The Chinese government’s official statistics on the Wuhan Coronavirus indicate that 170 people have now died of the disease, with almost 8,000 acknowledged cases. Russia has announced that it will limit its rail traffic with China, and British Airways has cancelled all flights to and from China until at least March. The UK is arranging the repatriation of its citizens from quarantined areas in China, and will keep them quarantined for two weeks after their return. There are now reported cases of the coronavirus in the Middle East.
In other news, thirteen German police officers were injured by Antifa activists during a riot in the city of Leipzig.
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KSH: Hungary Jobless Rate Falls Further in December
Hungary’s three-month rolling average jobless rate fell to 3.3 percent in December, down 0.2 percentage point from the previous month and 0.3 percentage point lower than twelve months earlier, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Wednesday.
The rate covers unemployment among those between the ages of 15 and 74.
In absolute terms, there were 155,200 unemployed, 8,100 fewer than in the previous month and down 12,000 from a year earlier.
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14-Year-Old Arrested, Charged With Terrorism for Threats to Iota Schools
IOTA, La. (KLFY) — Iota Police report they have arrested a 14-year-old in connection with threats made against the town’s schools that resulted in closures last week.
An arrest warrant was obtained for the juvenile, whom police said has ties to the schools. The juvenile is being held at the Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office on four counts of terrorism.
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CDC Believes Coronavirus Has Broken Containment on the West Coast
Mike Adams joins The Alex Jones Show to break down the reports of coronavirus breaking out in the U.S.
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Democrats are preparing for the possibility that President Donald Trump and his staff will sabotage their transition if he loses the 2020 election.
At least one outside group — National Security Action — has started making preparations for the Democratic campaigns in the event their candidate wins, and Elizabeth Warren has just released a plan that describes how she would quickly staff the government to smooth the transition if she won the White House, reported Politico.
[Comment: Democrats will use massive fraud in the election to try and seize the presidency. Trump should never accept any “close” result.]
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The State of California has over the past couple of years enacted several pieces of legislation pertaining to the digital market and online communications, some more controversial than others.
These include a bill against publishing “deepfake” videos ahead of a US election, another severely limiting the ability of companies to hire freelancers — and before that, a GDPR-inspired Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
But California’s state lawmakers are not stopping there, as a new bill now hopes to tackle the phenomenon of livestreaming violent content on social media giants like Facebook and YouTube.
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Deplatformed: How Big Tech Companies & Corporate America Subvert the Second Amendment
Anyone familiar with the Bible is familiar with the Mark of the Beast: Without this mark, no man may buy or sell.
Regardless of one’s religious faith or lack thereof, there is an illustrative case in this biblical story: When one cannot buy or sell, one is metaphorically up the creek. Short of producing everything one needs oneself, buying and selling are necessary parts of virtually every modern person’s life.
In our modern world, we can begin to see a sort of Mark of the Beast: While ideas and even objects aren’t banned, they are increasingly difficult to come by, not due to government fiat, but due to the machinations of corporations hostile to the American values of freedom.
One can be in favor of the free market while recognizing a simple truth: There is no way that America’s Founding Fathers would have sat on their hands while five corporations dominated American discourse and commerce. It is hard to imagine, for example, the Founders suffering a single private bank processing most of the payments in the United States and refusing to do business with gun merchants. Alternately, one can scarcely imagine that the Founders would have sat still for three companies — all of them hostile toward American values and the Constitution — dominating political discourse and deplatforming anyone who opposed them.
This is the situation in which we find ourselves as a nation today: Guns are not illegal, but private companies will make it increasingly difficult to buy, sell or own them — up to and including pulling your bank account. You have all the freedom of speech you like, but prepare to be deplatformed or have your voice buried by large tech corporations with their thumb on the scale of American discourse.
As the American economy has become more corporatist — such that the market is controlled by the interrelation between monolithic mega-corporations, Wall Street and the state — and less capitalistic and dynamic, the American press and economy are now being dominated by forces hostile toward the American public and American values…
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Hillary Clinton Refuses to be Served Tulsi Gabbard’s Defamation Lawsuit
Hillary Clinton has now twice snubbed a process server attempting to deliver the defamation lawsuit filed against her by Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, according to Gabbard’s attorney.
“I find it rather unbelievable that Hillary Clinton is so intimidated by Tulsi Gabbard that she won’t accept service of process,” the congresswoman’s attorney, Brian Dunne, told The Post. “But I guess here we are.”
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House Dems Want Google to Censor All Climate Dissent
Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL), chair of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, has written a letter to Google and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai urging him to suppress “dangerous climate misinformation on YouTube.”
Alphabet, which owns Google and YouTube, has yet to offer a comment.
The letter makes a number of demands for censorship from YouTube, calling on the video-sharing platform to:
Stop promoting climate denial and climate disinformation videos by removing them immediately from the platform’s recommendation algorithm;
Add ‘climate misinformation’ to the platform’s list of borderline content;
Stop monetizing videos that promote harmful misinformation and falsehoods and about the causes and effects of the climate crisis;
Take steps to correct the record for millions of users who have been exposed to climate misinformation on YouTube.
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Ivy League Privilege: Climate Change Protesters Get Records Expunged for Shutting Down Football Game
Going to an Ivy League school is great. Not only are you practically guaranteed a lucrative job and enriching professional networks after graduation, but you’re above the law even while still enrolled.
It’s not even clear that the dozens of Harvard and Yale students and alumni arrested for shutting down the Harvard-Yale football game — in order to demand divestment from fossil fuels — fulfilled their court-ordered five hours of community service.
The Harvard Crimson makes no mention of whether Judge Phillip Scarpellino required the 10 Harvard students and alumni to produce documentation that they served the conditions under which their charges would be dropped. All the protesters agreed to Scarpellino’s terms at their Dec. 6 hearing.
They showed up in his New Haven court Monday, where “their case was annulled, legally erasing any record of their arrest (the Yale Daily News has no coverage of Monday’s hearing, so it’s unclear what happened to the Yale charges):
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Judge Roy Moore: Standing Up for the 10th Amendment & the Entire Constitution
The federal government is overreaching its boundaries.
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Long Island Judge Ignores Bail Law, Refuses Release of ‘Menace to Society’
A Long Island judge intentionally ignored the state’s controversial bail-reform law and refused to release a defendant he deemed a “menace to society,” The Post has learned.
Nassau County District Judge David McAndrews admitted in court that accused two-time bank robber Romell Nellis wasn’t charged with a “bondable or bail offense” — but still ordered him held on $10,000 cash or $20,000 bond.
“I don’t want you walking around my neighborhood,” McAndrews told Nellis, according to a transcript of the Jan. 9 hearing in Hempstead.
But McAndrew’s principled stand was short-lived, as a higher-level judge promptly reversed his order and released Nellis with an ankle monitor — only to have him cut it off and disappear.
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‘Mind Boggling’: Take a Look at These Demographic Numbers From Trump’s New Jersey Rally
Tuesday night President Trump traveled to deep blue New Jersey for a campaign rally. Despite freezing temperatures in the middle of winter, people camped out a day ahead of his remarks in order to make it inside the arena.
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President Donald Trump Signs USMCA Trade Deal
Jan. 29 (UPI) — President Donald Trump signed the new North American trade deal Wednesday in a ceremony that excluded Democrats involved in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
About 400 farmers, union representatives and company CEOs attended the event on the South Lawn of the White House. House Democrats who were instrumental in obtaining broad bipartisan support to secure the agreement were absent.
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Rise of Skywalker Bombs at Box Office Leading to Disney Failing to Break Even on Star Wars Purchase
Star Wars the Rise of Skywalker is now an official failure that is questionable whether it will succeed in even breaking Rogue One’s box office by the conclusion of its runtime. Made all the sadder by the fact Disney released an extended cut to bolster box office numbers and push the movie over a Billion leaving its $1.047 Billion box office garnered from two cuts of the movie.
Media outlets who remained uninvolved in the entitled shrieking that pervaded the media following the Rise of Skywalker’s release have begun reporting that the movie is a failure, as covered by Clownfish TV.
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Slow Moving Socialist Avalanche is Headed Right for You
Snow avalanches are sudden events and can occur without warning. But the slow-moving avalanche into socialism can take several generations and is so imperceptible the average person never sees it coming. You had better look up because there is a slow-moving, socialist avalanche coming right at you and that avalanche contains inside it, tyranny, oppression, despotism, domination, confiscation and government control and abuse. That avalanche contains the chains that will encase you forever in the cement of slavery.
The current Democrat candidates for President are a picture window into what they have in mind for you, lots of “free stuff” with no way to pay for it, if they get elected. The “free stuff” is designed to buy the votes of stupid people that haven’t learned there is no such thing as a free lunch. Sadly, America is loaded with very stupid people and they might just have the numbers to elect the likes of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer, or God forbid, Michael Bloomberg. These Democrat candidates all want to tax the middle class into oblivion for their socialist programs and they want more control over your lives. They are not your friends. They are your sworn enemies.
Let’s just say that you aren’t stupid and you can see clearly what is going on. Just How Are You ‘Gonna’ Change Things?
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Statins Trigger Brain Changes With Devastating Effects
Dr. Beatrice Golomb is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, whose recent research has focused on statin use. In her answer to a question by a Scientific American reader, she writes about how statins affect your neurological system and, more specifically, your brain:7
“Between 2003 and 2012 roughly one in four Americans aged 40 and older were taking a cholesterol-lowering medication, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But studies show that statins can influence our sleep and behavior — and perhaps even change the course of neurodegenerative conditions, including dementia.
In 2015, my colleagues and I observed that women taking statins, on average, showed increased aggression; men typically showed less, possibly because of reduced testosterone levels. Some men in our study did experience a marked increase in aggression, which was correlated with worsening sleep.”
By 2016, the recommendations for statins widened when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force published new guidelines in which they indicated statins should be started in people between the ages of 40 and 758 who have at least one risk factor for heart disease. This recommendation resulted in 35 million who are currently prescribed statin medications.9
Golomb has found the drugs produce different effects based on a person’s medical history, the drug they are taking and the dose.10 She’s found that while adverse drug reactions have been reported with statin use, there are not a lot of published studies having to do with mood and behavioral changes related to statin use.
In 12 case studies, Golomb found changes that started after statin use was begun and persisted or progressed as the drug was continued. Reports of violent ideation, suicide, irritability and depression were resolved when the drug was discontinued. A sample of the reports include:
Suicide after simvastatin was taken for 5 days Depression in a woman in her 50s after taking simvastatin 10 mg for 2 weeks Depression and aggression in a man in his 50s after taking atorvastatin 20 mg for 1 month Suicide in a man in his 40s after taking atorvastatin 10 mg for several months
Other reported symptoms included suicide attempts, cognitive compromise, nightmares and anxiety. Golomb first suspected a connection between statins and mental health changes nearly 20 years ago. She found more evidence in the literature than she anticipated. She then conducted a study in Sweden, comparing the cholesterol levels of 250,000 to local crime records and commented to the BBC:11
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The Pretended Articles of Impeachment Against a President
Article II, Section 4, of the Constitution provides, “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Since the specific language of the Constitution states two crimes (treason and bribery) and then contains a clause, which contains the words “other crimes,” it seems clear that criminal conduct is contemplated by the drafters of the Constitution for this impeachment clause to become operative.
Therefore, I believe these are really “pretended articles of impeachment” because they fail to make a case for impeachment even if they were true.
Secondly, both “pretended” articles of impeachment lack what I believe is necessary, specificity. For example, “abuse of power” is so broad that it may be considered to be “void for vagueness.” Moreover, the argument of those advancing the impeachment of the president seems to center on the idea that he has somehow “hijacked” the foreign policy of the United States.
The difficulty with this argument is that the president is the only person in all of the constitution who is charged with developing and implementing foreign policy. Therefore I don’t see how it’s possible for him to “hijack” foreign policy since all the decisions are ultimately his to make.
Lastly, “Obstruction of Congress” seems to be the silliest charge of all.
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VA Started Pushing Crazy Gun Laws, So Residents Just Bought 74,000 More Firearms — in One Month
RICHMOND, VA— It’s not surprising to see that the residents within Virginia purchased nearly 74,000 firearms in December of 2019.
Gun control bills and measures have been a hot topic in the state of Virginia, and with good reason.
Democrats within Richmond have been adamant in bringing forth legislation that can be contorted to strip citizens of their second amendment rights. As a result, citizens of the state thought it a good idea to purchase their weapons while they still could.
According to the Associated Press, December of 2019 saw an increase of 47% over the number of firearm sales when compared to December of 2018.
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Video: Angry Rand Paul Demands Trump Sue Schumer
“It’s defamation of character and he ought to go to court and be sued for it”
An uncharacteristically angry Senator Rand Paul slammed Chuck Schumer Tuesday, urging President Trump to sue the Democratic leader for defamation amidst the ongoing impeachment saga.
“I’m offended and shocked that Schumer would be so scurrilous as to accuse the president and his children of making money illegally off of politics when the only people we know have made money off of this have been Hunter Biden and Joe Biden,” Paul urged.
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Virginia Congress Continues Gun Control Frenzy With 9 More Bills
Despite a massive and peaceful turnout on the Lobby Day rally on January 20th, the Virginia State Congress remained totally unfazed by what the people wanted and proceeded to advance numerous unconstitutional gun laws over the following week.
While everyone has been focused on the Wuhan coronavirus, state lawmakers have been quietly eroding gun rights.
Proving they don’t care at all about the opinions of the people of Virginia, the state’s Senate passed a “red flag” gun law only two days later. Here’s the summary of SB240.
Also two days after the rally of gun owners, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a proposed new law that would make it more difficult for Virginians to get a concealed carry permit in the form of SB263.
The advancement of these gun laws is a slap in the face to every gun owner who has protested in person, written or emailed his or her members of Congress, and attended local meetings.
It shows that the people currently in office don’t care what Virginians have to say about the laws they pass. It underlines their blithe dismissal of the Sanctuary municipalities and of the massive peaceful protest that even saw protesters cleaning up the area before they left.
The protest may have meant nothing to lawmakers, but to gun owners, it meant everything. It means that people in Virginia will stand up for their rights. It means they will not back down. It means they’re willing to put themselves on the line to protect the 2nd Amendment in a state that still has a flag that says “Sic Semper Tyrannis.”
But as for the state government? You know, the one purchased by presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg?
This is not a government that represents the people of Virginia.
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Feds Evacuating Canadians From China, Issue Travel Warning
As the coronavirus contagion continues to spread, the Trudeau government has crafted a plan to help evacuate Canadians from China.
Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne held a press conference on Wednesday in which he said there is a plane ready to help Canadians get back to Canada, first reported by Global News.
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Jug Heads: Travellers Use Water Jugs as Protection Masks
Many people are dealing with coronavirus prevention by using a face mask, however some have taken the extra mile for their personal health security. A traveller at Vancouver International Airport was seen wearing a water bottle to cover his entire face. A photo of the man was quickly shared throughout Twitter and other social media.
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Man on Parole Accused of Killing 22-Year-Old Sex Worker He Was Permitted to Meet
A man who was let out on parole has been charged with the murder of a 22-year-old sex worker after being granted permission to meet with her by his case manager.
Eustachio Gallese had been serving a life sentence for murdering his wife in 2004. He was released on parole in September of 2019 after serving 15 years of his sentence. Last week, Gallese met with Marylene Levesque at a hotel in Quebec City where Levesque gave massages. He was later arrested by police and charged with her murder.
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BBC Leaves Out Key Facts About Melting Antarctic Glacier
Scientists have known for years that subglacial volcanoes and other geothermal “hotspots” are contributing to the melting of the Thwaites Glacier. Why did the BBC fail to mention these facts in its recent report?
The International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration is performing some magnificent science, conducting the most ambitious fieldwork ever undertaken at the tip of what is one of the most significant glaciers on Earth.
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EPP to Keep Orban’s Fidesz Suspension
The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) will keep Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party suspended, EPP president Donald Tusk announced to a meeting of MEPs on Wednesday (29 January).
The EPP’s political assembly will meet next Monday and Tuesday in Brussels, where the issue of kicking Fidesz out of the party was expected to be discussed.
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EU Commission Presents 43 New Proposals
The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled 43 new proposals spanning everything from climate change, and digitisation to migration. The proposals are part of its so-called 2020 work programme. “For the first time, we have integrated insights on long-term trends that are shaping our economies and societies,” said Maros Šefcovic, vice-president in charge of interinstitutional relations and foresight.
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EU Parliament Votes 621 to 49 in Favour of Brexit Deal
The European Parliament on Wednesday passed the Brexit withdrawal agreement with 621 votes, 49 against and 13 abstention in the final act of the ratification process. All legal hurdles are now cleared before the UK leaves the bloc on Friday. MEPs bid farewell to their British colleagues in an emotional plenary meeting in Brussels. The UK is the first member state to leave the EU.
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EU Set to Repatriate Citizens From Coronavirus-Hit Wahun
EU civil protection mechanisms were activated on Tuesday after a French request to support EU citizens in Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak . The EU will co-finance the transport costs of the aircraft. A first plane will depart from France on Wednesday, while the second one will leave later in the week. EU citizens in the region can still request to be repatriated, no matter their nationality.
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EU Vice President Orders British Flags Removed From Parliament After Rousing Farage Brexit Speech
EU Vice-President Mairead McGuinness cut off Nigel Farage’s mic and ordered British flags to be removed from the European Parliament in a moment that was emblematic of why the UK voted to leave in the first place.
The incident occurred during the formal vote to rubber stamp Britain’s departure from the globalist body.
Farage gave a rousing speech to mark his final appearance in the chamber just two days before Brexit is finally completed on Friday.
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Eurocrat: EU’s Lesson From Brexit is to Take Away More National Sovereignty
Senior Member of European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt has made the extraordinary assessment that the lessons to be learnt from Brexit is for Brussels to push for ‘More Europe’ and to take away even more democracy from nation-states.
Speaking ahead of the European Parliament’s vote on the UK-EU withdrawal deal on Wednesday, Mr Verhofstadt rejected the notion that the lesson to be learnt from Brexit is to devolve power back to the nation-state but to give more power to Brussels.
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Farage: Brexit a Victory for Grassroots Campaigning and British Democracy
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has called Brexit a “victory for grassroots campaigning” and British democracy, adding that he hoped other European nations would take Britain’s lead and leave the undemocratic EU.
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Finnish Eurosceptic: Brexit is a Victory of the Common People Over the Elite
A Finnish Eurosceptic MEP has said that the UK will “triumph” outside of the EU and said the next decade will see the revival of national sovereignty in Europe.
Speaking ahead of the vote on the Brexit deal in the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday, Laura Huhtasaari of the Eurosceptic Finns Party said: “It’s the final countdown. Friday will be a glorious day for the United Kingdom!
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France: “Racist” Video Shows Commuters Covering Their Faces Near Chinese Woman
A “racist” video has emerged showing commuters on public transport in Paris covering their faces as a Chinese woman sits nearby.
“This is RACIST,” tweeted the user who posted the clip, which shows a man and a woman, both white, covering their mouths and noses with their clothing as a Chinese woman on her phone sits opposite with her suitcase beside her.
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French Police Clash With Firefighters at Paris Demonstration
PARIS (Reuters) — French police clashed on Tuesday with firefighters protesting in Paris against their working conditions and demanding more pay.
Thousands of firefighters attended the protest in the French capital, asking for an increase of their hazard bonus, which has not changed since 1990.
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Germany Confirms Human Transmission of Coronavirus
Chinese visitor infects colleague in Bavaria.
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Germany: 13 Police Injured Following Antifa Far-Left Riot in Leipzig
Police in Leipzig, Germany arrested six Antifa far-left extremists following a riot which led to thirteen officers being injured by leftist attacks.
The six suspects were soon released following their arrest, with a police spokeswoman saying that officers had no grounds to keep them in detention but an investigation into the four men and two women, aged between 18 and 39, would be launched, Bild reports.
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UK: Farage on Huawei: What Does This Mean for Our Relationship With Trump’s America?
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has expressed his shock that the Conservative government has decided to allow Chinese-owned Huawei involvement in British 5G networks, despite warnings from intelligence allies Australia and the United States.
On Tuesday, Boris Johnson’s government announced that Huawei would be involved in the development of Britain’s 5G networks, with a so-called limited access.
Critics say that the company is controlled by the Communist Chinese government, and allowing Huawei access could leave British communications networks vulnerable to hacking or spying by foreign powers.
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UK: Teen Hacked to Death With Machete at Busy London Train Station
Brutal murder carried out during rush hour.
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Merkel Pushes for EU Accession Talks for Albania and Northern Macedonia
Following a meeting with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the European Union to open negotiations with Albania and Northern Macedonia to join the bloc.
The call from the German leader comes following a meeting with the Albanian prime minister in Berlin earlier this week with Chancellor Merkel saying that the countries in the Western Balkan region should be considered for membership of the EU, Euronews reports.
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Polish FM Praises Trump’s Peace Plan
Efforts by US President Donald Trump’s administration to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are commendable, Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz declared on Wednesday.
“I commend the efforts of President Donald Trump’s administration aimed at resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I took note of the unveiling of the political part of the peace plan. Together with its economic component, it constitutes a valuable basis for an in-depth discussion between two parties of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Czaputowicz wrote in a statement on the peace plan proposal for Israel and Palestine.
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I was going to write about something else today, but I just couldn’t do it. Ever since I learned the details of President Trump’s “peace plan”, I haven’t been able to focus on anything else for very long. Under Trump’s plan, the U.S. would formally recognize a Palestinian state, the Palestinians would be allowed to set up a capital in East Jerusalem, and the amount of territory under Palestinian control would double. Yes, you read that correctly. Needless to say, I am very deeply upset right now and anyone that loves Israel should also be very deeply upset. The good news is that the Palestinians hate Trump’s plan so much that it has absolutely no chance of being implemented any time soon. But the fact that the Palestinians have already rejected this deal does nothing to diminish the fact that this is the biggest mistake that Trump has made in his entire presidency.
It is not as if Trump acted on a whim. This plan has been in development for three years, and the final draft is 181 pages long. If you have not seen the official document yet, you can read it for yourself right here. President Trump, Jared Kushner and everyone else that worked on this plan put an enormous amount of time and effort into it, and they knew exactly what they were doing.
In essence, this plan carves up the land of Israel like a Christmas turkey. The Palestinians would lose sovereignty over some Jewish settlements in the West Bank, but in return they would receive vast new tracts of land that currently belong to Israel. In addition, the Palestinians would be given East Jerusalem as a capital city, and President Trump seems quite excited about the prospect of opening up a U.S. embassy there. The following comes from Fox News…
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In the aftermath of the unveiling of the plan, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas boldly proclaimed that “we say a thousand noes to the Deal of the Century”…
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Coronavirus Spreads to Middle East With First Case in UAE Confirmed
United Arab Emirates medical officials announced Wednesday a case of the coronavirus has been locally diagnosed, with a family of four from Wuhan thought to be the first confirmed carriers in the Middle East.
“The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention announced a case of the new coronavirus affecting people from one family coming from the city of Wuhan in China,” the state news agency WAM reported, without saying how many were infected.
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Russia Limits Rail Service With China From Jan. 31 Over Coronavirus
MOSCOW (REUTERS) — Russia will limit railway service with China from Jan. 31, leaving only direct trains between Moscow and Beijing, in response to the coronavirus crisis, Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said on Wednesday.
“Under a decision of the emergency response center, we will limit railway service from midnight of (January) 31st, that is from Thursday to Friday. Trains will follow the Moscow-Beijing, Beijing-Moscow route,” Golikova said.
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British Airways Ends All Flights to China as Virus Spreads to Middle East
The decision comes after United Airlines said it would temporarily reduce the number of flights between the US and China.
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China Curbs Travel to Hong Kong as Projections Show 300,000 Might Already be Infected
Top health officials share grim statistics.
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China Has Not Accepted U.S. Offers to Send CDC Experts to Aid in Coronavirus Fight
U.S. health officials said that they have been offering for weeks to send experts to help China combat the coronavirus that has claimed at least 106 lives.
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The means the official numbers from the Chinese government are under-inflated
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Jessika Bailing, a South African teacher trapped Wuhan, the city at the centre of the outbreak, claimed patients were spitting at doctor’s faces and on elevator buttons.
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Coronavirus: British Airways Suspends Flights to China, UK Will Quarantine Citizens for Two Weeks
British flag-carrier airline British Airways has cancelled its direct flights to China until March at the earliest, and British travellers returning from China will be quarantined for two weeks, the latest bids to prevent the spread of the deadly Coronavirus.
As tens of millions of people in several Chinese cities remain on lockdown, with access to public transport restricted or totally withdrawn and roads closed, a handful of nations worldwide are putting in place plans to repatriate their own citizens from Coronavirus areas. The latest among them is the United Kingdom, which will fly back up to 300 citizens trapped in Wuhan and Hubei, reports the BBC, and will place them into quarantine for two weeks before being allowed to rejoin the general population.
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Coronavirus Live Updates: China Says Death Toll Hits 170 as Cases Rise Beyond 7,700
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates.
All times below in Beijing time.
11:15 am: China postpones domestic football matches
China’s Football Association announced it will postpone domestic matches for the 2020 season at all levels.
11:10 am: Ikea closes all stores in China
The world’s biggest furniture retailer Ikea said it has temporarily closed all its 30 stores in China due to the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters reported. That decision followed its move just a day earlier to temporarily closing half of its stores in the country.
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North Korea Cancels Flights From China
Hermit kingdom taking stronger measures than United States.
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Photographs from social media show people wearing plastic bottles and motorcycle helmets at airports and on planes as supplies of face masks are running out in some Chinese cities.
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Study of Coronavirus Victims Finds “96% Identical Genome Level to a Bat Coronavirus”
A new scientific study that took samples from five coronavirus victims found that the strain is “96% identical at the whole genome level to a bat coronavirus.”
Following the viral spread of videos out of China and other Asian countries showing people eating bat soup, the media attempted to debunk a link between the coronavirus and bat eating, partially by insisting the connection was “racist.”
This debunking campaign came despite Chinese authorities admitting that the source of the outbreak was an illegal animal market at which snakes and bats are sold in Wuhan.
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The blaze at Burrill Lake on the NSW south coast was sparked at about 1.30pm on Wednesday and took the Rural Fire Service hours to contain.
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Riots triggered by an alleged murder almost a month ago has seen more than one fifth of the 1400-strong town flee to other communities throughout Cape York.
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Former Aussie PM: Conservative Govts Should Support Working Women to Have More Children
Tony Abbott has said conservative governments should do more to help working, middle-class women to have more children because the current birth-rate for that demographic is a “real problem”.
“While I’m all in favour of stay-at-home-mums if that’s their choice, I do think that a properly conservative government, acknowledging that having a family is one of the most wonderful things that anyone can do, would make it easier for women in the workforce to have more kids,” Mr Abbott said at the Centre for Independent Studies in comments reported by The Sydney Morning Herald.
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The unusual slugs live on Mount Kaputar, an extinct volcano in NSW, and can grow longer than a human hand.
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Six Chinese nationals who tried to travel to the Australian mainland on a boat they hired in Indonesia have triggered a biosecurity operation over coronavirus fears.
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A Plague of “Billions” of Locusts Threatens to Create a Horrific End Times Famine All Over Africa
Billions of locusts are eating everything in sight in east Africa right now, and every single day many more farms are being completely wiped out. Unfortunately, authorities are telling us that what we have seen so far is just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, if extreme measures are not implemented immediately, authorities are claiming that this locust plague could literally get “500 times” worse in a few months. But it is difficult to imagine conditions getting any worse than they are at this moment. Ravenous locust swarms that are “the size of cities” are consuming crops at a staggering pace, and this could potentially cause famine on the African continent that is unlike anything we have ever seen before.
It can be difficult to imagine a plague of “billions” of locusts. After all, there are only about 7 billion people living on the entire planet.
But this is actually happening. Right now “billions of locusts” are absolutely devastating east Africa, and each one can eat “its own weight in food every day”…
The truly frightening part of this story is that we are being told that the worst is yet to come.
If you can believe it, and I know that this sounds absolutely nuts, but UN officials are actually warning that this plague of locusts could get “500 times” larger when warmer weather arrives…
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Don’t worry: The PM’s only going to let the best boffins in… honest
The program will replace today’s Tier 1 visa program aimed at people with “exceptional talent,” but with some changes. For one, the cap of 2,000 annual places will be removed, leaving it theoretically open to an unlimited number of people.
Applicants will still need to gain a formal recommendation from named institutions, though the new program foresees most of the applicants coming through the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) quango, established in 2018.
The government stressed the program will be focused on scientific and research fields, though today’s system allows for applicants from a wide range of other fields, including medicine, the arts, engineering, and culture. It’s not terribly clear if the new program will accept folks in those fields.
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Greece Plans a 1.7-Mile ‘Floating Fence’ In the Sea to Stop Migrants Reaching Its Islands
Greece plans to install a ‘floating fence’ in the sea to stop migrants reaching its islands from the nearby coast of Turkey.
The 1.7-mile barrier will be put in place within the next three months after the government has found a private contractor to build it.
The Defence Ministry announced the plans on a government procurement website and invited private firms to bid for the contract which it estimates will cost 500,000 euros (£423,000).
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Hungary: New Video Footage Shows Migrant Attempt to Breach Border at Röszke
A new security camera footage shows how a group of migrants tried to illegally enter Hungary at Röszke on Tuesday dawn.
As we have previously reported, dozens of people made an attempt to break through the southern border fence at Röszke, on the Serbian-Hungarian border, early on Tuesday.
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Hungary: Criminal Proceedings Under Way Against 5 Migrants Detained Near Röszke
Criminal proceedings have been launched against five migrants detained after illegally crossing the Serbia-Hungary border early on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for Csongrad County police said on Wednesday.
The suspects entered the country when some 60 migrants made an attempt to break through the southern border fence at Röszke, at 5.20am and 5.30am on Tuesday. The police said on their website that an armed guard on duty fired three warning shots before patrols arrived at the scene. Police arrested some who had crossed and prevented others from getting through.
The five men, two Syrian nationals aged 26 and 29, two 26-year-old Palestinian nationals and an Algerian national aged 25, were arrested near the border, Szilvia Szabó told MTI.
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Michigan State: ‘Our Goal is to Reduce Apprehension’ of Illegal Immigrants
Editor’s note: This story first appeared on The Morning Watch. It has been republished with permission.
Michigan State University launched a new website for “undocumented students, refugees, and recipients of…DACA,” with a goal to “reduce apprehension.”
MSU announced the launch of the website by the Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives on January 24. According to a university memo obtained by The Morning Watch and shared with Campus Reform, “the website reflects our policy of nondiscrimination and commitment,” toward current and future MSU students, “regardless of immigration status.”
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Over 50,000 Immigrants Ordered Deported Still Living in Canada
Over 50,000 immigrants, many who illegally entered Canada through the border, were ordered deported but remain in the country, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
Much of this has to do with the appeal process, which can take over two years to be completed. The cabinet blamed the lack of removals on the “complexities” of the individual’s cases.
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Facebook Censors Jordan Peterson Video Link Sent in Private Message
Facebook is now so censorship happy that it is blocking links to Jordan Peterson videos sent between two people via private message.
Yes, really.
A screenshot posted to The Donald Reddit forum titled “THE DYSTOPIA IS NOW. Facebook censored a PRIVATE MESSAGE I sent because it has a link to Jordan Peterson’s Bible Lecture Series” illustrates the ridiculous new standard.
When the user attempted to send a link to Peterson’s video to his friend, the URL was blocked and replaced with the text, “This message was removed because it includes a link that goes against our Community Standards.”
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A Nova Scotia transgender “woman” has been convicted of sexually assaulting her continuing care assistant.
Dartmouth resident Sherri (Sherry) Dawn Barrett, 45, is six feet tall and weighed 200lb at the time of the June 7, 2018 assault which took place at Barrett’s home.
The identity of the CCA is protected under a publication ban, but the court heard that the 4’9” 27-year-old was “slapped on her buttocks” by Barrett, who told her:
“You’re pretty, I just want to keep you in my pocket, I want to keep you here forever.”
Later, Barrett hugged and attempted to kiss the CCA while she finished her paperwork before picking her up, even after the CCA told Barrett “no, this is unprofessional”.
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UK: Newsreader Loses His Job of 30 Years for Quoting Shakespeare at a Black Person
Veteran British newsreader Alastair Stewart has lost his job of 30 years after quoting a Shakespeare passage to a black man that included the word “ape,” despite the fact that he had previously directed the same tweet to a white person.
Broadcaster ITN said Stewart had made “errors of judgment” is his use of social media that breached editorial guidelines.
The controversy was over a Twitter response Stewart sent to a black man in which he quoted a passage from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure;
Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he’s most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
Would all themselves laugh mortal.
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Antivirus Software Harvests “Every Search, Every Click, Every Buy, on Every Site”
An antivirus program used by hundreds of millions of people around the world is selling highly sensitive web browsing data to many of the world’s biggest companies, a joint investigation by Motherboard and PCMag has found.
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Breaking: The FBI Arrested the Guy Responsible for Keeping Poop Off of San Francisco’s Streets
Mohammed Nuru, San Francisco’s Public Works Director (you know, the guy whose job it is to keep the streets free of poop), was arrested by the FBI this morning on suspicion of public corruption.
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1. Africans catching tens of millions of insect eating little birds to eat; the birds no longer eating insects, larvae etc. Locusts jump at the opportunity!
2. Anarchists (Antifa) attacking cops and injurying them; the cops off to hospital, the anarchists released by Marxist judgies?
3. Mairead McGuinness, of the EU, chastising Britain for seeking FREEDOM! An Irisher should know better!?
4. Excrement on the streets of San Francisco addressed by our corrupt FBI, which knows something about golumba.
5. Jordan Peterson harassed….machetes in London…yesterday’s mashed potatoes.
Back in December a nurse in Ulm, Germany, tried to kill five prematurely born infants by injecting them with morphine. All five survived and won’t have any permanent damages thanks to fast professional help. The article doesn’t say anything about the nurse’s ethnicity, but since the city has roughly 10% muslim population (signicant minorities being Turks, Syrians and Iraqis), I’m willing to bet this isn’t the deed of a beast, but an attempt at a new form of jihad. Perhaps someone else is willing to dig deeper (like on local forums, I didn’t find any aditional information in German media). https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=cs&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.novinky.cz%2Fzahranicni%2Fevropa%2Fclanek%2Fzdravotni-sestra-v-ulmu-se-pokusila-zabit-pet-predcasne-narozenych-deti-40311721
Amazing. SF is incapable to hire and supervise people responsible for keeping the streets clean. FBI had to get involved. The whole city council should be sacked for incompetence.
If you follow the link, the authors of the 96% bat genome link were from the Wuhan Virology laboratory. Not a particularly impartial source of information.
In the morning I was in a panic: where did my beloved Medford blog go?
It turns out that he was blocked for criticizing Islam.
https://medforth.blog/2020/01/29/breaking-blog-critical-of-islam-searchlight-germany-blogspot-com-blocked-by-blogger-com/
Thankfully he has another to last a bit longer.
This, global, state, and corporate, censure ship is becoming more powerful.
Medforth blog was more just a collating of much interesting news, from lower levels, but its strength was in showing the ongoing factual patterns, becoming more stronger, despite the counter claims of police, judiciary, national media, and politicians.
Thanks to Medforth 🙂
Many have moved to this social platform for communication.
https://vk.com/public151500600
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/28/boffin_uk_visa_program/
Boris takes back controls of the UK’s borders….with unlimitede immigration!
I imagine Doris the turkey will be opening the islands great and small wide to Erdo.