An unexpected (and delightful) family visit today took up most of my time, so that I haven’t been able to post anything except the news feed.
The Italian government announced that it is putting 16 million people under quarantine in Northern Italy due to the Wuhan Coronavirus. Meanwhile, France has reported 16 deaths from the disease, out of almost 1,000 confirmed cases.
In other news, migrants attempted to pull down the border fence between Turkey and Greece, while Greek border guards responded by firing tear gas at them.
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‘Come and Take It’: Congressman Challenges Biden, Beto to Confiscate His AR-15
‘If you wanna take everyone’s AR-15 in America why don’t you swing by my office…?’
Congressman Ken Buck (R-CO) threw down the gauntlet Friday, challenging Democrat presidential frontrunner Joe Biden and notorious anti-gunner Beto O’Rourke to come take his firearm.
“I have a message for Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke. If you wanna take everyone’s AR-15 in America why don’t you swing by my office in Washington DC and start with this one?” Congressman Buck asks.
“Come and take it,” he adds, grabbing an AR-15 mounted on the wall with an American flag pattern.
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Costco Runs Out of Toilet Paper (Won’t Have More for Centuries)
We warned you several years ago that Venezuela was coming to America. Who knew it would be caused by a virus.
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Could You Live Under United Nations Control?
Perhaps you believe you could adjust to whatever controls the United Nations would impose upon people, but have you thought about total control on every aspect of your life?
Let’s take a look at what the United Nations plans to accomplish in the twenty first century through implementation of Sustainable Development, aka UN Agenda 21, now changed to Agenda 2030.
Agenda 21: The Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet (Earth press, 1993), states, “Agenda 21 proposes an array of actions which are intended to be implemented by every person on earth. It calls for specific changes in the activities of all people. Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all humans, unlike anything the world has ever experienced…”
Private Property
The report from the UN’s Habitat One Conference in 1976, it tells us about owning our own property. “Land cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth; therefore,it contributes to social injustice.”
We can see where they’re headed. Their plan requires a complete and “profound reorientation of all humans, unlike anything the world has ever experienced. And how better to begin the reorientation of all of us than by relieving us of our personal property, and diminishing self-esteem. Just the separation of individuals from the ownership of land they’ve accumulated through their own efforts would be cataclysmic.
Why the attack upon private property? Because the right to property ownership is the key to everything relative to liberty. The United States Declaration of Independence gives all Americans three unalienable rights, Life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness (or Property). Without the ability to personally own property, there is no liberty, only an existence. Ownership belongs to the state…
All of their plans are being accomplished by a combined operation of the U.S. government and the United Nations through their Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development. (See “Growing Government Tyranny — Democrats Empower it. Republicans are Clueless” and “Green New Deal Reveals the Naked truth Of Agenda 21.”)
Republican congressmen and senators, as well as President Trump are basically “in the dark” concerning this issue as revealed by the USMCA trade deal. The USMCA practically opens all the gates to allow the UN domestic control of everything in our daily lives and our congress critters and president continue to support them. Here is a revealing article which discloses how the UN plans to set aside half of the land area in America to be inhabited by animals only, and humans will be prohibited access to it. In fact, most of the land they want has already been taken by the federal government.
Check out the map by Michael Coffman:…
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CPAC Attendee Tests Positive for Coronavirus; White House Says Trump, Pence Not in Close Proximity
The American Conservative Union (ACU), which hosts the high-profile Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), confirmed Saturday that one of this year’s conference attendees has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
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eBay Bans Sellers From Listing Face Masks and Sanitizer Gel
Ever since coronavirus became a worldwide media sensation, many groups have expectedly been trying to take advantage of the situation in different ways. From trying to push their miracle cures to scams trying to sell you medical equipment that will surely kill the virus before it reaches your lungs.
There’s been another way that the malicious have been trying to take advantage of current anxieties, and that is by price-gouging highly in-demand items like face masks and hand sanitizers.
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Five Schools in Pennsylvania Shut Down Due to Coronavirus Exposure
Party attendee from out of state may have infected students, teachers.
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Anti-American billionaire George Soros reportedly gave seven-figure campaign donations to re-elect Kim Foxx, the Chicago prosecutor who decided to drop all charges against accused hate hoaxer Jussie Smollett.
Foxx is running to return to her office as state’s attorney for Cook County, and it’s reported that she benefited from a political pac named the Illinois Justice & Public Safety PAC which helped her run a six-figure ad campaign. It turns out that the pac’s entire $2 million budget came from one of the many activist groups stealthily funded by Soros, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
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Here’s What’s Coming for America as the Coronavirus Spread: Medical Martial Law
Now that the CDC has invoked its “rule by secrecy” mode by hiding coronavirus testing numbers in order to deceive America (while it quietly “seeds” infected people into the population), it’s abundantly obvious that the coronavirus outbreak in America is going to be used to invoke medical martial law.
There are already thousands of infections across America that have not yet been tested — all by design, of course, as the CDC withheld testing kits from hospitals and local health officials across the country. By our best estimates, there are currently between 5,000 and 10,000 infections in America, mostly along the West Coast (Seattle and Northern California) with new outbreaks taking place in New York City, Miami, Chicago, and other major cities.
Right now, domestic air travel is spreading the virus like crazy, since it spreads during the asymptomatic phase when people don’t even know they’re infected. There is currently no screening of domestic air travelers, and no domestic flight routes have been locked down (although that’s coming soon).
Importantly, the coronavirus has already broken containment in America and is now impossible to contain. It will impact every major city in America.
Here are a few of my predictions for where we’re going with this. So buckle up and get ready, because the coronavirus is coming to a city near you:…
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Jussie Smollett’s Bid to Get Charges Thrown Out Rejected by Illinois Supreme Court
The Illinois Supreme Court rejected former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett’s request to throw out charges that accuse him of staging a racist, homophobic attack in Chicago.
The ruling came Friday, along with the court’s decision rejecting the actor’s effort to remove the special prosecutor in the case.
Smollett’s lawyers argued in an emergency petition that Cook County Circuit Judge Michael Toomin overstepped his authority and misinterpreted the law when he ordered the appointment of a special prosecutor.
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The mayor of Chicago believes Jussie Smollett is guilty of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself last year and has vowed to make sure the actor is held accountable.
The former “Empire” star, 37, pleaded not guilty Monday to renewed charges brought against him related to allegedly staging a hate crime. Now, comments Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot made this week reveal her office is dedicated to proving he’s guilty.
“He needs to face the charges. He committed a crime, and he needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and we are going to continue to aggressively make him accountable for the wasted police resources that went into investigating what turned out to be a total hoax,” Lightfoot told a group of reporters, according to CBS 2 Chicago.
[Comment: Article dated February 27, 2020.]
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New DNC Standards Eliminate Tulsi Gabbard From Arizona Debate
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) has been officially eliminated from the Democratic debate in Arizona next weekend after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday announced new qualifying standards for participating candidates.
Tulsi failed to meet the lone qualifying standard that required at least 20 percent of the delegates awarded prior to the debate on March 15.
As a result, Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden will be the only two candidates present for the debate in Phoenix, Arizona.
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New York Declares State of Emergency Over Coronavirus Outbreak
Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency on Saturday after the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in New York increased significantly.
Eighty-nine individuals have tested positive for the coronavirus in New York, according to the governor’s office. Eleven of the cases are in New York City and 70 are in Westchester County. There are also signs of an ongoing spread, including a pair of cases in both Saratoga County and Rockland County, as well as four in Nassau County, according to the governor.
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Relatives of the 3,500 passengers stranded on board a coronavirus-hit cruise ship off the coast of California are pleading for their loved ones to be evacuated before they become seriously ill.
21 people on the Grand Princess have tested positive for Covid-19 — just under half the number of those tested. California’s Governor, Gavin Newsom, is refusing to allow the vessel to dock in San Francisco.
On Saturday, the daughter of one 90-year-old passenger said her father’s health is rapidly deteriorating as he remains stuck on the cruise liner.
‘Keeping people on the ship is going to be a death sentence for many of the elderly passengers,’ panic-stricken Lisa Egan told The Telegraph.
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Serial Subway Scammer Charles Barry, Who Says He’s Swearing Off Crime, Is Ordered Released Again
He says his life of crime is done. Now he’s got his chance to prove it.
Charles Barry, a serial mass transit scammer with more than 142 arrests spanning three decades, was ordered released from jail Monday — sprung after he was locked up on $10,00 bail last Thursday despite new bail reform laws.
[Comment: Article dated March 2, 2020.]
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Soviets Targeted Bernie Sanders to Spread Communist Propaganda in 1980s: NYT
According to a new report published by the New York Times, the Soviet Union viewed then-mayor of Burlington, Vermont Bernie Sanders as an ally and intermediary for their communist propaganda.
New York Times’ reporters combed through 89 pages of never-before-seen letters, telegrams and internal Soviet government documents that revealed Sanders’ personal attempts to establish a relationship with a Russian sister city.
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Tiffany Harris Arraigned on Felony Hate Crimes — and Released Again
Accused anti-Semitic slapper Tiffany Harris was arraigned on felony hate crimes charges Monday in Brooklyn Supreme Court — but it still wasn’t enough to hold her.
Harris, 30, who is charged with two unprovoked attacks against Jewish women in December following back-to-back busts, pleaded not guilty to the new raps and was then cut loose once again because even the elevated charges don’t qualify for bail under the state’s new laws.
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Video: Students Shocked by ‘Creepy’ Footage of Biden Touching Women
With the Democratic presidential primary now a two-man race between Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Vice President Joe Biden, Campus Reform revisits when Biden first entered the presidential race, and students Campus Reform’s Cabot Phillips spoke with were appalled by Biden’s “creepy” behavior toward women.
In April 2019, Phillips traveled to the University of Iowa and showed students footage of Biden touching women and girls on their shoulders and stroking their hair, among other things.
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Viral Ice Cream Licker D’Adrien Anderson Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail
A Texas man has been arrested for a trend that became viral last year in which people licked the contents of the ice cream tubs and returned them to the store refrigerator.
Last year the internet showed why it is one of the greatest sources of influence that exist nowadays, although sometimes it is not the best example to follow.
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Watch: Brooklyn Teens Brutally Beat 15-Year-Old Girl
New York police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a group seen severely beating a 15-year-old girl on a sidewalk in Brooklyn.
The assault was caught on camera at around 4 pm on Thursday in Crown Heights on Utica and Sterline Place.
The victim was beaten, jumped on, and kicked several times while she was down.
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We Caught the Mueller Team in Massive Lie — Roger Stone Was Right!
Yesterday we reported breaking news that the firm that started the entire Russia collusion lie, Crowdstrike, is now backpedaling. Today we show how Crowdstrike’s actions now leave the Mueller gang exposed with no place to hide.
As we reported yesterday, the firm Crowdstrike is backpedaling on their actions related to the fraudulent claim that Russians hacked the DNC and shipped these hacked emails to WikiLeaks.
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With Democrats in Charge and Pushing Gun Control in Virginia, Firearm Purchases Soar by 63%
It didn’t take long for Democrats, who took over both legislative chambers in Virginia in November and hold the governorship, to go after the guns — as they promised to do.
But Virginians are not happy with the Democrats’ efforts, and they’re taking action.
“Nearly 66,000 background checks were performed in Virginia in February as the state’s Democratic-controlled legislature weighs a number of strict background checks — a steep increase from the 40,381 checks performed in February 2019,” The Washington Free Beacon reported. “Virginia experienced one of the most dramatic upticks in background checks — a strong indicator of total sales — in the nation, according to data released by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).”
That data also showed gun sales were up nationwide by an average 16.7% — but the surge was highest in Virginia, where background checks rose by 63.4 percent compared to 2019.
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YouTube to Reconsider Coronavirus Demonetization
YouTube last month confirmed it was demonetizing videos about the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, citing its policies around “sensitive topics.”
The epidemic is one of the most prominent events of this generation but YouTubers can risk losing their livelihoods if they talk about it.
This way, YouTube can say it’s doing its best not to spread panic and misinformation. The only ones hurt by the demonetization of coronavirus-related content are independent creators, including those acting in good faith, who won’t be able to talk about one of the biggest global topics of the day if they want to keep their YouTube revenue.
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As Migrants Try to Reach EU, Germany’s Left Calls for ‘Pact of Humanity’
BERLIN (Reuters) — Social Democrat state premieres on Saturday called for Germany to take in vulnerable refugees from crowded reception camps in Greece, in the latest sign of discord in the ruling coalition over the prospect of a new refugee wave hitting Europe.
Tens of thousands of migrants have been trying to get into Greece, an EU member state, since Turkey said on Feb. 28 it would no longer try to keep them on its territory as agreed in 2016 with the EU in return for aid.
But since Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 2015 decision to let in more than a million migrants, migration has been among Germany’s most divisive issues, splitting her conservative party and fuelling a far-right surge.
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Coronavirus: Northern Italy to Quarantine 16 Million People
Italy’s prime minister has said at least 16 million people are in mandatory quarantine in Lombardy region and also in 14 provinces.
The lock-down will last until early April.
The dramatic escalation in the country’s efforts to contain the new coronavirus will close gyms, pools, museums and ski resorts.
Italy is Europe’s worst-hit country and reported a steep rise in virus infections on Saturday.
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Coronavirus Death Toll in France Mounts to 16 With 949 Confirmed Cases
French health officials on Saturday reported five more deaths from coronavirus, taking the total death toll to 16 with 949 confirmed cases nationwide. The cases included three in the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament.
At a briefing on Saturday, Jerome Salomon, the head of France’s public health service, said 45 people have been hospitalised in intensive care, six more than when the last summary was issued Friday.
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It’s not exactly breaking news that immigrants, particularly third world immigrants, are vastly overrepresented in Western Europe crime statistics. What hasn’t been seen, up until lately is that prisons that are filled primarily with Muslim inmates.
The Danish Prison Federation has now raised the alarm about such conditions plaguing Danish prisons.
In the last survey on the populations of Danish prisons in November 2018, 50.5 percent of the inmates were foreigners or immigrants of the first of the second generation. In Copenhagen prisons, this number was 66.3 percent, Rights Norway reports.
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Hungary: Govt Cancels March 15 State Celebrations Over Coronavirus Concerns
Hungary’s government has decided to cancel next week’s state celebrations of the March 15 national holiday because of the new coronavirus, at the recommendation of the operative board overseeing the response to the virus, the Government Information Office said on Saturday.
Though Hungary so far has only identified individual coronavirus cases and there are no major centres of infection, the state commemoration of the 1848 revolution held in the garden of the National Museum would attract people from all parts of the country, the statement said. “Therefore the government has decided to accept the operative board’s recommendation and will cancel the March 15 celebration at the Museum Garden for security reasons,” it added.
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Italy: Culture Min Returns Della Robbia Work to Germany
Magdalene statue taken from Nazis by mistake
(ANSA) — Berlin, February 21 — Culture Minister Dario Franceschini on Friday gave back to Germany a statue of Mary Magdalene by Renaissance great Andrea della Robbia which had been mistakenly taken from a German Jewish family after it was found in Herman Goering’s collection.
In the presence of German Culture Undersecretary Monika Gruetters, Franceschini stressed the importance of returning a work that had ended up in Italy “by mistake” and had “unwittingly” stayed there for so long.
Andrea della Robbia (1435-1525) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, especially in ceramics.
Born in Florence, Andrea was the son of Marco della Robbia, whose brother Luca della Robbia popularized the use of glazed terra-cotta for sculpture.
Andrea became Luca’s pupil, and was the most important artist of ceramic glaze of the times.
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Macron vs. Salvini: Two Leaders Face Off Over EU’s Future
BRUSSELS (AP) — France’s pro-EU president and the leader of Italy’s euroskeptic, far-right movement jockeyed for the role of chief powerbroker on the continent Monday after elections to the European Parliament hollowed out the traditional political middle.
The four days of balloting that drew to a close Sunday across the European Union’s 28 countries ended the domination of the main center-right and center-left parties in Parliament and established the anti-EU forces on the right and the environmentalists on the left as forces to be reckoned with.
Voters delivered the highest turnout in 20 years, rejecting mainstream politics in France, Germany, Britain and Italy.
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Revealed: Antifa Has a Pedophile Problem
On March 4, a conservative student group in Ireland revealed they had completed a year-long project operating undercover as an antifa cell.
Antifascist Students Ireland revealed themselves to be a project of Irish conservative student news outlet The Burkean on their Twitter page,
The Burkean‘s actions directed significant attention towards Ireland’s official Antifa organization, Antifascist Ireland, a group that has come under fire in the past for the history of its alleged founding member and leading figurehead, Pat Corcoran—a convicted pedophile.
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Sixth Coronavirus Case Confirmed in Poland
The sixth new coronavirus case has been confirmed in Poland, the Health Minister Lukasz Szumowski told a press conference on Saturday.
The minister said that the patient is being hospitalised in Ostroda, northern Poland and is feeling well. Szumowski added that the individual travelled from Germany on the same bus as the first Polish patient diagnosed last Wednesday with the coronavirus disease and still remains in a hospital in Zielona Gora, western Poland.
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Spanish Court Orders Google to Editorialize Search Results, Put Man’s Acquittal Story in First Place
Google’s war of attrition with European courts, lawmakers and publishers has seen many battles and many highs and lows, among them the 2014 ruling of the European Court of Justice that individuals have “the right to be forgotten.”
The case, Google v. Spain, ended in the top European court deciding that search engines like Google whose business is based on collection of personal information should, if requested, remove links to personal information that is no longer relevant.
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Tories Rebel Over Huawei: As ‘Ridiculous’ As Germany Working on UK Radar in 1939
A group of Conservative party grandees will seek to pass legislation to make Huawei involvement in British telecoms networks illegal, over fears the Chinese may use the equipment to spy on the United Kingdom.
Former Cabinet ministers including Sir Iain Duncan Smith, David Davis, and Owen Paterson will submit an amendment to Boris Johnson’s Telecoms Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill on Tuesday. It would seek to ensure that no equipment provided by companies deemed “high-risk vendors” by the National Cyber Security Centre, a branch of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), are used in Britain’s communication networks from after December 31st, 2022.
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2nd Tehran Lawmaker Dies From Coronavirus as Iran Death Toll Hits 145
TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian lawmaker died from the novel coronavirus on Saturday, state news agency IRNA reported, one of several officials to succumb to the illness in the epidemic-hit country.
Fatemeh Rahbar, 55, was a conservative MP and had recently been elected to the parliament from the capital Tehran, the agency said.
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Coronavirus is Globalism’s Death! Not Its Rebirth
Virus spread revealing lunacy of open borders agenda.
The philosophy of globalism is now universally dead.
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Coronavirus is Mutating Into Two Strains, One More Aggressive
Researchers in China say preliminary research shows that COVID-19 is mutating and there are at least two types of the virus now. One of those, the more aggressive strain, has infected 70% of the people tested for the virus.
According to doctors at Peking University’s School of Life Sciences and the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, a less aggressive strain of the virus has infected the other 30% of those who have contracted COVID-19. Scientists have called the aggressive strain “L type” and the less prevalent version “S type.” The L type strain was seen more frequently in Wuhan, where the outbreak began, but researchers note that the frequency of infection has dropped off. They also cautioned that the data they had available for study was “very limited” and they still don’t fully understand the evolution of this virus.
Forbes reported that more testing and studies are needed to get a grasp on the change this virus is making to keep itself alive and replicate. The scientists also stated that we can likely expect more mutations of this virus.
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Coronavirus: China’s War on the Truth
“On current course, China is liable to do significant damage to the rest the world, by accident or intent,” wrote columnist Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal on January 29.
“The Chinese Communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large”, wrote the noted historian Victor Davis Hanson on February 20.
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Coronavirus Live Updates: South Korea Reports 367 New Cases as Total Crosses 7,100
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates.
Global cases: At least 103,168, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization
Global deaths: At least 3,507, according to the latest figures from the WHO
All times below are in Beijing time.
10:45 am: 50 rescued after hotel in China collapses
As of Sunday morning, 50 people have been rescued after a hotel in China’s Fujian province collapsed on Saturday evening, according to Chinese state media.
The hotel in the southeast Chinese port city of Quanzhou was used to quarantine people who had recent contact with coronavirus patients. Around 70 people were trapped in the rubble after it collapsed.
There were two deaths so far, according to local media reports in Fujian.
As of Friday, the province had 296 cases of coronavirus and 10,819 people were placed under observation after being classified as suspected close contacts, according to a Reuters report, citing the Fujian provincial government. — Lilian Wu, Tan
10:30 am: South Korea reports jump of 367 cases
South Korea reported 367 new cases as of Sunday morning, bringing its total to 7,134 cases.
It had six more fatalities to a total death toll of 50, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Coronavirus Cases:
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How the Coronavirus is Being Used to Control You and Remove Your Rights
For a hint of what’s in store, you can look to China—our role model for all things dystopian—where the contagion started.
In an attempt to fight the epidemic, the government has given its surveillance state apparatus—which boasts the most expansive and sophisticated surveillance system in the world—free rein. Thermal scanners using artificial intelligence (AI) have been installed at train stations in major cities to assess body temperatures and identify anyone with a fever. Facial recognition cameras and cell phone carriers track people’s movements constantly, reporting in real-time to data centers that can be accessed by government agents and employers alike. And coded color alerts (red, yellow and green) sort people into health categories that correspond to the amount of freedom of movement they’re allowed: “Green code, travel freely. Red or yellow, report immediately.”
Mind you, prior to the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese surveillance state had already been hard at work tracking its citizens through the use of some 200 million security cameras installed nationwide. Equipped with facial recognition technology, the cameras allow authorities to track so-called criminal acts, such as jaywalking, which factor into a person’s social credit score.
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Insane Article Promotes Coronavirus as a Force to Fight Climate Change
In a new, blisteringly white-hot take called “Coronavirus can trigger a new industrial revolution,” a very super smart guy who knows better than us named Ed Conway explains how the coronavirus has an upside: “Unlike most other such diseases, it kills mostly the old who, let’s face it, are more likely to be climate sceptics. It spares the young. Most of all, it stymies the forces that have been generating greenhouse gases for decades.”
This is a shocking display of hubris, looking intense, life-ending natural disaster in the face, and saying “hey, maybe it’s not so bad.” To a certain extent, we’ve been waiting for this to happen. It was inevitable. After years of alarmism and dangerous fetishization, we’ve reached the moment in our current age of hysteria and panic where a major publication is publishing an ode to a potentially cataclysmic pathogen because the side effects will be a lowering of carbon emissions and the death of the type of people who don’t consider that a priority.
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More Coronavirus Censorship: Social Media Companies Partner With Who to Censor Info
Social media companies have made the decision to partner with “health authorities” (government officials like those who work for the CDC) to combat “misinformation” about the coronavirus. We all know what this means. Under the mainstream media’s seemingly innocent words lies a rash of new censorship coming down the pipes.
Only the official narrative from those in the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will soon be allowed on social media. Last week, the social media app TikTok, popular with youths and young adults, announced it would be partnering with the WHO in an effort to spread veritable information on the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, in addition to best public health practices.
According to a report by ABC News, WHO posted its first TikTok on Friday.
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Surprise! China is Using COVID-19 to Strengthen Its Mass Surveillance of Citizens
“Through data analysis, we have mastered the trajectory of everyone’s whereabouts.”
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Testing a Chinese X86 CPU: A Deep Dive Into Zen-Based Hygon Dhyana Processors
by Dr. Ian Cutress & Wendell Wilson
AMD had contacted the DoD and DoC, as well as all others, and had been given the green light. The new microarchitecture was deemed of low enough performance to not hit any of the export bans. AMD was also given crystal clear confirmation that the ‘technology proposed was not restricted or otherwise prohibited from being transferred’, which is a rather stark statement. At this point it should be clear that AMD may have submitted a modified version of its IP to the relevant US departments, rather than the microarchitecture we saw in the Ryzen 1000-series. This is part of what this review is about. Joint Venture in a Joint Venture
The end goal of all of this was to be able to provide China a version of AMD’s Zen 1 CPUs that could be called ‘Chinese’, rather than ‘American’. As has been the case of the last decade or more, China has wanted to rely less on American technology and intellectual property in order to become self-sufficient. The way in which AMD’s joint ventures worked for the Hygon Dhyana designs was built to essentially do that in a very roundabout way.
The name of the joint venture overseeing the operation is called THATIC, or Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Co. Ltd. This company is owned by AMD and a mix of Chinese companies, both public and private, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but is at least 51% owned by AMD.
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Watch: Hotel in China Holding Quarantined Coronavirus Patients Collapses
A hotel that was housing quarantined coronavirus patients has collapsed in Fujian province, China according to officials. 70 people have been trapped inside. Xinjia Hotel in Quanzhou City collapse occurred 7:30 pm local time on Saturday.
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Two Members of the Australian Defence Force Test Positive for Coronavirus
It is understood the two ADF members attended a meeting at the Canberra headquarters on February 28. The ADF is now in the process of assessing all those who the pair came in contact with.
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Coronavirus in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Week in Review
March 7
Senegal, with four confirmed cases, is the worst affected in the region to date.
Nigeria was swift and transparent in sharing the COVID-19 sequence from its first case, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says on Twitter. “This is a true act of solidarity and an important step in stopping the #coronavirus from spreading.”
South Africa confirms its second case of the virus.
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EDIRNE, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans to be in Brussels on Monday for a one-day working visit, his office said amid a charged conflict between Turkey and the European Union over migrants and refugees.
Thousands of migrants headed for Turkey’s land border with Greece after Erdogan’s government said last week that it would no longer prevent migrants and refugees from crossing over to EU territory. Greece deployed riot police and border guards to repel people trying to enter the country from the sea or by land.
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Belgium MP Unloads on Top Officials for Allying With Turkey
A Flemish MP raised a Greek flag during a fiery speech at Belgium’s parliament in which he blasted top officials for allowing Turkey to ‘blackmail’ Europe with threats to unleash millions of migrants onto the continent.
MP Dries van Langenhove, who serves as the youngest member of parliament, targeted Belgium’s current and former prime ministers in a rousing address he punctuated by hoisting a Greek flag in a show of solidarity.
Greece is currently holding back a massive migrant invasion launched by Turkish President Erdogan.
[Comment: The traitors are easy to spot. Looks of disdain on their faces and arms crossed.]
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Brooklyn DA Defends No-Bail Decision on Illegal Immigrant Charged With Rape
Brooklyn prosecutors on Wednesday defended their decision not to seek bail for an illegal immigrantcharged with raping a 13-year-old girl when he was 19 — describing it as “a sexual relationship.”
“The case was reported by the girl’s mother, alleging that her daughter had a sexual relationship with an older teenager, which constituted statutory rape,” a spokesman for Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez’s office said.
“Accordingly, we did not request bail for this nonviolent felony that allegedly took place a year-and-a-half ago.”
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Chicago Defends Releasing Illegal Immigrant Later Charged With Sexually Assaulting Toddler
The city of Chicago is defending its decision to release from custody an illegal immigrant who is a previously deported aggravated felon and who allegedly went on to commit another crime.
Christopher Puente, 34, of Mexico was released by Chicago authorities due to the city’s sanctuary status in 2019 despite Immigration and Customs Enforcement telling them to hold the illegal immigrant after he was arrested for theft. After the detainer request was not honored, Puente was again arrested in early February, this time for sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl in a McDonald’s bathroom.
Chicago law enforcement and Mayor Lori Lightfoot are sticking by the decision not to cooperate with ICE.
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Finland’s millennial feminist-led government faces a vote of no confidence after pledging to send personnel to the Greek border — to help migrants claim asylum.
34-year-old Green League politician Maria Ohisalo, who serves as Minister of the Interior under 34-year-old Social Democratic party leader Sanna Marin in a red-green left-wing coalition government, said Finland was following the common European Union line to “reject Turkey’s attempts to use people as political pawns” — but also said that the Greek government’s decision to suspend asylum applications was “wrong”.
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Greece Denounces ‘Fake News’ As Turkey Claims Five Migrants Shot at Border
Greece has accused the Turkish government of spreading “fake news” propaganda amid claims as many as five migrants have been shot dead on the border.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that the Greek police had killed “at least five people” and that the Greek border forces had intentionally tried to pierce rubber dinghies used by migrants in an effort to sink them.
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Illegal Alien, 31, Charged With Raping 14-Year-Old Girl in Idaho
An illegal alien has been charged with allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl in Caldwell, Idaho after providing her with alcohol, according to law enforcement officials.
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Migrants Try to Tear Down Turkey-Greece Border Fence
A group of migrants on Saturday tried to bring down a fence in a desperate attempt to bust through the border into Greece while others hurled rocks at Greek police. Greek authorities responded, firing volleys of tear gas at the youths.
At least two migrants were injured in the latest clash between Greek police and migrants gathered on the Turkish side of a border crossing near the Greek village of Kastanies. As in previous confrontations this week, officers in Greece fired tear gas to impede the crowd and Turkish police fired tear gas back at their Greek counterparts.
Groups of mostly young men tied ropes onto the fence in an attempt to tear it down. Some shouted “Allah is Great” while others shouted “open the border.”
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Nearly 8 in 10 Greeks Support Government’s Border Control Policy
A total of 76 per cent of the Greek public support the tough border control policy enacted by the conservative Greek government, according to polling.
The poll, which was conducted by polling firm Pulse, found that just 18 per cent of the Greek public thought the measures currently being taken by the government to stop large numbers of migrants entering the country was wrong.
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Ordinary, Patriotic Greeks Enlist to Defend Europe Against a Migrant Invasion
MORIO, Greece (AP) — Over the years, villagers who live near Greece’s border with Turkey got used to seeing small groups of people enter their country illegally. The Greek residents often offered the just-arrived newcomers a bite to eat and directed them to the nearest police or railway station.
But the warm welcomes wore off. When Turkey started channeling thousands of people to Greece, insisting that its ancient regional rival and NATO ally receive them as refugees, the Greek government sealed the border and rushed police and military reinforcements to help hold back the flood.
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Over 3/4 of Greek Citizens Support Conservative Government’s Border Policy
New polls have revealed that over three-quarters of Greek citizens back the conservative government’s decision to block hordes of migrant invaders from entering Greece.
The poll, carried out by the opinion research firm Pulse, discovered that only 18 percent of the Greek public believe that the actions being taken by the authorities to prevent thousands upon thousands of migrants from illegally entering the country were wrong, Greek newspaper Proto Thema reports.
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People Smugglers Slash Price to €13 Per Migrant, Claim Erdogan Gave Them ‘Instructions’
People smugglers are now openly operating at the Greek-Turkish border, with the influx of migrants leading smugglers to drop prices to as little as €13 per head.
Despite the reduced price, the sheer number of migrants attempting to cross the border means business is booming.
“We had these migrants who arrived to cross Greece,” a human trafficker named Semih told Euronews. “It has become something allowed from our Turkish side. In the past, we used to get them across for $200 or $300 (€180 — 270) per person, and now we do it for $15 (€13).”
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Pictures: Greek Border in Flames as Migrants Keep Trying to Break Through
Dramatic pictures and video are emerging of fires raging along the border between Greece and Turkey, as migrants — aided and even armed by the Turks, according to the Greeks — continue their efforts to force their way in.
The European Union, including the United Kingdom, funnelled billions of euros to the Islamist government in Ankara in an effort to persuade it to bring the migrant crisis under a modicum of control after hundreds of thousands of illegal border crossings, often by sea, in 2015-16.
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Pro Refugee Demonstration in Athens: “Open the Borders, “ “Greeks and Foreigners Can Work Together”
At least two thousand demonstrators took part in a march held in the Greek capital of Athens on Thursday evening to demonstrate their solidarity with migrants and refugees.
Protesters gathered in front of the University of Athens in the city center and shouted slogans criticizing the European Union’s refugee policy.
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Pro-Migrant NGOs Stop Activity on Greek Island After Attacks From Local ‘Fascists’
The attacks on NGO workers have been from “fascist gangs”.
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.
[Comment: Note how citizens who object to mass invasion are now labelled “fascists” by criminal NGO groups (likely all funded by Soros).]
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Swedish Populist Leader Reported to Police for Handing Out ‘Sweden is Full’ Flyers
Swedish populist leader Jimmie Åkesson has been reported to the police for inciting “hate” after handing out “Sweden is full” flyers in Turkey this week.
Swedish attorney Behrang Eslami reported the Sweden Democrat (SD) leader to the police, claiming that Åkesson was engaging in incitement against a group of people by handing out the flyers near Turkey’s border with Greece.
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Video: Turkish Coast Guard Vessel Aggressively Harasses Greek Coast Guard Boat
The Hellenic Coast Guard has released a new video clip that depicts a Greek Coast Guard boat being obnoxiously and aggressively harassed by a Turkish Coast Guard vessel.
The video shows the Turkish Coast Goard maneuvering incredibly close to the Greek boat while both vessels travel at high speeds.
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Cinderella Remake to Feature ‘Genderless’ Fairy Godmother Played by Gay Man
Cinderella’s fairy godmother will be portrayed as “genderless” by a homosexual male actor in a remake of the classic fairytale by Columbia Pictures.
Emmy-award winning Billy Porter, who identifies with his same-sex attractions, will be cast as Cinderella’s magic-weaving godparent. Porter, celebrated in Broadway circles for wearing women’s clothing, told CBS on Monday that he thought it “profound” that he was playing the role.
“It hit me when I was on the set last week, how profound it is that I am playing the fairy godmother — they call it the Fab G,” he said, without specifying who “they” were.
“Magic has no gender,” he continued.
“We are presenting this character as genderless. That’s how I’m playing it. And it’s really powerful.”
Porter did not explain why he believes that erasing the female identity of the most famous godmother in European folklore is powerful.
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Ex-Google Engineer Raises Alarm on Diversity Over Meritocracy in Tech
YouTuber Patrick Shu, aka TechLead, has posted a new video “trashing diversity in tech.” (see below)
Shu, whose YouTube brand includes subtle humor and multiple mentions of his employment history and status — i.e., that he is “ex-Google, ex-Facebook, a millionaire” — takes on a topic that is certain to generate controversy.
The video is a follow-up on another dealing with his take on a new type of discrimination that is now present in the tech industry.
The ex-Google engineer argues in favor of a “meritocracy” — in other words, a system that rewards those most talented and hardest working, regardless of other considerations.
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Twitter rolled out new rules against “dehumanizing speech” and included “age” to shield old dementia Joe Biden from scrutiny.
The far-left social media giant provided a few examples of tweets that will be removed under the new guidelines:
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How the CIA Uses Art and Music to Control Populations
Alex Jones breaks down how gangster ‘thug’ rap culture was designed and disseminated by the Central Intelligence Agency to break up the black American family, corrupt the minds of young people, and create a toxic culture that they could then pretend to save the U.S. citizenry from.
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Pastor Robert Jeffress joined Gregg Jarrett on Lou Dobbs Tonight on Friday following the threats earlier in the week by leading Democrat Chuck Schumer hurled at Supreme Court Justices this week.
Pastor Jeffress was asked about Schumer’s threatening and danerous statements.
Pastor Jeffress responded: They say they care about women’s health. But the truth is they don’t give a you-know-what about women’s health. All the Democrats care about is making sure that their patron saint, Planned Parenthood, is able to murder as many children in the womb as possible without restriction so that Planned Parenthood can get their blood money, $600 million from the federal government. That’s what all of this is about.
Don’t hold back, pastor.
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‘Snowflake Central!’ Fury as Oxford University Women’s Group No-Platforms Amber Rudd
FORMER home secretary Amber Rudd has hit back at “rude” students at Oxford University after a planned appearance at an International Women’s Day event was scrapped at the last minute.
The event, called “In Conversation: Amber Rudd”, was organised by the university’s UN Women society and was due to take place last night as part of its UN Women’s 2020 Trailblazer Series. She was expected to discuss her earlier role as minister for women and equalities and was due to speak about encouraging women to get into politics. But organisers came under fire for inviting Ms Rudd because of her links with the Windrush scandal and cancelled the talk 30 minute before it was due to start after a majority vote by the group’s committee.
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Wikipedia Deletes List of Scientists Who Disagree With the Consensus on Climate Change
Should people who rely on getting information about climate change from Wikipedia be able to see a page called, “List of Scientists who Disagree with the Scientific Consensus on Global Warming”?
Skepticism, rather than conformism, is at the very heart of science — while encyclopedias, even those like Wikipedia, are supposed to index vast amounts of information, rather than curate information in order to promote or stifle an agenda.
Therefore, logic dictates that a page listing scientists disagreeing with the current consensus on climate change should have been safe.
But Wikipedia editors’ answer was, “no” — this resource should not be available. It may have even been down to a single editor deciding to delete the page — which the website Electroverse refers to as “an astonishing act of censorship”.
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Scientists Say This Exoplanet Could Have the Right Conditions for Life
The exoplanet K2—18b, sitting 124 light-years from Earth, may have conditions favorable to the development of life, a new study suggests. The world is larger than the Earth, is known to have a substantial atmosphere, and new research suggests that conditions in this world may also be favorable to producing large pools of liquid water.
Roughly twice as large as Earth, with 8.6 times the mass of our homeworld, this exoplanet orbits within the habitable zone around its star, K2—18. This region of a solar system, sometimes called the Goldilocks zone, is the distance from a star that is neither too hot nor too cold, for liquid water to exist on the surface of a planet.
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Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation
I have been curious about data compression and the Zip file format in particular for a long time. At some point I decided to address that by learning how it works and writing my own Zip program. The implementation turned into an exciting programming exercise; there is great pleasure to be had from creating a well oiled machine that takes data apart, jumbles its bits into a more efficient representation, and puts it all back together again. Hopefully it is interesting to read about too.
This article explains how the Zip file format and its compression scheme work in great detail: LZ77 compression, Huffman coding, Deflate and all. It tells some of the history, and provides a reasonably efficient example implementation written from scratch in C. The source code is available in hwzip-1.1.zip.
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Bonjour baron from La France. It is lovely when the family make a visit, and I am glad that you enjoyed yourselves.
Thank you for all your work in keeping us informed of the many events that we would not know without your site. Often I read about events here that do not appear in my local paper for a day or two afterwards – if at all.
Again “Thank You”. JohnM
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Mentor does not look like a white Australian who converted to Islam.
Wonder if they will qualify for a badge for learning how to behead a Christian.
Properly beheading a Christian would fall under correct use of knives and other blades. Same goes for burning them in cages; that would be fire starting and fire safety.
Raping infidel girls and muslim ones without a male escort might also qualify for a badge. That might be under health or first aid in the category of sexual emergencies.
Greece really needs to find the next King Leonidas, and fast.
Turkey’s actions are open warfare and should be treated as such.
I would prefer a Miltiades who smashed the Persians in Marathon or a Themistokles who ruined the Persian fleet in Salamis than a Leonidas with the Thespians,who although bravely fought ,nevertheless the enemy reached Athens and burned the city.
We will give a very good lesson to Erdogan,a lesson that he will never forget.
Hi Baron,
I just stopped by to say it brightened MY day to see that you had a really nice family visit. When the world in going to hell in a bucket it’s nice to have family.
Thank you, Rick.