I think this is a good idea. There is an uptick in homicides. That trend cannot continue. The homicide rate in Flint doesn't compare to the violence in Detroit. But, Detroit is experiencing a fall in homicide statistics (click here).
FOX News did note that COVID-19 has killed more people than any years of homicides even if the past two years were added together (click here).
May 15, 2020
The city of Flint’s police department (click here) is reestablishing cooperative relationships with college police departments to increase community patroling.
Mayor Sheldon Neeley made the announcement alongside Michigan State Flint Post Lt. Yvonne Brantley, University of Michigan-Flint Police Chief Ray Hall, and Mott Community College Police Chief Michael Odette on Friday, May 15. The partnership wasn’t renewed by the previous administration, according to the city.
Michigan State Police and the city’s police department have a longstanding relationship, according to Neeley. The mayor says crime overall is down but there have been two more homicides this year than happened up to the same point last year.
“Every single loss of life in our community is heartbreaking,” Neeley said. “Through the hard work of the Flint police and our renewed cooperative relationships with other police agencies, we are working proactively to do everything in our power to fight crime.”
Fourteen people have been killed in Flint as of May 14, “a small uptick” Neeley said from the 12 people who were killed by this time last year. There were 43 people killed in Flint in 2019....
There is news about the court case regarding Flint. I stated before there is every reason to believe justice will occur in regard to the poisoning by the Snyder government. The opposition is throwing everything at the effort and the Attorney General's office is receiving respect from the court system.
You have to be a believer when there is a corrupt government manipulating the facts. The people of Michigan did the right thing two elections ago in demanding an end to the Emergency Manager program by voter referendum. Then Snyder manipulated the law and reinstated it. Now, when an entire state says to the governor they want the harassment of current law to stop and the governor has the almighty gall to ignore them and proceed as a dictator the fact there is corruption is completely obvious.
I will remind, the CHARACTER of the Emergency Manager law changed within the Snyder administration and the Republican State legislature. The OLD Emergency Manager law was about the schools and cities having problems with their budget and costs. The state under the old law was to protect children from the financial hardship of the city. It was absolutely the right thing to do.
At the time of the old law, the cities were between a rock and a hard place. Jobs were exported out of the state and unemployment was very high. The revenues to the city fell as people became impoverished and the state needed to step in and protect the children. It was definitely the right thing to do. This same law was changed under Snyder to a monstrous law that took away the rights of the voter and destroyed local government and authority.
Anyone with a casual interest in the local government could clearly understand there was something every wrong, but, the courts were unable to battle back in favor of any plaintiff because it was the Michigan State legislature that passed the law. It was the law of the land and it was impossible to remove the constraints the state issued on the local governments.
Snyder had the idea that if a city wasn't doing well it needed the SUPERIOR management of the Governor's office through the new emergency manager law. Along with acting way out of the understanding of democracy, Snyder had his own agenda for his friends. In city after city, his friends were able to obtain land and water rights and all sorts of things. So, city debt be damned the balance sheet would be pleasing to the governor's eyes.
In some cities in Michigan, they lost their parks and waterfronts. In the case of Flint, there was a radio station removed from the cities assets and the water bills were too high in the estimation of the Snyder Emergency Manager so it was decided to put Flint into the water business, but, the water was poison after decades of pollution. The pollution of the Flint River contained caustic elements and would interact with the lead pipes in town. No buffer was added to the water to prevent the leaching of the lead.
So. Here we are in 2020 with a Governor in Whitmer who is sincerely interested in the people, their quality of life, and what happened in Flint. She doesn't seem to have a lot of friends hanging around waiting for their payoff. And look at this. A court is actually interested in the law and justice and working with the AG to find the absolute best path forward to negate all the corruption of the past.
This isn't over.
May 12, 2020
A Genesee County Circuit judge (click here) ruled last week that Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office could continue representing both the state government and Flint residents in court despite allegations that the arrangement created a conflict of interest.
Genesee County Circuit Judge Joseph Farah said, despite some “causes for concern,” disqualification was a “drastic remedy.” Besides, he wrote Wednesday, several conflicts have been resolved since the issue was first raised in March 2019 by plaintiffs’ attorney Corey Stern....
Friday, May 15, 2020
6.5 earthquake in Nevada
That is a significant earthquake. That is unusual for the region.
Felt Report - Tell Us! (click here)
May 15, 2020
By Mark Puleo
An early Friday morning earthquake near Tonopah, Nevada, (click here) was strong enough to be felt over 300 miles away in areas such as Bakersfield, California. The 6.5 magnitude quake struck at 4:03 a.m., PDT, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and had a depth of 2.5 miles. The USGS upgraded the quake’s magnitude to 6.5 from 6.4 about an hour after the initial strike.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in the small town of Tonopah, located about three hours north of Las Vegas. Tonopah is home to the Tonopah Test Range, home of the U.S. Air Force's test site of experimental and classified aircraft and famous for its connection with Area 51 enthusiasts....
Trump will probably use this event to gather support from the "Alien enthusiasts." No lie. He does anything that works.
Felt Report - Tell Us! (click here)
May 15, 2020
By Mark Puleo
An early Friday morning earthquake near Tonopah, Nevada, (click here) was strong enough to be felt over 300 miles away in areas such as Bakersfield, California. The 6.5 magnitude quake struck at 4:03 a.m., PDT, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and had a depth of 2.5 miles. The USGS upgraded the quake’s magnitude to 6.5 from 6.4 about an hour after the initial strike.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in the small town of Tonopah, located about three hours north of Las Vegas. Tonopah is home to the Tonopah Test Range, home of the U.S. Air Force's test site of experimental and classified aircraft and famous for its connection with Area 51 enthusiasts....
Trump will probably use this event to gather support from the "Alien enthusiasts." No lie. He does anything that works.
Obamagate is a farce.
Trump doesn't know what Obamagate is because it is fiction. He is counting on anyone in the world to come up with the definition of Obamagate and then he will mimic the accounting. That is the case with most of his nonsense.
There is no Deep State except in the mind of Trump and his ability to sell the farce.
FOX News definition of "Infotainment" has never been more important.
I have to actually waste my time with this mess? Really? The fact that FOX News is endangering lives and should have their license pulled by the FCC. Does anyone think that will happen under the Trump administration? No. FOX News compromises the truth willingly and serves as the propaganda network for Trump.
Murdoch's news empire is designed to SELL A MESSAGE, not report the truth. It is a political organization. Roger Ailes lives. So does the propaganda network of Andrew Breitbart. These networks lie as a mission.
There is no Deep State except in the mind of Trump and his ability to sell the farce.
FOX News definition of "Infotainment" has never been more important.
I have to actually waste my time with this mess? Really? The fact that FOX News is endangering lives and should have their license pulled by the FCC. Does anyone think that will happen under the Trump administration? No. FOX News compromises the truth willingly and serves as the propaganda network for Trump.
Murdoch's news empire is designed to SELL A MESSAGE, not report the truth. It is a political organization. Roger Ailes lives. So does the propaganda network of Andrew Breitbart. These networks lie as a mission.
Trump removed over 90 percent of American CDC scientists from China.
Previous to July 2019, the USA had 44 scientists involved in disease detection and analysis. Trump removed all but 4. If the scientists were left on the job in China, the new virus would have been discovered and contained long before Dr. Li Wenliang discovered it in his practice.
Scientists would monitor the animal markets where the virus can transfer from animal to human.
April 28, 2020
April 28, 2020
By Geoff Brumfiel and Emily Kwong
...But after corresponding with 10 leading scientists (click here) who collect samples of viruses from animals in the wild, study virus genomes and understand how lab accidents can happen, NPR found that an accidental release would have required a remarkable series of coincidences and deviations from well-established experimental protocols.
"All of the evidence points to this not being a laboratory accident," says Jonna Mazet, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Davis and director of a global project to watch for emerging viruses called PREDICT....
The northern boundary of the pangolin territory is just south of Wuhan, China. (click here)
November 30, 2017
By Echo Huang
Around a year ago, (click here) the pine cone-looking pangolin received the highest level of protection against illegal trading by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. While China is supposed to abide by those rules, the country still remains a trafficking hub for the scaly animal.
On Wednesday (Nov. 29), customs officials said they seized 11.9 tonnes (13.1 tons) of pangolin scales—the biggest seizure ever—from the port of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, according to state media Xinhua. Officials said that the seized scales could have come from up to 30,000 pangolins. That is nearly four times the last record-breaking case, in which authorities in Shanghai seized 3.1 tonnes (3.4 tons) scales (link in Chinese) from close to 7,000 pangolins....
February 13, 2020
By Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu
...The pangolin (click here) was reported to be the most likely intermediate host from which humans contracted the novel coronavirus. The pangolin-vector claim was made public on Feb. 7 by researchers at South China Agricultural University who said they found the genome sequence of the coronavirus separated from pangolins to be 99% identical to that collected from infected people....
By Marisa Taylor
Washington - Several months (click here) before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.
The American disease expert, a medical epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency, left her post in July, according to four sources with knowledge of the issue. The first cases of the new coronavirus may have emerged as early as November, and as cases exploded, the Trump administration in February chastised China for censoring information about the outbreak and keeping U.S. experts from entering the country to help.
That was a lie. China didn't remove the scientists or prevent them from entering the country.
“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Bao-Ping Zhu, a Chinese American who served in that role, which was funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2007 and 2011. “If someone had been there, public health officials and governments across the world could have moved much faster.”
Zhu and the other sources said the American expert, Dr. Linda Quick, was a trainer of Chinese field epidemiologists who were deployed to the epicenter of outbreaks to help track, investigate and contain diseases....
The first the Chinese people and the world knew about the urgency of the virus was from an ophthalmologist. Not a research scientist or a doctor involved in tracking diseases in China, but, an ophthalmologist that came to understand the disease that would not react to treatment. The Chinese people were furious at the death of Dr. Wenliang.
There is only one person responsible for the widespread of the virus and that is the president that removed 40 scientists from China and left the people of China without anyone to detect and honestly report the virus at first contact.
Ophthalmologist (click here) who warned about the outbreak of COVID-19. Born in Beizhen, China, on Oct 12, 1986, he died after becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, China, on Feb 7, 2020, aged 33 years.
On Dec 30, 2019, Li Wenliang sent a message to a group of fellow doctors warning them about a possible outbreak of an illness that resembled severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, where he worked. Meant to be a private message, he encouraged them to protect themselves from infection. Days later, he was summoned to the Public Security Bureau in Wuhan and made to sign a statement in which he was accused of making false statements that disturbed the public order....
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