highlands of Scotland and the crags of Wales are the SAME MOUNTAIN RANGE!

https://vividmaps.com/central-pangean-mountains/

[Narciso]

He did for the 5th circuit other regions ignored statute

[Narciso]

That is fascinating miss marple

[matt - deplore me if you must]

At least they left their bagpipes home for the most part.

[henry]

Also explains why Scandihoovians settled in the highlands but conquered Britain.

[MissMarple2]

Narciso,

I loved learning about that stuff when I took Structural Geology. It was in the back of my mind because my Scots ancestors moved to southern Indiana from Kentucky.

Ran across a couple of threads and some articles this evening.

Thread:

https://twitter.com/AlexPetrovnia/status/1415668133025701889

[bubarooni]

Thanks Jane!

I was kinda missing this place.

[MissMarple2]

bubarooni,

If you can't log in the regular way, you can use your Twitter or Facebook account. I have been using my Twitter account for almost 3 years.

If you aren't logged in, you will get a message telling you to log in with Typepad, Twitter, or Facebook. I click on the Twitter option and it redirects me to the latest thread.

[Neo]

Biden Mulls Intervention In Cuba To Provide WiFi Remotely
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-mulls-intervention-cuba-provide-wifi-remotely
"They have cut off access to the internet. We are considering whether we have the technological ability to reinstate that access," Biden said at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

[Pinandpuller]

Republicans to Democrats: “We are the Venn Diagram we’ve been waiting for.”

[MissMarple2]

Good night, all!

[bubarooni]

Thanks MM. I wasn't to worried about not logging in while on vacay as my goal was crabcakes.

Did you get some heavy rain today.

Poured here today.

[rich]

i will go with bioterrorism for 1000 bucks.

of course the usg is collaborating with the chinese enemy to cover it up.

[Narciso]

Well thats convenient

https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/susan-rice-to-sell-2-7m-stake-in-oil-pipeline-company-after-project-upheld/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site+buttons&utm_campaign=site+buttons

[jim nj]

simple version

https://www.livescience.com/human-genome-unique-neanderthals.html

As little as 1.5% of our genome is 'uniquely human'
The rest is shared with ancient human relatives such as Neanderthals

dense version

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/29/eabc0776

An ancestral recombination graph of human, Neanderthal, and Denisovan genomes

bstract

Many humans carry genes from Neanderthals, a legacy of past admixture. Existing methods detect this archaic hominin ancestry within human genomes using patterns of linkage disequilibrium or direct comparison to Neanderthal genomes. Each of these methods is limited in sensitivity and scalability. We describe a new ancestral recombination graph inference algorithm that scales to large genome-wide datasets and demonstrate its accuracy on real and simulated data. We then generate a genome-wide ancestral recombination graph including human and archaic hominin genomes. From this, we generate a map within human genomes of archaic ancestry and of genomic regions not shared with archaic hominins either by admixture or incomplete lineage sorting. We find that only 1.5 to 7% of the modern human genome is uniquely human. We also find evidence of multiple bursts of adaptive changes specific to modern humans within the past 600,000 years involving genes related to brain development and function.

[Narciso]

Some seem to be devolving back to neanderthal like altered states

[Narciso]

That was what 40 years ago, bill hurt played the earnest scientist.

[Narciso]

Crabcakes are a great goal,

[Narciso]

How about that

https://babalublog.com/2021/07/16/cuba-uprising-summary-some-of-todays-notable-articles/

[jim nj]

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/nasa-successfully-switches-the-hubble-to-backup-hardware/

Hubble is back, thanks to backup hardware
Next up is getting the scientific instruments back out of safe mode.

Apparently switching to the back-up power supply solved the problem. I'd like to see the Hubble last a while longer, but the James Webb telescope will be in orbit probably this year.

https://phys.org/news/2021-07-james-webb-space-telescope.html

James Webb Space Telescope testing progress continues

"The James Webb Space Telescope will be the world's premier space science observatory when it launches in 2021. Webb will solve mysteries in our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it."

[Narciso]

I hadnt heard of the james webb telescope thanks

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Every time I think of Biden providing wifi service to Cuba I think of the guy in the insurance tv ad with the fishing rod with a dollar at the end of the line sitting in a dinghy 5 miles off of Key West. You simply cannot take this president of the United States seriously.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

An interesting article on my previous debt question from this morning.
Only a Hahvahd educated man could be smart enough to say or believe this;

But believe it or not, there are some who simply think rates can stay low and inflation can run hot forever. Summing up the method of thinking for those advocating for unlimited debt is Paul Sheard, a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He said: “The world has changed. The intellectual frameworks have evolved. We don't need to worry about debt."

If Francis Fukayama opens a school of economics and famous last words they should endow a Paul Sheard dunce chair.

[Dave (in MA)]

Sold their souls?

Black Rifle Coffee takes a knee in a far ranging NYT interview, where they claim St Michael is a white supremacist symbol according to “a friend in the Pentagon,” and that those who believes Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self defense are racists to be “flushed down the toilet.” pic.twitter.com/IoGE3dOcHc

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 17, 2021

[Melinda]

narc-

That coincides with nearly all of the oil leases for Fed lands are in use.

All of them.

[Melinda]

Ig-

Can you get me into a card game with that prof? I’d like to learn him “odds”.

[clarice]

I'm triggered,narciso. 23 and me says I have a far number of Neaderthal genes.

[clarice]

s/b faIr number

[Narciso]

Werent the vermin rittenhouse shot white, the category error goes on from there.

Yes embridge is less a canadian menace then transcanada

[Narciso]

They probably think gravity is an outdated concept call them the wile e coyote school of economics

[Narciso]

When the black bloc come for their family thats extraordinarily fatuous on their part

[Narciso]

I guess it must be brawndo in the watercooler at the times

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Shouldn't they change their name to Rainbow Squirt Gun Coffee?
Here's a hopen when they went woken they gon go broken.

[jim nj]

Nah, it doesn't work that way. Investors don't buy bonds that pay interest less than inflation. Or, at least, not willingly.

MM, driving up the NY State Thruway back in the '90's in Ulster County I glanced at the road-cut I was driving through and recognized an ancient seabed a couple of hundred feet above the Hudson River.

[Melinda]

Jim-

When your buyer for what your selling isn’t price sensitive, it doesn’t matter. That’s also the magic of front running QE. There is NO risk in the transaction, anywhere, anytime.

G’night.

[jim nj]

I self-identify as Mohawk on the census since I have one as an ancestor about 14 generations ago.

Maybe I'll switch to Neanderthal if I live long enough to reach the next census.

[Narciso]

Acme said the same thing, and their products are littered all around river beds

[jim nj]

Mel, yeah, when the FED is buying all the debt it's kind of hard for a rational set of investors to affect the market.

That some academics think the FED can keep this up forever is just silly.

[GUS]

MISS M!!! I woke up after a few hours sleep.
I am from APPALACHIA originally. HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND.

[GUS]

Ig!!! The blah blah blah, new age, where soy boys make decisions based on the average weight of a UNICORN....
"WE DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT DEBT"
Is so utterly absurd, that it is painful.
It makes my blood pressure spike. HOW DID WE GET HERE. Anything and Everything is true, so long as BIDEN, Ugly Jenn Pisssssssacky, Zuckerturd and NOSE RING JACK-ASS DOHERTY 13.5 Billion allow you to publish it on THEIR platforms. And as I've scrolled thru some SOY BOY news sites, it has scared me MOAR!!!! The complete MARXIST TAKE OVER of YOUNG MINDS, is COMPLETE.
They believe what they've been TOLD, and they have NEVER had a second thought about the TRUTH, BIASES and FACTUAL BASIS of what they've been FED.

[GUS]

Jim Nj. It has occurred to me, that this CABAL who sought to bring down Trump, who attacked TRUMP from every angle, who harmed our nation thru hate and endless WITCH HUNTS, and thru DEEP STATE GAMES, has ZERO INTEREST in what becomes of our ECONOMY or DEBT situation. They are all getting GREASED.
It's no longer rational. It's like a 3rd world DICTATOR grabbing as much cash as possible as he leaves for PARIS.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Hard to believe that this is the first comment since 0338hrs.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Today's cloud sculpture at sunrise on the First Coast:

[Gentlejim]

Nice pic, Jack.
All cloud and rain around here again today.

[Jane]

We have no clouds! Time to go to the pool!

[Narciso]

Indeed

https://mobile.twitter.com/LeeSmithDC/status/1416192708213944321

[Narciso]

From one of the earlier links where does cuba get 24 milliom to buy weapoms from spain, i thought putin was flush with cash

[Melinda]

EU does huge tourist traffic to Cuba.

[MissMarple2]

Also, don't they have some deal with Venezuela to sell their oil? I vaguely remember reading about that yesterday.

[MissMarple2]

From Election Wizard on Twitter, who says there is literally a Tweet for everything:

(And as usual, Trump was right. HA!)

[henry]

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