Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/10/2020

Japan is using a substantial portion of its coronavirus stimulus money to pay manufacturing firms to move their production facilities out of China. Meanwhile, Denmark, Czechia, and Austria have decided to go against the EU and relax their lockdown restrictions. Also, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s condition continues to improve, and he is reportedly taking short walks in the hospital.

In other news, Malta has followed Italy’s lead by closing its ports to migrant-rescue ships.

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Financial Crisis
» EU Agrees on Virus Economy Aid But Split Over Way Ahead
» Government Charity: More Loss, Debt and Inflation
» S&P 500 Posts Best Week Since 1974 as New Fed Stimulus Offsets Historic Unemployment Filings
» UN to Run Out of Money by End of Month, Secretary General Warns
 
USA
» AG Barr ‘Very Concerned’ Over Bill Gates’ ‘Digital Vaccine Certificates, ‘ Calls Lockdown Measures ‘Draconian, ‘ Wants Gone by May
» Alex Jones of InfoWars Told Me “Brian You Have Courage, And Courage is Infectious” — We Are All One
» Alyssa Milano Implores Americans to Stop “Stockpiling Weapons”
» Baptist Church Members Given $500 Tickets for Listening to Church Service in Their Cars Via Radio in Parking Lot
» Bill Gates Unveils Global Plan to Issue “Vaccine Certificates” For COVID Patients
» Bill Gates, Vaccines & Transhumanism: Dark Secrets You Need to Know
» CBS Again Airs Footage of Italy Hospital in Report About “Overwhelmed” Penn. Hospital
» Chicago Mayor Slaps 9:00 P.M. Curfew on Liquor Sales in Response to Gun Violence During Lockdown
» Coronavirus is Now the Leading Daily Cause of Death in America
» Crazed Michigan Governor Now Tells Home Depot to Shut Down Unnecessary Flooring, Tiles and Garden Centers
» Crisis Averted: New York Hospitalizations Plunge
» Democrat Kentucky Governor Announces Plan to Record License Plates of Easter Church Goers and Force Them to Self-Quarantine for 14 Days
» Demonstrators Swarm Ohio State Capitol to Protest Forced Business Closures
» Ex-NYT Reporter Sounds Alarm Over Flawed Coronavirus Models That Have Tossed Economy Into ‘Freefall’
» Florida Man Friday: Everybody is Kung-Flu Fighting
» George Soros — The Face of the ‘New World Order’ — Targets Trump2020
» Giant Asian Hornets That Can ‘Kill With a Single Sting’ To Invade Virus-Stricken US
» ‘Ironic’: Declassified Footnotes Show Steele Dossier Likely Compromised by Russian Intelligence
» Jenna Jameson Says She ‘Can Attest’ To Network of Tunnels Under Playboy Mansion
» Man Who Featured in 5 Person Polyamorous Relationship Charged With Child Abuse
» Media Panicked Over Chloroquine But New Data Suggests it’s Ventilators That Are Killing People
» MN Senator Reveals HHS “Coaching Document” On How to Overcount Coronavirus Cases
» National Poll: Dems Want to Drop Joe Biden for Andrew Cuomo as Presidential Nominee
» New Mexico Gun Groups Sue Governor Over Closed Gun Shops and Shooting Ranges
» Police State Chaos: Man Dragged Off Philly Bus for Not Wearing Mask
» Politicians Use COVID-19 to Kill the Constitution
» Ron Paul: Resistance Building to Coronavirus ‘House Arrest’ Orders… “It’s About Time!”
» Ron Paul: Trump Should Fire Dr. Fauci; He Wants ‘To Have Total Control Over the People’
» San Francisco City Officials Don’t Want People Buying Guns During Pandemic
» Sheriff: Hit-and-Run Suspect Found Tied to Telephone Pole at Scene of Alleged Crime
» Shocking Daylight Home Invasion During Virus Lockdown is Stopped by Chicago Homeowner Who Fatally Shoots One of the Masked Intruders Inside and Then Chases the Other to His Front Yard
» Syracuse Student Gov Candidates Resolve to Shut Down ‘White Supremacist’ Ben Shapiro Visit After Initially Agreeing
» Three Polls Show Majority of Americans Agree With Trump Calling Coronavirus ‘Chinese’
» Trump’s Job Approval Has Hit an All-Time High
» Video: Fake News Acosta Asks Trump if He Has ‘Investments in Hydroxychloroquine’
» Woke Reporter Accuses Black Surgeon General of Racism
 
Canada
» Police to Make Home Visits to Check Quarantine Compliance
 
Europe and the EU
» 50 Coronavirus Cases Confirmed Aboard France’s Only Aircraft Carrier
» Coronavirus Devastates Italy: Is it the Result of Globalism and Free Trade?
» Czechia, Austria, And Denmark Don’t Wait for EU and Begin Easing Virus Restrictions
» Farage Warns Chinese Interests Lining Up for ‘Fire Sale’ Of UK Businesses
» Finland Latest Country to Receive Faulty Chinese Protective Equipment
» France: Notre Dame Cathedral Holds Good Friday Ceremony Venerating the Crown of Thorns of Jesus Christ… Godless ABC News Calls it “A Wreath”
» France: Macron Secretly Preparing a Speech on “The World After” The Coronavirus Crisis
» Germany Flies in Seasonal Farm Workers Amid Virus
» Germany: Parents of AfD Lawmaker Attacked Again
» Italian PM Warns European Union Could Collapse Over Coronavirus
» Italy: Coronavirus: 110 Have Died at Milan Care Home
» Italy: Coronavirus: Romanian, Norwegian Medics Arrive in Lombardy
» Italy Extends COVID-19 Lockdown Until May 3
» Pope Francis: Pandemic Could be ‘Nature’s Revenge’ For Ignoring Climate Change
» Risk of EU Project Failing Says Conte
» Second UK Police Force Threatens to Check if Public Are Making “Non-Essential” Purchases
» Top EU Scientist Resigns; Slams Bloc’s COVID-19 Response
» UK Police Force Threatens to Search Shopping Baskets to Catch ‘Lockdown’ Violators
» UK: Coronavirus: Boris Johnson Taking Short Walks as Care Continues
» UK: Kinder, Gentler Politics? Union Boss Who Would ‘Throw a Party’ If BoJo Died is Suspended
» UK: Labour Councillors Celebrate and Deny Boris Johnson’s Coronavirus
» UK: Police Officer Tells Family They Can’t be on Their Own Front Garden
» UK-U.S. Trade Talks Postponed Because of Coronavirus: Report
» Vatican Thanks China for ‘Solidarity’ in Donating Medical Supplies for Pandemic
» Video: While Christians Stay Home for Easter, Mosques Defy Lockdowns in Greece
» Watch: Doctors, Nurses Join Pope for Good Friday Way of the Cross Procession in Empty St. Peter’s Square
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Caroline Glick: Israel and Trump’s War on the Coronavirus
 
Middle East
» ISIS Spreading Propaganda; Calls COVID-19 ‘Soldier of Allah’, Threatens to Attack Chicago and London
 
South Asia
» Muslim Cleric Who Asked Allah to Send Virus to Kill 500 Million Indians Now Says He Was Quoted Out of Context
» Pakistan Gets Chinese Underwear as N95 Masks
» ‘Thank You India’: Trump Showers Praise on Modi for Hydroxychloroquine
 
Far East
» Animal Crossing: New Horizons Banned in China, Likely for “Offensive Content”
» Bill Gates Worships at the Altar of China
» COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
» HUGE EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Doctor Shi Zhengli Ran Coronavirus Research in Wuhan After US Project Was Shut Down by DHS in 2014 for Being Too Risky — PRIOR LEAK KILLED RESEARCHER
» It Begins: Japan Pays Billions to Firms to Leave China, Relocate Production Elsewhere
» On YouTube, Edgy Jokes Are Banned But the Torture and Eating of Live Animals is Thriving
» Report: China’s Coronavirus Data Off by Millions of Cases
» Scientific Journal Nature Bends the Knee, Apologizes for Associating Coronavirus With China and Wuhan
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australia Stayed Ahead of Pandemic by Ignoring ‘Politicised’ Who on China Travel Ban
» Cowboy Hat-Clad Man Accused of Carrying Out a Racist Tirade Outside a Chinese Consulate While Cracking a Whip and Telling Visitors They Were Spreading COVID-19
» New Species Discovered During Exploration of Abyssal Deep Sea Canyons Off Ningaloo
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» 2nd Locust Swarm Threatens Africa With Starvation, Desolation
» 4 Christians, Including 10-Year-Old Boy, Killed by Terrorists in Nigeria
 
Immigration
» Chicago Police, Lightfoot Defend Decision Not to Cooperate With ICE After DHS Says Man Accused in McDonald’s Child Sex Assault Was Previously Deported
» EU Court of Justice Rules Poland, Hungary, & Czech Republic Broke EU Law
» Failed Asylum Seeker Watched Pornography Immediately After Killing German Woman
» Malta Closes Its Ports to Migrants
» Video: Greek Armed Forces Defend Against Invasion
 
Culture Wars
» Eugenics, Dr. Fauci and Coronavirus
» Hoaxed, Number One Documentary on iTunes Right Now, Suspiciously Censored From Amazon Prime
» YouTube CEO Promises Crackdown on “Controversial Content”
 

EU Agrees on Virus Economy Aid But Split Over Way Ahead

BRUSSELS (AP) — Faced with a mounting coronavirus death toll and the prospect of a deep recession, European finance ministers have backed a major half-trillion-euro (about $550 billion) rescue package.

But the agreement does little to paper over divisions about how best to tackle the impact of the coronavirus and pave the way for a return to normal life.

Hard-hit countries like Italy and Spain have demanded funds for weeks as they’ve battled to save lives and keep their economies afloat. As of Friday, more than 64,000 Europeans had been killed by the disease — two thirds of the global toll — the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control says.

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

Government Charity: More Loss, Debt and Inflation

by Kelleigh Nelson

No society can safeguard public health for long at the cost of economic health. Whenever massive government interventions have been tried, they have always ended in poverty, scarcity, and too often, mass death and genocide. The further government takes its power, the harder it will be to wrest it back. And it has already gone way too far….

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

S&P 500 Posts Best Week Since 1974 as New Fed Stimulus Offsets Historic Unemployment Filings

US stocks climbed on Thursday, continuing Wednesday’s gains, as the Federal Reserve announced an additional $2.3 trillion in aid to businesses and governments.

The S&P 500 capped off a 12% weekly gain, its best such return since 1974, while the Dow Jones industrial average rose 13% over the short four-day week. US stock markets are closed Friday for the Good Friday holiday.

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

UN to Run Out of Money by End of Month, Secretary General Warns

The United Nations could run out of money by the end of the month as it faces a near-unprecedented funding crisis, the secretary-general has warned.

Almost a third of member states have not paid their annual dues leading to a £1.3 billion black hole, António Guterres said in a statement on Tuesday.

The shortage of cash has meant vital staff vacancies have been left empty, travel limited to all but essential journeys and meetings deferred amid attempts to shore up the dwindling reserves. Staff have been warned there may be a default on salaries in November.

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

AG Barr ‘Very Concerned’ Over Bill Gates’ ‘Digital Vaccine Certificates, ‘ Calls Lockdown Measures ‘Draconian, ‘ Wants Gone by May

“I’m very concerned about the slippery slope in terms of continuing encroachments on personal liberty,” Barr said

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Alex Jones of InfoWars Told Me “Brian You Have Courage, And Courage is Infectious” — We Are All One

Brian of London Real breaks down the massive censorship of YouTube for daring to question the health effects of 5G radiation

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Alyssa Milano Implores Americans to Stop “Stockpiling Weapons”

Actress and activist Alyssa Milano implored her followers on Tuesday to stop stockpiling weapons, saying the increase in firearm purchases could have “dire” consequences.

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

Baptist Church Members Given $500 Tickets for Listening to Church Service in Their Cars Via Radio in Parking Lot

Members of a Baptist church were given $500 tickets by local authorities for sitting in their cars in the church parking lot listening to a sermon from their pastor on the radio during the coronavirus pandemic.

The lot at Temple Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi, was full of parishioners Wednesday night gathered in their parked vehicles to listen to pastor Arthur Scott give a sermon via a lower-power FM frequency radio, according to Delta Democrat-Times.

That’s when police officers arrived and started handing out $500 tickets to people who didn’t disperse in adherence to social distancing guidelines.

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

Bill Gates Unveils Global Plan to Issue “Vaccine Certificates” For COVID Patients

Social engineers to use coronavirus crisis as catalyst to implement tracking database.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Bill Gates, Vaccines & Transhumanism: Dark Secrets You Need to Know

True dangers of the coronavirus pandemic explained.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CBS Again Airs Footage of Italy Hospital in Report About “Overwhelmed” Penn. Hospital

CBS previously blamed ‘editing mistake’ after airing SAME Italy hospital footage during NYC report.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Chicago Mayor Slaps 9:00 P.M. Curfew on Liquor Sales in Response to Gun Violence During Lockdown

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a 9 p.m. curfew on all liquor sales within the city in response to a string of gun violence during the coronavirus lockdown.

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

Coronavirus is Now the Leading Daily Cause of Death in America

Coronavirus has become the leading daily cause of death in the United States, a grim reminder of the virus’ severity as it reaches what may be its peak in the United States.

The illness jumped past heart disease and cancer last week to become the deadliest phenomenon in America, though those causes likely have much higher fatality rates overall so far this year. Cancer is expected to kill more than 600,000 Americans this year, while some experts estimate that coronavirus will claim a tenth of that.

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

Crazed Michigan Governor Now Tells Home Depot to Shut Down Unnecessary Flooring, Tiles and Garden Centers

In late March Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer limited access of doctors from prescribing the lifesaving drugs hydroxychloroquine and Z-Paks to save senior citizens in the state from coronavirus.

Hydroxychloroquine and Z-Paks have are widely used by doctors the world over to treat the coronavirus.

Democrat lawmaker Karen Whitsett said she had to beg for hydroxychloroquine that saved her life because her tyrannical governor limiting access to the drug with an executive order!

Now the far left governor is banning travel between homes for Michigan residents!

So kids can no longer play at their friends’ house.

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

Crisis Averted: New York Hospitalizations Plunge

If we’re being honest, the same would have probably happened without much effort.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrat Kentucky Governor Announces Plan to Record License Plates of Easter Church Goers and Force Them to Self-Quarantine for 14 Days

The state of Kentucky is cracking down on Easter weekend worshippers by recording the license plates of people who attend services and forcing them to “self-quarantine” for two weeks afterwards.

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

Demonstrators Swarm Ohio State Capitol to Protest Forced Business Closures

Protesters interrupted the governor’s coronavirus press briefing.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Ex-NYT Reporter Sounds Alarm Over Flawed Coronavirus Models That Have Tossed Economy Into ‘Freefall’

(THE BLAZE) Alex Berenson is a former reporter who worked for the New York Times from 1999 to 2010 where he covered everything from the drug industry to Hurricane Katrina.

After that stint he devoted himself to writing books full time. Last year, his project “Tell Your Children” was published, which deals with the science around cannabis and mental illness.

But Berenson has again come into prominence amid the growing coronavirus pandemic, as he’s been posting data analysis revealing a disturbing conclusion: The models that have dictated mass business closures — and that have swiftly collapsed the American economy — are deeply flawed.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Florida Man Friday: Everybody is Kung-Flu Fighting

Last week I had feared that Florida’s coronavirus lockdown might prevent Florida Man from getting up to his usual hijinks.

[chandlerbingvoice] Could I have BEEN more wrong? [/chandlerbingvoice]

I’ve been closing browser tabs left and right trying to trim down this week’s selection of Florida Man stories down to something manageable and, I’d like to think, narrowing this week’s picks to the sublimely absurd.

So join me now, won’t you, on another thrill-a-minute episode of…

Florida Man Friday!

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

George Soros — The Face of the ‘New World Order’ — Targets Trump2020

by Jim Kouri

Multi-billionaire, America hater George Soros — the public face of the New World Order — has issued fresh instructions to his minions that underscore Soros’ growing fear of President Trump. “If things keep going this way, Trump is going to get re-elected. So we’ve decided to take emergency action,” MoveOn wrote to their deep state disciples…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Giant Asian Hornets That Can ‘Kill With a Single Sting’ To Invade Virus-Stricken US

Experts estimate the pests may cause America a staggering $29.3 million as they invade. The invasion is projected as a coronavirus-stricken U.S. is already facing economic setbacks. Millions are out of work — with nearly 17 million applying for unemployment in the last three weeks alone — as more than 432,000 cases of the virus have been confirmed in the U.S. alone Many experts have warned of a looming recession, as businesses have been forced to shutter their doors due to stay-at-home orders.

Asian hornets are similar to European hornets that live in the U.S., but they are not native to America. They are large insects measuring almost 2in long, originally from Southeast Asia, that prey on small creatures — especially bees.

“Just one sting is enough to kill someone allergic to their venom.”

The yellow-legged critters were accidentally introduced to France from China in 2004 and they have been spreading rapidly throughout Europe and other parts of the world ever since. Experts estimate the Asian hornet colonised most of France at a rate of roughly 37 to 50 miles per year.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Ironic’: Declassified Footnotes Show Steele Dossier Likely Compromised by Russian Intelligence

Declassified footnotes from the Justice Department watchdog report on the FBI’s Russia investigation revealed new details indicating British ex-spy Christoper Steele’s dossier was likely compromised by disinformation efforts carried out by Russian intelligence.

The footnotes, which were previously redacted, were made available for the public to see on Friday through a declassification determination made by Attorney General William Barr at the request of Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa.

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

Jenna Jameson Says She ‘Can Attest’ To Network of Tunnels Under Playboy Mansion

Former Playboy reality TV host says that she ‘can attest’ to underground tunnels and quarters beneath the Playboy Mansion.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Man Who Featured in 5 Person Polyamorous Relationship Charged With Child Abuse

A man who featured as one of the four male partners in a polyamorous relationship with a pregnant woman that received media attention in December has been charged with aggravated child abuse after the 5-week-old baby suffered multiple severe injuries.

22-year-old Ethan Baucom was one of the individuals shown in a Barcroft TV production which told the story of 20-year-old Tory Ojeda sharing her Jacksonville, Fla. with three of her four partners, including Baucom.

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

Media Panicked Over Chloroquine But New Data Suggests it’s Ventilators That Are Killing People

It turns out ventilators appear to be killing coronavirus patients en masse.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

MN Senator Reveals HHS “Coaching Document” On How to Overcount Coronavirus Cases

Minnesota Senator Scott Jensen, who is also a medical doctor has released a Health and Human Services “coaching document” that shows how the government wants states to overcount coronavirus cases. The only reason the government would want to overcount this is to keep their martial law in place for as long as possible and expand their power while people are locked down.

This bombshell document was released by the senator and physician who said he received the 7-page document coaching him to fill out death certificates with a COVID-19 diagnosis without a lab test to confirm the patient actually had the virus. “Last Friday I received a 7-page document that told me if I had an 86-year-old patient that had pneumonia but was never tested for COVID-19 but some time after she came down with pneumonia we learned that she had been exposed to her son who had no symptoms but later on was identified with COVID-19, then it would be appropriate to diagnose on the death certificate COVID-19,” Dr. Scott Jensen said.

Dr. Jensen explained that this is not a normal procedure, according to a report by The Gateway Pundit. Even if COVID-19 caused pneumonia, the cause of death would still be pneumonia. The same in the following example: a person who tested positive for COVID-19 leaves the doctor’s office and dies in a car accident, the cause of death is still a car accident. But that is not how the government wants these labeled. No wonder our deaths are out of proportion and people are questioning the government’s response and their data with regards to this pandemic.

We are never told the truth and have been forced to suffer massive economic and financial burdens because of this.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

National Poll: Dems Want to Drop Joe Biden for Andrew Cuomo as Presidential Nominee

According to a poll shared with the New York Post, Democrats want to drop Joe Bidenin favor of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the party’s 2020 presidential nominee.

The national poll, which was conducted online by one of the top three polling firms, asked 1,000 respondents, “Based on what you know today, do you agree or disagree that Democrats should nominate Gov. Andrew Cuomo for president instead of Joe Biden?”

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

New Mexico Gun Groups Sue Governor Over Closed Gun Shops and Shooting Ranges

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, became the focus of a lawsuit Friday after her statewide emergency shutdown orders includedfirearms retailers, manufacturers, and ranges.

Lujan Grisham issued the shutdown orders for all nonessential businesses by March 24 and extended the closures through April 30. The list of essential businesses did not include firearms retailers, manufacturers, or ranges.

Four days after the first deadline, on March 28, the Department of Homeland Security issued a memorandum supporting firearms and ammunition product manufacturers, retailers, importers, distributors, and shooting ranges as part of its “essential critical infrastructure workforce” advisory list during the COVID-19 virus response effort. However, the New Mexico order did not change.

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

Police State Chaos: Man Dragged Off Philly Bus for Not Wearing Mask

Not to be outdone by thug cops in Colorado detaining a father for playing ball outside in an empty park with his kid, Philadelphia has taken first place in the competition for “Best Police State Blunders.” If I didn’t hear these people speaking American English, I would have thought these were Wuhan death squads. A man is filmed on a bus announcing that every rider must have a mask in the first video. It is important to note that the man ordering this is NOT wearing a mask.

And when the man who is told to leave the bus refuses, the police violate all of the social distancing “laws” and drag the guy off the bus, putting their hands all over him as he resists and screams. Watch this. You won’t believe it.

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

Politicians Use COVID-19 to Kill the Constitution

Is this novel coronavirus more dangerous than authoritarian government?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Ron Paul: Resistance Building to Coronavirus ‘House Arrest’ Orders… “It’s About Time!”

Resistance to the house arrest orders and pushback against the bans from making a living are finally surfacing in large numbers. Have people finally realized they are not slaves to be controlled by a few power-hungry politicians?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Ron Paul: Trump Should Fire Dr. Fauci; He Wants ‘To Have Total Control Over the People’

Former Congressman Ron Paul has called on President Trump to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the administration’s senior scientific advisor on the coronavirus task force.

Paul, who has regularly expressed his reservations over allowing the government to enforce a lockdown, says Fauci needs to be stopped before he is given “total control” over the American people.

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

San Francisco City Officials Don’t Want People Buying Guns During Pandemic

San Francisco only wants bad guys to own guns during a crisis.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sheriff: Hit-and-Run Suspect Found Tied to Telephone Pole at Scene of Alleged Crime

(CBS NEWS) Deputies say a man who struck a person with his vehicle and drove away was found hours later tied to a telephone pole at the scene of the crime.

The incident happened last Friday around 4:30 p.m in Valley Springs. The Calaveras County Sheriff’s office said 29-year-old Thomas Bechtold was arguing with 47-year-old James Leslie at the intersection of Nall Street and Westhill Road. Bechtold reportedly got into his vehicle and hit Leslie, knocking him unconscious. Bechtold then drove off from the scene.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Shocking Daylight Home Invasion During Virus Lockdown is Stopped by Chicago Homeowner Who Fatally Shoots One of the Masked Intruders Inside and Then Chases the Other to His Front Yard

A homeowner stopped an attempted break-in during coronavirus lockdown by fatally shooting one of the two intruders and beating the other.

Doorbell footage released by Illinois police shows Bradley Finnan, 38, and Larry Brodacz, 58, approaching a home in Arlington Heights in Chicago at around 1:55pm on Saturday afternoon, wearing masks, gloves, baseball caps and black jackets.

The pair allegedly said they were police officers, with video footage showing one intruder saying ‘Hey, how you doing boss?’ before they both barge inside the house which was occupied by Sebastian Maniscalco, 50, his wife, 48, and their two children aged 11 and 14 on April 4.

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

Syracuse Student Gov Candidates Resolve to Shut Down ‘White Supremacist’ Ben Shapiro Visit After Initially Agreeing

Editor’s note: The author of this article is involved with the Syracuse University College Republicans chapter, the group that sought to bring Ben Shapiro to campus.

The Syracuse University Student Association presidential ticket proposed a resolution “to condemn the appearance of a white supremacist” on campus in response to a budget request approved by the Student Finance Board to host conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro this fall.

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

Three Polls Show Majority of Americans Agree With Trump Calling Coronavirus ‘Chinese’

A majority of Americans in three different polls have expressed agreement with President Trump’s use of the term ‘the Chinese virus’ to describe the coronavirus strain now killing thousands of people per day in the US.

Three national surveys, carried out by Harris Poll discovered that over 50% of Americans somewhat or strongly agree with Trump’s use of the term.

The polls were all conducted in late March and early April, each showing 52%, 54% and 52% of Americans in agreement with the President.

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

Trump’s Job Approval Has Hit an All-Time High

President Trump’s job approval reached an all-time high this week, a sign that the American public is broadly pleased with his administration’s handling of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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

Video: Fake News Acosta Asks Trump if He Has ‘Investments in Hydroxychloroquine’

CNN’s fake news king Jim Acosta asked President Trump Wednesday if he had investments in the hydroxychloroquine drug, despite the fact that the claim has been proven completely false by several fact checkers.

‘No, I Don’t. Good Question’ the President deadpan replied as he walked out of the press briefing.

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

Woke Reporter Accuses Black Surgeon General of Racism

PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor accused U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who is black, of racism for employing terms commonly used in his own family during Thursday’s White House press briefing.

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

Police to Make Home Visits to Check Quarantine Compliance

Police in Canada will visit the homes of people under coronavirus quarantine to check they are in compliance, with those who flout the law facing a fine of up to $1 million dollars and three years in jail.

Under the law, Canadians who have returned from abroad or are at risk of having been infected with COVID-19 are mandated to remain at home for 14 days.

Police say they will visit the homes of those under quarantine and advise them of the “potential consequences of non-compliance,” adding that violators could face “significant penalties, including fines and imprisonment.”

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

50 Coronavirus Cases Confirmed Aboard France’s Only Aircraft Carrier

The French Ministry of Defence has announced that 50 personnel aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus as the vessel heads home to France.

At least three of the crew members have been airlifted from the carrier and taken to Portugal before being transported to a hospital in the city of Toulon. A team of two epidemiologists have also been sent to the aircraft carrier and are studying the spread of the virus on board.

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

Coronavirus Devastates Italy: Is it the Result of Globalism and Free Trade?

The devastating impact of the coronavirus on Italy has sparked considerable speculation as to why the country appears to have suffered so disproportionately from the disease…

Be that as it may, there is an interesting backstory developing in the Italian media about why Italy has been hit so hard by the “Chinese” virus in spite of the fact that it has been in lockdown for over one month. Italy’s ties with China, and with the city of Wuhan, where the virus may have originated, run deeper than with any other European country…

A little less than a year ago Italy became the first G-7 country in Europe to sign a memorandum of understanding formalizing its membership in the Chinese Belt and Road project, part of the Silk Road scheme to create a vast linked commercial network across Asia and into Europe. Two of the main hubs being developed for the project are Genoa and Trieste. The Italian government, confronted with a struggling economy, based the move on “commercial reasons” and “economic advantages,” to include the investment being offered by Beijing, but Rome paid a price for the move with intense criticism coming from both Washington and Brussels.

In less than a year, however, Italians have come to realize that a tight economic embrace with Beijing also has a downside. Italy’s trade gap with China has gone up, not down and much promised investment in new enterprises has failed to materialize. But even as the dust cleared, the results derived from opening the door to China were not pretty. By 2016, Chinese acquisitions had exceeded 52 billion EUROS, giving them ownership of more than 300 companies representing 27% of major Italian corporations.

The Bank of China now owns five major banks in Italy as well as the major telecommunication corporation (Telecom) and the two top energy utilities (ENI and ENEL). China also has controlling interest in Fiat-Chrysler and Pirelli.

More recently, Italian government views on China’s human rights record in Hong Kong have hardened and the country’s legislature has rejected overtures by the Chinese telecommunications conglomerate Huawei to have a major role in developing the country’s new 5G technology. One might observe, however, that the barn door is being closed after the horse has already escaped.

[Comment: The commie ploy of “Belt and Road” used so successfully in Africa to take over resources and wealth is now being used on Italy.]

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Czechia, Austria, And Denmark Don’t Wait for EU and Begin Easing Virus Restrictions

The Czech Republic, Austria, and Denmark are striking their own path and easing coronavirus restrictions despite European Union warnings for countries to cooperate with the EU, according to Czech news outlet Echo24.

On Wednesday, the EU is to present its plan on how to proceed with lifting coronavirus restrictions and returning to normal life. However, this has not stopped some countries, including the Czech Republic, from already announcing changes to specific rules.

Yet, in a March video conference with European leaders, the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned that if countries do not cooperate with the EU, they will “undermine the effectiveness of the tough measures” that the European Commission has adopted.

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Farage Warns Chinese Interests Lining Up for ‘Fire Sale’ Of UK Businesses

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned that Chinese interests are lining up to take advantage of the coronavirus crisis by buying “vast swathes of our strategic and manufacturing industries”.

“What is happening right now is that Chinese companies and Chinese money are lining up for what they expect to be a ‘fire sale’ of British businesses,” Mr Farage said during a Facebook live stream on Wednesday.

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Finland Latest Country to Receive Faulty Chinese Protective Equipment

The CEO of the Finnish Centre for Security of Supply has announced that the first order of respirators and medical equipment delivered from China does not pass European standards.

CEO Tomi Lounema stated that the medical equipment, which Finland received earlier this week, did not pass tests that would allow for it to be used in the country’s hospitals. The Ministry of Social Affairs stated the equipment could be used in other situations.

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France: Notre Dame Cathedral Holds Good Friday Ceremony Venerating the Crown of Thorns of Jesus Christ… Godless ABC News Calls it “A Wreath”

The “Crown of Thorns” worn by Jesus Christ during his death is now kept at Notre Dame Cathedral.

St. Louis first carried Jesus Christ’s Crown of Thorns into the Sainte-Chapelle for the first time in 1238.

On the First Friday of the month, the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, guardians of the relic at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, present the Crown of Thorns for adoration at the Cathedral of Notre Dame.

A year ago the famous Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was engulfed in flames.

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France: Macron Secretly Preparing a Speech on “The World After” The Coronavirus Crisis

While measures to combat the Wuhan COVID-19 virus continue to confine French citizens to their homes, President Emmanuel Macron is expected to soon deliver a so-called “founding speech” for the post-crisis world.

“He is quietly preparing a very big speech on the next world,” a government minister told the French newspaper Le Parisien.

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Germany Flies in Seasonal Farm Workers Amid Virus

BERLIN (AP) — Two planes carrying Eastern European farmhands arrived Thursday in Germany as an ambitious government program to import thousands of seasonal agricultural workers got underway amid strict precautions to protect both the laborers and the country from the new coronavirus.

The flights to Berlin and Duesseldorf were arranged to address a massive labor shortage created when Germany banned most foreign travelers from entering the country last month in response to the virus outbreak.

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Germany: Parents of AfD Lawmaker Attacked Again

Family members of an Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmaker in Leipzig were the victims of an arson attack on Thursday that’s believed to have been carried out by left-wing extremists.

Shortly before midnight on Thursday, police and firefighters were alerted to a car fire outside a home in the Connewitz district of Leipzig. Upon arriving at the scene, they found a Mercedes B-Class engulfed in flames.

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Italian PM Warns European Union Could Collapse Over Coronavirus

“It is in mutual interest that Europe is up to the challenge, otherwise we must absolutely abandon the European dream, and say that everyone should fend for themselves.”

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Italy: Coronavirus: 110 Have Died at Milan Care Home

Pio Albergo Trivulzio complex is at the centre of a probe

(ANSA) — Milan, April 9 — Some 110 elderly people have died at Milan’s prestigious Pio Albergo Trivulzio care home in March and April, union CISL said Thursday.

Just yesterday another 12 elderly died at the home, which is the subject of a probe into the high number of deaths.

CISL said some 70 elderly died there in march and another 40 in these first few days of April.

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Italy: Coronavirus: Romanian, Norwegian Medics Arrive in Lombardy

Health workers go to hospitals in Lecco and Seriate

(ANSA) — Milan, April 9 — Teams of health workers from Romania and Norway have arrived in Lombardy to help the coronavirus fight in two hospitals in Italy’s worst-hit region.

The 15-strong Romanian team includes 11 doctors and three nurses and will be stationed in Lecco north of Milan while the 19-strong Norwegian team including four doctors and 12 nurses will work at Seriate near Bergamo.

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Italy Extends COVID-19 Lockdown Until May 3

ROME — The Italian government has extended its national citizen lockdown for at least an additional three weeks, adding to concerns of an imploding economy and a growing number of people running out of funds for basic necessities.

In making the announcement via videoconferencing, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte noted that the rate of new positive cases of the coronavirus has slowed but not sufficiently to warrant the reopening of services or relaxing rules for leaving one’s home.

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Pope Francis: Pandemic Could be ‘Nature’s Revenge’ For Ignoring Climate Change

Perhaps topping all other kooky ‘more progressive than thou’ statements of the past years, Pope Francis this week said something that sounds like he’s been quoted in an Onion or Babylon Bee headline, as if he’s in competition for hyperbolic absurdity with Greta Thunberg.

[Comment: Francis is a graduate of the Liberation Theology Movement — which is communist indoctrination for Catholics.]

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Risk of EU Project Failing Says Conte

Biggest crisis since WWII PM tells BBC

(ANSA) — Rome, April 9 — There is a real risk of the EU project failing unless it agrees an economic response to the coronavirus crisis, Premier Giuseppe Conte told the BBC on Thursday.

“If we do not seize the opportunity of putting new life into the European project, the risk of failure is real,” he said, stressing that the union was facing its “biggest crisis since the Second World War”.

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Second UK Police Force Threatens to Check if Public Are Making “Non-Essential” Purchases

Downing Street has been forced to clarify that officers won’t be checking what people buy in supermarkets after yet another tweet by a police force that doesn’t understand the coronavirus lockdown laws.

The controversy began when Cambridge Police tweeted that they were monitoring “non-essential” supermarket aisles in a local branch of Tesco to make sure people weren’t purchasing frivolous items.

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Top EU Scientist Resigns; Slams Bloc’s COVID-19 Response

The European Union’s chief scientist has resigned from his position as the president of the European Research Council after slamming the bloc’s response to the Chinese COVID-19 pandemic.

After just beginning his four-year-term as the top scientist at Europe’s leading scientific institution this January, submitted his resignation to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday, saying he was “extremely disappointed by the European response to Covid-19,” the Financial Times reports.

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UK Police Force Threatens to Search Shopping Baskets to Catch ‘Lockdown’ Violators

Forced to backtrack after public backlash.

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UK: Coronavirus: Boris Johnson Taking Short Walks as Care Continues

Boris Johnson is taking short walks between periods of rest as part of the care he is receiving for coronavirus.

The prime minister has also thanked the team looking after him for the “incredible care” he has received, a Downing Street spokesman said.

Mr Johnson was taken to hospital on Sunday — 10 days after testing positive.

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UK: Kinder, Gentler Politics? Union Boss Who Would ‘Throw a Party’ If BoJo Died is Suspended

The British rail worker’s union has suspended their own Senior Assistant General Secretary over remarks on social media regarding the health of the Prime Minister, pending a former investigation.

While Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ongoing health battle with the coronavirus has caught national headlines and united many across the political spectrum in wishing him well, some took to social media to express different sentiments. One of those was Rail, Maritime, and Transport Union assistant chief Steve Hedley, who made his feelings perfectly clear when he said if Mr Johnson died, he’d throw a party.

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UK: Labour Councillors Celebrate and Deny Boris Johnson’s Coronavirus

Local politicians from Britain’s main left-wing party have said that the Prime Minister “completely deserves” to be hospitalised with COVID-19 and even claimed that the Conservative leader’s transfer to intensive care was “a publicity stunt.”

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UK: Police Officer Tells Family They Can’t be on Their Own Front Garden

A video shows a police officer in the United Kingdom telling a family that they can’t be outside on their own front garden in another example of the erroneous enforcement of draconian lockdown rules.

The clip of the incident, which occurred in Eastwood, Rotherham yesterday, features a female officer from South Yorkshire Police warning the man filming the encounter, Mr Connell, to “stay indoors because of Covid-19” and that “the virus does not stop on your front garden.”

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UK-U.S. Trade Talks Postponed Because of Coronavirus: Report

Negotiations for a free trade agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a British government source speaking to The Telegraph.

Insiders told the newspaper that a delegation of politicians and trade officials was supposed to fly out to Washington, D.C, for the week beginning March 23rd for negotiations set to take place over several days. However, the trip, led by international trade secretary Liz Truss, was cancelled due to the pandemic.

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Vatican Thanks China for ‘Solidarity’ in Donating Medical Supplies for Pandemic

ROME — The Vatican has issued a public statement thanking China for its solidarity with the Holy See shown in donations of medical supplies to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

“In recent days, donations of medical supplies have arrived from China to the Vatican Pharmacy,” reads a statement Thursday from Matteo Bruni, papal spokesman and director of the Holy See Press Office, “in particular through the organizations of the Red Cross Society of China and the Hebei Jinde Charities Foundation, as an expression of the solidarity of the Chinese people and Catholic communities with those involved in the relief of those affected by Covid-19 and the prevention of the current coronavirus epidemic.”

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Video: While Christians Stay Home for Easter, Mosques Defy Lockdowns in Greece

While Christian forgo gatherings for Easter — the most important holy day observed by followers of the faith — mosques in Greece continue to operate in defiance of lockdown measures.

Watch the video here.

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Watch: Doctors, Nurses Join Pope for Good Friday Way of the Cross Procession in Empty St. Peter’s Square

Nurses and doctors wearing their white hospital coats joined a torch-lit Good Friday procession in an almost empty St. Peter’s Square, as Pope Francis presided over the Way of the Cross ceremony which couldn’t be held this year at Rome’s Colosseum, as tradition holds, because of Italy’s lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic.

The participation of Vatican medical personnel provided a stark reminder of how the virus outbreak has infused almost all walks of life.

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Caroline Glick: Israel and Trump’s War on the Coronavirus

The presidency of Donald Trump has shaped coalition talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz. For weeks, the chief stumbling block holding up a unity government deal was Gantz’s attempt to delay or block Israeli implementation of Trump’s deal of the century which greenlights the implementation of Israeli law over parts of Judea and Samaria.

Gantz argued that there was no reason to rush ahead, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Israel should wait six months until the danger passes and then figure out how to proceed. Netanyahu rejected Gantz’s position. He insisted that Israel apply its laws to the Jordan Valley, the northern Dead Sea and the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria as soon as the joint U.S.-Israeli mapping committee completes its work and pass the law applying Israeli law to the areas by early July, at the latest.

Netanyahu, whose position carried the day, was right to view the issue as urgent. To understand just how urgent it has become, we need to consider Trump’s political challenges, seven months before the presidential election in November…

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ISIS Spreading Propaganda; Calls COVID-19 ‘Soldier of Allah’, Threatens to Attack Chicago and London

Though U.S. last year had claimed that ISIS had been defeated in totality in Syria, the extremist group is reportedly regrouping in the Middle East and Afghanistan already exploiting the current COVID-19.

ISIS and other extremist groups are expected to take advantage of the pandemic to stage a spate of attacks at a time security from almost every country is overstretched.

ISIS continue to spread propaganda posters terming COVID-19 ‘Soldier of Allah’. The posters are also calling on their jihadist to strike the city of Chicago and Tower Bridge in London when least expected. The propaganda poster, featuring an image of downtown Chicago, lays bare how ISIS intends to take advantage of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Muslim Cleric Who Asked Allah to Send Virus to Kill 500 Million Indians Now Says He Was Quoted Out of Context

“Recently I have got the news that mosques are being set on fire, mosques are being burnt for the last two days. I think something is going to happen within a month. May Allah accept our prayers. May Allah send such a terrible virus to India that ten to twenty to fifty crore people die in India. Am I saying something wrong? It is absolutely blissful.”

In what context would this statement be innocuous?

And how long are Muslim clerics and spokesmen going to claim they were quoted “out of context” every time they are caught saying something hateful and inciting to violence? How long will they continue to clain, every time an Infidel quotes one of the Qur’an’s hateful or violent passages, that it is being quoted out of context? As long as the Infidel political and media elites, so eager to be fooled on these issues, continue to let them get away with it without challenge.

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Pakistan Gets Chinese Underwear as N95 Masks

In a rather hilarious and an uncanny incident, China, the now ‘fair-weathered’ friend of Pakistan, had promised ‘top quality’ medical aid to Pakistan for fighting the deadly coronavirus infection has ended up sending N95 masks made out of underwear. China actually duped Pakistan as its ‘top quality’ aid failed to be of any help for Pakistan.

Reporting the news, the anchor of the Pakistani news channel said, “China ne chuna laga diya,” which in English means China actually conned us (Pakistan).

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‘Thank You India’: Trump Showers Praise on Modi for Hydroxychloroquine

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday showered praises on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian people on Twitter, his response to the Indian government easing restrictions on export of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine that he has said would be a game-changer in the battle against Covid-19 pandemic.

Trump’s tweet, which effusively thanked India for lifting the export restrictions on the drug, was the second occasion in 24 hours that he had applauded PM Modi for his decision. It was a sharp contrast to his interaction with reporters this week when Trump threatened “retaliation” if the restrictions weren’t lifted.

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Banned in China, Likely for “Offensive Content”

Animal Crossing: New Horizons appears to have been a hit, with several avid gamers eagerly awaiting to grab a copy of the game as it released and the game has had a viral buzz during the corona lockdowns.

Much like the rest of the world, the Chinese too wanted to get their hands on the copy and had been importing it through an online retailer. But based on the latest developments, it becomes clear that the game has been secretly banned in China.

The Chinese are often used to incidents such as these wherein games, movies, and other media are often unofficially banned in the country.

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Bill Gates Worships at the Altar of China

by Cliff Kincaid

Gates was on Fox News Sunday and CNBC, and writing for the Post, because money talks. He buys influence and advisers. For that reason, we also have to pay attention to him. He doesn’t mind his own business and concentrate on ways to improve software products. Instead, he makes our lives and business his business…

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Coronavirus Cases:

1,699,631

view by country

Deaths:

102,734

Recovered:

376,327

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HUGE EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Doctor Shi Zhengli Ran Coronavirus Research in Wuhan After US Project Was Shut Down by DHS in 2014 for Being Too Risky — PRIOR LEAK KILLED RESEARCHER

Chinese Doctor Shi Zhengli was part of a team that working on a coronavirus project jointly with US doctors in 2014 before it was shut down by the DHS for being too risky.

After the US research project was shut down, Dr. Shi continued her coronavirus research in Wuhan, China.

Doctor Shi Zhengli from China was part of a team, including Doctor Ralph S. Baric, that published an article in a 2015 edition of Nature Medicine.

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It Begins: Japan Pays Billions to Firms to Leave China, Relocate Production Elsewhere

Japan has earmarked hundreds of billions of yen of its coronavirus stimulus relief to go toward helping its manufacturing companies move their production plants out of communist China and back to Japan or to other countries.

“The extra budget, compiled to try to offset the devastating effects of the pandemic, includes 220 billion yen (US$2 billion) for companies shifting production back to Japan and 23.5 billion yen for those seeking to move production to other countries, according to details of the plan posted online,” Bloomberg News reported. “That has renewed talk of Japanese firms reducing their reliance on China as a manufacturing base. The government’s panel on future investment last month discussed the need for manufacturing of high-added value products to be shifted back to Japan, and for production of other goods to be diversified across Southeast Asia.”

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On YouTube, Edgy Jokes Are Banned But the Torture and Eating of Live Animals is Thriving

YouTube has already been ruined after cracking down on anything even remotely controversial on the platform. But one thing that appears to be allowed on the platform is the botched slaughter and eating of live animals in distress.

The South Korean ASMR YouTuber known as Ssoyoung is facing backlash due to a video where she is seen ingesting a live octopus, with viewers accusing her of animal abuse.

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Report: China’s Coronavirus Data Off by Millions of Cases

A report published by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) this week denounced China’s official coronavirus statistics as mathematically improbable and estimated the true number of infections from the epidemic in China was about 2.9 million, over a hundred times the total of 81,907 infections claimed by Beijing as of Friday.

“Population size makes it almost certain that China’s disinformation about what happened outside the original outbreak city of Wuhan is worse than the disinformation about what happened inside,” the AEI report contended.

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Scientific Journal Nature Bends the Knee, Apologizes for Associating Coronavirus With China and Wuhan

Naming viruses based on geographic locations has been a common practice for years with viruses such as the Ebola virus and the Zika virus both following this trend.

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Australia Stayed Ahead of Pandemic by Ignoring ‘Politicised’ Who on China Travel Ban

Members of Australia’s governing coalition have given tacit backing to U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to defund the World Health Organization (WHO), saying their country’s own situation would be a lot worse if they had not ignored the “politicised” UN agency’s advice to allow travel from China in the pandemic’s early stages.

Australia, like the United States, moved relatively quickly to ban travel from China — despite its heavy dependence on trade with the communist dictatorship — regardless of WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu claiming such bans would “unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade” and should not be implemented.

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Cowboy Hat-Clad Man Accused of Carrying Out a Racist Tirade Outside a Chinese Consulate While Cracking a Whip and Telling Visitors They Were Spreading COVID-19

Raimond Kelly, 55, allegedly hurled abuse and threatened bystanders outside the Chinese consulate at Camperdown in Sydney’s inner-west on March 31.

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New Species Discovered During Exploration of Abyssal Deep Sea Canyons Off Ningaloo

An estimated 150-foot siphonophore— seemingly the longest animal ever recorded was discovered during a month-long scientific expedition exploring the submarine canyons near Ningaloo. Additionally, up to 30 new underwater species were made by researchers from the Western Australian Museum aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor.

The discovery of the massive gelatinous string siphonophore—a floating colony of tiny individual zooids that clone themselves thousands of times into specialized bodies that string together to work as a team—was just one of the unique finds among some of the deepest fish and marine invertebrates ever recorded for Western Australia.

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2nd Locust Swarm Threatens Africa With Starvation, Desolation

Africa is facing the prospect of yet a second locust swarm in as many months, one which threatens an agricultural system already weakened by billions of the voracious insects from earlier this year.

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4 Christians, Including 10-Year-Old Boy, Killed by Terrorists in Nigeria

Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria executed four Christians this week in an attack a local pastor called “condemnable.” The victims included a pastor and a 10-year-old boy.

The murders took place in Plateau, a state in the central part of the country. The evangelical pastor, Matthew Tagwai, was killed inside his home. Three other victims were also killed in their own residences.

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Chicago Police, Lightfoot Defend Decision Not to Cooperate With ICE After DHS Says Man Accused in McDonald’s Child Sex Assault Was Previously Deported

CHICAGO (WLS) — The man accused of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl inside a bathroom of McDonald’s flagship restaurant in River North had previously been deported, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said. Chicago officials responded Friday, standing by their decision not to cooperate with ICE on immigration-related business.

Christopher Puente, 34, of Chicago, is currently being held without bail after being charged with predatory criminal sexual assault in connection with an alleged attack on a child in the former Rock N Roll McDonald’s on Clark Street earlier this month.

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EU Court of Justice Rules Poland, Hungary, & Czech Republic Broke EU Law

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic broke EU law when they refused to take in migrants under the European Union’s September 2015 relocation agreement. During the 2015 migrant crisis, EU leaders agreed to relocate 160,000 migrants and refugees EU-wide, assigning each EU member state a fixed quota from the camps in Italy and Greece, where migrants and refugees were arriving in record numbers. However, the Czech Republic accepted only 12 of the 2,000 refugees assigned it, while Hungary and Poland took in none…

The ruling effectively removes the sovereignty of EU member states to make their own decisions regarding the keeping of public law, order and national security in the case of EU migration policies, if those decisions conflict with EU obligations. The ruling does so by setting up criteria that are impossible to meet. A “case-by-case investigation, on consistent, objective and specific evidence that provides grounds for suspecting that the applicant in question represents an actual or potential danger” is unworkable today for the following reasons:…

How national authorities are supposed to distinguish between actual “war refugees” and terrorists impersonating war refugees is not suggested by the Court, which appears curiously uninterested in dealing with the reality of migration.

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Failed Asylum Seeker Watched Pornography Immediately After Killing German Woman

An Algerian failed asylum seeker is said to have watched pornography on his phone after killing a German mother of three in a pub toilet in Hamburg.

Nasr El Dbin B. was sentenced to eight years in prison this week after being convicted of manslaughter for the killing of 36-year-old Joselin H. after having sex with her in the ladies toilet at the “Katys Hütte” bar.

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Malta Closes Its Ports to Migrants

Malta has informed the European Union that it is closing all of its ports to illegal migrants as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The Armed Forces of Malta rescued a boat carrying approximately 60 migrants on Thursday that was in the Maltese SAR (Search and Rescue) Zone. The boat had already been refused permission to dock in Italy and had been monitored for some time before the decision was made to accept them. The Maltese authorities said that the group would be allowed to disembark, but would be held in detention, according to a report by Malta Today.

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Video: Greek Armed Forces Defend Against Invasion

he Hellenic (Greek) National Defense General Staff (GEETHA), the senior staff of the Hellenic Armed Forces, published a video on Wednesday which depicts the events that led up to the last month’s crisis at the Greek-Turkish border.

Watch the video here.

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Eugenics, Dr. Fauci and Coronavirus

by Ron Edwards

Unfortunately, Democrats have been politically in league with those ranging from Eugenicist Margaret Sanger to according to some sources, fellow Eugenicist, Dr. Anthony Fauci: Globalist snake oil salesman. He has been working with Welcome Trust & the Pilbright Institute (UK) Coronavirus Patent holder…

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Hoaxed, Number One Documentary on iTunes Right Now, Suspiciously Censored From Amazon Prime

Mike Cernovich’s documentary “Hoaxed,” which extensively discussed media manipulation, has suddenly been removed from Amazon Prime Video without Amazon giving a reason.

The Hoaxed documentary deconstructs America’s “post-fact media landscape with a creative insider’s look at the Fake News phenomenon and the consequences of media misinformation,” and features interviews with those who have found themselves slandered by the mainstream media.

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YouTube CEO Promises Crackdown on “Controversial Content”

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has given an update on the platform’s approach to finding and removing what she deems to be “controversial content” and how it will “tighten up” up the policies that surround it.

Wojcicki made the comments during an interview with NBC reporter Dylan Byers when asked whether she worries that content moderation will be a “forever problem” for YouTube.

Wojcicki told Byers that YouTube has brought a “very clear” social benefit but added that it will continue scrubbing controversial content from the platform.

“We’re working really hard to find it and remove it,” Wojcicki said. “And always, again, like, tighten up those policies.”

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16 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/10/2020

  1. “Japan is using a substantial portion of its coronavirus stimulus money to pay manufacturing firms to move their production facilities out of China.”

    So it begins. I predict that China is going to go through a rather trying time as it gets reverted back to an agrarian society.

    The Great Leap backwards.

    How sad.

    • NO, China will bribe or extort some members of our Chamber of Commerce, the engine that moved so many businesses from the USA to Red China from the Days of Billy Clinton.

      If the USA was serious about Peking’s biological ravaging, it would de-incorporate any American entity with investments/ capital projects inside China. Our Marxist Democrats will NEVER allow THAT!

      • You are right. They “own” too many politicians across the world. They even own politicians in Australia. Chinese pay for them to go on free first class trips to China where they are treated like royalty. They’ll do and say anything in return. Biden has been paid for.

  2. How much longer can Xi be the maximum leader?

    His actions have alienated all neighbors but Mongolia. The Belt and Road is collapsing in a morass of debt. All that expansion in the South China Sea is expensive. And now the logistic chains are leaving. If he slows down construction, even the big multinational chemical companies will consider building outside China. Because the markets are elsewhere.

    Chinese subjects are most unhappy, but that is a minor concern. It’s not like the Chinese government like their subjects.

    • Most Chinese in South East Asia and in other parts of the world make use of China just as their big China make use of them for their brutal Asiatic economic expansion. But those Chinese migrants always expect the West to save them even though most of them are known to hate the West.
      And the way those chinese migrants continue to mislead us even as they became Christians, Moslem, etc.

  3. I envy the Japanese. At least their government has learned a little bit from this episode. I hope that they continue to do so and that external forces do not force them to abandon such actions.
    And if such external forces apply pressure on them that the japanese government stays strong.
    Does anybody know if the japanese have an equivalent of James Bond 007? To counteract such pressure groups.

  4. Turkmenistan resumes football matches amid pandemic
    Turkmenistan plans to resume the football season on April 19 and allow fans to attend matches, despite the global coronavirus pandemic.

    On March 24, the Central Asian football league suspended the season due to an outbreak.

    In Turkmenistan, a tightly controlled authoritarian country, no cases of coronavirus infection have been officially reported. In recent days, a number of mass sporting events have been held here.

    Turkmenistan is among a handful of countries including Belarus, Tajikistan, Nicaragua and Burundi that continue to host football matches during the pandemic.

    https://rus.ozodi.org/a/30547699.html

  5. And in our country, it seems, the “Italian scenario” has begun in Moscow and the metropolitan area. Where is Putin with his magical military doctors?

    The operation headquarters commented on the huge line of ambulances in Khimki

    Coronavirus control headquarters reported that in Khimki near Moscow it was indeed possible to observe a large queue of ambulances lined up along the way to the FMBA clinical center.

    It is reported that the cause of the congestion was the increase in the number of people infected with coronavirus, and therefore the load on all hospitals and ambulances in the capital increased.

    https://www.mk.ru/moscow/2020/04/11/opershtab-prokommentiroval-ogromnuyu-ochered-iz-skorykh-v-khimkakh.html

  6. Abuse is such a so and so. The Muslims, Chinese, and other primitives have discovered that the more severely you lie, cheat, steal and beat up on the nude liberal West the more IT it hands over, rolls over and shaggs for free. Could this be the beginnings of a German experience?

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