Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/3/2020

27 more deaths from the Wuhan Coronavirus have been reported in Italy, bringing the country’s total to 79. Meanwhile, 68 people who are suspected to have been infected with the disease have been hospitalized in Poland, but there are no confirmed cases. Also, Pope Francis, who has been suffering from some sort of upper respiratory infection, has tested negative for the coronavirus.

In other news, in today’s Super Tuesday Democrat primary, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg won all six delegates for American Samoa.

To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.

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

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Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

Financial Crisis
» Poland’s Unemployment Rate at 2.9 Pct in January — Eurostat
» Stocks Tumble After Fed’s Emergency Rate Cut, 10-Year Treasury Yield Breaks 1%
 
USA
» A Thumbnail Sketch of President Trump’s Performance as POTUS
» Apple to Pay Out $500 Million for Slowing Down iPhone
» Conservative Inc.: Seb Gorka is the CPAC Thought Police
» Coronavirus: The Contagion of Propaganda
» Democrats Using Lenin’s Playbook to Move the U.S. To Socialism Enslavement
» Deranged: Councilwoman Tweets Support for the Spread of Coronavirus to Trump Supporters
» Former Gov. Blagojevich Underestimated the Deep State and Ended Up With a 14 Year Sentence — Now He Wants to Get the Truth Out About the Deep State Actors Who Targeted Him
» How the DOJ Protected Pedophiles and Got Away With Election Meddling in Alaska — Part 5 of the CMU Series
» Joe Biden Taps Beto O’Rourke to Lead Gun Control Effort
» Michael Bloomberg Called Out for Hypocrisy on Gun Control at Town Hall Event (Video)
» Michael Bloomberg Projected to Win American Samoa, Claiming His First Victory of the Primary Season, CNN and ABC Say
» New York Emergency Room Doctor: There Will be “Thousands” of Confirmed Cases in the U.S. “by Next Week”
» Obama Holdover Made the Call to Fly Coronavirus Patients Back to the US From Japan — Then Boasted About it
» School Cop Tasked With ‘Protecting’ Young Children Arrested for Child Sex Trafficking
» Super Tuesday: Track Live Updates and Results
» Trump Reviews Mexican Restaurant After Leftists Attacked Owner for Support
» Trump Headed to Tennessee After Tornadoes Kill at Least 22, Leave Destruction
» Trump Campaign Sues Washington Post Over “False and Defamatory” Russia Collusion Claims
» US Coronavirus Deaths Climb to 9 as Washington State Confirms New Fatalities
» Waitress Attempts to Boot Milo From Restaurant, Ends Up Getting Fired
 
Canada
» Anglican Diocese of Toronto Suspends Service of Communion Wine Over Coronavirus Concerns
» Anti-Pipeline Protestors Set Up New Blockade in Montreal
» Breaking: Two New Cases of Coronavirus Confirmed in Ontario
» Censorship Coming Under Proposed Canadian Communications Commission
» Exclusive: Islamic Speaker Who Defended Pedophilia and Slammed Christians Invited to Speak at York University
» Pro-Blockade #ShutDownCanada Hashtag Was Promoted by Bots
» Quebec Moms Fight Back Against Canadian School-Enforced Islamic Expression
» Scientific Study Claims Liberals Are Having Fewer Male Babies Because…
» Trudeau’s Environment Minister Blames Climate Change for Low Birth Rate
 
Europe and the EU
» Breaking: Tommy Robinson Arrested After Altercation With Man Who Allegedly “Molested” His Daughter
» Brexit: UK Won’t ‘Trade Away Fishing’ For EU Deal Says Minister as French Threaten ‘Nasty Battle’
» EU Investigates Hungarian Government Suspension of Access to Transit Zones Due to Coronavirus Threat
» Finland: Anger After Town Wastes Tax Money on Dance Video to Stop Rapes
» Germany: AfD Leader Injured in Arson Attack
» Italy May Set Up New Quarantine Zone as Coronavirus Death Toll Jumps
» Pope Francis Tests Negative for Coronavirus Infection
» Sixty-Eight Hospitalised for Suspected Coronavirus in Poland — Ministry
» Sweden Teacher: Those Opposed to Islamic Headscarf Should Leave the Country
» UK: Boris Reveals Coronavirus Battle Plan, More Outbreaks ‘Highly Likely’, But for Now it’s Business as Usual for Britain
» UK: Prime Minister Raab? Boris Will Take Paternity Leave This Summer
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Israeli Election Results in Real Time — 99.5% of Polling Stations Counted
 
Middle East
» 8% of Iran’s Parliament Has the Coronavirus, And it Released 54,000 Prisoners as the Country Descends Into Chaos
» Video Erdogan Framed Turkish Military Offensive as Religious War
 
Russia
» Russian AK Competition is More American Than Most American Things
 
South Asia
» ISIS Behind Anti-CAA Protests & Riots in Delhi!
 
Far East
» “Pandemic Proportions”: COVID-19 is Starting to Spiral Out of Control All Over the Globe
» Air Pollution Vanishes Across China After Factory Closures
» Chinese Architect Suggests Walking Around in a Bubble (Literally) To Avoid Coronavirus
» Coronavirus Live Updates: South Korea Cases Cross 5,000 as China Confirms 119 More
» COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak
» WHO Says Coronavirus Death Rate is 3.4% Globally, Higher Than Previously Thought
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australia Free of Bushfires After More Than 240 Days of Them Raging
» ‘I Am Absolutely Disgusted!’: Pauline Hanson Slams Government’s New Regional Visa Plans Which Will Allow Foreigners Full Access to Benefits if They Can’t Get a Job
» No Toilet Paper Left in Supermarket Ahead of Coronavirus Outbreak
» Police Refuse to Rule Out Charging Father and Son Who Allegedly Beat Armed Robber After Gunman Fired Shots During Hold-Up — So Did They Go Too Far or Was the Beating Justified?
» Shopper Snaps Astonishing Scenes of Panicked Australians Stockpiling 48-Pack Rolls of Toilet Paper at Costco Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Nigerian Bishops March to Protest Massacre of Christians
 
Latin America
» Corona Beer Sales Curbed 10 Percent by Coronavirus
» Vatican Sends Top 2 Sex Crimes Investigators to Mexico
 
Immigration
» Cyprus Sees Surge in Migrants After Turkey Opens Border
» Erdogan Warns ‘Millions of Refugees’ Will Move to Turkey’s Border With EU
» Erdogan Accused Greece Falsly of Killing Two Migrants
» EU Border Agency Warns of Mass Migration to Greece
» EU Pledges Aid to Greece as Migrants Mass on Border With Turkey
» Greek Forces Boldly Defend EU’s Borders as Erdogan Accused of Freeing Prisoners to Aid Migrant ‘Invasion’
» Greek Orthodox Church Trashed by ‘Refugees’
» Hungary Sends Police Units to Serbia, North Macedonia
» Marine Le Pen Calls for Referendum to Stop “Submersion” Of France Via Mass Immigration
» Thousands of Migrants Look for Way Around Shut Greek Border
» Toronto’s Illegal Border Crossers Costing Taxpayers $77 Million a Year
» Turkish Human Trafficker Brags: ‘I’Ve Filled Europe With Immigrants’
» UK: Suspected Illegal Migrants Found in Container at Hull Dock
 
Culture Wars
» Democrats Use Migrants to Smuggle the Transgender Ideology Into U.S. Law
» Northam Signs “Conversion Therapy” Ban for Minors in Virginia
» PBS Reboots ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ With Character Having Two Lesbian ‘Moms’
» Researchers Say “Problematic Content” on YouTube Has Tanked, But Call for YouTube to Kill More
» Schools Are Spying on Students — But Students Can Fight Back
» School in Brooklyn Hands Out “Drag Queen in Training” Stickers to 4-Year-Olds
» UK: ‘Ethical Vegan’ Wins Landmark Case in ‘Discriminatory’ Sacking
» UK: Council Removes “Transphobic” Flags Because They Displayed the Dictionary Definition of the Word ‘Woman’
» UK: Woman ‘Rushed’ Into Gender Reassignment as a Teen Suing NHS
» Video: Drag Queen Teaches Toddlers How to Twerk
» West Virginia Gov. Signs Bill Requiring Medical Care for Babies Born Alive After Surviving Abortions
» YouTube Deletes I, Hypocrite’s Channel, Claims Debate Video is “Hate Speech”
 

Poland’s Unemployment Rate at 2.9 Pct in January — Eurostat

Poland’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate reached 2.9 percent in January 2020, Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office reported on Tuesday.

According to Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), the unemployment rate in the country rose to 5.5 percent in January 2020 from 5.2 percent a month earlier.

The discrepancy between GUS and Eurostat figures results from the use of different methodologies.

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

Stocks Tumble After Fed’s Emergency Rate Cut, 10-Year Treasury Yield Breaks 1%

The Federal Reserve’s emergency rate failed to calm skittish investors.

U.S. equity markets tumbled and the 10-year Treasury yield hit a record low after Chairman Jerome Powell explained the intra-meeting rate cut was designed to cushion the economy from any coronavirus-related fallout.

The Dow Jones Industrials sank nearly 800 points or 3 percent and traded in a more than 700-point range, swinging between gains and losses, as investors digested the Fed’s move.

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also lost close to 3 percent.

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

A Thumbnail Sketch of President Trump’s Performance as POTUS

It cannot be denied that President Trump has derailed or at least delayed the socialist/communist makeover/takeover of the US. He has successfully branded the corporate/mainstream media as the “fake news media” and “the enemy of the American people”. He is the first leader or conservative of note with the temerity to do so. Some other noteworthy actions by the President include the beginnings of an assault on the outlandish sanctuary jurisdiction mania of the blue cities and states, increased efforts against the plague of human trafficking, appointing nearly 200 conservative justices to fill vacancies at several levels of the federal judiciary, and eliminating a multitude of rules and regulations that hamper small and medium sized businesses from operating efficiently and at lower costs.

Although he talks about it, he has done nothing, however, whether through executive order or otherwise, to break up the corrupt, unaccountable fake news media monopoly that has caused so much damage to the United States while operating as essentially commissars of the Deep State. The same may be said regarding the high tech tyrants of Facebook, Google, Pay Pal, Amazon, etc. who are denying patriots and conservatives their free speech rights under the First Amendment, de-platforming organizations and entities that are in no wise unpatriotic or dangerous in any way, ruining or greatly hampering the ability of organizations to accept credit card payments, and removing publications for sale or distribution that that go against establishment narratives and pet/pat establishment versions of historical events. These virulent Un-American censorship policies represent the transition from a democracy to a dictatorship that democracies invariably devolve into. The “go to” entities that the corporate entities go to decide who is a “hate group” that can be discriminated against are invariably the worst hate groups themselves, such as the SPLC, the ADL, and increasingly the ACLU, who are out to transform America into their dreadfully deranged image of what they would like the US to become. This is what “cultural communism” is—a softer and gradual way to transform a society into a communistic one. The only difference between the US and the USSR are the gulags are the physical persecutions that the latter employed—and we may be coming to that sooner rather than later.

Similarly, Trump has not cracked down on the communist thugs/dregs of Antifa, which still virtually has a free hand to verbally and physically attack activists who support the President, some who engage in mundane activities like handing out campaign literature, and even everyday supporters who wear MAGA hats.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Apple to Pay Out $500 Million for Slowing Down iPhone

Apple Inc. will settle litigation accusing it of slowing down older iPhones to the tune of $500 million in compensation to owners who had to buy replacement phones and batteries, according to The Epoch Times.

The initial complaints over slow iPhones garnered an apology from Apple and they lowered the price for replacement batteries from $79 to $29.

Apple maintains their innocence, denying any wrongdoing and claimed to have settled the case only to avoid the cost of litigation, according to court documents.

The settlement requires Apple to pay consumers $25 per iPhone, a number which may increase or decrease depending on how many phones are eligible. Apple will have to fork over a minimum total payout of $310 million.

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

Conservative Inc.: Seb Gorka is the CPAC Thought Police

Talk show host Sebastian Gorka was ridiculed after calling for the removal from CPAC of personalities he didn’t like then asserting that he supports free speech.

Following reporter Owen Shroyer’s arbitrary removal from the conference this weekend, for which no reason was given, Gorka told fellow reporter Harrison Smith that Infowars people were “crazy kooks and conspiracy theorists.”

“So we shouldn’t be allowed to be here?” asked Smith.

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

Coronavirus: The Contagion of Propaganda

by Jon Rappoport

As my readers know, I’ve been presenting evidence that this so-called viral epidemic is unproven. I’ve detailed the fraud from a number of angles (archive here).

Here I want to comment on the true contagion of propaganda.

The press is piling on, as it always does. A story, true or false—it doesn’t matter—describes how basic items are disappearing from store shelves in a town like there’s no tomorrow.

The STORY causes fear. So more products disappear from store shelves in more places. Now a NEW story with photos of empty shelves takes center stage. More fear. More panic buying. And so forth and so on. The build-out of propaganda.

The psychological equation is: if there is fear, then the virus must be dangerous. But this is actually like saying: if a man walking on a street at night believes a mugger is about to parachute out of the sky, the sky-mugger must be real.

The story the press should be featuring is: “our coverage of so-called panic is creating panic.” RUN THAT PIECE.

“Today in Manhattan, six greed-head editors of major newspapers and television news outlets met to discuss how their coverage is causing more and more fear. They agreed they were collaborating to incur a desired reaction…”

“Hey, guess what?” five hundred thousand readers and viewers of mainstream news say immediately. “THEY’RE making us afraid.” If only that could happen, we’d be living in a different world.

The press is also cross-cutting stories. This technique works well. In the middle of a piece about empty store shelves, we’re suddenly treated to a statement from some public health official, who says, “Epidemic cases are coming to America. We can’t stop them.” Now you have two themes; each one gives added strength to the other. But wait. There’s more. In the SAME STORY, we read or hear about a man in Montana or Arizona who has been identified as a carrier of the virus. He’s being sequestered in a hospital. It’s a triple play. Three streams of nonsense pouring into one another.

We’re not nearly finished yet, because…social media. Someone takes the above story and flashes it on Twitter. Comments stretch out. A Twitter reader with a YouTube account sits down and turns out a quick video and posts it. His twist is: this is the big one; doomsday; it’s a planned attack using the coronavirus.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrats Using Lenin’s Playbook to Move the U.S. To Socialism Enslavement

The Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries’ playbook is still in use today by the Democratic-Socialist Party and its weaponized use should sound the alarm and instill fear in all clear-thinking, patriotic American citizens, according to former U.S. intelligence analyst and ex-police officer Gerald Brookhaven.

“In 1917, the Bolsheviks used Russia’s losses during World War I to incite a revolt that overthrew Czar Nicholas and created the beginning of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic,” Brookhaven said on Friday, just hours before President Donald Trump held a rally in South Carolina at which he reported on the coronavirus to the American people.

Like the original Leninists in Russia, the Democratic Party is attempting to use the fear and discontent falsely created by the far-left Democrats, their news media comrades and activist groups in order to sell socialism and Marxism to the millions of uneducated or overly indoctrinated Americans and foreigners living in the United States.

“Far-left extremists are taking over the Democrat Party and pose a clear and present danger to our democracy,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who gained national prestige during his defense of President Donald Trump during the Democratic Party’s and news media’s unending attempts at overthrowing the current administration.

The Democrat Party is on the verge of making history: the probability of a socialist at the top of their ticket is increasing every day. Whoever emerges victorious will be the most radical presidential nominee in the history of the Democratic party, according to William “Wild Bill” O’Shea, a former police inspector and county prosecutor.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Deranged: Councilwoman Tweets Support for the Spread of Coronavirus to Trump Supporters

Denver Councilwoman, Candi CdeBaca is receiving backlash after her response to a controversial tweet posted on Friday.

CdeBaca quoted a since-deleted tweet that said, “For the record, if I do get the coronavirus I’m attending every MAGA rally I can.”

The Councilwoman responded by saying, “#Solidarity Yaaaas!!”

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

Former Gov. Blagojevich Underestimated the Deep State and Ended Up With a 14 Year Sentence — Now He Wants to Get the Truth Out About the Deep State Actors Who Targeted Him

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is now free. It’s time for him to drop the goods on former Illinois Senator — President Barack Obama and the Deep State gang of dirty cops led by partners in crime, Mueller and Comey.

As previously reported, former FBI Directors Mueller and Comey were not only involved in the fraudulent Trump — Russia sham and protecting Hillary Clinton before the 2016 election, but they also were involved in protecting incoming President Barack Obama in the 2008 election and they were involved in the Valerie Plame scandal known as Plamegate.

The Mueller — Comey gang committed their crimes by projecting the crimes of those they protected (i.e. Obama or Hillary) onto a chosen target (i.e. Governor Blago or President Trump).

Blago’s case is not unique…

We now know the Deep State was doing all it could to protect President Obama who they determined was not going to be held accountable for his corrupt actions in Chicago politics. The Deep State hacks who protected Obama are the same people who went after President Trump. They will do it again if not stopped.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

How the DOJ Protected Pedophiles and Got Away With Election Meddling in Alaska — Part 5 of the CMU Series

‘When a government decides what we can eat, what we must buy and what we are allowed to think, we no longer have life.’

The DOJ had altered the balance of power in the U.S. Senate with its “Operation Polar Pen,” based in my home state of Alaska. Federal prosecutors from the DOJ’s “Public Integrity Section” used a trial in U.S. District Court about two years earlier to sideline elder-statesman Ted Stevens, a popular incumbent GOP senator whom I had endorsed from the podium at many grass-roots rallies packed with thousands of supporters. The Democrats then enjoyed a filibuster-proof supermajority with exactly 60 votes in the Senate.

“In nearly 25 years on the bench,” fumed Judge Emmet G. Sullivan once some of the underlying details of the Stevens prosecution emerged, “I’ve never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I’ve seen in this case.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Joe Biden Taps Beto O’Rourke to Lead Gun Control Effort

During a Monday evening campaign stop in Dallas, Texas, Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden said Robert “Beto” O’Rourke will “be the one who leads” Biden’s gun control push.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Michael Bloomberg Called Out for Hypocrisy on Gun Control at Town Hall Event (Video)

Michael Bloomberg got called out big time by a questioner at his FOX News town hall event on Monday night.

The man who asked the question wanted to know if Bloomberg’s life is more important than his or his family’s. It’s a great point considering Bloomberg is protected by men with some of the same guns he wants to ban for everyone else.

The Daily Caller reports:

Audience Member Calls Out Bloomberg For Pushing Gun Control While Using Armed Guards: ‘Does Your Life Matter More Than Mine?’

An audience member called out former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg for “pushing for more gun control” when he has “an armed security detail.”

“How do you justify pushing for more gun control when you have an armed security detail that’s likely equipped with the same firearms and magazines that you seek to ban the common citizen from owning?” the man asked at a Monday evening Fox News town hall in Manassas, Virginia. “Does your life matter more than mine or my family’s or these peoples’?”

The audience applauded before Bloomberg’s answer.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Michael Bloomberg Projected to Win American Samoa, Claiming His First Victory of the Primary Season, CNN and ABC Say

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg won the caucuses in American Samoa — his first win of the night — according to CNN and ABC.

As a territory, Samoa does not cast any electoral votes for president in the general election, but it does play a role in the primary process by pledging 6 delegates on Super Tuesday through its caucus in the territorial capital of Pago Pago.

Networks made the projection based mostly on exit polling in the state.

Bloomberg’s campaign said it had a field office in the territory, with 7 full-time staff, and investments in radio, print, and digital advertising. Samoan Chief Fa’alagiga Nina Tua’au-Glaude, who had been a delegate for President Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, endorsed Bloomberg on Monday.

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

New York Emergency Room Doctor: There Will be “Thousands” of Confirmed Cases in the U.S. “by Next Week”

Dr. Matt McCarthy, a staff physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, just went on national television and warned that there will be “thousands” of confirmed coronavirus cases inside the United States “by next week”. I certainly hope that he is completely wrong, but obviously he has a better vantage point for observing the progression of this outbreak than any of us do. As an emergency room doctor in New York, he is dealing with potential COVID-19 cases every single day. And as you will see below, he says that he has had to “plead to test people” and that it is a “national scandal” that more people have not been tested.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Obama Holdover Made the Call to Fly Coronavirus Patients Back to the US From Japan — Then Boasted About it

President Trump was reportedly furious after a State Department doctor ignored the President’s orders and allowed Americans, sick with the coronavirus, to return to the US from Japan. Dr. William Walters, Executive Director and Managing Director for Operational Medicine for the Bureau of Medical Services at the U.S. Department of State, made the decision to bring the patients back to the US.

Dr. William Walters is a holdover from the Obama administration.

The good doctor made the call despite the president’s wishes and then went out and bragged about it.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

School Cop Tasked With ‘Protecting’ Young Children Arrested for Child Sex Trafficking

here are so many cases each week of police officers getting caught with child porn or sexually assaulting children that TFTP cannot report on all of them. However, the following case out of Missouri is so disconcerting that we felt it was necessary to make a point. Child predators often seek out positions of authority which allow them to carry out their sick desires while garnering the trust of those around them. Poplar Bluff police officer Brandon Michael Hopper was one of these predators.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Super Tuesday: Track Live Updates and Results

Super Tuesday has commenced.

Track live results, updates, and analysis from:

  • Fox News
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Associated Press
  • The Hill
  • Breitbart
  • FiveThirtyEight
  • CBS
  • New York Times
  • ABC
  • CNN

           — 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:…

The couple have also experienced vandalism to their business in the past because of their vocal support for the President.

“Just because we are Latinos, it doesn’t mean that we have to feel like every other Latino in this country,” Jorge said in the video, adding “We are individuals and we feel that we have the constitutional right to meet and support whoever we want.”

As “naturalized United States citizens we have the right to support President Trump or to support any other candidate that loves this country,” Mr Rivas urged.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Headed to Tennessee After Tornadoes Kill at Least 22, Leave Destruction

President Trump announced that he will visit Tennessee later this week in the wake of two deadly tornadoes that killed at least 22 people and left a trail of destruction on Tuesday morning.

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

Trump Campaign Sues Washington Post Over “False and Defamatory” Russia Collusion Claims

The Trump reelection campaign on Tuesday announced it is suing The Washington Post for libel, the second time in less than a week that the campaign has targeted a news organization over claims related to the Russia conspiracy.

Trump affiliates filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The suit alleges that The Post in June of 2019 published “100 percent false and defamatory” allegations that the Trump 2016 campaign was financially connected to Russian influence during that election.

The complaint says that the newspaper was aware of the alleged falsity of the claims when it ran them. Awareness of a falsehood is one of the necessary conditions for establishing a successful libel lawsuit under U.S. law.

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

US Coronavirus Deaths Climb to 9 as Washington State Confirms New Fatalities

Washington state health officials on Tuesday identified three new coronavirus fatalities, including two patients who died on Feb. 26 and weren’t previously linked to COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths in the U.S. to nine.

The two patients who died that day were affiliated with the Life Care Center of Kirkland, where several residents have fallen ill and at least three others have died. One of the patients, a female resident in her 80s, died in her family home. The other patient, a 54-year-old man, was transferred to the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle from Life Care on Feb. 24 and had underlying medical conditions, the hospital said in a statement.

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

Waitress Attempts to Boot Milo From Restaurant, Ends Up Getting Fired

A waitress who attempted to have Milo Yiannopoulos removed from a restaurant in New Jersey for being “racist” was subsequently fired after Milo contacted the owners of the restaurant.

Milo said he went for supper at The Fox & Falcon with his black husband and another black friend but that “it turned out our table was insufficiently diverse for the waitress.”

The waitress tweeted that she had loudly asked near Milo’s table “why do we allow racist, sexist, antisemitic trash here?”

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

Anglican Diocese of Toronto Suspends Service of Communion Wine Over Coronavirus Concerns

Parishioners at Toronto’s Anglican churches will receive communion in bread form only as the diocese responds to the spread of coronavirus.

The Anglican Diocese of Toronto announced Monday that “the time has come to alter our liturgical practices.”

“As was the case during the SARS epidemic of 2003, here in the Diocese of Toronto we are suspending the sharing of the common cup at celebrations of the Eucharist. Presiding celebrants are to consecrate both the bread and the wine, and to consume in both kinds, but to administer only the bread to the rest of the congregation,” Bishop Andrew Asbil said in a statement. “This protocol is effective today and to be continued until further notice.”

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

Anti-Pipeline Protestors Set Up New Blockade in Montreal

Anti-pipeline protestors have blocked the railway tracks in Montreal’s Pointe-Saint-Charles neighbourhood. It was set up on Monday in support with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs who are against the proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline.

This most recent barricade is in response to senior ministers of the federal government, the B.C. provincial government and hereditary chiefs who had a meeting to strike a proposed agreement on land rights.

The group, calling itself Southwest Solidarity With Wet’suwet’en, laid the barricade on a train bridge over Wellington Street. They released a statement saying the blockade is a result of the presence of RCMP and the Coastal GasLink pipeline on the territory in northern B.C.

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

Breaking: Two New Cases of Coronavirus Confirmed in Ontario

Ontario has confirmed that there are two more confirmed cases of coronavirus, bringing the number of cases in Ontario up to 20.

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

Censorship Coming Under Proposed Canadian Communications Commission

The underlying message of the federal government’s new plans for a regulatory Communications Commission is that the government is here to help curate the internet for Canadians. The proposed Commission would decide what sort of online content is to be “trusted.” It may be meant to comfort complacent Canadians, but it isn’t comforting at all. Such a gambit would provide the administrative state the ability to restrict media that it simply doesn’t like, under the guise of wanting to protect us all from “harmful content.”

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

Exclusive: Islamic Speaker Who Defended Pedophilia and Slammed Christians Invited to Speak at York University

York University’s Muslim Student Association invited a homophobic Islamic speaker who has defended pedophilia to give a lecture on the topic, “Is Islam True?”

The York University MSA invited Daniel Haqiqatjou, who has called Christians “criminals,” and condemned Muslims for “Sneak[ing] LGBT normalization into our Mosques.”

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

Pro-Blockade #ShutDownCanada Hashtag Was Promoted by Bots

While protesters were erecting illegal blockades across Canada, social media bots were promoting and sharing the trending #ShutDownCanada hashtag on Twitter.

True North used an AI algorithm to detect how many of the nearly 10,000 Twitter accounts that tweeted the hashtag over 40,000 times showed signs of being bots.

Out of 9,899 accounts analyzed from Feb. 20 to 27, 10% were flagged as having some or a high probability of being bots.

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

Quebec Moms Fight Back Against Canadian School-Enforced Islamic Expression

Just about every anglophone pundit in Canada thinks Quebec’s Bill 21, which proscribes religious symbolism in many civil-service jobs, notably in public school teaching, is a terrible, anti-immigrant, even racist law that goes against everything Canada allegedly stands for. I am one of the few who has argued that a commitment not only to secularism, but the appearance of secularism when representing the state, as an expression of the common social vision, is justifiable and even worthy of praise.

Nobody has ever pretended that any woman wearing a cross around her neck or any man wearing a kippah was the impetus for this bill. Everyone understands that it is the hijab that is the irritant. And many hijab-wearing Muslim women happen to gravitate toward teaching as a profession. One of my arguments in support of the bill was that the hijab was more than “just” a head covering.

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

Scientific Study Claims Liberals Are Having Fewer Male Babies Because…

Orange Man Bad.

A new peer reviewed scientific study has suggested that Liberals in Canada are having fewer male babies because they are too traumatised about Donald Trump becoming the US President.

That’s right, Orange man is so bad it caused NPC babies to come out all girly.

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Trudeau’s Environment Minister Blames Climate Change for Low Birth Rate

Justin Trudeau’s Minister for the Environment Jonathan Wilkinson has said that climate change is to blame for Canada’s low birth rate, despite all evidence pointing to the contrary.

During a speech to the Vancouver Board of Trade, Wilkinson said “It is no wonder that youth around the world are fed up with our generation,” according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

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Breaking: Tommy Robinson Arrested After Altercation With Man Who Allegedly “Molested” His Daughter

by Reece Coombes

Tommy Robinson has been arrested after an altercation at Centre Parcs with a man who allegedly “molested” Tommy’s 8-year-old daughter.

Please note: this is a developing story and is presented as accurately as possible with the current information available. Please check regularly for updates as more information is available.

Robinson was on a family day out yesterday with his wife and children, when his 8-year-old daughter told her father a man had walked past her and “squeezed her bottom cheek”, according to Tommy’s news site.

Robinson then asked his daughter to point out the man, and then he approached the man she pointed out. Tommy asked him about the incident, when the man allegedly admitted to “pinching her bum”, but claimed it was an accident.

According again to Tommy’s news site, when the man tried to get away from Tommy, he grabbed him and called for the security team to alert them about what had happened, when an altercation broke out. It is unclear at this stage exactly how the altercation started.

When the police arrived, they arrested Tommy and released the alleged paedophile with no charges.

Tommy has now been released from custody, though it is unclear whether he will be charged with any crime.

Tommy has released a video about his arrest which you can watch here. We cannot include the video in this report due to YouTube censorship.

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Brexit: UK Won’t ‘Trade Away Fishing’ For EU Deal Says Minister as French Threaten ‘Nasty Battle’

International trade secretary Liz Truss has said that the UK will not “trade away” Britain’s fishing waters in exchange for a deal with the EU, the remarks coming after France’s Europe minister said that negotiations could collapse over fishing rights.

“We are not going to trade away our fishing in a deal with the EU or any other negotiating partner. We are going to get a deal with the EU that does not involve selling out our fishing,” Ms Truss told BBC Breakfast on Monday.

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EU Investigates Hungarian Government Suspension of Access to Transit Zones Due to Coronavirus Threat

The European Commission is examining a measure announced this weekend concerning the transit zone, which states that Hungary will suspend asylum seekers’ access to transit zones indefinitely because of the risk of coronavirus infection, daily Népszava writes.

Adalbert Jahnz, European Commission spokesperson for migration, home affairs, and citizenship explained to the leftist newspaper that Member States’ steps to stop the spread of infection should be preceded by risk assessments and scientific advice. The measures shall be proportionate to the size of the threat and should also be coordinated with the other Member States. In addition, the provisions should be brought in line with the principle of the non-refoulement of asylum seekers and with EU asylum law.

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Finland: Anger After Town Wastes Tax Money on Dance Video to Stop Rapes

The town Oulo In Northern Finland had its own grooming gang scandal last year, where Finnish girls as young as ten were abused by migrants.

Now the town has launched a tax-payer funded project called “The Safe Oulo Project” which aims to fight against sexual offences. The cost of the project was 2.5 million euros.

From that 2.5 million euros, the result has been less than stellar; a short music video on the teen social media platform TikTok. The video shows five people dancing to a song that says: “Stop, don’t touch me there, this is my no-no square”.

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Germany: AfD Leader Injured in Arson Attack

AfD leader Tino Chrupalla was injured during an arson attack on his car on Monday night. Enemies of Chrupalla set fire to his Volkswagen Caddy that was parked on his property in Görlitz, a town in eastern Germany not far from the Polish border.

When attempting to put the fire out, the AfD leader — who last November was nominated by Alexander Gauland to replace him as co-chairman — inhaled toxic fumes and had to be treated at the hospital for several hours for smoke poisoning, German weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit reports.

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Italy May Set Up New Quarantine Zone as Coronavirus Death Toll Jumps

ROME (Reuters) — Italy’s health authorities said on Tuesday they may set up a new quarantine red zone to try to contain the coronavirus outbreak in Europe’s worst-hit country, after the death toll and the number of cases jumped.

Twenty-seven people died of the highly contagious illness in Italy over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of dead to 79, the Civil Protection Agency said. The increase in deaths was the largest since the outbreak surfaced 12 days ago in the wealthy northern regions of Lombardy and Veneto.

It remains centered in the north, with Lombardy by far the worst affected, but it has since spread south and infections have now been confirmed in all but one of Italy’s 20 regions.

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Pope Francis Tests Negative for Coronavirus Infection

ROME — Pope Francis submitted himself to a test for coronavirus as a precaution, Italian media reported Tuesday, and the test results have come back negative.

Francis has been sick for several days with a cold and stayed home this week from his yearly Lenten retreat for the first time in seven years, provoking rumors in some quarters that perhaps the pope had been infected with the virus.

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Sixty-Eight Hospitalised for Suspected Coronavirus in Poland — Ministry

The Health Ministry told PAP on Tuesday evening that 68 people have been hospitalised and are undergoing tests for suspected coronavirus in Poland, 316 have been put in domestic quarantine while over 4,459 have been placed under epidemiological supervision.

To date, no case of disease caused by coronavirus has been confirmed in Poland.

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Sweden Teacher: Those Opposed to Islamic Headscarf Should Leave the Country

A teacher in Sweden has expressed strongly-worded opposition to a mooted ban on religious headscarves in schools, saying that those opposed to the garment have no place in the country at all.

Naouel Aissaoui, who is employed as a teacher in the municipality and follows the Muslim faith, said she will defy any ban on the Islamic headscarf, also known as the hijab, which she wears.

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UK: Boris Reveals Coronavirus Battle Plan, More Outbreaks ‘Highly Likely’, But for Now it’s Business as Usual for Britain

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that it is “highly likely” there will be a “growing number” of coronavirus cases, with the government’s chief medical officer saying that around one per cent of Britons who contract the virus could die.

The government has released its coronavirus action plan, which outlines responses ranging from the scenario of a mild pandemic “with a low impact on services”, comparable to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, through to a prolonged pandemic comparable to the 1918 Spanish Flu that could result in pressure on public services and businesses.

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UK: Prime Minister Raab? Boris Will Take Paternity Leave This Summer

Boris Johnson has said that he will “almost certainly” take parental leave when his fiancée Carrie Symonds gives birth in the summer.

Asked during a Downing Street press conference on the government’s coronavirus plans whether he would be taking parental leave, Mr Johnson said: “Almost certainly, yes.”

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Israeli Election Results in Real Time — 99.5% of Polling Stations Counted

Final results must only be published next Monday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc of right-wing and religious parties remained on the edge of obtaining a blocking majority in the next Knesset late Tuesday night after the Central Election Committee completed counting 4,251,835 votes from 10,576 of the 10,631 regular polling stations, some 99.5% of all polling stations.

Among the votes that have already been counted, Netanyahu’s Likud won 35 seats, which together with Shas’s 10, United Torah Judaism’s seven and Yamina’s six would be 59 — two seats short of the 61 MKs needed for a majority.

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8% of Iran’s Parliament Has the Coronavirus, And it Released 54,000 Prisoners as the Country Descends Into Chaos

Iran is descending into chaos amid the coronavirus outbreak, with the government seemingly incapable of handling the scale of the crisis and going as far as to threaten the death penalty to those who hoard necessary materials or equipment.

At least 77 people have died in Iran from the virus so far, according to the official death toll, though the number could be much higher because of the government’s apparent efforts to hide the extent of the outbreak. Iran has over 2,300 confirmed cases.

A BBC News report, which cited hospital sources, on Friday said the death toll from coronavirus in Iran was actually 210.

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Video Erdogan Framed Turkish Military Offensive as Religious War

Dangerous Rhetoric:

President #Erdogan framed Turkish military cross-border offensive as religious war, recited a poem that describes Turkish army as the last army of Islam that dies for Allah. He promised that God supports #Turkey & everybody will see how capable the army is.

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Russian AK Competition is More American Than Most American Things

What could be more American than fried chicken, apple pie, and gun culture? After all, it was widespread ownership of firearms — and familiarity with them — that allowed our nation to be created in the first place.

Alas, it would seem that Russians are more American than most Americans, when it comes to teaching kids about guns at an early age. They have long held timed competitions in which young people take apart and reassemble AKs.

In this recent video, the youngest competitor is 6 years old… and the fastest was a 16-year-old who did the work in slightly less than 27 seconds. Second place went to a 14-year-old girl.

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ISIS Behind Anti-CAA Protests & Riots in Delhi!

Anti-CAA protests to Delhi Riots — The handiwork of Islamic State to ‘overthrow Modi’.

Vicky Nanjappa | My Nation OnLine | Bengaluru | March 2, 2020:: Ever since Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of India, there has been a sustained effort on part of both the Islamic radicals and the Left wing backed Naxalites to crush his government.

The Islamic radicals have been for long trying to send out a message that Modi is anti-Muslim. The protests around the newly amended citizenship law are clearly centred around a larger agenda and that is to wipe out the Modi government.

The latest threat:

The Al Talaal Media, a group on Telegram which is linked to the Islamic State has put out an article calling on the Indian Muslims to crush the Modi government. Crush the Modi government and join the Islamic State is the message the article sends out to the Indian Muslims.

The article also says that the Indian Muslims are being misguided in the name of nationalism. The Islamic State goes on to call the nationalism call as poison.

It also goes on to cite the communal riots of 2002 (in Gujarat) and the so-called oppression of Muslims in Delhi (during anti-CAA-NRC movements to the recent Riots in Feb, 2020).

ISIS recruitment:

The article spares no effort in spewing venom and portraying the Modi government as anti Muslim. Intelligence Bureau offcials, who have examined the article, tell MyNation+ that these protests are clearly engineered in a manner to incite Indian Muslims. The article is an attempt to turn every Indian Muslim into a radical. It is basically sending out a message to all Indian Muslims that their only hope is the Islamic State.

The article says that all Indian Muslims should join the caravan of the Islamic State, protect it and also establish a Caliphate. “Inshallah we will crush the fascist Modi government”, the article further goes on to state…

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“Pandemic Proportions”: COVID-19 is Starting to Spiral Out of Control All Over the Globe

This is already the most frightening virus outbreak that we have seen in the past several decades, and it appears that it is just getting started. A week ago, there were about 3,000 confirmed cases outside of China and now there are more than 10,000. 4,812 cases have been confirmed in South Korea, 2,036 cases have been confirmed in Italy, and 1,501 cases have been confirmed in Iran at this point. Of course by the time you actually read this article those numbers are likely to be significantly higher. It is like we are watching a really bad Hollywood disaster movie play out right in front of our eyes, and so far every effort to contain this virus has failed. On Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci stunned many people when he told NBC News that COVID-19 has likely reached “pandemic proportions”…

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Air Pollution Vanishes Across China After Factory Closures

China’s lockdown measures to minimize further coronavirus infections have created one unexpected benefit — a dramatic improvement to the nation’s air quality.

Satellites operated by NASA and the European Space Agency have detected significant drops of major airborne pollutants above vast swathes of the country.

Before-and-after images show how nitrogen dioxide levels plummeted in February compared to pre-lockdown January of this year.

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Chinese Architect Suggests Walking Around in a Bubble (Literally) To Avoid Coronavirus

Get in the bubble

A Chinese architect has designed a wearable bubble that he claims will protect people from the coronavirus by killing it with UV lights.

Dayong Sun claims that the lightweight carbon fiber frame can be worn like a backpack, with a thermoplastic material encasing the wearer and heating up to a temperature that will kill pathogens.

Sun says that the contraption effectively produces an enclosed sterilized environment.

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Coronavirus Live Updates: South Korea Cases Cross 5,000 as China Confirms 119 More

South Korea’s total confirmed cases stands at 5,328 as the death toll climbed to 32, according to KCDC data.

In China, a total of 80,270 people have been infected, with 49,856 people discharged and 2,981 dead, according to government figures.

New Zealand’s health ministry confirmed a woman in her 30s who recently returned to Auckland from northern Italy has the coronavirus — the country’s second case.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak

Coronavirus Cases:

93,154

view by country

Deaths:

3,202

Recovered:

50,944

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WHO Says Coronavirus Death Rate is 3.4% Globally, Higher Than Previously Thought

World health officials say the mortality rate for COVID-19 is 3.4% globally, higher than previous estimates of about 2%.

“Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press briefing at the agency’s headquarters in Geneva.

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Australia Free of Bushfires After More Than 240 Days of Them Raging

The state of New South Wales in Australia is now officially free of bushfires after enduring them for over 240 days, according to the NSW Rural Fire Service.

At least 28 people lost their lives and 3,000 homes were destroyed due to the fires. Over the months close to a billion animals were affected, according to CTV News.

The fire service announced that all of the New South Wales fires were contained on Feb. 13—the first time all season. Now they have all been extinguished.

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‘I Am Absolutely Disgusted!’: Pauline Hanson Slams Government’s New Regional Visa Plans Which Will Allow Foreigners Full Access to Benefits if They Can’t Get a Job

The program forces workers to live in regional areas of Australia for at least three years before they are able to apply for permanent residency, but lets them access welfare if they lose the job.

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No Toilet Paper Left in Supermarket Ahead of Coronavirus Outbreak

As the killer coronavirus threatens to become a global pandemic, toilet roll in particular is racing off shelves, with the country’s biggest manufacturers scrambling together a 24-hour production line.

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Police Refuse to Rule Out Charging Father and Son Who Allegedly Beat Armed Robber After Gunman Fired Shots During Hold-Up — So Did They Go Too Far or Was the Beating Justified?

Victoria Police have not yet said whether they will lay charges against a pair of Melbourne shopkeepers who fought back against a gunman who tried to rob them.

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Shopper Snaps Astonishing Scenes of Panicked Australians Stockpiling 48-Pack Rolls of Toilet Paper at Costco Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

An Australian woman has shared incredible images of Costco shoppers hurriedly purchasing 48-pack rolls of toilet paper for fear coronavirus could lead to a shortage of necessities.

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Nigerian Bishops March to Protest Massacre of Christians

Nigerian bishops and faithful staged a protest march on Sunday in the nation’s capital of Abuja to denounce the ongoing abductions and massacres of Christians by Islamist militants.

Led by the President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, Archbishop Augustine Akubueze, the protesters accused the federal government of Muhammadu Buhari of being insensitive to the plight of victims and ineffective in dealing with the violent epidemic.

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Corona Beer Sales Curbed 10 Percent by Coronavirus

The famous Mexican brewer Corona is taking a serious hit in the last quarter due to the similarity of their name to that of the COVID-19 coronavirus, which has claimed the lives of thousands worldwide. The brewer is facing the steepest decline in quarterly profits in more than a decade, claiming over $225 million in lost profit since the outbreak began.

USA Today reported last month that Google searches for “Corona beer virus” and “beer virus” spiked in the US amid other searches related to “coronavirus symptoms,” an increase of 1,050 percent according to The Evening Standard.

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Vatican Sends Top 2 Sex Crimes Investigators to Mexico

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is sending its top two sex crimes investigators to Mexico on a fact-finding and assistance mission as the Catholic hierarchy in the world’s second-largest Catholic country begins to reckon with decades of clergy sex abuse and cover-up.

Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu teamed up in 2018 to investigate the Chilean church and its wretched record of protecting pedophile priests — a bombshell expose that resulted in every active Chilean bishop offering to resign.

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Cyprus Sees Surge in Migrants After Turkey Opens Border

By Menelaos Hadjicostis, Associated Press

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is seeing a surge of migrants after Turkey’s president made good on a threat to stop intercepting people trying to reach Europe.

Cyprus, a member of the European Union, is a mere 51 miles (83 kilometers) away from Turkey at its nearest point.

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said 223 migrants reached the island’s south in the last 72 hours, 153 of them arriving Tuesday. Police said another boat ferrying 101 Syrian migrants reached Cypriot shores later Tuesday after setting sail from Mersin, Turkey.

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Erdogan Warns ‘Millions of Refugees’ Will Move to Turkey’s Border With EU

Turkish president says it’s “too late” to close border.

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Erdogan Accused Greece Falsly of Killing Two Migrants

By Remix News

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Greece on Monday of killing two migrants and seriously injuring another one at the Greek-Turkish border.

At a press conference after meeting with Bulgarian Prime Minister Bojko Borisov, Erdogan also said he rejected €1 billion that the European Union allegedly offered to help him manage migration.

As video footage of a migrant who appeared to be shot or injured circulated on social media, Erdogan claimed, “Greek soldiers had killed two migrants and severely wounded a third.”

The Greek government’s spokesperson said Erdogan’s statement on migrants being killed at the Greek border was misinformation, Reuters reported

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EU Border Agency Warns of Mass Migration to Greece

Brussels’ border agency Frontex has warned EU leaders of a large surge of migrants heading to Greece, according to a leaked report released on Monday by German media.

The Frontex report, which was delivered to EU officials over the weekend, expected “mass migration flows” to Greece after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened the gates for all asylum seekers last week.

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EU Pledges Aid to Greece as Migrants Mass on Border With Turkey

By Lefteris Papadimas and Alkis Konstantinidis

KASTANIES/LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) — European Union officials on Tuesday promised more cash for Greece during a visit to its border with Turkey which tens of thousands of migrants and refugees have been trying for days to breach.

The officials urged Turkey to abide by a 2016 deal which requires it to keep the migrants on its soil in return for EU aid. After an upsurge in fighting in Syria last week, Ankara says it will no longer stop migrants who want to reach Europe.

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Greek Forces Boldly Defend EU’s Borders as Erdogan Accused of Freeing Prisoners to Aid Migrant ‘Invasion’

Greece is showing remarkable boldness in acting to stop Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s organized migrant invasion.

On Monday, the Turkish regime released heavily-edited footage showing the Greek coast guard aggressively repelling an invading migrant boat

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Greek Orthodox Church Trashed by ‘Refugees’

An orthodox church on the Greek island of Lesbos was trashed by refugees, according to local media reports.

“On Monday, more than 500 refugees grouped together to head down to the port of Mytilini from Moria camp,” reports the Greek City Times.

“The group were confronted by members of MAT (Tactical Police) along the way, and resorted to stoning the Greek authorities in order to continue in their journey, only to be met with chemical and flash grenades.”

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Hungary Sends Police Units to Serbia, North Macedonia

Hungary has sent new police contingents to help local forces patrol the borders in Serbia and North Macedonia, the national police said on Monday.

The national police headquarters has sent a 30-strong contingent to North Macedonia and a 20-member unit to Serbia.

The police officers will be tasked with patrolling the two countries’ borders and helping to arrest people smugglers and illegal migrants, the police said on its website.

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Marine Le Pen Calls for Referendum to Stop “Submersion” Of France Via Mass Immigration

Marine Le Pen has called for a national referendum in order to stop what she called the “submersion” of France via a “globalist” program of mass immigration.

Speaking during a debate on the issue in the French Parliament, the leader of the National Rally political party scorched the political establishment for overseeing the dilution of French identity at the expense of ordinary people.

Le Pen said the last 30 years of immigration laws were designed to ineffective and resulted in “nothing more than political grandstanding.”

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Thousands of Migrants Look for Way Around Shut Greek Border

KASTANIES, Greece — Thousands of migrants and refugees searched for ways to cross Greece’s border with Turkey on Tuesday, as Athens ramped up its diplomatic efforts for help from the European Union to seal off its eastern land and sea frontiers.

Turkey has made good on a threat to open its borders for those seeking to cross into Europe. Many hoping to enter Greece, which has made clear its border is shut, were trying their luck by wading or rowing across the Evros River that runs along most of the land frontier.

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Toronto’s Illegal Border Crossers Costing Taxpayers $77 Million a Year

Illegal border crossers in Toronto are costing Canadian taxpayers $77 million a year in service and housing costs.

According to documents obtained by iPolitics, the City of Toronto estimates asylum claimants will cost $76.9 million annually in 2020 and for “future years.”

“Going forward for 2020 and future years, the estimated annual cost of the temporary refugees response for families is $76.9 million, including an administrative cost to better reflect the increased administration costs borne by the City to deliver the program,” says a Nov. 14, 2019 briefing note prepared for Mayor John Tory.

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

Says he is back in business as Erdogan warns “millions” of migrants are heading to Europe.

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UK: Suspected Illegal Migrants Found in Container at Hull Dock

Ten suspected illegal migrants were found inside a shipping container at a dock in Hull, the Home Office has said.

The group of seven men, two women and a child, from Eritrea, arrived at the port from Zeebrugge in an unaccompanied container.

Both women and a man were taken to hospital, although none was thought to be in a life-threatening condition.

The remainder were checked by medical staff at the scene.

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Democrats Use Migrants to Smuggle the Transgender Ideology Into U.S. Law

Democrat legislators want President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to comply with pro-transgender rules set by President Barack Obama in 2015.

The legislators are pushing the pro-transgender policies despite Trump’s policy of reestablishing the legal recognition of fundamental biological differences between men and women Obama sought to abolish.

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Northam Signs “Conversion Therapy” Ban for Minors in Virginia

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Tuesday signed a ban on “conversion therapy” for minors in Virginia, forbidding psychiatrists from helping children who wish to abate same-sex attraction and also making it a crime to help children come to terms with their biological sex.

Virginia has become the 20th state to enact such a ban. In recent years, as transgender activism has increased in popularity, these policies have grown to include prohibitions on doctors who wish to help young patients embrace their biological sex rather than their “gender identity.”

Northam, while signing the bill, referred to “conversion therapy” as “junk science” and “dangerous.” He claimed to be “proud” to have signed the bill into law.

This legislative session, Virginia also became the first Southern state to forbid discrimination of LGBT individuals in employment, housing, and public accommodations.

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PBS Reboots ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ With Character Having Two Lesbian ‘Moms’

‘PBS KIDS should not introduce the LGBTQ lifestyle to young children.’

After a seventeen-year production hiatus, PBS has rebooted its enduring favorite, Clifford the Big Red Dog, but with one jarring change: The series now features a child with two lesbian “moms.”

In the episode where the lesbian characters are introduced, “The Big Red Tomato/Dogbot,” the women are not identified as overtly lesbian, but in subsequent installments, the two are both called “Mom” by Samantha, the new friend of Emily Elizabeth, who remains the central character in the show along with her loveable gigantic red dog, Clifford.

One Million Moms (1MM) director, Monica Cole, sent out a call to action to the organization’s followers headlined, “PBS KIDS is Taking Advantage of Parental Trust,” which slammed PBS for allowing a continuing infiltration of LGBT characters, personalities, and themes.

In the widely circulated missive, Cole pointed out to her readers that this is part of a trend toward LGBT indoctrination at the formerly child-and-family-safe network:

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Researchers Say “Problematic Content” on YouTube Has Tanked, But Call for YouTube to Kill More

When YouTube changed its algorithm in January 2019 to crack down on “borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways,” recommendations to legacy media outlets increased at the expense of independent YouTubers.

Despite benefiting from this algorithm change, several media outlets are continuing to push YouTube to further reduce recommendations to “problematic content.”

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Schools Are Spying on Students — But Students Can Fight Back

Schools across the country are increasingly using technology to spy on students at home, at school, and on social media. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched a new Surveillance Self-Defense guide for students and their parents, so they can learn more about how schools are watching them, and how they can fight back.

The surveillance technology currently in use includes software to scan students’ social media posts, cameras with facial recognition and other scanning capabilities, and microphones to “detect aggression.” Schools can even track you on devices that they don’t control: if you have to download a certain kind of security certificate to use the school Internet, they may be monitoring your browser history and messages you send.

“Some administrators argue that they need to use this technology to keep schools safe, yet there is little evidence that it works,” said EFF Activism Project Manager Lindsay Oliver. “Instead, surveillance can make people second-guess everything they do or say. When we are constantly spied on, we censor the way we express ourselves. That’s known as the ‘chilling effect.’ Students need space to experiment and learn without being monitored and recorded by their schools at every turn.”

[Comment: Schools are doing this to ensure communist indoctrination has taken hold and ensure the production line of communist drones.]

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School in Brooklyn Hands Out “Drag Queen in Training” Stickers to 4-Year-Olds

A school in Brooklyn reportedly handed out stickers to 4-year-old children during a ‘drag queen story time’ event that said “drag queen in training.”

According to Twitter user @beyondreasdoubt, the stickers were handed out by the unnamed private school during a “family day” that included the appearance of drag queens.

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UK: ‘Ethical Vegan’ Wins Landmark Case in ‘Discriminatory’ Sacking

An animal rights activist has won a case of wrongful dismissal by his former employer over his “ethical veganism”. The tribunal judge had earlier ruled that his dietary preference was a philosophical belief and deserved protection from discrimination like other ‘protected characteristics’ like faith, race, or sexual orientation.

The League Against Cruel Sports had initially claimed that it fired Jordi Casamitjana for misconduct after he had emailed colleagues to tell them that the charity’s pension fund invested in companies that tested on animals, advising them how to change their pensions — despite being warned not to do so by his superiors. The employment tribunal was meant to face its second week this week; however, the charity said on Monday that Casamitjana was right and agreed to settle.

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UK: Council Removes “Transphobic” Flags Because They Displayed the Dictionary Definition of the Word ‘Woman’

A council in the UK removed two “transphobic” flags because they displayed the dictionary definition of the word ‘woman’.

Yes, really.

The flags, which were flown outside Bootle & Southport town halls, were meant to celebrate International Women’s Day.

They featured the words “woman” and the dictionary definition that a ‘woman’ is an “adult human female.”

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UK: Woman ‘Rushed’ Into Gender Reassignment as a Teen Suing NHS

A woman given gender reassignment therapy as a teen is suing the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust for having “rushed” her into the treatment.

“I wanted to go onto the medical pathway as soon as possible, I was very eager and I was very reluctant about speaking to anyone who would possibly get in the way of that,” Keira Bell explained to Sky News.

But after being “rushed” into gender reassignment after “roughly three” short sessions with “no real investigation” into any other underlying mental health problems, she came to realise she was not a boy “born in the wrong body” after all, and that her gender identity crisis had only been a “coping mechanism” for deeper issues…

The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, as the National Health Service’s main hub for “treating” people with gender dysphoria, has become somewhat infamous in recent years, with the number of patients it receives rising from a few dozens to more than 2,000 over the last ten years.

Research by Sky News suggerts that at least 35 psychologists have resigned from the service over a three-year period, fearing “young people are being over-diagnosed and then over-medicalised”.

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Video: Drag Queen Teaches Toddlers How to Twerk

Leftists still claim it’s not sexual.

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West Virginia Gov. Signs Bill Requiring Medical Care for Babies Born Alive After Surviving Abortions

West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice signed legislation on Monday that would require doctors to provide medical care to infants born alive after a botched abortion.

The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act requires doctors to administer medical treatment to babies born alive after a failed abortion. Violators could lose their medical license.

Justice said it was “unbelievable, to tell you the truth, that we have to do such a thing,” but said that “today we’re going to put a stake in the sand that says for us, for us at least, we stand for life and we stand for the right stuff.”

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

YouTube Deletes I, Hypocrite’s Channel, Claims Debate Video is “Hate Speech”

Social commentary YouTuber I,Hypocrite has had his channel terminated shortly after YouTube flagged one of his videos for “hate speech.”

The video is still available on BitChute, an alternative to YouTube that supports free speech, and features I,Hypocrite reviewing key moments from a recent debate he had with YouTuber Jangles ScienceLad over whether Islam or White Nationalism is a greater threat to national security in the US.

In the video, I,Hypocrite and Jangles ScienceLad discuss Islamist attacks, hate crimes, terrorist attacks, shootings, murders, and more while also showing various related statistics and reports on-screen.

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

16 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/3/2020

  1. No mention of Angela Merkel supposedly telling the migrants on Greece’s border that Europe is closed?
    Granted I can’t find the article again and the one that does mention it is behind a pay wall…

  2. Blagojevich had better watch his back or he might find himself Epsteined.

  3. Regarding Milo, it always amazes me that the homosexual half-Jew married to a black man is an anti-Semite and a racist.

  4. A comrade on the council of the glorious people’s republic of Denver in the USSA is cheering on using COVID-19 against Trump supporters from her government Twitter account.
    The irony is so thick that you could slice it as She-Ra crushes the patriarchy from her “official” account.
    NATO member Turkey is making blackmail threats with the cultural enriching immigrants.
    The wipeout aftermath of destroying Libya has already sent more than Europastan can handle.
    Aren’t these insane times wildly invigorating and entertaining!
    Be of good cheer because we’re taking it all back.

  5. Maybe Micheal Bloomberg can move to Semoa ,he can be make himself king of that far flung Island in the Pacific Ocean .We here in the mainland can be spared his idiotic TV adds.

  6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k02lm7Ogv1U

    The clash between the fans of the St. Petersburg “Zenith” and the Chechen “Akhmat” took place today in Grozny during the quarter-final of the Cup of Russia during the match. Crowds of football fans staged a mass brawl right in the stands, the judges had to stop the game. The Chechens did not like the fact that St. Petersburg fans exposed their torsos and they ran to lynch them.

    https://www.yuga.ru/news/448922/

    • I have to take your word for it as the video is unclear as to what is happening.

      Baring the skin is unislamic, Gulf Arab soccer teams wear shorts only for the sport and not off the field. So:

      1. are the Russian fans trying to provoke the Chechens for some reason in their capital city of Grozny? (“when in Rome do as the Romans do”, to make it clear: I do not expect Chechens to rape Russian women in Moscow just because they are not wearing modest Islamic dress, either)

      2. are the Chechen fans known for their Muslim religiosity? are they generally supporters of Kadyrov, what did he say if anything about this incident?

      3. is alcohol allowed at soccer games in Chechnya?

      • Another video
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlkiPHabkHE

        You can find other videos on YouTube /Зенит Ахмат /, limiting the time period.

        I think they didn’t specifically take off their t-shirts. It’s just that they have such a tradition of expressing joy after a goal scored.

        Yes. The North Caucasus is appallingly Islamic. They have not been touched by the “demographic pit” – they breed very well.

        Yes, in Chechnya – Sharia (light version without amputations). And alcohol is forbidden. They also fight fortune-tellers and witches, expel the genies of the quran and practice the “law of honor.”

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