South Korea reported 800 new cases of the Wuhan Coronavirus in a single day, while the Italian total has risen over 1,100, with 29 deaths. Meanwhile, the first death from the disease in the USA was reported in Washington State, where the governor declared a state of emergency. However, no cases of the coronavirus have as yet been confirmed in Hungary or Poland.
In other news, border guards in Greece fired tear gas at a mob of migrants who attempted to surge across the border from Turkey.
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Canada’s Cost of Living Goes Up, While Wages Decrease
Canada’s cost of living is going up, despite the fact that wages aren’t, according to Yahoo Finance.
Statistics Canada has revealed that median after-tax income did not change for individuals, remaining at $61,400. That’s virtually unchanged from 2017 and 2018.
This figure shows that wages have not kept up with inflation. It also doesn’t keep up with corporate profit, which rose nine percent in the space of that same period.
This has resulted in more insolvencies as Canadians struggle to keep their heads above water. The only province that did not feel this effect was Doug Ford’s Ontario, which saw incomes raise by 3.3 percent.
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Authored by Jonathan Turley
As we have been discussing, establishment figures in the Democratic party and the media have been preparing to block any nomination of Bernie Sanders, including using the “superdelegates” to hand the nomination to another candidate. The New York Times reported Thursday that the Democratic establishment was preparing for open warfare over blocking Sanders, even if it shatters the unity of the party.
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Biden Wins Big in South Carolina Primary, In Crucial Boost for Struggling Campaign
Former Vice President Joe Biden decisively won the South Carolina Democratic primary on Saturday, claiming his first victory of the 2020 race and giving a crucial boost to his struggling campaign ahead of Super Tuesday.
The victory tracked with polls indicating that Biden, buoyed by support among black voters, had a significant lead in the state for months over Sen. Bernie Sanders and others, despite the surging Vermont senator beginning to close the gap after early primary wins. Fox News projects Sanders will finish second, followed by wealthy progressive activist Tom Steyer — who then ended his campaign within hours of polls closing.
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How the IRS and DOJ Set Up Donald Reynolds Using Dubious Firearms Charges — Part 2 of the CMU Series
From “Operation Fast and Furious” To Slow and Spurious?
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Idaho Students Demand Starbucks Offer ‘Free’ Vegan Milk That ‘Doesn’t Support Animal Abuse’
Students from the University of Idaho staged a sit-in at a local Starbucks Wednesday, protesting the coffee chain for “penalizing” people who want non-dairy milk options.
The sponsoring organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), cheered the students as they filled the coffee house.
Sit-in leader and Local Herbivore President Kaylee Carr spoke with Campus Reform, saying that “wanted to peacefully raise awareness about the fact that Starbucks is penalizing people for choosing a healthier drink option that doesn’t support animal abuse and is better for the environment by charging extra for plant-based milk options.”
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Man Paralyzed by Cops During Illegal Raid Over $100 Weed Gets $11m as Lying Cops Walk
The taxpayers of South Carolina were put on notice this week that they will be the ones footing the record $8.5 million bill for the cops who dumped dozens of rounds into a Myrtle Beach man over $100 worth of pot. The victim, Julian Betton was left paralyzed by Drug Enforcement Unit officers with Myrtle Beach police hell bent on eradicating a plant that is legal in some form in most of the country…
Radley Balko summed up the near-homicide of this low-level Myrtle Beach pot dealer at the hands of police.
Julian Betton’s offense was to sell $100 worth of pot to a friend. For that, South Carolina police battered down his door, fired 57 shots at him and hit him nine times, leaving him paralyzed and without the use of several major body organs. The cops then lied about the circumstances of the raid to make it seem as if Betton deserved every bullet. When Betton awoke from a coma, his leg was shackled to the hospital bed. Prosecutors then charged him with several felonies — enough of them to put him in prison for the rest of his life, should he survive his injuries. For those two sales of pot totaling $100, Betton will not only be saddled with paralysis and debilitating injury, he’ll also have a felony record. The cops who broke down his door, filled him with bullets and then lied about what had happened will suffer no punishment at all.
What Balko’s synopsis doesn’t reveal, is that there were a series of cover-ups the police raid team engaged in, and what might seem like a team effort to coordinate their stories in the aftermath of the planned conflict. First, the team did not seek after, nor secure a no-knock raid warrant. Betton’s high-definition security footage reveals the police officers made no such effort to knock on the door, which is required by law, even though their police reports stated they did knock and announced their presence.
Secondly, the footage also reveals the team was not dressed as SWAT team members are typically dressed, used unmarked cars, and moved so swiftly in an effort to breach the door with a battery ram, that Betton’s neighbor actually thought a robbery was taking place. The confusion over the identity of the intruders, their no-knock breach of the front door, and the swiftness at which they moved, may have given Benton cause to arm himself, something for which Balko says he would have been justified.
The attempt to coordinate a cover-up appears to have continued, with each officer on the scene turning on their body cameras only after they shot the marijuana dealer 9 times. Betton’s wounds were described by Balko.
[Comment: Now consider leftists desire for police to seize firearms.]
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New Coronavirus Case Confirmed by Cook County, Illinois Health Officials
A third person in Illinois has tested positive for the coronavirus, Cook County and state health officials said in a news release Saturday.
The person, who has not been identified, remains hospitalized in isolation, health officials said. Additional details about the patient, including their condition and where they reside, weren’t immediately available.
Tests conducted in Illinois came back with positive results for the new coronavirus, COVID-19, however the results have yet to be confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease for Control and Prevention.
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Physicists Discover Mind-Blowing New Material by Accident
Strange state of matter may upend physics as we know it
A team of scientists at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, have made an exciting and accidental discovery in the often-overlooked field of materials science. This team has previously made several leaps forward in the world of materials science by stacking ultra-thin 2D layers on top of each other to form new structures. These sheets are only a couple of atoms thick — so thin, in fact, that the electrons within them are restricted to movement in just two dimensions (hence their name ‘2D materials’).
Such materials are too small to see even with the use of microscopes. Swastik Kar, an associate professor of physics at Northeastern University and one of the co-authors of the study, describes the new discovery as “a perfectly repeatable array of pure electronic puddles” in between the two ultra-thin layers. The rules of quantum physics make it energetically favorable for the electrons to pool into these predictable patterns, despite the fact that they should repel each other due to their negative charge.
“It’s almost like a new phase of matter, because it’s just purely electronic,” Kar added.
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Trump Sets New Travel Restrictions Over Coronavirus, Considering Souther Border Shutdown
President Trump authorized new travel restrictions and warnings Saturday — and said he’s even looking at closing the southern border — in response to the coronavirus outbreak that has claimed the first American life, while assuring the nation at an all-hands-on-deck press conference there’s “no reason to panic.”
Trump announced new strict travel “edicts” affecting Iran, Italy and South Korea and Trump confirmed he’s looking to potentially tighten the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The governor of Washington has declared a state of emergency after the first death in the U.S. from COVID-19 was confirmed Saturday in the Seattle area.
“I have issued an emergency proclamation to ensure WA has the resources necessary to prepare for and respond to a COVID-19 outbreak,” Gov. Jay Inslee said Saturday afternoon on Twitter. “We have been actively preparing and will do everything in our power to protect the health and safety of Washingtonians.”
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Catalan Separatists Rally in France With Fugitive Ex-Leader Puigdemont
PERPIGNAN, France (AP) — Tens of thousands of people who want the Catalonia region to become independent from Spain on Saturday held a major rally across the border, in southeastern France.
Catalan separatists are keen to draw international attention to their fight, and the rally in Perpignan aimed to be a show of strength. The rally’s slogan was, “The republic at the center of the world” — a reference to the desired Catalan republic.
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Coronavirus: Govt Not Aware of Any Cases in Hungary
The government is still not aware of any cases of the new virus being present in Hungary, Gergely Gulyas, the head of the prime minister’s office, told a press conference on Wednesday. Gulyas noted coronavirus is spreading in Europe, adding that there was little chance Hungary could avoid COVID-19.
He said the government knew of two Hungarians who had contracted the virus: a woman living in Vienna and a man on a boat in Japan. He added that Hungary was prepared to offer immediate help to any affected Hungarian individual no matter where they were in the world. Those who asked have been transported from Wuhan back to Hungary. The Hungarian authorities also monitor any developments connected to the Hungarian man on the Japanese boat and if necessary, returning Hungarians will be provided with a quarantine. The press will be immediately informed if any person in Hungary is identified to carry the virus, he said.
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Coronavirus: Italian Virus Deaths Rise to 29, Number of Confirmed Cases Goes Above 1,000
Schools and universities will stay closed for a second consecutive week in three northern Italian regions in an effort to contain Europe’s worst outbreak of coronavirus, dashing any hopes of a swift return to normality.
The decision was taken as the death toll from the contagion rose by eight during the day to 29, while the total number of cases jumped by 240 to 1,128 — the vast majority in the wealthy regions of Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna.
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Finland’s Oulu City Council Roasted Online for Feeble “No-No Square” Dance to Combat Rape
A TikTok video designed to raise awareness of sexual abuse in Finland has gone viral and received a lot of attention — but not necessarily for the reasons that they may have anticipated.
A video from the account @sannanopsa, representing the Finnish city of Oulu, was created to raise awareness of child sexual abuse and empowering people to be aware of rape.
The video, in which five representatives do a brief dance to the lyrics, “Stop, don’t touch me there. This is my no-no square,” has been ridiculed online for being a weak attempt to deal with a serious issue.
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Former Tory Leader: EU is Panicking, UK Has ‘The Whip Hand’ In Brexit Talks
Former Conservative Party leader and Cabinet minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith believes the European Union is “panicking” as the “transition” period Brexit talks get underway, and that Britain holds “the whip hand”.
The United Kingdom finally left the bloc on January 31st, after a three-year effort to sabotage the Brexit process by Remainers finally petered out — but only in a legal sense.
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German Court Rejects Attempt to Enshrine Sharia Law
Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that the constitutionally guaranteed religious freedoms of Muslims can be curtailed if public displays of religiosity — in this case wearing Islamic headscarves in German courtrooms — endanger the ideological and religious neutrality of the state.
The court’s landmark ruling effectively smashes a backdoor effort to enshrine Sharia law into the German legal system.
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Greta Thunberg Warns World: ‘Bad News… Change is Coming’
Greta Thunberg did not mince words at a climate change march on Friday, condemning her parents’ generation for asking young people to “clean up” the environment.
The 17-year-old Swedish climate activist, who has made a number of high-profile appearances around the globe to promote climate activism, addressed a crowd on the College Green in Bristol, England, where she admonished the political class and warned that change was coming “whether you like it or not.”
“I will not be silent while the world is on fire. Will you?” Thunberg said to the crowd of more than 15,000 people who attended Bristol’s Youth Strike 4 Climate. “Once again, they sweep their mess under the rug for us young people, for their children, to clean up for them.”
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Italian City Sees 50 Coronavirus Hospitalizations in Single Night
The Italian city of Lodi in Lombardy saw more than 50 people hospitalised with coronavirus in a single night with 17 cases deemed to be especially serious.
The new hospitalisations were announced by populist Lombardy president Attilio Fontana, a member of Matteo Salvini’s League, who said that 51 people had been taken into hospital with serious cases of the coronavirus and 17 placed in intensive care, Il Giornale reports.
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Italy: Salvini Proposes Unity Government to Combat Coronavirus Outbreak
Italian populist leader Matteo Salvini has proposed a national unity government be formed to help deal with the coronavirus outbreak spreading across Italy.
Senator Salvini proposed that the current leftist government join with his populist party in a government of national unity in order to tackle the ongoing health crisis, saying that new national elections should also be considered in the next eight months, Il Giornale reports.
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No Confirmed Cases of Coronavirus in Poland
No incidents of coronavirus infection have been confirmed in Poland, the country’s chief sanitary inspector Jaroslaw Pinkas announced on Saturday.
“If such an infection is confirmed, we will immediately announce it. One cannot hide such information,” Pinkas said, adding that “honest, reliable information was a true medicine for the virus.”
He expressed his hope that coronavirus would not reach Poland, but admitted that this would probably happen.
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Poland Home to “Happiest” Generation of Poles as Country Racks Up Strong Economic Growth Figures
Poles alive today are the “happiest” in history owing to strong economic growth that has seen the country’s economy surpass some of its rivals in Western Europe and out-perform “Asian tigers”.
New data from the International Momentary Fund (IMF) on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), which shows how much the same products cost in different countries and currencies and allows people to compare differences between economies, reveals that Poland’s PPP has risen to $33,891, triple what it was 1990 when it was only $10,300.
“I am the luckiest Pole ever. I am a member of the richest, safest, and the happiest generation in Poland’s history,” wrote Professor Marcin Piatkowski, senior economist at the World Bank and an associate professor at the Kozminski University in Warsaw. “Since 1995, Poland has also become the fastest-growing large economy in the world among upper middle-income and high-income countries, beating even the Asian tigers such as South Korea and Singapore. In 2018, the average level of income in Poland exceeded two thirds of Western Europe, the highest level ever.”
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Pope Francis Cancels Audiences for Third Day With Apparent Cold
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis cancelled official engagements for the third day in a row Saturday as he battled an apparent cold.
The 83-year-old pope, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory illness as a young man, has never cancelled so many official audiences or events in his seven-year papacy.
Francis is, however, continuing to work from his residence at the Vatican’s Santa Marta hotel and is receiving people in private, the Vatican press office said. On Saturday, those private meetings were with the head of the Vatican’s bishops’ office, Francis’ ambassadors to Lebanon and France and a Ukrainian archbishop.
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Slovak Anti-Graft Opposition Party Takes Massive Lead in Parliamentary Elections
Slovak opposition movement Ordinary People (OLANO) took a strong lead in the EU country’s parliamentary election, an exit poll released by TV Markiza showed on Saturday.
The poll was in line with forecasts that voters in the central European country were poised to oust the ruling centre-left Smer party, which has dominated Slovakia’s political landscape for more than a decade, amid growing anger over high-level graft and the murder of an investigative journalist.
The poll by the Focus agency showed OLANO winning 25.8% of the vote, followed by Smer with 14.9%. It showed OLANO would be best placed to lead negotiations on forming a new centre-right government with other opposition conservative and liberal groups.
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UK: Activist Judges Block Heathrow Expansion, Cite Paris Climate Accord
Activist judges have vetoed plans for a third runway at London’s busiest airport because, they claim, it clashes with Britain’s obligations under the Paris climate agreement.
Naturally, the left-wing media can scarcely disguise its glee.
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UK: BBC Falsely Claims Miners Backed Closing Down Their Coal Pit
Extinction Rebellion, the eco-fascist protest group, has successfully duped the BBC into believing that miners in the north of England support its campaigns to close down their pits.
It did so by dressing up its activists in cardboard miners helmets.
The fake miners were featured on the BBC show Politics Live. Presenter Jo Coburn repeatedly told viewers that an Extinction Rebellion protest outside Bradley coal mine in County Durham contained ‘miners’ and ‘former miners’.
But the BBC now accepts that it has no evidence of current or former miners attending the protests.
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UK: Teenage Man With Foreign Background Charged With Rape of Woman Near Gladstone Park in London
A teenage man with a foreign background has been charged by a UK court with raping a woman near Gladstone Park in London, Brent & Kilburn Times reports.
Ahmed Hameedah, aged 19, who lived on Harlesden High Road, appeared at a Willesden Magistrates’ Court earlier this week on Wednesday the 26th of February on one count of rape.
The victim is said to have been raped at some time around 1:40 am on February 23rd not far from the entrance to Gladstone Park.
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UK: The Deep State Strikes Back: Top Home Office Bureaucrat Quits, Vows to Sue Govt
Top Home Office bureaucrat Sir Philip Rutnam has quit his post and vowed to sue Boris Johnson’s government for constructive dismissal, claiming he has been the target of a “vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign.”
The Home Office, or Home Department, is one of Britain’s most important government ministries, being broadly responsible for border control, immigration, policing, and national security.
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Iranian Coronavirus Cases Jump as More Officials Infected
(Bloomberg) — Iran’s coronavirus cases continue to spike, with more cases confirmed among government officials days before a high-ranking delegation is poised to attend a critical OPEC meeting in Austria.
There were 205 new coronavirus cases in the country, bringing the total count to 593 with 43 fatalities, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpour said. That’s the highest number of deaths from the virus outside of China.
The number of lawmakers infected rose to six on Saturday, after Masoumeh Aghapour said she had tested positive for the virus, the semi-official Tasnim news reported.
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NATO Urges Syria, Russia to Halt Airstrikes as Migrants Move Westward
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO on Friday called on Syria and Russia to halt their airstrikes following the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in northeastern Syria, as scores of migrants seeking entry into Europe gathered at Turkey’s border with Greece.
With Turkey signaling that it would let migrants leave, Greece and neighboring Bulgaria bolstered border security. The European Union warned that the fighting in northern Syria could degenerate into open war and that it stood ready to protect its security interests.
After chairing emergency talks between NATO ambassadors, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called on Syria and Russia “to stop their offensive, to respect international law and to back U.N efforts for a peaceful solution.”
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Orban in Phone Talks With Erdogan on Migrant Situation
Prime Minister Viktor Orban held talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by phone before convening a meeting of his security cabinet, the PM’s press chief said on Friday.
Orban and Erdogan discussed the latest developments in the fighting in Syria and the migration situation in the region, Bertalan Havasi said. Erdogan told Orban that Turkey could no longer contain all of the displaced Syrians it had taken in. The two leaders also discussed preparations for a Visegrad Group-Turkey summit to be held next month.
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Islamic Funding for Delhi Riots
The Narendra Modi led Union Govt must probe the foreign funding to the Islamic rioters and the suspicious role of foreign media houses to show their allegiance to the provocative pro-Pakistani rioters in Delhi.
Upendra Bharti | HENB | New Delhi | Feb 29, 2020:: Foreign media’s coverage on Delhi Riots in New York Times, BBC, Washington Post, Time, The Wall Street Journal…. all are finally exposed as an attempt to show Hindus as attackers and Muslims as victims. These Media houses also scathingly attacked Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah as the perpetrators of the riots without finding the truth of Delhi Riots started the night of 23 February 2020, till it ebbed on 25th February.
The violence in North East Delhi has claimed the lives of 42 people, left hundreds injured and destroyed many properties including houses, schools, shops, etc. Even as the city is limping back to normalcy, the Delhi Police has filed at least 123 FIRs and arrested or detained as many as 630 people so far.
The fact remains that in these riots both the Hindus and Muslims have lost their lives and properties, but a large part of the western media is giving the riots a colour of conspiracy against the Muslims. The foreign media doesn’t wasn’t to show the truth and is trying to report it as the violence on Muslims by Hindutva forces.
The established anti-India and anti-Modi US newspaper, The New York Times, in its headline wrote, “As New Delhi counts the dead, questions swirl about the police response.” They also wrote in their article, “Witnesses say, officers stood by when Hindu mobs attacked Muslims.”
Another infamous anti-Hindu US newspaper, The Washington Post reported on Delhi violence and wrote, “India’s hard-line Hindu nationalist watched anti-government protests centred in Muslim communities for months in anger that finally boiled over in the worst communal rioting in New Delhi in decades, leaving 38 People dead and the Indian capital shell shocked.”…
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Bill Gates: Coronavirus May be ‘Once-in-a-Century Pathogen We’Ve Been Worried About’
“We should assume it will be until we know otherwise.”
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Coronavirus Reappearing Weeks Later in Discharged Patients
Reinfection may be deadlier than the initial infection in some patients.
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Chinese manufacturing activity plunged to an all-time low in February, with the first official data published amid the coronavirus outbreak confirming fears over the impact on the Chinese economy.
The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) slowed to 35.7, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Saturday, having slipped to 50.0 in January when the full impact of the coronavirus was not yet evident.
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Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas as Black-Clad Protesters Return to Streets
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong police fired tear gas on Saturday to disperse hundreds of black-clad protesters, some armed with petrol bombs, during a rally to mark six months since the authorities stormed a subway station and arrested demonstrators.
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Investors Flee From Controversial Pandemic Bonds With Coronavirus Set to Trigger Payout
Pandemic bonds sound like a curious financial concept — but they were brought in by the World Bank in 2017 to help developing economies. Against the odds, the coronavirus outbreak may see investors lose money on them.
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Linus Tech Tips Comments on Self-Censorship in the Face of Coronavirus Demonetization
YouTube’s instant demonetization of some channels that mention coronavirus has begun to affect one of the top creators on the platform — Linus Sebastian.
In a recent livestream, Linus said that one of the TechLinked channel’s videos were demonetized due to mentioning coronavirus.
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Mainland China Reports 573 New Coronavirus Cases on Feb. 29
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) — Mainland China reported 573 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Feb. 29, up from 427 the previous day and the highest daily increase in a week, the country’s health authority said on Sunday.
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Publisher, 2 Politicians Charged Over Hong Kong Protests
HONG KONG (AP) — Outspoken Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai and two prominent opposition politicians were charged Friday with illegal assembly over a pro-democracy march last year as the territory’s Beijing-backed government appeared to move to settle scores over the protests.
The months of demonstrations calling for reforms in semi-autonomous Hong Kong crippled its economy and put its leaders and police force under unprecedented pressure.
Lai was picked up from his home by police officers early Friday, while former pro-democracy legislator Yeung Sum and former legislator and vice chairman of the Labour Party, Lee Cheuk-yan, were also arrested.
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South Korea reported 813 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday in what the vice health minister called a “critical moment” in the country’s battle against the virus.
The new figures bring South Korea’s infected total up to 3,150 — the highest number outside of China, where the virus started.
“We have asked you to refrain from taking part in public events, including a religious gathering or protest, this weekend,” vice health minister Kim Kang-lip told a briefing, according to Reuters.
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President Bolsonaro’s Son Talks With InfoWars About Global Awakening
Watch & share this pro-human message!
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Congolese Migrants Riot in Paris, Set Fire to Dozens of Vehicles
Diversity continues to be a strength.
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Erdogan: The ‘Gates Will Remain Open’, Claims 18,000 Migrants Amassed the Greek-Turkish Border
Turkish regime leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday announced that his government had ‘opened the gates’, and that as many as 18,000 migrants had crossed the Turkish border, adding that as many as 25,000-30,000 could gather Greece’s eastern border in the coming hours and days.
Erdogan complained that EU funds being transferred to Turkey help the support migrants were not arriving quickly enough, and as a result — just as he had promised months ago — he was forced to ‘open the gates’ and flood Europe with migrants, Greek daily newspaper Ekathimerini reports.
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Following the military escalation between the Russian-backed Syrian army and the Turkish regime, combined with announcements from Turkey that it would be making good on previous threats to flood Europe with migrants, Greece has completely sealed off its border with Turkey.
The Greek government has deployed fifty navy warships to protect the Greek islands and ten helicopters to guard land borders against foreign invaders sent by the Erdogan regime, German daily tabloid Bild reports.
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Greek Border Guards Deploy Tear Gas at Turkish Land Border to Defend Europe From Foreign Invaders
Greek border guards stationed along the country’s northeastern land border with Turkey have deployed tear gas to ward off hundreds of foreign invaders trying to enter Europe after Turkey made good on its promise to “open the gates”.
Yesterday, after Turkish border guards disappeared from their posts after orders to stand down came from above, Greek border guards made “deterrent use” of tear gas to break up around 500 migrants who were trying to enter the country and the European Union, Greek daily newspaper Ekathimerini reports.
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Hungary: Szijjarto: National Interest for Syrian Refugees in Turkey to Return Home
The Hungarian government supports all decisions that allow for the return home of Syrian refugees from Turkey, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said.
This would be in Hungary’s national interest, Szijjarto said in a video posted on Facebook on Saturday. The migration situation in Turkey is becoming harder to handle, Szijjarto said, citing his Turkish counterpart in recent talks.
More than four million migrants are staying in Turkey and the Turkish authorities are finding it increasingly challenging to provide for them, he said.
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A federal court ruled Friday that President Trump’s “remain in Mexico” policy goes against federal law.
Less than a year ago another federal appeals court ruled the “remain in Mexico” policy could proceed.
The open borders left will never stop in their attempts to destroy this nation.
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Orban: Regular Migrants Attacks at Hungary’s Border Expected
Hungary should be prepared for further waves of migrants and “regular, massive attacks” on its border fence in the south, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, commenting on reports that Turkey has decided not to prevent any more Syrian refugees from travelling on to Europe.
Speaking on public Kossuth Radio, Orban said that Hungary’s border and its people must be protected. No matter how many migrants should come, Hungary’s authorities are able to secure the borders, he added. “We don’t need to worry about Hungary’s security as long as we are united.” Orban also announced that preparations have started for a summit of the Visegrad Four countries and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to be held before the European Union summit in late March.
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A St. Louis woman was robbed, beaten and stabbedby her 15-year-old neighbor last week. The teen stole her phone — twice — beat her once and then came back and beat her again with a a metal rod while she was on the phone with police.
But the six foot teen is still free. The court let him off because he has an IQ of 49.
The teen behind the attack is a Somali immigrant teenager.
Hassan is a 15 year old refugee from Somalia who lives with his family. He is 6’ and approx 175lbs, much larger than my sister. He has broken into Alicia’s car 3 different times and broken into another neighbors house. The police were involved every single time and reported that nothing could be done since he was a minor. Surely this time would be different, though.
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Sweden: Employment Service Forecasts Surging Migrant Unemployment
The Swedish Employment Service has warned that migrant unemployment rates are set to dramatically increase to the worst levels since the 1990s in a new report.
The agency stated that as the trend of overall unemployment in Sweden continues to grow, structural unemployment will increase and that migrants will be especially likely to be jobless, Sydsvenskan reports.
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Top Democrat Pushes Open Borders, Leaves Townhall After Being Challenged by Legal Immigrant Group
Leading Democrat rising star, Central Florida Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy, who chairs the allegedly “moderate” Blue Dogs Caucus, was visibly upset when the founder of Legal Immigrants for America raised concerns over the rise in Communism and Socialism within the United States.
Amapola Hansberger, who legally immigrated from the violent far-left and Communist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua during the Cold War, reminded Murphy at the townhall discussion with Murphy that the goal of Socialism is Communism.
When asked by Jim Hansberger about open borders and sanctuary cities, Amapola’s husband who founded and later sold the RAM Golf corporation, Murphy said that there must be a pathway and that these people “need to be brought out of the shadows”. When pressed about the violent streaks and costs of illegal immigrants, Murphy exploded and yelled “LET ME FINISH” at the table of her constituents.
She went on to reason that the misinformation and rhetoric of today’s political climate (of course not on her side but anything that highlights a need for a secure border and deportation of illegals), makes it impossible to do anything about the issue. This is one of the common talking points among progressives and leftists, who Murphy claims not to align with. However, she votes with Nancy Pelosi’s hard-line leftist agenda almost 100% of the time.
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Watch: Migrants Pour Into Europe After Turkey Opens ‘Refugee’ Floodgate
Turkey invites migrants to flood into Europe.
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New BBC Drama Depicts Blacks as Slavemasters, Whites as Slaves
Just what we needed.
A new BBC drama series set in London depicts a “dystopian” alternate society where blacks are slavemasters and whites are slaves.
The show, which features controversial ‘woke’ rapper Stormzy, is called Noughts & Crosses and is based on a series of novels by Malorie Blackman.
The plot showcases “an alternative history in which African people had gained a technological and organisational advantage over the European people, rather than the other way around.”…
“At this point why don’t Netflix and the BBC and all the other leftist media outlets simply make a film or series called “ we hate white people”. It would be so much more honest,” one person commented on YouTube.
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Norway: City’s Municipal Toilets to be Outfitted With Gender-Neutral Signs
The city council in Trondheim — Norway’s third-largest city — on Thursday decided that all toilets in the city’s municipal buildings will be outfitted with gender-neutral signs from now on.
The new policy means that the signs for men and women on toilets inside municipal buildings will be taken down and replaced with gender-neutral signs, Norwegian news site Document Norway reports.
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These Leftist Democrats who vote 100% with Nancy Pelosi, but claim to be MODERATE, need to be removed from office this November. They’re not blue dogs, they’re just lying dogs.
Erdogan trying to invoke NATO Article 5 to initiate WWIII:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkey-asks-nato-join-its-war-against-syria-and-russia
This is really bad. Hopefully the rest of NATO ignores Erdogan’s insanity.