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WHO drops plans for promised report on COVID-19 origin

Concerns cited over legitimacy of its investigation of alleged virus leak from Wuhan biolab

A group of two dozen scientists issued an open letter on Thursday stating that the WHO’s mission in China, which was accompanied by “Chinese citizens whose scientific independence may be limited,” did not have the “mandate, the independence, or the necessary accesses” to fully investigate all potential origins of COVID-19, including the theory that the virus could have accidentally leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Based on our analysis, and as confirmed by the global study convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Chinese authorities, there is as yet no evidence demonstrating a fully natural origin of this virus. The zoonosis hypothesis, largely based on patterns of previous zoonosis events, is only one of a number of possible SARS-CoV-2 origins, alongside the research-related accident hypothesis.

 The open letter is available as a .pdf file to be read (HERE) just as it is within their site.
So the team itself believes Covid was NOT naturally occurring, which China has maintained throughout.   Duh.

Feds quietly dismiss dozens of Portland protest cases

Federal prosecutors have dismissed more than one-third of cases stemming from last summer’s violent protests in downtown Portland, when protesters clashed with federal agents. KGW reviewed federal court records and found 31 of the 90 protest cases have been dismissed by the U.S. Department of Justice, including a mix of misdemeanor and felony charges.

Some of the most serious charges dropped include four defendants charged with assaulting a federal officer, which is a felony. More than half of the dropped charges were "dismissed with prejudice," which several former federal prosecutors described as extremely rare. “Dismissed with prejudice” means the case can’t be brought back to court.

 Literally 1/3rd of the cases dropped.  And there, rioters tried to burn the Multnomah County Justice Center, attack the Portland Police Association, damage the Saint André Bessette Catholic Church forcing it to actually close its outreach centers, and more.

Six Dr. Seuss books won’t be published over racist imagery

The company (Dr. Seuss Enterprises) that oversees the publishing of Dr. Seuss’s works said  it scrapped the six books — “If I Ran the Zoo,” “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!” and “The Cat’s Quizzer’’ — because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”

While Dr. Seuss — whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel — remains one of the world’s most popular children’s authors three decades after his death, his books have come under fire in recent years for how they portray black people, Asian people and other groups.

“And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” includes a drawing of a Chinese man with slits for eyes.

That's weird. I never had those. But I remember "The Sneetches" which had two groups of bird people that either had 'Stars' ont their chest or didn't, a story about tolerance saying  that everybody should be treated equally no matter what they look like.