Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/2/2020

The state of Washington is now reporting six deaths from the Wuhan Coronavirus, out of eighteen confirmed cases. Meanwhile, Czechia has reported its first cases of the disease. Also, the New York Stock Exchange made a strong recovery after last week’s coronavirus-related selloff.

In other news, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees said that Greece has no right to refuse new applications for asylum.

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Thanks to Fjordman, JD, Reader from Chicago, RR, SS, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Dow Roars Back From Coronavirus Sell-Off With Biggest Gain Since 2009, Surges 5.1%
» Star Economist Roubini on the Economic Effects of Coronavirus “This Crisis Will Spill Over and Result in a Disaster”
 
USA
» Biden Tries to Quote Declaration of Independence, Forgets Words
» Billionaire Republican Buys Major Twitter Stake, Plans to Oust CEO Jack Dorsey
» Breaking: Federal Judge Orders Hillary Clinton Deposition Over Private Emails; ‘Still More to Learn’
» Breaking: Chris Matthews Resigns From MSNBC
» Chris Steele’s Firm Orbis Business Intelligence Used Three Deep State Actors to Claim Its Junk Dossier Was Legit — One Was Reportedly Paid $4 Million to Do So
» Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 Are Starting to Pop Up Literally All Across the United States
» Covington Catholic Student Suing 5 More News Outlets, Including NYT, CBS, ABC
» Dr Drew Slams Media Over Coronavirus Doom-Mongering
» Federal Funds Used to Research “Online Hate Speech” With the Goal of Training Hate Speech Algorithms
» ‘First Class Commie’ Sanders Boards Wrong Private Jet and Used 3 to Travel to Campaign Event
» Jefferson’s Hometown Snubs Founding Father to Honour Slaves
» Journalist Who Defended Katie Hill Failed to Disclose He Dated Her
» Klobuchar Rally in Minnesota Canceled Amid Protests
» Klobuchar Drops Out of Presidential Race, To Endorse Biden
» LA District Attorney’s Husband Threatened to Shoot Black Lives Matter Protesters Who Showed Up at His Home
» Media, Democrats Spread Fake News That Trump Called Coronavirus ‘A Hoax’
» Missouri Farmer Wins $265 Million Verdict Against Monsanto
» New York City’s First Coronavirus Patient is a Health Care Worker, Says Cuomo
» O’Keefe Puts Big Tech on Notice
» Politicians Say and Do the Darnedest Things
» Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case on Whether ObamaCare is Unconstitutional
» Trump Crouches Behind Podium to Mock Bloomberg’s Height
» Trump Reviews Mexican Restaurant After Leftists Attacked Owner for Support
» UC Santa Cruz Fires 54 Graduate Student Workers Striking for Higher Pay
» Video: L.A. Man Claims City Preventing Him From Removing Homeless Camped on His Property
» Virginia Democrat Admits He Retaliated Against Sheriffs Over Their Support for Second Amendment
» Washington State Announces Six Dead From Coronavirus. What Does That Mean for the Number of Total Infections There?
 
Canada
» Coronavirus: Three New Cases in Ontario, 19 Cases Now Confirmed in the Province
» Media Darling Trudeau Sees Popularity Plummet Among Canadians
 
Europe and the EU
» Czech Republic Reports First Cases of Coronavirus
» Dutch Terror Trial Starting for Deadly Utrecht Tram Shooting
» Finland Ends Rape by Telling Women; Just Say No!
» Germany: Watch: Merkel Refused Handshake Amid Coronavirus Fears
» Historian: Vatican Archives Will Debunk ‘Fake News’ Of Pius XII’s Supposed Silence
» Italy Coronavirus Deaths Jump to 52, Cases Climb Above 2,000
» Johnson Says U.S. Trade Deal Will Result in £3.4bn Boost to UK Economy
» Report: ‘Vatican Declares War’ On Cardinal Joseph Zen
» Scotland Says 250,000 Could be Hospitalised if Coronavirus Spreads
» Scotland: Teen in Serious Condition After Gang of ‘Asian Boys’ Stamp Head in Street
» Sensing the Mood Music in Westminster, EU Wargames Brexit No-Deal Preparations
» UK: Senior Tory Says Coronavirus Reveals Fragility of Globalisation, Global Economy
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Netanyahu’s Party on Course to Win Election: Exit Polls
 
Middle East
» Adviser to Ayatollah Khamenei Becomes First Senior Iranian Official to Die From Coronavirus
» Alarming Videos Show Iranians Licking Holy Shrines in Religious Tradition as Country’s Clerical Hardliners Refuse to Close Sites Despite Coronavirus Outbreak
» Coronavirus Kills Top Iranian Official, State Media Reports
» Kuwaitis Returning From Iran Refuse Quarantine — Went Home Directly
 
South Asia
» An Insider and Inciter of Delhi Riots in UK House of Lords! Hindus Must Boycott Him.
» Ruling Party in Indian State Maharashtra Denies Muslim Reservation
 
Far East
» China Cracks Down on Religion Even Harder
» Chinese Reds Set a Trap for Trump
» Coronavirus Hysteria, The Patent — Don’t Ignore This
» Coronavirus Live Updates: New Cases in South Korea Surge by 600
» COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak
» Scientists Have Identified a New Species of Red Pandas
» Virus Deepens Selloff, Threatens Trump Economy and Re-Election
» ‘You Need to Shut Up’: Dr Drew Slams Media Over Coronavirus Doom-Mongering
 
Australia — Pacific
» Student Exchange Company is Slammed for ‘Irresponsible’ Begging Letter Asking Australians to Take in Quarantined Chinese Teenagers — Even Though it Could Expose Their Own Families to Coronavirus
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Kenyan Government Finally Suspends Flights From China After Being Mocked by Citizens Online
 
Immigration
» Coronavirus: Hungary Suspends Migrant Entry to Transit Zone for Foreseeable Future
» Erdogan Warns ‘Millions’ of Refugees Will Soon Head Toward Europe
» Erdogan Delivers E.U. Migrant Ultimatum: ‘Doors Are Open… Take Your Share’
» Erdogan: “Millions” of Migrants Are on Their Way to Europe
» Europe’s Borders at Breaking Point as Migrants Shipped to Frontier in Unmarked Buses
» Footage Shows Turkish Boat Escorting Migrant Dinghy
» Greek Orthodox Church in Lesbos Vandalised by Refugees
» Greeks Revolt Against Migrant Centers, Govt Uses Military to Repel Migrant Invasion
» Greek Govt Stops 9,600+ Attempts by Migrants to Illegally Enter Greece Over the Weekend; Border Situation Expected to Deteriorate as 13,000+ Gather
» Greek Invasion: 150,000 Migrants Prepared to Land in Lesbos
» Greek Government Labels Alleged Killing of Migrant on Border ‘Fake News’
» Migrant Shot Dead by Greek Police as Border Clashes Grow
» Over 500 Migrant Invaders Reach Shores of Greek Islands, According to Police
» Pictures: Migrant Mobs Turn Violent at Greek Border, Army Deployed
» Szijjartó: Turkey-Greece Border Situation Worrying, Hungary to Protect Borders ‘Under All Circumstances’
» Thousands of Migrants Mass on Turkey’s Borders With Europe
» Turkey Says Millions of Migrants May Head to EU
» Turkish Human Trafficker Brags: ‘I’Ve Filled Europe With Immigrants’
» U.N. Says Greece Has No Right to Stop Accepting Asylum Requests
 
Culture Wars
» Video: Drag Queen Teaches Toddlers How to Twerk
 

Dow Roars Back From Coronavirus Sell-Off With Biggest Gain Since 2009, Surges 5.1%

Stocks rebounded sharply from their worst week since the financial crisis on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average posting its best day in more than a decade. Expectations that the Federal Reserve would cut rates drove the gains, which accelerated aggressively into the close.

The Dow closed 1,293.96 points higher, or 5.1%, at 26,703.32. The move on a percentage basis was the Dow’s biggest since March 2009. It was the largest-ever points gain for the 30-stock average.

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

Star Economist Roubini on the Economic Effects of Coronavirus “This Crisis Will Spill Over and Result in a Disaster”

Economist Nouriel Roubini correctly predicted the 2008 financial crisis. Now, he believes that stock markets will plunge by 30 to 40 percent because of the coronavirus. And that Trump will lose his re-election bid.

Roubini: This crisis is much more severe for China and the rest of the world than investors have expected for four reasons: First, it is not an epidemic limited to China, but a global pandemic. Second, it is far from being over. This has massive consequences, but politicians don’t realize it.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Biden Tries to Quote Declaration of Independence, Forgets Words

At a campaign stop in Texas on Monday, Joe Biden made what Grabien called “easily his biggest blooper of the 2020 campaign season.”

Trying to quote the preamble to the Declaration of Independence — some of the best known words in all of America’s founding documents — Biden stumbled badly, seemed to forget, and said, “You know the thing.”

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

Billionaire Republican Buys Major Twitter Stake, Plans to Oust CEO Jack Dorsey

A billionaire Republican megadonor has purchased a major stake in Twitter and has plans to oust CEO Jack Dorsey, according to people familiar with the matter.

Paul Singer’s Elliott Management Corp. has nominated four directors to Twitter’s board. His attempted takeover of Twitter raises the possibility of a friendlier platform for conservatives, who have long accused Twitter of a left-wing political bias.

Singer is considered a megadonor for the GOP, donating $24 million to Republican right-leaning groups during the 2016 election, despite his opposition to President Trump’s campaign that same year. He has since become an ardent Trump supporter.

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

Breaking: Federal Judge Orders Hillary Clinton Deposition Over Private Emails; ‘Still More to Learn’

A federal judge has ordered former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to sit for a sworn deposition in order to answer more questions regarding her use of a private email server during her tenure at the State Department. D.C. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth granted a request from conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, arguing that her past statements on the matter were insufficient, Fox News reports.

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

Breaking: Chris Matthews Resigns From MSNBC

Chris Matthews announced his resignation from MSNBC Monday night after more than two decades at the network.

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

Chris Steele’s Firm Orbis Business Intelligence Used Three Deep State Actors to Claim Its Junk Dossier Was Legit — One Was Reportedly Paid $4 Million to Do So

The fact that the only individuals Orbis could find to stand by their garbage dossier were three Deep State actors is not surprising. To include at least one individual who was paid $4 million to confirm the dossier, tells you all you need to know about the fraudulent Steele dossier.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 Are Starting to Pop Up Literally All Across the United States

Over the past few days, local officials have been announcing newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 all over the country. For a while, it had been hoped that by isolating ourselves from China we could prevent a widespread outbreak from happening inside the United States. Unfortunately, this virus is now spreading like wildfire all over the globe, and even the CDC is admitting that “this might be bad”. We still don’t know if this is going to evolve into a horrifying global pandemic that will kill millions of people, but it is undeniable that this crisis has significantly escalated over the last three days. All across America people are really starting to freak out, and it appears that the worst is yet to come.

In this article, I would like to summarize some of the most notable confirmed cases that have just been announced. As you can see, things are really starting to get crazy out there…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Covington Catholic Student Suing 5 More News Outlets, Including NYT, CBS, ABC

Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann, who was accused of disrespecting a Native American man during last year’s March for Life, has announced that he is suing five additional media outlets, including the New York Times, CBS, and ABC for their role in publishing false information about him.

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

Dr Drew Slams Media Over Coronavirus Doom-Mongering

David Drew Pinsky, otherwise known as ‘Dr Drew’, has slammed the media for over-hyping the coronavirus, leading people the world over to panic buy provisions and medical supplies.

Speaking with Daily Blast Live, Dr Drew said “Let me frame it this way: we have in the United States 24 million cases of flu-like illness, 180,000 hospitalizations, 16,000 dead from influenza,”

“Why is that not being reported? Why isn’t the message: get your flu shot?” he added.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Federal Funds Used to Research “Online Hate Speech” With the Goal of Training Hate Speech Algorithms

YouTube’s controversial “hate speech” rules have caused mass collateral damage to the creator community.

History teachers, model makers, independent journalists, and other creators have found that their content is often demonetized or removed by YouTube’s hate speech algorithms because it doesn’t understand when words are being used in an educational or newsworthy context.

This has created an environment where creators are increasingly self-censoring when discussing news and current events because they fear that mentioning certain words, regardless of context, will trigger YouTube’s hate speech algorithms.

But despite the problems hate speech algorithms have caused for creators, a new report has revealed that federal funds are now being used to research online hate speech with the goal of providing “opportunities for training and evaluating hate speech classifiers.”

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

‘First Class Commie’ Sanders Boards Wrong Private Jet and Used 3 to Travel to Campaign Event

Sen. Bernie Sanders had a rough night.

After getting shellacked by former Vice President Joe Biden in the South Carolina primary, the democratic socialist presidential candidate is said to have boarded the wrong private jet during a campaign stop on Saturday.

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

Jefferson’s Hometown Snubs Founding Father to Honour Slaves

A Virginia city that became the site of a deadly white nationalist rally in 2017 is preparing to celebrate a new holiday marking the end of slavery.

On Tuesday, Charlottesville will mark the first “Liberation and Freedom Day” to commemorate the freeing of the city’s slaves in 1865.

The holiday will replace an annual birthday celebration of US Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, a slave-owner.

The city voted last year to scrap the April Jefferson holiday.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Journalist Who Defended Katie Hill Failed to Disclose He Dated Her

A Playboy journalist who went to bat for disgraced former representative Katie Hill (D., Calif.) after her resignation failed to disclose that they were dating at the time her scandal became public.

The New York Post reported Saturday that Playboy Washington correspondent Alex Thomas was seen at a book party with Hill, who resigned in October after photos of her nude with a campaign staffer emerged. Leaked text messages seemed to indicate that she was in a relationship with a congressional staffer in violation of House rules. On Monday, Hill confirmed in a New York magazine profile that she dated Thomas beginning in “mid-2019” and that “in August, they went on a beach vacation together.”

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

Klobuchar Rally in Minnesota Canceled Amid Protests

Sen. Amy Klobuchar canceled a rally in her home state Sunday night as several dozen protesters chanted “Black Lives Matter,” “Klobuchar has got to go” and “Free Myon” — referencing the case of a black teenager convicted of murder after a flawed police investigation.

According to videos that emerged on social media, the senator’s rally was set in St. Louis Park, Minn., at a local high school. WCCO-CBS Minnesota reported that the protesters made their way into the rally and onstage, where they continued chanting. After a 40-minute delay, the rally was canceled.

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

Klobuchar Drops Out of Presidential Race, To Endorse Biden

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota dropped out of the race to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee Monday, a day before her home state and 13 others vote in Super Tuesday primaries.

In dropping out, Klobuchar, a moderate, plans to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden Monday night at his campaign event in Dallas, according to multiple media reports.

Klobuchar joins former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and billionaire Tom Steyer in existing the race after Saturday’s primary in South Carolina, where Biden regained momentum with a decisive victory.

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

LA District Attorney’s Husband Threatened to Shoot Black Lives Matter Protesters Who Showed Up at His Home

Well, this isn’t exactly the impression you want to leave with voters the day before they go to the polls to potentially reelect you. The husband of LA District Attorney Jackie Lacey pulled a gun on Black Lives Matter activists who showed up on his porch at 5:40 am and threatened to shoot them.

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

Media, Democrats Spread Fake News That Trump Called Coronavirus ‘A Hoax’

Bloomberg tweets edited video clips

After last week blaming The President for the coronavirus spread, Democrats and the leftist media are now falsely claiming that Trump said the entire outbreak is not real.

Politico published an article Friday claiming that Trump called the coronavirus a “hoax” at his rally in South Carolina.

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

Missouri Farmer Wins $265 Million Verdict Against Monsanto

A Missouri peach farmer notched a rare courtroom victory this month, defeating the former Monsanto Co. and chemical giant BASF in the first of what is expected to be a series of court fights over claims that the companies are responsible for pesticide damage that has wiped out orchards, gardens, and organic farm fields in multiple states.

On February 14, a unanimous jury awarded Bill Bader and his family-owned Bader Farms $15 million in compensatory damages. The following day, they added on another $250 million in punitive damages to be paid by Bayer AG (Monsanto’s German owner) and BASF. The jury found that Monsanto and BASF conspired in actions that created what Bader’s attorney called an “ecological disaster” designed to increase profits at the expense of farmers such as Bader.

The verdict followed three weeks of documentary evidence and testimony introduced in US District Court in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The evidence proved that Bader Farms suffered extensive damage to its peach business from dicamba, a herbicide sprayed by neighboring farmers that drifted into the Bader orchard. The dicamba did so much damage that the Bader farm is essentially being forced out of business due to the loss of 30,000 peach trees, according to Bader attorney Bill Randles.

“It’s very sad,” Randles said in an interview with Sierra. “He’s been the ‘peach guy.’ Now . . . his peach farm cannot survive.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

New York City’s First Coronavirus Patient is a Health Care Worker, Says Cuomo

The first patient with a confirmed case of the 2019 novel coronavirus in New York City is a 39-year-old health care worker who had recently traveled to Iran and acted with “textbook” and “sophisticated” diligence in her efforts to avoid infecting others, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo early Monday morning. Residents in New York have anxiously awaited the seemingly inevitable first case in the largest city in the U.S., which was confirmed over the weekend. Cuomo said the woman avoided public transport on her way home from Iran and then self-isolated at her home in Manhattan, even before she began exhibiting symptoms.

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

O’Keefe Puts Big Tech on Notice

In this exclusive interview, James O’Keefe from Project Veritas let us know that 2020 is going to be Project Veritas’ biggest year. With infiltrators still inside establishment media and Big Tech companies, O’Keefe hints at major things to come.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Politicians Say and Do the Darnedest Things

If you listen to the campaigns from Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, Mike Bloomberg, Mayor Pete (can’t pronounce his last name), Sleepy Joe Biden, Cory Booker or Kamala Harris and the rest of them—America can’t survive another four years of Trump. We’re all going to hell in a handbasket. This country is being led by a racist and everyone who voted him into office can only be one thing: a racist.

But let’s look at what’s really going on in Washington DC. First of all, Bernie Sanders never held a job before wiggling his way into Congress. Reports say that he lived on food stamps, welfare and handouts. He’s never passed a single bill in all his years in Congress. But, he’s going to solve all of our problems as president. At the same time, he honors Fidel Castro as a progressive and thinks Venezuela meets the benchmark for the successes of socialism. Sanders neglects to mention that Castro executed anyone who disagreed with him and he kept Cuba in the economic prison of the 1950’s to this day. Freedom in Cuba: none! And, Venezuela, Bernie, I need to speak with you about that place. Its people are starving to death.

Yet, at 78, and one heart attack already, when will the next one hit? Sanders keeps scolding anyone who supports Trump. Why would an old man past his prime want to work in a job that carries SO much stress and will give him another heart attack that might kill him? As Lord Acton said, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” From my 50 years of watching them, politicians prove themselves the strangest breed of cat on the planet.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case on Whether ObamaCare is Unconstitutional

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would hear a GOP-led effort against Obamacare, with opening arguments likely slated for the fall after the justices initially decided against fast-tracking a ruling.

Obamacare came under threat in December when the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 vote that the individual mandate, which required Americans to buy health insurance under threat of fine, was unconstitutional. But the court kicked the rest of the case back down to Texas district judge Reed O’Connor, who initially decided that the individual mandate was unconstitutional in December 2018.

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

Trump Crouches Behind Podium to Mock Bloomberg’s Height

President Trump crouched low behind his podium to mock Michael Bloomberg’s height on Saturday while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, drawing roaring laughter from the crowd.

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

Trump Reviews Mexican Restaurant After Leftists Attacked Owner for Support

“The food is GREAT!”

The President has come to the aid of a Mexican restaurant in Arizona after leftists attempted to ‘cancel’ the eatery because the owner advertised his presence at a recent Trump Rally.

Legal immigrants Jorge and Betty Rivas explained how they’ve been called “evil racists” and had torrents of abuse hurled their way by crazed leftists.

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

UC Santa Cruz Fires 54 Graduate Student Workers Striking for Higher Pay

UC Santa Cruz fired 54 graduate student workers who were on strike demanding higher pay to afford the area’s high cost of living.

As part of a “wildcat strike,” about 200 teaching assistants decided in December to withhold fall quarter grades after months of back and forth with campus administrators. They demanded an increase in pay of $1,412 a month. The strike is not backed by the union that represents the university’s graduate student employees.

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

Video: L.A. Man Claims City Preventing Him From Removing Homeless Camped on His Property

Democrats pushing laws in several states requiring property owners allow homeless to live on their land.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Virginia Democrat Admits He Retaliated Against Sheriffs Over Their Support for Second Amendment

Democrats livid law enforcement won’t follow unconstitutional laws.

Northern Virginia Democrat and Senate Majority Leader, Dick Saslaw, has been at the center of a week-long media controversy that began when Republican Senator, Bill Stanley, published remarks he said Saslaw made to him after voting down a pay raise for Virginia’s Sheriff’s Departments.

According to a post Stanley made to his Facebook account back on February 20th, as the Senate voted to fund Virginia’s most expensive budget ever, Saslaw spearheaded a unanimous effort by Democrats to vote down an amendment funding a 3% pay raise for employees of Virginia’s Sheriff’s Departments.

Following the vote, Stanley says Saslaw approached him saying, “Hey Stanley, you want to know why your Sheriffs didn’t get a raise? — because they came to our committees and said that they weren’t going to enforce our laws.” When Stanley asked Saslaw what he was referring to, he replied, “gun control.”

“He didn’t lie…I said it,” says Saslaw. “All I said was a lot of people are upset that these people come in and say they’re not going to enforce our laws. That’s all.”

Saslaw isn’t the first Virginia Democrat to retaliate — or threaten to retaliate — against law enforcement officers who refuse to violate their oaths. As the 2nd Amendment Sanctuary movement heated up across Virginia, Democrat Representative Donald McEachin floated the idea of Governor Northam calling up the National Guard to combat resistance to gun control and confiscation legislation.

McEachin’s co-worker, Representative Gerry Connolly, wasn’t far behind, threatening to throw officers in jail should they not comply with his party’s gun control agenda.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Washington State Announces Six Dead From Coronavirus. What Does That Mean for the Number of Total Infections There?

Three of the deaths happened overnight, which is alarming for a disease whose death rate *may* be as low as the flu’s. Combined with three previous fatalities in the state, there are now six people dead among a total of 18 who have tested positive in King County, Washington.

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

Coronavirus: Three New Cases in Ontario, 19 Cases Now Confirmed in the Province

Coronavirus is continuing to spread in Canada. In Toronto, three new cases have been confirmed—bringing the total cases in the province to 18, according to the CBC.

Ontario’s chief medical officer of health Dr. David Williams will make an announcement later today so to provide further details for concerned Canadians.

As a result of these new infections, Canada now has 27 confirmed cases—eight of which are in B.C., and one more in Quebec.

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

Media Darling Trudeau Sees Popularity Plummet Among Canadians

A vast majority of Canadians agree with the statement, “Right now, Canada is broken,” according to a new National Post newspaper survey.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fared poorly as well, as two-thirds of Canadians don’t believe he has delivered on his signature pledge to help Canada’s indigenous population.

Fifty-seven percent of Canadians agreed with the statement, “Governments lie to Indigenous people about making things better for them,” according to the survey, conducted for the paper by DART & Maru/Poll.

A majority also agree that the prime minister is not governing well, and that his Liberal Party deserves most of the blame for the recent rail blockades.

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

Czech Republic Reports First Cases of Coronavirus

PRAGUE (Reuters) — The Czech Republic has confirmed its first three cases of coronavirus, with all the patients having traveled from northern Italy, Health Minister Adam Vojtech said on Sunday.

Health officials said the patients — two Czechs and an American student who studied in Milan — showed mild symptoms. Two were in Prague and the third in the city of Usti nad Labem, 90 km (56 miles) north of the capital.

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

Dutch Terror Trial Starting for Deadly Utrecht Tram Shooting

UTRECHT, Netherlands (AP) — A terrorism trial starts Monday for a Dutch man of Turkish descent who allegedly opened fire on a tram in the central city of Utrecht last year, killing four people.

Prosecutors have charged Gokmen Tanis with four counts of murder with terrorist intent and three counts of attempted murder as well as making a terrorist threat against 17 people over his alleged role in the shooting spree on March 18, 2019.

He faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if convicted.

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

Finland Ends Rape by Telling Women; Just Say No!

Finland has devised an ingenious new way to stop Europe’s migrant rape epidemic.

Just tell the rapist to stop!

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

Germany: Watch: Merkel Refused Handshake Amid Coronavirus Fears

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel was left embarrassed when her Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer, refused to shake her hand at a meeting in front of journalists, amid rising coronavirus fears.

Seehofer, a perenially leading figure in the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), declined the proferred handshake at a meeting to discuss migration in Berlin.

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

Historian: Vatican Archives Will Debunk ‘Fake News’ Of Pius XII’s Supposed Silence

ROME — Renowned historian Father Peter Gumpel said Monday that the opening of the Vatican’s “secret” archives will serve to debunk all the “fake news” that has been generated over Pope Pius XII’s supposed silence during Nazi persecution of the Jewish people.

Father Gumpel, who has had unprecedented access to the Archives, told the Italian newspaper Avvenire that Monday’s opening of the Vatican Archives will confirm “the many gestures of hidden charity made by Pacelli on behalf of the Jews.”

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

Italy Coronavirus Deaths Jump to 52, Cases Climb Above 2,000

ROME (Reuters) — The death toll from coronavirus in Italy jumped to 52 on Monday from 34 the day before and the total number of confirmed cases in Europe’s worst affected country climbed past the 2,000 mark.

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

Johnson Says U.S. Trade Deal Will Result in £3.4bn Boost to UK Economy

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that a new trade deal with the United States will result in greater choice and cheaper prices for consumers at the supermarket, with a government assessment saying that it will provide a “£3.4 billion boost” to the British economy.

The government announced on Monday the details of its “ambitious and comprehensive” trade negotiations agenda, with the Conservative government’s analysis also saying that it will increase Anglo-American trade by £15.3 billion.

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

Report: ‘Vatican Declares War’ On Cardinal Joseph Zen

ROME — The dean of the college of cardinals in Rome has written a letter denouncing Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen, who has been fiercely critical of the Vatican’s rapprochement with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

In an article titled “The Vatican declares war on Cardinal Zen,” veteran Vatican journalist Riccardo Cascioli wrote this weekend that Cardinal Re “obviously did not write on his own initiative” but his letter “is truly a call to his brother cardinals to isolate Cardinal Zen.”

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

Scotland Says 250,000 Could be Hospitalised if Coronavirus Spreads

The Scottish government has forecast that up to 250,000 people could be admitted to hospital if the coronavirus outbreak mushrooms into a full-scale epidemic.

Caroline Calderwood, Scotland’s chief medical officer, said that under the worst-case scenario between 50% and 80% of Scotland’s population would catch the virus over a number of months, with 20% of those likely to become ill.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Scotland: Teen in Serious Condition After Gang of ‘Asian Boys’ Stamp Head in Street

A Scottish teenager is in “serious” condition after a gang of “Asian boys” dragged him into the middle of the road and stamped on his head in the centre of Glasgow.

The 16-year-old was was “assaulted by a group of youths who dragged him to the ground and stamped on his head leaving him with serious injuries”, according to a Police Scotland appeal for information.

Police say the attack took place “around 7:50 p.m. on Friday, 28 February, 2020 on Argyle Street at its junction with Jamaica Street near to McDonald’s and KFC”, and that the perpetrators were described as “Asian boys aged 15-18 years old, all… of a slim build”.

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Sensing the Mood Music in Westminster, EU Wargames Brexit No-Deal Preparations

The European Union now expects the British team to walk out of talks preemptively as a negotiating tactic, as the bloc’s chief negotiator insists he is too smart for Boris Johnson’s tricks.

Negotiators in Brussels, who today met with their British counterparts for the next round of Brexit talks, are anticipating a show of bravado from Boris Johnson later this year, when it is claimed he would walk away from discussions to show how serious he is about getting the best deal for the United Kingdom.

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UK: Senior Tory Says Coronavirus Reveals Fragility of Globalisation, Global Economy

Former international trade secretary Dr Liam Fox has said that the worldwide spread of the coronavirus and resulting disruptions to supply chains have revealed the fragility of the global economy.

The prime minister has chaired an emergency meeting of Cobra, the government’s crises committee, on Monday after the number of confirmed infected people in the UK spiked to 36 after 13 new cases were confirmed on Sunday. Public Health England has said that the UK must prepare for “more widespread transmission” of the China-origin virus, the increased transmission of which is now “highly likely”.

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Netanyahu’s Party on Course to Win Election: Exit Polls

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party is projected to win the most seats in Israel’s election, according to exit polls. All three updated polls show his right-wing bloc with 59 seats, two short of a majority.

Why it matters: The exit polls are not official results, but they project a strong performance from Netanyahu in Israel’s third elections in 10 months despite a looming corruption trial. Both Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, his centrist rival, failed to form coalition governments following elections in April and September.

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Adviser to Ayatollah Khamenei Becomes First Senior Iranian Official to Die From Coronavirus

Mohammad Mirmohammadi (pictured), a member of the Expediency Council which is hand-picked by Iran’s Supreme Leader, died aged 71 after falling sick with the virus.

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Alarming Videos Show Iranians Licking Holy Shrines in Religious Tradition as Country’s Clerical Hardliners Refuse to Close Sites Despite Coronavirus Outbreak

Worrying clips on social media show people licking the doors and the burial mound inside the Masumeh shrine in virus-hit Qom, northern Iran.

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Coronavirus Kills Top Iranian Official, State Media Reports

A top government official in Iran has reportedly been killed by the coronavirus, becoming the most high-profile victim of the outbreak in the country where 66 people have lost their lives. Mohammad Mirmohammadi, 71, was a member of the council that advises Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. State radio reported that he died at a Tehran hospital after testing positive for the disease last week. Iran’s vice president Masoumeh Ebtekar and Iraj Harirchi, the head of an Iranian government task force on the coronavirus, are also believed to be sick.

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Kuwaitis Returning From Iran Refuse Quarantine — Went Home Directly

KUWAIT CITY, Feb 29: A batch of Kuwaiti citizens returning from Iran have arrived in the country. Sources said that quarrel took place between the arrivals and authorities at the airport, security and health, and among the citizens who refused to go by the buses to the quarantine center went directly to their homes reports Al Rai

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An Insider and Inciter of Delhi Riots in UK House of Lords! Hindus Must Boycott Him.

Pak origin British Muslim Lord Nazir Ahmed spread fake news on Delhi Riots to accuse Hindus!!

Upananda Brahmachari | HENB | Haridwar (India) | March 2, 2020:: The most unfortunate anti-Sikh Riots perpetrated by the Congressmen which happened in Delhi in the first week of November 1984 after the assassination of then PM Indira Gandhi; somehow repeated in a minuscule by the Jihadi people in the recent anti-Hindu riots in Delhi in the last week of February, 2020 in the name of anti-CAA & anti-NRC protests.

The insiders of Delhi know well that how an orchestrated violence was unleashed upon the Hindus in the areas of Jafrabad, Maujpur, Chand Bagh, Khureji Khas and Bhajanpura. In Bhajanpura Sikhs were the prime victims by the Jihadi people. The Delhi people are well aware that Jihadis wanted a Kashmir valley in Indian Capital. But, the Hindus and Sikhs jointly protected themselves anyway in #DelhiRiots2020. However, the headcounts of the Hindus and Sikhs are still higher in numbers than the Muslims killed in the Delhi violence. The Jihadi fanatics fired point blank range to police head constable Ratan Ral and stabbed 400 times over four hours to mutilate IB staffer Ankit Sharma as they were Hindu. The Jihadi people gutted everything of Sikh business in Bhajanpura to make a hell all over. The loss of Hindus and Sikhs are unaccountable. The Delhi riot was designed as a rehearsal of Ghazwa-e-Hind (ultimate Islamic conquest of India) in the seed and it was not actually against CAA or NRC… not against Modi or BJP at all as seen in the surface.

Even then, some pro-Pakistani and pro-Jihadi elements are fabricating the Delhi Riots as anti-Muslim and designed by ‘Nazi’, ‘Fascist’ and ‘Draconian’ Indian PM Narendra Modi and his ‘anti-Muslim’ Baharatiya janata Party (BJP).

In this trail, Nazir Ahemd, a Pakistan-origin British Member of Parliament, tweeted a disturbing video showing a woman and child being exhumed saying it is a horrific video of a mother and child buried alive in India by ‘fascists’. The tweet said, “Warring: horrific video of a mother and Child buried alive in India by Facist. Thank God they are recovered (sic).” That tweeted video was proved fake and his role in the Delhi Riot is now should be questioned…

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Ruling Party in Indian State Maharashtra Denies Muslim Reservation

Following the Hindutva line, Shiv Sena denies proposal of granting reservation to Muslims in Maharashtra.

Suneeta Mahajan | HENB | Mumbai | March 2, 2020:: Two days after a Muslim minister in the Maharashta coalition government said a new bill to give 5 per cent reservation for Muslims in educational institutions will be introduced in the state assembly soon, the Shiv Sena, another member of the alliance, denied any such proposal.

The denial from Uddhav Thackeray’s Sena comes after right-wing group Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) raised concerns over reports that the tri-party alliance government — of the Shiva Sena, Sharad Pawar’s party and the Congress — is planning to quota to Muslims in educational institutions.

“News of the Maharashtra government’s decision to grant religion-based reservation to Muslims is worrisome. The appeasement of Muslims should not be done by a government led by the Shiv Sena. This is the Hindu society’s expectation, “ the VHP tweeted in Hindi on Saturday.

On Sunday morning, the Shiv Sena’s communication cell replied to the VHP’s tweeted in Hindi, “No such subject is under discussion.”

Maharashtra Minority Affairs Minister Nawab Malik, of Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) had said on Friday that the government is also planning to make room for reservation in jobs and that the government is seeking legal advice for it.

After Vishwa Hindu Parishad raised concerns over the reports that Maharashtra’s ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government is planning to give reservation to Muslims, Shiv Sena finally denied on Sunday any such proposal for the same.

Earlier, Maharashtra’s Minority Affairs Minister, Nawab Malik on February 28 announced that a law will be made to give reservation to Muslims in educational institutions in the state…

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China Cracks Down on Religion Even Harder

China is increasing its already extremely severe suppression of religious freedom. More than a year ago, at a November 2018 hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, the President of the Religious Freedom Institute, Thomas F. Farr, described China’s religious suppression as “the most systematic and brutal attempt to control Chinese religious communities since the Cultural Revolution.”

On December 30, 2019, China’s Communist Party (CCP) announced new “Administrative Measures for Religious Groups”. The measures — which came into force on February 1, 2020 — stipulate that religious organizations exist to promote the CCP and its ideology, according to Bitter Winter, a magazine on religious liberty and human rights in China.

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Chinese Reds Set a Trap for Trump

President Trump is in a difficult situation. If he were to disclose circumstantial evidence that the coronavirus virus is a Chinese bioweapon, there would be calls for retaliation against the Communist regime. Such a declaration could lead to more fear, the threat of war, and perhaps a global economic collapse. As it is, the virus is causing a market meltdown. He does not want to contribute to a panic and further collapse.

Politically, his reelection hangs in the balance.

Aside from Senator Tom Cotton, China experts such as Steven Mosher and Gordon Chang, and the newspaper The Epoch Times, few people in politics or the media are asking the hard questions about whether the virus is a weapon of war.

But the evidence is available for those who take the time to review the facts.

Also known as COVID-19, it is considered by many at this point to be just another mystery disease like the flu-like virus SARS, which also originated in China. But the number of deaths from the coronavirus has already surpassed the fatalities from the SARS outbreak. It appears to have a higher mortality rate than the flu.

What’s more, a controversial but disputed scientific report indicates that the coronavirus has elements of HIV, the virus causing AIDS. This suggests it was engineered.

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Coronavirus Hysteria, The Patent — Don’t Ignore This

CORVID-19 or the outbreak of this particular coronavirus, has created mass panic and hysteria around the globe. Much of it comes from yellow “journalism” by the corrupt MSM and some independent media with their click-bait headlines and conspiracy theories.

There’s no question the outbreak started in Wuhan over in Communist China. In my February 17, 2020 column, Coronavirus, the Economy and What to Do, I included this:

REVENGE of the 12 MONKEYS: Nature Science Journal Warned about “Pathogens Escaping” Wuhan Level-4 Biosafety Lab (BSL-4) Before Coronavirus Outbreak; Infected Monkeys Bite, Scratch Researchers

“The UK Daily Mail also writes that a SARS virus “escaped in a leak from another [Chinese] lab in 2004…Chinese officials worked to improve safety, but also to expand the country’s capacity to continue to study the very virus its lab had let out.”

“Did you catch that? The lab allowed SARS to escape so they could study its pandemic effects on the population at large.

“In these Chinese labs, scientists there are intentionally infecting monkeys with the coronavirus to see what happens. As the UK Daily Mail writes, this is a very dangerous endeavor, since monkeys often attack researchers (which is understandable, considering they are being murdered by the unethical scientists there):” Rest at link.” If you didn’t read that column, I recommend you do as it contains important information.

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Coronavirus Live Updates: New Cases in South Korea Surge by 600

New cases in China continued to decline, according to its latest numbers as of March 2, which showed 125 new confirmed cases, and 31 more deaths.

As cases spread across other continents, new cases in China are falling, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press briefing in Geneva.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak

Coronavirus Cases:

90,927

view by country

Deaths:

3,125

Recovered:

48,137

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Scientists Have Identified a New Species of Red Pandas

Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing have discovered a new species of red Panda or small. Reported by the journal Science Advances.

Prior to this it was believed that this Panda is a one of a kind.

It is noted that the researchers conducted DNA analysis of 65 wild red pandas and identified two separate types of these kind of animals. We are talking about China (with red fur and striped tails) and Himalayan (with a lighter muzzle) pandas.

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Virus Deepens Selloff, Threatens Trump Economy and Re-Election

Weeks ago, my husband said to me, “This virus is an attack on President Trump’s economy.” Trump’s trade demands and tariffs literally brought Red China’s economy to its knees. Perhaps the Covid-19 virus was turned loose to bring the rest of the world’s economies to the same level. Since Trump took office, America’s economy has been booming, but both Red China and America’s socialist democrats would love to see us suffer a recession.This raging virus has already destroyed $3.8 trillion in stock market value. The Chinese have set a trap for Trump as Cliff Kincaid reported and it’s ugly.

The left doesn’t care how many people suffer or die from Coronavirus if they can remove Trump from office and regain their globalist new world order movement. The Democrats have no problem murdering the unborn; the blood of 61 million is on their hands. Mao Zedong murdered millions of his own people and when Deng Xiaoping became the new leader in 1976, his population control resulted in 336 million abortions and 196 million sterilizations. Why would they be bothered in the least with a few thousand more deaths in America and around the world.

Panic is actually spreading and guess who is doing it. The CDC official helping spook Trump’s economy with Coronavirus fears is Rod Rosenstein’s sister…Dr. Nancy Messonnier. She said on an NPR interview, that it’s not a question of if this virus will spread, but when.

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‘You Need to Shut Up’: Dr Drew Slams Media Over Coronavirus Doom-Mongering

It’s “overblown press created hysteria”

David Drew Pinsky, otherwise known as ‘Dr Drew’, has slammed the media for over-hyping the coronavirus, leading people the world over to panic buy provisions and medical supplies.

Speaking with Daily Blast Live, Dr Drew said “Let me frame it this way: we have in the United States 24 million cases of flu-like illness, 180,000 hospitalizations, 16,000 dead from influenza,”

“Why is that not being reported? Why isn’t the message: get your flu shot?” he added.

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Student Exchange Company is Slammed for ‘Irresponsible’ Begging Letter Asking Australians to Take in Quarantined Chinese Teenagers — Even Though it Could Expose Their Own Families to Coronavirus

Families were shocked to receive an email from Global Experience last week, requesting assistance to host students aged under-18 who need to be isolation for 14 days.

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Kenyan Government Finally Suspends Flights From China After Being Mocked by Citizens Online

At a juncture where the world is blocking some flights from China due to the fear of coronavirus infection, the Kenyan government, however, is accused of allowing airlines to bring hordes of infected passengers into the country.

While Uhuru Kenyatta’s government is not taking adequate action, the country’s internet users harnessed the power of social media to spread awareness about the potential danger the country was facing and hold the government to account.

Kenyans have successfully led an online rebellion against the government and forced it into stopping flights bringing infected passengers from China with a country-wide social media campaign.

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Coronavirus: Hungary Suspends Migrant Entry to Transit Zone for Foreseeable Future

Hungary is suspending the admission of illegal migrants into the transit zone on the country’s southern border for the foreseeable future given “a link between the newcoronavirus and migration”, the PM’s domestic security advisor said on Sunday.

György Bakondi told a news conference that most illegal migrants came from or through Iran, which is a focal point of Covid-19.

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Erdogan Warns ‘Millions’ of Refugees Will Soon Head Toward Europe

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey had no intention of stopping migrant flows to the European Union warning that “millions” of people would soon head toward Europe.

“After we opened the doors, there were multiple calls saying ‘close the doors’,” Erdogan said in Ankara Monday according to reports.

“I told them ‘it’s done. It’s finished. The doors are now open. Now, you will have to take your share of the burden’,” he said.

“Since we have opened the borders, the number of refugees heading toward Europe has reached hundreds of thousands. This number will soon be in the millions,” he said.

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Erdogan Delivers E.U. Migrant Ultimatum: ‘Doors Are Open… Take Your Share’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Monday to keep the doors open for migrants heading for Europe, promising he will not hinder anyone heading for the border with Greece.

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Erdogan: “Millions” of Migrants Are on Their Way to Europe

Turkish regime leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that his government had no intention of stopping the relentless westward flow of migrants toward continental Europe, warning that “millions” would soon be headed toward the EU.

“Since we have opened the borders, the number of refugees heading toward Europe has reached hundreds of thousands. This number will soon be in the millions,” Erdogan said today in Ankara during a televised speech, Greek daily newspaper Kathimerini reports.

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Europe’s Borders at Breaking Point as Migrants Shipped to Frontier in Unmarked Buses

Tensions on Europe’s borders with Turkey are rising as thousands of migrants are brought to the frontier on unmarked buses and state-owned railways.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country’s borders to Europe were open for migrants some days ago, ostensibly because his country could not cope with an increased flow of refugees from Idlib, Syria.

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Footage Shows Turkish Boat Escorting Migrant Dinghy

Greece’s coast guard has released footage of a Turkish patrol boat escorting a rubber dinghy packed with migrants and refugees as it tries to enter Greek waters in the eastern Aegean.

Greece has accused Turkey of orchestrating a “coordinated and mass” attempt to violate the country’s borders by encouraging thousands of asylum seekers to illegally cross them.

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Greek Orthodox Church in Lesbos Vandalised by Refugees

Images are emerging of a Greek Orthodox church in Lesvos which was vandalised by refugees. On Monday, more than 500 refugees grouped together to head down to the port of Mytilini from Moria camp.

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Greeks Revolt Against Migrant Centers, Govt Uses Military to Repel Migrant Invasion

Villagers revolted, repelled the police and allegedly burned a UN migrant reception center to the ground.

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Greek Govt Stops 9,600+ Attempts by Migrants to Illegally Enter Greece Over the Weekend; Border Situation Expected to Deteriorate as 13,000+ Gather

Greece’s Deputy Defense Minister Alkiviadis Stefanis announced over the weekend that the migrants who’ve amassed at the Greek-Turkish border — most of whom are fighting-age men — made around 9,600 attempts to illegally enter Greece.

According to the Deputy Defense Minister, all 9,600 attempts to break through the border were successfully stopped, Kathimerini reports.

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Greek Invasion: 150,000 Migrants Prepared to Land in Lesbos

The Greek government says it’s readying itself for 150,000 migrant invaders to try and reach the Greek island of Lesbos in the Eastern Aegean Sea from the Turkish coast via sailboats.

Greek authorities have made this assessment after processing large amounts of intel and data from various sources who they say have unquestionable credibility, Greek daily newspaper Kathimerini reports.

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Greek Government Labels Alleged Killing of Migrant on Border ‘Fake News’

The Greek government has claimed that a widely spread video claiming to show a migrant fatally wounded along the countries border is “fake news.”

Government spokesman Stelios Petsas commented on the footage, which was released by BBC World Service journalist Mughira Al Sharif on Monday, stating on social media platform Twitter that the alleged killing of a Syrian refugee was Turkish propaganda.

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Migrant Shot Dead by Greek Police as Border Clashes Grow

Greek border police have shot dead a Syrian migrant attempting to reach Europe as clashes grow following Turkey’s announcement that the border was “open.”

The Greek border is being besieged by thousands of migrants convinced they can reach EU welfare havens following Ankara’s decision to stand down.

Following clashes that saw migrants pelt police with rocks and other objects, one victim was shot through the mouth and died at the scene.

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Over 500 Migrant Invaders Reach Shores of Greek Islands, According to Police

Over 500 illegal migrant invaders have made it to the shores of Greece’s Eastern Aegean islands Lesbos, Samos, and Chios on Sunday after the Turkish regime ordered its border guards and coast guard to stand down, according to police sources.

One police official told Reuters that no less than seven dinghies carrying over 300 migrants managed to reach the island of Lesbos, while an additional 150 managed to slip through Greek coast guard and naval patrols in the region to make it to the island of Samos.

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Pictures: Migrant Mobs Turn Violent at Greek Border, Army Deployed

Violent clashes erupted on the European Union’s common external border over the weekend as Greek border guards tried to stop migrants promised they could travel to Europe by the Turkish president from entering.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who leads the Islamist government in Ankara, told migrants the border was now open several days ago — a move widely regarded as punishment for the West’s failure to back his effective annexation of northern Syria, which has embroiled him in an increasingly deadly confrontation with the Syrian government and its backers in Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah.

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Szijjartó: Turkey-Greece Border Situation Worrying, Hungary to Protect Borders ‘Under All Circumstances’

Hungary will protect its borders “under all circumstances” and will not let in any illegal migrants, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjartó said after talks with Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic in Belgrade on Monday.

“For us, the security of the country and the Hungarian people comes first,” he said.

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Thousands of Migrants Mass on Turkey’s Borders With Europe

KASTANIES, Greece (AP) — The United Nations said Sunday that at least 13,000 people were massed on Turkey’s land border with Greece, after Turkey officially declared its western borders were open to migrants and refugees hoping to head into the European Union.

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Turkey Says Millions of Migrants May Head to EU

The Turkish president has warned that “millions” of migrants and refugees will soon head towards Europe. Recep Tayyip Erdogan was speaking after announcing Turkey could no longer enforce a 2016 deal with the EU to prevent migrants entering Europe. Greek police have used tear gas to stop thousands of migrants entering and the country has asked the EU border agency Frontex for urgent help.

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Turkish Human Trafficker Brags: ‘I’Ve Filled Europe With Immigrants’

video shows a man alleged to be a human trafficker bragging about how he has ‘filled Europe with immigrants’ and how he is making thousands of euros after Turkey opened its borders.

The man said he had been trafficking people for 20 years and that he receives 500-600 euros per head for each migrant he successfully exports.

Despite serving 6 years in jail for the crime, he brags about how he is back in business following President Erdogan’s announcement that Turkey would be re-opening its border and encouraging millions of migrants to invade Europe.

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U.N. Says Greece Has No Right to Stop Accepting Asylum Requests

The United Nation’s refugee agency said on Monday that Greece had no right to stop accepting asylum applications as Athens struggled with a sudden increase of arrivals at its border of Middle East refugees and migrants from Turkey.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday his country would not be accepting any new asylum requests for a month after two days of clashes between border police and thousands of people seeking to enter the EU from Turkey.

“It is important that the authorities refrain from any measures that might increase the suffering of vulnerable people,” UNHCR said in a statement.

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Video: Drag Queen Teaches Toddlers How to Twerk

A video clip out of the UK shows a drag queen teaching toddlers how to twerk, confounding claims by leftists that drag queens aren’t inherently sexual in the nature of their performance.

The clip appears to show the drag queen at a bookstore or library. Judging from the sounds of the children who aren’t seen on camera, they’re likely to be pre-school age.

The drag queen begins talking about dances from the video game Fortnite, but then states, “Most of all Michael likes to twerk.”

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21 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/2/2020

  1. ““Since we have opened the borders, the number of refugees heading toward Europe has reached hundreds of thousands. This number will soon be in the millions,” he said.”

    Why only Europe? Why don’t these people descend on their muslim brothers in the Middle East Iran or Pakistan?

    The truth is, they go to Europe because they want to milk an over generous benefits system which allows them to take up to four spouses so that they can sit around, do nothing and procreate. Most of them are untrained and good for nothing.

    This isn’t a case of migrants seeking refuge, it is Hijra. We are being invaded.

  2. Goat Boy is at it again, this time with an Istanbul urban renewal and beautification project. I am sure the residents of the formerly great city known as Constantinople are thrilled to see the moochers and parasites shipped off to the Greek border.

    Refreshing to see that the Greeks have finally found their dignity and have begun to man-up and repel this invasion. And that the locals on the islands being inundated by orcs have finally had enough, even to the point of attacking new orcs trying to swarm ashore, the NGO scum that provide logistical and propaganda support, and the riot police sent to put them back in their submissive places.

  3. Greece is facing a hybrid war from Turkey. They are using illegal migrants for this purpose. The EU seem unwilling to seriously help their co-member, Greece. Especially Germany is openly supporting Turkey, as it does in Syria.
    I understand only too well the UK who have abandoned the EU. It’s all a big lie.

  4. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/fluechtlinge-erdogan-bundesregierung-1.4827988!amp

    “What Merkel later had to say about the situation on the Turkish-Greek border should certainly find Seehofer’s approval. Not to mention the fact that he has been warning of a new refugee crisis for months. Merkel showed understanding for the additional burdens on Turkey by other refugees who are fleeing Syria because of the war. “I understand that Turkey is facing a major task facing Idlib,” she said. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan feels “currently not sufficiently supported”. Nevertheless, she found it “unacceptable” that Erdoğan would hold the debate on more aid from the European Union “on the back of refugees”. She wants to stick to the EU agreement with Turkey. When asked whether opening the border was a conceivable option for her, she did not respond at all. For them it was “an option to speak to Turkey” to return to the old state. Seehofer does not have said otherwise.“

    Hahaha the silence is so telling!
    She knows what it means when she can’t have open borders, neither the other EU countries, two of the opposition parties, or a significant part of her own party will allow it. They maybe a bunch of traitors in government, but instant destruction is something even they don’t desire, and they can wash their hands of the matter better than Merkel than Seehofer because they weren’t calling the shots, even though they clicked their heels when need be. I also don’t see Macron backing a decision like that, not with the dissent in France he is currently dealing with, maybe even Sweden too. For Merkel though, what else can she do? Vote of no confidence will be called by AfD if she try’s to pull another 2015, even if it fails (let’s say they propose another CDU politician that the others would stomach for chancellor) there would have to be an election, or at least that’s my understanding of German law. AfD may have been performing poorly for what it should, but this news plastered everywhere and an election at the same time, mainstream politicians speaking against it and even mainstream media admitting its Erdogan forcing these people through, it will be a dramatic boost. I maybe an optimist but it’s now or never! Who on earth would rather see the slow suicide of Europe anyways? Just get it over with if there is no hope! Lets just pray Erdogan doesn’t try to renegotiate before the inevitable border closures when he realizes the fatal mistake he’s made, Europe won’t accept mass flows again, even Brussels couldn’t force thanks to the Visegrád 4.

    Times up, Angie!

    • Apologies for the spelling mistakes, my excitement gets the better of me.

  5. Got that Greece? The United Nations High Commission for Refugees said that Greece has no rights under its authority over you. You’d better start obeying your High Commission masters; or else. Better go tell Leonidas and his 300 Spartans to stand down immediately. Okay that may be too late but you have to stop what your doing now which is in the same spirit.

    The Islamic Hijrah is the use of the massive migrations of Muslims to conquer and subjugate a territory. This is exactly what the totalitarian leaders of the European Union who are in league with Turkey’s dictator Erdogan are doing. To encourage the replacement of their own native peoples. That is except for the leaders of Poland, Hungary and to some extent now Italy and Greece.

    “The first thing you’ve got to do is study and understand what we’re up against. You must realize that this is not a religion that you’re fighting against. You’re fighting against a theo-political belief system and construct. You’re fighting against something that’s been doing this thing since 622 AD – 7th century – 1388 years. You want to dig up Charles Martel and ask him why he was fighting the Muslim army at the Battle of Tours in 732? You want to ask the Venetian fleet at LePonto why they were fighting a Muslim fleet in 1571? You want to ask the Christian – I mean the Germanic and Austrian – knights why they were fighting at the gates of Vienna in 1683? You want to ask people what happened at Constantinople and why today it’s called Istanbul? Because they lost that fight in 1543. You need to get into the Qur’an, you need to understand their precepts, you need to read the Sunnah, you need to read the Hadith and then you can really understand this is not a perversion: They are doing exactly what this book says. I want to close by saying this, and I think we’ve said this all through this morning so far: Until we get principled leadership in the United States that is willing to say that, we will continue to chase our tail, because we will never clearly define who this enemy is and then understand their goals and objectives – which is on any jihadist website – and then come up with the right and proper goals and objectives to not only secure our republic, but to secure western civilization.” – quote is from Allen West at the Hudson Institute at the Reclaim American Liberty Conference on January 13, 2010.

  6. https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1234434419575754753

    Erdogan deliberately moves prisoners to the border.

    It’s interesting through German media how the narrative has fallen apart so quickly. COMPLETELY. There were a few thousands tweets with “#wirhabenplatz” (we have room) organized by German pro-migrant organizations. Again, trying to plant their desires on everyone else, but the reality is these people aren’t the majority, by a longshot. Reading though everywhere, it’s the same thing: Die Zeit, Die Welt, Der Spiegel, the comments are unanimous about people not getting though, this is Erdogan’s bullying only. Interesting how all the sudden most stories from Der Spiegel and Die Zeit on the border crisis have mysteriously disappeared from the front page. Isn’t that interesting? Hopeless cretins, they know what’s happening. No more support for you! Von der Leyen is going to the border and to make sure its protected. Language is significant here, taboos are being broken by the minute. All of its sounds naive, but there are so many barriers in place now: Well defended Greek and Bulgarian borders, closed off Visegrad, people from Merkel’s own party verbally opposed to open doors, Merkel having said herself 2015 wouldn’t happen again, entire parties opposed to it in parliament with the ability to pass a vote of no confidence and call for new elections etc. Based on everything that’s happened, it just sounds too good to be true, well it isn’t perfect already because there are plenty of trouble makers already in Europe, but stopping another wave? That’s huge for the right. In fact, its more impossible to think how they could manage to get the balkan route open again. Oh Erdogan, you Turkish fool, you might have just saved Europe from Islam.

  7. Is there any way the German correspondents could go to twitter and just spam all the #wirhabenplatz tweets with the images and videos ive posted? lol

    might redpill the lefties

    • The fake news refuses to say that a man groped his little daughters behind at a childrens swimming pool. The British police and their press always slanders Tommy and press false charges against him. I think he is an hero.

  8. Free Speech Extinguished in Northern Ireland:
    She [the judge] explained that, in her view, the necessity to clamp down on criticism of immigration (hate speech) trumped freedom of speech.

    Britain First, Paul Golding’s appeal, 2020.03.03

    Paul Golding’s appeal against conviction for hate speech – handing out leaflets opposing immigration – was not successful. His conviction was upheld, and a fine imposed.

  9. Towards the end of Soviet Onion it was still quite common to hear youth jabber away the propaganda that it was the west and not the east that was collapsing. Today in the non UK part of Ireland you can hear the completely closed minded-in-bruxelleezer rant about necessity to surrender to migrant invasion now. Always wondered what an Irish Indoctrinated One would sound like given the public airwaves. Could be Soviet or Reich.

  10. Perhaps GoV should also write about invasion of Chinese oppressive culture into Europe which is more subtle but as bad though not as obvious as their Islamic counterpart intrusion into Europe.
    It is a known fact that their Asian culture have always oppressed anyone who tried to criticise their Islamic or Asiatic culture.

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