Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/10/2020

Experts said that 35%-70% of Canadians may eventually be infected by the Wuhan Coronavirus, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that as many as 60%-70% of Germans could catch the disease. Meanwhile, Germany prevented a shipment of facemasks from being exported to Switzerland. Also, the coronavirus has reached the Greek island of Lesbos, just ten miles from a massive refugee camp.

In other news, during a campaign event at an auto plant in Detroit, Joe Biden told an autoworker that he was “full of s***” for questioning the candidate’s commitment to the 2nd Amendment.

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Thanks to Insubria, JD, Reader from Chicago, Red Mike, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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USA
» After Sanitizing Reddit to Make it Appeal to Advertisers, Reddit Will Let Brands “Takeover” Trends
» Airport Says DHS is Not Screening People Coming Into US From Coronavirus Stricken Italy or South Korea
» Alex Jones Denies DWI Charge, Texas Newspaper Confirms He Was Below Legal Limit
» Corrupt Mueller Gang Threatened to Throw General Flynn and His Son in Solitary Confinement if He Didn’t Plead Guilty to Lying to FBI
» Dr. Drew Slams Media for ‘Hurting People’ With Coronavirus Panic
» Joe Biden Lashes Out at Detroit Autoworker: ‘You’re Full of S***, ‘ Then Hushes Aide
» March 10 Primaries Live Updates: Biden Projected to Win Michigan, Mississippi and Missouri
» MIT Scientist Claims Coronavirus is a “Deep State Fraud”
» NYC Hardware Store Selling Hand Sanitizer for $109 a Bottle
» President Trump Was Right! 37,000 Flu Deaths Per Year… So Far 26 Coronavirus Deaths in US, 19 of Them at Same Life Care Senior Center
» Prince Andrew Still Not Cooperating in Jeffrey Epstein Investigation Despite Pledge: Prosecutors
» Psychologist: Big Tech Will Use “Subliminal Methods” To Shift 15 Million Votes on Election Day
» The 21 Words Uttered by FISA Court That Change the Russia Collusion Case Forever
» The Boys Season 2’s Stormfront Will be a “Product of the Alt-Right’s Ability to Use the Internet to Recruit”
» Twitter Blocks “Okie Boomer Girl” Video After Copyright Claim
» US Death Toll From Coronavirus Rises to 30, National Guard Sent to NYC Suburb
» YouTuber ReviewTechUSA slams “Sociopathic” Swatter Who Sent Police to His House During Live Stream
 
Canada
» BC’s New Ecosocialist Party Wants to Seize Wealth, End “Pro-Capitalist” Education
» Coronavirus: Experts Say 35 to 70 Percent of Canadians Could be Infected
» Exclusive: University of Victoria De-Platforms Conservative Speaker After Threats of Left-Wing Violence
» Liberals Spend $2.6 Million on COVID-19 Anti-Racism and Social Media Research
» Maclean’s Called Alberta’s Blockade Buster a Racist, So We’re Helping Him Sue — Will You Support Him?
» Train Derailment Forces Evacuation From Swalwell, Alberta
 
Europe and the EU
» AfD Calls for Coronavirus Border Checks Following Poland and the Czech Republic’s Lead
» British Airways, Ryanair Cancel Flights to Italy Over Coronavirus
» Court Hears Alleged Victims of Scottish Nationalist Salmond ‘Scared’ To Come Forward
» Dutch Coronavirus Cases Hit 382; Den Haag King’s Day Fest Canceled
» Europe Engulfed by Coronavirus: Angela Merkel Warns Up to 58 Million Germans — 60-70% of the Population — Will be Infected, As Spain Sees Infections Triple in Two Days and Italy Records 168 Fatalities in One Day
» France: Paris: Fake Police Using Anti-Burqa Laws to ‘Fine’ Chinese Students Wearing Masks
» Germany Prevents Shipment of Protective Masks Headed Toward Switzerland
» Germany-Austria Spat Over Anti-Virus Facemasks
» Italian Doctor Shares Grim Account of Hospital Overcapacity Due to COVID-9
» Italy: Sicily Officials Arrested in Graft Probe
» Italy: 2 MN Masks: 1,000 Ventilators Coming From China
» Labour’s Nandy: UK ‘Must’ Extend Brexit Transition Period Because of Coronavirus
» Merkel Expects 60-70 Per Cent of Germans to be Infected With Coronavirus
» Poland: President Says Steps Have Been Taken to be Prepared for Coronavirus
» Quarantine: Italians Told to Stay Indoors Via Loudspeakers
» Spain: Madrid to Shut Down All Schools for 2 Weeks Amid Coronavirus Spike
» ‘The UK Has Made Up Its Mind’: No 10 Hits Back at EU Over Brexit Ultimatum, Will Publish Draft FTA Pact
» Three More People Infected in Hungary
» UK PM Boris Johnson Tweet Edited to Suggest Opposite Sentiment About Coronavirus Gains 2.6 Million Views
» UK Supermarkets Will be Able to Deliver Through the Night in Wake of Coronavirus Hoarding
» UK: Coronavirus: Health Minister Nadine Dorries Tests Positive
» UK: MPs Warn Environmentalism Will Hurt Working Class if Petrol Tax Raised
» Watch: Dutch PM Tells Public to Stop Shaking Hands… Immediately Shakes Hands of Medical Expert
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Coronavirus: 38yo Israeli Man in ‘Critical Condition, ‘ Healthy 32yo Asian Man in Brooklyn ‘Has Respiratory Failure’
 
Middle East
» Holy Iraqi ‘Scholar’ Says Coronavirus is “Divine Punishment Against the Chinese”… Then Comes Down With the Coronavirus
» In Saudi Arabia, Contacting the EU is a Crime
» Iran: The Mullahs’ Coronavirus Lies
» Vladimir Putin Keeps Turkish President Erdogan Waiting Before Syria Talks
 
Russia
» Russia, Which Closed Its Border in January, Has Coronavirus Under Control
 
Far East
» Coronavirus by the Numbers — 83% of Affected Countries Have Death Rates of Infected Persons Less Than 1%
» COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak
» Dr. Oz Argues Coronavirus Numbers From Korea Show Lower Death Rate — May be No Worse Than Common Flu (Video)
» New Species of Pitcher Plant Discovered in Philippines
» Singapore & South Korea Numbers Suggest Coronavirus Can be Controlled
» YouTube Introduces Large Coronavirus Health Alerts to Users, Even to Those Who Haven’t Searched for the Topic
 
Latin America
» New Bug Species With ‘Wacky Fashion Sense’ Named After Lady Gaga
 
Immigration
» Coronavirus Spreads to Greek Island of Lesbos — Just Ten Miles From Where 27,000 Migrants Live in Squalor in Refugee Camp
» Germany: Key Figures in Merkel’s CDU Want More Migrants
» Greek Government: Only Four Per Cent of ‘Refugees’ Breaching Border Are Syrian
» ICE and Border Patrol Warn: Illegal Aliens Are Dangerous in More Ways Than One
» Illegal Alien Issued Ticket for “Careless Driving” After Killing Mother, Two Children and Grandmother Near Walt Disney World
» Large Number of North Africans Among Migrants on Greek Border
» Marine Le Pen Demands Brussels Threaten Turkey With Sanctions Amid Refugee Crisis
» Merkel’s Globalist Coalition Opposes the Majority of the German People, Plans to Take in 1,500 “Unaccompanied Minors”
» Turkey on Incoming Migrant Waves: European States Will Perish and Economies Will Crash
» Turkey’s Islamist Regime Leader Says European Bloc Must Stop “Stringing it Along’ on Migrant Deal
» Turkish Islamist Regime Leader Calls on Greece to Open Its Borders
» Video: Greek Farmer on Tractor Uses Water Cannon to Repel Migrants
» Watch: EU-Funded Turkish Armoured Vehicle Rips Down Greek Border Fence
 
Culture Wars
» Chris Selley: Toronto’s Head Librarian Digs in Deeper in Her Defence of Free Speech
» Cultural Apathy and Atrophy Through Conformity
» Federal Court Rules School District Was Right in Firing High School Coach for Silently Praying on 50-Yard Line After Football Games
» Middle School Hangs LGBT Flag in Cafeteria, Bans Flag of Traditional Family
» Prof Who Said ‘Whiteness is Terrorism’ Doubles Down, Insists He’s ‘Right’
» UNAOC High Representative’s Remarks at the ‘Ring for Peace’ Ceremony — 10th World Assembly of Religions for Peace
 

After Sanitizing Reddit to Make it Appeal to Advertisers, Reddit Will Let Brands “Takeover” Trends

After spending several months heavily censoring communities and restricting the window of conversation that is allowed on the platform in a bid to win advertisers, Reddit is ready to introduce major new advertising features for brands.

The move is also coming after Reddit has been testing forcing mobile users to sign in and use the app — suggesting that Reddit is making a more forward attempt to monetize the audience.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Airport Says DHS is Not Screening People Coming Into US From Coronavirus Stricken Italy or South Korea

A major airport in Atlanta has admitted that neither its own officials, nor the Department of Homeland Security are screening travellers arriving from Italy or South Korea, two countries where the coronavirus has hit the hardest outside of China.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia announced that while the CDC has demanded screening of passengers from China and Iran, no such screening is taking place for those coming in from Italy/South Korea, “because those countries are doing exit screenings.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Alex Jones Denies DWI Charge, Texas Newspaper Confirms He Was Below Legal Limit

Update (1655ET): InfoWars has published its own account of Alex Jones’ interaction with Texas state police on Monday night, and it differs markedly from the story published by the Statesman.

According to InfoWars, Jones has been cleared of the DWI charge after blowing less than a 0.08 — the Texas legal limit. Jones was pulled over in Travis County while driving “45 mph in a 40-mph zone” and admitted to consuming a small amount of sake at a Japanese restaurant, where he had eaten dinner with his wife earlier that evening.

Interestingly enough, the Austin Statesman article reporting Jones’s arrest was updated shortly after publication to clarify that Jones did blow below the legal limit. The reasons for his arrest are not made clear in the article.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Corrupt Mueller Gang Threatened to Throw General Flynn and His Son in Solitary Confinement if He Didn’t Plead Guilty to Lying to FBI

General Mike Flynn has now been harassed by corrupt members of the DOJ for more than three years.

He and his family have gone through hell all because he knew too much about the Obama Administration’s corruption and supported Donald Trump.

The General’s lovely sister, Barbara Redgate was on BardsOfWar podcast and gave an amazing interview regarding the challenges General Flynn and his family have had to go through since becoming a target of the Deep State. At the 13:30 minute mark of the interview, Ms. Redgate shared the following after listing a plethora of documents that the FBI and DOJ are withholding from the General in relation to his case.

Redgate says that shortly after the discovery of corrupt FBI Agents Strzok and Page’s texts, the Mueller team is believed to have gone to DAG Rosenstein to obtain permission to indict Flynn’s son. This is when the Mueller gang really put pressure on General Flynn. They took young Mike’s phone and computers and have never returned them to this day. At the time, young Mike had a 4 month old baby at home. Next she shares the following:

Barbara Redgate: Suddenly General Mike is threatened with public arrest and search of his phone. Public arrest of his son. Indictment of his son, and they were going to give him the Manafort treatment, which is put them both in solitary confinement.

At the 11th hour before General Flynn signed his plea agreement, at the last minute Special Counsel notifies the defense counsel by phone only that the electronic communications of one agent showed a preference [against] President Trump and the IG was assessing whether that constituted misconduct.

General Flynn’s attorney’s never told this to General Flynn so he thought that the agents who interviewed him in an ambush meeting in the White House believed he had lied. The entire interview is shocking and a must listen.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Dr. Drew Slams Media for ‘Hurting People’ With Coronavirus Panic

Dr Drew has once again spoken out regarding the media’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, urging that the panic being generated is ‘hurting people’ and that those spreading it should be ‘held accountable’.

“A bad flu season is 80,000 dead, we’ve got about 18,000 dead from influenza this year, we have a hundred from corona,” Dr. Drew said in an interview with CBS.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Joe Biden Lashes Out at Detroit Autoworker: ‘You’re Full of S***, ‘ Then Hushes Aide

Vice President Joe Biden lashed out at a pro-gun worker in Detroit on Tuesday, telling him he’s “full of s***” before hushing an aide who tried to intervene.

Biden was speaking at an auto plant when a worker in a hard hat claimed the presidential candidate was “actively trying to end our Second Amendment rights.”

Standing face-to-face with the worker, Biden responded, “You’re full of s***.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

March 10 Primaries Live Updates: Biden Projected to Win Michigan, Mississippi and Missouri

Primary voters in the key battleground state of Michigan as well as Missouri, Mississippi, Idaho, North Dakota and Washington state head to the polls in a closely watched contest that could help determine the next phase of the Democratic race for the presidential nomination.

There are 352 delegates up for grabs across the six states.

9: 15 p.m. Here’s a glimpse at Democratic turnout in Michigan

All the polls have now closed in Michigan. With 51% of the expected vote reporting, turnout in the Democratic primary is about 68% of 2016’s total.

ABC News has estimated that both Biden and Sanders will pick up at least 11 delegates each in Michigan.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

MIT Scientist Claims Coronavirus is a “Deep State Fraud”

MIT scientist Shiva Ayyadurai claims that coronavirus “fear mongering” is a “Deep State fraud” to manipulate financial markets.

Ayyadurai, who is noted for his controversial claim to be the “inventor of email,” has a PhD in Biological Engineering and is running as a Republican in the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts.

Responding to President Donald Trump’s claim that Democrats and the media are responsible for inflaming the coronavirus scare “far beyond what the facts would warrant,” Ayyadurai agreed that the panic was being overblown for political and economic reasons.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

NYC Hardware Store Selling Hand Sanitizer for $109 a Bottle

In yet another shameless act of price gouging, a hardware store in New York is selling bottles of hand sanitizer for $109 dollars a pop.

Yes, really.

Taking full advantage of the growing hysteria surrounding coronavirus, Scheman & Grant Hardware at Eighth Avenue and 38th Street is now selling 1200 ml bottles of Purell that normally retail for $5.49 for a gargantuan $79 dollars.

Meanwhile, larger 2 liter bottles of Purell are selling for $109 each.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

President Trump Was Right! 37,000 Flu Deaths Per Year… So Far 26 Coronavirus Deaths in US, 19 of Them at Same Life Care Senior Center

UPDATE— 26 deaths now in the US and 19 from the Life Care Center of Kirkland.

President Trump this morning tweeted out the recent coronavirus numbers in the United States.

“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that! “

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Prince Andrew Still Not Cooperating in Jeffrey Epstein Investigation Despite Pledge: Prosecutors

Prince Andrew is still refusing to cooperate with a federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators — despite a public pledge to do so, federal prosecutors said Monday.

“Contrary to Prince Andrew’s very public offer to cooperate with our investigation into Epstein’s co-conspirators, an offer that was conveyed via press release, Prince Andrew has now completely shut the door on voluntary cooperation,” US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman said late Monday morning after an unrelated press conference.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Psychologist: Big Tech Will Use “Subliminal Methods” To Shift 15 Million Votes on Election Day

Psychologist Robert Epstein says that Big Tech is planning to use “subliminal methods” in the upcoming election that could shift up to 15 million votes and cost Trump the presidency.

After the 2016 presidential election, Epstein surmised that search engine bias shifted 2-3 million votes in Hillary Clinton’s favor, and he warns that the number in 2020 could be five times that amount.

The author says that Google and other social media giants “can shift opinions and votes in numerous ways that people can’t detect” via “a wide variety of subliminal methods of persuasion that can, in minutes, shift the voting preferences of 20 percent or more of undecided voters without anyone having the slightest idea they’ve been manipulated.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

The 21 Words Uttered by FISA Court That Change the Russia Collusion Case Forever

For much of the last three years, key law enforcement leaders have insisted they did nothing wrong in pursuing counterintelligence surveillance warrants targeting the Trump campaign starting during the 2016 election. And, they’ve added, if mistakes were made, they were unintentional process errors downstream from them and not an effort to deceive the judges.

But in a little-noted passage in a recent order, U.S. District Judge James A. Boasberg, the new chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, took direct aim at the excuses and blame-shifting of these senior Obama administration FBI and DOJ officials.

In just 21 words, Boasberg provided the first judicial declaration the FBI had misled the court, not just committed process errors. “There is thus little doubt that the government breached its duty of candor to the Court with respect to those applications,” Boasberg wrote.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

The Boys Season 2’s Stormfront Will be a “Product of the Alt-Right’s Ability to Use the Internet to Recruit”

Amazon Prime’s show The Boys could be catering to the whims of the rest of the entertainment industry in twisting the origins of a comic book character, changing the whole backstory, and introducing a character as something it was not originally intended to be — all for the sake of trying to take advantage of the current zeitgeist we find ourselves in, especially where it comes to politics and the internet.

The character is “Stormfront” — originally in the comic books as a Nazi soldier who was smuggled into the US. However, the makers of The Boys on Amazon Prime have made their own twist and changed the villain altogether for the upcoming season 2 of the TV version.

Based on the latest information, it is confirmed that Stormfront is now a Jewish woman who was converted to Nazism by the means of “alt-right” online communities.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Twitter Blocks “Okie Boomer Girl” Video After Copyright Claim

Twitter has blocked the viral video of Neekolul, the “Okie Boomer Girl,” dancing to the “OK Doki Boomer” song while wearing a Bernie 2020 t-shirt after it was hit with a copyright claim.

After being posted to Twitter on March 2, it quickly went viral and amassed more than 14 million views but was blocked earlier today.

Twitter said the video had been “disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.”

However, YouTuber Senzawa, the creator of the “OK Doki Boomer” song, tweeted that they did not file the copyright claim.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

US Death Toll From Coronavirus Rises to 30, National Guard Sent to NYC Suburb

  • U.S. death toll at 30
  • Trump ‘feels extremely good,’ doesn’t plan on getting tested
  • “Likely going to get worse before it gets better,” U.S. surgeon general says
  • National Guard to deliver food, clean schools to NYC suburb
  • Italy’s “Patient No. 1” out of ICU

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    YouTuber ReviewTechUSA slams “Sociopathic” Swatter Who Sent Police to His House During Live Stream

    YouTuber ReviewTechUSA has blasted the “sociopathic behavior” of the swatter who sent police to his home during his live stream last night.

    A few minutes before the police arrived, ReviewTechUSA had noticed that his stream was getting an unusually high number of views.

    “1200 people here right now. What the hell is going on?” ReviewTechUSA remarked. “I don’t get it.”

    At the time, ReviewTechUSA assumed that bots had caused the upsurge in viewers but after being swatted, he suggested that the person behind the swatting had probably shared a link to his live stream.

    Moments after ReviewTechUSA noticed the uptick in viewers on his live stream, someone knocked on the door and told him: “Someone called the police.”

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    BC’s New Ecosocialist Party Wants to Seize Wealth, End “Pro-Capitalist” Education

    A new party billing itself as “further left than the NDP, greener than the Greens” has appeared in British Columbia, promising radical socialist reforms if elected.

    The BC Ecosocialists are led by Canadian musician Geoff Berner and are a registered political party with Elections BC.

    The party already has a platform that ranges from sensible propositions like protecting endangered species to radical policies like seizing wealth from the rich, removing “pro-capitalist/pro-liberal” teachings from schools and a major land redistribution program that would transfer some private ownership to Indigenous groups.

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    Coronavirus: Experts Say 35 to 70 Percent of Canadians Could be Infected

    The coronavirus could reportedly infect 35 to 70 percent of Canadians and the country may need to implement quarantine centres and makeshift hospitals to avoid further spread of the virus.

    Researchers at the University of Toronto have made a disease-transmission model to attempt to find the overall attack rate of the virus in Canada. Research from the model suggests that the rate could surpass 70 percent if no public health interventions are implemented according to the National Post.

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    Exclusive: University of Victoria De-Platforms Conservative Speaker After Threats of Left-Wing Violence

    The University of Victoria has cancelled a conservative activist from speaking at a “free speech club,” because there were “considerable concerns around safety and security for this event.”

    As a result of this, the university would only allow the event to continue if the undergraduate student who organized the event paid for a security detail in order to guarantee the protection of both the speaker and the university’s property.

    The event in question was organized so that students could hear a conservative perspective over the recent #ShutDownCanada protests, which led to key areas of Canada’s infrastructure being blockaded. Aaron Gunn, a mainstream conservative commentator with a large online following, was given the opportunity to express this perspective by the university’s free speech club.

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    Liberals Spend $2.6 Million on COVID-19 Anti-Racism and Social Media Research

    While COVID-19 outbreaks are being detected in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is revealing his priorities.

    As part of a $27 million federal research funding competition, the Liberal government allocated $2.63 million taxpayer dollars on combating discrimination, racism and social media misinformation.

    While many of the projects funded were sound scientific and public policy research, seven of the approved studies stuck out as social justice-oriented.

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    Maclean’s Called Alberta’s Blockade Buster a Racist, So We’re Helping Him Sue — Will You Support Him?

    Remember a few weeks ago when some masked eco-terrorists blocked a railroad near Edmonton?

    Police just stood there and did nothing to remove it. So a handful of peaceful Good Samaritans simply drove up with a big truck and carted away the garbage that was blocking the railroad.

    It was wonderful — normal, law-abiding Albertans peacefully solving a problem that all the politicians and police wouldn’t.

    But not to Maclean’s magazine. They published a crazy rant about racist white supremacist vigilantes — and illustrated it with a picture of one of those Good Samaritans, Chase Chomey.

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    Train Derailment Forces Evacuation From Swalwell, Alberta

    This is the sixth train derailment in Canada in recent weeks.

    A train derailment in a southern Alberta hamlet has forced residents to flee their homes.

    The evacuation was ordered after a CN train collided with a B-Train propane truck in Swalwell, a community of little more than 100 people, 75 km northeast of Calgary.

    A state of emergency was declared and the hamlet’s residents removed. Nothing from the train’s intermodal containers spilled.

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    AfD Calls for Coronavirus Border Checks Following Poland and the Czech Republic’s Lead

    Poland and the Czech Republic, on Monday, March 10th, have started to spot-check vehicles with passengers coming from Germany for symptoms of the coronavirus. The temperature of travelers will be measured without invasive contact.

    The populist AfD has accused German Authorities of acting irresponsibly and ineffectively, unlike their neighboring nations. The Czech authorities have implemented vehicle checks at along their border with Germany, as has Poland, Germany regional newspaper Der Neue Tag reports.

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    British Airways, Ryanair Cancel Flights to Italy Over Coronavirus

    ROME — British Airways and Dublin-based Ryanair announced Tuesday they have cancelled all flights to and from Italy after the country declared a nationwide lockdown Monday in an attempt to control the spread of the coronavirus.

    “Ryanair apologises sincerely to all customers for these schedule disruptions, which are caused by national government restrictions and the latest decision of the Italian government to lock down the entire country to combat the Covid-19 virus,” reads a statement from the airline.

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    Court Hears Alleged Victims of Scottish Nationalist Salmond ‘Scared’ To Come Forward

    A woman who has accused Alex Salmond of assaulting her in 2014 said that she was too frightened to initially come forward because the former leader of the devolved Scottish parliament was “a very powerful man”, Edinburgh’s High Court has heard.

    The former first minister of Scotland stands accused of 14 sexual offences against 10 women, including attempted rape and sexual assault. The incidents are alleged to have taken place between June 2008 and November 2014, while Mr Salmond, 65, was in office and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    Dutch Coronavirus Cases Hit 382; Den Haag King’s Day Fest Canceled

    The number of patients in the Netherlands who tested positive for the Covid-19 strain of coronavirus rose to 382, including four people who died. The most recent person to die with the virus was a 78-year-old who had a weakened immune system. Health agency RIVM said 161 of all patients who tested positive were infected abroad, and 156 cases were still under investigation.

    Over half of the 61 new patients reside in the province of Noord-Brabant, bringing the total there to 157.

    Meanwhile, the uncertainty over the increasing number of infections has led to the cancellation of events even over a month away. One of the biggest event cancellations to date is the Kingsworld festival, scheduled for King’s Day, April 27, in The Hague. The 2019 edition drew thousands of people for the event on a date many consider to be the country’s biggest annual celebration, the birthday of King Willem-Alexander.

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    Europe Engulfed by Coronavirus: Angela Merkel Warns Up to 58 Million Germans — 60-70% of the Population — Will be Infected, As Spain Sees Infections Triple in Two Days and Italy Records 168 Fatalities in One Day

    At a parliamentary group meeting of her CDU party in Berlin today, Chancellor Angela Merkel said up to 58 million of her countrymen could contract the fast-spreading coronavirus.

               — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
     

    France: Paris: Fake Police Using Anti-Burqa Laws to ‘Fine’ Chinese Students Wearing Masks

    The Chinese embassy in Paris has lodged complaints, stating that Chinese nationals have been scammed with fake fines by fraudsters pretending to be enforcing Islamic veil laws on those wearing masks.

    The embassy claimed that Chinese students wearing medical masks were asked to hand over 150 euros by “police” who they later confirmed with officials in the Paris police were criminals pretending to be officers.

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    Germany Prevents Shipment of Protective Masks Headed Toward Switzerland

    German customs authorities have blocked a shipment of protective masks headed toward Switzerland, sparking fresh diplomatic tensions between the two countries as the coronavirus continues to spread throughout Europe.

    A truckload of 240,000 protective masks bound for Switzerland was blocked by German custom agents following a recent decision made by Germany’s federal government to ban exports and other key medical gear amid a worsening coronavirus pandemic, The Local Germany reports.

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    Germany-Austria Spat Over Anti-Virus Facemasks

    A German export ban on masks that protects against the coronavirus has angered Austria and Switzerland. “It can’t be that Germany is holding back products for Austria just because they happen to be stored in a German location,” said Austrian economy minister Margarete Schramboeck. “These products are for the Austrian market, and unilateral moves by Germany are just causing problems in other countries,” she added.

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    Italian Doctor Shares Grim Account of Hospital Overcapacity Due to COVID-9

    An Italian doctor took to social media to warn the world about the COVID-19 “tsunami” that has hit the healthcare system of affected regions in the country.

    In his lengthy and tragic account of treating an influx of coronavirus patients, Dr. Daniel Macchini describes the rapid spread of the virus and the hospital’s inability to properly treat new cases.

    “The war has literally exploded and battles are uninterrupted day and night. But now that need for beds has arrived in all its drama. One after the other the departments that had been emptied fill up at an impressive pace.” writes Macchini in Italian.

               — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
     

    Italy: Sicily Officials Arrested in Graft Probe

    Businessmen ‘got illicit farm subsidies worth millions’

    (ANSA) — Palermo, March 4 — Several Sicilian regional government officials and businessmen were arrested Wednesday in a major graft probe. Palermo finance police executed 24 warrants including four in jail custody, 12 under house arrest and eight stay orders.

    The functionaries and the businessmen are variously accused of conspiracy, aggravated fraud in getting public monies, corruption, false public statements, revealing official secrets, and suppression and burying public acts.

    Some 14 companies were seized, three based in Hungary, Austria and Romania, worth a total of some 24 million euros.

    Also seized were financial assets, goods and property worth over 12.5 million euros.

    The issuing of illegal contributions totalling some 3.5 million euros was blocked.

    The investigation focused on the illicit authorisation of farm subsidies by the Sicilian regional government.

    The finance guard said there had been some 12 million euros in illicit subsidies.

    Two businessmen allegedly obtained the subsidies by issuing fake invoices through the companies in Hungary, Austria and Romania.

               — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
     

    Italy: 2 MN Masks: 1,000 Ventilators Coming From China

    Utmost priority for Italian orders Wang tells Di Maio

    (ANSA) — Rome, March 10 — Over two million face masks and some 10,000 pulmonary ventilators are set to reach Italy from China under contracts about to be signed, after a phone call between Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio and Chinese counterpart Wang Yi Tuesday.

    Wang assured Di Maio that Italian orders for the ventilators would be made a priority by Chinese firms after similar requests were made by other European countries.

    Wang also told Di Maio that the Chinese government had instructed its firms to export two million medical masks.

    To start with, China is ready to send 100,000 high-tech masks and 20,000 protective suits, along with 50,000 swabs.

               — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
     

    Labour’s Nandy: UK ‘Must’ Extend Brexit Transition Period Because of Coronavirus

    Labour leadership contender Lisa Nandy has said that the UK “must” extend the Brexit transition period beyond December 2020 because of “uncertainties” of Brexit being exasperated by the economic impact of the coronavirus.

    The Labour MP for Wigan voted Remain in the 2016 referendum and Ms Nandy has since attempted to project an air of Brexit Acceptance including ruling out as party leader campaigning to rejoin the EU. However, Ms Nandy seems keen to delay the UK’s exit from the bloc’s rules and institutions.

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    Merkel Expects 60-70 Per Cent of Germans to be Infected With Coronavirus

    Angela Merkel says she expects around 60-70 per cent of Germans will be infected with the coronavirus, which equates to about 53 million people.

    Reportedly, the German Parliament fell completely silent when Merkel stated the number.

    News outlet Bild reported the German Chancellor’s comments, which echoed numbers forecast by Berlin virologist Christian Drosten, who added that such a total could take 2 years or longer to reach.

    Given the fact that coronavirus has a mortality rate of around 1 per cent, this could equate to over half a million deaths, although new methods of fighting the virus could reduce this number.

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    Poland: President Says Steps Have Been Taken to be Prepared for Coronavirus

    Addressing the Polish people on the public television network TVP on Tuesday evening, President Andrzej Duda admitted that the situation was serious, since thousands of people have died worldwide following a coronavirus infection.

    “The virus has recently reached Poland. We know that the number of infected people will be growing in coming days. I can assure you that the Polish authorities have earlier undertaken appropriate steps in order to be ready for the challenge,” the president said.

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    Quarantine: Italians Told to Stay Indoors Via Loudspeakers

    Italians are being told to stay inside unless they need to buy medicines by health authorities patrolling neighborhoods with loudspeakers as the coronavirus quarantine begins to take hold.

    With 60 million people having their movements restricted, the video has a somewhat post-apocalytpic feel as Italians are told, “Please stay at home & go outside only when you need to buy medicines or see doctors. Please follow our rules & wear face masks.”

    The fact that the clip was posted by the Global Times, an official mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party is somewhat ironic.

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    Spain: Madrid to Shut Down All Schools for 2 Weeks Amid Coronavirus Spike

    MADRID (AP) — Spain’s health minister reported a sharp spike in coronavirus cases in and around Madrid and said all schools in the capital region, from kindergartens and universities, would close for two weeks starting Wednesday.

    Health Minister Salvador Illa announced the closures while giving a second daily update on virus infections in Spain. As of Monday night, the country had 1,204 confirmed cases, an increase of more than 200 from the tally reported at lunchtime, Illa said.

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    ‘The UK Has Made Up Its Mind’: No 10 Hits Back at EU Over Brexit Ultimatum, Will Publish Draft FTA Pact

    A spokesman for Prime Minister Johnson said that the UK has“made up its mind” over what it wants from a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the remarks coming after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that Britain must choose either close alignment to the EU or lose access to the Single Market.

    On Monday, the chief of the EU’s powerful executive arm had said that if the UK wants frictionless, tariff-free trade it must “play by the rules” on matters including accepting European court decisions; ‘level playing field’ regulations on labour rights, environmental rules, tax, and state aid ( i.e., subsidies given by the government to British industries); and continuous access of Britain’s fishing waters to EU fishermen.

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    Three More People Infected in Hungary

    According to a post on Tuesday on the government information website koronavirus.gov.hu, another three cases have emerged in Hungary, bringing the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the country to 12.

    Fully 67 people are in quarantine, while samples have been taken from 362 people suspected of carrying the virus, the website said. The three new virus cases, all of them Iranian students studying at the medical Semmelweis University, were diagnosed at St. Laszlo hospital where they have been under observation for several days.

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    UK PM Boris Johnson Tweet Edited to Suggest Opposite Sentiment About Coronavirus Gains 2.6 Million Views

    Social media in the current times, by scale alone, has to be entwined with a dose of misinformation.

    In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, many countries are extending their efforts to make sure that their citizens stay safe. Similarly, the UK PM Boris Johnson too spoke about how the whole situation was to be tackled.

    However, a Twitter user took only half of what Mr Johnson said and started sharing it across Twitter and criticized him for his lackadaisical attitude towards approaching the condition and suggesting that the coronavirus is no big deal.

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    UK Supermarkets Will be Able to Deliver Through the Night in Wake of Coronavirus Hoarding

    The UK government will lift environmental restrictions on the logistics operations behind major supermarkets, after apparent panic-buying of hygiene items, including toilet roll and hand sanitiser, meant demand was outstripping supply in some areas.

    While supermarkets are normally restricted in the hours they are permitted to make deliveries to their premises to reduce noise and disruption to local residents, the government will relax these restrictions to make restocking the shelves easier. The outbreak of coronavirus has seen a significant surge in demand for a range of products, and environment minister George Eustice has agreed to give retailers more freedom to work around the clock to keep the logistics chain free.

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    UK: Coronavirus: Health Minister Nadine Dorries Tests Positive

    Health minister and Conservative MP Nadine Dorries says she has been diagnosed with coronavirus.

    Ms Dorries, the first MP to test positive, said she had taken all the advised precautions after finding out, and had been self-isolating at home.

    It comes as a sixth person died from the virus in the UK, which has a total of 382 cases.

    The latest person to die was a man in his early 80s who had underlying health conditions.

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    UK: MPs Warn Environmentalism Will Hurt Working Class if Petrol Tax Raised

    Dozens of MPs warned the Chancellor of the Exchequer that ending the freeze on petrol duty because of the country’s environmental commitments will hurt the working-class voters who put the Conservatives into government.

    The 36 backbenchers led by Robert Halfon have penned a letter saying they are “very concerned” by Rishi Sunak’s reported proposal to unfreeze fuel tax which would see the cost of petrol and diesel rise by two pence a litre. The letter was signed by senior Brexiteer Tories Sir Iain Duncan Smith, David Davis, and former transport secretary Chris Grayling.

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    Watch: Dutch PM Tells Public to Stop Shaking Hands… Immediately Shakes Hands of Medical Expert

    The Dutch Prime Minister has told the public “today we stop shaking hands” in a bid to limit the spread of coronavirus, before shaking hands with a medical advisor on national television and immediately realising his mistake.

    Speaking at a joint press conference with a top medical advisor on the spread of coronavirus, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said it was not necessary for the country to take major steps like banning public gatherings or closing schools — as has already happened in Italy — but that smaller changes in behaviour were needed. To this end, the Prime Minister said “this is a problem for all of us” and told the nation “today we stop shaking hands”, reports Dutch news site NU.

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    Coronavirus: 38yo Israeli Man in ‘Critical Condition, ‘ Healthy 32yo Asian Man in Brooklyn ‘Has Respiratory Failure’

    For context, many people, such as the Australian couple below, get the coronavirus and experience little to no symptoms.

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    Holy Iraqi ‘Scholar’ Says Coronavirus is “Divine Punishment Against the Chinese”… Then Comes Down With the Coronavirus

    Holy Iraqi Muslim scholar Hadi al-Modarresi recently delivered a sermon where he claimed the coronavirus was “divine punishment against the Chinese.”

    After his speech al-Modarresi came down with coronavirus.

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    In Saudi Arabia, Contacting the EU is a Crime

    On Wednesday (11 March), Loujain al-Hathloul, a female Saudi activist will go to court for a hearing on her trial.

    Al-Hathloul was one of the activists who opposed Saudi Arabia’s male guardianship and defied the ban for women to drive cars.

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    Iran: The Mullahs’ Coronavirus Lies

    Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, recently called the coronavirus a “blessing.” After China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, its ally, has emerged as the second focal point of coronavirus, and thanks to the ruling mullahs’ lies and cover-ups, Tehran is spreading it to the rest of the planet.

    The Iranian authorities at first claimed that the country was not experiencing a crisis regarding the coronavirus: that no one in Iran had contracted the disease. Soon, however, leaked information disclosed that top Iranian officials were aware of the coronavirus in Iran but had decided to conceal the truth.

    When a few Iranian authorities were pressured to provide information, they stated that they are not allowed to report the actual number of people who have been infected or died. The head of the Medical Sciences University in Qom, Mohammad Reza Ghadir, for instance, said on Iran’s state television that the Ministry of Health had issued a ban on disclosing statistics on the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

    The question is: Are the ruling mullahs attempting purposefully to spread the coronavirus to other countries as a form of global jihad? Otherwise, why would Iran’s top Ayatollah call coronavirus a “blessing”?

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    Vladimir Putin Keeps Turkish President Erdogan Waiting Before Syria Talks

    VLADIMIR PUTIN humiliated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of a meeting concerning a ceasefire in Syria as both leaders announced plans to contain the escalating conflict.

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    Russia, Which Closed Its Border in January, Has Coronavirus Under Control

    Some kind of connection here.

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    Coronavirus by the Numbers — 83% of Affected Countries Have Death Rates of Infected Persons Less Than 1%

    According to the most recent data at Worldometer tracking website, the coronavirus mortality rates for individuals catching the virus are declining at a rate closer to the numbers we expect to see in a typical flu virus as the denominator continues to increase on a global scale.

    According to the most recent data the mortality rate for those infected with the coronavirus is getting closer to what you would expect from a normal flu virus and in many cases is less.

    The elderly are hit the hardest by the coronavirus and this is similar to the flu where 90% of the deaths come from individuals age 65 and over.

    According to the US Surgeon General Jerome Adams the average age of death of the coronavirus is 80-year-olds:…

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    COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak

    Coronavirus Cases:

    119,186

    view by country

    Deaths:

    4,298

    Recovered:

    66,619

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    Dr. Oz Argues Coronavirus Numbers From Korea Show Lower Death Rate — May be No Worse Than Common Flu (Video)

    Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Director of the Columbia University Integrative Medicine Center, joined Lou Dobbs on Monday night to discuss the ongoing coronavirus panic.

    As of Monday evening there have been 624 cases reported of the coronavirus. There have been 26 deaths in the US — 19 of the deaths were at the Life Center Senior Center in Washington state.

    Dr. Oz argued that the coronavirus mortality rate from Korea is no worse than the common flu.

    Dr. Oz: We’ve got to get out with these vaccines. I think the US government is already pushing as hard as they can. But the real worry is that we’ll rush a vaccine out, give it to a few hundred million people, and run into consequences we’ve never anticipated.

    Lou Dobbs: Like what?

    Dr. Oz: For example a fetus in a pregnant woman, that’s a population that’s at risk. You could hasten the death of some people with chronic illnesses. They’re the ones that are at risk. And here’s the thing. I just before walking out on the stage saw some of the data from Korea — which is very different than the data China shared with us. It showed much lower incidence of death. If I got a population that is not dying any more common than the flu why would I take a big chance with a vaccine?

    [Comment: Perhaps globalists goal is forced coronavirus vaccinations which will cull the herd…]

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    New Species of Pitcher Plant Discovered in Philippines

    A team of biologists from the Central Mindanao University has discovered a new endemic species of carnivorous plant in the montane tropical rainforests of Philippines.

    The newly-discovered species belongs to Nepenthes, a genus of tropical pitcher plants in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae.

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    Singapore & South Korea Numbers Suggest Coronavirus Can be Controlled

    Numbers out of Singapore, South Korea and even China which show cases leveling off and declining suggest that coronavirus can be controlled without millions of people in the west becoming infected.

    Despite widespread panic buying and a financial market collapse, figures from these three countries suggest COVID-19 can be successfully combated if the right measures are taken.

    According to the country’s health minister, South Korea has “passed the peak” of coronavirus infections and is now seeing a decline in cases.

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    YouTube Introduces Large Coronavirus Health Alerts to Users, Even to Those Who Haven’t Searched for the Topic

    YouTube has started showing notifications that direct users to coronavirus information from health organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Health Service (NHS), depending on location.

    Several YouTube web users in the US are seeing a notification that encourages them to “Get the latest information from the World Health Organization about COVID-19.”

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    New Bug Species With ‘Wacky Fashion Sense’ Named After Lady Gaga

    This bug was born this way. A graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign discovered a new species of treehopper — wacky-looking bugs with protruding features that look like horns, antlers, brightly colored flags or dead plant leaves, and that sing to each other by vibrating plant stems. And he decided to honor it with the name of another flamboyant shape-shifter: Lady Gaga.

    The insect, now called Kaikaia gaga, is a new genus of treehopper discovered after researchers studied insect samples collected about 30 years ago from a tropical forest near the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, according to student Brendan Morris and INHS entomologist Christopher Dietrich, who co-authored a paper about the new Gaga on the block in the journal Zootaxa.

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    Coronavirus Spreads to Greek Island of Lesbos — Just Ten Miles From Where 27,000 Migrants Live in Squalor in Refugee Camp

    The coronavirus has spread to the Greek island of Lesbos — just 10 miles away from 27,000 migrants living in squalor at a refugee camp.

    An unidentified 40-year-old woman has been diagnosed with the killer disease, the island’s first case, after having recently travelled to Israel and Egypt.

    She was placed in quarantine on Sunday, the public ERT television reported.

    Greek authorities have expressed concern over the possibility of the virus spreading on islands such as Lesbos, where thousands of migrants are crammed in overcrowded camps or living rough.

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    Germany: Key Figures in Merkel’s CDU Want More Migrants

    Despite the political fallout and social turmoil that 2015’s migrant crisis brought to Germany, key politicians from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) believe Germany should accept more migrants, with one potential CDU leader even praising Merkel’s 2015 open borders policy.

    Schleswig-Holstein CDU Prime Minister Daniel Gunther said Germany should accept underage migrants, telling a German broadcaster, “The situation in the border area between Turkey and Greece has worsened dramatically since the weekend. In the past, Schleswig-Holstein has declared its willingness to help people in need and to participate in quota solutions that the German government negotiates with its European partners. We should set an example here.”

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    Greek Government: Only Four Per Cent of ‘Refugees’ Breaching Border Are Syrian

    Just four per cent of the supposed refugees who have breached the Greek border in recent days are Syrians, according to the Greek government.

    Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Islamist president of Turkey, claimed he was opening his borders to Europe in response to the threat of a fresh wave of refugees from Syria — despite the fact his reason for invading the north of the country was, ostensibly, to carve out a safe zone for Syrian refugees to be settled in.

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    ICE and Border Patrol Warn: Illegal Aliens Are Dangerous in More Ways Than One

    While leftists in the U.S. attempt to tie immigration exclusively to Latinos, many immigrants sneaking into the U.S are not from, Mexico, Central America and South America. They come from as far away as China to enter our country, and therein lies the problem since China is the nation of origin for the Coronavirus.

    About 330 immigrants from China have been caught attempting to cross American borders illegally so far this year, according to Homeland Security. In addition, three other people from South Korea — another country with rapidly spreading cases — have also been arrested at the border, as have 122 people from the Dominican Republican which shares a Caribbean island with the already enormously impoverished Haiti.

    But it is our southern neighbor that is responsible for more than 1,000 migrants a day who are nabbed attempting to sneak into Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California illegally from Mexico, in which Mexican authorities detected its first case last week, and this week police and medical departments identified five other cases of the deadly virus.

    And if that many are being caught each day, an unknown but significant number are getting through undetected, Border Patrol officials say.

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    Illegal Alien Issued Ticket for “Careless Driving” After Killing Mother, Two Children and Grandmother Near Walt Disney World

    Thank a Democrat.

    An illegal alien was cited with a ticket for “careless driving” after he rear-ended a van and nearly killed an entire family spanning three generations near Disney in Florida.

    The driver of a truck that killed a mother, two of her children and the grandmother was in the US illegally, according to authorities.

    Two other children, their father and grandfather who were also in the minivan survived.

    But after killing 4 people, Lucas Dos Reis Laurindo was only cited with a ticket, the strongest charge that could be made under Florida law.

    He is currently being held in custody on a visa violation.

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    Large Number of North Africans Among Migrants on Greek Border

    While some of the migrants gathered on the Greek border are from Syria, a French broadcaster has revealed that many are actually from countries in North Africa which are not in a state of war at all.

    Migrants from countries like Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria are said to be numerous among the other nationalities gathered at the border after the Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened the gates to Europe.

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    Marine Le Pen Demands Brussels Threaten Turkey With Sanctions Amid Refugee Crisis

    BRUSSELS has been urged to threaten Turkey with sanctions during a row over refugees currently in Turkey heading across the border to the continent. Turkey hosts some 3.6 million refugees from Syria and has until now curbed migration to the bloc under a deal it agreed with Brussels in 2016 in return for billions of euros in aid.

    French opposition leader Marine Le Pen on Monday urged Brussels to threaten Recep Tayyip Erdogan with sanctions after the Turkish leader broke a 2016 pact under which the bloc promised to pay €6billion in return for Ankara stemming migration flows. European leaders “cannot be lenient towards [Mr Erdogan] … and must threaten him and implement sanctions [against Turkey] if necessary,” Mme Le Pen told RTL radio, before slamming Turkey’s “unacceptable” decision to open its borders to migrants travelling to Europe.

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    Merkel’s Globalist Coalition Opposes the Majority of the German People, Plans to Take in 1,500 “Unaccompanied Minors”

    Merkel’s globalist coalition has decided to take in 1,500 so-called “unaccompanied minors” and “refugee children”, despite the vast majority of Germans opposing the plan.

    Despite the people of Germany being overwhelmingly opposed to the plan, the German government still plans to move ahead with the plan and take in at least 1,500 “unaccompanied minors” and “refugee children”, regional daily newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung reports.

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    Turkey on Incoming Migrant Waves: European States Will Perish and Economies Will Crash

    Süleyman Soylu, Turkey’s Interior Minister, has claimed that mass migration across the Greek border will be able to drastically change Europe’s governments, economies, and bringing chaos which will cause Europe’s stock markets to crash.

    “The governments in Europe will change, their economies will deteriorate, their stock markets will collapse,” Süleyman Soylu said during an interview on the Tarafsiz Bölge program on CNN Türk last Saturday.

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    Turkey’s Islamist Regime Leader Says European Bloc Must Stop “Stringing it Along’ on Migrant Deal

    ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The European Union should stop “stringing Turkey along” over helping out with the millions of migrants on its territory, the country’s foreign minister said Tuesday, a day after the two sides agreed to review a 4-year-old deal aimed at stemming refugee flows to Europe.

    Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the EU must take “sincere” steps to help Turkey manage the flow of migrants, including finding ways to ensure Syrian refugees can return home.

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    Turkish Islamist Regime Leader Calls on Greece to Open Its Borders

    Turkey’s Islamist regime leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has called on Greece to open its borders to allow tens of thousands of migrants — most of whom are fighting-age men — to pass through the country and head to Europe’s northwestern welfare states.

    Erodgan, who convened with EU and NATO leaders in Brussels on Monday, communicated that he will demand “much more support” if he is to restrain the unrelenting westward flow of migrants trying to enter continental Europe illegally, The Telegraph reports.

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    Video: Greek Farmer on Tractor Uses Water Cannon to Repel Migrants

    Video out of Greece shows a farmer on a tractor using a water cannon to repel migrants who are trying to break through the border.

    Migrants are attempting to set fires under metal border fencing so they can weaken it.

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    Watch: EU-Funded Turkish Armoured Vehicle Rips Down Greek Border Fence

    The Greek government has released a night-vision video which they claim shows a Turkish armoured vehicle obtained through European Union funding trying to rip down border fencing and allow illegal migrants to penetrate the Greek border.

    A statement released along with the video said it was “depicting a Turkish armoured border surveillance vehicle which tries to pull down part of the border fence with a rope”, according to Greek newspaper Kathimerini and the Associated Press.

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    Chris Selley: Toronto’s Head Librarian Digs in Deeper in Her Defence of Free Speech

    There is no conflict between equity and inclusion and free speech, Vickery Bowles insisted: ‘They’re mutually reinforcing principles’

    The several hundred people who gathered outside a midtown Toronto library one night last October to tell controversial feminist Meghan Murphy what they thought of her, or to protest the library’s decision to rent a room to the group that invited her to speak — or both — had ample reason to suspect they had won the day.

    They certainly told Murphy what they thought of her; you could hear the din from inside the small basement auditorium where she said nothing at all inflammatory, shocking or hateful about the risks to women she perceives in allowing transgender people to “self-identify.” And the very next day, with just a single vote against, city council directed staff to re-examine the city’s room-booking policies and report back. From across the political spectrum — from councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam on the far left to nominally conservative Mayor John Tory — politicians spoke of holding public institutions to a “higher standard” than private ones. It displayed a perfect misunderstanding or wilful misrepresentation of how rights and freedoms, including freedom of speech, actually work: The Charter obligates public institutions, not private ones, to protect them. But it sounded good to a lot of people. City librarian Vickery Bowles, who defended the room booking for Murphy both on philosophical principle and as a legal obligation — as she did in 2017 when a bunch of literal neo-Nazis, including Paul Fromm, booked a room for a memorial service — had shockingly few public defenders…

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    Cultural Apathy and Atrophy Through Conformity

    The Government in our democracy can avoid the appearance of being heavy handed and dictatorial by letting the conformist, brainwashed, fear driven masses themselves enforce the latest far left “standards” of acceptable behavior upon any non-conformists, recalcitrant upstarts, or anyone thinking outside the box by using a form of indirect coercion on hapless victims via a nudging type of soft shaming, dirty looks, avoidance, or non-acceptance. This is a total totalitarianism where one is afraid to say certain things, but more importantly, is required or forced to say other things that they don’t agree with or believe. Shame is is used shamelessly as a control weapon by those who have no shame.

    Being obligated to deny what we believe in or know as fact, and assenting to what we don’t believe in is a form of ultimate tyranny, and there is no better way to deaden or destroy the human personality and the desire for personal growth. The result is that people become morbid, cynical, uncaring, and self-absorbed—and make lame excuses for not making a difference or fighting evil. Once people start saying things merely for social approval or for the sake of their careers, they lose their self-respect and probity. They become easy to manipulate and control.

    This is the purpose, essence, and methodology of political correctness, aka Cultural Communism. Truth becomes a moving target, yet conformity to whatever is truth or “in” at the moment is required. Real truth then loses all validity and value and is even scorned, which makes it easy for the elites to continuously and flawlessly exercise full powers over the masses without fear of engendering enough blowback to stir a mass uprising.

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    Federal Court Rules School District Was Right in Firing High School Coach for Silently Praying on 50-Yard Line After Football Games

    A federal court ruled last week that Washington state’s Bremerton School District’s firing of Coach Joe Kennedy for his silent prayer on the side line was acceptable.

    Coach Kennedy was fired in 2015 for silently kneeling after football games on the 50-yard line. According to Kennedy the school said, “You can choose between your faith and your job,” and then fired him after he continued to silently pray after games.

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    Middle School Hangs LGBT Flag in Cafeteria, Bans Flag of Traditional Family

    Marshall Middle School may face a federal lawsuit.

    A small town Minnesota school has become a center of controversy because of a LGBT pride flag hanging in its cafeteria. Following several weeks of parental and community concern, packed school board meetings, and student anxiety, Thomas More Society attorneys have requested an array of formal documents from school officials to investigate how policies may have been violated in this scenario.

    Marshall Middle School in Marshall, Minnesota, serves 679 students in grades 5 to 8. The rainbow pride flag, which is used to represent people who have chosen a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender lifestyle, hangs in the school’s cafeteria alongside the United States flag and a variety of international flags.

    A student-circulated petition opposing the LGBT flag and requests to display other flags offered by the school population were not welcomed by the administration.

    Thomas More Society Special Counsel Erick Kaardal, who has been retained to represent a group of Marshall residents, commented on the situation. “At the very least, it’s divisive and insensitive. It makes it appear that the school supports one group’s beliefs at the expense of others.” Kaardal added that when students expressed their concern to teachers and administrators over the lifestyle that the flag promotes, they were bullied.

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    Prof Who Said ‘Whiteness is Terrorism’ Doubles Down, Insists He’s ‘Right’

    Trinity College professor Johnny Eric Williams doubled down on his prior statement that “whiteness is terrorism” in a recent opinion editorial.

    As Campus Reform previously reported, Williams, a sociology professor, tweeted in April 2019, “whiteness is terrorism,” adding, “all self-identified white people (no exceptions) are invested in and collude with systematic white racism/white supremacy.”

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    UNAOC High Representative’s Remarks at the ‘Ring for Peace’ Ceremony — 10th World Assembly of Religions for Peace

    Ladies and Gentlemen,

    Good afternoon.

    I feel very privileged to be launching the sculpture “The Ring For Peace”, a symbolic artwork that sheds light on the theme that is gathering all of us here in Lindau, namely Peace between Religions. I thank Dr. William Vendley, Secretary-General of the Religions for Peace for inviting me. I also thank the Federal Government of Germany for co-organizing this important and timely meeting. Yesterday, I was very glad to meet with my good friend President Frank Walter Steinmeier. I echo what he said in his opening remarks that we should all work for peace and respect. I take the opportunity of this moment and invite you to commit to fulfill this recommendation “work for peace and respect”.

    I also commend Dr. Wolfgang Schurer, the inspiration behind this sculpture and artist Mr. Gisbert Baarmann for this extraordinary piece of art. Indeed, The Ring For Piece goes beyond its value as an artwork and stands as a connecting and unifying element, of all religions. In many world religions, the ring symbolizes loyalty, truthfulness and honesty. The Buddhist Wheel of Life, the signet ring of the Prophet Mohammed in Islam, the Ring of Solomon in Judaism.

    Afterall, all faiths are intertwined and interlinked together, complimenting each other and nurturing the same values that are also Universal values that unites us as One Humanity and Many cultures and many religions. That is the motto of UNAOC and its raison d’etre.

    [Comment: From Aug 2019, but UN end goals for religion are clear — a Brave New World.]

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  • 9 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/10/2020

    1. “Poland and the Czech Republic, on Monday, March 10th, have started to spot-check vehicles with passengers coming from Germany for symptoms of the coronavirus. The temperature of travelers will be measured without invasive contact.” Not just Germany, controls are all around the border.

    2. The doctor in Italy battling the Corona virus, who is apparently a surgeon, wrote the Facebook post, three days ago, that is quoted by one of the above articles. The post is a stark, first hand account of what is coming, and pleads for people to look after their elders. (Germany appears to be about 10 days behind Italy, so this city will probably be slammed with the virus within the next three weeks.)

      I sent in a link to a translation of the original Facebook post, a couple days ago, but it apparently got snagged by a spam filter:

      https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/ff8hns/testimony_of_a_surgeon_working_in_bergamo_in_the/

      • Grrrr. I should have read my words one more time.

        The original, Italian-language post is from five days ago (March 6th) and the English translation, cited above and quoted earlier, is from three days ago.

        So, my city likely has no more than a couple weeks of peace. Other than a few missing items in the shops, everything at the moment seems strangely normal. Meanwhile, Merkel & Associates are starting to plan (or making plans to plan?) for a big outbreak this Autumn and Winter.

    3. Joe, “I won’t take away you AR-14.”

      Well, when I was in the US Army we had M-14’s in basic training – that was 55 years ago. M 16’s were in short supply and largely went overseas at that time. I have an AR -15

      Joe never served his country, so he is in over his head on weaponry.

      He also has dementia and he is one evil, corrupt man. I pray he does not win the presidency.

    4. The Ring for Peace sculpture:
      “After all, all faiths are intertwined and interlinked together, complimenting each other and nurturing the same values.”
      No.
      “Islam has never been a religion of peace, not even for a day …has always been a religion of war and conflict” – al Baghdadi, PhD in Islam
      “No peace can be made between us and kafirs. This what our holy book says. This
      what Allah says” – Yusuf al Qaradawi
      “Islam is a religion of blood for the infidels …Cut them in pieces” – Ayatollah Khomeini

    5. In Moscow, law enforcement officers detained an 18-year-old guy who attacked a senior inspector at the Teply Stan metro station.

      A woman stopped a young man to check documents. A native of one of the countries of Central Asia (Uzbekistan, according to other media) pushed the controller, after which she fell and hit her head. A subway employee was seriously injured and was hospitalized. Now the woman is in a coma.
      https://ren.tv/news/x/671571-foto-bezbiletnik-razbil-golovu-kontroleru-v-moskovskom-metro-18

    6. The head of the International Islamic Mission criticized the “participation” of the pig Nyusha in the census

      https://alfaday.net/uploads/posts/2013-04/1365064669_oihybbumpsceaxj.jpg

      Chairman of the International Islamic Mission Shafig Pshikhachev took part in a meeting of the Commission on the harmonization of interethnic and interreligious relations under the President of the Russian Federation.
       At a meeting held on February 10, the issue of interaction between the authorities and religious organizations on the eve of the All-Russian population census was examined. During the event, a Muslim public figure opposed the image of the pig Nyusha from the animated series “Smeshariki” as the main propagandist for the census, according to the telegram channel “Religion Today”. The report said that the opinion of the Jews, who also consider the pig an unclean animal, was not voiced on this issue.

      https://islamnews.ru/news-glava-mezhdunarodnoy-islamskoy-missii-raskritikoval-uchastie-svinki-nyushi-v-perepisi-naseleniya

    7. Experts know more than you. You must listen to experts and let them influence in how you live your life, day to day.

      Experts like Al Gore, Michael Moore, Greta Thunberg, Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson Chicken Whatever, Rachel Madcow.

      I’m done with experts.

      Not sure what this was in response to, but it feels necessary. Something I read telling me what to think and do.

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