The official Chinese death toll from the Wuhan Coronavirus has risen to 811. Meanwhile, a U.S. citizen in Wuhan is the first American to die of the disease. Officials are monitoring four people for symptoms of the coronavirus in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In other news, a soldier went on a shooting rampage in a shopping mall in Thailand, killing at least 21 people and wounding dozens more.
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Bioweapons Expert Delivers Urgent Message to Trump on Coronavirus Outbreak
Watch & share this powerful interview!
Professor Francis A. Boyle joins The Alex Jones Show to deliver an urgent message to President Trump regarding the coronavirus outbreak as well as provide his analysis of the virus as a bioweapon.
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Caught: Bloomberg Campaign Plagiarizes MSM/Globalist Groups
Dem candidate steals establishment talking points.
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Good Riddance! LTC Alexander Vindman Escorted From White House
Drain the swamp!
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Norman Dodd was the chief investigator for the 1952-54 Reece Committee, formally called the United States House Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations. He discovered that the European bank cartel and the Federal Reserve, along with globalists, hard core Marxists, and the subversive boards of major foundations were channeling immense amounts of money into the work of subverting the free and independent United States of America.
The work of the Reece Committee was quashed and nearly all copies of its findings removed from circulation.*
[Comment: From 1982, still relevant as these foundations still work feverishly to take down the USA.]
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Man Deliberately Crashes Van Into GOP Voter Registration Tent, Targeting Trump Campaign Volunteers
Law enforcement officials in Jacksonville, Fla., say a driver intentionally crashed a van into a tent where Trump campaign volunteers were registering voters Saturday afternoon.
Thankfully, no one was injured.
“We are investigating this as an aggravated assault,” Lt. Larry Gayle of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said. “Several people were in the area and could have been seriously hurt.”
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Newsweek Says it Flagged YouTube Channels That Contained Content From Rival Media Outlet, InfoWars
The news and opinion magazine Newsweek has claimed responsibility for flagging YouTube accounts with Alex Jones content so that they are removed from the platform.
Since Alex Jones was censored from most social media platforms in 2018, all of his content has been erased from social networks and public multimedia streaming platforms.
Not only that, but it is forbidden to upload any type of material of his authorship on several platforms.
The banning is in effect on sites like Facebook, Spotify, Twitter, Apple’s App Store, and much more.
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Number of Professors Allegedly in Cahoots With Communist China Quickly Mounts
In recent months, U.S. authorities have discovered Chinese operatives scheming to compromise American interests through the university system, including plots to steal missile technology and cancer research.
Ye Yanqing used to be a student at Boston University until she chose to flee the country last month. The reason for her departure: an FBI investigation regarding her position as a Lieutenant in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), according to the Washington Times.
According to investigators, Ye was taking orders to gather intelligence from “senior leaders of the PLA while conducting research at Boston University,” according to the Washington Times. In addition to committing espionage, she also failed to disclose her position as an active-duty PLA officer, earning her charges of visa fraud in addition to charges of acting as a foreign government agent, making false statements to investigators, and conspiracy.
This sort of collusion isn’t limited to Chinese-born student-spies. Charles Lieber, the chair of Harvard’s chemistry department was taken into custody and charged Jan. 28 for making false statements to investigators about his financial ties to China.
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Petition to Remove Amber Heard From Aquaman 2 Reaches Over 100,000 Signatures
A petition on Change.org started by Jeanne Larson calls for the removal of actress Amber Heard from Aquaman 2.
The petition has already exceeded 100,000 signatures after recordings were released where Heard admits to abusing her ex-husband, fellow-actor, Johnny Deep.
The petition against Amber Heard
Although the petition was published in March 2019, it remained under a low profile until a few days ago.
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President Trump is on a Roll! — Fires EU Amb. Gordon Sondland
Trump on Friday fired EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland shortly after Lt. Col Alex Vindman and his twin were fired and escorted off the White House grounds.
“I was advised today that the president intends to recall me effective immediately as United States Ambassador to the European Union,” Sondland said in a statement.
Recall, Gordon Sondland testified in the House impeachment hearings against President Trump.
Sondland’s testimony was revised after his ‘memory was refreshed’ from reading other testimony to reflect what he described as a ‘quid pro quo message’ delivered to Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement Spreads to Michigan
‘Laws are just stepping stones for them on the way to gun confiscation just like what you see in Virginia,’ warns 2A supporter.
[Comment: Not laws, but what founders called “pretend laws”.]
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Silicon Valley Declares ‘Climate Emergency’
Silicon Valley’s Transportation Board declared a “climate emergency” this week in an attempt to heighten public awareness and adopt measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
“Global climate change caused by human activities has resulted in a climate emergency which demands mobilization at a massive scale to halt, reverse, mitigate, and prepare for the consequences of the climate emergency and to restore the climate for future generations,” states the resolution, which was approved unanimously by the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) board of directors.
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The Enemies of Our President, Part 3
That evil force is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which was organized for the specific purpose of incrementally changing the United States so that our country could be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.
In his book, “FDR, My Exploited Father-in-Law,” Curtis Dall stated, “I could have had my seat at that table,” and here he gave the address of the Pratt House — the headquarters of the CFR. He then added, “But first I had to consider loyalty to my country, so I had to decline.”
This was in 1939, for he said, “I was here in 1939 when these men with their attaché cases (describing the CFR members) descended upon Washington. He then went on to reveal how he could have been a part of it.
My point is that FDR’s son-in-law, who was no doubt sought-out by high-ranking people in both government and international fiancé and banking and could have had his seat at the CFR table. He could have been a member along with his 200 or so contemporaries who made up the beginning of the most powerful and most prestigious organization of all time.
Evidently Curtis Dall was not deceived; he was able to see through the deception regarding the CFR’s goals. Others either did not see or were favorable to the CFR’s globalist goals…
Mr. President, you have always spoken disparagingly about NAFTA and what a disaster it was for America, and that you would renegotiate it to our benefit, or pull out of it.
It has now been renegotiated, but certainly not to our benefit. What it has been replaced with, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, (USMCA) is even worse than NAFTA, thanks to our trade representative, Mr. Robert Lighthizer who is a longtime member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations.No doubt he is being applauded by the CFR, along with both the left and many on the right for his genius in involving us in an entanglement, which if ratified could mean the end of our sovereignty, i.e., our life, liberty, and property.
Richard Haass, chairman of the CFR, who generally seems to despise Trump, immediately came out in favor of the agreement. The day after the USMCA was revealed, he tweeted that the agreement is “NAFTA plus 10-20%.” A day later he tweeted, “USMCA is NAFTA plus the TPP plus a few tweaks.”
Mr. President, with the Chairman of the CFR having this view, and knowing the goal of the CFR is to incrementally change the United States (which it has been doing for nearly a century) to merge us with communist countries into a world government, it follows that the USMCA perfectly plays into that plan.
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Video: White Liberals Apologize for Slavery by Kissing Boots of Black Power Group Members
“Proving they are sorry for what their forefathers have done.”
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Watch: Nigel Farage Challenges Heckler, ‘Why Don’t You Listen and Ask Questions?’
The Federalist Society chapter at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School in Virginia hosted Nigel Farage Thursday, but the Brexit leader’s speech was disrupted by a heckler who was then escorted out of the room.
Campus Reform obtained exclusive video footage of the disruption, which lasted about one minute.
Farage joined the conservative law student group to share his “reflections on Brexit,” according to a Facebook post.
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Watch: ‘Crazy Leftist’ Caught on Camera Screaming, ‘Slash Republican Throats’
Police at Arizona State University said Wednesday that they are investigating after a video began circulating on social media showing an individual “making threats” against Republicans.
“We are aware of a video circulating on social media where an individual appears to be making threats. We are working with the University to address the matter,” ASU Police tweeted. The identity of the individual or whether he is a student was unclear.
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White House Asks Scientists to Investigate if Coronavirus Was Bio-Engineered
Scientific experts asked to ‘rapidly’ look into origins of virus.
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Windows 10 Warning: Anger at Microsoft Rises With Serious New Failure
Windows 10 may now be essential but users new and old have had a rough ride in recent weeks. And it has just gotten a lot worse after a new, high-profile Windows 10 failure has left more questions than answers and some seriously angry users.
The drama began yesterday as Windows 10 users suddenly found that Search was broken with a black bar showing where search results should be, even for those who tried to perform a local search of their files. Breaking with tradition (1,2,3,4,5), Microsoft was fast to act blaming “a temporary server-side issue”. But the explanation instead kicked a hornet’s nest. First, the fix doesn’t work for everyone. Second, and more worryingly, Microsoft’s explanation doesn’t add up and it has prompted serious questions to be asked about how the operating system works and what personal data it is sharing.
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Canadians’ Moods Toward Trudeau Government Hit Record Lows: Study
A 13-year study of public opinion on the federal government has found that Canadians have become increasingly pessimistic of the politicians running the country under the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Polling and data research company Nanos Research released on Friday released a study, “Mood of Canada”, on Friday that shows more and more Canadians have been growing weary of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.
At the end of 2019, Nanos Research found the following moods of Canadian respondents towards the Trudeau government’s performance: 25 percent checked off “very poor”, 19 percent checked off “somewhat poor”, 27 percent checked off “average”, 21 percent checked off “somewhat good”, and only 6 percent checked off “very good”.
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Extinction Rebellion Blocks Rails in Toronto
Extinction Rebellion gathered in downtown Toronto today to block the rails and prevent CP trains from running.
This is the latest in a series of actions taken by anti-pipeline protestors to express their anger over an early morning raid and a number of arrests at an anti-pipeline camp on Thursday.
Chanting, “When justice fails, block the rails,” the group walked from Dovercourt Park to the train tracks where they proceeded to block a Canadian Pacific train from passing.
GO Transit had to suspend service on the Barrie line as a result. The group claimed during the protest that they were blocking pipeline materials.
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McMaster University Researcher Under Fire for Data Irregularities
A McMaster University scientist and holder of a prestigious Canada 150 research chair is facing scrutiny after two peer-reviewed studies were retracted and collaborators made public statements that data he provided to them contain duplications and other irregularities.
Retractions have been requested or are pending for five additional studies, while data underlying nine others have been flagged for unusual anomalies, according to a spreadsheet one former co-author is keeping.
The unfolding controversy has rocked the field of behavioural ecology, in which the scientist, Jonathan Pruitt, an associate professor at McMaster since 2018, is regarded as a star performer.
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A protestor at Saturday’s Extinction Rebellion blockade of the Toronto railway took to the microphone to explain the significance of the Canadian colours “white and red.” The woman claimed that the white stood for “the hands that stole this land … for every Prime Minister that came after the fact … white faces, white lies, white sheets.”
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Watch: ‘You’re a Bunch of Losers!’ Toronto Man Yells at Extinction Rebellion
As Extinction Rebellion took over the rails in downtown Toronto on Saturday afternoon to block railway traffic and protest pipelines, one Toronto man was fed up enough to voice his anger at the group.
You’re a bunch of losers!” the man yelled. “You guys are a bunch of f*cking losers. The trains have a right to go through … You guys ruin this g*ddamn country.”
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Watch: Anti-Pipeline Protestors Scream on Train Tracks as Rail Blockade Continues
Extinction Rebellion and anti-pipeline protestors staged a “primal scream” in Toronto on Saturday as they continued to block train travel. They are protesting the raid and arrests on an anti-pipeline camp in northern B.C. on Thursday.
The protest leader rallied the activists to scream loud and long enough to “kill” the giant puppet “pipeline snake” that was brought to the protest. “When we scream loud enough and long enough, she will die a most deserving death and we will have won,” the protest leader instructed.
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Coronavirus: Five Britons in French Ski Chalet Catch Virus
Five Britons have tested positive for coronavirus in eastern France, the French health minister has confirmed.
Four adults and a child were diagnosed with the virus after coming into contact with a British national who recently returned from Singapore.
The man returned to the UK on 28 January before being diagnosed with the virus himself on Thursday.
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Day 4 of Outage: UK’s Manchester Police Deploy Exciting New Carbon-Based Method to Record Crime
Greater Manchester Police is struggling with a partial outage of a Capita-built computer system used by frontline officers to input information.
The PoliceWorks systems, which form part of the force’s new iOPS (Integrated Police Operating System) — a £27m project undertaken by everyone’s favourite outsourcer — went down after a planned IT upgrade at midnight on Monday. As a result, officers have not been able to input information into the police database.
But everything’s fine, the force insists. “We have robust contingency plans that are successfully executed across the force to minimise disruptions,” it said in a statement.
This, evidently, includes the cutting-edge technology appropriate to a world-class police force: pencil and paper. Robust indeed.
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France: North Africans Run Open Air Drug Markets in Marseille With Impunity
North Africa drug dealers have taken over the streets of Marseille, selling deadly drugs like heroin and cocaine in the city center as well as the northern districts.
Whereas before drug trafficking in the city was controlled by the Corsican community, now it’s dominated by North African gangs who push their poison out of squatted houses and sometimes even in broad daylight on the street, Valeurs Actuelles reports.
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French Police Arrest Youths Who Took Credit for Brutal Beating of Fireman
Police in the French city of Dunkirk arrested several youths after they assaulted a young mother, with several also claiming to have taken part in the brutal beating of a volunteer fireman last weekend.
The 45-year-old mother was attacked by around 15 youths on Tuesday evening in her own home, with several of the attackers carrying knives. The main target of the attack, according to investigators, was the woman’s son, France Info reports.
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Germany: Convicted Sex Offenders Allowed to Visit Brothels as ‘Therapy’
Sex criminals in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia have been allowed to visit prostitutes in brothels for “therapeutic reasons”.
The Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) confirmed Friday’s report from Der Spiegel which said that patients at the psychiatric clinic in the penal system of Lippstad-Eickelborn were permitted to visit prostitutes in brothels as a part of their therapy, Kronen Zeitung reports.
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Irish General Election: Exit Poll Predicts ‘Tie’ Between Three Main Parties
The three main political parties have tied in first preference votes, according to an exit poll for the Republic of Ireland’s general election.
The earliest indications from the poll suggest there is little difference between Fine Gael, Sinn Féin and Fianna Fail.
Polling closed in the general election at 22:00 GMT.
Counting to elect the 33rd Dail (Irish parliament) will begin on Sunday in all 39 constituencies.
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Merkel to Meet Orban in Berlin Next Week
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for talks in her Berlin office on February 10, the German government’s deputy spokeswoman said on Friday.
Their talks will focus on bilateral relations, European political affairs and international issues, Ulrike Demmer said.
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Polish President to Embark on Re-Election Campaign on February 15
Incumbent Polish President Andrzej Duda’s re-election campaign will be officially launched on February 15 during a convention of the ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) in Warsaw, PAP has found out.
The convention will be addressed by Duda, who will sum up his current term and present the guidelines of his programme for the next one, as well as by the PiS leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a PiS politician engaged in the organisation of the event has told PAP.
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Swedish Leftists Claim Police Racist for Tackling Gang Violence
Several members of the youth movement of the Swedish Left Party have accused police of facilitating racism by cracking down on gang crime in no-go areas in the city of Malmö.
Alma Lindén and Leia Wolke Wemmert of the Young Left claimed that police action could not solve the rising gang violence occurring in the city’s no-go suburbs, instead claiming that the current operations to crack down on violent gang crime were racist, Kvällsposten reports.
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The Netherlands: The Geert Wilders Show Trial Continues
Newly released documents show that senior members of the Dutch government — including the prime minister and two former justice ministers — applied political pressure on public prosecutors to indict Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV), for hate speech for comments he made about Islam and Moroccan immigrants.
The documents, which the government turned over to the Amsterdam-based newspaper De Volkskrant in compliance with a Freedom of Information request, appear to confirm long-standing allegations by Wilders that the government’s decade-long legal war against him is far from a principled pursuit of justice, and instead politically motivated aimed at silencing his criticism of multiculturalism and mass migration from the Muslim world.
On February 3, De Volkskrant reported that the government documents — numbering nearly 500 pages — show that as early as 2008, then-Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin was “intensively involved” in the decision to prosecute Wilders.
According to De Volkskrant, the Public Prosecution Service (Openbaar Ministerie, OM) found nothing illegal about Wilders statements, but Hirsch Ballin pressed the OM on three separate occasions to change its assessment.
In June 2008, the OM dismissed more than 40 criminal complaints against Wilders on the grounds that his statements were made “in the context of political debate” and therefore “not of a punishable nature.”
In January 2009, the Amsterdam Appeals Court, the second-highest legal authority in the Netherlands, overturned the OM’s decision and ruled that Wilders could be tried for inciting hatred. Wilders said that it was a “black day for myself and for freedom of speech.”
The first trial against Wilders began on October 4, 2010. He was accused of insulting religious and ethnic groups and inciting hatred and discrimination for describing Islam as fascist and comparing the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf. Wilders argued that his statements were directed at Islam as an ideology and not at individual Muslim believers.
The trial collapsed on October 22, 2010, after it emerged that Tom Schalken, one of the judges in the case, had tried to sway a potential witness.
The retrial began on February 6, 2011 with three new judges. Wilders said that his trial was about preserving freedom of expression in the West.
On June 23, 2011, Wilders was acquitted of all charges. Judge Marcel van Oosten ruled that the statements by Wilders, while “gross and denigrating,” did not meet the standard of hate speech and as such were “acceptable within the context of public debate.”
Despite the acquittal, the government’s harassment of Wilders continued. Internal government emails recently published by RTL Nieuws show that Hirsch Ballin’s successor, Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten, repeatedly pressured the OM to bring a new case against Wilders. Opstelten, his aides and the prosecutor repeatedly consulted with each other before the decision to prosecute Wilders a second time was made in the fall of 2014. The OM has always denied that it was subject to outside political interference; the emails show that the OM denials were untruthful. An email sent by the lead prosecutor, Wouter Bos, on October 8, 2014, warned: “This must not leak!”…
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UK: ISIS Bride Loses Appeal Over Citizenship Removal and Cannot Return to London
Shamima Begum who as a teenager ran away to join ISIS has lost a legal challenge aimed at restoring her citizenship, Metro reports.
Begum had her citizenship revoked one year ago on national security grounds.
The Special Immigration Appeals Commission in London ruled on Friday that Shamima Begum was not improperly deprived of her nationality, meaning she cannot return to London.
Begum, one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria in 2015, resurfaced at a refugee camp in Syria last year and told reporters she wanted to return home.
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UK: Judge Praises Extinction Rebellion Activists and Urges Them to ‘Succeed’ In Eco War
A judge who let Extinction Rebellion eco warriors walk free from court reportedly told them: “You have to succeed.”
Six activists who joined in last year’s mass protests in central London were accused of public order offences in Oxford Circus.
Three were acquitted at City of London Magistrates’ Court and three were found guilty but freed on conditional discharges.
No media were present but according to notes taken by an academic in court, District Judge David Noble publicly thanked them for their “courage” and “integrity”.
[Comment: That judge should be removed from the bench for his obvious bias.]
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UK: Public Backs Use of Water Cannon Against XR Protesters
Conducted on behalf of London radio station LBC, it found that 58 per cent of adults supported the use of water cannon, 63 per cent the use of riot police and 67 per cent the use of mounted police to control such events.
Sixty per cent of those questioned said the police needed greater powers to deal with serious public disorder and more than half supported the introduction of restrictions on people returning to protests after having been arrested.
[Comment: Article dated February 2, 2020.]
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Don’t want to convert into Islam, will stay with parents: Minor Pakistan Hindu girl says in Court.
Upinder Singh | HENB | Amritsar | February 7, 2020:: Pakistan’s 15-year-old Hindu girl Mehak Kumari on Thursday retracted her earlier statement and told a local court that she neither wanted to live with the Muslim man Ali Raza Machi, whom she had married, nor she wanted to embrace Islam.
She pleaded to be sent back to her parents’ house and be allowed to practise Hinduism.
Mehak’s counsel Rajesh Naraindas Kapoor told TOI over phone from Pakistan that Jacobabad’s second additional judge Gulam Ali Kansaro recorded her statement in his chamber “since a large number of maulvis were present inside and outside the court”.
After appearing in the court on Thursday, he said Mehak told the court that it was by mistake that she had recorded her earlier statement in the court on January 21, wherein she had stated that she had embraced the Islam and married Ali Raza out of her own will.
“Mehak told the court she didn’t embrace Islam and she didn’t want to live with Raza. She said she wanted to go to her parents’house and practice their religion,” said Kapoor. The lawyer claimed she and her family were facing threats when she had recorded her statement on January 21.
Now, It is quite clear that under the pressure of Molla-Maulavi and her abductor husband, Mehak compelled to give her earlier statement to embrace Islam and to marry that fellow Ali Raza.
Daughter of one Vijay Kumar, who lives and runs a medical store in Jacobabad town in Sindh province of Pakistan, the girl was reportedly abducted by fanatic Muslim people on January 15…
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Thailand Shooting: Soldier Kills 20 in Gun Rampage
A soldier has killed 20 people and injured many more in a gun rampage in the Thai city of Nakhon Ratchasima.
Jakraphanth Thomma, a junior officer, killed his commanding officer before stealing weapons from a military camp, a defence spokesman told BBC Thai.
The suspect opened fire at a Buddhist temple then entered a shopping centre, where is believed to be holed up.
The suspect, whose motives remain unclear, posted images of his attack on social media sites…
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China’s Vice Premier called on a ‘people’s war’ against the fast-spreading epidemic, which has killed at least 638 people and infected more than 31,520. She said the country was in ‘wartime condition’.
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Coronavirus Outbreak Puts China’s Alleged Biowarfare Research Under Scrutiny
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“Reputable scientists are beginning to coalesce around the idea that at a minimum, the coronavirus that we’re facing today is the product of a laboratory [and] not the product of some kind of naturally occurring process,” Fisher said.
He said the “developing consensus that this coronavirus is a man-made virus naturally links this to China’s biowarfare capabilities and programs.”
“The world should take this as a very serious possibility, and it should affect our policy and relationships with the People’s Republic of China.”
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Coronavirus Live Updates: China Death Toll Hits 811 as New Virus Kills More People Than Sars
All times below are in Beijing time.
10:48 am: Over 70 exhibitors pull out of Singapore Airshow
More than 70 exhibitors have withdrawn from the Singapore Airshow, Reuters reported. The event, due to be held in Singapore from Feb. 11-16, is touted as Asia’s largest aerospace event.
Those that have pulled out of the event include Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. The airshow takes place once every two years, and was initially expected to attract 54,151 trade attendees from 147 countries.
Experia Events Managing Director Leck Chet Lam said the number of firms that have withdrawn represented less than 8% of those that had signed up, according to Reuters. As of Friday, Singapore reported 40 confirmed cases of the new virus.
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If the coronavirus is not a serious threat, why are countries all over the world acting so crazy all of a sudden? Perhaps someday we will look back and laugh about how this coronavirus outbreak caused so much hysteria, but right now government officials around the globe are certainly acting as if we were right in the middle of a really bad science fiction movie. Are they just being overly cautious, or is this virus actually more dangerous than we are being told? As I discussed yesterday, one AI-powered simulation is projecting that this virus could kill 52 million people. Even if that projection is off by 95 percent, it would still make sense for countries to do all that they can to keep infected people from crossing their borders.
So that may help to explain why there is such a frenzy of panic about confirmed and potential cases aboard cruise ships right now. For example, a cruise ship named The Diamond Princess is anchored off the coast of Yokohama, Japan at this moment. There are 2,666 passengers and 1,045 crew members on board, and the ship has been placed under strict quarantine since Tuesday.
And they are being quarantined for good reason. At this point, the number of confirmed cases on board the ship has now risen to 61…
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First American Death Due to Coronavirus Reported in China
A U.S. citizen has died from the coronavirus in China, officials announced Saturday, in what is believed to be the first American death since the outbreak began in December.
“We offer our sincerest condolences to the family on their loss,” a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing said in a statement to The Hill. “Out of the respect for the family’s privacy, we have no further comment.”
The spokesman said the person was 60 years old and died on Thursday at the Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan. No other information was immediately available.
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Four People Being “Monitored” For Coronavirus Symptoms in Charlotte
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Mecklenburg County Health Department is monitoring four people who recently traveled from China for possible development of coronavirus symptoms, the Mecklenburg County manager announced Friday evening.
The four individuals, who have not been publicly identified, recently returned from China. They are considered at “medium risk” for the development of novel coronavirus, according to a released statement from Mecklenburg County Manager Dena Diorio.
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No Coronavirus Found in 30 Poles Evacuated From Wuhan — Health Minister
None of the examined samples taken from the Poles evacuated from Wuhan in China on Sunday proved positive for the coronavirus, Poland’s Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska told a Friday press conference, after two tests had been run.
He added that all these people feel very well and that none of them are showing signs of infection.
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Scientific Puzzles Surrounding the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus
The study’s authors rejected the original hypothesis that 2019-nCoV originated from random natural mutations between different coronaviruses. (Paraskevis et al 2020 BioRxiv) The article is a preprint made available through bioRxiv and has not been peer-reviewed. …
The authors found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses. “Importantly, amino acid residues in all 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those of HIV-1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag. Interestingly, despite the inserts being discontinuous on the primary amino acid sequence, 3D-modelling of the 2019-nCoV suggests that they converge to constitute the receptor binding site. The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity/similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature.” (emphasis added) author.
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The Mysterious Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus
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There are significant gaps in the official investigations into the origins of the novel Coronavirus. In order to contain the virus, one first needs to understand how a virus that allegedly originated in animals found its way to humans. For this to happen, the Chinese authorities need to release their animal testing data and samples. Testing results from animal samples collected at epicenters would give important insights into what animals might serve as intermediate hosts for the new coronavirus. …
To their surprise, the chimeric virus (SHC014-MA15) can use SHC014 spike to bind to human ACE2 receptor and enter human cells. SHC014-MA15 can also cause disease in mice and cause death as well. Existing vaccines to SARS cannot protect animals from SHC014-MA15 infection. Therefore, these chimeric virus studies can lead to the generation of more pathogenic, more deadly CoV strains in mammalian models. …
If Chinese authorities refuse to disclose testing data for animal samples, it could imply an intentional cover-up of the true origin of the 2019-nCoV outbreak.
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Video Appears to Show People in China Forcibly Taken for Quarantine Over Coronavirus
Two videos have surfaced on social media that appear to show people in China being taken for quarantine or isolation over the coronavirus, which has sickened tens of thousands and killed more than 700 people in the country.
In one video posted on Twitter on Friday, several people wearing white protective suits appear to forcibly remove three people from an apartment. One of the three appears to struggle against being led away.
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Who Director-General Tweets: We Are Mobilizing the UN
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sent out a Tweet on Friday admitting that the United Nations is being mobilized. This means UN troops will rove and police various nations of the world including the United States.
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Psychiatrists Have Detected the First Case of “Climate Change Delusion”
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“The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies.”
But never mind the poor boy, who became too terrified even to drink. What’s scarier is that people in charge of our Government seem to suffer from this “climate change delusion”, too.
Here is Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday, with his own apocalyptic vision: “If we do not begin reducing the nation’s levels of carbon pollution, Australia’s economy will face more frequent and severe droughts, less water, reduced food production and devastation of areas such as the Great Barrier Reef and Kakadu wetlands.”
And here is a senior Sydney Morning Herald journalist aghast at the horrors described in the report on global warming released on Friday by Rudd’s guru, Professor Ross Garnaut: “Australians must pay more for petrol, food and energy or ultimately face a rising death toll . . .”
Wow. Pay more for food or die. Is that Rudd’s next campaign slogan?
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Hungary, Brazil Reject Global Migration Compact as Basis for Reference, Says FM Szijjartó
Hungary and Brazil work closely together in the United Nations in order to ensure that the organisation cannot use components of its Global Compact for Migration, which Hungary’s government rejected earlier, as a basis for reference in international legislation, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjartó said after meeting Brazilian counterpart Ernesto Araujo on Thursday.
UN organisations have been “caught” several times as they tried to get various resolutions approved which incorporated parts of the compact, he said.
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Wackjob organizations in Brooklyn are protesting after ICE agents ended up shooting a man who was interfering with officers as they tried to arrest an illegal alien who had recently been released from a jail in New York after being caught forging Connecticut license plates.
The illegal alien had previously been arrested for domestic violence and had been deported twice already.
Yes, the protesters, elected officials, and figureheads of shill community organizations are taking the side of the criminal alien with a history of violence.
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Iraqi Immigrant Suspected of Strangling and Torching Wife’s Body in a Car in Alleged Honor Killing
Iraqi migrant Ibhihal Darraji was murdered this week allegedly at the hands of her immigrant ex-husband Yasir Darraji. Darraji is accused of strangling his ex-wife and setting her body on fire. Bond was set at $1 million after his ex-wife’s body was found in a burning car. Former Department of Social and Health Services translator Arwa Burke says the murder was an honor killing. Darraji had threatened to murder his ex-wife for years.
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Italy’s Globalist Regime Increases Spending on Migrant Reception Facilities
Italy’s exceedingly unpopular government has announced that it will increase its payments to migrant reception centers, rolling back former Interior Minister Salvini’s policy which saw daily allowances given to migrants decreased from €35 to €19.
Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese’s move looks to breathe new life into the country’s migrant NGO economy and gives her an opportunity to thumb her nose at the populist League’s Matteo Salvini, Il Giornale reports.
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London: NHS Migrant Doctor Gets ‘Life’ Sentence for 90 Sexual Assaults on Patients
National Health Service (NHS) doctor Manish Shah has been given a “life” sentence with a 15-year minimum term after being convicted for dozens of sex attacks on female patients.
Romford-based Shah, who speaks Hindi and Gujarati and was born overseas, had been found guilty “nine counts of sexual assault and 16 counts of sexual assault by penetration” in December 2019, on top of convictions for “65 offences of sexual assault by penetration and sexual assault by touching” at the conclusion of another trial in December 2018, according to a Metropolitan Police statement.
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Massive Migrant March at Hungary Border Actually NGO Stunt — Authorities
Highly-coordinated protest event covered by international media.
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Migrant March at Hungary’s Border
A group of hundreds of migrants that recently set off for Hungary from Serbia has reached Hungary’s southern border at Tompa, public television’s current affairs channel M1 reported on Thursday. Early on Friday, Serbian authorities removed 750 people from the border.
M1’s on-site correspondent said there were about 400-500 migrants gathered at the border with more on the way, adding that the crowd was growing “more and more determined”. Later reports wrote about 750 people.
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A group of friends found a grinning migrant and his son in the back of their van during a trip to France who wrongly thought they’d just arrived in England.
Video footage shows the moment the back doors are opened to find the beaming Afghan father asking: ‘In England?’
But Charlie Cox, 23, an engineer from Stroud, Gloucestershire, said he had to disappoint the pair and tell them they were in Loon-Plage, near Dunkirk, in northern France.
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Franklin Graham’s UK Tour Cancelled Over “Homophobic” Comments
On last night’s show, I reported that Rev. Franklin Graham’s evangelization tour of the UK has been cancelled due to his allegedly “homophobic” comments.
However, as I’ve reported before, Muslim preachers in the UK have made similar comments in public without repercussions…
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Pope Francis Condemns the ‘Evil’ of Gender Theory
ROME — Pope Francis has denounced the “evil” of gender theory in a new book, saying the ideology seeks to erase all differences between men and women.
While pulling no punches in his condemnation of “gender theory”, the pope insists that the pastoral treatment of people with homosexual inclinations is a separate matter from the top-down cultural imposition of gender neutrality.
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Stunning: Dutch Euthanasia Center Saw 22% Rise in Requests Last Year
AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Dutch organization that carries out euthanasia received 3,122 requests last year, a 22% increase from the year before, the Euthanasia Expertise Center said Friday.
“Every work day, 13 people say: ‘Help me, I can’t go on,’“ Steven Pleiter, director of the center formerly known as the End of Life Clinic, said.
The center has experts who advise general practitioners in euthanasia cases and teams made up of doctors, psychiatrists and nurses who visit patients to evaluate their requests and administer fatal doses of drugs if they meet euthanasia criteria.
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UK Celebrates Man Coming Out as Gay After 27 Years of Marriage With Blanket Media Coverage
Meanwhile, Australian mom publicly shamed for making her husband breakfast.
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UK: Council to Bring “Drag Queen Story Time” For Under 5s to Muslim Enclave in London
The local council of the London Borough of Newham — an area heavily populated by immigrants from the Muslim world — has announced that it will be hosting a series of “Drag Queen Story Times” for children under the age of five.
Earlier this week, in a tweet, Newham Council took to Twitter to make the announcement, writing: “The first of our Drag Queen Story Times for under 5s & their parents & carers at @NewhamLibraries this #LGBTHM20 is on Friday.”
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Newham yet again? These Communist authorities never give in do they? I side with the Moslems on this one. We had problems with Newham way back in the seventies.
Baron
You have an article from Australia referring to Australian Prime Minister ‘Kevin Rudd’
Rudd finished as Australian Labour Party Prime Minister many years ago.
Maybe it’s an old article. I don’t know — I didn’t check.
You should check your [excrement]
I don’t have time to do that for the news feed. If I had to check everything closely, there would be no news feed. Simple as that.
Children under five? We didn’t have sex ed until 6th grade elementary school here in the indispensable USSA. Even then I thought isn’t this a bit young.
Clown World is so bizarre, it’s a good thing I’m already a few fries short of a happy meal so I can enjoy the inbred “elites” fail to get the chaos genie back in the bottle.
A comrade discovered homosexuality? What a Great Leap Forward.
The cutting edge of evolution.
I’m sure the religion of peace will be so impressed.
Comrade Pope could always redistribute some of the wealth of the catholic church for the good of the collective.
Franklin Graham should tell Jeebo to send me some orange whips.
Couldn’t the comrades smell the diversity in the back of the van?
Could the psych comrades go to a chalkboard and draw up a psychology equation?
Two related news from the Russian Muslim region Ingushetia.
“Caucasian Casanova”
Isa Altemirov, a member of a gang in Ingushetia who was engaged in seduction and blackmail of other people’s wives, died during his arrest in Nazran.
After Altemirov escaped from under the convoy, they could not find him for a long time. When the defendant was found in Nazran, in a house on Magistralnaya Street, they tried to detain the man. Altemirov threw a grenade at one of the police officers, but it did not explode. Then the attacker began to rely on luck, jumped from the fifth floor out the window. And crashed.
Recall that the Altemirov brothers – Isa and Hassan – were involved in the criminal case of extortion. According to the investigation, men seduced married women and filmed sex with them on camera. Later, threatening to show shots to spouses, the attackers demanded money from the victims. Girls could temporarily pay off from shame by selling their body again. Sexual contact was also filmed on video. In total, the attackers earned about 800 thousand rubles in this business.
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27089.7/4161033/
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Killing Honor
https://lenta.ru/news/2020/02/09/bratisestra/
A resident of Ingushetia confessed to the murder of his sister, who turned out to be in the same apartment as “Caucasian Casanova” Isa Altemirov, who jumped out of the window while being detained by police officers.
The woman was found murdered in an apartment in Magas, her body was covered with numerous stab wounds. The murder suspected the brother of the deceased, and he gave a confession.
According to the channel, the woman turned out to be a friend of Altemirov and was with him in an apartment in Nazran when police officers came there.
The Polish people who were tested for the Corona Virus showed an absence of the virus in their system. Maybe that was because they are “Poles Apart” from the Chinese genetic structure. Maybe the Northern European DNA has something in it that prevents the Corona virus from getting a foothold in the body. Maybe being from the North Poles has something to do with resistance to the pathogen. We should check it out.
Dat’s wayciss!
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islamism has brought europe back to the middle ages