The number of officially reported deaths in China from the Wuhan Coronavirus has risen to 563, and the number of cases has exceeded 18,000. Meanwhile, a cruise ship has been quarantined off Japan with 20 people on board who tested positive for the virus.
In other news, President Donald Trump was acquitted in the Senate on both impeachment counts.
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ADP National Employment Report: Private Sector Employment Increased by 291,000 Jobs in January
OSELAND, N.J., Feb. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Private sector employment increased by 291,000 jobs from December to January according to the January ADP National Employment Report(r). Broadly distributed to the public each month, free of charge, the ADP National Employment Report is produced by the ADP Research Institute(r) in collaboration with Moody’s Analytics. The report, which is derived from ADP’s actual payroll data, measures the change in total nonfarm private employment each month on a seasonally-adjusted basis.
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A Letter From the American Forefathers: We Warned You!
Let me ask you another sincere question? Do you really believe that if the people really knew the US Constitution that they would allow corrupt politicians to continuously spew out their corruptions as well as evade responsibility when it comes to holding them to the consequence of their scandals (Article 1, Section 3, Clause 7)?
As Abraham Lincoln rightly stated, “We are not called upon to overthrow the US Constitution, but we are called upon to overthrow the men that pervert that Constitution.”
Now, with this said, I recently saw a post that headlines read, “An Open Letter to the American People from the Forefathers.”
It goes as follows…
“We warned you of the dangers of excessive taxation. Now you labor nearly 6 months of the year to pay taxes at all levels as your economy suffocates under this self inflicted burden (Numbers 23:23).”
“We warned you of foreign entanglements. Now thousands of men and woman suffer and die on the behalf of the military Industrial Complex and Special Interests groups (Amos 4:10).”
“We warned you of political parties. Now you have a two party system working hand in glove to conspire against the American people plundering you while politicians pretend to oppose each other (Mark 3:25).”
We warned you of the importance of an honest, independent and unbiased media according to Law (Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 25:1). Now your centralized “Mainstream Media” is inundating Americans with a continued barrage of propaganda, distortions and omissions.
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Antifa Thug Gets in Face of GOP Candidate Running Against Nancy Pelosi, Says He Wants Him ‘Dead’
‘I’m gonna f*** you up’
The left — and specifically Antifa, in this case — just can’t seem to help itself from encouraging more and more people to come to the polls in November and reelect President Donald Trump.
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Buttigieg Narrowly Holds Lead in Iowa Caucuses With 92 Percent of Precincts Reporting
Democrat Pete Buttigieg held a slight lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucuses as more results trickled in on Wednesday.
The caucuses were held Monday but technical problems caused an unprecedented delay in reporting the results. No candidate has been declared the winner yet, and results are still coming in.
As of Wednesday night, Buttigieg, the former South Bend, Ind., mayor, led the race with 26.5 percent of delegates over the 25.6 percent in favor of Sanders, according to numbers released by the Iowa Democratic Party.
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Dems Release Only 62% of Iowa Caucus Results — Just Enough to Have ‘Mayor Cheat’ In the Lead
This election is more fraudulent than anything out of any third-world banana republic.
The Iowa Democratic Party decided on Tuesday to release only 62 percent of the Iowa caucus results, which was evidently just enough to make it look like Pete Buttigieg, aka “Mayor Cheat,” was in the lead.
To recap: Buttigieg’s team got the final poll which showed him in third and Bernie in first canceled, had the election results delayed massively thanks to a shady firm literally named “Shadow” that his team paid over $40,000 to and had other strong ties with his campaign, declared victory with zero percent of the vote in at 12:24 AM EST on Tuesday morning and now the Iowa Democratic Party released only 62% of the vote to make it seem like he won.
At least in a third-world s-hole the people all know their elections are a sham. Our controlled media is actually trying to play this off as legit!
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Franklin Graham Praises Rush Limbaugh as ‘Voice of Reason’
Celebrated evangelical pastor Franklin Graham offered prayers for Rush Limbaugh this week, calling the radio talk show pioneer a “conservative voice of reason.”
With hashtag #PrayforRush, Rev. Graham noted in a tweet that radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.
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Leftists ‘Disgusted’ At ‘Racist Piece of Dog S**t’ Limbaugh’s Medal of Freedom Honour
After expressing glee at talk host’s cancer, sickos are furious Limbaugh was awarded at SOTU
Leftists spewed more hate and vitriol toward Rush Limbaugh Tuesday night after President Trump awarded the legendary talk radio host the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of charity work and dedication to the well being of the nation.
Trump instigated the surprise honour for Limbaugh following his revelation that he is battling stage four lung cancer.
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‘Pelosi’s Tantrum’ Massively Backfires
Nancy Pelosi’s petulant decision to tear up a copy of Trump’s speech at the end of last night’s State of the Union address appears to have massively backfired.
Presumably attempting to appear courageous, the Speaker of the House’s angry mannerisms only ended up making her look like a grandma off her meds.
The hashtag #PelosiTantrum soon began trending on Twitter, with the general consensus being that the moment represented an optical disaster.
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Set to begin at 7:55 ET. Trump’s one chance with access to the American people, bar an emergency, to tout the successes and vision for America. After this it is 95% of media pounding on him, lying every day, calling him a racist, and sexist and rapist and everything else. If media is not addresses and dealt with, the nation is in trouble come election time. He should be at 65% approval at this point. The media’s control over what 95% of Americans see via Facebook, Google, ABCCBSNBC , CNN MSNBC, plus dead voters, plus illegal voters, plus faked mail in voters, and throw in some sneaky actions in social media that are not detectable but well described by Dr. Epstein and we are about to lose this nation. A real revolution if the incoming person tries gun confiscation. See Dr. Epstein’s vid Below —
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Senate Acquits Trump on Abuse of Power, Obstruction of Congress Charges
The Senate overwhelmingly acquitted President Trump on both articles of impeachment against him Wednesday afternoon following a brief trial, in a historic rejection of Democrats’ claims that the president’s Ukraine dealings and handling of congressional subpoenas merited his immediate removal from office.
Several Congressional Democrats, speaking to Fox News, were dejected on Capitol Hill late Wednesday, even as they said they hoped to weaponize the acquittal votes by several moderate Republicans in swing states.
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Twitter Goes Full Tilt, Suspends James O’Keefe
Twitter has locked the account of conservative journalist James O’Keefe for publishing publicly available evidence that a pair of radical leftists with violent fantasies work for the Bernie Sanders campaign. While O’Keefe’s tweets are still visible, he can’t publish anything new on the platform until he deletes a post which violates Twitter’s rules against “posting private information.”
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USMCA — Americans Sold Down the River … Again!
The big question is, does the USMCA violate the U. S. Constitution? Unfortunately, in many areas it does. In Bond v. United States, the majority wrote that, “while Congress has the authority to create legislation to enforce treaties, it must do so while respecting the traditional division of sovereign responsibility between the federal government and the states.”
Justice Thomas concurred and wrote that, “while Congress has the power to create laws to enforce treaties, that power does not extend to the enforcement of laws that would infringe on states’ rights.” The USMCA tramples all over states’ rights and property rights.
In the 1957 case of Reid v. Covert, the high court majority wrote on the Supremacy Clause that, “There is nothing in this language which intimates that treaties and laws enacted pursuant to them do not have to comply with the provisions of the Constitution.”
If the USMCA were in fact a true free trade agreement, without all the social, environmental and labor provisions in it, no constitutional conflict would exist. But the USMCA implements and requires enforcement of international law in place of American federal and state law …. in violation of the U. S. Constitution. Here’s how:
1. The USMCA promotes and creates economic integration of North America, not unlike the European Union, overriding American sovereignty. Is that what the American people wanted, a top-down, burdensome, international bureaucracy with the power to ignore American law? Why do you suppose Britain opted out of the European Union? The EU created the “Euro” for its currency. Will the USMCA create a cross-border currency called the “Amero” and scrap the dollar?
2. The USMCA virtually sets in stone the United Nations AGENDA21, sustainable development policy, a policy that is the antithesis of and works to undermine Constitutional American property rights. This is the United Nations’ policy on property rights:
“Land … cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. Public control of land use is therefore indispensable.”
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Van Jones Warns Democrats: Trump is Helping African-Americans ‘In Real Life’
CNN contributor Van Jones warned fellow panelists, and Democrats in general, on Tuesday evening that President Donald Trump was helping African-Americans “in real life” and reaching out to them for their vote in 2020.
Jones was reacting to the president’s State of the Union address, in which the president mentioned several efforts to help African-Americans specifically:
What he was saying to African-Americans can be effective. You may not like it, but he mentioned HBCUs [historically black colleges and universities] — our black colleges have been struggling for a long time, a bunch of them have gone under — he threw a lifeline to them, in real life, in his budget. He talked about that. He talked about the criminal justice reform. He talked about opportunity zones. He talked about school choice.
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What to Know Before You Buy or Install Your Amazon Ring Camera
So, you own or are thinking of buying a Ring camera. This post outlines a list of privacy and civil liberties concerns we have with Amazon’s Ring system so that you can be a more informed consumer, or—if you already own a Ring camera—be a more considerate neighbor. 1. You are not the only one who can access your footage.
Your Ring footage isn’t private. It’s in the cloud. That means that you are not the only one with access to your footage. Think about all of the personal events cameras inside and outside of your home will capture. Do you want strangers being able to learn your routines by watching you leave and return to your house every day? And think about the footage of others—friends, family, and neighbors who are nearby. Would they be comfortable with video evidence of when they walk their dogs or when their car isn’t home at its normal hour?
With a Ring camera, Amazon employees have access to the cloud where your footage is stored—and a few have already been fired for unauthorized access to people’s personal videos.
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It is a rare thing to witness a truly iconic moment happen on live television, but that is precisely what tens of millions of Americans had the opportunity to do on Tuesday night. At the conclusion of President Trump’s State of the Union address, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped her copy of Trump’s speech in half in front of a nationwide audience. We have never seen anything like that before in the entire history of this country, but of course so many unprecedented things have taken place during Trump’s presidency. Pelosi is claiming that she did not plan in advance to rip the speech in half, and at that moment she probably wasn’t doing much thinking at all, but it is a moment that will live in all of our memories for the rest of our lives. Pelosi shocked the entire nation by tearing the speech in two, but more importantly I believe that her action was a perfect metaphor for what is about to happen to America. We are more deeply divided than we have ever been, and during this election season I believe that we will see very frightening eruptions of anger and frustration all across the United States.
Of course the left was absolutely thrilled by what Pelosi did, and they can’t say enough good things about her right now.
Sadly, this is yet another example of how deeply divided we are as a nation.
When Pelosi tore those pieces of paper in half, I believe that it was symbolic of what will happen to our entire country.
In other words, I believe that it is possible that we may have just witnessed what is known as a “harbinger”. The following is how that word is defined by Merriam-Webster’s dictionary…
: something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come
During the 2020 election season, America is literally going to be torn in half. Right now, many Democrats absolutely hate President Trump, his family and his supporters, and that hatred is only going to intensify as we get closer to next November.
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Alberta Turkey Farm Invader in Court: Why Does Maxwell Ming Mah Have a Toronto Lawyer?
The likely ring leader of the Turkey Bandits who raided a pacifist Hutterite colony’s Jumbo Valley Turkey Farm in southern Alberta to stage a sit-in before taking off with some stolen birds in 2019 has retained a lawyer from Toronto.
Today it was announced that the Doug Schweitzer’s Crown prosecution would proceed summarily, meaning the bandits would not get more than 6 months in prison if convicted.
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City of Edmonton Had Children Listen to Extinction Rebellion Activist on Climate Change
The City of Edmonton had children listen on numerous occasions to the Extinction Rebellion activist Chris Gusen on the topics ranging from an “Albertan Green New Deal” to environmental activism during Edmonton’s City Hall School initiative.
A source revealed to The Post Millennial that Gusen spoke to these children—who are all in Grade 6—about how to engage in climate activism, why Alberta needs a Green New Deal, and also taught the children about Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.
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BBC Could Go Way of Blockbuster, Minister Says as Govt Considers Decriminalising TV Tax
Culture secretary Nicky Morgan has warned that the BBC could go the way of Blockbuster — becoming a total irrelevancy and going bust — unless it evolves.
Baroness Morgan made the remarks as her department launches a consultation on decriminalising payment of the licence fee which funds the British Broadcasting Corporation, saying “accountability and value for money must be at the heart of how the BBC is funded”.
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Brexit Britain Retakes Independent Seat at World Trade Organization
The United Kingdom has retaken her independent seat at the World Trade Organization after formerly being represented by the European Union since the WTO was founded in 1995.
The UK’s ambassador, Julian Braithwaite, gave the country’s first independent speech after the country left the bloc on Friday, pledging to fix the WTO.
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Bridge-Building? Orban Meets Berlusconi, Salvini, Meloni — Italian Right-Wing Leaders in Rome
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban had discussions with numerous prominent Italian politicians at the beginning of this week. During his visit to Rome, where he was invited to speak at the “National Conservatism Conference,” he met Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, and Giorgia Meloni, the president of the right-wing Brothers of Italy. He also had discussions with Italy’s former prime minister and the leader of Forza Italia Silvio Berlusconi, and former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
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Denmark Arrests Three Iranians in Saudi ‘Spy’ Probe
Denmark has arrested three members of an Iranian Arab opposition group on suspicion of spying for Saudi Arabia, Reuters reports. The three are members of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (ASMLA) which fights for more independence of the Arab Ahvaz region in Iran. They were on the radar of the Danish security services for supporting an attack on Iran in 2018.
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Far-Right AfD Kingmakers in German State Election
There were protests in Germany after a conservative state premier was elected with help from the far-right Alternative for Germany. However, the newly elected leader dismissed the idea of a coalition with the party.
A huge political upset in Germany’s eastern state of Thuringia on Wednesday sparked a widespread outcry across the country as the ruling coalition saw its candidate for state premier lose by a single vote to the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), who had barely cleared the 5% support hurdle to join the regional parliament.
What was even more cause for concern, however, was the role of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the victory of FDP candidate Thomas Kemmerich (above).
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Germany: Ex-’Fridays for Future’ Activist Reveals ‘Cult-Like Control, Hostility’
Sina, aged 14, used to be active as a spokesperson for Fridays for Future in a city in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia.
But she quickly became disenchanted by the movement’s “cult-like” structures that did not tolerate questions.
Recently she revealed her story (video after the jump).
Sina began her environmental activism by joining a demonstration against coal power plants, organized by Greenpeace and WWF, before getting involved as a press spokesperson in the FFF movement in March 2019.
In the interview, she reports on cult-like control, censorship, hostility and left-wing infiltration.
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Mohamed 2nd Most Popular Name for Newborn Baby Boys in Swedish City
The name Mohamed is now the second most popular name for newborn boys in the Swedish city of Gothenburg and the third most popular in multicultural Malmö.
New figures from Statistics Sweden reveal that the most popular name for newborn boys in 2019 was Elias, with Mohamed, including all the various spellings of the name, being the second most popular despite not appearing in the top ten nationwide, Goteborgs-Posten reports.
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Nearly Three Quarters of Britons Back Boris Johnson’s Plan to End Early Release of Terrorists
Over seven in ten Britons back Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to end the automatic early release of convicted terrorists.
In the wake of the terrorist attack in Streatham, London, the government is set to end the automatic release of terrorists from prison, replacing the current system with a law that would require terrorists to serve at least two-thirds of their sentence and be subject to a review by a parole board before being released.
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Polish President to Seek Reelection
President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday in Lubartów, southeastern Poland, announced his intention to run for re-election in this spring’s election. Duda said his second term will enable the government to continue its work.
Earlier on Wednesday, Sejm (lower house) Speaker Elzbieta Witek announced that the presidential election would take place on May 10, with a possible second round on May 24.
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UK: Climate Protests Shut BP’s London Headquarters on CEO’s First Day
LONDON (Reuters) — Climate protesters forced BP (BP.L) to temporarily shut down its London headquarters on Wednesday, the first day in office for the oil and gas company’s new CEO Bernard Looney.
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The trial of a man accused of being an accomplice in the 2017 suicide bombing at a concert venue in Manchester, United Kingdom has heard he spent months helping to prepare and plan the attack, and should be seen as shouldering equal blame for the 22 people killed.
A large explosive device was detonated in the auditorium of the Manchester Arena venue in May 2017, which killed 22 people and injured hundreds more. Including those who suffered psychological trauma from what they witnessed and experienced at the scene, the court heard the attack had “nearly 1,000 victims”, reports the BBC.
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UK: New Proposed Law to Jail “Anti-Vaxxers” & The CDC Fear Based Talking Points to Media Revealed!
A controversial group currently in the crosshairs of the establishment, which was also discussed at Event 201, is known as the Anti-Vaccine Movement. And now we see the UK Government working on a new law to jail people who spread “Anti-Vaccine Propaganda” online. Currently, people are protected from prosecution if they sincerely believe the misinformation or propaganda is real, but the government is looking to reform this provision and make it a criminal offense to post anything online, particularly social media, which is deemed to be “Anti-Vaccine.”
Where does the CDC stand on this issue? Well, when we examine a CDC document published at the National Academies website, we see what they call, “A Recipe for Fostering Public Interest and High Vaccine Demand.”
The CDC document appears to contain outright talking points and a strategy to be carried out and propagated to the public via health officials and the media.
I am not an “Anti-Vaxxer,” but when I see a massive, profit driven, global operation which wields vast power and influence over governments, who want to make vaccines mandatory and jail those who dare to ask questions, which is then propagandized by the media and sold to the public through fear and intimidation, I must resist.
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“Death” Smog Suffocates Wuhan: Residents Fear Crematoriums Burning Victims 24-7
Creepy footage of a smoggy Wuhan could be smoke from the city’s dead being burned en masse.
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China: Police Lock Potential Coronavirus Victim in Her Own Home
A video out of China shows police locking a potential coronavirus victim in her own home.
The clip shows two officers padlocking the door while asking the resident inside, “Do you have enough rice and vegetables at home?”
“I think so,” responds the person inside.
“OK, so don’t come out,” responds the officer, adding, “We are locking your door from outside. Don’t come out. It’s good for everyone.”
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Chinese Woman Attacked for Wearing Face Mask in New York, Media Ignores Story
A Chinese woman in New York was racially attacked for wearing a face mask, but despite numerous warnings about the coronavirus provoking racism, the media hasn’t covered the story.
The incident occurred in Chinatown at Manhattan’s Grand Street station when the woman was approached by a black man who called her a “diseased bitch,” according to NextShark.
A Facebook user identifying herself as Gin who filmed the confrontation said the man then hit the woman repeatedly on the head before fleeing (probably not a wise move if she actually had coronavirus).
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Coronavirus Death Toll Reaches 563 as China Tries to Censor Bad News
China on Thursday reported 73 more coronavirus deaths, bringing the total to 563, as the government has reportedly begun censoring negative information about the outbreak online and in the news.
The number of confirmed cases in China also jumped by a daily record, up 3,694 to 28,018, according to the director-general of the World Health Organization.
The uptick comes as the Chinese government has started to pressure state-run news media to report positive stories about relief efforts, three people at Chinese news operations told The New York Times.
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Coronavirus Live Updates: Japan Says 10 More People Test Positive for Virus on Cruise Ship
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates.
All times below are in Beijing time.
10:35 am: Japan reveals more information about infected people on cruise ship
Japan’s health ministry disclosed in a press briefing more details about the ten additional people it said tested positive for the virus on board a cruise ship. According to NBC News, Japan said the newly infected people came from:
Japan: 4 (one woman in her 60s, two women in their 70s, one man in his 70s)
U.S.: 2 (one woman in her 60s, another woman in her 70s)
2 (one woman in her 60s, a man in his 70s)
New Zealand: 1 (a man in his 50s)
Taiwan: 1 (a woman in her 70s)
The ministry declined to comment on their conditions and said that they would like to wait for the diagnosis from the medical facilities.
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Gridlock as Far as the Eyes Can See as Chinese Try to Flee Beijing Ahead of Coronavirus Lockdown
BEIJING (INTELLIHUB) — Millions of residents attempted to flee the city on Sunday ahead of a citywide lockdown imposed by Chinese officials in an effort to help curb the Coronavirus outbreak which has reached pandemic levels.
Residents took to any mode of transport possible to escape the virus-ridden city as they headed for the hills.
Traffic was and still is backed up as far as the eye can see while the Chinese military makes plans to seal off Beijing altogether.
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Japan: Coronavirus: Cruise Ship Carrying 3,700 Quarantined After Infection Outbreak Aboard
A U.S. citizen is among the infected on a large cruise liner carrying 3,700 passengers and crew which has been placed into quarantine in Japan after an outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus onboard.
Testing began on board the Diamond Princess after a passenger who had cruised in January fell ill after returning home, raising fears he may have been incubating Coronavirus and infecting other passengers while onboard. These fears have now been confirmed after testing of 300 of the 3,700 passengers and crew, finding ten to have been infected.
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Taiwan News Reports Coronavirus Infections “Astronomically Higher Than Official Figures”
Citing numbers inadvertently published by Tencent’s Epidemic Situation Tracker, Taiwan News reports that coronavirus infections are “astronomically higher than official figures.”
According to the online news outlet, “Tencent may have accidentally leaked real data on Wuhan virus deaths.”
The story claims that Tencent accidentally “showed confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (2019nCoV) in China as standing at 154,023, 10 times the official figure at the time. It listed the number of suspected cases as 79,808, four times the official figure.”
Tencent’s tracker also claimed that the death toll was actually 24,589 — “astronomically higher” than the 300 deaths officially confirmed at that time.
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Two Canadians Quarantined on Cruise Ship Test Positive for Wuhan Coronavirus
APAN (NEWS 1130) — Multiple sources are reporting two Canadians aboard a quarantined ship near Japan have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus.
20 people aboard the Diamond Princess ship have tested positive for the virus, and have been taken to hospital.
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Vatican Sends ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of Medical Masks to China
ROME — The Vatican announced it sent hundreds of thousands of medical masks to China this week to help forestall the spread of the coronavirus.
Vatican News reported that the masks were sent to the regions most affected by the virus, namely Hubei, Zhejiang, and Fujian provinces.
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Greek Islanders Protest After Thousands of Migrants Riot, Set Fires
Chaos on Aegean Islands as migrants continue to arrive.
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Huge Tax Hikes in Financial Crisis Swedish Municipality That Took Too Many Migrants
The Swedish municipality of Filipstad is facing a financial crisis due to taking in too many migrants during the 2015 migrant crisis and is now looking to hike taxes by ten per cent to cover costs.
The proposed tax hike would take place by 2022 and is in response to the surge in social costs due to the mass migration of asylum seekers to the municipality, with local Social Democrat politician Åsa Hååkman Felth saying the area is in dire need of help, Expressen reports.
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Migrants Protest Greek Government and Clash With Police After Tightening of Migration Rules
Around 2,000 migrants took to the streets on the Greek island of Lesbos, with some clashing with police, to protest the Greek government’s tougher migration policy.
The migrants, who are currently being housed at the Moria migrant camp, left the camp and travelled to the city of Mytilene. They rejected orders from the local police, claiming to be afraid they were going to be deported under the new migration policy.
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Church of England Apologizes for Saying God Only Approves Sex for Heterosexual Married Couples
The Church of England somehow surprised and angered people with a recent statement of its belief that God only approves of sex between a man and a woman in the context of marriage — a belief that literally dates back to the beginning of Christianity.
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Facebook Falsely Accuses the Post Millennial of ‘Hate Speech’
Facebook has flagged The Post Millennial for hate speech … against “white women.” In an article entitled “Why are white women signing up for workshops that tell them they suck?” Our senior contributor Libby Emmons explored the phenomenon of white women self-flagellating over issues of race. The story was widely shared and written about workshops that affluent white women partake in to better learn about their own unconscious bias.
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Iowa Precinct Captain Tries to Convince Voter That Pete Buttigieg’s Homosexuality Shouldn’t Matter
Iowa voter goes viral with fiery response.
The reaction of an Iowa voter is going viral after she learned that Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is not only openly gay, but married as well.
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Jessica Yaniv Advances Private Prosecution Against Disabled Journalist
Jessica Yaniv appeared at the Surrey Courthouse today to advance a private prosecution against Donald Francis Smith, an intellectually disabled citizen journalist Yaniv has accused of various charges of impropriety.
Yaniv’s prosecution appeared as “restricted access,” giving no information on the prosecution, its date, or its time of hearing—but a clerk at the Surrey Courthouse accidentally revealed the information to The Post Millennial when we inquired about why the listing’s information had been withheld from the public.
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Krieger: “the Bannings Will Continue Until Thought-Crimes Are Extinguished”
Most of you reading this will be aware that Zerohedge’s prolific and highly popular twitter account with over 670,000 followers was on the receiving end of a lifetime ban by the Twitter politburo. This post won’t focus on the details of this specific ban, but if you want to read more about it, see the following: Zerohedge Suspended On Twitter.
It’s imperative not to overly focus on the individual victims of tech giant bans, and instead zero in on the bigger picture. Rather than debating whether or not you like Zerohedge, or whether you think it crossed a line, I want to highlight the dangerous implications of dominant social media companies wielding permanent bans as a weapon against freedom of speech in practice.
This post will cover three main issues.
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Liberal White Women Pay $2,500 to be Lectured About How Racist They Are
Liberal white women across America are paying $2,500 to attend dinners at which they are lectured by two non-white women about how racist they are.
Yes, really.
The Guardian reports on Race to Dinner, a scheme where co-founders Regina Jackson, who is black, and Saira Rao, who “identifies” as Indian-American, make white guilt-riddled rich white women admit to their subconscious bigotry.
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Polish ‘LGBTI-Free Zones’ Not OK, Says EU Commission
The European Commission has spoken out against towns in Poland that have labelled themselves “free” from lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex communities (LGBTI).
“We cannot allow the distribution of LGBTI free zone stickers, or the adoption of anti-LGBTI resolutions and not feel responsible for the next phase where physical attacks that take place, even if they are then carried out by other people,” said EU commissioner for equality, Helena Dalli.
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US Archbishop: Pope Told US Gay Civil Unions Can be ‘Acceptable’
A U.S. archbishop says Pope Francis told a group of American bishops in Rome that civil unions for homosexual couples that give them access to public benefits are “acceptable,” as long as it’s clear such arrangements can never be considered marriage.
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco told LifeSiteNews that during their January 27 ad limina visit, the pope said, in the words of the archbishop, that “civil unions between two people of the same sex can never be marriage. As long as this is respected, civil unions that give access to government benefits can be acceptable.”
However, to regard homosexual civil unions as acceptable contradicts Catholic teaching, notably reaffirmed in the 1986, 1992 and 2003 documents issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) under Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, and approved by Pope Saint John Paul II.
[Comment: Pope is a graduate of Liberation Theology == Communist indoctrination of Catholics.]
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Watch: Extinction Rebellion Cofounder Wants to ‘Sabotage’ Civilization
The cofounder of climate alarmist group Extinction Rebellion (XR), called for activists to “take down” civilization as a remedy for supposedly man-made climate change.
Speaking at a ‘By Any Means Necessary?’ meeting Simon Bramwell, the cofounder of Extinction Rebellion, advocated for humanity to return to a “wild” and “feral” state, saying that it is the duty of activist groups like XR is to “sabotage” civilization, in order to bring about his Paleolithic utopian vision.
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In other news, President Donald Trump was acquitted in the Senate on both impeachment counts.”
Ok Pelosi lucifer now try to find something else to torture the best president in 100 years.
Torture? I thought torture did not exist in “free countries”
I was wrong.
This cursed life has no justice or those who have been torturing this unique president would be put in prison for life for purjury, wasting money and time, lying and immorality and indirectly corrupting the whole nation by their indecencies.
Congress is there for check and balances watching if the president deviates from the path of righteousness. But who will check the congress if they commit heinous perjuries?
Who the people? Forget about that: people have no say or authority after election at all. Rachida, llhan have more sway than 350 million oblivious infidels.
What a comedy of errors? US is burning while pelosi is fiddling with Rachida and ilhan somali and jihadi songs.
democracy was designed to bring logic, reason and justice to the nation, not ruin, scandals, and satanistic behaviors.
Very scary when you see one pesron building and then thousands tearing down his hard work.
Very strange as the strange as the Strage Death of Europe.
Zerohedge article says that it is more like 25k dead and they have built emergency hospitals in record time.
The article was from a couple of days ago and claims that tencent (?) accidentally released the real numbers then changed them later.
OK – this is not a ‘news’ post: but it is new. Sabaton History has just posted this video about the Siege of Vienna, Jan Sobieski and the Winged Hussars.
I had no idea that the wings of the Winged Hussars were a strategic piece of equipment to frighten the enemy horses. Interesting info throughout the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_L5acJht3g
And, the original song, with English and German titles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75zmIj_4LFQ
And the wings were also designed to foil being lassoed by the enemy and pulled off their horses.
Indy Neidell also runs a week-by-week WW2 series, they are in 1941
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCP1AejCL4DA7jYkZAELRhHQ/videos
“Polish ‘LGBTI-Free Zones’ Not OK, Says EU Commission”
In other news, sharia-free zones not okay, says head of muslim council
https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/1225077710956957697
european politicians are shameless
Noteworthy story. She’s worth it to drive her through a google translator.
“They shot me in the leg, but I still didn’t give my bag back”: A fragile girl from Petersburg fought off four armed Kyrgyz
After the video of the attack appeared on the Web, the brave lady was nicknamed “Natacha without fear”
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27087/4159685/
https://mobile.twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1225464788899237888
British “conservatives” force MP for attending “far right” event in Hungary
https://m.dw.com/en/female-genital-mutilation-feels-like-living-in-a-dead-body/a-52269987
FGM rising in Germany
Im wondering do only immigrating African muzzies do this in Europe?
Never hear about this from Arabs, Turks or Pakis, articles like this always show African women
Voice of Europe is back!
Thank you, Reader from Chicago. Pleased to know.
I do not know why the ended up shut down on the end of December.
Now they are back, may be it was a long Winterish Christmas New Year?
Or needing more funds?
Welcome back