France and Israel have ordered shops, restaurants, and entertainment facilities to close in an effort to curtail the spread of the Wuhan Coronavirus. Meanwhile, Virginia Governor Ralph “Coonman” Northam announced the state’s first death from the disease. Also, the wife of the Spanish prime minister has tested positive for the coronavirus, but Donald Trump has tested negative, much to the chagrin of Democrats.
In other news, Greek authorities have deployed large fans at the border with Turkey to blow tear gas back on the mob of migrants attempting to breach the fence.
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Coronavirus Crisis: The Virus Will Bankrupt More People Than it Kills
The real crisis of the coronavirus is that it’s going to bankrupt more people than it kills, especially in the United States. Household debt has skyrocketed in the years following the Great Recession, putting many at risk for a financial disaster.
Businesses are shutting doors and closing shop to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But this in itself is a disaster for many who live paycheck to paycheck, which is almost 80% of Americans. Not to mention household debt in the U.S. reached a record of $14 trillion in February during the coronavirus’ spread around the globe.
COVID-19’s economic danger is exponentially greater than its health risks to the public. If the virus does directly affect your life, it is most likely to be through stopping you from going to work, forcing your employer to make you redundant, or bankrupting your business. According to the Independent, that’ s the main concern.
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Bernie Bros Warn of ‘Massive Exodus’ If Democrats Nominate Joe Biden
The Bernie Bros are vowing revenge.
As the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders continues to crash and burn, the socialist’s most hard-core supporters are vowing they will never vote for Joe Biden at the ballot box — even if that means handing Trump a second term.
“We will never — NEVER boost or support Joe Biden or defend his abysmal record and terrible policy positions,” Henry Williams, executive director of The Gravel Institute, told The Post. “We will tell people, as we always have, to vote their conscience and to make decisions based on the interests of all the world’s oppressed people… I do expect a massive exodus from the Democratic Party.”
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Biden’s First Virtual Town Hall Riddled With Technical Glitches
Every Joe Biden thing he could do, he did. The presumptive Democratic nominee made a mess of a virtual town hall Friday night, asking if he was live on air and eventually wandering off camera.
The former Veep flopped in his first attempt to campaign via a virtual town hall Friday night — a byproduct of the age of coronavirus — with a video feed plagued with glitches and a candidate who seemed unfamiliar with the demands of online chat.
“Am I live?” the former vice president asked as an Illinois voter tried to ask him a question.
“Am I on camera?” he asked later — shortly before wandering out of range and off viewers’ screens.
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Dead Sea Scroll Fragments at Museum of the Bible Revealed to be Forgeries
The Dead Sea Scrolls on display at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. have been confirmed as fake, according to investigators.
Of the museum’s 16 fragments, which were purchased during a time when many counterfeit artifacts entered the market after 2002, five of them were examined and confirmed fake by Art Fraud Insights in October 2018.
In February 2019, the museum hired investigators to thoroughly inspect the remaining 11 scroll fragments.
After six months of imaging, analysis and examination, the investigators determined that the Dead Sea Scrolls were “deliberate forgeries.”
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Georgia Postpones Presidential Primary Over Coronavirus Pandemic
Elections officials in Georgia have pushed back the state’s presidential primary by nearly two months out of concern over the coronavirus pandemic. The state’s primary will now be held on May 19 rather than March 24.
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Google Funded Tech Chief Resigns After Wishing for Trump to Die From Coronavirus
The head of a Google funded tech think tank has been forced to resign after he tweeted that it would be “poetic justice” to see President Trump contract the coronavirus and die.
TechFreedom head Berin Szóka announced Friday that he is going on an “indefinite sabbatical” to write a book, according to Politico.
The move comes after Szóka received huge backlash for a tweet on Monday, which he has since deleted, fantasising about Trump’s death from coronavirus.
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Man Found in Hotel Room With Andrew Gillum Reportedly a Gay Escort
A man found with former Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum in a South Beach, Florida hotel room Friday morning is reportedly a gay male escort.
Travis Dyson, reported at first to be a friend of Gillum’s, was found and treated for a crystal meth overdose after police were called by a third person, Aldo Mejias, because Dyson was having trouble breathing. Gillum, also in the room, was discovered by police to be “under the influence of an unknown substance.” He had been vomiting and couldn’t speak to police “due to his inebriated state,” the report read.
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Massachusetts Coronavirus Cases Up to 123, Most Tied to Biogen
The total number of coronavirus cases in Massachusetts has risen to 123, public health officials said Friday, up 15 from Thursday.
The announcement from the Department of Public Health came hours after Gov. Charlie Baker banned gatherings of more than 250 people and minutes after President Donald Trump announced he is declaring a national emergency.
Massachusetts is one of the states with the most coronavirus cases in the country so far. While no one has died from the virus locally, 41 people have died nationwide as of Friday.
Schools across the state are canceling classes or moving to online-only education, more than 1,000 people have been put in quarantine in the state and companies are sending workers home to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
The majority of the 123 cases are related to an employee meeting held at a Boston hotel by the Cambridge biotech firm Biogen last month.
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Mayor in Illinois Adds Ban of Firearms and Ammunition to Coronavirus Emergency Executive Order
The mayor of Champaign, Illinois has issued an executive order in response to the coronavirus that could potentially ban the sale of firearms and ammunition, Edgar County Watchdogs reported.
Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen’s declaration of emergency came on Friday and is related to the coronavirus, which has caused many states to declare emergencies as the virus continues to spread. The mayor’s executive order gives Frank Feinen “extraordinary powers,” including the ban of the sale of firearms and ammunition, among others restrictions including a ban on the sale of alcohol, and the sale or giving away of gasoline or other liquid flammable or combustible products, according to Edgar County Watchdogs, a local government accountability nonprofit.
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Seller Blocked by Amazon Seemingly Can’t Unload His 17,000 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer
A Tennessee man who amassed a collection of over 17,000 bottles of hand sanitizer and a variety of other sanitary supplies, such as face masks and anti-bacterial wipes, has been speaking about how he hasn’t been able to sell them since his products were delisted from the Amazon marketplace.
According to The New York Times, Matt Colvin teamed up with his brother to collect and sell pandemic supplies earlier this month, after the United States reported the first death from coronavirus.
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The Important Differences and Similarities Between COVID-19 and the Flu
The coronavirus is not “exactly like the flu” although both have similar symptoms. But the differences are important, as are the similarities.
Some of the symptoms of both the seasonal flu and the coronavirus are aches and pains, sore throat, and a fever. These can also be symptoms of the common cold. They all may feel similar to those suffering from their symptoms, but it’s important to note that the novel coronavirus is not the same as the seasonal flu, experts stressed Wednesday.
COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, proves deadly in around 3.5 percent of confirmed cases. While this is not the same as its mortality rate, given many people may be infected but not realize it, it is significantly higher than seasonal flu, which typically kills 0.1 percent of patients. “There is still considerable uncertainty around the fatality rates of COVID-19 and it likely varies depending on the quality of local healthcare,” said Francois Balloux, Professor of Computational Systems Biology at University College London according to Science Alert. “That said, it is around two percent on average, which is about 20 times higher than for the seasonal flu lineages currently in circulation.”
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Trump Tests Negative for Coronavirus
President Trump tested negative for the coronavirus, the White House announced Saturday evening.
Sean Conley, the physician to the president, said in a memo, “This evening I received confirmation that the test is negative.” The information was released with Trump’s permission, Conley said.
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Video: Man Claims 5G Transmitter Killing His Tree
Half the tree is totally dead while the half further from the device remains normal.
“We have a tree here. Not a very good looking tree. All the bark’s falling off on the left-hand side,” the man filming says.
Viewers can see all the tree’s bark on the left side has fallen off while the right side remains intact.
Next, the cameraman shows the right side of the tree full of leaves and compares it to the left side which is totally barren.
“Dead,” the man states. “You know why? Because that’s right next to it,” he adds, pointing the camera to what is said to be a 5G transmitter.
“These 5G transmitters are lethal,” he claims. “If that’s what it’s doing to a tree, think about what these are doing to our health.”
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Virginia Governor Announces State’s First Death From Coronavirus
Gov. Ralph Northam on Saturday announced Virginia’s first death from the coronavirus.
“Pam and I were deeply saddened to learn that a Virginian has died from COVID-19, and we grieve for everyone this virus has touched around the world.” Northam said in a statement.
The patient was a male in his 70s who acquired the virus from an unknown source, according to the Virginia Department of Public Health. The cause of death was respiratory failure.
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White House Adds United Kingdom to Expanded Coronavirus Travel Restrictions
Vice President Mike Pence announced during Saturday’s coronavirus press briefing that the United Kingdom has been added to the White House’s coronavirus travel restriction list.
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday night that the U.S. would ban all travel for foreign nationals who had recently visited Europe but kept the U.K. off that list. Politico accused the White House of exempting the U.K. in order to protect business at the three Trump-owned golf resorts in Scotland and Ireland.
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Passengers Returning to Canada From Italy Not Screened for COVID-19
Passengers returning on the last Air Canada flight from Rome say that they were not screened for COVID-19 upon arriving in Canada.
According to a CityNews report, the travellers were not asked any questions about potential symptoms at Montreal’s Trudeau Airport but instead were handed a sheet of paper with information on the coronavirus.
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Brown Paper Envelope: Ex-PM Gordon Brown ‘Let Rape Gangs Roam Free in Return for Saudi Oil Money’
FORMER Labour boss Gordon Brown allegedly let Muslim rape gangs roam free in Britain in an alleged deal with the Saudis, Politicalite can exclusively reveal.
A City of London finance source exclusively claimed to Politicalite that during Gordon Brown’s short tenure as Prime Minister he borrowed money from the Saudis — but the deal had BIG strings attached.
He urged the dollar-rich Gulf states to prop up ailing national economies through a massive injection of capital into the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and also asked for cash for Britain.
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Coronavirus — Orban: Hungary’s Schools Closed From Monday
Hungary’s schools will stay closed from Monday in view of efforts against the spread of the new coronavirus, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a video announcement published on Facebook on Friday night.
From March 16 on, schools will continue education through digital channels, and no personal presence at the school will be required, Orban said. New methodologies will be introduced, proposals for which will be announced by the state secretary for education next week.
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Coronavirus: Two Iranian Students Expelled From Hungary
Two Iranian university students have been expelled from Hungary for leaving a hospital where they were ordered to stay in quarantine due to coronavirus, the interior ministry said on Friday.
The two men had repeatedly left their room in St. Laszló Hospital and would refuse to return when they were warned, the statement said, adding that they had behaved aggressively with staff at the hospital.
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Denmark Closes All Borders to Fight Virus
(AP) Denmark is closing all its borders to travelers in a bid to tackle the spread of the new coronavirus.
The Danish government said late Friday that the country will close its borders — land, sea and air — at midday on Saturday until April 13. All passenger traffic to and from Denmark will be stopped.
Travelers will be turned away at the border unless they can show that they have “a legitimate reason” to be there, such as that they are Danish citizens or foreign nationals living and working in the country.
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EU Must Avoid Virus ‘Nationalism’, Macron Says
EU states should keep borders open where possible and not give in to coronavirus “nationalism” French president Emmanuel Macron has said.
“If one principle should guide our actions … it’s confidence in science,” Macron said in a TV address from the Élysée palace on Thursday (12 March).
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Europe Now Center of Coronavirus Pandemic, Death Toll Passes 5,000 — W.H.O. Chief
More cases now being reported every day in Europe than were reported in China at height of its epidemic.
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France: Teargas, Clashes in Paris as Yellow Vests’ Protesters Defy Coronavirus Ban
PARIS (Reuters) — French security forces fired teargas and clashed with anti-government “Yellow Vest” protesters who were demonstrating in Paris on Saturday in defiance of a ban on mass gatherings that aims to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
In a televised address to the nation on Thursday, President Emmanuel Macron announced school closures and urged people to avoid close contact for fear of propagating the virus that has killed 79 people in France and infected more than 3,600.
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France to Close Shops, Restaurants to Fight Coronavirus
PARIS (Reuters) — France will shut most shops, restaurants and entertainment facilities from midnight on Saturday as part of measures to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said.
He was speaking at a news conference after the public health authority said 91 people had died in France and almost 4,500 were now infected.
Philippe said the government had been left with no choice but to take the decision because too many people were still out in the streets and not sufficiently applying measures that were recently announced. That, he said, was helping accelerate the spread of the virus.
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Italy: Coronavirus Caused Blood Deficit at Start of March
Made up by using reserves, postponing surgeries
(ANSA) — Rome, March 13 — Between March 2-8, before the government’s current restrictive coronavirus measures were put into place, 2,000 fewer bags of blood were collected compared to what was used, about 10% less than what is needed, Giancarlo Liumbruno, director of the Italian National Blood Centre, told ANSA on Friday. He said he deficit was made up by using reserves and a reduction in surgeries.
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Italy Hit With $8.5m Fine, Growing Daily, For Ignoring Judgment
LUXEMBOURG (CN) — Just over 48 hours into a nationwide lockdown to contain a coronavirus spread, Italy was slapped with an $8.5 million fine Thursday over tourism-boosting grants that the EU’s top court ruled illegal.
The dispute dates back to 1998 when Sardinia, an island off Italy’s southern coast, was seeing a drop-off in the number of domestic visitors as flights to other European destinations had become cheaper.
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Pornhub Offers Italians Free Premium Service During Coronavirus Quarantine
ROME — The online pornography giant Pornhub has offered Italians free access to its premium service during the coronavirus crisis, just as the Catholic Church has cancelled all Masses and limited access to confession and other sacraments.
Pornhub is taking advantage of a state-imposed quarantine that obliges all citizens to stay at home unless they have a demonstrable need to leave their premises. According to government decree, the only four motives that justify being out and about are health reasons, demonstrable work requirements in an sector of public well-being, return to one’s residence, or situations of exceptional need.
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Scotland: Climate Crazies Plan ‘Public Suicides’ At Next UN Climate Summit
Extinction Rebellion leaders are considering a series of ‘extreme’ protests to disrupt this year’s UN climate change summit in Glasgow — including a possible hunger strike that ends in death or a demonstrator publicly committing suicide.
The activists are also proposing to spray traffic lights black, close motorways and road tunnels and carry out ‘industrial sabotage’, according to insider documents obtained by The Scottish Mail on Sunday.
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Spanish PM’s Wife Has Tested Positive for Coronavirus: PM’s Offfice
MADRID (Reuters) — Begona Gomez, the wife of Spanish Prime minister Pedro Sanchez, has tested positive for coronavirus, the prime minister’s office said, adding that both were doing fine.
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Sweden to Stop Publishing Coronavirus Numbers, Deems Them ‘Not Important’
The Swedish Public Health Authority has decided to adopt a new strategy in regard to the coronavirus outbreak, stating it will no longer be updating exact numbers of infections.
[Comment: So people don’t stop, think and say “stop the mass migration.” ]
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Sweden: Public Health Authority Will No Longer Report Number of COVID-19 Cases
Sweden’s Public Health Authority has developed a novel way of combating the COVID-19 epidemic: by not reporting the number of cases.
A representative of the Authority said that instead of reporting the number of known infections, they would identify those regions that are most badly hit by the virus, according to a report in Sweden’s Aftonbladet. “We will no longer say that we have 458 or 562 cases,” Anders Tegnell said. “Instead, we will talk about which areas of Sweden are being affected, and how badly.”
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This Week in the UK — Truth is Still Being Crucified
This week it has also been reported that the UK’s Human Rights watchdog is under pressure to investigate our Conservative party with accusations of Islamophobia.
In an initial document submitted in May 2019 in which 150 people connected to the party were accused of anti-Islam remarks, a new document now accusing 300 individuals, including Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has been presented to the Equality and Human Rights Commission by the Muslim Council of Britain.
From the 300 allegations, just three of them are as follows:
Dominic Cummings, Chief Advisor, for orchestrating the Vote Leave campaign and playing on fears of immigration. Karl McCartney, re-tweeting posts by the alleged anti-Islam activist, Tommy Robinson Andrew Sabisky, who was forced to stand down as an advisor after using a discredited statistic forecasting the UK to be a majority Islamic nation by 2050. [Link], [Link]
The allegations made against Boris Johnson were that he used dehumanizing and offensive remarks against Muslim women who wear a veil likening them to ‘bank robbers’ and ‘letterboxes’.
I imagine he might thinks nuns look like penguins as well.
Were any of the above people exercising their right to freedom of speech or were they inciting hatred?
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UK Delinquents Use Instagram to Taunt Police
A group of young criminals from the North Hull residential area in the UK has been recording and posting crimes on Instagram that include bike theft, reckless driving, destruction of stolen property, and carrying firearms.
The gang’s intentions to use Instagram is obvious: to provoke the police.
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UK: Farage on Coronavirus: ‘We Are All Nationalists Now’, Boris ‘Negligent’
Nigel Farage has said that the actions of governments across Europe over coronavirus “show the concept of solidarity, so championed by the EU and their globalist friends, now counts for nothing. We are all nationalists now.”
President Donald Trump’s recent decision to bar entry from Europe’s borderless Schengen Area shows that he is prioritising Americans’ health concerns over the economy.
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UK: Lancet Editor-in-Chief: Boris Coronavirus Strategy ‘A Grave Error’
The editor-in-chief of The Lancet has labelled Boris Johnson’s coronavirus strategy “a grave error” and published an open letter asking for the models informing his policy to be made publicly available, along with a number of other prominent medical figures.
Besides delaying local and mayor elections scheduled for this year until 2021, Johnson’s government had implemented few policies to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus as of March 13th, instead simply advising citizens to regularly wash their hands.
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UK: Police Given Powers to Arrest Coronavirus Victims in Emergency Plans to Fight Deadly Bug
All new powers will be unveiled Monday by No 10 as Boris reveals the next steps in his coronavirus game plan.
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UK’s Coronavirus Death Toll Doubles in 24 Hours
The number of deaths from coronavirus in the United Kingdom doubled between Friday and Saturday as the number of cases rose by the hundreds overnight.
Between Friday and Saturday, the U.K. suffered 10 coronavirus deaths, raising the nation’s death toll to 21, the Guardian reports. All of the 10 most recent victims had underlying health problems.
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‘Woke’ Scandinavian Airline Faces Existential Threat Due to Coronavirus
“Woke” Scandinavian airline SAS may not survive without help as coronavirus fears have led to its stock price crumbling.
The airline saw a major blow to its stock price on Thursday morning, opening down 11 per cent following the announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump that the United States would be banning all travel from European Schengen Area countries for a month.
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Israel Closing Cafes, Restaurants and Movie Theaters Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
Israel announced late Saturday that it would be shutting down all cafes, restaurants and movie theaters as the Israeli government tries to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
“We must do everything, as a government and as citizens, to not become infected and not to infect,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at press conference, The Jerusalem Post reported.
Netanyahu said grocery stores, pharmacies and gas stations would remain open but that all leisure activities are banned starting Sunday.
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The woman was filmed running across a busy road in a Canggu shopping strip while her friend recorded it.
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Seven Muslims Arrested for Constable Ratan Lal’s Murder in Delhi Riot
SIT arrests 7 Jihadi miscreants in connection with Hindu head constable Ratan Lal’s murder during Delhi riots.
OpIndia Reports | New Delhi | March 12, 2020:: According to the latest reports, the Special Investigation Teams (SIT) has arrested seven people (all Quran followers) in connection with the murder of Delhi Police Head Constable Ratan Lal during the recent Delhi Riots. As per a report by India TV, the names of the suspects are Salim Malik, Mohammad Jalauddin, Mohammad Yunus, Mohammad Ayub, Arif, Danish and Mohammad Salim Khan.
As per the report, of the seven, six are residents of Chand Bagh area which is right across Yamuna Vihar where HC Ratan Lal was murdered. This punches hole in the theory that the rioting mob had come from outside of Delhi. Earlier in the day, the Delhi Police in a press briefing informed that till now 712 FIRs have been registered and over 200 accused have been arrested. The police further informed that technology such as face recognition software is being used to identify people.
Delhi police have been in a relentless pursuit to arrest the violent rioters who ran amok, engaging in arson, stone-pelting and vandalism, injuring innumerable civilians and police personnel in the ensuing mayhem…
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Chinese Property Tycoon ‘Disappears’ After Criticizing Xi Jinping’s Coronavirus Response: Report
A Chinese property tycoon is missing after criticizing Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak that originated in the country in December, the New York Times reported Saturday.
Ren Zhiqiang, known as “The Cannon,” in the past has been one of the most prominent critics of Xi. Saturday morning his friends reported him missing, according to the Times.
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Coronavirus Cases:
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view by country
Deaths:
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Japan PM Says No Need to Declare Emergency Due to Coronavirus
TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan’s coronavirus outbreak is not at a stage that requires the government to declare an emergency, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Saturday.
Abe, who made the comment at a news conference in Tokyo, also said that experts have concluded that Japan has not seen an explosive rise in coronavirus cases.
The number of coronavirus cases in Japan has risen to 1,423 as of Saturday, said public broadcaster NHK. The total of 1,423 infections includes 697 from the Diamond Princess cruise ship and 14 returnees on charter flights from China, according to NHK data.
Japan has now recorded 28 deaths from the virus, including seven from the cruise ship, NHK said.
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The couple had recently returned from France and had decided to shut themselves up at home in Salisbury East, in Adelaide’s north, despite having no symptoms.
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Two women in Londerzeel, Flemish Brabant on Wednesday were victimized to a gang of aggressive immigrant youths.
One of the victims filed a complaint with authorities are after a dozen or so immigrant ‘youths’ attacked and humiliated her and another woman, kicking them several times and calling them “dirty smelly white people”, Het Laatste Nieuws reports.
The two victims say that the same group of immigrants was also part of a massive brawl at the end of January.
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EU Open Borders Collapsing — 10 Countries Closing Borders
The open borders project appears to be collapsing as more and more countries are closing their borders due to the corona virus pandemic.
UPDATE: Lithuania has announced they are also closing their borders to foreigners. Citizens will also not be allowed to leave the country.
UPDATE 2: Estonia have now also announced they are closing their borders to foreigners from the 17th of March. Estonian citizens, Estonian “grey passport” holders, residents and people whose family are residents will be allowed to enter the country.
Ten European countries have closed, or will soon close their borders either fully or partially.
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EU to Offer Illegal Migrants on Greek Islands Over $2,200 to Return Home
Massive transfer of wealth from Europeans to illegal aliens
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European Union: Closing the Borders?
On February 27, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made good on his many threats to send millions of migrants and refugees to Europe, despite a 2016 deal between Europe and Turkey to hold them. Apparently seeking to make Europe experience the full force of his intentions, Turkish officials sent busloads of migrants — predominantly young men from Afghanistan and Iran, according to several reports — to Turkey’s border with Greece.
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First Case of Coronavirus Hits Lesbos as Greeks Fear Virus May Spread in Migrant Camps
The Greek island of Lesbos, which hosts 20,000 migrants in the Moria refugee camp, has confirmed its first case of coronavirus, raising fears that the virus could spread among migrants living in poor sanitary conditions.
The island, one of the top destinations for migrants attempting to reach Europe by boat, sees more migrants landing on its shores nearly every day.
Over the past week, the security conditions at the Moria camp have deteriorated to such an extent that many NGOs withdrew from the camp.
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Greece: Prime Minister Praises International Effort to Secure the “Shield of Europe”
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has dubbed the Aegean sea and the Evros River the “shield of Europe,” referring to the ongoing battle against migrants from Turkey there.
Tens of thousands of migrants have been attempting to enter Greece over the past two weeks since Turkish President Recep Erdogan announced that Turkey would allow them to cross their territory and attempt to enter Europe at the end of February. Greek security forces have been battling the migrants daily ever since.
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Greece Deploys Large Fans to Blow Back Migrant Tear Gas Attacks
Greek authorities have deployed large fans at the Turkish border to blow back against tear gas and other chemicals fired at the Greek border by migrants allegedly armed by Turkey.
The large fans were attached to the back of pickup trucks and placed along the border area where Greek authorities have come under repeated attack in recent days by migrants armed with tear gas and with Molotov cocktails.
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European Human Rights Court Rules Against Christian Midwives Who Will Not Abort Babies
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has dismissed the case of two Christian midwives who were denied jobs in Sweden for refusing to perform abortions, ruling that the violation of the women’s consciences was “justified”.
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‘Media Bias/Fact Check’ Site Served With Cease and Desist, Gets Fact-Checked
CCD Editor’s note: Our site has also come under attack by this dubious website, which forced me to correct them on our About Us page. I’m delighted that someone is finally taking them on in the courts.
Discredited, self-styled ‘fact-checker’ website was served with a ‘cease and desist’ legal notice today for publishing unsubstantiated and defamatory claims against Principia Scientific International (PSI).
MEDIA BIAS/FACT CHECK site owner admits he is unqualified and misrepresented himself as a seasoned journalist.
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UK’s Home Office Declares That Calling Someone Ugly is a Hate Crime
The United Kingdom’s Home Office published a tweet yesterday which says that insulting someone’s appearance is a hate crime.
The tweet was accompanied by a video from the charity Changing Faces showing men and women with disfigured faces speaking insults that might be directed at people such as themselves. One woman, however, appears to have no disfigurement other than being bald. The video ends with a call for viewers to join the organization in their fight to “stop the hate.”
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“The wife of the Spanish prime minister has tested positive for corona(wuhan)virus” the one time in a man’s life he probably would have preferred to have been sleeping on the couch. Adios, Spanish PM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITWSY2SpE-k
Stefan Molyneux Coronavirus
I wrote that they are shamelessly lying!
They call coronavirus – “community-acquired pneumonia”
Rosstat recorded an increase in the incidence of pneumonia in Moscow
The number of patients with pneumonia in the capital increased in January by 37% compared with January 2019, follows from the data that Rospotrebnadzor provided to Rosstat.
https://www.rbc.ru/society/13/03/2020/5e62695e9a794761618f1a7b
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“You can still call bo-bo cough.” People found out what replaced coronavirus in Moscow, and it’s funny and awkward
https://medialeaks.ru/1303lug-sobyanin-kashel/
Social network users read Sergei Sobyanin’s message about new hospital places and were surprised: it seems that officials are going to treat people not at all from the coronavirus. Of course, the mayor did not confuse anything, but bloggers and their subscribers cannot be stopped. Now they are joking about what else a new type of virus might be called.
… But the choice of words of a politician turned out to be a little unexpected. A few tweets earlier, Sobyanin mentioned that it was a coronavirus, but in his announcement of hospital places he replaced the name COVID-19 with “community-acquired pneumonia”.
… The fact is that people are no longer accustomed to the fact that officials and state-run media replace some words with their synonyms with less pronounced emotional coloring. So, the word “explosion” is most often replaced by the word “cotton”, and “fire” – by “smoke”. This is part of the so-called “information preference regime”, the goal of which is not to sow panic.
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I think – all this silence was paid by the Pension Fund of Russia – they dream of stopping paying old people pensions.
Here the relics of John were brought to Pereburg the other day – a crowd of old women is standing in line and kissing them according to the Orthodox tradition.
These are also tricks of the Pension Fund – I think so.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ES–ILfXYAAQhJD?format=jpg&name=large
Dynamics of the number of patients diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia
Russian sources?? not worthy to visit..untrusted ..
No surprises here. Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet is another ‘Woke’ ‘Activist’ and well known Trot who, despite his impressive medical qualifications, chooses not to see the epidemiological wood from his ideological trees.
Quote, for example: “Recently, Richard Horton has been criticised in web-based communications for the decision to publish an open letter regarding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The letter generated charges of inaccuracy, malicious intent, and inappropriate content for publication in a medical journal.”
He’s another damned globalist disinformation peddler of absolutely no use and with nothing to contribute to the crisis.
Ignore him.
Kind of response that is needed for merkills and the deadly flying mustlie bearded pathogens. Some key Chinese might be turned on to something. No wait…..Bunch of ex-colonials half spring and public school boys running the UK right now. Easily imagine what Churchill would not hesitate to do.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/10/covid-19-gets-bad-are-we-prepared-for-triage/
If Covid-19 gets bad, triage will be needed. Are we ready for that?
“Definition of a parasite is someone who goes through a revolving door on someone else’s push”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AroUxV1CE4s
In the Soviet Union, the crowd in the store were smaller
Bulgarian migrant hunter: I catch them, tie my hands and throw them back to Turkey
Our special correspondent Daria Aslamova talks about how the Bulgarians living on the border are trying on their own to stop the new flow of refugees rushing to the EU
“Evil Dinko”
Bulgarians proudly say about Dinko: “He alone did what the whole European Union could not. He cleaned the border of Bulgaria from migrants. ”
“I started clearing the border four years ago,” Dinko says. – And now I have five armored personnel carriers, a helicopter, drones, and on alert I can raise one and a half thousand people living along the border. There is also a quick response team.
– And where did you get the APCs? I ask.
“I bought it from the army, through one right person,” he answers. – 25 thousand euros apiece.
– And how many migrants have you caught over the years?
– About a thousand people.
“It’s not about the numbers,” one of Dinko’s friends explains. – The main thing in this business is PR, advertising. Migrants know that the evil Dinko lives on the Bulgarian border, and it’s better not to fall into his hands. Therefore, they turn towards Greece.
“Dinko, do you beat them?” I ask.
“Beat,” he simply answers. – Strongly. I bind their hands and lay them facing the ground so that they remember: this is not necessary. And then I throw it back to Turkey. I have people everywhere, even from the Turkish side, who tell us when they see a group of migrants approaching.
“Is it true that you bind their hands with pig’s intestines?”
“On even days, I associate; on odd days, I do not associate,” Dinko laughs. – We’ll see how it goes!
https://www.spb.kp.ru/daily/27104.5/4178408/
re Gordon Brown (item above):
BORROW-MORE BROWN
Gordon Turn-a-Blind-Eye Borrow-More Brown
Skilfully drove the economy down.
Gordon Call-Her-Bigoted arrogant Brown
Couldn`t take a question without a frown.
Gordon Eat-the-Seedcorn Chancellor Brown
Sold all the gold: in debt we drown.
Gordon Move-The-Goalposts Brownshirt Brown
For boosting of your voter base, award yourself a crown..
Gordon Rub-Their-Noses-In-Diversity Brown
Has so enriched the culture of our local town.
Gordon Multi-Cultural Disaster-Maker Brown
Sucking up at Iftar you made yourself a clown.
What of immigration, then, Gruppenfuhrer Brown ?
“Open up the Floodgates! Let the Brits drown!”
Culture-Killing Class-Betraying Mega Bully Brown,
Look at how your handiwork has dragged us down.
Author’s footnote:
In many cases above “Brown” includes “Blair”,
I remember that Brits called Brown a nose picker. He was constantly putting his finger up his nose.