The official Chinese death toll from the Wuhan Coronavirus has risen to 722, with more than 34,000 cases reported. Meanwhile, more diagnosed cases of the virus have been reported on the quarantined cruise ship anchored off Japan.
In other news, now that Brexit has been implemented, the British government is reportedly planning to cut tariffs on imported American goods.
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Strong Jobs Report Has One Big Soft Spot; Dow Jones Falls
The U.S. economy added a better-than-expected 225,000 jobs in January as the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.6%. Average hourly wage growth improved to 3.1% from a year ago. Despite the strong jobs report, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell Friday after hitting a record high Thursday.
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Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman funded the creation of ACRONYM, the group that sabotaged the Iowa caucus results, after bankrolling voter manipulation campaigns including the notorious online “false flag operation” in Alabama’s 2017 senate race.
At the time of publication, February 6, the winner of the Iowa’s Democratic Party caucus is still unknown. Senator Bernie Sanders, the clear winner in virtually every exit poll, is currently ahead in votes. Yet somehow Pete Buttigieg, a favorite of the party establishment who was unknown to most voters until last year, has claimed victory.
The force accused of sowing the confusion and disarray surrounding the first Democratic Party contest of the 2020 election season is a dark money nonprofit called Acronym. It was Acronym that launched Shadow Inc, the mysterious company behind the now-infamous, unsecured, completely unworkable voter app which prevented precinct chairs from reporting vote totals on caucus night.
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Facebook has not only banned the popular right-wing network Censorship.tv, they have also blocked The Gateway Pundit’s article about the censorship.
The Gateway Pundit published an article about the censorship on Thursday and was immediately alerted by readers that the story could not be posted to their personal Facebook pages.
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Facebook and Twitter Decline Pelosi Request to Delete Trump Video
A fierce behind-the-scenes dispute between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and Facebook erupted into public view Friday, as the speaker’s office demanded that Facebook remove a video posted online by President Donald Trump.
The video in question showed Pelosi’s viral State of the Union moment ripping up the text of Trump’s speech Tuesday night, but was edited to make it appear that she ripped the speech even as Trump saluted a Tuskegee airman in the audience. In fact, Pelosi’s speech-ripping gesture came at the end of the president’s speech, and her office said it was in response to the totality of the speech and what Pelosi saw as misinformation in it.
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Florida Man Friday: When Herpes Monkeys Attack!
By the time you’re finished reading this week’s Florida Man Friday, you’ll have the unsettling feeling in the pit of your stomach that Florida Man took one look at what’s going on in Iowa and said, “I going to up my game — so up yours!”
So remember this: What you are about to see is real; the Florida residents on your screen are not actors. They are genuine citizens who, having been born in or moved to Florida, have been persuaded to drop common sense and pursue a completely YOLO lifestyle, in this forum…
Florida Man Friday!
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Gallup: Democrats Much Less Satisfied With Their ‘Personal Life’ Than Republicans
Democrats are among the demographic groups with the lowest personal satisfaction in their life, while Republicans are among the most satisfied, a Gallup poll revealed Thursday.
Gallup broke its survey sample into 21 different subgroups, and among them Democrats ranked next to lowest in their personal satisfaction level. The only subgroup to express lower personal satisfaction was the demographic of those earning less than $40,000 a year.
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How Government and Media Are Prepping America for a Failed 2020 Election
Russia, China and Iran are already being blamed for using tech to undermine the 2020 election. Yet, the very technologies they are allegedly using were created by a web of companies with deep ties to Israeli intelligence.
Over the past several months and with a renewed zeal in just the last few weeks, anonymous intelligence officials, dubious “experts” and establishment media outlets have crafted a narrative about the coming “chaos” of the 2020 election, months before it takes place. Per that narrative, certain state actors will use specific technologies to target the “American mind” in order to undermine the coming presidential election. The narrative holds that those efforts will be so successful that the U.S. will never recover as a democracy.
Though these anonymous government sources and their stenographers have already named the countries who will be responsible and the technologies they will use, they also admit that no evidence yet exists to back up these claims, meaning they are — at best — pure speculation.
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‘I’m Back’: James Woods Trashes AOC and Clintons in Return to Twitter
Actor James Woods returned to Twitter late Thursday, and very few prominent Democrats were left unscathed.
Woods, 72, had quit using his popular Twitter account in April after having his account punished several times for breaking the platform’s user rules. The actor claimed that Twitter was unfairly censoring his account because of his conservative views.
In his first tweet back, the Hollywood conservative ripped New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her controversial remarks about people in the United States being able to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.” Woods wrote, “I’ve tried so hard this past year to live without the wealth of knowledge available on Twitter, but this kind of blazing insight can be found nowhere else, so… I’m back! #AOCStillAMoron.”
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Instagram, Facebook Ban Censored.tv
Big Tech targets Gavin McInnes’ independent network
Facebook and Instagram on Thursday banned the pages of Censored.TV, the paid subscription network founded by Gavin McInnes.
On Thursday, users began reporting they were unable to post links containing the “censored.tv” url on the social media platforms.
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Democratic strategist James Carville expressed his concerns as the Democratic primary race is officially underway, saying he’s “scared to death” of the direction his party is going.
Appearing on MSNBC, Carville began by pointing to the success Democrats had during the 2018 midterm elections and stressed that it “matters” who the candidates are and what the party chooses to talk about.
“I’m 75 years old, why am I here doing this? Because I’m scared to death, that’s why,” Carville exclaimed. “Let’s get relevant here … all the Sanders people are taking pictures wishing Jeremy Corbyn the best. … I don’t want to go down that path.”
The former Clinton advisor slammed the press corps for going “AOC crazy” over its coverage of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and pointed to more moderate candidates like former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who he noted “got a lot of votes” in Iowa.
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Man Who Was Supposed to Testify Against MS-13 Gang Members Found Dead
Long Island authorities on Wednesday implied that a man set to testify against MS-13 gang members was killed as a result of criminal-justice reforms requiring prosecutors share witnesses’ identities with defendants.
Nassau County officials, including the police commissioner and county executive, announced the death of 36-year-old Wilmer Maldonado on Wednesday — while also decrying the discovery laws that took effect Jan. 1.
“The system failed, the system failed,” Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said at a press conference.
“This man is dead because we didn’t do enough … and this law is not helping us.”
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NBC News Review of Iowa Caucus Vote Finds Potential Errors, Inconsistencies
The Iowa Democratic caucus results are rife with potential errors and inconsistencies that could affect the outcome of the election, according to a review by the NBC News Decision Desk.
The apparent mistakes — spotted in at least dozens of the state’s 1,711 precincts — call into question the accuracy of the outcome of Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucus, which was held Monday night.
In some individual precincts, it may be possible to fix the errors; in other precincts, it will probably be impossible to determine how voters truly made their choices.
The potential errors and inconsistencies take on importance because of the closeness of the contest between the two front-runners — former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
With all percent of precincts reported, Buttigieg had 26.2 percent support and Sanders had 26.1 percent.
The NBC News Decision Desk said it has reviewed the reporting data provided by the Iowa Democratic Party and identified several different types of potential problems with the count.
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Rachel Maddow Blames 4Chan for Shambles in Iowa
Rachel Maddow blamed anonymous messageboard 4Chan for the debacle in Iowa, claiming that a handful of calls ‘clogged up’ the Iowa Democratic Party phone lines.
The delay in reporting the results of the Iowa caucus was blames on “reporting issues” related to an app called Shadow which is owned by Buttigieg supporter Tara McGowan.
However, this didn’t stop Maddow from claiming that 4Channers were to blame for calling Democratic Party phone lines to sow confusion, despite it being acknowledged that this occurred after the problem with the app had been made public.
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Rep. Mike Johnson: It was totally unprecedented. It was shameless and it was also unlawful, Tucker. A lot of people have been talking about this the last 48 hours and I did a little legal memo to point out to my colleagues that she actually committed a felony when she tore that paper up. It wasn’t just ANY copy of the State of the Union Address it was THE copy, the original. And we have over two centuries of custom and tradition. And, of course, the Constitution calls for the State of the Union Address. When the president delivers the copies to those top legal officers, those two top legislative officers in that co-equal branch of government, those are the official documents of the House. If you tear those up you violate a specific statute in the criminal code.
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The App That Broke the Iowa Caucuses Was Sent Out Through Beta Testing Platforms
It was not properly distributed through app stores
The New York Times reported that many precinct chiefs had trouble simply downloading the app, and Motherboard’s screenshots give hints as to why that might be. The app was not deployed through traditional app stores or even sideloaded using an enterprise certificate. Instead, it was deployed through mobile testing platforms, including Apple’s TestFlight and a similar service that services both iOS and Android called TestFairy. Both platforms are for apps that are not yet finalized.
Testing platforms are common for mobile apps, and are one of many ways in which independent app developers and large software makers can deploy beta software without going through the sometimes rigorous App Store and Play Store review processes. This is primarily to let developers squash bugs and ensure the app can run on a variety of different devices, some of which may be using outdated operating systems and powered by older, less powerful components that may render the app sluggish or just plain inoperable.
In this case, however, it looks like Shadow used test platforms for the app’s public distribution.
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Trump Ousts Key Impeachment Figures Sondland, Vindman Days After Senate Acquittal
U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, who testified about President Trump’s Ukraine dealings during the House impeachment hearings, said Friday he had been recalled from his overseas position, hours after a National Security Council aide who testified against the president was also fired.
“I was advised today that the president intends to recall me effective immediately as United States ambassador to the European Union,” Sondland said.
Sondland’s recall follows the dismissal of another impeachment witness, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who was fired by the National Security Council and escorted off of the White House grounds on Friday.
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Video: White Liberals Apologize for Slavery by Kissing Boots of Black Power Group Members
A video shows a white couple bending down and kissing the boots of black power group members to apologize for slavery.
Yes, really.
The activist members appear to be from the Black Hebrew Israelites, an organization labeled an extremist hate group by some because of its inherent anti-white and anti-Semitic racism.
Two people who had expressed an affinity with the group were responsible for the December 2019 attack on a JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey which left four people dead.
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In August 2019 The Gateway Pundit reported and provided support to show that the entire criminal Mueller hoax was an obstruction trap.
The Gateway Pundit reported on text messages from Peter Strzok to Lisa Page showing the Mueller Special Counsel in its first month was already working on an obstruction trap for President Trump to fall into.
They must have already known then that there was no collusion. Yet they pursued their investigation as an attempt to take down the innocent President of the United States.
Now we have proof.
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Witness Murdered After New York Law Revealed His Identity in MS-13 Trial
A violent crime victim ready to testify against MS-13 Gang members in Long Island, New York has been murdered after Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) latest jailbreak law forced witness names to be revealed to the defense in the criminal case.
Wilmer Maldonado Rodriguez, 36-years-old, who was set to testify against MS-13 Gang members who had allegedly beaten and stabbed him in October 2018, was found bludgeoned to death after Cuomo’s law forced his identity to be released to the defense in the ongoing pre-trial stage, according to Newsday.
“This courageous man was prepared to testify against his alleged assailants at an upcoming trial, but he was brutally beaten to death before he could,” Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas said in a statement to the media.
“This case underscores the importance of safeguarding the identities of witnesses and victims of crime and our hearts are with Mr. Maldonado’s family and friends as we grieve his loss,” Singas said.
Originally, Rodriguez’s identity was protected as a witness against the MS-13 Gang members in the alleged 2018 attack. As Breitbart News warned in December 2019, though, Rodriguez’s identity was released to the defense after elected New York Democrats and Cuomo passed a jailbreak law that mandates witnesses for the prosecution be turned over to the defense in criminal trials no later than 15 days after the defendants’ arraignment.
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Jordan B. Peterson Survives 4 Weeks in ICU; Daughter Details ‘Grueling’ Ordeal
Jordan B. Peterson’s family says the famous author is recovering after a scary four weeks spent in an ICU related to an emergency medical benzodiazepine detox.
The clinical psychologist behind the bestselling “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos” experienced a living hell when his wife was diagnosed with terminal cancer and his body reacted in strange ways in response to an increased dosage of medication.
Mikhaila Peterson, the famous author’s daughter, updated his 2.52 million YouTube subscribers on his condition Friday.
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British Government Plans to Slash Tariffs on U.S. Goods
Consumers are set to benefit from the government’s plan to slash tariffs on goods from the United States and other countries after the UK comes out of the transition period in December 2020.
Under the transition period, the UK is still bound by the European Union’s Common External Tariff rules. The Conservative government announced on Thursday that it had launched a consultation on the UK Global Tariff, which will replace it on January 1st, 2021.
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Finnish Birthrates Plummet to Lowest Level Since 1868 Famine
Births in Finland plummeted for the ninth consecutive year in 2019, dropping to a mere 45,600 and reaching their lowest level since the country’s nationwide famine in the 19thcentury.
Despite its painfully low birthrate, mass immigration from the third world was able to drive the country’s overall population increase in 2019. Last year, the Finnish population grew by over 9,600 to around 5.5 million as 18,000 more migrants came to Finland than emigrates who left the country, Finland’s national broadcaster Yle reports.
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France: Rubbish Piles Up on Streets of Paris and Marseille as Waste Disposal Strike Continues
The fallout from the waste disposal strike has become increasingly visible on the streets of Paris and Marseille in recent days as trash cans overflow, cardboard boxes pile up, and as the pungent smell emanating from city sidewalks worsens.
For over a week now, waste collectors and workers at incineration plants striking over government reforms to the pension system have led to the accumulation of 3,000 tons of waste on the streets of Marseille and sidewalks overflowing with rubbish in Paris, Le Point reports.
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Islamic Convert to be Tried for Preparing Attack on French Air Base
Arrested in 2017, Islamic radical convert Alain Feuillerat is set to be tried in a French court for preparing a terrorist attack on an airbase in Évreux.
Feuillerat, a former soldier in the French army, was arrested in May 2017 in the proximity of the airbase while wearing a uniform emblazoned with the Islamic State flag and near several weapons, including a pump-action shotgun, which he had abandoned nearby.
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Sweden Public Voted for the Worst Waste of Money in 2019
The climate policy
Sweden, the mother country of the most popular climate activist Greta Thunberg, voted for the worst money waste of government’s action for last year. The climate policy is therefore awarded the award by the Taxpayers’ Disposal Ombudsman.
Despite Sweden sent more than doubled figures for decreasing the emissions the country produces the results are greatly disappointing. While in 2014 the government budget was 5.2 billion SEK, there is a plan to spent 12.6 billion SEK in 2020. But despite this, emissions no longer decrease. Last year, emissions even increased marginally. In 2018, the situation was even worse when emissions increased by half a million tonnes.
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UK: Boris Caves to Cancel Culture Mob, Punishes Tory MP for Going To… Conservatism Conference
Conservative parliamentarian Daniel Kawczysnki received a “formal warning” from the Conservative Party after a social media campaign to “cancel” him for giving a speech at a conservative conference attended by Viktor Orban and Matteo Salvini.
National Conservatism conferences are organised by Israeli scholar Yoram Hazony, the President of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation who authored The Virute of Nationalism.
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UK: Home Office Bureaucrats Accused of Burying Report on Ethnicity of Grooming Gang Rapists
Home Office bureaucrats have been accused of burying a report on the ethnic background of grooming gang rapists announced in 2018.
The report was commissioned by Sajid Javid — then Home Secretary, now Chancellor of the Exchequer — in 2018, with the Pakistani-heritage Muslim MP saying it made him “feel angry” that such a disproportionate number of grooming gang rapists came from his community, and that they had “disgraced our heritage”.
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UK: Khan’s London: Gang Rape Trio Held Machete to Schoolgirl Victim’s Throat
Three men have been convicted for the brutal gang rape of a 16-year-old schoolgirl in Enfield, London.
22-year-old Roberto French (26/11/1997), of Gordon Road, 21-year-old Abdisalam Mohamad (24/06/1998), of College Gardens, and 22-year-old Hilal Mohamed (02/02/1998), of Warwick Road, were all convicted of rape at Wood Green Crown Court, with French also receiving convictions for robbery and false imprisonment.
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A radicalised chemistry teacher who was jailed for planning to join ISIS and due to be released from prison next month is already back on the streets.
Jamshed Javeed, 30, was jailed for six years in March 2015 for planning to travel from his Manchester home to Syria to join Islamic State.
Despite being handed an extended sentence, last year parole board officials gave the green light for him to be released halfway through his prison term in March.
But officials have now confirmed he has already been let out on licence.
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UK: Six Terrorists Set to be Freed in Weeks Unless New Law is Passed
Ministers are facing a race against time to pass emergency anti-terror legislation after the Streatham attack, to stop the automatic release of any other terrorist.
The government has set itself a target of 27 February to rush a bill through parliament — as one offender is thought to be due for release on February 28, and around five more expected to be let out in March unless the new law is in force.
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Three north London men have been convicted for raping a 16-year-old schoolgirl, after one threatened her with a machete, robbed her and held her captive.
The three defendants, in their early 20s, were all found guilty of rape at Wood Green Crown Court on Friday morning, with one further convicted of robbery and false imprisonment against the same victim.
They will be sentenced at the same court on Thursday, March 19, and have been named as Roberto French, 22; Abdisalam Mohamad, 21, and Hilal Mohamed, 22.
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Understanding Brexit’s Impact on the Euro
It’s no understatement to say that Brexit, once it finally pushes through, will impact the European Union on a large scale. Out of all the issues that are on the table, both Britain and the EU’s finances are some of the most pressing.
Hashing out Brexit’s current trade deals
With the Brexit deal finally approved by MPs, Boris Johnson’s government has about 11 months to prepare and finalise trade deals with the EU. There are talks on how best to do this, especially with the EU being known to veer towards making whole deals instead of going piecemeal per sector.
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Caroline Glick: Israeli Sovereignty and the Fate of the Trump Plan
On Wednesday morning, NeverTrump propagandist Bill Kristol told his MSNBC audience that Democratic chances of victory over US President Donald Trump will rise if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is defeated in Israel’s elections on March 2.
Along the same lines, if Netanyahu fails to apply Israeli sovereignty to the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria before the election, not only will he almost certainly lose those elections, his defeat will bury Trump’s peace plan and harm Trump’s reelection chances.
To understand why this is the case it is first necessary to understand the nature of the Blue and White party and its relationship to Trump and his peace plan.
After Trump’s peace plan was published, Israelis discovered significant problems with the map attached to the plan. Among other things, the map places large sections of Highway 60, which crosses Judea and Samaria from south to north outside Israeli jurisdiction. If left uncorrected, the designation will endanger the security of tens of thousands of Israelis whose communities will be rendered isolated enclaves. Since ensuring Israel’s ability to defend itself and its citizens on a permanent basis is a major goal of the plan, this omission was obviously an oversight. Netanyahu announced this week that he has assembled a team to work on the map.
So long as the map is not adjusted, members of Likud and other parties in the right-religious bloc Netanyahu leads will be unable to vote in favor of the plan, despite their support for Trump and for the plan overall.
This then brings us to Benny Gantz and his party.
Just before Gantz traveled to Washington to meet with Trump at the White House last Monday, it came out that his top campaign strategists, Ronen Tzur and Joel Benenson had both separately published multiple posts on Twitter viciously attacking Trump. Both men compared him to Hitler, called him a Russian agent and a racist. In other words, both men parroted Democratic talking points against Trump…
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Donald Trump Confirms Al-Qaeda Leader Qassim Al-Rimi Has Been Killed in U.S. Operation in Yemen
President Donald Trump has confirmed that the U.S. killed the leader of the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula jihadist group who claimed responsibility for a mass shooting at an American naval base.
Trump said in a statement on Thursday that the U.S. at his direction conducted a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen that killed Qassim al-Rimi.
Al-Rimi is a founder of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The group has long been considered the global network’s most dangerous branch for its attempts to carry out attacks on the U.S. mainland.
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Russia Adds 200 Jehovah’s Witnesses to ‘Extremism,’ ‘Terrorism’ List
Hundreds of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia have been added to a list of “Persons Involved in Extremism or Terrorism,” according to the organization.
The latest crackdown on the religious group blacklists believers from the country’s financial system. Jehovah’s Witnesses were officially banned in 2017, and the Kremlin continues to use extremism laws to crack down on opposition activists and religious minorities.
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BRIDGEWATER — There are more than 1,000 species of geckos living in on every continent except Antarctica.
For an international research team that includes Bridgewater State University Associate Professor Thilina Surasinghe, the search for new species has led them to the island of Sri Lanka.
“I wanted to study species that were less explained and look into habitats that were less looked into,” he said.
Geckos the team has studied are several inches long and are among some of the smallest species, Surasinghe said. Most have been found in a 10 square kilometer area, including in forest areas and caves.
So far, the researchers have found and named 10 gecko species, he said.
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Minority Hindu Youth Brutally Killed by Suspected Jihadis in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh
Ananta Das | HENB | Dhaka | February 6, 2020:: Havoc persecution on Hindus in Islamic Bangladesh continues from the day of its formation. In a recent incident, which was completely ignored by media, On January 24, 2020 some suspected jihadi perpetrators from the majority killed a minority Hindu youth named Sridham Rishi Das in Bajitpur Upazila of Kishoreganj district. It was reported by Joyonta Karmoker, an activist of BDMW (an organization working for welfare of minorities in Bangladesh) on February 6 in his twitter handle, after police took cognizance of the brutal murder of a minority Hindu youth aged about 35 yrs.
The incident took place near Rishipara Mukundpur ground. Police informed to BDMW, they have arrested a accused Mohd Sohrab and informed BDMW that further investigation is underway, the body of the deceased has already been sent to Kishoregonj morgue for autopsy.
BDMW President Advocate Rabindra Ghosh demanded proper investigation of the case by Bangladesh Police on an urgent basis to arrest all the culprits behind the murder of Sridham Rishi Das.
As per the statement of Md. Khalilur Rahaman, Officer in Charge of Bajitpur police station given to BDMW, it can be understood that in this connection a case [PS Case No. 11 dated 26.2.2020 under section 302 (Punishment for murder) & 34 (Criminal act is done by several persons) of Bangladesh Penal Code] has been registered at Bajitpur PS according to a complaint filed by Bibash Chandra Rishi Das, the elder brother of the deceased…
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The Wuhan Institute of Virology, in the city where the new coronavirus originated, filed a patent for use of the antiviral drug Remdesivir, originally developed to treat Ebola, on January 21
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Climate Activist Leaves Environmentalist Movement Because it’s Too “White”
A Filipino climate activist wrote an article for VICE saying that she left the environmental movement because it was too “white.”
Those awful white people and their…trying to save the planet!
“The climate movement is overwhelmingly white. So I walked away,” explains Karin Louise Hermes, accusing her fellow tree huggers of exploiting her for ‘woke’ token diversity points.
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Coronavirus Deaths in China Grow to 722, More Than 34,500 Cases Reported
China increased its death toll from the coronavirus Friday to 722, while new cases jumped to 34,546, according to reports.
Chinese officials are still trying to stem the flow of infections in the mainland as the virus continues to spread globally. The country’s ruling Communist Party is also dealing with public anger over the death of a doctor who was detained and threatened by authorities for spreading early warnings of the illness in December.
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Coronavirus Live Updates: Japan Confirms More Cases on Cruise Ship; China Death Toll Hits 722
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates.
All times below are in Beijing time.
10:40 am: Singapore trade minister says there’s no need for panic buying
There’s no need for citizens to panic buy household items, Singapore’s trade minister Chan Chun Sing said in a Facebook post. He said the ministry is “close contact with our retailers and I assure all Singaporeans that there is no need to rush for essential supplies like rice or instant noodles.”
After Singapore raised its alert level, images began to surface online of long lines and some empty shelves at supermarkets.
“Our supply lines for these essentials are intact and there is no risk of us running a shortage of essential food or household items. We also have our national stockpile for essential items,” Chan said.
He also asked people to refrain from hoarding unnecessarily, saying “This will create undue panic and is unhelpful to the situation at hand.” —Wang
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Death of Doctor Who Warned About Coronavirus Triggers National Backlash Over China’s Censorship
The death of a Chinese whistleblower doctor who was punished for trying to warn about the coronavirus has triggered a national backlash over freedom of speech and censorship that has overwhelmed official online attempts to contain the expressions of anger.
The swell of indignation that washed across Chinese social media platforms began with conflicting reports over the death of Li Wenliang, 34, an ophthalmologist in Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus outbreak.
Wuhan Central Hospital, where he had worked, finally confirmed that he had died of the virus early Friday, apparently after he contracted it from a patient.
Li had already become a national hero for alerting fellow doctors Dec. 30 in an online post about the emergence of a SARS-like illness, warning them to wear protective clothing to avoid infection.
Li, along with seven others in Wuhan, were later arrested by local security police on charges of spreading rumors and forced to sign a document disavowing his statements and agreeing to quit speaking out.
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China said today it was sending its anti-corruption watchdog to Wuhan to investigate the death of Dr Li after his passing triggered an outpouring of criticism towards the Communist Party.
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One AI-Powered Simulation Predicts That the Coronavirus Will Kill Up to 52 Million People
An AI-powered simulation created by a technology executive named James Ross has found.
According to Ross, his simulation is projecting that this coronavirus outbreak will kill up to 52 million people…
An AI-powered simulation run by a technology executive says that Coronavirus could infect as many as 2.5 billion people within 45 days and kill as many as 52.9 million of them. Fortunately, however, conditions of infection and detection are changing, which in turn changes incredibly important factors that the AI isn’t aware of.
And that probably means we’re safer than we think.
Probably being the operative word.
Personally, I don’t think that the numbers will be anywhere close to that.
But the fact that his model has been right on the money day after day so far is quite alarming…
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Stunning 400 Million People Are on Lockdown in China as Guangzhou Joins Quarantine
Guangzhou, the capital of China’s southwestern Guangdong Province and the country’s fifth largest city with nearly 15 million residents, has just joined the ranks of cities imposing a mandatory lockdown on all citizens, effectively trapping residents inside their homes, with only limited permission to venture into the outside world to buy essential supplies.
The decision means 3 provinces, 60 cities and 400 million people are now facing China’s most-strict level of lockdown as Beijing struggles to contain the coronavirus outbreak as the virus has already spread to more than 2 dozen countries.
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The Chinese Doctor Who Tried to Warn the World About Coronavirus Has Died
The doctor who tried to warn the world about coronavirus in December and was silenced by Chinese authorities has died.
Li Wenliang, 34, was an opthamologist working at Wuhan Central Hospital in December when he saw test results that showed that seven patients from a local market had been diagnosed with an unknown illness that looked a lot like SARS, the virus that killed 774 people across Asia in 2003.
He tried to raise the alarm among friends in a private messaging group in late December. The police ordered him to keep quiet. He went back to work on the front lines fighting the virus and, like tens of thousands of others, ended up contracting it himself.
On Thursday, he died.
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Trump Talks to Xi; Chinese Scientists Say a Scaly Anteater Could be Coronavirus Host
President Trump tweeted on Friday morning he had “a long conversation” earlier in the day with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping regarding the state of coronavirus in the country — calling him “strong, sharp and powerful.”
“[Xi Jinping is] focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days,” Trump wrote on TwitterFriday morning. “He will be successful, especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker and then gone.”
He added the U.S. is working closely with China in the matter, echoing similar comments he made last month.
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Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said people were still travelling from Australia to China in defiance of official advice.
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The New South Wales state government issued a warning that any students who had traveled to mainland China recently should not attend classes for two weeks.
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The coronavirus outbreak could wipe 10 per cent off the Australian National University’s total revenue, Chancellor Julie Bishop has warned.
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Brazil Discovers Two New Species of Plants Older Than Dinosaurs
Brazilian researchers from the Federal University of Piaui (northeast) discovered two new species of plants, aged 280 million years, G1 news portal informed.
The floras were found in the New York municipality of Maranhão, in the Boa Esperança dam, on the banks of the Parnaiba River, bordering Piaui.
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A record 102 migrants have attempted to cross the English Channel today, just one day after 90 asylum seekers including 15 children reached British shores.
Five inflatable boats carrying individuals claiming to be from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria were picked up by Border Force, the Home Office said.
Nine of the migrants managed to get to a beach in Kent where they were detained by police.
The 102 migrants — who included seven children — are believed to be a new record for a single day.
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Calif. Sheriff: Illegals Committing More Repeat Crimes Due to ‘Sanctuary’ Laws
Orange County sees 38% surge in repeat offenses by criminals with ICE detainers.
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During his monologue on Thursday, Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson sounded an alarm for what he deemed to be a radical piece of legislation engineered and championed by congressional Democrats that would change longstanding immigration policy and law in America.
The bill, called the New Way Forward Act, would remove the threat of deportation for immigrants convicted of serious crimes.
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Germany Confirms Record Number of Foreigners
According to the German Federal Statistical Office, the number of foreigners in Germany is currently the highest since the reunification of the country in October 1990, wrote the German weekly Der Spiegel.
People of non-German origin now account for more than one-eighth of the country’s more than 83 million inhabitants. As of Sep. 30, 2019, 11.14 million people of non-German origin lived in Germany, which is 2 percent more than at the end of 2018, which was at 10.92 million.
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Hundreds of Migrants Bused Back to Serbia After Amassing at Hungarian Border
Serbian police on Friday morning bused 500 to 700 illegal migrants from Africa and the Middle East back to asylum centers in Serbia after they had amassed at the Hungarian border on Thursday night.
The migrants, most of whom were Syrian, Afghani, Yemeni, Moroccan, and Palestinian, arrived at the Kelebia-Tomba border crossing last night when they started to protest and attempted to enter Hungary, Balkan Insight reports.
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Judge Overturns Convictions of Volunteers Who Left Food and Water in Desert for Migrants
PHOENIX — A federal judge in Tucson overturned the convictions of four humanitarian aid volunteers found guilty last year of leaving food and water for migrants trekking through protected Arizona wilderness, saying their work was part of their “sincere religious beliefs.”
In January 2018, U.S. Magistrate Judge Bernardo Velasco found Natalie Hoffman, a volunteer with humanitarian aid group No More Deaths, guilty on all three charges she faced. He also found three other volunteers — Oona Holcomb, Madeline Huse and Zaachila Orozco-McCormick — guilty of the two charges each.
Their convictions came from citations they received on Aug. 13, 2017, for entering Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge without a permit, and leaving behind 1-gallon water jugs and cans of beans at drop stations in the refuge that No More Deaths has used for years.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez issued a 22-page decision reversing Velasco’s guilty verdicts for all four volunteers, after the four appealed their convictions.
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Migrant Arrested for Home Invasion of Former French President
An Algerian migrant has been arrested by police in Paris after breaking into a house owned by Julie Gayet, the partner of former French President Francois Hollande.
Police were alerted to a break-in at the home of the couple at around 6 p.m. on January 26th. Ms Gayet travelled to a local police station to report the incident, with Hollande dispatching his personal security officer to help investigators, Le Point reports.
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Migrant Invaders Clash With Greek Police During Protest on Lesbos Island
Greek police on Monday clashed with 2,000 migrant invaders from the Moria asylum center who took to the streets of Lesbos to protest the government’s stricter migration policy.
The protest began at roughly 10:30 am when the mob of angry migrants left the Moria camp and began marching toward the city of Mytilene. Violence broke out after the migrant protesters attempted to break through a police cordon which sought to prevent the group from reaching the island’s capital city, Ekathimerini reports.
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The federal government plans to set up English classes in refugee camps to give potential immigrants a better shot at getting a job when they get to Australia.
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Report: Swedish Govt Had Low Priority to Deport Failed Asylum Seekers
A report from the Migration Studies Delegation (Delmi) has claimed that the Swedish government has made deporting failed asylum seekers a low priority.
The Delmi report examined cases of migrants who were refused residency or refugee status between 199 and 2018 and found that 45 per cent of the cases led to police becoming involved because the migrants had either disappeared or had to be forcibly removed from Sweden, Nyheter Idag reports.
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Australian Mom “Slammed” For Wanting to Make Breakfast for Her Husband
A mother of four in Australia has apparently been “slammed” for a Facebook post in which she said she liked to get up early and make breakfast for her husband.
I know, the sheer temerity of it, right?
“I always make sure I don’t go to bed until everyone’s lunches are packed, their clothes are set out for the next day including my husband’s and the house is clean dishwasher is on and load of washing is on,” Brooke Smith posted on Facebook.
“I always get up early (4:30 with husband to make his breakfast and coffee),” she added.
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‘Black Studies’ Prof: British Empire Worse Than Nazi Germany, ‘Whiteness’ A ‘Psychosis’
Britain’s first professor of “Black Studies” has said the British Empire did “far more harm” than Hitler’s Germany, and branded “whiteness” a “psychosis”.
Kehinde Andrews, of Birmingham City University’s School of Social Sciences, made the comments during a debate on Labour leadership candidate Lisa Nandy’s proposal to rename Britain’s national honours, which bestow people with post-nominals such as MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) and OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire).
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Contraception Shortage in UK “Causes Chaos” For Women Wanting to Have Promiscuous Unprotected Sex
A contraception shortage in the UK has apparently “caused chaos” for women wanting to have promiscuous, unprotected sex.
“A number of daily pills and a long-acting injectible contraceptive are thought to be affected,” reports the BBC.
This includes Sayana Press, a product made by drug firm Pfizer, which women inject into their bodies and allows them to have unprotected sex without getting pregnant for three months at a time.
Daily pills that prevent pregnancy like Noriday, Norimin and Synphase are also running low.
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Rev. Franklin Graham Banned by Venues on UK Tour Over ‘Anti-LGBT’ Views
Franklin Graham, the Evangelical preacher and son of the late Billy Graham, has been barred from all seven planned venues in his upcoming tour of the United Kingdom.
The eldest son of famed American evangelist Billy Graham and ally of President Donald Trump, the Reverend Franklin Graham, said that he still intends to tour the UK to preach the gospel, despite the cancellations which came following a backlash against his supposed anti-LGBT views.
The Utilita Arena in Newcastle was the latest venue to cancel Graham’s appearance, following cancellations in Birmingham, Newport, Glasgow, Milton Keynes, Sheffield, and Liverpool, according to Pink News.
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San Diego Bishop: ‘Death Toll’ From Climate Change Worse Than Abortion
San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy said Thursday that while abortion is a great evil, “the long-term death toll from unchecked climate change is larger and threatens the very future of humanity.”
Both abortion and climate change are “core life issues in the Catholic Church,” the progressive bishop said during a public lecture at the University of San Diego. Neither should be identified as preeminent in 2020 since that would “inevitably be hijacked by partisan forces to propose that Catholics have an overriding duty to vote for candidates who espouse that position,” he said.
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‘The Only Solution for Climate Change is Letting the Human Race Become Extinct’
A Cambridge academic has proposed a radical new way to solve climate change — letting humanity become extinct.
Patricia MacCormack, a professor of continental philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University, has just released her new book The Ahuman Manifesto, which will officially be launched in Cambridge today (Wednesday, February 5).
The book argues that due to the damage done to other living creatures on Earth, we should start gradually phasing out reproduction. But rather than offering a bleak look at the future of humanity, it has generated discussion due to its joyful and optimistic tone, as it sets out a positive view for the future of Earth — without mankind.
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UK Celebrates Man Coming Out as Gay After 27 Years of Marriage With Blanket Media Coverage
The British media celebrated a TV host coming out as gay after 27 years of being married to a woman with near blanket media coverage.
“With the strength and support of my wife and my daughters, I have been coming to terms with the fact that I am gay,” Philip Schofield announced on Instagram before being interviewed about the decision on live morning television.
The British media immediately launched into a full court press celebration of Schofield’s sexual proclivities.
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News aggregators say 400 million Chinese are quarantined and it will hurt their economy.
Some www pages say it could be an engineered virus with a lab located in the area of the outbreak.
The fried bat meat on a stick story is cover.
Are the globalists making their cull 90% of the population move?
Could be collective punishment for the worst tyranny in world history?
China’s a mess.
I doubt it. This is a test move, IMO. Aimed at knocking China to their knees. Remember what lying about Chernobyl did to the Soviet Empire?
I wonder if countries will get serious about securing their borders when migrants with Coronavirus start arriving?
Highly unlikely. Virtue signaling trumps protecting the health, livelihood, and security of citizens without question. Besides, the quislings don’t have to live in proximity with the savages they import anyways.
China’s got swine fever, bird flu and now this bat soup indigestion. It could well be God’s punishment for 70 years of Marxist/Maoist tyranny over those poor people.
But this is not punishing the Marxists/Maoists. It is further punishing the poor people.
More realistically, poor people in (especially) S E China live in close proximity with their livestock, particularly chickens and pigs. This facilitates cross-species migration of viruses originating in wildfowl.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rm26S40BbYA
What if Poland bordered America?
Don’t forget Indians eat rat meat. Of course not all Indians. Only now we are thinking about this. Tragic. When do the purges start? Better to go down fighting.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/07/khans-london-trio-convicted-gang-rape-holding-machete-schoolgirls-throa/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/2YCAQGA4DEX9/
spread the word, UN literally says natives have the right to preserve themselves