Hungary has now recorded its seventh case of the Wuhan Coronavirus, causing the country to suspend all flights from Northern Italy. Meanwhile, Iran reported 49 new deaths from the disease, the largest total so far in a single day.
In other news, police in North Macedonia discovered 56 illegal migrants concealed in the back of a truck.
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Japan’s 4th-Quarter GDP Shrinks as Virus Compounds Recession Risks
Tokyo — Japan’s economy shrank faster than initially estimated in the fourth quarter on a bigger decline in business spending, casting a deeper shadow over the outlook as the coronavirus hit production and heightened recession risks.
The economy is under growing pressure as the outbreak disrupts supply chains and damages tourism, which follows the hit to consumption after October’s sales tax hike.
The deeper contraction and the virus have fueled fears Japan could see growth contract for two straight quarters in the current quarter, defined as the technical recession, piling pressure on policymakers to deploy further stimulus steps.
The economy shrank an annualized 7.1% in October-December, the biggest fall since April-June 2014 and weaker than the preliminary reading of a 6.3% annualized contraction, Cabinet Office data showed on Monday. The reading compared with economists’ median forecast for a 6.6% fall.
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Breaking: Twitter Re-Suspends NY Post Writer for Tweets About Activist Journalist Carlos Maza
After Jonathan Levine was suspended from Twitter for posting a story about journalist Carlos Maza, he appealed the decision and was reinstated. In an email, a representative from Twitter claimed that the suspension was “in error.” Shortly thereafter, however, Levine received further correspondence from a Twitter spokesperson.
Writing for The Post Millennial earlier today, Ian Miles Cheong detailed the account of Jonathan Levine’s Twitter suspension.
Levine called the resuspension “Orwellian,” tweeting: “Despite initially calling their decision to lock my account “an error” — Twitter locked me out again a few hours later over the same Carlos Maza story.”
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CDC Admits in Federal Court it Does Not Have Studies to Support Claim ‘Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism’
Media will likely ignore this bombshell admission and continue to demonize anti-vaxxers.
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2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden delivered more egregious gaffes Saturday, calling himself an “Obiden Bama Democrat” and stumbling numerous times, unable to find words for what he was trying to say regarding the re-election of Donald Trump.
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Curiosity Finds Organic Molecules That Could Have Been Produced by Life on Mars
What do coal, crude oil, and truffles have in common? Go ahead. We’ll wait.
The answer is thiophenes, a molecule that behaves a lot like benzene. Crude oil, coal, and truffles all contain thiophenes. So do a few other substances. MSL Curiosity found thiophenes on Mars, and though that doesn’t conclusively prove that Mars once hosted life, its discovery is an important milestone for the rover. Especially since truffles are alive, and oil and coal used to be, sort of.
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Democrat Strategist Justin Horwitz: Joe Biden is ‘Mentally Deteriorating’
Democrat strategist and backer of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Justin Horwitz said during a Thursday appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight that Joe Biden (D) is “mentally deteriorating” and that it will be a “disaster” if the Democrat establishment’s purported efforts to “shield” the former vice president prevail, leading to a head to head matchup with President Trump.
Horwitz, an outspoken Sanders supporter, spoke with Tucker Carlson Thursday night and discussed the Democrat establishment’s purported efforts to “shield” a “mentally deteriorating” Biden from the public.
“He is a candidate that is mentally deteriorating. People in the Democratic establishment say, ‘Oh don’t say that.’ They really believe that they can shield Joe Biden from public scrutiny and the reality is, they can’t,” he said.
“We all see what’s going on here and it’s going to be a disaster if we nominate Joe Biden,” he added.
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Former UAW President Gary Jones Charged in Union Embezzlement Scandal
The United Auto Workers president who led a five-week strike against General Motors last October has been charged with embezzlement and fraud as a federal corruption probe cuts further into the union’s topmost ranks.
Gary Jones is the 14th labor official to fall since the Justice Department began investigating UAW directors and Fiat Chrysler executives for engaging in a decades-long scheme to corrupt the bargaining process between the automaker and union. Jones has been charged with similar allegations of bribes, dodged taxes, and embezzling union funds as part of a racketeering activity—crimes of which 13 previously charged individuals—the majority of them UAW leaders—have pled guilty and are now serving or awaiting prison sentences.
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GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik Targeted by Unhinged Leftist While Shopping With Husband
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was a Republican star during the sham impeachment proceedings by Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. She scored hit after hit on the anti-Trump witnesses in the hearings on Capitol Hill.
Because of this the left hates Rep. Stefanik today.
Saturday while shopping with her husband a far left goon left a threatening note on her car.
These type of threats and abuse are becoming more and more common from unhinged leftists.
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Joe Biden Calls Sanders Supporters ‘Bernie Brothers’ And Social Media Lit Up
Joe Biden sure has a way with words.
The Democratic Party’s front-runner launched a brand new meme Friday night when he used the term “Bernie brothers” to call out Bernie Sanders’s most passionate supporters.
It was a far more formal version of “Bernie bros,” the established — and generally pejorative — term for the Vermont senator’s fans.
“What we can’t let happen is let this primary become a negative bloodbath,” Biden told a group of high-dollar donors on a fund-raising conference call, Politico reported. “I know I’m going to get a lot of suggestions on how to respond to what I suspect will be an increasingly negative campaign that the Bernie brothers will run. But we can’t tear this party apart and reelect Trump.”
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Kamala Harris Endorses Joe Biden
Former presidential candidate Kamala Harris endorses Joe Biden for president Sunday morning, saying “we need him now more than ever” and “I will do everything in my power to help elect him the next President of the United States.”
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Major Crimes in NYC Unexpectedly Surge After Bail Reform Law
We recently looked at some new proposals for fixing New York’s disastrous new “bail reform” law or at least mitigating some of the damage it’s causing. They may want to get off the stick and start looking at those suggestions in a hurry because a newly released report shows that major crimes in New York City took a very sharp turn upward in February as compared to the same period of time last year. And the police have the data to show that the bail reform policies are playing a significant role in this very bad development.
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New York Times Doxxes James O’Keefe’s Wedding in Hit Piece About Erik Prince, Project Veritas
Leftist publication retaliates against undercover journalist for exposing corruption in news rooms and presidential campaigns.
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Police Quarantine California Neighborhood After Coronavirus Death
Police in the Sacramento suburb of Rocklin, California ordered residents on one residential street to stay inside their homes as officers in protective gear patrolled the area as a sheriff’s helicopter circled overhead, according to WIBW. The reason? A man who became California’s first coronavirus victim lived on the block.
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Sadly, since that tweet two years ago, the Trump administration and Republicans have done nothing as Facebook continues to eliminate conservative content and publishers.
Facebook has been shutting down traffic to conservative websites since the 2016 election.
Conservatives dominated social media in 2016 when they were able to get the truth out — uncensored. Facebook ended that in 2017 and 2018.
The Gateway Pundit spoke with two of the top conservative publishers in America last year.
Here at The Gateway Pundit our Facebook traffic has been effectively eliminated after we were ranked as the 4th most influential conservative publisher in the 2016 election. We were supportive of President Trump so Facebook was forced to act.
The fact that Facebook is targeting conservative publishers should not be a surprise to Gateway Pundit readers.
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Coronavirus Map Live: Third Person Dies in UK — Cases Surge to 273 After Huge Increase
A THIRD person has died in the UK from coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases surged to 273 — the highly daily increase since the outbreak began.
NHS England said a man in his 60s who had underlying health problems died at North Manchester General Hospital after testing positive for coronavirus having recently returned from Italy. A spokesman for the hospital said: “We can confirm that sadly a patient being treated for Covid-19 has died at our specialist regional Infectious Diseases unit at North Manchester General Hospital. The man in his sixties tested positive after travelling to Italy and had a number of underlying health problems.
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Coronavirus: Italy Death Toll Soars Amid Travel Ban
The number of people to have died from the coronavirus in Italy has shot up by 133 in a day to 366, officials say.
The total number of infections leapt 25% to 7,375 from 5,883, according to the Civil Protection agency.
The jump in figures comes as millions adapt to radical measures introduced on Sunday in an attempt to contain the outbreak.
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German ISIS Woman Accused of Sending Son to Child Soldier Camp
German Islamic State member Carla-Josephine S. began her trial this week, accused of placing one of her children into a camp for child soldiers run by the terrorist group in Syria.
The 32-year-old, who joined the radical Islamic terrorist group in Syria with her three children who were aged 3, 6, and 7 at the time, is currently facing charges of exposing her children to the risk of war by travelling to the region.
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Hungary: 7th Coronavirus Case, Celebrations Cancelled, No Flights to Northern Italy
Hungary’s operative board coordinating efforts against the new coronavirus has recommended that hospitals and nursing homes introduce visiting bans as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country rose to seven over the weekend.
Tibor Lakatos, head of the board’s emergency centre, told a news conference on Sunday that Hungary has so far only identified individual cases of the virus and that the aim was to prevent an epidemic. Of the seven people diagnosed with the new virus so far, four are Iranian citizens, one is British and two are Hungarian nationals, he said.
The first two to be infected were Iranian students, one of whom attends Budapest’s Semmelweis University and the other Godollo’s Szent Istvan University, he noted. The third patient is a British national who lives in Debrecen, often commuting to Milan for work. The fourth person to test positive for the virus was the Iranian girlfriend of one of the students. The fifth patient is a 70-year-old Hungarian man with underlying illnesses and the sixth a 22-year-old Iranian man who had attended a birthday party with the first Iranian student who tested positive. The seventh person to have tested positive for the virus is the 59-year-old Hungarian wife of the British patient, Lakatos said.
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Italy: Berlusconi Has Split Up With Pascale
Statement from Berlusconi’s secretary
(ANSA) — Rome, March 5 — Three-time ex-premier, centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party chief, and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi is no longer romantically involved with Francesca Pascale, said a statement from Berlusconi’s secretary, adding that the two continue to have a “true and deep friendship”. Berlusconi and Pascale had been a couple for at least eight years.
The statement was released after the magazine ‘Diva e Donna’ printed photos of the ex-premier with another woman.
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Netherlands: Big Jump in Breda Coronavirus Cases; 34% of Country’s Patients in Noord-Brabant
There was a massive jump in positive coronavirus tests since Saturday afternoon among people living in Breda, according to statistics provided by health agency RIVM. The city is now home to 16 people with the new strain of the virus, out of 90 across the Noord-Brabant province.
Breda is now the city in the Netherlands with the most positive cases, followed by Rotterdam with 14, Houten and Utrecht with 13 each, and Tilburg with 12. There were six people being treated in Amsterdam and Eindhoven.
Some 21 municipalities in the Netherlands are now dealing with their first cases of coronavirus, including Den Haag where two people tested positive since yesterday, The numbers show that 89 municipalities of the country’s 356 are home to at least one patient with the virus.
Nationally, there are now 265 cases of people who were examined and found to have the coronavirus, including three men who have since died. Of the 77 new cases in the Netherlands discovered since Saturday, 33 were in the Noord-Brabant province. There had been just two known cases of coronavirus in Breda, the province’s third-largest city, on Saturday.
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Netherlands: Flight MH17: Trial to Start of Four Men Accused of Murdering 298 Over Ukraine
Four men go on trial in the Netherlands on Monday, in the first criminal case over the murder of 298 people on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over Ukraine in 2014.
The Boeing 777 went down amid a conflict in eastern Ukraine, after Russian-backed rebels seized the area.
Investigators say they have proof the Buk missile system that shot it down came from a military base in Russia.
The four suspects are unlikely to take part in the trial.
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Poll: Majority of French Citizens Believe the Populist National Rally Will One Day Assume Power
A new poll has revealed that the majority of French people believe that Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally party will one day come to power in France.
Among other things, the survey, conducted by Kantar-One Point for FranceInfo and the French daily newspaper Le Monde, revealed that popularity of the populist National Rally (RN) has increased substantially in France, FranceInfo reports.
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Pope Francis Offers Prayers for Victims of Coronavirus
Pope Francis offered prayers Sunday for all those affected by the coronavirus outbreak, urging Christians to find strength in their faith in Jesus during this difficult period.
“In prayer I am close to the people suffering from the current coronavirus epidemic and to all those who care for them,” the pope said in a live-streamed address from the Vatican library, adding that he had “remembered them often” during a Lenten retreat last week.
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Two New Cases of Coronavirus Confirmed in Poland — Health Ministry
Poland’s Ministry of Health reported on Sunday that two new cases of coronavirus infection had been discovered, bringing the total count of confirmed coronavirus infections in Poland to eight.
The two new cases concern a woman in the central Mazowiecki province and a man in the southern province of Silesia, who have been hospitalised in Warsaw and Raciborz, respectively.
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UK: Pharmaceutical Companies to Infect Volunteers With Coronavirus for $4,500
Pharmaceutical companies expect to soon begin paying “human guinea pigs” £3,500 (upwards of $4,500) to be infected with the coronavirus in a race to discover a vaccine for the disease, The Times reports.
More than 20 firms and public sector organizations are taking part in a global experiment to infect up to 24 people at a time in the hope of finding a vaccine for Covid-19 that can be used by next winter.
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Vatican Museums Closed, Pope Suspends Gatherings Over Coronavirus Threat
ROME — The Holy See Press Office announced Sunday that the Vatican Museums would be closed at least until April 3 as a “precautionary measure” against the spread of the coronavirus.
In its press release, the Vatican stated that along with the museums, the excavations (Scavi) under Saint Peter’s Basilica would also be closed to the public as well as the Museum of the Pontifical Villas and the museums attached to the papal basilicas in Rome.
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Iran Reports Its Largest Coronavirus Death Toll Within 24-Hour Period
Iran’s health ministry on Sunday reported 49 new deaths from the COVID-19 disease, the highest toll within 24 hours since the start of the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country.
“At least 194 of our compatriots who fell sick with the COVID-19illness have passed away,” Iranian health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said in a televised news conference.
The outbreak of the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in Iran is one of the deadliest outside of China, where the virus originated late last year.
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Before the Taqba Dam impounded the Euphrates River in northern Syria in the 1970s, an archaeological site named Abu Hureyra bore witness to the moment ancient nomadic people first settled down and started cultivating crops. A large mound marks the settlement, which now lies under Lake Assad
But before the lake formed, archaeologists were able to carefully extract and describe much material, including parts of houses, food and tools—an abundance of evidence that allowed them to identify the transition to agriculture nearly 12,800 years ago. It was one of the most significant events in our Earth’s cultural and environmental history.
Abu Hureyra, it turns out, has another story to tell. Found among the cereals and grains and splashed on early building material and animal bones was meltglass, some features of which suggest it was formed at extremely high temperatures—far higher than what humans could achieve at the time—or that could be attributed to fire, lighting or volcanism.
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Bioweapons Expert Speaks Out About Novel Coronavirus
Story at-a-glance
Francis Boyle, who for decades has advocated against the development and use of bioweapons, suspects COVID-19 is a weaponized pathogen that escaped from Wuhan City’s Biosafety Level 4 facility, which was specifically set up to research coronaviruses and SARS
According to Boyle, the COVID-19 virus is a chimera. It includes SARS, an already weaponized coronavirus, along with HIV genetic material and possibly flu virus. It also has gain of function properties that allow it to spread a greater distance than normal
The incubation period for COVID-19 infection is still unknown, but estimates range from 14 days to 30 days.
[Comment: More information in the article. Recommended reading.]
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China’s Coronavirus Recovery is ‘All Fake, ‘ Whistleblowers and Residents Claim
Whistleblowers and local officials are saying it’s all a carefully crafted ruse.
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Coronavirus is an Engineered Weapon for the Global Takedown of the Western World
Alex Jones delivers a deep-dive report on COVID-19 and its global & domestic implications.
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Coronavirus: Ten Dead in China Quarantine Hotel Collapse
At least 10 people are dead and 23 remain missing after a hotel being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in the Chinese city of Quanzhou collapsed on Saturday.
Rescue workers are still searching the rubble of the five-storey Xinjia Hotel in the southern province of Fujian.
Seventy-one people were in the building when it collapsed and dozens have been rescued, authorities say.
It is not clear what caused the collapse on Saturday evening.
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Coronavirus Live Updates: South Korea Reports 248 Cases to Cross 7,300
All times below are in Beijing time.
10:17 am: Wuhan shuts down 11 makeshift hospitals
Following the discharge of most patients, 11 of the 14 makeshift hospitals in Wuhan that were built for treatment of the new coronavirus have closed, state broadcaster CCTV said Sunday evening. Remaining patients are gradually being sent to designated hospitals, and there are only about 100 people left in the remaining 3 makeshift hospitals, the report said.
Wuhan city, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, began opening the makeshift or “cabin” hospitals on Feb. 5 and the repurposed venues have treated more than 12,000 people with mild cases of the virus, according to CCTV. Last week, other Chinese media reports noted that at least one such hospital warned of an increasing number of relapses among discharged patients. — Cheng
9:25 am: South Korea reports 248 new cases, 1 additional death
South Korea confirmed 248 more cases on Monday morning, and one more death. That brings its total to 7,382 cases, and 51 deaths, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. — Weizhen Tan
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Coronavirus Cases:
110,066
view by country
Deaths:
3,830
Recovered:
62,278
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Importantly, Covid-19 appears to be more infectious than normal flu. And, at least for older people, it’s more dangerous.
I’m 62 years old and male, which puts me into two of the higher-risk categories.
Data from China suggests that men are 50 per cent more likely to be killed by it, possibly because women tend to have stronger immune systems.
We also know that, whether you’re male or female, after the age of 50, your chance of dying from a Covid-19 infection climbs dramatically. If you are under 50, the odds of you dying from coronavirus are 0.4 per cent.
If you are in your 60s, the odds are ten times higher — more like four per cent. And if you are in your 70s, it is higher still, at eight per cent. By your 80s, it is up to nearly 15 per cent.
One reason death rates are so much higher in people over 60 is that at that age we are more likely to be living with another condition, such as diabetes or heart disease. Having another health condition means the symptoms are more severe.
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Police remain at the cordoned off scene following the incident in Merrylands in Sydney’s west just after 8pm on Sunday.
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List Found of 12,000 Nazis in Argentina With Money in Swiss Bank
An investigation by Argentine investigator Pedro Filipuzzi revealed a list of 12,000 Nazis in Argentina that apparently have money in accounts at the Zurich-based Credit Suisse investment bank, the Simon Wiesenthal Centersaid in a statement.
The list, which Filipuzzi gave to Simon Wiesenthal Center’s international relations director Dr. Shimon Samuels and Latin America director Dr. Ariel Gelblung, was found in an old storage room at the former Buenos Aires Nazi headquarters.
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Coronavirus Patient Zero in Italy Reportedly a Pakistani Immigrant
According to recent reports from Italy the coronavirus patient zero in the Pavia area is a Pakistani immigrant who refused to self-isolate after testing positive for the virus.
The EU Times reported that the Pakistani man continued to cook and deliver Chinese food and infected an entire region of Italy.
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Denmark: 62 Per Cent of Young Somali Migrants Convicted by Age 30
Over half of all of the young migrant men from Somalia, Lebanon, and Morocco living in Denmark have been convicted of at least one crime before the age of 30.
The figures come from a report by think tank Unitos that delved into crime statistics kept by the Danish Ministry of Justice and looked at the crime rates for men born between 1985 and 1987.
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EU to Fork Over Another €500 Million to the Turkish Regime to Stop Migrants
The European Commission is currently preparing to hand over an additional 500 million euros in aid to Ankara to help with so-called “Syrian refugees” to ease growing tensions with the increasingly belligerent and unhinged Turkish regime.
As more and more reports come out, however, it has become increasingly clear that very few of the migrants who are attempting to cross into Greece from Turkey are actually Syrian.
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Greek Police Launch Tear Gas at Migrants as Turkish Officers Fire Back
Thousands are trying to get into Europe and vigilante gangs are plotting to send them home.
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Greek Authorities Thwart Nearly 3,000 Attempts by Illegal Migrants to Cross the Border Near Evros
Nearly 3,000 illegal attempts to breach Greece’s border with Turkey were stopped by Greek border guards between Thursday and Friday morning in the Evros area.
Official government sources have reported that eight individuals were arrested during this time period, seven of which were Afghani nationals and another being a Syrian nation, Greek daily newspaper Kathimerini reports.
Also between Thursday and Friday morning, 17 migrants were picked up by Greek Coast Guard boats. An additional 41 illegal immigrants a human trafficker — all whom had landed on Lesbos island — were arrested by Greek authorities.
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More Fires Set at Migrant Camp on Greek Island as Tensions Boil Over
ATHENS (AP) — A fire broke out at a refugee center on the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece’s firefighting service said Sunday, causing considerable damage to a warehouse but no injuries.
It was the second fire at an installation built for migrants, after a reception center was burned down by unknown perpetrators last Monday. The warehouse, which contained furniture and electrical appliances, was completely destroyed, a firefighting spokesman told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, because an investigation into the fire is ongoing.
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North Macedonia Police Discover 56 Migrants in Truck
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia discovered 56 migrants during a routine search of a truck and arrested the driver on suspicion of belonging to a trafficking ring that brought them in from Greece, authorities said Sunday.
The incident took place late Saturday in the town of Gevgelija, near the border with Greece, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of the capital, Skopje, late Saturday. The truck driver was identified as a 46-year-old Macedonian national.
The migrants, 54 Pakistanis and two Afghans, are expected to be transferred to a detention center in Gevgelija pending deportation back to Greece.
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Pizza Boss ‘Masterminded £3million Smuggling Ring’
A TAKEAWAY pizza boss was at the heart of an international people-smuggling gang suspected of getting at least 300 illegal immigrants into the UK, a court heard.
Hojjat Nickhoo, 36, who is set to face trial in France, is alleged to have joined forces with a Romanian smuggling kingpin to cram mainly Iranian Kurds into HGVs for journeys through Calais.
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PM Orban’s Advisor: 130,000 Migrant Invaders on the Balkan Route
An estimated 130,000 migrants on the Balkans route are headed for the European Union, György Bakondi, national security advisor to the Prime Minister said on national radio Friday morning.
He added that by all accounts, Greece is now taking the crisis seriously and is making every effort to protect the European Union’s external borders.
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Human traffickers are exploiting a back-door route into Britain that makes it ‘easy-peasy’ to get into the country.
Operating from the UK, they arrange for illegal migrants to come here via European airports and boast that it is as simple as opening a front door.
The shocking expose comes as a new migrant crisis sweeps Europe and people smugglers cash in on those fleeing their homelands.
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Saying No to the Invasion of Europe
by Janet Levy
The inundation of Europe with Muslim migrants intent on permanent settlement is unprecedented in world history. Europe, which has accepted vast numbers of the migrants, has become an epicenter of Islamic terrorism replete with alarming levels of migrant crime, including Muslim sex slave gangs and sharia-controlled “no-go” zones. Faced with this reality, four Central European countries — Hungary, Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia — have adamantly refused to accept Muslim refugees, earning criticism from the European community and prosecution by the European Court of Justice.
But now, with Turkey threatening to open its border and inundate Greece with thousands more Muslim refugees, the European community appears to have paused in its ongoing acceptance of migrants and pledged to protect Greece’s border. It illustrates the threat that has existed from the beginning from the mass movement of Muslims from the Middle East and North Africa.
Some view the migration as a “humanitarian crisis” and call critics “xenophobes” or “racists” who lack compassion. Others question the motivation for the sudden refugee onslaught and ask why Europe must shoulder responsibility and absorb the mass exodus when proximate, affluent Muslim countries have not offered assistance. They see, instead, a planned invasion or hijra, a 1,400-year-old Islamic doctrine modeled after Mohammed’s migration from Mecca to Medina. It is designed to subvert and subdue non-Muslim societies and pave the way for total Islamization, in this case, of all Europe…
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Spain Arrests 89 for Smuggling Drugs and Migrants From North Africa in Speedboats
MADRID (AP) — Spanish police have arrested 89 people suspected of belonging to a crime ring that smuggled both migrants and hashish from North Africa to mainland Spain.
The Civil Guard said Saturday that the smuggling network allegedly used speed boats to bring people and drugs across the Strait of Gibraltar from Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in northern Africa.
The national law enforcement agency said investigators found evidence that 11 speed boats carried a total of 269 people and over 10,000 kilograms of hashish. The ring used radar systems and lookouts on the coast to avoid detection, the police alleged.
[Comment: Article dated March 7, 2020.]
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A boat carrying up to 113 migrants from Africa to Europe has been intercepted off the coast of Spain as it attempted to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
The sub-Saharan migrants disembarked late last night at a port in Malaga, southern Spain after they were picked up as they attempted to cross the Mediterranean in a dinghy.
Photographs show the migrants wrapped up warm in red blankets provided by rescuers as they wait to leave the Spanish boat before sunrise.
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United EU Slams Turkish Regime for “Organized” Migrant Attack on Greece
KASTANIES, Greece (AP) — Clashes between Greek riot police and migrants attempting to cross the border from Turkey erupted anew Friday as European Union foreign ministers criticized Turkey for using migrants’ desperation “for political purposes.”
Greek riot police used tear gas and a water cannon in the morning to drive back people trying to cross its land border with Turkey. Turkish police fired volleys of tear gas back toward Greece in an ongoing standoff between Ankara and the EU over who should care for migrants and refugees.
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Georgia Bill Would Make Child Transgender Surgeries, Drugs Illegal
A Georgia Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would make child transgender surgeries and drugs illegal.
On February 27, Georgia State Rep. Ginny Ehrhart (R) introduced the Vulnerable Child Protection Act (HB 1060) in the Georgia House of Representatives.
The legislation would ban health care professionals from performing transgender surgeries on a minor child — such as mastectomy, vaginoplasty, castration, penectomy, etc. — “for the purpose of attempting to affirm the minor’s perception of such minor’s sex, if that perception is inconsistent with such minor’s sex.”
In addition, the bill would make illegal the administering of medications, such as puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, to children for the same purpose.
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Report: Sweden May be Most ‘Incel’ Country in the World
A report from the Swedish Defence Research Institute (FOI) has claimed that Sweden may have the largest portion of so-called involuntarily celibate (incel) people in the world.
The FOI report examined forums that cater to incels and looked at the visitor traffic to the forums, finding that Swedish visitors accounted among the top five countries — but could not answer why there is such a prevalence of Swedish visitors to the sites.
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New Species of Chlamydia Bacteria Found in the Arctic Ocean
If you thought chlamydia was scary, just wait until you meet its cousins. Found under the Arctic Ocean seafloor, these new species of chlamydia can survive despite a lack of oxygen or hosts to prey upon.
About 3 kilometers beneath the surface of the Arctic Ocean, scientists have discovered a type of Chlamydiae bacteria that has been thriving despite being subjected to intense pressure and other extreme conditions, including deprivation of oxygen.
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If this corona is a weaponized SARS, Red China has to be reduced to an agricultural land again.
The Chinese Government is working on it.
If you are not moving your supply chain out of China, you are a failing CEO.
“Poll: Majority of French Citizens Believe the Populist National Rally Will One Day Assume Power” That’s great! Now someone please explain to them that, in order for that to happen, they need not just to believe, they also need to throw the ballots in!
“List Found of 12,000 Nazis in Argentina With Money in Swiss Bank”
I’ve heard they plan to force the bank to give the money back to the Jews, but how are they planning to determine whether it was stolen from Jews or earned honestly? If they’re able to do that, then great! I’d just rather they’d avoid another hysteric ordeal.
“CDC Admits in Federal Court it Does Not Have Studies to Support Claim ‘Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism’”
I do not follow. The plaintiff, ICAN, voluntarily dismissed their own lawsuit under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(ii), without court action and with prejudice(!), after the CDC provided 20 studies in support of their claim, that vaccines do not cause autism. ICAN latches on to 1 of the 20 that basically states: the studies we studied did not have the data to answer the question.
I am no lawyer, but it appears ICAN’s own actions demonstrate the opposite of the claim they draw from them. What am I missing? What should I believe: the claim or the actions?
The link for:
“Saying No to the Invasion of Europe” by Janet Levy
leads to another important article:
Massive Muslim Migrant Crisis Happening Right Now on Europe’s Border
By Avi Abelow – March 8, 2020 3817
https://israelunwired.com/massive-muslim-migrant-crisis-happening-right-now-on-europes-border/
Janet Levy’s article is at:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/saying_no_to_the_invasion_of_europe.html
Article in Russian:
Diana from Moscow became disillusioned with Russian men and found herself among migrants in Sweden
https://riafan.ru/1257189-diana-iz-moskvy-razocharovalas-v-russkikh-muzhchinakh-i-nashla-sebya-sredi-migrantov-v-shvecii
In the text, Diana praises Muslims, justifies migrant juvenile delinquents and says that somewhere in the city they are blowing up something, but she did not see it.
The last two paragraphs:
… Note, it was recently announced that the authorities decided to resolve the problem of violence among migrants in Sweden in a communist way – by introducing communal apartments. Sweden’s pensioners will be resettled by young migrants as part of the foreigners integration program. The authors of the SällBo project say that it will help older people get rid of loneliness, and migrants from the habit of using violence.
The program will begin to operate in the Swedish city of Helsingborg in special hostels, and migrants will be moved into such apartments by entire families. How much such a practice will help solve the problems of violence by migrants is not known; the program has not yet begun to operate.
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What a nightmare. From my observations of my deceased grandmother and a very elderly mother-in-law: they certainly need attention and care, but even more they need calm. Their own great-grandchildren are already a burden, what can we say about the Arab cubs?
Demonstration in Malmö: “Sweden must die”
https://engnews24h.com/demonstration-in-malmo-sweden-must-die/
The Martian thiophene story is interesting as “two-way reading”, as the old Loompanics catalog used to call it, in that it entertains the possibility that so-called fossil fuels may be at least in large measure of abiotic origin. In other words, you can read it as evidence that there used to be life processes “there”, or that there was not a life process “here”; intriguing either way.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8092315/Germany-child-migrants-trapped-Greek-islands-prioritise-sick-girls-14.html
in spite of it being voted against earlier, now merkel suddenly agrees that 1,000 to 1,500 “refugee children” under 14 and “in need of serious medical care” will be taken in, and she expects other EU states to do the same. Claims are that the majority of these refugees are girls. France, Portugal, Luxembourg and Finland have all offered to take them too. Can we get pics of these refugee children when they get taken? lets see what they really look like
German social networks represent them like this:
Merkels Kindersoldaten
https://sun7-7.userapi.com/qghoNFiOMlSmk7EFYSG2U5QZnsCurBsURYOqrg/iaX6CS4xc3c.jpg