Hungary has now recorded its first confirmed cases of the Wuhan Coronavirus. Meanwhile, the Italian government ordered the shutdown of all schools, cinemas, and other public gatherings. Also, what is thought to be the first human-to-animal transmission of the disease — from a coronavirus patient to his dog — was reported in Hong Kong.
In other news, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose more than 1,000 points after Bernie Sanders’ unexpectedly poor showing in the Super Tuesday primaries.
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Canadians’ Cost of Borrowing Going Down Amid Virus Concerns
OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada slashed its key interest rate target by half a percentage point, dropping it to 1.25 per cent in what economists saw as a rapid response to the growing economic shock from the novel coronavirus outbreak.
The central bank said Wednesday that it cut its target for the overnight rate because COVID-19, as the virus is named, was “a material negative shock” to Canada’s already softening economic outlook.
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Dow Surges 1,000 Points After Bernie Sanders Struggles on Super Tuesday
Stocks soared upward on Wednesday following Joe Biden’s smashing success in the Super Tuesday primaries, an indication of investor confidence in the wake of socialist candidate Bernie Sanders’ apparently lagging momentum in the 2020 races.
The Dow was up over 4 percent Wednesday afternoon, jumping 1,042 points, a particularly notable leap after last week’s stock market carnage as fears of the coronavirus intensified. The S&P 500 was also up by 3.4 percent, with the Nasdaq rising 2.9 percent.
Sanders has campaigned on a platform of radically upending the American economy with greatly increased regulations and major new taxes to fund federal entitlement programs such as Medicare-for-All. Biden is widely regarded as more moderate than Sanders.
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ECB and BoE Expected to Take Immediate Policy Action on Coronavirus Impact
The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England are expected to announce stimulus measures in the coming days, after the Federal Reserve surprised global markets with a large rate cut.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced an emergency rate cutTuesday to deal with the ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus and its economic impact. The virus that started in China in late December has spread worldwide, denting exports and reducing air travel.
“The ECB will almost certainly try to intervene,” Florian Hense, European economist at Berenberg bank said Wednesday.
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After Years of Indoctrination Democrat Voters Now Favor Socialism Over Capitalism
After years of indoctrination and ignorance Democrat voters now favor the failed practice of socialism over capitalism.
It doesn’t matter how many times socialism has failed it is still an attractive concept to Democrats.
Coveting the wealth of your neighbor is easy.
Making your own requires toughness and self esteem.
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Antifa Podcast Falsely Accuses Andy NGO of Violence and Terrorism
The self-professed “anarchist, anti-fascist autonomous anti-capitalist and anti-colonial” podcast, It’s Going Down, smeared The Post Millennial‘s editor at large Andy Ngo in their February 29 episode, titled “Who Let The Frogs Out.”
At 1:22:00 in the podcast, the hosts discuss Andy Ngo’s role at The Post Millennial, and the supposed dangers that he could cause, going so far as to call him a domestic terrorist who promotes “stochastic terrorism,”—a fairly rarely used term used to describe a form of “lone wolf” terrorism.
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The CDC just deliberately released an infected coronavirus patient in San Antonio, Texas. The number of “accidental” releases of infected patients, the nearly four-week withholding of diagnostic test kits and the downplaying of the severity of the outbreak can no longer be explained away as coincidence. This appears to be a deliberate, planned strategy to spread the coronavirus across America, cause nationwide chaos and get more funding and medical martial law powers for the CDC itself.
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a patient from isolation in San Antonio, Texas, after two tests returned negative for the new coronavirus, but the person later tested positive,” reports The Epoch Times.
So the CDC messed up yet again, failing to make sure the person was truly cleared of coronavirus before releasing him into the general public. The CDC later attempted to cover this catastrophic error by saying, “Following the patient’s release, results of a subsequent sample were received, and determined to be weakly positive. Out of an abundance of caution, CDC decided to bring the individual back into isolation at a local medical facility.”
For starters, from a virology point of view, there’s no such thing as “weakly positive.” Testing for the coronavirus produces a binary result. It’s either positive or negative. Is the CDC seriously going to start telling us people are now “sort of positive” or “kinda negative” or other such nonsense? Suddenly the CDC sounds like a transgender high school student explaining how he/she fluidly transitions between 47 different genders by merely wishing for socially acceptable virtue-signaling transitions.
This latest mistake is on top of the CDC deliberately withholding coronavirus testing kits from the entire country for nearly four weeks, allowing the virus to exponentially multiply with near-zero surveillance about which communities are already infected.
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‘For the record, if I do get coronavirus I’m attending every MAGA rally I can’
A far-left Democrat Councilwoman said she stands in “solidarity” with liberals who want to purposely spread coronavirus to Trump supporters.
Yes, really.
Denver Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca expressed disdain for Trump supporters after retweeting a rabid leftist fantasizing about mass-infecting Trump rally attendees with the coronavirus.
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Don’t Blame Bernie. Blame the Stupid, Naive’ Bernie Voters
Anybody paying attention to the Democrat presidential candidates is well aware of Bernie Sanders’ socialist drumbeat. Those accompanying him on this mad ride to the White House are just as bad but they don’t come right out and say they are socialists like Bernie does. Nevertheless, they are pretty much on the same page as Bernie. It is indicative of the extreme far left platform of the “new and improved” Democrat Party.
Here’s a list of what Bernie wants: It should blow your mind unless you’re a socialist.
- End the death penalty.
- End cash bail — let the criminals go free
- Eliminate mandatory minimum sentences
- Eliminate private prisons (and then what?)
- Mandate paper ballots (that is probably the only thing we agree on)
- Implement Rent Controls and levy taxes on real estate speculation
- Raise taxes on the wealthy and the middle class (big taxes)
- Raise the minimum wage to $15.00 per hour
- Provide several MONTHS of broad paid leave
- Restrict charter school growth (pandering to the teacher’s union)
- Provide free college tuition
- Cancel all student loan debt (taxpayer takes it in the shorts)
- Boost teacher pay (pandering to the teacher’s union again)
- Limit political spending
- Eliminate the electoral college
- Implement all phases of the Green New Deal (no gas, cars, airplanes, etc.)
- Allow felons to vote …. from prison no matter what there crime
- Close down nuclear power plants
- Ban oil and natural gas fracking
- Reduce carbon emissions by government regulation (how much and by when?)
- Break up agri-business — pay farmers to adopt climate-friendly practices
- Provide universal free meals in all schools
- Expand farm worker protections
- Have taxpayers pay for an assault weapons and magazine buy-back program
- Wants universal background checks for all purchases and transfers of weapons of any kind
- Implement red flags laws in all states (This is where they take your guns by force on an anonymous tip)
- No limits on abortion (even after birth)
- Implement Medicare for all (no matter what the cost!)
- Grant citizenship to millions of dreamers (DACA)
- Repeal the illegal entry statute & decriminalize illegal border crossings. In other words, open borders. (Let ‘em all in!)
- Free health care and other benefits to illegal aliens (at taxpayer expense)
- Abolition ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
- Tear down existing border walls and don’t build any more
- Legalize marijuana and scrap past pot convictions
- Slash defense spending and bring all of our troops home from foreign shores
- Increase the capital gains tax (to what?)
- Create a wealth tax and tax all financial stock trades
Talk about a fundamental transformation of America! This is not even a complete list but this list is shared by most, if not all, of the current Democrat presidential candidates. Only God knows how much all of this will cost (Bernie doesn’t) but the cost far exceeds the entire American annual gross domestic product and the taxing capability of the U. S. and state governments. It would triple the annual federal budget. If the government taxed everyone’s income, capital gains and property 100%, along with a wealth tax, it still wouldn’t be enough. By the way, a wealth tax is unconstitutional on its face.
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Greta Thunberg-Inspired U.S. Climate Youth Group Endorses Bernie Sanders: Americans ‘Being Murdered’
The U.S. Youth Climate Strike, an organization inspired by climate change poster child Greta Thunberg, announced on Tuesday they are endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
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Hawaii Lawmakers Push Severe Ammo Restrictions
In late January, Hawaii lawmakers introduced HB 2736.
This legislation would mandate that an ammunition buyer proves to an ammunition seller that they own a registered firearm in the caliber they are seeking to purchase each and every time they buy ammunition. A firearm owner would have to show their firearms registration along with another form of government-issued photographic ID in order to complete the purchase.
Gun owners would not be permitted to purchase ammunition in calibers that they do not own a registered firearm in.
That means that a gun owner couldn’t pick up ammunition for himself and his friend who shoots a different caliber on the way to a hunting trip or a range. A son or daughter couldn’t pick up ammunition on the way to a gun-owning parent’s home in anticipation of some recreation shooting.
The legislation would permit one “alternate person” to buy ammunition for a registered firearm. However, the owner of the firearm must designate this person as an “alternate person” with the government on the firearm registration form. The “alternate person” must undergo a background check and be fingerprinted. This “alternate person” would then be issued a permit to purchase ammunition for that firearm.
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History of the ATF: How the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Became Corrupt & Abusive
It’s unlikely that there is a single federal alphabet organization less popular among the readership of this website than the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. These are the people who gave us both the Siege at Ruby Ridge and the Siege of Waco. What’s more, they may well be engaged in an entirely unconstitutional exercise: monitoring and patrolling the gun ownership of law-abiding citizens. There’s also a solid case to be made that the ATF is a rogue organization, the most corrupt of the federal alphabet agencies. This can be seen through a number of scandals beginning with Ruby Ridge, threading through the siege at Mount Carmel in Waco, and continuing to the notorious “Fast and Furious” scandal. While firearms owners, weapons enthusiasts and Second Amendment advocates might have a special bone to pick with the ATF, we believe that all freedom-loving Americans should be concerned about the overreach, lawlessness and lack of accountability in this organization. Roman poet Juvenal once posed an important (and famous) question about powerful justice officers: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?” — Who is to guard the guardians? All told, there are over 20,000 firearms laws and regulations on the books at the state and federal level. Many of these contradict each other or are written with a lot of room for interpretation. Gun owners and gun dealers are easy prey for a corrupt and lawless federal agency that wants to twist its arms outside the bounds of the law. It’s also worth considering what overreach and lack of accountability other federal organizations are responsible for that we don’t know about, simply because they do not have the same spotlight on them as the ATF — a reminder that the scandals mentioned above are just the ones that we know about. We recommend reading this article in concert with our other articles on the ATF: Waco, Ruby Ridge and Fast and Furious. Each of these contains familiar tropes with regard to the ATF: Entrapment, “lost” evidence, a total lack of accountability, aggressive policing tactics where discretion would probably have saved lives, and a vengeful manner of doing business.
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Jill Biden Fends Off Lunging Vegan Protester, Protects Joe During Super Tuesday Victory Speech
During his victory speech after his stellar Super Tuesday showing, Joe Biden was accosted by radical vegan activists who rushed the stage waving signs and screaming, “Let dairy die!”
After the first protester was escorted off the stage by security, leaving Joe Biden, his wife Jill, and his sister Valerie vulnerable, another frantic demonstrator rushed the stage and lunged toward the former vice president, at which time Mrs. Biden stepped in front of Joe, squared up to the activist and grabbed her by the arms, refusing to let her pass. Others were then able to remove the screaming protester.
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Leftists Angry at Trump Donating Salary to Coronavirus Fight
“Hitler Never Took A Salary”
President Trump donated his fourth quarter salary to the Department of Health and Human Services this week in an effort to help fight the Coronavirus, but leftists are angry about it because… Orange man bad.
The donation of $100,000 is part of Trump’s promise to never take any salary while he is President. He has previously given away his salary to the Surgeon General’s office, border enforcement, and Veterans’ Affairs, to name but a few.
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Mike Bloomberg is Suspending His Presidential Campaign, Says He’s Endorsing Biden
Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York who had hoped to self-fund his way to the Democratic presidential nomination but was spurned by voters in Tuesday’s balloting, has dropped out of the race.
Bloomberg endorsed Joe Biden, saying the former vice president had the best chance to win in November.
“I’ve always believed that defeating Donald Trump starts with uniting behind the candidate with the best shot to do it. After yesterday’s vote, it is clear that candidate is my friend and a great American, Joe Biden,” Bloomberg said in a statement.
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Missouri Man Gets 19 Years in Prison for Role in ISIS Attack Planning
A Missouri man accused of plotting a terrorist attack with who he believed to be members of the Islamic State but who were in reality undercover FBI agents was sentenced Wednesday to 19 years in prison.
Robert Lorenzo Hester Jr., 28, of Columbia, pleaded guilty in September to attempting to provide material support to the terror group from October 2016 to February 2017, the Justice Department said.
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Nancy Pelosi: Donald Trump is ‘The Most Dangerous Person’ In Our Country’s History
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called President Donald Trump “the most dangerous person” in our country’s history, urging Democrats to show up at the polls in November to defeat Trump.
“We have the most dangerous person in the history of our country sitting in the White House,” Pelosi, who appears on the cover of the “Hollywood and 2020 election” issue of Variety, tells the entertainment industry magazine in a long-form profile interview Tuesday.
[Comment: Leftists always project their foibles on their opponent. Actually Nancy is the most dangerous person — she allowed communists to take over the Democrat Party.]
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Pelosi Security Points Gun at Trump Supporters From New Jersey Rooftop
A civilian on the sidewalk snapped this photo, showing a member of the Democrats’ security force, dangerously pointing a firearm at the crowd of civilians. By any standard, this unequivocally violates basic safety rules and calls into question training, and protocol.
William J. Hayden who attended the protest said: “You can clearly see he is pointing the weapon at us. This is why they want complete and total disarmament of the civilian population. And in New Jersey, where the right is diminished, this should be a wake up call to even those that think only the government should have firearms…”
Pointing a rifle at one’s political enemies could be aggravated assault at a minimum, but worse, it bears the hallmarks of tyranny.
New Jersey is one of the most infringed states in the nation. Less than .01 percent of gun owners in the state have carry permits. The standard for carry permits requires the applicant to prove “justifiable need”. Hardly anyone can meet the standard, even those who have been threatened by criminals, and repeatedly kidnapped.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (WJZ) — A federal judge has ruled the man accused of planning an ISIS-inspired attack at the National Harbor is not mentally competent to stand trial.
Rondell Henry, 28, of Germantown, was ordered to be held in a suitable facility for up to four months. Experts will determine if Henry will be fit for trial sometime in the foreseeable future.
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Super Tuesday Results: Where the 2020 Democratic Candidates Stand
The revival of former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign was complete after Super Tuesday.
Biden not only won multiple states and brought the moderate wing of the party together around him, but actually earned more delegates than Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to become the new apparent front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The last state race was called Wednesday afternoon, with Biden declared the winner in the tight Maine contest. In total, Biden won 10 states to Sanders’ four.
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After former Vice President Joe Biden’s big night on Super Tuesday in the Democrat primaries, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is launching a new ad campaign exposing how there is not much difference between Biden’s radical views and those of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and other socialists taking control over the Democrat Party.
With images of socialist dictators from Cuba and Venezuela spliced together with images of Biden, Sanders, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the new ad from Sen. Tom Cotton — provided to Breitbart News exclusively ahead of its public release — features a narrator saying, “Socialism has now taken over the Democratic Party.”
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Former Auburn Coach Tommy Tuberville won the most votes in the Alabama Republican primary for US Senate on Tuesday night.
Tuberville will face off against former Senator and turncoat Jeff Sessions, who gave America the Mueller investigation in a March 31 runoff election.
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Twitter Sued for Suspending Account of Platform Manipulation Researcher Geoff Golberg
The relationship between data scientist Geoff Golberg and Twitter seemed to have had a good enough start: his company is in the business of researching automated manipulation on the giant social network, specifically that done using bots and inauthentic accounts. And Twitter had long been saying that it wanted to get rid of just such “users”.
In addition to his anti-bot and anti-spam work, Golberg also over the years paid for ads on Twitter promoting his business and growing his following — $38,700, to be exact.
But it all ended when Twitter banned his own account, and now Golberg is suing in New York.
Unfortunately, it’s not at all unusual for Twitter to lock, suspend, or permanently ban users; what’s less common is to those users fight back in court.
According to the filing, Golberg is not only seeking up to $50,000 in damages, an injunction to reinstate his Twitter account, and give him back access to his account data — he also wants the judge to “prohibit Twitter from arbitrarily terminating the accounts of New York users with no cause.”
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Two 10-Year-Old Boys Arrested on Felonies for Playing With Toy Guns in Colorado
A couple of 10 year old boys were doing what 10 year old boys do, playing battle with some toy guns. Then someone called the police on them, and next thing the boys knew, they were being tossed into the back of police cars in handcuffs.
The two boys were charged with felony menacing, and forced to do community service, among other things.
Fox 21 in Colorado Springs reports:
A Fort Carson family wants to share their story with others after their 10-year-old son was arrested and charged with Felony Menacing, a Class 5 felony, which has since been expunged.
[Comment: This psyop strategy is being done to instill fear in the children, so they will not desire to exercise their 2nd amendment rights as adults. ]
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US Youth Climate Strike Group Endorses Bernie: ‘Americans Being Murdered’
The U.S. Youth Climate Strike, an organization inspired by climate change poster child Greta Thunberg, announced on Tuesday they are endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
The group has joined 17-year-old Swedish teen Thunberg’s Fridays for Future movement, which encourages children to ditch school on Friday to participate in “climate strikes” across the country.
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Baffin Bay Polar Bears Are Abundant, Population Stable Scientist Admits
An article by CBC News today (3 March 2020) is a surprisingly well-balanced report on a recently published paper by Kristin Laidre and colleagues on their work on the Baffin Bay polar bears that I discussed last month.
It presents the Inuit perspective that polar bears are currently abundant in the area and the population stable despite less summer sea ice and some documented declines in body weight and at least one scientist conceded this is indeed true.
However, the CBC writer still left out the most critical caveat included in the paper about the study: that factors other than changes in sea ice could have affected the body condition and litter size data that the authors documented but they didn’t look at anything except sea ice.
This automatically means the conclusions are scientifically inconclusive.
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BC Exports Fall $30 Million a Day Due to Anti-Pipeline Blockades, Cargo May be Diverted Permanently
Andrew Wynn-Williams, Vice President of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, estimates that BC is losing $30 million a day in exports due to the ongoing anti-pipeline blockades that continue across Canada. CME estimates that exports are down $425 million across Canada.
Speaking to Business in Vancouver, Wynn-Williams said, “Any time there’s that kind of uncertainty, it’s not going to be good. People will hang on to their investment dollars … The longer it goes on, the harder it’s going to be to recover.”
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Breaking: Freight Train Derailed in Kingston, Ontario
A freight train in Kingston, Ont. went off the tracks Wednesday morning, leading to road closures and an evacuation of the area.
The incident happened on Bath Road on the outskirts of the city. Police say that Bath Road between Queen Mary and Armstrong will remain close to traffic until further notice.
Kingston Police say no one has been hurt and they have several officers at the scene.
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Breaking: Students Block Toronto Streets in Solidarity With Anti-Pipeline Movement
On Wednesday afternoon, Toronto students walked out of their classrooms and took to the streets to express solidarity with anti-pipeline protestors and blockaders across Canada.
The protestors have blocked St. George Street at the corner of Wilcox, chanting “How do you spell racist? RCMP!” and “We want our land back!”
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Ontario Islamic Centre Mum on Court Ordered “Deradicalisation” Of Paroled ISIS Supporter
In 2014, Pamir Hakimzadah of Toronto traveled to Turkey. His final destination was supposed to be Syria, where he planned to join ISIS. He never made it out of Turkey, though. Instead, Pamir was arrested and eventually deported back to Canada.
Then he was arrested for assaulting a witness in June 2016 and charged with leaving Canada to participate in the activity of a terrorist group in April 2017. He was found guilty, but last June, he received probation and is now a free man — even though the Ontario Parole Board ruled that releasing Pamir “would constitute an undue risk to society”!
His release conditions require Pamir to receive “deradicalization” therapy from an imam at the Risalah Foundation in Vaughan, Ontario.
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Of all the Hereditary and elected chiefs in the Wet’suwet’en people, Carolyn Bennett negotiated over the weekend with the one who thinks the Earth is flat.
Seriously.
The sensitive negotiations between the Crown and the Office of the Wet’suwet’en that took place last weekend covered complicated land title rights and agreements. The result may very well dictate the future viability of the #CoastalGasLink pipeline. Frank Alec headed the Indigenous team, and somehow managed to have Carolyn Bennett sputtering and stumbling at the press conference immediately following the talks.
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Wexit Party Has Applied for Official Status Ahead of Saskatchewan’s 2020 Election
Wexit Saskatchewan has applied for official status as a political party ahead of the province’s election this year.
The party is the newest contender to attempt to make a dent in federal and provincial politics as western separatist sentiments have reached an all-time high.
Wexit Alberta, which also seeks separation from Confederation, was approved by Elections Canada as an officially registered federal party last year.
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61 Per Cent of Britons Think Trump Will be Re-Elected
A combined 61 per cent of Britons think that President of the United States Donald J Trump will win in the November 2020 presidential election.
According to a snap YouGov poll published on Tuesday, 52 per cent think he will “probably” be reelected whilst nine per cent think he “definitely will be”. Just a combined 18 per cent do not think that President Trump will be returned to the White House (21 per cent “don’t know”).
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Are Muslim Women Trapped in Marriages in Denmark?
In March 2016, a three-part television documentary, “The Mosques Behind the Veil,” was aired on Danish TV2. The documentary sent two young Muslims undercover, as Fatma and Muhammed, to a number of “parallel” Muslim societies in Denmark.
For the purpose of the documentary, Fatma was given a personal cover story — based on real-life dilemmas — for which she would seek advice from the different imams: Her husband was violent, and she did not wish to have sex with him. She could not get pregnant and his family had found a second wife for him. All the Danish imams with whom she consulted in the documentary told her to put up with the violence. When she pleaded for divorce at a sharia council in the Fredens mosque in Århus, Denmark’s second largest city, the imams there refused and told her — ten times — that she must go back to her husband and try again.
At the time, Danish researchers estimated that there were a number of sharia councils in Denmark. “Sharia councils are apparently a black market, which exists in hiding. It is hard for me to put a number on it, but it is there,” said Professor Thomas Hoffmann at the University of Copenhagen in 2016.
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Brexit: Trade Secretary Tells World Trade Organization, ‘Britain is Back’
International trade secretary Liz Truss has declared at the World Trade Organization that “Britain is back”, vowing to help reform the body.
The Secretary of State for International Trade was the first British minister to address the WTO’s General Council since leaving the EU, with Brexit Britain taking a seat as an independent nation in her own right at the council for the first time in early February.
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The technology, developed by a team at Northumbria University in Newcastle, spots biomarkers in breath using a device that is similar to breathalysers used by the police to spot drink-drivers.
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Setting out a ‘battle plan’ for tackling a potential epidemic, Boris Johnson warned the nation of the scale of the challenge posed by an illness that may afflict millions
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Coronavirus: French Government Seizes All Stocks of Face Masks, Thousands Stolen From Hospitals
French President Emmanuel Macron ordered the seizure of all stocks and future production of medical face masks in the face of a growing threat from Coronavirus, and a spate of looting of masks from medical facilities.
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COVID-19 Regions Close Around 120 Schools in France
PARIS (AP) — Tens of thousands of students in virus cluster zones are home from school in France on Tuesday, with a smaller number in Germany and Poland facing quarantines or days without class.
France’s education minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, said around 120 schools have been ordered to close, most in Brittany and the Oise region north of Paris, which have been hit hard by COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. He told LCI television it was probable that more schools could close and confirmed that he had ordered a freeze on all school trips. But he cautioned against rushing to a general shutdown of the education system.
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Footage taken in the lagoon city shows cafes empty, gondolas lying unused on the famous canals and only a few tourists milling around the historic St Mark’s Square.
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Digital Rights Group Suggests “Meme Ban” Upload Filters Could Clash With Privacy Laws
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says it has discovered that the controversial new European Union (EU) copyright directive, adopted by the European Parliament (EP) last spring — but not yet by all 27 member-states — may be “on a collision course with EU data privacy rules.”
That would be the GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation. (That’s the very same legislative framework that’s said to have inspired — if not improved on by the US state of California when it enacted its new online privacy rules last year.)
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Dutch Coronavirus Cases Shoot Up to 38, Northern Italy Still Main Link
Fifteen more people have tested positive for coronavirus in the Netherlands, taking the total number of patients up to 38, the public health institute RIVM said on Wednesday. Four of the new patients are being treated in hospital, the rest are at home in quarantine, the RIVM said in its latest update.
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The Polish man was diagnosed in Zielona Gora, a city in the western Lubusz province. The death of a 70-year-old preacher in Iraq marks the first fatality in the Middle East outside of Iran.
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Germany: Left Party Conference Speaker Talks About Executing the Rich
Germany’s ‘Die Link’ (The Left) party gathered over the weekend at its ‘Strategy Congress’ to talk politics and its own role in Germany.
During the gathering, one woman who gave a speech was caught on video saying that, once in power, they may need to execute the rich, Die Welt reports.
“An energy transition is necessary after a revolution as well. Once we have shot the one percent of the rich, we will still want to heat our homes and travel,” the woman says to applause.
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Hungary Reports First Cases of Coronavirus
Two people in Hungary have been infected with coronavirus, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Wednesday.
“We have our first coronavirus case, in fact there are already two patients who have had to be taken to a medical facility due to coronavirus infection,”Orban said in a video posted on Facebook after a meeting of the operative board overseeing Hungary’s response to the new virus.
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Hungary: Afghan Man Sentenced to Prison for Rape
A Budapest court on Wednesday sentenced an Afghan national to five years and eight months in prison for rape, coercion and indecency.
The non-binding ruling said the man raped a woman in the toilet of a restaurant in downtown Budapest in September 2018.
On a separate occasion, he forcibly kissed and groped a woman on the street in Budapest’s 7th district and flashed another, according to the ruling.
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Italian Government Shuts Down Schools, Movie Theaters Nationwide to Stop Spread of Coronavirus
The Italian government on Wednesday announced drastic new measures to halt the spread of coronavirus, ordering a nationwide shutdown of schools, movie theaters, and numerous other public venues as cases of the disease continue to spread there.
All schools, from primary schools to universities, will be shuttered beginning Thursday, as well as all types of theaters. The country has seen more than 3,000 cases of the deadly disease, along with 107 confirmed deaths.
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MEPs Query Thunberg Event Amidst Coronavirus Lockdown
Several MEPs asked EU Parliament president David Sassoli why climate activist Greta Thunberg’s event can go ahead on Wednesday when all other visitors are banned due to fears over the coronavirus. Centre-right EPP MEP Nuno Melo asked in an email: “I would like to request to hear the considered reasons for the exception granted to the citizen Greta Thunberg.” Around 130 events have been cancelled due to the lockdown.
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Orban on Coronavirus: V4 Cooperating in Times of Trouble
Commenting on a V4 meeting on Wednesday to discuss the new coronavirus, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the leaders of the Visegrad Group were cooperating well “in times of trouble as well as in good times”.
The coronavirus outbreak was high on the agenda of the meeting in Prague of member states’ prime ministers.
Referring to confirmed Covid-19 cases in Poland and the Czech republic, Orban said it had been “a good decision” to hold the meeting in view of the fact that the virus had reachedthe Visegrad countries.
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Poland Confirms First Case of Coronavirus Infection
The first confirmed case of coronavirus has been found in Poland.
The infected patient comes from the Lubuskie province in western Poland and is currently in hospital in Zielona Góra.
Health minister Lukasz Szumowski said the man had recently arrived in Poland from Germany, and people who had contact with him including his family have been put into domestic quarantine.
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Shocking New Memoir Reveals Extent of Greta Thunberg’s Suffering and Exploitation
Greta Thunberg is a victim, in almost every way imaginable. She’s a victim of bullying, of mental health issues, of circumstance, and most notably, a victim of the left-wing climate movement that has exploited her vulnerability for political gain.
In an excerpt of Thunberg’s mother’s new memoir, Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis, published in the Guardian, we learn more about the extent of the challenges and trauma Thunberg and her family have gone through. The tale is heart-wrenching, and only a monster could feel anything but sympathy for Greta after reading it. However, it also once again calls into question the decision to thrust someone so vulnerable and troubled into the spotlight.
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Tommy Robinson Arrested for Restraining Man Who Sexually Assaulted His Daughter
“So, you’re nicking me and you’re not nicking him?”
British patriot and political activist Tommy Robinson was arrested Monday for restraining a man who sexually assaulted his daughter at a public swimming pool and holding him until police arrived.
However, when police did arrive, they arrested Tommy and treated the assailant as if he was the victim.
Robinson recorded his daughter describing the assault and viewers can see the girl confirmed the man intentionally squeezed her buttocks and that it was not an accidental incident.
When Tommy confronted the man, he admitted to “accidentally” touching her bum and attempted to flee.
Robinson restrained him and the man received a bloody nose while struggling with Tommy and trying to escape.
“Now, I’m well within my rights as a father to prevent this man, who’s touching up young children in a swimming pool, from leaving, getting away and possibly touching up other children,” he explained.
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Tory MP: Civil Servants Said Britons ‘Got it Wrong’ When They Voted for Brexit
Alicia Kearns MP has claimed that several senior civil servants had told her in 2016 that British citizens “had got it wrong” by voting for Brexit.
Highlighting the long-known anti-Brexit prejudice held by the UK’s career bureaucrats, Ms Kearns said: “I was a civil servant at three Departments. On the day of the Brexit referendum result, I was told at the Foreign Office by multiple senior civil servants that it was the wrong decision and that the people had got it wrong.
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UK: 20% of Workforce Could be Hit by Coronavirus
In a worst-case scenario, some 20 percent of the UK workforce would be off work with the coronavirus, the British government warned on Tuesday. That would mean enforced absence from work and self-quarantining, while shops, offices and schools were closed, the government action plan stated. As of Tuesday, there were 51 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.
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UK: Carl Benjamin’s Akkad Daily YouTube Channel Demonetized for “Harassment”
Political commentator Carl Benjamin’s Akkad Daily YouTube channel has been suddenly demonetized after YouTube claimed it broke the platform’s rules around “harassment.”
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The couple, whose son attends St Edmund’s in Hindhead, Surrey, have been confirmed to have the Covid-19 infection. Other parents at the school are in self isolation after having contact with pair.
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UK: Labour Facing ‘One of Its Worst’ Results in Upcoming Local Elections
The Labour Party is expected to have “one of its worst local election performances in recent history”, the prediction coming just three months after the party experienced its worst national election loss since 1935.
Locals will be voting in 118 councils in England on May 7th, and the Labour Party is expected to lose up to 315 seats including Labour strongholds like Sheffield which the party has held for 75 years, according to an internal party document seen by the BBC and reported on Tuesday.
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The driver was planning to take the face masks back to the UK so he could sell them for 30 euros, or £26, each following shortages and price hikes caused by coronavirus fears, local media reports.
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Brawl Erupts in Turkish Parliament Over Syria Military Action
Fighting broke out in Turkey’s parliament after an MP criticised President Erdogan over the country’s military intervention in Syria.
Engin Ozkoc, an opposition lawmaker, accused the president of disrespecting soldiers.
He also said it was irresponsible to send troops into war without air support.
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Another Delhi Resident Among 23 Who Tested Positive on Wednesday
NEW DELHI: The novel coronavirus scare in India took a serious turn on Wednesday, with the health ministry confirming as many as 23 new cases — all in Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur — taking the total number of people who have so far been infected to 29.
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ISIS Cell in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu Wanted to Wage Jihad
BENGALURU: A detailed interrogation of the 10 suspects of the Daish/ISIS module from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, who were arrested recently, has reportedly revealed that they were “procuring weapons and material for establishing a base in the forests of South India, for waging violent jihad in India, said a National Investigation Agency (NIA) officer.
The case, which was originally registered by the Q Branch, Chennai of TN Police (FIR 03/2019), has been taken over by the NIA (RC02/2020/NIA/DLI. Q Branch Chennai case).
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Stop This Halal Invasion in India
Stop this Halal Aggression or the Islamic Dictatorship over other Faiths & Religions!
HJS Online Desk | Mumbai | March 4, 2020:: For thousands of years, India has housed a civilisation that has historically been tolerant and inclusive, ‘Independent’ India has been under the grip of a westernized idea of ‘Secularism’. Successive governments have bent over backwards to cater to the whims and fancies of the minority communities to ensure that they vote favorably in the elections. This twisted ‘secularism’ has resulted in much suffering for the Hindu majority of the nation. While the Constitution calls for equality for all, Hindu temples have been taken over by the governments zealously while liberally funding Hajj and Jerusalem ‘pilgrimages’. Despite this, the common Hindu suffers silently and continues to dutifully pay his taxes hoping that some day the conditions will change, which unfortunately has not happened till date.
Then there are those who are consumed with the idea of ‘ruling’ over India; when some demand of theirs gets approved by the Government, they are ready with the next set of demands. One such demand was setting up a Sharia compliant Islamic banking system, which the current government, under Hon’ble Shri. Narendra Modi, refused to accede to. Setting up a Bank requires approval from the government, but what about consumer products? A person has the Constitutionally given right to demand for products that are in line with his religious beliefs. Muslims have started exercising this right by demanding that every product that they use is compliant with the tenets of Islam i.e. Halal. This has led to the ubiquitous need for the products to be ‘Halal Certified’. So now, the Islamic Economic system (Halalonomics) has crept into our Secular system. Surprisingly, Halal compliance is mandatory even for government run companies like the Indian Railways and Air India. Just because Muslims (who make up 15% of the country’s population) want to consume only Halal meat, their practices are being forced upon the rest 85%. Now the Halal certification is no longer limited to meats, but touches every sphere of our daily lives — from meats to packages foods, from housing projects to hospitals, from medicines to beauty products; even malls are not exempt! Anyone who wishes to export their products to Islamic countries has to be Halal Certified. To give you an idea of the immense scale of Halalonomics — standing at 2 trillion dollars it competes with the Indian GDP! No wonder the entire world is under the Halal certification stranglehold…
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“What Are the Odds?” — A Timeline of Facts Linking COVID-19, HIV, & Wuhan’s Secret Bio-Lab
Having been permanently banned from Twitter for sharing the publicly-available details of the man who ran the show as far a bat-soup virology in Wuhan’s super-secret bio-lab — which is now a common talking point and rapidly shifting from conspiracy theory to conspiracy fact — we thought a reminder of how we got here was in order…
Scott Burke, CEO of crypto-related firm Groundhog, unleashed what we feel may be the most complete timelines of facts to help understand the controversial links between COVID-19 and HIV, and COVID-19 and Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Want to go down a (strictly fact-based) rabbit hole?
Here is the full slightly-edited-for-formatting twitter thread…
A disclaimer: I am not a virologist. This is me synthesizing what we have learned since the outbreak began and reviewing public scientific papers. I believe each of the following statements is a solid fact, backed up by a citation.
I also want to say that I understand some people are worried about blame being cast for this outbreak. Obviously we are all in this together, and my intention here is not to cast blame. These links overwhelmingly compel further scrutiny, but are not conclusive.
I do think however that information is being downplayed and suppressed by some scientists and media outlets and it’s our duty to find out the facts about this virus, do what we can to mitigate the outbreak, and prevent it from happening again. Ready?…
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Chinese Citizens Turn to GitHub to Archive Coronavirus Outbreak Events in a Bit to Avoid Censorship
By all accounts, the outbreak of coronavirus — a particularly nasty strain of some previous flu viruses, but as yet with no discernible means to fight it through inoculation, or an end in sight — looks like it could be leveling out in its country of origin, China.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world may yet experience the brunt of the respiratory disease caused by the virus.
But while in other countries we seem to be concerned mostly about sneezing into our sleeves, washing our hands often, and not congregating in large crowds — all these being officially recommended anti-coronavirus measures — over in China, people appear to be ready to think beyond the day-to-day horror they experienced, and long-term.
Such like — preserving the memory of those who perished in the viral outbreak that first hit China.
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COVID-19 Has a Death Rate That is About 34 Times Higher Than the Flu
COVID-19 is an extremely deadly virus, and nobody should be trying to downplay the severity of this outbreak. By now, you have probably heard a lot of people try to convince you that COVID-19 is not that dangerous because the flu has killed far more people this winter. And that is true. But what they aren’t telling you is that the death rate from the flu is extremely low. Tens of thousands of Americans die from the flu each year, but if this coronavirus spreads all over the planet the death toll will be in the tens of millions. This coronavirus outbreak is likely only in the very early stages, and if it becomes as widespread as the flu, it will become a public health crisis unlike anything we have ever faced in modern times.
After taking a look at the numbers, hopefully you will understand what I am trying to say.
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization announced that the global death rate for COVID-19 is now 3.4 percent…
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Coronavirus Cases:
95,481
view by country
Deaths:
3,285
Recovered:
53,688
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Hong Kong Coronavirus Patient’s Dog Could be First Human-to-Animal Transmission: Experts
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Animal health experts said on Wednesday the quarantined dog of a coronavirus patient in Hong Kong could be the first case of human-to-animal transmission, although they cautioned the matter remained under investigation.
The dog has tested “weak positive” for the virus which indicates a low level of infection, the Hong Kong Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said.
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Two New Mammal Species Identified in China’s Huangshan Mountain
HEFEI, March 4 (Xinhua) — Chinese researchers have identified two new mammal species of shrew in eastern China’s scenic spot Huangshan Mountain, according to the mountain’s administration committee.
The two species, named Crocidura anhuiensis and Crocidura huangshanensis, are both medium-sized white-toothed shrew. They were identified based on morphological and phylogenetic analysis, according to the researchers.
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Piefection Pies in Queensland said there had been a rush on its flaky treats, leaving them forced to bring in a per person limit.
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Macquarie University Lecturer Tests Positive for Coronavirus After Returning From Iran
A Macquarie University lecturer has tested positive for coronavirus after returning from Iran. The staff member became ill after returning from the western Asian country but had not been on campus.
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Workers at the Kimberly-Clark mill in Millicent, about 400km south-east of Adelaide, have assured Australians they will do whatever it takes to make sure no one goes without toilet paper.
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Another 28 Migrants Are Caught by Border Force in the English Channel Trying to Get to UK
Border Force officers detained 28 migrants today after they intercepted two small boats trying to cross the English Channel to the UK — the first since heavy storms battered the country.
A number of migrants were seen being brought in to Dover Harbour on an HM Border Force cutter today.
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Austria’s Chancellor Says Erdogan’s Opening of the Borders is a Direct Attack on the EU
Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz recently said that Turkish regime leader Recep Erdogan’s move to open the borders for migrants to head westward to Europe was a direct assault on the EU bloc, and that Austria wouldn’t be taking in any more migrants.
Kurz’s statements have been echoed by his interior minister, Karl Nehammer, who said over the weekend that unlike 2015, “there will be no waiving them [migrants]through at the border,” Reuters news agency reports.
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Austria’s Chancellor Kurz: Turkey Opening Borders is Attack on the European Union
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has stated that the Turkish move to open its borders to Europe for migrants was an attack on both Greece and the EU, and his government will not take in new waves of migrants.
Chancellor Kurz held a press conference alongside Vice-Chancellor and Green leader Werner Kogler and interior minister Karl Nehammer and said that the recent rush of an estimated 13,000 migrants at the Greek border was “only the beginning”.
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Clashes Breaking Out at Greece-Turkey Border as Migrants Continue Push Attempt Into Europe
Clashes broke out along the Greece-Turkey land border Wednesday morning as Greek authorities fired tear gas and stun grenades to push back hundreds of migrants trying to illegally cross into their country.
The fracas near the border village of Kastanies comes after Turkey made good on its threat to open its borders and send migrants into Europe last week.
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Greek Navy Ship on Lesbos Houses Latest Island Migrants
Greece sent a navy ship to the island of Lesbos Wednesday to house hundreds of migrants who landed on the island in recent days, part of the ongoing surge from Turkey, officials said.
A Greek defence ministry source said the migrants would stay on the transport ship until a new facility to accommodate them had been created on the mainland.
Some 500 people, many of them families with small children, have been stranded at the harbour since arriving from Turkey over the weekend.
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Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, And Slovakia Pledge to Help Greece Deal With Border Crisis
KASTANIES, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities fired tear gas and stun grenades Wednesday morning to repulse a push by migrants to cross its land border from Turkey, as pressure continued along its frontier after Turkey said its own border with Europe was open to whoever wanted to cross.
Meanwhile, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia pledged to help Greece to deal with pressure along its border.
Speaking after meeting his counterparts from the other three countries, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said the situation was serious and the EU must protect its borders.
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Illegal Migration: Hungary ‘Ready to Build Another Border Fence if Necessary’
Parliament’s National Security Committee held a closed-door meeting on Wednesday to discuss the situation arising from migration pressure on the Greek-Turkish border.
Head of the committee Janos Stummer (Jobbik) said that if necessary, Hungary would be ready to build another border fence.
The (Fidesz) deputy head of the committee, Janos Halasz, said illegal migration dominated national security issues. The Fidesz group called for future committee meetings to focus on illegal migration, he said.
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Leftist Activists to Pence: ‘Immigration Enforcement-Free Zones’ Needed to Fight Coronavirus
More than 450 mostly leftist academics told Mike Pence they want “immigration enforcement-free zones” to fight the coronavirus.
[Comment: Idiots.]
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Marine Le Pen Calls for Referendum to Stop “Submersion” of France Via Mass Immigration
Accuses establishment politicians of “treason” for failing to defend their people.
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.”
She said the French people “recognise that uncontrolled immigration is a threat, a threat to their daily lives, to their way of life, and even, at times, a threat to their lives.”
“Our country is experiencing a veritable submersion, yes a submersion, I dare to use that term, because it describes the reality of the unbroken wave that is crashing upon our cities, our towns, and now, because of your irresponsible policy of placing migrants in the rural areas, even the smallest villages,” said Le Pen.
She slammed establishment politicians for trying to make discussion of immigration taboo and demonizing dissidents even as a giant demographic displacement of people was taking place and accused them of “treason” for failing to “defend their people.”
“But above all, without ever consulting the people, they organized the streams of legal migration and tolerated illegal immigration,” she added, saying this was driven by “the globalist ideology that guides them inexorably.”
“But above all, without ever consulting the people, they organized the streams of legal migration and tolerated illegal immigration,” she added, saying this was driven by “the globalist ideology that guides them inexorably.”
Le Pen also accused globalists of reducing man to his “economic dimension, as a producer and consumer, an interchangeable man, with no identity or cultural reference points, nothing but a cog in the wheel of global commerce.”
“The torrent of migration is destroying our welfare system, is making the entire penal system explode and is undermining the unity of the nation,” she added.
Slamming President Macron for exacerbating the problem, Le Pen dismissed the “debate” as a pointless “rehearsal for a high school play,” calling for a national referendum on stopping mass immigration.
“In this chamber a majority want this migration madness to continue. In France, a majority want this migration madness to stop,” she concluded.
Le Pen was heckled throughout the speech by pro-mass immigration politicians, but her words were absolute fire.
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More than 1,000 migrants have arrived in Malta in the first two months of 2020, Malta’s Prime Minister Robert Abela said during a recent speech. To put things into perspective, a total of 3,400 migrants arrived during the whole of 2019.
The number of migrant arrivals is about 16 times greater than the number of arrivals that were seen in the same period during 2019. Put in a different way, the number of migrants who’ve shown up on the shores of Malta in the first two months in 2020 comprises over 1/4 of all of the arrivals in 2019, Independent Malta reports.
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Orban: Hungary’s Standpoint Against Illegal Migration Now Mainstream
Hungary’s standpoint against illegal migration has become the generally accepted approach in Europe, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at a Visegrad Group summit in Prague on Wednesday.
Referring to Hungary’s border fence built in 2015, Orban said: “We announced a policy against Muslim migration”. He added that the policy, “now well-known throughout the European community”, had been “a success”.
Times, he said, had changed since the period when “Hungarians were subjected to insults for protecting our borders”.
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Slovenia Police Find 30 Migrants in Sealed Train Wagons
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Police in Slovenia said Wednesday they discovered 30 migrants hidden in freight train wagons carrying clay.
The migrants included 12 children and a pregnant woman, police said. They said they were from Syria, Iran and Afghanistan.
The train with 20 wagons was traveling from Serbia to Slovenia when police discovered the migrants at the Dobova border crossing with Croatia on Tuesday.
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Swedish Political Youth Movement Demands EU Open ‘Hearts and Borders’ To Migrants
The Swedish Centre Party’s youth movement (CUF) has called on European Union member states to open their “hearts and borders” to migrants amassing on the Greek border.
The CUF made their statement on Twitter, saying: “We want to reform the systems so that people can come here and become part of our society. Open your hearts — and your borders!”
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The Conditioning of Americans: Politicians Allure Illegals in, ICE Rounds Them Up
What is The Real Objective? You!
“A list of 72 types of Americans that are considered to be “extremists” and “potential terrorists” in official U.S. government documents. Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner? Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order? Do you believe in conspiracy theories, do you believe that we are living in the “end times” or do you ever visit alternative news websites (such as this one)? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are a “potential terrorist” according to official U.S. government documents.” —Michael Snyder
I want you to show you how the government in this country creates the very problems that it later comes in through the back door, only to play the problem solvers to, the very problems that they themselves created.
The Wall Street Journal reported:…
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UN Tells Greece Suspending Asylum Claims Not Legal
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has labelled Greek attempts to stop asylum claims as being contrary to international agreements and not legal.
The UN Refugee Agency stated that the Greek government’s move to suspend new asylum claims, a measure announced after Turkey opened the gates to all migrants last Thursday, had no legal basis, in a press release this week.
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Climate Cult Hurting the Mental Health of Millions of Kids
One in five children is having nightmares about climate change, according to a British survey on Tuesday, as students globally stage protests over a lack of action to curb global warming.
About 17 percent of children in Britain said worries about climate change were disturbing their sleep while 19 percent said these fears were giving them nightmares.
The survey of 2,000 children aged eight to 16, conducted by pollster Savanta-ComRes for BBC Newsround, also found that two in five, or 41 percent, did not trust adults to tackle the climate crisis.
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Russia Plans Constitutional Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
Russian president Vladimir Putin has submitted a draft amendment to Russia’s constitution that would enshrine marriage as being between a man and a woman, the Guardian writes. This measure is part of a 24-page document that would also name Russia as the successor to the Soviet Union, mention Russians’ “faith in God”, and ensure the “defence of historical truth” regarding the Soviet role in the second world war.
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Clown world strikes again.
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.”
However, after a Twitter user called Adrian Harrop complained that the flags were a “transphobic dog whistle,” the offending items were removed.
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The Church of Wokeness alleging that race is only skin-deep, how about this as regards the Coronavirus:
https://www.unz.com/article/its-official-chinese-scientists-find-genetic-explanation-for-coronavirus-discriminating-by-race/
Or had we not noticed that the race, as opposed to passport, of the victims so far in the West has never been mentioned by the presstitute globalist media? nor that Africa, home to black people, has had hardly any confirmed cases?
https://mobile.twitter.com/IBDeutschland/status/1235215085624229888
German and Austrian identitarians at the border
https://mobile.twitter.com/kontologis/status/1235177950888288257
The two patients in Hungary are Iranian students.
We know for certain BEARDS are big time disease spreaders. All mention has now completely disappeared from the me die yeah. Once beautiful culture rich and secure Western European societies are now unsanitary and too pre-occupied and distracted to notice the now filthy hail laid lady handlers. Chinese dog, snake and bat consumption – got it. Beards and Halal? Not yet. Koran speak? Not yet. Mosque barracks – not yet.
I hope English isn’t your first language. Oh, and I’m keeping my (non-islamic) beard.
Actually he is right .Beards are full of germs and are disgusting
MH: Ignoring basic hygiene rules in any situation can be deadly. More so now. Might you agree? Hadn’t you noticed? I was referring to street posters and front page articles in the UK press. Take your pick – The Daily Mail? The Times? Beards (not very small trimmed moustaches). References to the deadliest sources seem to have disappeared now, I wonder why? The bearded ones have your full support? What a mess.
“Anti-immigration” Horst Seehofer (liar scum) teamed up with leftist mayors to try getting Germany to accept more invader so-called refugee “children” from Greece, because ‘muh sad cherry-picked photos’
https://www.google.com/amp/s/berlinspectator.com/amp/2020/03/05/germany-berlins-governing-mayor-muller-wants-to-accommodate-refugees-1/
Bundestag voted against it
https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/03/turkish-regime-deploys-1000-special-forces-to-greek-border-to-stop-migrants-from-going-back-to-turkey/
Yeah, the same Turkey that was considered for joining the EU
I wouldn’t want them in Turkey either.
Why not ?
They are Muslim scum all together.Turkey should wash their heads with the nasty invaders.
Even within islam there is are degrees of barbarity and savagery. As far as the islamic world goes the Turks are relatively cosmopolitan and modern. Especially when compared to the african tribal savages, afghani barbarians and arab criminals that have swarmed to the country seeking a way to penetrate Europe.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/world/europe/putin-erdogan-syria.amp.html