The number of Wuhan Coronavirus deaths in Italy jumped by 49 in a 24-hour period, making the total 197 out of 4,600 confirmed cases. Meanwhile, the death toll from the disease has risen to 124 in Iran, and includes an advisor to the Iranian foreign minister. Also, the first case of the coronavirus has been reported by the Vatican.
In other news, several migrant-rescue NGOs have suspended their operations on the Greek island of Lesbos in the face of violent opposition by local residents.
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February Jobs Report: U.S. Adds a Whopping 273k Jobs, Unemployment Rate Unexpectedly Falls to 3.5%
The February jobs report reflected much better than expected job gains and an unemployment rate back at a 50-year low, before the coronavirus outbreak escalated and threatened to weigh on economic activity.
The Labor Department released its February jobs report at 8:30 a.m. ET Friday. Here were the main results from the report, compared to consensus expectations compiled by Bloomberg:
Change in non-farm payrolls: +273,000 vs. +175,000 expected and 273,000 in January
Unemployment rate: 3.5% vs. 3.6% expected and 3.6% in January
Avg. hourly earnings, month on month: +0.3% vs. +0.3% expected and +0.2% in January
Avg. hourly earnings, year on year: 3.0% vs. +3.0% expected and 3.1% in January
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Will This Coronavirus Outbreak Cause a New Financial Crisis and a Horrifying Economic Collapse?
The term “black swan event” is increasingly being used to describe this coronavirus outbreak, and many are concerned that what we are headed for will be much worse than what we experienced in 2008 and 2009. Already, we have witnessed a staggering drop in global demand, Wall Street has had to deal with the wildest week in eight years, and people all over the globe are hoarding toilet paper, face masks and hand sanitizer. That may sound like a plot from one of my books, but it is not. This is actually happening, and it appears that we are still only in the very early chapters of this crisis.
It seems like just yesterday that everyone was freaking out because there were a few dozen confirmed cases here in the United States. Now there are 70 in the state of Washington alone…
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The Washington Post journalist who was humiliated after claiming Mike Bloomberg’s $500 million ad spend could have been used to give every American $1 million dollars responded to the controversy by tweeting “blah blah math blah blah.”
OK, then.
As we highlighted earlier, Mekita Rivas responded to Bloomberg dropping out of the presidential race by claiming that the money he spent on campaign commercials could have made every American a millionaire with lots of spare change.
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Akilah Hughes Opposes Carl Benjamin’s Motion for Attorney Legal Fees
The saga continues. A social media skirmish between YouTubers Akilah Hughes and Carl Benjamin started shortly after the US election in 2016, and then in 2017, it turned into a full-blown legal battle.
It took a New York judge several years to rule in the case brought by Hughes for alleged copyright infringement — when her original pro-Hillary Clinton election night footage was used mockingly by Benjamin (aka, Sargon of Akkad on YouTube) — to drive home a polar opposite ideological and political point.
Benjamin all along argued that his actions were protected by the fair use rule as a transformative work meant to produce parody or satire. And early in 2020, the judge agreed and dismissed the case in its entirety.
Not only that, but fair use was recognized here based on grounds that seem new and unprecedented — in any case, surely to be cited in many future copyright trials in the US.
A short while after the ruling, though, Benjamin decided to sue Hughes for legal costs incurred during the multi-year process.
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Another Professor Indicted Over Alleged Secret Ties to China
An associate professor and researcher at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville has been arrested for allegedly concealing ties to a Chinese university while receiving federal funding, according to a recent Justice Department press release.
Amning Hu was charged with three counts of wire fraud and three counts of making false statements following a grand jury indictment for “concealing his affiliation with Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) in China” in order to receive a research grant from NASA.
According to the Justice Department, NASA is prohibited from using federal dollars to collaborate with China or Chinese universities. Hu allegedly made “false representations and omissions to UTK about his affiliation with BJUT caused UTK to falsely certify to NASA that UTK was in compliance with federal law.”
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Chicago Public Schools Employee 6th Coronavirus Patient in Illinois
A Chicago Public Schools aide has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, state and local officials said at a news conference Friday evening.
The patient — a Chicago resident in her 50s — is a special education classroom assistant at Vaughn Occupation High School on Chicago’s North Side, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.
The woman, who remains hospitalized in stable condition, recently traveled on the Grand Princess — the cruise ship on which 21 passengers tested positive for the coronavirus.
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CNBC’s Rick Santelli Suggests ‘Giving Everybody’ Coronavirus to Calm Financial Markets
CNBC’s Rick Santelli suggested infecting everybody with the coronavirus so that its spread would be over quicker in order to calm financial markets.
Yes, really.
During his show on Thursday, Santelli suggested that a good way to stop the hysteria and panic would just be to expose everyone to the virus and let it run its course.
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A second medical screener who checks travelers at Los Angeles International Airport has been confirmed to have the coronavirus, one of two new cases reported in Los Angeles County Friday.
The screener is linked to another medical screener who worked in the same quarantine station and was confirmed to have the virus earlier this week, Barbara Ferrer, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, said at a press conference Friday.
A second new case was a traveler in a group of people who visited Italy, several of whom were earlier confirmed to have the virus. The county has confirmed 13 cases of the virus, and one has been “resolved,” Ferrer said.
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In a few weeks, YouTube will be fully deprecating its old channel management tool Creator Studio Classic and replacing it with the new YouTube Studio system.
YouTube says the tool has already been deprecated for 10% of creators and some creators are receiving notifications which tell them they’ll be losing access to Creator Studio Classic before the end of the month.
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DoD Linguist Arrested, Charged With Espionage for Sharing Identities of US Spies With Hezbollah
A US department of defense employee has been arrested and charged with transmitting “highly sensitive classified” information to a foreign national with ties to the Lebanese Islamist militant group Hezbollah.
According to US federal prosecutors, 61-year-old Mariam Taha Thompson told a Lebanese man the names of foreign informants, as well as details of the information they provided to the United States — revealing some of the government’s most closely held secrets, according to the New York Times. Officials say Ms. Thompson endangered the lives of both sources and military personnel.
She was arrested at an overseas US base on February 27.
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FISA Court Blocks FBI Agents Linked to Carter Page Probe From Seeking Wiretaps, Other Surveillance
FBI officials involved in the wiretapping of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page have been blocked, at least temporarily, from appearing before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in regard to other cases, in rebuke that exceeded the remedial recommendations made by the independent monitor recently appointed by the court.
The decision by James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the secretive court created under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), comes as Congress faces a March 15 deadline on whether to renew three FBI national-security surveillance and investigative tools that were enacted after 9/11.
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Florida Man Friday: Did Someone Say Corona?
Before we get to the good stuff, I need to say something to the people of Twitter. The problem is, I’m not on Twitter anymore, so I’ll say it here and hope it gets passed along.
There’s a certain breed of all-politics-all-the-time twitterers who think they’re being clever when some Florida politician does something they don’t like, and they tag the news with #FloridaMan as though to indicate that the politician they don’t like is on bath salts, drunk, a petty criminal, etc.
But it isn’t clever. It’s been done to death. Please stop.
Pretty please?
I had to get that off my chest. Without further ado, let’s dive right into another thrill-a-minute…
Florida Man Friday!
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How to Cope When Coronavirus Wipes Out Toilet Paper Supplies
Forget face masks, toilet paper rolls are flying off the shelves — and people are actually wondering if there are viable alternatives.
Newspapers and wet wipes are not designed to be flushed, but water is — and is the preferred method in many parts of the world, according to Metro UK, which got to the bottom of the dilemma.
Though not common in the US, bidets are standard fixtures as toilet companions that users straddle and wash their nether regions.
In the absence of a bidet, people can resort to using a lota, a jug that is a familiar sight in Asian households that uses water to clean one’s privates.
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Journalist Shocked at Lack of Coronavirus Checks After Returning to U.S. From Italy
A journalist expressed her shock that there were no checks whatsoever for coronavirus after she landed at JFK airport having returned from Italy.
Italy is the worst hit country in Europe, with 3,296 people infected with coronavirus and a total death toll of 148.
Despite other countries such as Hungary imposing mandatory health screenings at airports for all arrivals from Italy, no such measures are being taken at many U.S. airports.
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Leftists Fear Trump Will Exploit Coronavirus to the Postpone the Election
Leftists fear that President Trump may exploit the coronavirus outbreak as an excuse to postpone the election and remain in power.
With over 233 cases and 14 deaths now being reported inside the U.S., some are concerned that the panic surrounding the outbreak will be hijacked to allow Trump to stay in the Oval Office beyond January 2021.
Numerous users took to Twitter to assert that Trump is deliberately botching the response to take political advantage of any potential pandemic.
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Loaded Gun Found Inside Epstein Jail, Raising Serious Questions About Security Practices
Following a weeklong lockdown at the jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself last August, federal investigators discovered a loaded gun Thursday that had been smuggled into the facility, according to the Associated Press.
The search of the Manhattan facility began last week after officials were told that a gun may have been smuggled into the jail. The lockdown resulted in the discovery of other contraband and led to a criminal investigation into guard misconduct.
The handgun, which was located by Bureau of Prisons (BOP) officers inside a jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, marked a major violation of prison protocol, raising serious questions about security practices at the facility.
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A new study released this week by the DOJ Inspector General found that the FBI dropped investigations on the Islamic terrorists behind several deadly terrorist attacks.
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New York Times editor Mara Gay and MSNBC host Brian Williams faced humiliation after they erroneously suggested that Mike Bloomberg’s $500 million ad spend could have been used to give each American $1 million dollars.
The farce began with a tweet by Mikita Rivas, which some people claimed was satirical, stating, “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over. I feel like a $1 million check would be life-changing for most people. Yet he wasted it all on ads and STILL LOST.”
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NYU Law Video Teaching About Copyright Was Removed by YouTube for Copyright Infringement
The New York University School of Law (NYU Law) thought it had a problem when one of its academic and educational videos posted on YouTube (in two versions), exploring the nature and the finer details of US copyright law got flagged — for copyright infringement.
But then, this leading educational institution had an even greater hurdle to overcome: to try and explain how, and why that turn of events was even possible; what it means when it comes to fair use rule interpretations and applications; and how — and if — anyone can really fight false copyright notices these days.
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Top Health Official Cashes in on Merck Stock
Cancer Research UK announced an alarming 54% rise in cervical cancer among 24-29-year-olds, the first generation to receive the HPV jabs
As detailed in The Highwire video above, in January 2020, Dr. Julie Gerberding — director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2002 until 2009, who after leaving the CDC became president of Merck’s vaccine division in January 20101 — sold half her Merck stock options for $9.11 million.
Gerberding also cashed in on her company stock options in 2016, when she sold $5.1 million-worth of Merck stocks, and 2015, when she made $2.3 million. In total, Gerberding has made $16,592,144 from selling off her Merck stocks — all of which, by the way, is over and beyond her regular paycheck — and she still owns Merck stocks worth $9 million.
And we’re supposed to believe she has been impartial about vaccine safety and has been all along? As noted by Del Bigtree in his Highwire report:
“Do you trust the information that come from your government agencies, when a year after working [at] that agency, they move into the very company that they exonerated from any wrongdoing and end up making $20-something-million dollars in stock options, plus a gigantic salary? Sounds like a payoff to me.”…
An article2 by Robert F. Kennedy, chairman of the Children’s Health Defense, wonders whether Gerberding’s stock dump might have anything to do with recent red flags being raised about Merck’s HPV vaccine Gardasil. He writes:3
“Last month, Cancer Research UK announced4,5,6 an alarming 54% rise in cervical cancer among 24-29-year-olds, the first generation to receive the HPV jabs.
The following day, the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine published7 a withering critique of Gardasil’s crooked clinical trials, ‘It is still uncertain whether human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination prevents cervical cancer as trials were not designed to detect this outcome.’
As Gerberding knows, those trials8 revealed that Gardasil dramatically RAISES (by +44.6%) the risk of cervical cancer among women with a current infection or those previously exposed to HPV.
That may explain the cancer explosions in England and other nations with high inoculation rates in young girls up to age 18; Australia, Spain, Sweden and Norway. A 2019 study9 of Alabama girls found the highest cervical cancer rates in the state’s most heavily vaccinated counties.
With Merck’s efficacy pretensions circling the drain, a coalition of leading plaintiff’s lawyers are already in discovery in a suit10 alleging that Merck fraudulently concealed serious illnesses affecting half, and autoimmune diseases affecting 1 of every 37 girls in Gardasil’s clinical trials within 6 months of injection.
As Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director from 2002-2009, Gerberding helped Merck paper over these efficacy and safety problems.”
Chances are, Gerberding’s 2004 report to Congress, “Prevention of Genital Human Papillomavirus Infection,”11 played a significant role in getting the controversial HPV vaccine fast tracked to licensure by the FDA in the first place. Needless to say, the approval of this questionable vaccine guaranteed her future employer billions of dollars-worth of profits.
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Trump Signs Emergency $8.3 Billion Bill to Fight Coronavirus
President Trump on Friday signed an emergency $8.3 billion spending bill meant to help halt the spread of coronavirus, a measure the government takes as the number of confirmed cases and deaths from the disease continue to grow in the United States.
The $8.3 billion allocated by the bill is more than triple the original $2.5 billion asked for by the White House. Trump in public pronouncements has downplayed the alleged threat posed by the coronavirus, speculating that the mortality rate is much lowerthan official numbers and telling reporters on Friday “it’ll go away.”
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Trump Campaign Sues CNN for “False and Defamatory” Reporting, Seeks Millions
Adding to an ongoing series of media-related lawsuits, the Trump campaign announced on Friday that it is suing CNN, claiming the network has published “false and defamatory statements” about the campaign’s present activities.
The campaign alleges that CNN defamed the president and misled readers when it reported that Trump surrogates have ‘“assessed the potential risks and benefits” of seeking Russia’s help in the 2020 election. Legal counsel for the campaign claims that the network was aware that those allegations were false when they were reported.
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Video: Hillary Repeats Lie That Trump Called Coronavirus a ‘Hoax’
Democrats and leftists continue to falsely claim that Trump said the outbreak is not real
Hillary Clinton went on national TV Wednesday and twice claimed that President Trump has called the coronavirus outbreak a ‘hoax’, a completely debunked lie.
Appearing on The Tonight Show, Clinton told Jimmy Fallon “I wish I could say I was surprised.”
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Violent Anti-Semitic Antifa Activist Avoids Jail Time, Released for Treatment
A Pacific Northwest-based antifa activist, Jamal Oscar Williams, with a history of violence and threatening behavior has been released for treatment rather than incarcerated after committing anti-Semitic attacks against a rabbi and a congregant, which classify as felony hate crimes in Seattle.
The Post Millennial was the only media outlet to cover the Williams anti-Semitic attacks in November. According to court documents, Williams “maliciously and intentionally” followed, threatened to kill and assaulted the Jewish men in multiple attacks in October because of their perceived religion.
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Breaking: Justin Trudeau Owes Rebel News $5,500 — But That Deadbeat Refuses to Pay!
Last October, Justin Trudeau’s hand-picked debates commission tried to block Rebel News reporters from covering the leaders debates during the federal election.
That was illegal censorship of course, so we rushed to the Federal Court of Canada for an emergency injunction to stop Trudeau’s censorship.
We won that hearing, and Trudeau’s cronies had to back down. Our journalists went in.
Even more, the judge ordered that Trudeau had to pay a portion of our court costs. Our two free speech lawyers cost us $18,000.
Trudeau has to pay us $5,500 — not enough to cover our costs, but at least a symbolic amount.
Which is precisely why Trudeau has refused to pay, despite repeated requests from our lawyers.
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Mosque Calls Police When Rebel News Asks About Their ISIS “Deradicalization” Student
I returned to the Risalah Foundation in Vaughan, Ontario, which is supposedly providing deradicalization therapy to Pamir Hakimzadah of Toronto. Pamir traveled to Turkey back in 2014. His final destination was supposed to be Syria, where he planned to join ISIS.
This wannabe terrorist never made it out of Turkey, however. 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”!
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RCMP Will Not Investigate Railway Derailments, Report Finds
The RCMP and Ontario Provincial Police will not investigate recent major accidents at Canadian Pacific and CN Railways, leaving federal railway police run by CP and CN to investigate themselves.
According to a CBC News investigation, some of the train derailments included crude oil train crashes, some of which took the lives of employees.
Families impacted by the crashes, who have lost loved ones, are calling the decision negligent and frustrating, calling out the “double standard” where police routinely clear blockades and inspect Canada railways, but do not investigate corporate railways, even in the event of a disaster.
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Barnier: UK Refuses to Stay Bound by European Convention on Human Rights
The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said that the UK’s refusal to stay governed by the European Court of Human Rights will have an “immediate and concrete effect” on the kind of deal that Brussels is willing to sign with London.
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is enforced by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The court is a body of the Council of Europe, and while the Council of Europe is not part of the European Union, it is expected that all EU nations abide by the ECHR.
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Belgian Coronavirus Cases Rise to 50
The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Belgium has increased by 27, to 50, with most patients having returned from holidays in Italy. All patients have been isolated. Belgium’s leading virologist Marc Van Ranst said there is no need for excessive measures, but voiced concerns about shortage of mouth masks for doctors and nurses as well as testing materials. The government expects the number to grow.
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Coronavirus: French Government Seizes All Stocks of Face Masks, Thousands Stolen From Hospitals
French President Emmanuel Macron “signed a decree” to make the seizure of face masks law.
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.
The China-origin Coronavirus, which has already killed a known 3,190 people worldwide is becoming more established in Europe, with worst-impacted nation Italy’s death toll standing at 79.
Neighbouring France has seen a comparatively modest four deaths, but the French government hasn’t baulked at launching a series of sweeping measures under the guise of public health.
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Coronavirus: Italy Reports Biggest Daily Jump in Death Toll
The death toll from the new coronavirus in Italy has risen to 197 after the largest daily increase in fatalities there since the outbreak began.
Officials said 49 people had died in 24 hours, while more than 4,600 cases have been reported in total.
The country has now reported the most deaths outside of China, where the virus emerged in December.
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Forced Islamisation at Swedish School as 9-Year-Olds Confess to Allah in Religious Studies — Reports
According to a disturbed parent, the teacher threatened her daughter with detention if she refused to participate in a lesson that included confessing to the Islamic faith in a letter and prayer.
Söderfors School in Tierp has come under fire for its unorthodox methods of teaching religious studies.
According to the news portal Katerina Magasin, third-graders were forced to confess to Islam and Allah in a letter during a lesson in religious studies. Among other things, the nine-year-olds had to write “I belong to Islam”.
Anamaria von Roteliuc, the mother of a nine-year-old girl, told the magazine the pupils also had to participate in a prayer, while a minaret call was played in the classroom. Furthermore, the children had to colour a mosque on a piece of paper.
When students questioned whether they really had to participate in the activities, the teacher responded that they had to. According to von Roteliuc, who also detailed the ordeal in a Facebook post, the teacher threatened her daughter with detention if she refused to participate in the task. The girl initially refused to pledge allegiance to Allah, but had to to write “I belong to Islam” in the end.
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Four New Coronavirus Cases in Poland
Four new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Poland, the Health Ministry reported on Friday. The fresh cases bring the total infection count to five.
The north-western city of Szczecin and the south-western city of Wroclaw are among the locations of the new coronavirus patients, Health Minister Lukasz Szumowski announced.
One of the patients had been travelling with Poland’s patient zero on a bus from Germany, Szumowski said. Two other people have returned from Italy and are in Szczecin. The fourth person lives in Wroclaw. “All patients are under medical care,” the minister said.
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Four Foreigners Tested Positive for New Coronavirus in Hungary
Four foreigners have been tested positive for the new coronavirus in Hungary so far in isolated cases and the aim is to prevent the development of group infections, the head of an operative board set up to oversee protective measures against the coronavirus said on Friday.
Three citizens from Iran and one British man have been tested positive, Tibor Lakatos told a press conference. The former are in Szent Laszlo hospital in Budapest and the latter in the Kenezy Gyula hospital in Debrecen in eastern Hungary, he added. A total of 39 people are held in quarantine in Hungary and the national public health centre has performed 263 tests, he said.
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George Soros Invests $45 Million in Activision Blizzard
The Hungarian magnate known to be responsible for the Bank of England bankruptcy and one of the richest men in the world is betting big on the video game industry with a multimillion-dollar investment in one of the most influential game publishers.
George Soros’ commitment to the video games world has led him to investin one of the companies with the best position in the industry: Activision Blizzard.
The California-based company is behind a range of popular gaming titles, including Call of Duty and World of Warcraft.
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Greece Closes Schools in Three Regions Over Coronavirus
Following Iran and Italy’s lead, Greece announced on Thursday a 48-hour shutdown of educational institutions, including “a suspension of all mass gatherings” at theatres, cinemas, museums, and sports events in three regions to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the Guardian reported. The Peloponnese regions affected are Achaia and Elis and the island of Zakynthos. The country recorded 31 infections, but no fatalities.
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Hungary: Orban: Era of Sobriety Knocking on Our Door
After an era of liberal and globalist illusions, “the era of sobriety is knocking on our door”, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at a festive assembly of the national police force marking its 100th anniversary in Parliament on Friday.
This can be seen in the stricter migration policy being pursued in Europe and the strong state response to the new coronavirus, the prime minister said.
“Order is the foundation of freedom,” Orban said. “This is why we protect the borders, stem the flow of migrants, support victims, condemn and put an end to prison business, raise our children to forge a healthy family and national identity, support our police force and are proud of our achievements,” Orban said. “Time also vindicates us in this debate,” he added.
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Italy: Di Maio Eats ‘Pizza of Friendship’ With French Envoy
After TV sketch of ‘coronavirus pizza’ sparked row
(ANSA) — Rome, March 4 — Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio on Wednesday ate a ‘pizza of friendship’ with French Ambassador Christian Masset a day after bilateral relations were strained by a French TV channel showing a ‘coronavirus pizza’ being made by a pizzaiolo who coughed up green phlegm onto it in what both sides said later had been a regrettable piece of alleged satire.
The two men met in a noted pizzeria in the centre of Rome to bury the hatchet over what some observers called ‘pizzagate’.
The satirical sketch on Canal+ sparked protests from Italy.
The French embassy then distanced itself from the episode and Canal+ apologised.
“This is the pizza of friendship and I thank the minister for inviting me to eat one of the best pizzas there are,” said Masset.
In the pizzeria, the two men ate a pizza starter called ‘a portafoglio’ before eating the main pizza.
The ‘Corona Pizza’ sketch was broadcast on Canal+’s popular satirical show Groland Le Zapoi.
Di Maio said “yesterday a French TV channel broadcast a video that offended Italian pizza and our country.
“To respond to that shameful image, today in the company of the French ambassador to Italy, whom I thank, we ate together a good Neapolitan pizza, one of the Italian excellences that all the world envies us for”.
“Now enough polemics, let’s defend with all our might our products, our qualities, our Made in Italy”.
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Just 20 Per Cent of Germans Confident Merkel Govt Can Handle Coronavirus Outbreak
A poll has claimed that just one in five Germans are confident that Angela Merkel’s government can handle a widespread outbreak of the coronavirus.
The survey, which was conducted by polling firm INSA for German tabloid Bild, showedthat close to half (44 per cent) of the German public said they do not trust Merkel’s government to have made all the necessary preparations for an outbreak.
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Majority of Italians Say Leftist Govt Has Not Done Enough to Prevent Coronavirus Outbreak
A poll has revealed that a majority of Italians do not think the leftist coalition government headed by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has done enough to prevent a coronavirus outbreak.
The Quaeris institute poll showed that 53.8 per cent of Italians did not think the leftist coalition of the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party (PD) had done enough, while 55.9 per cent said they were not satisfied with the measures that were taken to stop the spread of the virus.
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Pope Accepts Resignation of Cardinal Previously Accused of Covering Up Sex Abuse
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Philippe Barbarin, the French cardinal who was accused, convicted, and later acquitted of covering up sexual abuse allegations in the French Catholic Church.
Barbarin last year became the first high-ranking church official to be convicted of concealing sexual abuse by church clergy. The cardinal was found to have covered up an abuse allegation against Father Bernard Preynat, a priest in the archdiocese of Lyon.
An appeals court later struck down that conviction, saying that the adult male who had made the allegation was capable of reporting it to authorities on his own.
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The Trial Starts: Who Authorized the Missile’s Movement & Fired the Buk That Brought Down MH17?
AMSTERDAM (AP) — United by grief across oceans and continents, families who lost loved ones when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in 2014 hope that a trial starting next week will finally deliver something that has remained elusive ever since: The truth.
A trial starts Monday in the Netherlands for three Russians linked to their country’s security and intelligence services and a Ukrainian rebel commander. They are accused of mass murder for their alleged roles in shooting down the Boeing 777 on July 17, 2014, as it passed over conflict-torn eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers and crew.
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Dr Richard Hatchett, the boss of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, said we need to go to war on the virus as he revealed it could take more than a year for a vaccine.
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Two Coronavirus Deaths in UK as Known Cases Rise to 116
The United Kingdom has seen its first confirmed domestic death from coronavirus as the number of known cases doubled in two days to 116.
The first victim was British woman is believed to have been 75 and had been “in and out of hospital” with an underlying health condition. She was diagnosed with coronavirus when NHS staff were conducting routine tests of intensive care patients with respiratory problems for pneumonia. She died at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Berkshire, on Thursday.
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UK: 12-Year-Old British Boy Beaten Bloody and Robbed by Gang of Thugs
A 12-year-old British boy has been strangled, kicked, and punched after he was chased down by a gang of youth thugs in Great Barr, outside Birmingham.
West Midlands Police are currently investigating the attack which saw a group of youth thugs chase 12-year-old Mackenzie down before throwing him to the ground and kicking and punching him while he begged them to stop, Birmingham Live reports.
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UK: Former Supermarket Boss Warns of Potential Coronavirus “Food Riots, “ Army Patrols
Former Tesco supply chain director Bruno Monteyne warns that a large scale outbreak of coronavirus in the UK could lead to “food riots,” requiring the army to be used to guard supermarkets.
Monteyne said that supermarkets would have to resort to drastic measures and revert to “feed the nation status” under a worse case scenario.
He also cautioned that grocery stores would have trouble stocking shelves and delivering goods if their employees decided to self-isolate.
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Sports authorities will meet on Monday to discuss contingency plans to cope with the killer disease as the number of people who have tested positive for coronavirus in the UK hits 164.
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Health Secretary Matt Hancock said last night that the government was working closely with retailers to ensure that people who self-isolate at home can get essential supplies.
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UK: Video: Costco Customers Sprayed With ‘Disinfectant’ At Door
As people in London attempt to stock up they’re subjected to ‘cattle dip’ by store staff
Customers entering a Costco in Croydon, London, were surprised to be confronted with staff spraying them with disinfectant at the front door as panic increases concerning the spread of the Coronavirus.
The person who shot the video commented that shoppers ‘lined up obediently’ to be sprayed with a ‘disinfectant-like liquid’, before they were allowed access into the store.
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Vatican Announces Its First Case of Coronavirus
ROME — The Vatican has confirmed Friday that a patient in its health services has tested positive for COVID-19, making it the Vatican’s first case of coronavirus.
The head of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, said in an email early Friday that the Vatican has temporarily shut down its outpatient services for “sanitization” after a patient tested positive for the virus on Thursday.
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YouTube Strikes Count Dankula’s Channel Over a Video That Was Deleted Last Year
YouTube’s content policing is getting worse, not better, over time — as comedian Mark Meechan, aka Count Dankula, has been finding out.
His comedy video known as “Nazi Pug” — where he is seen teaching his wife’s dog to behave like “the least cute thing that he could think of,” namely, a Nazi giving a Nazi salute — got removed from his channel last year.
But on Friday, Meechan announced that he had just received a notification from YouTube that this same video was struck down on “hate speech” grounds while the channel itself has received a “warning” that often leads to subsequent strikes and can result in a complete ban.
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Caroline Glick: Democrats and Anti-Democrats
The day after Israel’s latest Knesset elections, Democrats in fourteen states in the US voted in Super Tuesday.
This year’s Democratic presidential primaries pit the party establishment, represented by former Vice President Joe Biden against the party’s activist base comprising revolutionary socialists led by Senator Bernie Sanders. Their fight casts in stark relief the dismal state of both the Israeli Left and Israeli democracy.
The establishment claims that if Sanders is the nominee, President Donald Trump will be reelected because Sanders is too exposed as a radical socialist. Moreover, they say, if Sanders is the nominee, he will endanger Democratic control of the House and vaporize all hope of a Democratic takeover of the Senate.
Sanders and his supporters reject these claims with two counterarguments. First, they note, all the energy in the party is in their camp. Thousands turn out to participate in Sanders events while Biden speaks to empty halls. Sanders is charismatic and compelling; Biden can’t remember what state he’s in.
Second, Sanders and his supporters warn that they aren’t in the game to get just any Democrat elected. They are there to get Sanders elected. If the party establishment successfully torpedoes his candidacy, as it did when he ran against Hillary Clinton in 2016, then more likely than not, his supporters will pick up their marbles and go home and take their energy and crowds with them. It is a serious game and both sides treat it accordingly.
This then brings us to Israel. On Monday night, as the public waited for the polls to close and the exit polls to be released, Eretz Nehederet, Israel’s biggest prime-time satire show broadcast a sketch that perfectly captured the state of the Democrats’ Israeli counterparts…
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Adviser to Iran’s Foreign Minister Dies of Coronavirus
Tehran — An adviser to Iran’s foreign minister who took part in the 1979 U.S. embassy hostage crisis has died from coronavirus, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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Iran: 124 Dead From Virus Including FM’s Adviser, Could Use Force to Stop Travel
An adviser to Iran’s foreign minister who took part in the 1979 US embassy hostage crisis has died from coronavirus, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Hossein Sheikholeslam, “a veteran and revolutionary diplomat” died late Thursday, IRNA said.
Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said Friday that the new coronavirus has killed 124 people amid 4,747 confirmed cases in the Islamic Republic as authorities warned they may use “force” to limit travel between cities.
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At the start of their discussion marathon in Moscow on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with arguably the most extraordinary diplomatic gambit of the young 21st century.
Putin said: “At the beginning of our meeting, I would like to once again express my sincere condolences over the death of your servicemen in Syria. Unfortunately, as I have already told you during our phone call, nobody, including Syrian troops, had known their whereabouts.”
This is how a true world leader tells a regional leader, to his face, to please refrain from positioning his forces as jihadi supporters — incognito, in the middle of an explosive theater of war.
The Putin-Erdogan face-to-face discussion, with only interpreters allowed in the room, lasted three hours, before another hour with the respective delegations. In the end, it all came down to Putin selling an elegant way for Erdogan to save face — in the form of, what else, yet another ceasefire in Idlib, which started at midnight on Thursday, signed in Turkish, Russian and English — “all texts having equal legal force.”
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Putin and Erdogan Agree Idlib Ceasefire, But Will it Hold?
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian president Vladimir Putin agreed to restart a ceasefire in Idlib, the last rebel-held province in Syria, at their meeting in Moscow on Thursday (5 March).
The agreement looks like a reconfirmation of the Sochi deal in September 2018 where Russia promised not to attack Idlib, while Turkey promised to disarm jihadist groups, except that Turkey loses a substantial part of the province in the new pact.
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Russia and Turkey Back Rival Sides in the Syrian Conflict, And Have Become the Main Power Brokers
BEIRUT (AP) — Opposition activists and a war monitor reported a complete absence of Russian and Syrian government warplanes in the skies of Idlib and a relative calm in the area Friday morning, following a cease-fire deal brokered by Turkey and Russia that halted a terrifying campaign of bombing from above.
Airstrikes over the past three months killed hundreds and sent a million people fleeing toward the Turkish border during the Russia-backed Syrian government assault on the country’s last rebel stronghold.
Although warplanes no longer flew sorties overhead, the activists said there was minor shelling in some areas after the truce went into effect at midnight Thursday.
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Saudi Arabia Detains Three Senior Members of Royal Family
Three senior members of Saudi Arabia’s royal family, including the king’s brother, have been arrested for unexplained reasons, US media report.
Two of the men were among the kingdom’s most influential figures.
The detentions have been linked to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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‘Jihadi Danger for Bengali Hindus in West Bengal’
Bengali Hindus are in Utmost Danger under Mamata Regime in WB: VHP
Premananda Das | HENB | Kolkata | March 6, 2020:: Calling the West Bengal situation “highly dangerous” for the Hindu society due to the discriminatory attitude of the Mamata Banerjee-led government in the state, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Thursday asked the Chief Minister to desist from making statements branding the Mass Wedding Ceremony conducted by VHP and Saffron Brigade as a ploy of Mass Conversion.
WB CM Mamata Banerjee was seen on Thursday while dancing a jig with tribal women who were performing a traditional dance at a mass wedding in the Gajole area of West Bengal’s Malda district.
Targeting the Saffron penetration in North Bengal, the Chief Minister also said that the West Bengal government government had made sure that nobody would be able to take land away from tribals in the state.
The Educational and Social Welfare wings of RSS (Rashtriya Swaymsevak Sangha) and VHP have been working for the tribal areas of North Bengal since long to save them from the curse of conversion and social exploitation.
VHP’s All India Assistant Secretary, Dr. Sachindra Nath Singha condemned the Govt sponsored Mass Wedding Ceremony for the Scheduled Tribe people conducted the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) Party blocking the same programmes arranged by VHP.
Addressing the media persons, Dr Singha claimed the situation in the state has become highly vulnerable for the Hindu society due to the discriminatory policy of the Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government…
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Coronavirus Cases:
102,233
view by country
Deaths:
3,496
Recovered:
57,619
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New Study Says “Best Case” Coronavirus Scenario Ends With 15 Million Dead
A new study by The Australian National University finds that in the “best case scenario,” coronavirus will claim 15 million lives worldwide and shave $2.4 trillion off the global GDP.
The paper examined seven different models of how COVID-19 could spread outside of China, ranging from low to high severity.
“But even in the low-severity model — or best-case scenario of the seven, which the paper acknowledged were not definitive — ANU researchers estimate a global GDP loss of $2.4 trillion, with an estimated death toll of 15 million,” reports Yahoo News.
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Over the past week, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 outside of China more than tripled once again. Hopefully it is extremely unlikely that such a rapid growth rate will continue, because if it does, there will be more than a million confirmed cases outside of China just a month from now. I don’t even want to imagine the level of fear that would cause, and needless to say that would be absolutely devastating for the entire global economy. Of course if we do get to a million confirmed cases, there won’t be any way to keep it from spreading everywhere on the entire globe, and the ultimate death toll could be unimaginable.
According to the WHO, the current death rate for this outbreak is 3.4 percent, and many experts believe that it will continue to go higher.
That means that a whole lot of people will die if this virus cannot be contained somehow.
Researchers at a major university in Australia modeled seven different scenarios for how a COVID-19 pandemic might go, and in the “best-case scenario” the death toll was 15 million…
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Figures from the World Health Organisation and Chinese scientists has revealed that 1.7 per cent of woman who catch the virus will die compared to 2.8 per cent of men.
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In a warning this week, WHO reminded people that money picks up the disease which can stay on surfaces for hours if not days.
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Thanh Thai, from Sydney, took to the Ryde’s District Mum’s Facebook page on Wednesday, to share a picture of empty shelves after a store sold out of the latex contraceptives.
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Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology Bombs Again
Another summer has come and gone and with it much of the credibility of the Bureau of Meteorology’s climate modeling that has once again been shown to be worthy of fish and chip wrapping and not much else.
We are persistently harangued by the climate botherers, that if we don’t immediately embark on transforming into a subsistence economy then we are doomed by imminent climatic cataclysm.
This religious conviction is premised on the shoddy science that underpins climate modeling. So how did that science work out for the BoM this summer past?
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Queensland Tissue Products Factory in Carole Park, Brisbane has been producing 150 tonnes of toilet paper each day.
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Chicago Mayor Defends Freeing Illegal Alien Accused of Child Sexual Assault
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) and the Chicago Police Department are defending freeing an illegal alien convicted felon who allegedly sexually assaulted a three-year-old girl in a public bathroom.
As Breitbart News reported, 35-year-old illegal alien Christopher Puente from Mexico was charged in Chicago, Illinois, with one count of predatory criminal sexual assault after he allegedly locked himself in a McDonald’s bathroom stall with a three-year-old girl and proceeded to sexually assault her.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was right about the need to protect the European Union’s external borders from a massive inflow of illegal migrants and “deserves an apology” for the criticism he received for his policy, Christian Ortner, a journalist of Austrian daily Die Presse, wrote on Friday.
Today it seems “self-explanatory” that the EU’s borders must be protected, Ortner wrote, noting that back in 2015 Orban had been the only politician in Europe to hold this view.
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EU FMs Support Greece in Securing Borders — Polish FM in Zagreb
Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz told PAP on Friday that EU foreign ministers meeting in Zagreb approved the position supporting Greece’s actions aimed at the protection of the EU’s external borders.
A week ago, Turkey announced that it would no longer stop on its territory Syrian refugees trying to reach Europe. Since that moment, thousands of people have been trying to cross the Turkish-Greek land border while hundreds want to find their way to Greek islands.
“We have adopted the position supporting Greece as far as the protection of borders is concerned as well as Cyprus, Bulgaria and Western Balkan countries with regard to migration,” Czaputowicz went on to say.
“Poland has declared organisational support, border guards and police as well as financial aid,” he noted.
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Europe Must Not Fall Victim to Erdogan’s Blackmail
Turkey’s Islamist strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has threatened Europe several times with “sending millions of refugees your way.” Turkey would apparently like to see more progress in the talks to grant it admission as a full member of the European Union. At the moment, these membership negotiations have stalled. He may also wish for Western support — from the EU, the United States and all of NATO — for his ideal architecture to install Turkey in northwest Syria.
As Turkish servicemen were recently killed in Syria, with direct Russian military involvement, it is probably safe to assume that the support Erdogan is seeking, both directly and indirectly, is “support for a NATO ally against Russian aggression”. In addition, Erdogan would also most certainly like the West overlook his massive democratic deficit, and to help Turkey secure even more dominance over the Greek islands off its coast, as well as its claims on the gas fields beneath the eastern Mediterranean.
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Finally! Trump to Withhold Federal Funding From Sanctuary Cities
Thanks to last month’s ruling by the 2nd Circuit Court Of Appeals, Trump has now announced that the federal government will be withholding funding to sanctuary cities that harbor illegal aliens.
This spells bad news for several of the far left lunatics who are in charge of many of the big cities in the country.
In fact, Center For Immigration Studies has put together a map that shows all of these places that are now S.O.L.
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Four Arrests Over 10 Migrants Found in Lorry in Belgium
Four men have been arrested in a people smuggling investigation after 10 people, mostly under-18s, were found in the back of a lorry in Belgium.
The lorry was searched by the Belgian authorities near Ghent on Thursday after they received information from the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA).
The lorry driver, a 64-year-old man from Glasgow in Scotland, was arrested.
Two Irishmen were later arrested in Dover, England, and a fourth man was detained in Northern Ireland.
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Hungary: Szijjartó: EU Pledges Solidarity to Greece
The European Union has pledged its full solidarity to Greece, which is facing massive pressure due to migrants arriving from Turkey, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjartó said on Friday in Zagreb, after an extraordinary session of EU foreign ministers.
Szijjartó noted that during debates on the 2015 migration crisis, “Hungary was savaged in the strongest possible terms when we talked about having to protect our borders, build a fence and send soldiers and policemen to the border to protect the country.” Hungary was subjected to the harshest political attacks and compared with the darkest dictatorships of the 20th century, he noted.
Hungary’s stance has since become mainstream in Europe, as the “EU was speaking today about the protection of its external borders, resistance to migration pressure and supporting the fight against illegal border crossings,” Szijjartó said.
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Migrants, Police in Fresh Clashes at Turkey-Greece Border
Brief clashes broke out at Turkey’s border with Greece on Friday, where thousands of refugees have been encouraged by Ankara to leave for the European Union.
Greek police fired tear gas at migrants trying to break through the fence, who responded by throwing stones, according to AFP journalists at the scene.
Calm was quickly restored, with hundreds of migrants sitting peacefully in front of the gates, chanting “peace”, “freedom” and “open the gates”.
Makeshift camps for thousands of migrants have sprung up around the border since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said last week they would no longer be stopped from trying to leave the country.
Many say they are being pushed to leave.
“They (the Turkish military) told us that if you don’t go to the border… you will be forced to come back to Turkey and people don’t want to come back because they don’t have any good opportunities, there isn’t anything,” Ali, an Iranian, told AFP.
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Pro-Migrant NGOs Stop Activity on Greek Island After Attacks From Local ‘Fascists’
Several pro-migrant NGOs will be suspending their activities on the Greek island of Lesbos after attacks from locals they have deemed to be far-right extremists.
One of those halting operations is Douglas Herman, the co-founder of the NGO Refocus, who said that many of the organisations on Lesbos have told volunteers and staff to leave the island due to safety concerns after a rising number of attacks by locals.
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Study: American Taxpayers Billed Up to $133k Per Refugee Resettled in U.S.
American taxpayers are billed up to $133,000 per refugee resettled in the United States over the course of a lifetime, a new study reveals.
Research by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that each refugee resettled in the U.S. cost American taxpayers anywhere on average between $60,000 and $133,000 over the course of a lifetime.
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Watch: Turkey Arms Migrants With Tear Gas, Sends Freed Prisoners to Border, Claims Greek Government
The Greek government has released a video appearing to confirm that Turkish authorities are ferrying illegal migrants to Europe’s land borders and arming them with tear gas, as well as using its coast guard to escort illegals travelling by sea.
A video timeline of the migrant border crisis, uploaded to YouTube by government spokesman Stelios Petsas and disseminated via official Greek government accounts on social media, claims to show how the Turkish government have orchestrated events — seemingly as punishment for Europe’s failure to back their Islamist president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his jihadist client rebels in Idlib, Syria, strongly enough.
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Western Journos Reportedly Stage Photo Op of Migrant Woman Crying on Greek Beach
The woman performs various acts of despair for the cameras, which take photos from multiple angles
National File has previously reported on the migrant crisis on the Greek-Turkish and the resulting flare in tensions between locals and far-left western journalists.
More video footage that reportedly was taken in Greece appeared this week that shows photographers coaxing a migrant woman into various poses of agitation on a shoreline to engender sympathy in Western media.
In the nine-second video clip, a lone migrant woman in the foreground and another migrant in the background are coaxed by photographers into various poses of despondency and shrill cries of anguish, while the photographers circle and take photos in a scene reminiscent of a magazine cover photoshoot.
The female migrant holds her hands to her head and rocks back and forth, screaming, while the camera crew calmly finds the best angles.
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California Wants to Exempt LGBT Child Rapists From Sex-Offender Registry
Lawmakers in California are working on legislation that would exempt some homosexual and transgender child rapists from the state’s sex-offender registry, leaving registration up to the discretion of the individual judge.
And considering the make-up of California’s far-left judiciary and the broader state government, it is virtually a certainty that many child-raping homosexuals and transgenders will be left off the list of sex-offenders.
The bill, dubbed “LGBTQ Young People Nondiscrimination in the Sex Offender Registry Act,” is ludicrously being described by proponents as a “civil rights” issue, as if there were a civil right for adult homosexuals to sodomize children.
Under the legislation, a 24-year-old grown man would be able to sodomize a 14-year-old boy and claim it was “consensual.” Of course, 14-year-old children cannot consent to sodomy — or vote, smoke, drink, drive, sign contracts, and so on — because they are children…
But California’s sexual revolutionaries, led by vicious homosexual activist group “Equality California,” exploded in outrage when their bill was blocked. That’s because the state’s perversion lobby is doing everything possible to protect child predators — and to normalize pedophilia, too.
For instance, under the guise of complying with an Equality California-backed statute mandating LGBT indoctrination of children, government schools were caught using a curriculum that included ancient Greek child rape as part of LGBT “history.”
When an outraged mother complained at a public meeting, the Assistant Superintendent of Curricula for the district, Kerrie Torres, dropped a bombshell that sparked a national scandal (and a half-baked cover up by the perverts running the fake fact-checking service Snopes).
“This is done because we are talking about historical perspectives of how gender relations and different types of sexual orientations have existed in history,” said Torres about why pedophilia was being taught to young children. “It’s something that occurred in history, and so this is really important for us to include.”
[Comment: From Feb10, but proponents are still working feverishly to make this “law”. ]
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The LGBT Unnatural Practitioners Are Destroying Via Lower Standards
America the beautiful used to have the best primary education on earth. It did not matter where little Johnny or Jane attended class, it was guaranteed that if a student attended school they learned. From the suburban campuses, country one room school houses, to inner city schools, everybody learned. Unfortunately, the stupid and wasteful effort to supposedly integrate schools racially was actually one of the first large scale efforts to lower the overall quality of education. What made it so insulting, was how it happened in plain sight of everyone, parents, teachers, ministers, politicians, etc. Of course, many leftist politicians, judges and teachers were in on that evil scam that literally wasted hundreds of billions of dollars that should have been used to maintain school buildings and pay for teaching supplies like books and many other needed items.Almost every single year, government school boards across our republic seek to convince gullible voters to hand over more and more and more of their tax dollars. All that money is used with the approval of both gullible and approving leftist oriented so-called parents.They literally support the destruction of our republic from within more than the education and moral well being of their own children.
If it were not so, I would not say such a thing. The LGBT unnatural sexual practitioners are not some benign gaggle of misfits trying to fit in and overcome discrimination. Those people are participating in an orchestrated all-inclusive leftist overthrow of every single standard, principle and rule of law that contributed to the overall greatness of our republic.
LGBT practitioners are getting big time support from leftist politicians like Rep. Rachel Hood (D) Michigan has introduced 2020 House Bill 5499. It mandates “gender identity and “sexual orientation” training in government school sex education classes to address issues related to sexual orientation, and gender expression and gender identity,” must explore the harm of negative gender stereotypes, and more.” The bill would explicitly prohibit “instruction or materials that teach or promote Christian doctrine.” This mad, mad, mad world bill was introduced on February 19,2020.
The socialist leftist goons are now recruiting little school children and are positioning themselves to have more rights, while working feverishly to destroy the God given rights of parents.
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University Sex Week Features Free Vibrator Giveaway, ‘Sex Jeopardy, ‘ ‘Condom Bingo’
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, sponsored by Planned Parenthood and UW-La Crosse’s Department of Psychology, will be hosting a “Sexual Health Week” Thursday night, complete with a discussion of “clitoral masturbation.”
According to a schedule of events, the week includes an event called “Teach-In: Clitoral Masturbation and Free Vibrator Giveaway,” where students can “engage in a conversation about clitoral masturbation, dealing with stigma, and empowerment. First 40 attendees will receive a free vibrator,” according to the event announcement.
Other events featured during the week include a session hosted by Planned Parenthood, called “Breakfast & Birth Control,” where students receive free food and “information about birth control.”
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Arctic Melt Doomsday Gets Put on Ice
Arctic sea-ice extent continues to run well ahead of the last few years, as it has done for most of this year so far, and continues to grow at a time of year when it normally begins to stabilize and recede.
The average extent in February was the highest since 2013, and stands greater than 2005 and 2006.
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There is a spurious equals sign (=) at the end of the “Once again it was Russia …” link:
http://thesaker.is/putin-saves-erdogan-from-himself/=
Thank you. I’ve fixed it.
I can trust Italian numbers more. Iran statistics is obviously fake, regarding the number of exported cases. Someone in Los Angeles estimated the death toll in Iran must be around 9000 among 50,000 infected. People die here and there without even being diagnosed.
City Rasht is in riot over medicine shortage and bad services. Nurses and doctors are quitting for lack of preventive outfit and suitable masks. Soon in other cities.
Iran Government seems to be the collaborator of the virus not the citizens. They have banned drugstores from selling masks and other stuff, because their prices are high. No quarantine, no medicine, no programme to combat an epidemic, cover-up the spread for over a month, submiting wrong statistics to the outside world, criminalising the patients, criminalising the journalists, criminalising photography, criminalising footage, criminalising United States, etc. I don’t expect anything else from people born and raised in shanty towns and bunch of imported Iraqi imbeciles that constitute 99% of Iran government.
Get ready. It’s serious.
Indigenous citizens of the Greek Islands are political pawns & true victims of the uncaring, indifferent European Union who has allowed 20K economic migrants to remain at Moria Camp in Lesbos (since 2015) that’s overflowing with desperate humanity, poverty & diseases. Greek property owners have lost their entire buildings & olive groves to expanding hordes of economic migrants who burn everything in sight to cook & keep themselves warm.
Like China, Iran is underreporting & misrepresenting their COVID-19 death numbers! Approximately 3 million economic migrants are stuck in Turkey waiting to cross to the Greek islands and on to Athens & Europe! It’s now or never for Greek citizens to hold the border lines! Where is the WHO & UN demanding rich Muslim nations like Dubai, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, United Emirates and the other 56 total Muslim nations of the OIC to take in their “fair share” of displaced economic migrants?
This is a globalists wet dream & end game to cull world population and to destroy Western sovereignty, Democratic countries, and Judeo-Christian ethics by allowing Islam & Sharia to spread politically, economically & physically like the deadly COVID-19 virus!
Even such a dumb structure as the Russian Orthodox Church, which recently stated that Christians believe that they will not get the virus during the sacrament, introduces one-time spoons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7NcQ8lHHLc&feature=emb_logo
I think that these lovely medical workers are celebrating something completely different than what is said in the description.
I think they celebrate the coronavirus defeat of the Iranian government.
I do not know about Iran and I cannot talk about it. But I think the italian number of deaths is faked or misleading for the methodoly of the statistics. There is a note under the deceased number which says “number of deaths to be confirmed by the superior institute of health (ISS)”.
http://opendatadpc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/b0c68bce2cce478eaac82fe38d4138b1
How the number of deaths is counted in Italy ? It is simply the number of people who had been tested positive to the corona virus and which are dead. But it is not the number of people deceased because of the corona virus infection! There is a slightly difference, but it is really important.
Also the average age of death of the corona count in Italy is about 80 years old, which corresponds to average expectation of life in Italy. That means the corona virus does not change much of the expectation of life of the people. Also the average number of pregressive pathologies in the deceased people, is 3.4, that means almost nobody is dead just for the corona virus.
That’s all very well, robyt, but I’m almost 72 and on immune suppressants, and my partner is a bit older and has a history of chest ailments. If we die as a result of contact with the coronavirus, when we might otherwise have lived a bit longer, are we not victims?
Who said that ?
The thing I meant is that if someone is tested positive to the corona virus in italy and he dies for any reason, then he gets counted in the number of the corona death toll. Which is not correct to my statistical understanding. It is a misleading math. Look to the number of corona death on positive tested in both germany, italy and france: it makes no sense the comparison! Of course in Italy the people is a bit older than in france and germany, but not that much. In germany they had 2 death with more than 1 thousand positives, while in italy they are almost 1 death on 10 positives. Of course in italy are counting the numbers in a different (wrong) way than in germany.
In any case, the highest death rate in Italy and elsewhere today is still car accident, so the psycho panic is unjustified. Also the measures to counter the corona virus have reached the point of martial law: in my opinion these measures are extremely severe and unnecessary, to say the least.
Sorry, I misunderstood.
Hand washing is the new head on a swivel. Because COVID-19 has a Mattis plan.
Take care of yourself, stay away from crowds of people, and have open fields of fire to protect your supplies. You should already have a gallon refill container for hand sanitizer and lots of soap.
Interlocking crew-serviced weapons may be too much preparation. The cities are most at risk. Just repeat after Mr Oliver Wendell Douglas.
Why is Merkel still in office. This Soviet leftover should be in jail. Do something ladies.