Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/17/2020

Switzerland, Texas, and Jacksonville, Florida have all decided to begin easing their coronavirus restrictions. Meanwhile, Austrian mosques will remain closed, despite the start of Ramadan. Also, Russia’s number of coronavirus cases increased by more than 4,000 in a single day.

In other news, Germany will take in 50 underage migrants this weekend from the Greek camps.

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Thanks to Caroline Glick, Insubria, JD, Reader from Chicago, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Poland to Go Into Recession for the First Time Since 1992
 
USA
» 50 Militarized Cops Destroy Family’s Home Looking for Unarmed Homeless Man Who Stole ICE Cream
» ‘Arctic April’ Grips North America Breaking Hundreds of Cold Records
» Daisy Ridley Blames ‘Social Media’ For Poor ‘Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker’ Reception
» Dr Fauci Okays Tinder Hookups
» Dr. Anthony Fauci Plotted ‘Global Vaccine Action Plan’ With Bill Gates Before Pushing COVID Panic and Doubts About Hydroxychloroquine Treatments
» Eric Holder: Coronavirus is ‘An Opportunity’ To Permanently Change US Voting System
» Exposed: Lies, Corruption, & Pay to Keep the Public in a Fear-Induced Panic for Ultimate Control
» Facebook Shuts Down New Jersey Lockdown Protest Page
» Florida Man Friday: Burning Down the House
» Google Blocks Church’s App for Mentioning Coronavirus
» GOP Mocks “Nancy Antoinette” Pelosi’s Quarantine Stash of Expensive ICE Cream in a Very Expensive Freezer
» Gov. Whitmer Threatens Michigan Protesters With Lockdown Extension
» Jacksonville, FL Will Reopen Beaches, Parks on Friday
» Judge Denies New Trial for Roger Stone
» Lies & Data Manipulation: NYC Adds 3,700 Who Never Tested Positive to COVID-19 Death Toll
» Massive Gun Control Bill Filed in DC
» Mendocino County, California, Bans Church Singing Over Livestream
» Michael Cohen to be Released From Prison Due to Coronavirus Concerns
» NYC Nurse Who Beat COVID-19 Beaten, Robbed on Way to Work by Group of Thugs, Saved by Good Samaritans
» Passport to the Brave New World: The Vaccine
» Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Announces Team to Restart the Economy, Loosens Some Restrictions
» Tom Fitton: Our Liberties Are Being Suppressed, Economy is Being Destroyed Over #Coronavirus
» Trump Knows Starvation is Not an Option for America
» Trump: Data Suggests U.S. ‘Passed the Peak’ of Coronavirus Outbreak; NY Padding Death Toll
» Trump Tweets “Liberate Minnesota, “ “Liberate Michigan, “ “Liberate Virginia”
» Twitter Bans Prominent Conservative User Over Gag Joe Biden Campaign Banner
 
Canada
» CBC Instructs Kids on How to Shut Down Their Parents’ “Conspiracy Theories”
 
Europe and the EU
» Austrian Mosques to Remain Closed Despite Start of Ramadan
» Coronavirus: International Flights Continue to Bring 100,000 Unchecked Travellers a Week to Britain
» Danish Church Defaced With Arabic Graffiti Saying “We Conquer Denmark”
» Finland: Study Shows Values Are More Important Than Economic Class in Political Attitudes
» French Police Search for Man Who Threw 11 Molotov Cocktails at Officer’s Vehicles
» Italy: Judge Takes Nurse’s Children Away After Ex-Partner Claimed Coronavirus Risk
» Poland’s De Facto Ruler Gets Mask With Cat on It
» Swiss Government Announces Plans to Ease Lockdown
» UK: Boris Would Say ‘No’ To Extension if EU Asks, Spox Says as IMF Calls for Delay
» UK: Farage Brands Govt’s High Speed Rail Spending Spree ‘Sheer Madness’
» UK: Farage Says Trump is Right on Who, Calls for Boycott of Chinese Products
» ‘We Miss You Nigel!’ Italian MEP Reveals Why EU Needs Farage During Coronavirus Crisis
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Caroline Glick: Pandemics, Palestinian Incitement and Peace
 
Middle East
» Coronavirus: Official Middle East Data Rule Out Catastrophe
» Coronavirus: Turkey Bans Layoffs for Three Months
 
Russia
» Putin Postpones World War II Victory Parade Due to Virus
» Russia’s Coronavirus Cases Surge by Over 4,000 in 6th Consecutive One-Day Record
 
South Asia
» India: Muslims Discharged From Chennai Hospital Make Islamic Gesture Popularised by ISIS While Posing for Photos: Here is What it Means
» India: Here Are 15 Incidents in the Past Two Weeks Where Muslim Mobs Attacked Health Workers and Police Personnel Trying to Control Coronavirus Spread
» India: Uttar Pradesh: Team Carrying Coronavirus Suspects to Quarantine Attacked by Mob in Moradabad, Doctors and Others Injured
» New Species of Venomous Snake Discovered in Arunachal Pradesh
 
Far East
» China’s Apprehended Coronavirus Whistleblowers Are Still Silent
» China Denies ‘Cover-Up’ After Wuhan COVID-19 Deaths Rise 50%
» CNN Heavily Revises Article Called Out for Looking Suspiciously Like Chinese News Release
» COVID-19 is a Man-Made Virus: HIV-Discoverer Says “Could Only Have Been Created in a Lab”
» Facebook ‘Fact Checker’ Worked at Wuhan Biolab; Ruled Out Virus-Leak While ‘Debunking’ Articles
» Facebook to Issue ‘Warnings’ To Users Who Have Liked or Clicked on ‘Coronavirus Misinformation’
» Main Stream Media Finally Admits COVID-19 Probably Came From Wuhan Bioweapon Lab
» New Evidence CV is an Escaped Experiment; U.S. Funded Wuhan Lab $3.7m Studying Bats, Safety Warnings
» Over 100,000 Coronavirus Test Swabs From China Contaminated With Mould
» Report: More Evidence Emerges Pointing to Wuhan Biolab as Ground Zero
» Taiwan Had Warned Who About the Severity of Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak: Here is the Email Who Ignored
» US Officials Confirm Full-Scale Investigation of Whether Coronavirus Escaped From Wuhan Lab
» Vatican Thanks China But Not Taiwan for Donated Medical Supplies
» World War 3? US Accuses China of Testing Secret NUKES
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Chadian Troops ‘Kill 1,000 Boko Haram Fighters’
» Seven Nigerian Christians Burnt to Death Among 19 Dead as Fulani Militants Attack During COVID-19 Lockdown
 
Latin America
» Mexican Drug Cartels Distribute Coronavirus Aid Packages
 
Immigration
» France: Afghan Migrant Who Attacked Police Shot Dead
» Frontex: Illegal Border Crossings in EU Up 26% Year-on-Year
» Germany: Three Teenage Migrants Convicted of Gang Rape
» Germany: Migrants From Greece Aren’t Mostly Little Girls, Contrary to Government’s Claims
» Germany Takes 50 Asylum Minors From Greece
» Italy Evacuates 3 Migrants From Ship for Medical Reasons
» Man, 42, Is Charged Over Plot to Smuggle Immigrants Into UK After Bodies of 39 Vietnamese Migrants Were Found in a Lorry
» UK: Border Force Officers Fit Face Masks on Migrants After Stopping Another 20 Trying to Reach Kent Taking the Total This Year to 802 — Four Times the Number for the Same Period Last Year
 
Culture Wars
» Lawsuit: U. of North Texas Prof Fired for Saying ‘Microaggressions’ Are ‘Garbage’
» Lesbian YouTuber Condemns Transgender Athletes Mocking True Women Competitors
» Planned Parenthood Charged Biospecimen Company $25k for Unborn Baby Parts, Blood Samples, Unsealed Documents Show
 

Poland to Go Into Recession for the First Time Since 1992

Poland has long been a positive economic outlier in Europe, having enjoyed continuous economic growth since 1992. This trend remained unbroken even after the 2008 economic crisis that crippled most of the rest of the world. But now that streak seems to have ended, thanks to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released its latest World Economic Outlook report, and it predicts that Poland’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will drop by 4.6% this year. By contrast, in October the IMF had predicted that Poland’s GDP would rise by 3.1% this year.

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

50 Militarized Cops Destroy Family’s Home Looking for Unarmed Homeless Man Who Stole ICE Cream

As TFTP previously reported, a married couple claimed Fresno sheriff’s officers destroyed their house by using it as a training ground for a teargas-wielding SWAT team, 50 vehicles, two helicopters, a K-9 unit and a fire truck — because an unarmed homeless man had been found in their closet. Now, after attempting to seek compensation for their incredible loss for over 3 years, the Jessens were told this month that they can kick rocks, the government who destroyed their home, owes them jack squat.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Arctic April’ Grips North America Breaking Hundreds of Cold Records

Record cold and snowfall hit many parts of North America over the Easter weekend, continuing what has so far been a largely Arctic April.

Records were toppled across many U.S. states, with Montana, Iowa, South Dakota, and Colorado seemingly worst hit.

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

Daisy Ridley Blames ‘Social Media’ For Poor ‘Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker’ Reception

“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” star Daisy Ridley is lamenting the poor critical and fan reception to the film, the third in her starring trilogy.

“It’s changed film by film honestly, like 98% it’s so amazing, this last film it was really tricky,” Ridley explained of her process understanding the criticism of the film, speaking to Entertainment Weekly. “January was not that nice. It was weird, I felt like all of this love that we’d sort of been shown the first time around, I was like, ‘Where’s the love gone?’“

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

Dr Fauci Okays Tinder Hookups

Dr. Fauci okays Tinder hookups. He says it’s your personal choice. The guy has been lobbying Trump to close down everything and turn us into a nation of paupers, but hey, if you want to have sex with a complete stranger, if “you’re willing to take a risk,” go for it.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Dr. Anthony Fauci Plotted ‘Global Vaccine Action Plan’ With Bill Gates Before Pushing COVID Panic and Doubts About Hydroxychloroquine Treatments

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has become a beloved doom prophet fomenting mass hysteria among the American public amidst the coronavirus pandemic, once worked with technocratic oligarch Bill Gates on his “Global Vaccine Action Plan.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Eric Holder: Coronavirus is ‘An Opportunity’ To Permanently Change US Voting System

Former President Barack Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged that he sees the coronavirus as “an opportunity” to change the way U.S. citizens vote forever.

[Comment: Commies seeking a better way to commit election fraud — one that ensures they will always “win” elections.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Exposed: Lies, Corruption, & Pay to Keep the Public in a Fear-Induced Panic for Ultimate Control

The ruling class and elitists of the planet are lying to our faces! Even by their own numbers, this COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t qualify for the massive response. Hospitals have now exposed that the government is paying them more to put patients on ventilators, whether they need it or not.

This has become a controlling scam-demic. Anyone with the smallest ability to read even mainstream media’s reports of the statistics should have known that the powers that shouldn’t be are trying their hardest to induce fear to take ultimate control over our lives. Several doctors have spoken up about how the government demanded they bump up the number of deaths by mislabeling death certificates, and more continue to speak out.

BOMBSHELL: MN Senator Reveals HHS “Coaching Document” On How To OVERCOUNT Coronavirus Cases

Another COVID-19 Whistleblower: A Montana Dr. Says Government Is Drastically Overstating Deaths

Dr. Scott Jensen was one of the first to speak out. In addition to saying the government is encouraging hospitals to record all deaths as COVID-19 deaths, he says they are also paying hospitals to overexaggerate the entire outbreak.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Facebook Shuts Down New Jersey Lockdown Protest Page

Facebook on Thursday shut down the event page of a planned New Jersey lockdown protest, claiming that the demonstration qualified as “coordinating harm and promoting crime.”

The rally, called “Open New Jersey,” was scheduled to take place on April 28 in Trenton. Residents were urged to show up and protest the state’s lockdown order, which the governor this week said could last until “June or July.”

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

Florida Man Friday: Burning Down the House

There are certain things in life you can always depend upon to give you a sense of wellbeing, no matter what else may be going on in your life or the world around you. For example, the way a sunny April afternoon puts an extra spring in your step. The smell of coffee starting to brew as you laze in bed on a Saturday morning. That first sip of brandy after a well-prepared dinner. The last sip, too, for that matter.

And of course, rounding out your workweek with…

Florida Man Friday!

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

Google Blocks Church’s App for Mentioning Coronavirus

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, tech giants such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter are becoming increasingly vigilant and censoring any content related to coronavirus posted on their platforms.

Unlike human moderators, bots cannot differentiate between what is an absolute violation and what might not be one. As a result, they end up censoring all the content that fits their expansive view of a violation and that simply escalates to become censorship.

Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, is one such victim of undue censorship as Google suspended its app from the Play Store for uploading videos of Bible lessons and guidance for dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

GOP Mocks “Nancy Antoinette” Pelosi’s Quarantine Stash of Expensive ICE Cream in a Very Expensive Freezer

As this clip from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s interview on CBS’s “Late, Late Show” began to circulate around the internet on Tuesday, the Trump campaign rapid response director Steve Guest pointed out that she is “eating $13 dollar a pint ice cream out of her $24,000 fridge.”

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

Gov. Whitmer Threatens Michigan Protesters With Lockdown Extension

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday issued a stern threat to residents of her state, claiming that the mass protest activists organized in the state capitol this week could result in her extending her severe stay-at-home order for even longer.

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

Jacksonville, FL Will Reopen Beaches, Parks on Friday

The city of Jacksonville, Florida will reopen its parks and beaches this week, a sign public officials believe the coronavirus outbreak may be subsiding in that state.

Public accommodations will still only be open for “essential” activities, though under Gov. Ron DeSantis’ order, that includes running, walking, fishing, and swimming. Residents are still urged to obey “social distancing” guidelines when utilizing the public spaces.

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

Judge Denies New Trial for Roger Stone

WASHINGTON — The federal judge overseeing the trial of longtimeTrump associate Roger Stone on Thursday denied his motion for a new trial, which was based on a claim of juror bias.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Stone’s lawyers failed to demonstrate that a woman selected as a juror was biased against President Donald Trump, that she failed to disclose those views during jury selection and that she should not have been allowed to serve.

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

Lies & Data Manipulation: NYC Adds 3,700 Who Never Tested Positive to COVID-19 Death Toll

The lies will continue as long as the elites know we’ll sit in our homes panicked and afraid. New York City has actually added almost 4,000 people to the coronavirus death toll even though those people never tested positive for the virus!

The entire pandemic is being manipulated. We are being lied to and we’re allowing them to control us because of it. We already know the government has asked all death certificates to read as COVID-19 deaths regardless of the actual cause of death, thanks to doctors who have stood up to the tyrannical lockdowns forced upon us all.

The city decided to add 3,700 people to its death tolls, who they “presumed” to have died from the virus, according to a report from The New York Times. The additions increased the death toll in the United States by 17%, according to the Times report, and included people who were suffering from symptoms of the virus, such as intense coughing and a fever. This follows the fear-mongering the government has asked all to participate in:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Massive Gun Control Bill Filed in DC

While America is on lockdown across the country, radical socialists in Washington, D.C. are working overtime to advance the biggest gun control bill in American history!

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Mendocino County, California, Bans Church Singing Over Livestream

Mendocino County, Northern California, has prohibited since April 10 any artistic expression that involves singing or the use of wind instruments in church services online, with the alleged intention of preventing the COVID-19 spread.

The precautions that have been applied to prevent the coronavirus spread are very varied. Although there are general regulations, each area decides to face the disease in its own way.

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

Michael Cohen to be Released From Prison Due to Coronavirus Concerns

President Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, is scheduled to be released from prison early due to the coronavirus pandemic, a source close to the case told Fox News Thursday.

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

NYC Nurse Who Beat COVID-19 Beaten, Robbed on Way to Work by Group of Thugs, Saved by Good Samaritans

A New York City nurse who recently recovered from COVID-19 was beaten and robbed on her way to work by a group of young thugs, police and the victim told the New York Post.

Martha Toscano, 60, was on her way to work at Bellevue Hospital around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday when a group of 15 people chased her down and beat her to the ground.

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

Passport to the Brave New World: The Vaccine

I have already written about the currency reset and other features of a technocratic future waiting in the wings.

  • New levels of visible surveillance, social credit scores, universal guaranteed income, Internet of Things, energy-use quotas, smart cities.
  • Events can move in several directions, going forward. In this article, I explore one of those directions.

The occasion is this fake pandemic; the big hammer is the vaccine against the phony COVID.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Announces Team to Restart the Economy, Loosens Some Restrictions

Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday announced initial steps to reopen the Texas economy during the coronavirus pandemic, including those that in the next week will loosen surgery restrictions at medical facilities, allow all retail stores to provide product pickups and reopen state parks.

Abbott also named a “statewide strike force” devoted to getting the economy going again. Austin banker James Huffines will chair the task force, and veteran lobbyist Mike Toomey will lead its staff. The group will oversee what Abbott described as a phased reopening, starting Friday with additional announcements set for April 27 and sometime in May.

At the same time, Abbott announced all Texas schools will stay closed through the rest of the academic year. He previously shuttered them until May 4.

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

Tom Fitton: Our Liberties Are Being Suppressed, Economy is Being Destroyed Over #Coronavirus

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton appeared on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on the Fox Business Network to discuss the #coronavirus pandemic and “vote-by-mail.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Knows Starvation is Not an Option for America

With food shortages looming, President Trump is moving to reopen the U.S. economy. This has to be done, and anybody who wants America to survive as a superpower, rather than a banana republic, knows it.

Trump realizes that if the advice of the health “experts” is followed to its logical conclusion, bananas won’t even be available on our dinner tables. The “experts” want to eradicate a disease even if it means eradicating the people who might get it. That is unacceptable. America can do better.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump: Data Suggests U.S. ‘Passed the Peak’ of Coronavirus Outbreak; NY Padding Death Toll

President Trump on Wednesday said data suggests the US has “passed the peak” of the coronavirus outbreak and accused New York of padding its numbers by adding over 3,700 presumed victims to their coronavirus death toll in one day.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Tweets “Liberate Minnesota, “ “Liberate Michigan, “ “Liberate Virginia”

President Trump on Friday morning tweeted out a series of politically charged rallying cries, calling for the “liberation” of citizens of Michigan, Minnesota, and Virginia — presumably from the coronavirus lockdowns that each state’s governor has imposed.

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

Twitter Bans Prominent Conservative User Over Gag Joe Biden Campaign Banner

Twitter on Thursday suspended the account of a popular conservative commentator after the user shared a joke campaign flyer that made it seem as if Chinese Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping had endorsed Democratic candidate Joe Biden.

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

CBC Instructs Kids on How to Shut Down Their Parents’ “Conspiracy Theories”

A CBC News report gives kids advice on how to shut down “conspiracy theories” voiced by their parents about coronavirus being created by China in a lab.

Because apparently that’s the media’s job now.

The presenter laments how somebody’s Dad may drop a message into chat blaming China for “manufacturing the coronavirus” with a “link to a site you’ve never heard of” (translation — a link that’s not, God forbid, mainstream media).

The piece then features a woman from a group that combats “misinformation online” who urges the son or daughter not to get confrontational with their Dad but to accuse him of being accurate and stirring fear.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Austrian Mosques to Remain Closed Despite Start of Ramadan

Mosques across Austria will remain closed until April 30th, despite the Islamic holy month of Ramadan starting a week before the lockdown is due to be lifted.

The Austrian Islamic Community (IGGÖ) said it would continue to respect the government’s lockdown measures, with the association’s president Ümit Vural urging Austria’s Muslims to celebrate the start of Ramadan at home by turning their homes into mosques.

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

Coronavirus: International Flights Continue to Bring 100,000 Unchecked Travellers a Week to Britain

Despite introducing severe lockdown on its own residents, the UK government has not enacted any incoming travel restrictions, leaving over 100,000 arrivals a week free to enter the country unscreened, the health secretary revealed.

Asked by UK television host — and self-proclaimed “friend” of U.S. President Donald Trump — Piers Morgan on how many people were being tested for coronavirus as they stepped off international flights arriving in the nation’s airports, health secretary Matt Hancock revealed there was no routine testing at Britain’s air borders going on at all.

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

Danish Church Defaced With Arabic Graffiti Saying “We Conquer Denmark”

Danish Christians are stunned after a church was defaced with Arabic graffiti over Easter weekend.

On Easter Sunday, the holiest day for Christians around the world, the Vejleå Church in Ishøj, Denmark was vandalized with Arabic phrases which say: “We conquer Denmark. There is no God but Allah,” Danish news portal Den Korte Avis reports.

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

Finland: Study Shows Values Are More Important Than Economic Class in Political Attitudes

A new study that was carried out by Rasmus Mannerström, a researcher at Helsinki University, found that an individual’s values are more important in determining one’s political attitudes than economic class.

It has long been assumed that those at the lower end of the economic scale tend to be more Right-wing on issues like immigration, and vice-versa. But Mannerström’s study — “Well-off, Healthy, and Intolerant: Political Ideologies of Young Finnish People in Relation to Attitude Profiles” — suggests that today, this dichotomy is not so clear-cut.

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

French Police Search for Man Who Threw 11 Molotov Cocktails at Officer’s Vehicles

French police in the commune of Colombes are on the hunt for a man who threw 11 Molotov cocktails at their vehicles over Easter weekend, allegedly over the national coronavirus lockdown measures.

The attacks took place at around 4:30 am on Sunday along the rue de la Liberté where both the town hall and the police station are located, and where cars belonging police and municipal employees are usually parked.

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

Italy: Judge Takes Nurse’s Children Away After Ex-Partner Claimed Coronavirus Risk

An Italian nurse has launched an appeal after a judge ordered her children to stay with their father on grounds she was putting them at risk of catching the Wuhan coronavirus.

The 39-year-old woman, who works at a hospital in Anzio near Rome, was told that despite the fact she does not work with coronavirus patients herself, her children would be placed in the care of their father from whom she separated in 2017.

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

Poland’s De Facto Ruler Gets Mask With Cat on It

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the powerful chairman of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party, got an anti-virus face-mask with a cat on it as a gift from parliament deputy speaker Malgorzata Gosiewska Thursday. He received it during a debate on a proposed abortion ban on deformed foetuses. Kaczynski, a 70-year old bachelor, adores cats. Amid the levity inside, protesters outside stood in long lines, each separated by two metres, due to social-distancing.

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

Swiss Government Announces Plans to Ease Lockdown

The Swiss government has announced that it will begin lifting lockdown measures that have been imposed to stem the spread of the Chinese COVID-19 virus.

Government officials announced earlier this week their plan to begin reopening the country’s economy April 27th. If new virus infections continue to abate, lockdown measures will be eased in three stages, with businesses like hairdressers, massage practices, tattoo shops, and garden centers to receive the first go-ahead to reopen, SwissInfo reports.

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

UK: Boris Would Say ‘No’ To Extension if EU Asks, Spox Says as IMF Calls for Delay

Boris Johnson would say “no” to an extension to the transition period if the European Union asks for one, the prime minister’s spokesman said after the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) called for a delay.

On Wednesday, the government announced that London and Brussels had agreed on a timetable to continue trade negotiations in a virtual setting, due to the coronavirus pandemic putting Europe into lockdown.

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

UK: Farage Brands Govt’s High Speed Rail Spending Spree ‘Sheer Madness’

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has criticised the government’s plans to proceed with the costly High Speed 2 (HS2) rail link despite the UK facing “the worst economic crisis for 300 years”, calling the decision “sheer madness”.

The Department for Transport announced on Wednesday that the government had approved the widely-unpopular HS2 high-speed network, which is projected to cost the British taxpayer more than £100 billion.

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

UK: Farage Says Trump is Right on Who, Calls for Boycott of Chinese Products

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that President Donald Trump was right to halt funding of the World Health Organization over its handling of the Chinese coronavirus, saying the WHO had “actively helped to spread this disease around the world” through its irresponsibility.

President Trump announced on Tuesday: “Today, I’m instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization’s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus.

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

‘We Miss You Nigel!’ Italian MEP Reveals Why EU Needs Farage During Coronavirus Crisis

NIGEL FARAGE was an inspiration for many eurosceptics in the European Parliament and is incredibly missed now the EU is lacking effective leadership during the coronavirus pandemic, Italian MEP Antonio Maria Rinaldi told Express.co.uk.

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

Caroline Glick: Pandemics, Palestinian Incitement and Peace

A few weeks ago, officials in Israel’s Health Ministry were calling for Israel to “medically annex Judea and Samaria” for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic. The notion was that while Israel and the Palestinian Authority are separate political entities, from a public health perspective, they are indivisible.

On a practical level, the call was superfluous. From the moment the virus arrived in Israel, the PA’s Health Ministry began cooperating in an unprecedented manner with its Israeli counterpart. The Palestinians followed Israel’s lead on virtually all aspects of the coronavirus fight. Palestinian medical teams received training in Israeli hospitals. Israel provided the PA with testing kits, protective gear, respirators and other vital equipment for fighting the pandemic. Even the Hamas regime in Gaza viewed Israel as the authority for dealing with the virus.

But with all due respect to “medical annexation,” the collaboration between medical professionals didn’t indicate any change of heart on the part of the Palestinian leadership. Both the PLO-controlled Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria and the Hamas regime in Gaza are fully capable of simultaneously taking advantage of Israel’s help in fighting the pandemic and using the pandemic as a means to harm Israel. And that is precisely what they are doing.

PA Prime Minister Mohamad Shtayyeh has long been considered a moderate. He was a member of the Palestinian negotiating team with Israel. He is a Western educated academic and a favorite of the European Union. Many viewed PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to appoint Shtayyeh prime minister last year as a sign of moderation.

Alas, the optimism was misplaced.

At a press conference in Ramallah in late March, Shtayyeh propagated multiple blood libels against Israel…

           — Hat tip: Caroline Glick [Return to headlines]
 

Coronavirus: Official Middle East Data Rule Out Catastrophe

But don’t always reflect true reality on the ground

(ANSAmed) — BEIRUT, APRIL 14 — The coronavirus hasn’t yet hit the Middle East in the “catastrophic” way that many had foreseen, despite its geographic proximity to Iran, where the first and most serious outbreak of the virus occurred with more than 4,000 deaths, and despite the structural vulnerability of the health systems in many Arab countries between the Mediterranean and southwest Asia, hit directly and indirectly by armed conflicts and socio-economic turbulence.

According to official data thus far distributed by various health authorities in Arab countries, crossed with those of international research centres connected to the World Health Organization, as of today there have been 443 deaths due to Covid-19 in the 11 Arab countries east of the Mediterranean and the Gulf, which counts a total population of about 160 million people.

Iraq, including the autonomous region of Kurdistan, emerges as the country with the most deaths (78), with a relatively low number of infections (1,378) in the entire Middle Eastern Arab and Gulf area.

Excluding countries hit for years by war such as Yemen and Syria, where officially there are one and 25 cases, respectively, and with only two deaths attributed to Covid-19 in Syria, Kuwait is the country where the virus seems to have taken the fewest number of victims (two deaths), followed by Oman (four), Jordan, Qatar, and Bahrain (seven).

However, the figures aren’t necessarily in line with the real situation on the ground.

In some cases, such as in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, authorities have admitted that they can’t conduct blanket exams on the population.

Added to this is the low trust that many local communities have in state authorities, accused of corruption and a lack of transparency.

Iraq, with a population of 38 million people, has the lowest rate of tests conducted (900 per million residents).

Lebanon and Jordan registered just over 2,000 tests per million people, and figures are not available for Yemen, Syria, Kuwait, and Oman.

The United Arab Emirates conducted the most tests (648,000; 65,000 per million residents), followed by Bahrain (67,000; 39,000 per million residents); and Qatar (50,000; 17,000 per million residents).

Saudi Arabia conducted many tests (115,000), but this is a limited number when considered as a percentage of the population (3,000 per million residents).

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Coronavirus: Turkey Bans Layoffs for Three Months

Parliament passes anti-crisis measures, help for workers

ISTANBUL — Turkey has banned layoffs for three months, with exceptions for special reasons. The measure is one of several passed by the Turkish parliament as part of an economic package for the COVID-19 emergency, which was announced in recent days by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Workers that have already been on unpaid leave since March 15 will receive emergency state aid for three months of 39 liras per day (about 5.2 euros).

Ankara has also set up a special redundancy fund for companies that have been forced to interrupt their activities due to circumstances beyond their control due to the COVID-19 emergency. The state will in this period also cover expenses in this period for healthcare facilities hosting the elderly and the disabled. Other measures approved include the temporary suspension of rent payments, bills, loan payments, and taxes for several categories. A committee will be set up to monitor price speculation and hoarding of goods.

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Putin Postpones World War II Victory Parade Due to Virus

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday postponed next month’s Victory Day celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, citing the worsening coronavirus pandemic for putting off the lavish festivities that have dominated the Kremlin’s political agenda.

In televised remarks, a grim-faced Putin said the virus makes public gatherings such as the huge parade through Red Square on May 9 too dangerous.

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Russia’s Coronavirus Cases Surge by Over 4,000 in 6th Consecutive One-Day Record

Russia confirmed 4,070 new coronavirus infections on Friday, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 32,008 and marking the latest one-day record in new cases.

Two hundred and seventy-three people have been killed by the virus.

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India: Muslims Discharged From Chennai Hospital Make Islamic Gesture Popularised by ISIS While Posing for Photos: Here is What it Means

Amidst the gloomy Coronavirus outbreak that has gripped the world and in India specifically, the spread of the virus due to Tablighi Jamaat, images of patients being released from a Chennai hospital after being treated for Coronavirus were released by a journalist today. Journalist Sanjeevee Sadagopan with Republic TV tweeted three photographs of patients, mostly Muslims, being released from the Chennai Hospital.

Of the pictures, two of the pictures tweeted by the journalist caught everyone’s attention. In one of the pictures, two patients in the photograph were seen making the Islamic gesture popularised by ISIS, where the index finger is raised to the sky. In the other, one patient was seen making the same gesture.

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India: Here Are 15 Incidents in the Past Two Weeks Where Muslim Mobs Attacked Health Workers and Police Personnel Trying to Control Coronavirus Spread

At a time when the healthcare workers, policemen are risking their lives to limit the spread of the Chinese epidemic, there have been concerted attacks against them, led by Muslim mobs. The attacks on the frontline workers by Muslim mobs have continued ever since the reports that Tablighi Jamaat is the primary sources of transmission of coronavirus in the country emerged.

In addition to the nuisance created by Muslim mobs, the Tablighi Jamaat members, who have emerged as the sole reason for the sudden spike in the number of coronavirus cases in India, are turning out to be quite a headache for the authorities. The anti-social behaviour of attendees of Tablighi Jamaat has left the authorities and medical teams completely distraught

[Comment: Article dated April 5. 2020.]

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India: Uttar Pradesh: Team Carrying Coronavirus Suspects to Quarantine Attacked by Mob in Moradabad, Doctors and Others Injured

Despite police and frontline health workers working day and night to save public from the coronavirus pandemic, attacks on them continue unabated. In another such incident, a team of doctors and medical staff was attacked by a mob in Haji Neb Masjid area in Moradabad when they went to take away two persons suspected of having novel coronavirus in the area.

The mob pelted stones at the ambulance and doctors. The stones were also pelted on the police van which came to rescue the health workers later. Several people have been injured in the ensuing mayhem, including Dr Sudhish Agrawal.

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New Species of Venomous Snake Discovered in Arunachal Pradesh

Researchers have discovered a new species of venomous snake in Arunachal Pradesh.

The findings about the snake were published in the journal Zoosystematics and Evolution by a team of researchers from India.

The new species of snake has been named after J.K. Rowling’s fictional character Salazar Slytherin, co-founder of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

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China’s Apprehended Coronavirus Whistleblowers Are Still Silent

While China was busy trying to suppress the news of an impending pandemic, three whistleblowers, Chen Qiushi, Fang Bin, and Li Zehua were amongst the first to share pictures from Wuhan and let the world in on the havoc wreaked by the coronavirus.

The three individuals tried their level best to expose the reality of the situation in Wuhan in the nascent stages of the pandemic. With the entire Chinese media outlets under the strict control of the country’s government, the only authentic source of information was what’s shared by such whistleblowers.

For a while now, all of them seem to have gone silent.

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China Denies ‘Cover-Up’ After Wuhan COVID-19 Deaths Rise 50%

The Chinese government has denied any “cover-up” over official casualty figures, after a sudden increase in the number of deaths was revealed.

“There’s never been any cover-up and we will never authorise any cover-up,” foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters on Friday.

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CNN Heavily Revises Article Called Out for Looking Suspiciously Like Chinese News Release

As CNN continues its charge to deflect blame for the coronavirus pandemic away from communist China and toward President Donald Trump, the left-leaning network was reduced this week to literally publishing Chinese Communist Party propaganda.

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COVID-19 is a Man-Made Virus: HIV-Discoverer Says “Could Only Have Been Created in a Lab”

As the mainstream media and politicians begin to raise/admit the possibilities that the source of COVID-19 was likely a lab in Wuhan (accidentally leaked or otherwise) — something we first brought to the world’s attention in January before being mocked, censored, and chastised — it appears more actual ‘scientists’ (at least those not paid by or working for a lab in Wuhan) are willing to admit what we noted all along — this virus is man-made.

GilmoreHealth.com’s Robert Miller writes that contrary to the narrative that is being pushed by the mainstream that the COVID 19 virus was the result of a natural mutation and that it was transmitted to humans from bats via pangolins, Dr Luc Montagnier the man who discovered the HIV virus back in 1983 disagrees and is saying that the virus was man made.

Professor Luc Montagnier, 2008 Nobel Prize winner for Medicine, claims that SARS-CoV-2 is a manipulated virus that was accidentally released from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Chinese researchers are said to have used coronaviruses in their work to develop an AIDS vaccine. HIV DNA fragments are believed to have been found in the SARS-CoV-2 genome.

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Facebook ‘Fact Checker’ Worked at Wuhan Biolab; Ruled Out Virus-Leak While ‘Debunking’ Articles

A Facebook fact checker who has ‘debunked’ articles suggesting that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has a giant conflict of interest; she worked at the institute — which is now suspected of accidentally leaking the hyper-virulent virus which has killed over 130,000 people and cast the global economy into chaos.

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Facebook to Issue ‘Warnings’ To Users Who Have Liked or Clicked on ‘Coronavirus Misinformation’

Facebook has announced that it will begin issuing warnings to users who have clicked on or liked what it deems to be ‘misinformation’ about the coronavirus. The social network will also direct those users to a site where the World Health Organization “lists and debunks virus myths and rumors”, according to the AP.

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Main Stream Media Finally Admits COVID-19 Probably Came From Wuhan Bioweapon Lab

The mainstream media is finally being forced to report something Infowars has covered for over two months.

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New Evidence CV is an Escaped Experiment; U.S. Funded Wuhan Lab $3.7m Studying Bats, Safety Warnings

A new documentary film by Epoch Times in collaboration with NTD (New Tang Dynasty Television), both based in New York, details additional concerning — and potentially horrifying — facts that the Wuhan coronavirus is a biological experiment that either escaped or was deliberately released (see at end of article). This comes as UK ministers are expressing doubt that the coronavirus originated from Wuhan’s Hunan Seafood market and rather insist that there is credible evidence it came from Wuhan’s lab, which also had U.S. funding.

The documentary led by investigative reporter Joshua Philipp takes an in-depth look at the progression of the pandemic from January to April, and details how Shi Zhengli a virologist often called China’s “bat woman” altered studies throwing the world’s science community off the trail in order to support her claim that the Wuhan coronavirus virus (COVID-19) came from bats at the market. The film also dissects the virus in great detail exposing its spike (or S-proteins), which has layers of HIV-1 gp120 included in it and its nucleoids and amino acids, to the history of the Wuhan lab’s experiments on bats. Additional claims are made that China has covered up much of the earlier information about the virus, in some cases even ordering documents destroyed. The film by Philipp proves without a doubt, at least to this writer, that the virus is a biological escaped experiment.

This is something that Activist Post has been raising as a strong possibility to readers, despite alternative press being attacked for claiming the virus displayed signs of being a biological weapon produced in a lab. Dr. Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, and the man who drafted the Biological Weapons Act of 1989, recently said in an explosive interview with Geopolitics and Empire that the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan likely came from the BSL-4 lab in the city.

Boyle stated in the interview that he believes the virus is potentially lethal and an offensive biological warfare weapon or dual-use biowarfare weapons agent genetically modified with function properties. Boyle also touched on a fact this reporter stated previously — how Chinese biowarfare agents working at the Canadian lab in Winnipeg were involved in the smuggling of coronavirus to Wuhan’s lab in July of last year.

Recently, scientists have now admitted and found that the coronavirus kills the immune system by attacking T-cells; This alludes to a confirmation of earlier reports retracted by Indian scientists that ZeroHedge reported which stated COVID-19 SARS2 had four new sequences matching HIV-1 gp120 inserted into its spike or S-proteins. Dr. Judy Mikovits a molecular biologist and former director at the lab of Antiviral Mechanisms NCI, makes the same argument in Epoch Times’ film, stating that: “the virus is certainly not natural, given the S-proteins and E-proteins.”

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Over 100,000 Coronavirus Test Swabs From China Contaminated With Mould

On Wednesday, Deputy Public Works Minister Bill Matthews testified to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health that over 100,000 coronavirus test swabs ordered from China were found to have mould on them.

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the inspections are taking days as the government is importing goods from “unfamiliar suppliers.”

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Report: More Evidence Emerges Pointing to Wuhan Biolab as Ground Zero

Despite being largely dismissed by the mainstream media, mounting evidence is giving some serious weight to the theory that the global coronavirus pandemic first spread from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Fox News reported Thursday that multiple sources briefed on the matter have “increasing confidence” that the biolab was ground zero for the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Taiwan Had Warned Who About the Severity of Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak: Here is the Email Who Ignored

On December 31, Taiwan had written to the World Health Organisation raising questions about the human-to-human contact spread aspect of the Wuhan coronavirus but was ignored by the WHO. As per reports, the organisation also denied providing critical information about how to combat the deadly pathogen.

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US Officials Confirm Full-Scale Investigation of Whether Coronavirus Escaped From Wuhan Lab

EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. is conducting a full-scale investigation into whether the novel coronavirus, which went on to morph into a global pandemic that has brought the global economy to its knees, escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, Fox News has learned.

Intelligence operatives are said to be gathering information about the laboratory and the initial outbreak of the virus. Intelligence analysts are piecing together a timeline of what the government knew and “creating an accurate picture of what happened,” the sources said.

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Vatican Thanks China But Not Taiwan for Donated Medical Supplies

ROME — Both China and Taiwan have donated masks and medical supplies to the Vatican in recent days but while the Vatican thanked China publicly it has kept silent over Taiwan’s generosity.

As Breitbart News reported, on April 9 the Vatican issued a glowing public statement thanking the People’s Republic of China for donations of medical supplies to combat the spread of the coronavirus, calling the gesture a sign of China’s “solidarity” with the Holy See.

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World War 3? US Accuses China of Testing Secret NUKES

The United States has accused China of setting off underground nuclear bombs, conducting banned nuclear tests while the world is focused on the coronavirus crisis.

As if things weren’t already bad enough between the two nations, a US State Department report made public by The Wall Street Journal confirmed the charges earlier this week.

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Chadian Troops ‘Kill 1,000 Boko Haram Fighters’

The Chadian army says it has killed 1,000 fighters during an operation against the Boko Haram armed group in the Lake Chad border region.

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Seven Nigerian Christians Burnt to Death Among 19 Dead as Fulani Militants Attack During COVID-19 Lockdown

Seven vulnerable older Christians, unable to flee as hundreds Fulani militants attacked their village in Plateau State, Nigeria during the national Covid-19 lockdown were burnt to death in their homes. More than 300 gunmen descended on the Christian village of Hukke, near Jos, in the early hours of April 2, setting fire to at least 23 homes. The…

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Mexican Drug Cartels Distribute Coronavirus Aid Packages

Mexican drug cartels, along with the daughter of imprisoned notorious drug kingpin El Chapo, have begun distributing coronavirus care packages throughout the country, offering food and light medical supplies as the disease begins to spread.

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France: Afghan Migrant Who Attacked Police Shot Dead

French police earlier this week were forced to shoot an Afghan migrant dead in the infamous no-go suburb of Paris after he attacked them with a knife.

The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon at around 4:30 pm when police officers patrolling the Seine-Saint-Denis area came across the Afghan man who was wielding a “long knife”, French weekly newspaper Le Point reports.

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Frontex: Illegal Border Crossings in EU Up 26% Year-on-Year

In the first three months of the year, illegal migrant crossings into the European Union rose by 26 percent compared with the same period of 2019, reaching a total of 24,500, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex said in its March migration update.

Of the four migration routes, the Eastern Mediterranean accounts for almost half the illegal entries in the first three months and half of them occurred in March alone, Frontex said.

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Germany: Three Teenage Migrants Convicted of Gang Rape

After convicting three 15-year-old migrants of gang raping a young woman in Mülheim, North Rhine-Westphalia last summer, a German judge on Wednesday handed each of the perpetrators juvenile prison sentences .

Of the five migrants who participated in the gang rape, two could not be prosecuted because they were only 12-years-old at the time and as a result cannot be prosecuted under German law. Although one migrant rapist received a sentence of two years and six months in prison, the other two each got off with just eighteen months’ probation, German tabloid Bild reports.

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Germany: Migrants From Greece Aren’t Mostly Little Girls, Contrary to Government’s Claims

In making the case for accepting unaccompanied migrant children from camps on the Greek islands to a population already tired of mass migration, the German government recently claimed that they would only be accepting migrants who were under 14, who were either ill or unaccompanied, and said that they would mostly be girls. But photos that have been published of the migrants as they’ve been arriving in Europe show that this isn’t the case.

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Germany Takes 50 Asylum Minors From Greece

Germany will over the weekend take in 50 minors seeking asylum from the overcrowded refugee camps on the Greek islands. Luxembourg earlier this week received 12. Their removals is part of a larger EU-led programme to relocate 1,600 unaccompanied minors from the Greek islands. Ten EU states, plus Switzerland, have pledged spaces for the minors.

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Italy Evacuates 3 Migrants From Ship for Medical Reasons

Italy evacuated three migrants for medical reasons from an NGO-run ship in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, despite the government’s continuing insistence that it will not accept migrants due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Captain Bärbel Beuse of the Alan Kurdi, a ship which is operated by the pro-migrant Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Sea-Eye, requested the evacuation of three migrants from his vessel due to medical emergencies, according to a report by Malta Today. The Italian Coast Guard sent one of their ships in response.

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Man, 42, Is Charged Over Plot to Smuggle Immigrants Into UK After Bodies of 39 Vietnamese Migrants Were Found in a Lorry

A man has been charged with an immigration offence in connection with the investigation into the deaths of 39 migrants in a refrigerated lorry.

Gazmir Nuzi, of Tottenham, London, was arrested on Thursday, Essex Police said.

The 42-year-old has now been charged with conspiracy to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law by a non-EU person, the force said.

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UK: Border Force Officers Fit Face Masks on Migrants After Stopping Another 20 Trying to Reach Kent Taking the Total This Year to 802 — Four Times the Number for the Same Period Last Year

Another 20 migrants are believed to have reached the UK after crossing the Channel on Friday.

It comes after it was revealed a staggering 802 migrants have already reached the UK this year — four times the number for the same period last year, despite Home Secretary Priti Patel’s promise of a clampdown on crossings.

They were brought into Dover, Kent, around 7am and it is thought they may have all been crammed on one small boat despite the coronavirus crisis.

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Lawsuit: U. of North Texas Prof Fired for Saying ‘Microaggressions’ Are ‘Garbage’

A professor at the University of North Texas claims in a lawsuit filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom that he was fired for saying that “microaggressions” are “garbage.” A “microaggression,” in the language of left-wing academia, is a small and often unintentional slight that allegedly contains prejudicial judgments.

According to a report by The College Fix, Professor Nathaniel Hiers of the University of North Texas claims in a lawsuit that he was fired from his position as a full-time math professor over his criticism of the concept of “microaggressions.”

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Lesbian YouTuber Condemns Transgender Athletes Mocking True Women Competitors

Lesbian YouTube creator Arielle Scarcella is critical of advocates for transgender athletes in women’s sports in a video exposing how these biological men mock and berate their female competitors.

In her video titled, “Trans Athletes Call Women Competitors LOSERS & MOCK Female Sports,” Scarcella asked, “Do transgender women have an advantage by being born male?”

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Planned Parenthood Charged Biospecimen Company $25k for Unborn Baby Parts, Blood Samples, Unsealed Documents Show

Recently unsealed documents have revealed that Planned Parenthood charged a biospecimen company nearly $25,000 for body parts and maternal blood samples from aborted unborn babies in 2012.

The invoices — dated August 2, September 5, and September 28 — were unsealed as part of Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit against David Daleiden, a pro-life journalist whose undercover videos prompted an investigation into the abortion clinic at both the state and federal level.

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11 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/17/2020

    • So the natives are right. You can handle the acceptance. It’s being worked on – just in case.

  1. Arnhem, graveyard of the British paratrooper, has now officially been annexed by the Caliphate

  2. Of course the migrants are not children or little girls.
    They are grown up men and probably they are ISIS fighters.
    What can we do?
    Germany tries to completely destroy Greece,economically *and by supporting Turkey, does not help stopping illegal immigrant infected(as it is said) with the corona virus.
    The islands cannot keep them,the country is not going to commit suicide,so either EE stops Erdogan or Europe will receive them.

    *What Heiko Maas said,referring to my country.
    https://twitter.com/GermanyDiplo/status/1248926320261767169?s=20

    • Maas ” threated” to dish out 500 billion to help countries in need. Did you read the text right? And there is nothing self- destructive in greek policies?Like tax evasion or inflated sinecure jobs in the public sector?
      Ancient Greek has left many words in modern languages and there is one that 2.500 years ago qualified a person that only minded her own business, not interested in public affairs. Get the point? One clue: it means ” self- referential” and starts with an “I”.

    • Chinese are known to behave even worse than Blacks.
      Even their China spread more diseases than Africa.
      It is time people are aware that their uncivilized and cruel Chinese should not be admired.

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