President Trump announced that Idaho, North Dakota, and Ohio would begin reopening on May 1. Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Justin “Baby Doc” Trudeau said that the border with the USA will not reopen fully for another month. Also, San Francisco decided to cancel June’s annual Gay Pride parade due to the Wuhan Coronavirus.
In other news, in a no-go zone near Paris, an Afghan migrant who attacked an officer on horseback with a knife was shot dead by police.
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Chinese Economy Shrinks 6.8 Percent in Q1
The economic effect of the coronavirus pandemic in China is worse than expected: in the first quarter of the year, the country’s GDP shrank by 6.8 percent, which was its first year-on-year contraction in 28 years. In fact, the first since the data has been recorded.
Gross domestic product fell 6.8 percent in January-March year-on-year, official data showed on Friday, slightly larger than the 6.5% decline forecast by analysts and reversing a 6% expansion in the fourth quarter of last year.
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Overcapacity / Oversupply Everywhere: Massive Deflation Ahead
The price of a great many assets will crash, out of proportion to the decline in demand.
Oil is the poster child of the forces driving massive deflation: overcapacity / oversupply and a collapse in demand. Overcapacity / oversupply and a collapse in demand are not limited to the crude oil market; rather, they are the dominant realities in the global economy.
Yes, there are shortages in a few high-demand areas such as PPE (personal protective equipment), but across the entire spectrum of global supply and demand, there is nothing but a vast sea of overcapacity / oversupply and a systemic decline in demand as far as the eye can see.
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This is the Worst Employment Collapse in U.S. History by a Very Wide Margin
We have never seen an “employment apocalypse” in the United States like we are witnessing right now, and it is not going to end any time soon. Over the past several days, “coronavirus shutdowns” have officially been extended all over the nation, and the longer these shutdowns last the more jobs our economy is going to lose. And because most Americans were living paycheck to paycheck before this pandemic hit us, many unemployed workers are already unable to pay their bills. Yes, our authorities may be slowing down the spread of the virus, but in the process they have absolutely killed the economy. On Thursday, I was stunned to learn that another 5.2 million Americans filed initial claims for unemployment benefits last week. That brings the grand total for the last four weekly reports “to a staggering 22 million”… [Comment: So, this is how the banksters take down America economically and seek to prevent a Trump reelection.]
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U.S. Economy Contracting “At Its Sharpest Pace Since World War Two” And “The Worst is Yet to Come”
Fear of COVID-19 has unleashed economic chaos on a scale that has already surpassed anything that we witnessed during the last recession, and as you will see below, we are now being warned that “the worst is yet to come”. Many Americans are hoping that things can start to return to normal as the U.S. economy “reopens” in the weeks ahead, but the truth is that we are still in the very early chapters of this crisis. In fact, it is being estimated that we are only one-tenth of the way through this pandemic, and by “flattening the curve” we have actually extended the economic pain. You see, the truth is that most Americans are going to end up catching this virus one way or another. All of the “shelter-in-place” orders have temporarily slowed down the spread of this coronavirus, but once they are lifted it is inevitable that we will see new waves of people becoming infected. And if you think that a vaccine will be the golden ticket that gets us out of this mess, you might want to reconsider that belief, because there has never been a successful vaccine for any coronavirus. Of course it is possible that scientists could come up with something this time around, but if the virus mutates significantly that could render any potential vaccine absolutely useless.
In the days ahead, there will be a tremendous amount of debate about the correct way to fight this virus, but meanwhile the U.S. economy will continue to deteriorate.
[Comment: All fear driven by the fakestream media.]
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A Fed-fueled fiat currency collapse?
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Anthony Fauci Only Knows His Narrow Field of Expertise
Experts such as Anthony Fauci are experts only in the narrow field of their expertise. The have almost no knowledge or expertise in other fields, including—apparently—the basics of how human societies function.
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Californians Latest to Protest Stay-at-Home Orders — Call to “Open Cali”
‘Every worker is essential.’
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Dems Try to Paint Michigan Protesters as Nazis — ‘Signs Had Swastikas’
In reality, protesters used the swastika to say Democrat politicians are acting like Nazis.
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Dr. Phil Slams Coronavirus Lockdown: “We Probably Shouldn’t Have Ever Started” Quarantine
‘The fallout is going to last for years because people’s lives are being destroyed.’
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Franklin Graham: Democrats Exploit Coronavirus to ‘Defeat Donald Trump in the Election’
The Democrat Party is attempting to exploit the coronavirus pandemic to defeat Donald Trump in the November election, evangelical leader Franklin Graham stated on Twitter Friday.
Rev. Graham, the president of Samaritan’s Purse relief fund and son of “America’s pastor” Billy Graham, said that Democrat politicians and the liberal media want to see this lockdown “drag out & further weaken the economy — not to save lives — but to try to use this to defeat Donald Trump in the election.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Lady Gaga Praises Pro-China W.H.O. Chief Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Singer’s remarks split internet users during globalist coronavirus fundraiser.
[Comment: A sure sign WHO Chief messed up.]
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Media Hypes Unproven, Expensive Gilead Drug Remdesivir After Trashing Chloroquine
Why does media seem determined keep sick Americans from getting better?
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Microsoft Cryptocurrency System Using Body Activity Data
(This is the patent information for the Microsoft device to buy and sell cryptocurrency using the human body)
Patent Abstract: Human body activity associated with a task provided to a user may be used in a mining process of a cryptocurrency system. A server may provide a task to a device of a user which is communicatively coupled to the server. A sensor communicatively coupled to or comprised in the device of the user may sense body activity of the user. Body activity data may be generated based on the sensed body activity of the user. The cryptocurrency system communicatively coupled to the device of the user may verify if the body activity data satisfies one or more conditions set by the cryptocurrency system, and award cryptocurrency to the user whose body activity data is verified.
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New Species Could Explain Origins of Hawaiian Endemic Fish
A new species of tiny fish known as the Suspiria blenny was recently discovered by a University of Hawaii at Manoa researcher. Its geographic origins and how its sister species, the Hawaiian endemic blenny, arrived in Hawaiian waters was identified in a recent study by Mykle Hoban, a Hawaii Sea Grant graduate fellow and PhD candidate at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, and Jeffrey Williams at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
Hoban first collected the new species of fish on Kiritimati Island in the Republic of Kiribati. He decided to name the species Cirripectes matatakaro, which means “big eyes and burning coals” in the i-Kiribati language. Cirripectes matatakaro is most closely related to the Hawaiian endemic blenny Cirripectes vanderbilti.
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NJ Governor on “Stay at Home” Orders: “I Wasn’t Thinking of the Bill of Rights”
Politicians have started to admit that they don’t take basic human rights into account when barking commands they expect people to follow. If this isn’t more evidence that we should nullify their commands by going about our business and ignoring their insistence on tyranny, then I don’t what is.
Politicians are stopping at nothing to force authoritarian controls over the masses. New Jersey governor admitted to Tucker Carlson that he did not take basic human rights into account when proving himself a tyrant. On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) stated that he “wasn’t thinking of the Bill of Rights” when he implemented his state’s stay-at-home order, but that he did consult with legal counsel, according to a report by Breitbart.
Legality and morality are two different things. Just because something is legal doesn’t necessarily mean its right and just because something is right does not necessarily mean it’s legal. The sooner Americans realize this and take their power back from these tyrants, the sooner we will be free as humans were always intended to be.
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No, We Are Not “All in This Together”…
Collectivist people will applaud the vast expansion of government power and control because within their cult religion government is god. To them, the pandemic is not a curse but a blessing, because it gives them a rationale to take part in a grand subjugation of other people and feel the power they have always wanted to feel. These are the people with inherent narcissistic and sociopathic traits within our culture. They represent only 1% to 5% of the total population, but they are predatory and single-minded in their goal to control others and feed off the world like parasites.
These people are not always elites. In fact, most of them are just like you and me in terms of status and income. In times of great crisis, these creatures tend to rise to the surface and reveal themselves. They feel particularly energized within environments that fuel tyranny; they love the feeling of power and will exploit crisis events as an excuse to act as evil as they always wanted to but could not during normal times. Take for example Doctor John Rademaker in Louisville, Kentucky who attacked a group of girls and tried to strangle one of them for “not social distancing”. Once we consider the fact that by attacking the girls he was also breaking social distancing guidelines, it becomes clear that people like this don’t actually care about their own rules, they only care that OTHER PEOPLE follow those rules.
They want to be the observers like the Soviet Cheka. They know will never be at the top of the power totem pole, so they ride the coattails of tyranny and feed on whatever scraps of power they can get.
The Global Elites
This is a tiny group of creatures that benefit the most from the pandemic crisis. Through this disaster they will be able to absorb vast amounts of hard assets for pennies on the dollar, devouring wealth and property from the middle class and changing the entire economy into something unrecognizable. The elites don’t want your property and wealth simply because they are greedy; they want your property and wealth because they don’t want YOU to have any. They want to end the concept of private property for all time, for without property and the ability to accumulate wealth through our labors the masses are always dependent on the government for their survival.
Beyond this, the ultimate goal of the elites is a one-world cashless society, as well as a one-world government. Already, the US Senate is considering a bill that would create a digital dollar and a digital wallet system to replace paper currency. Other nations have begun going cashless, and the coronavirus is being used as an excuse to speed up the process. The UN’s World Health Organization has specifically called for going cashless as well. Once the public is trapped into a digital system, they will never be able to trade without using the banks as the middle-men, and all transactions will be tracked. Nothing will be private ever again, and with the push of a button what little wealth you are allowed to accumulate can be frozen within the new socialist control culture. You will be at the mercy of the government and the banks.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Protesters Surround Governor’s Home With Support of President Trump
Americans are not going to put up with COVID-19 shutdowns for much longer.
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The title comes from the two movies reviewed below, Idiocracy (2006) and Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story (2015). In normal times, neither would merit mention, much less review, at such a late date. But unless you are just coming off six months on a trapline in Alaska, you know that these are abnormal times.
I couldn’t decide which movie better fits our current situation but then it dawned on me that they are mutually reinforcing, not exclusive.
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The Joe Biden Parody Website Facebook Won’t Let You Link to
After the debacle-in-the-making that is the “avatar generator” put up by Biden’s own campaign, which is turning into a Biden-ridiculing meme machine — Facebook users are reporting instances of censorship related to a Biden parody website.
The site’s content, as well as a “trigger warning” at the bottom of the page, makes it clear this is not something created either by Biden or his campaign.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Trump Slams Pelosi: “Incompetent Political Hack!”
President Trump slammed Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday night as “an incompetent political hack,” calling on her to return to Washington to “take care of our great American workers”.
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Trump Reacts After Reuters is Caught Running Promoted Tweets for Biden Messaging
President Donald Trump and his campaign certainly have a way with words: after four years ago successfully pushing the expression “mainstream media” into, well — the mainstream, as shorthand for all that is wrong with the entrenched, corporate-owned outlets, we now have another way of describing that phenomenon: “Lamestream.”
Lamestream media is only getting worse, Trump observed on Saturday.
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Trump: Ohio, North Dakota and Idaho to Begin Opening on May 1
President Donald Trump announced that three more states will begin a phased reopening process on May 1 after meeting the requirements for decreasing cases of COVID-19.
The governors of Ohio, North Dakota and Idaho all intend to begin the process. Reopening will occur in three phases for each state according to the severity of their outbreaks. Minnesota began relaxing distancing guidelines on Friday, but states with the most critical outbreaks like New York, New Jersey and Louisiana may take much longer to reach phase one.
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Watch Bill Gates Laugh, And Giggle About Vaccines and Mass Death
What does this strange behavior reveal?
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What Will You Do if They Try to Extend Coronavirus Lockdowns Into Next Year?
We are seeing a massive backlash against the coronavirus lockdowns all over the United States, and it is likely that the protests against these lockdowns will only intensify in the days ahead. But some elected officials are doubling down and are insisting that “shelter-in-place” orders will remain in effect in their jurisdictions for quite a few months to come. I honestly do not know how that is possibly going to work, because after just a few weeks millions upon millions of Americans have become deeply frustrated with these lockdowns. Trying to confine people to their homes for the foreseeable future is likely to spark tremendous explosions of anger, but that appears to be exactly what authorities intend to do in some of our largest urban areas. For example, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio just told Fox News that he expects his city will be shut down until July or August…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joined Bill Hemmer today on FOX News Channel.
The mayor told Hemmer he does not expect New York City to open until July or August.
Does he honestly believe that New York City residents will put up with being confined to their homes for another three or four months?
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Canada Now Teaching Children How to Run Interference for China
A media company owned by the government of Canada is teaching children how to combat misinformation about COVID-19 using the outlet’s own reporting, while seemingly ignoring mounting evidence that the novel coronavirus leaked from a Wuhan-area biolab.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s guide is presented in a way to help children combat fake news from their older family members.
In the example used by the CBC, a dad texts a link to an internet article claiming that COVID-19 was manufactured in a Chinese lab. The CBC suggests sending family members to a “legitimate” site, which in this case happens to be the CBC itself.
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US-Canadian Border Won’t Fully Reopen for Another Month: Trudeau
The US border with Canada will remain closed to nonessential travel for another 30 days and likely longer, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday.
“The agreement is the same terms. It’s just extended for another 30 days. It will ensure we continue to get essential goods and services back and forth across the border,” Trudeau said, according to the Associated Press.
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What’s the Difference Between Fake News & Hypernormalisation?
Before the current Coronavirus pandemic, the Canadian government took delivery of the Broadband Telecom Legislative Review. The 235-page report offered 97 recommendations for revamping internet and broadcasting oversight, most of them bad ones. Among them were provisions for requiring all content creators to obtain a license for operating from the government and “discoverability provisions” to force major tech platforms to emphasize “credible sources of news” over others (what the government calls “Approved Media”).
I wrote an article about it at the time and tabled a petition into the House of Commons to call on the government to reject BTLR in it’s entirety (still open, so please sign and share). More recently the Internet Society Canada Chapter (of which I’m a board member) submitted a point-for-point critique of the framework (it’s not on the site yet, will link when it is).
Shortly after that the government-funded CBC marshalled a gaggle of “Approved Media” in Canada (no doubt one of entities who will receive part of that $600,000,000 subsidy package announced in the run up to the last election) to call forth the government to legislate “trusted sources” of news….
If you’re with me so far, the logic flows like this:
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Germany: Still Too Much Free Speech, Says European Commission Against Racism & Intolerance
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) recently published its sixth monitoring report on Germany. Even though Germany has some of the most repressive hate speech laws in Europe, ECRI decided that, according to it, Germany is still not doing enough
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Hungary: Orban: The Peak is Still Ahead of US
“Hope for the best and prepare for the worst,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in connection with the novel coronavirus epidemic in a public radio interview on Friday.
Orban told Kossuth Radio the time had not yet come when it was possible to relax restrictions. The prime minister said it wanted people’s lives to return to normal but he dare not tell them to relax. Looking to Austria, he added, if some restrictions are lifted there without a corresponding increase in infections, then Hungary will also consider easing some of them. “Let’s be glad that for once, we’re not the guinea pigs,” he added.
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Italy: Campari in Talks to Buy Champagne Lallier
Move would be first Italian takeover of French champagne maker
(ANSA) — Milan, April 17 — Italian beverages group Campari is in exclusive talks with Sarl Ficoma of France, Francis Tribaut’s family holding company, to buy 80% of Champagne Lallier and its units with a view to taking over 100% of the French champagne maker, sources said Friday.
It would be the first takeover of a French champagne company by an Italian company.
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Italy: Coronavirus: 6-7,000 Care Home Deaths Since Feb — ISS
Hard to tell COVID from flu say health experts
(ANSA) — Rome, April 17 — There have been 6,000-7,000 deaths since February 1 in Italian care homes, which are the focus of various probes, the Higher Health Institute (ISS) said Friday.
It has often been hard to distinguish between influenza and COVID-19, it said.
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Italy: Coronavirus: Nurse Death Toll Rises to 30
Another two have died reports FNOPI
(ANSA) — Rome, April 15 — The death toll from the coronavirus among Italy’s nurses rose to 30 as another two died on Wednesday.
Some 34% of the nurses who have died worked in care homes, the federation of nurses guilds FNOPI said.
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Italy: Coronavirus: 1 Out of 3 Church-Run Schools ‘Won’t Reopen’
‘Not able to pay staff’ say religious
(ANSA) — Rome, April 17 — One out of three Catholic Church-run schools in Italy will not reopen due to economic difficulties in the coronavirus emergency, the heads of religious orders USMI and CISM said Friday.
“We’re not able to pay our staff,” said Mother Yvonne Reungoat and Father Luigi Gateani.
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Many Italian Businesses to Reopen Thanks to Bureaucratic Loophole
ROME — The Italian government is allowing tens of thousands of Italian firms to resume their operations due to the state’s inability to process the avalanche of requests that has inundated it.
Last week the government extended the closure of “non-essential” businesses until May 3rd, but it has also allowed firms that believe they form part of vital supply chains to essential businesses to apply for permission to reopen.
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Norway: Parents Can Still Avoid Punishment for Mutilating Their Daughters
Norwegian Minister of Justice Monica Mæland recently presented a new law, which if passed, would make it easier to hold parents accountable if it becomes known that their daughters have undergone genital mutilation — a practice common in many African countries.
But the new law has a disturbing loophole: parents can still mutilate their daughters and avoid penalty by claiming that they didn’t know that know the multiation happened, or that it took place behind their back or against their will.
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NYT: UK Govt Spent £16m on Two Million Chinese-Made Coronavirus Tests That Didn’t Work
The British government reportedly spent £16 million on two million coronavirus home test kits from two separate Chinese companies, none of which work.
The New York Times claimed on Friday that a laboratory at Oxford University found that the tests, intended to be rolled out as home kits, were insufficiently accurate at detecting antibodies. The American newspaper alleged that half a million from one company are now in storage and the other 1.5 million from the second Chinese firm have also gone unused. The tests were manufactured by AllTest Biotech and Wondfo Biotech, both of which claim that their products met European Union (EU) standards.
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Poll: Most Brits Blame China for COVID-19 Outbreak
A recent poll has revealed that over half of Britons think China is to blame for the global COVID-19 pandemic which, at the present moment, has caused half of the world’s population to be under stay-at-home orders.
The poll, carried out by MailOnline, found that 56 percent of UK citizens believe the Chinese government is responsible for the spread of the novel coronavirus around the globe, compared to just 26 percent who said that Beijing is not to blame. Another 18 percent of those who were polled said they weren’t sure.
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Spain “Authorizes” Military Planes to Spray Disinfectants Over Cities
‘Aerial disinfection’ missions will be conducted ‘regularly’ as long as the pandemic continues to ravage the country, according to government order.
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Spain: Government Recalls Hundreds of Thousands of Defective Facemasks Made in China
The Spanish Ministry of Health has ordered a recall of 350,000 facemasks for being defective. The masks were manufactured by Garry Galaxy, which is on the Chinese’s governments list of approved manufacturers.
The masks are FFP2-type surgical facemasks, which medical personnel who regularly deal with patients infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19) need to reduce the possibility of getting infected themselves. According to European standards, FFP2 masks must protect against more than 94% of particles; the Garry Galaxy masks were found to allow between 18 and 29% of particles through, according to a report by El Mundo. Most such masks test at only 1 or 2%.
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Spain’s Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 20,000 as Officials Mull Extending Lockdown
More than 20,000 people have died of coronavirus in Spain and despite a slight downward trend, officials are considering extending the lockdown in the country.
The government may ask parliament for a third extension of the confinement imposed in one of the world’s hardest hit countries, Reuters reported.
The number deaths increased by 565 on Saturday, down from a tally of 585 on Friday, the Health Ministry said. The number of coronavirus cases rose to 191,726 from 188,068.
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UK Moves to Drop Huawei as 5G Vendor, Citing China Coronavirus Transparency
The UK is moving to drop Huawei as a vendor for the country’s 5G cellphone network in a major blow to Communist China over poor coronavirus transparency.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, now recovering from COVID-19, gave the Chinese company a role in 5G infrastructure this year, squashing opposition last month by 24 votes in the 650-seat House of Commons.
But now, concern about the Chinese Communist Party’s inaccurate reporting on the coronavirus has lawmakers crafting plans for a retreat.
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UK: Conservative Party Activist Suspended for “Islamophobic” Social Media Posts
Scottish Tory activist Lorraine Cullen has been suspended from Boris Johnson’s governing party for alleged racism after saying she “loathed Islam” on Facebook, The Daily Record reports.
Cullen campaigned to get Moray MP Douglas Ross re-elected and nominated the Conservative candidate for Inverness in the 2019 general election. The Scottish Conservatives tend to be on the more socially liberal and pro-EU side of the broad church party as left-wing parties such as Labour, the Scottish National Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens dominate Scotland. The Scottish Tories were popular under the leadership of Ruth Davidson who advocates a closer relationship with the EU because “as someone on the centre-right of politics (she) values free trade.” Davidson stepped down after having a baby with her wife.
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Child Sex Abuse in Pakistan’s Religious Schools is Endemic
PAKPATTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Muhimman proudly writes his name slowly, carefully, one letter at a time, grinning broadly as he finishes. He’s just 11 years old and was a good student who had dreams of being a doctor.
School frightens him now. Earlier this year, a cleric at the religious school he faithfully attended in the southern Punjab town of Pakpattan took him into a washroom and tried to rape him. Muhimman’s aunt, Shazia, who wanted only her first name used, said she believes the abuse of young children is endemic in Pakistan’s religious schools. She said she has known the cleric, Moeed Shah, since she was a little girl and describes him as an habitual abuser who used to ask little girls to pull up their shirts.
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Hindu Family in Karachi Threatened to be Killed if They Refuse to Convert to Islam
HJS Media | New Delhi | April 17, 2020:: Even a pandemic of the scale and extent of Wuhan coronavirus has not deterred radical Maulvis in Pakistan from intimidating and browbeating minorities into converting to Islam. Recently, Islamist fundamentalists forced a Hindu family in Karachi to embrace Islam as the menace of coronavirus sweeps Pakistan.
A Hindu family in Karachi was attacked amidst coronavirus lockdown in Pakistan on April 12, 2020, for refusing Islam. The case is from PIA township in Karachi where a Maulvi named Usman teamed up with the Hindu family’s neighbour named Shahid to assault the minorities for their denial to accept Islam.
Basant Kumar, a Hindu and his mother were also threatened to be killed if they disobeyed the order. The incident was narrated by Basant’s brother in a video. He alleged that 4-5 Muslim evangelists had threatened and attacked them to convert to Islam. In the video, the man claims that the matriarch of their house was grabbed and slapped by Maulana Usman, repeatedly asking her to read Kalama and embrace Islam.
The man in video claims that his brother Basant Kumar and their mother were beaten up by Maulana Usman. He adds that after thrashing his mother, Usman asked her to read Kalama, an important religious obligation to embrace Islam. A skull cap of the attacker, Maulana Usman, can be seen on the floor of the house of the Hindu family.
The man in the video further claims that despite the lockdown amidst the coronavirus, Maulana Usman, Maulvi Shahid and others have been defying the restrictions and offering namaz at the terrace of their building. However, belonging to the Hindu community and given the treatment meted out to minorities in their country, the Hindu family did not file a complaint against the illegal gathering by the Muslim clerics to offer namaz.
Basant’s brother also alleged that three days earlier a scuffle broke out between the same Maulana and Basant when the religious zealot had asserted that he will settle the scores with the family soon. Nonetheless, an FIR has been lodged in this matter by the Karachi police and investigation is underway.
Pakistan is notoriously known for its persecution of not only religious minorities but also ethnic minorities within their own country. The forceful conversion programmes have often been unleashed against the minorities especially Christians, Sikhs and Hindus living in Pakistan with utmost brutality. Therefore, minorities in Pakistan live under perpetual fear of persecution at the hands of Muslim fundamentalists who enjoy state patronage and support. Minorities are also wary of the cruel ‘blasphemy’ laws that are often used as an instrument of subjugation by the radical Muslim majority…
| — Hat tip: Upananda Brahmachari | [Return to headlines] |
Despite their untiring efforts and unmeasurable contributions, the attacks and assaults on frontline health workers and police personnel continue unabated. In yet another incident, two Sanitation workers were attacked at a Muslim-dominated area of Khategaon town in Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas district on Friday when they went to a neighbourhood to clean the streets.
The workers were sanitising the area when a group of men led by Adil, armed with sticks, rods and axes, surrounded them and started attacking them. While other workers managed to escape without major injury, one of them, identified as Deepak was badly injured as he was attacked with an axe. He has been admitted to the hospital after his hand was badly injured in the assault.
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Around the World, Coronavirus “Fake News” Arrests Are Mounting
The collective opportunistic nature of governments that has followed the COVID-19 outbreak has reached such extremes that in at least 38 countries, more than 300 individuals have been arrested, who by different means have spread what the authorities consider to be false information.
The fight against COVID-19 has not been limited to the health system. Limiting information has also been a part of how the pandemic is tackled.
In many cases, governments have decided to implement measures that control and penalize those who spread information that comes from unofficial sources.
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China Revises Wuhan Coronavirus Death Toll, Says There is No Cover-Up
The Wuhan coronavirus death toll rises 50% after China claims to revise figures.
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Mainstream media outlets across the world have been slammed for publishing pro-Chinese propaganda surrounding the Coronavirus pandemic.
The BBC, CNN, NBC, NPR, Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, The New York Post and New York Daily News all published fake headlines promoting the Chinese regimes Coronavirus narrative.
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Chinese Police Arrest Christians Zooming Easter Service
Chinese police raided the homes of members of the Early Rain Covenant Church on Easter Sunday, arresting six church leaders for participating in an online religious service via Zoom.
“At that time I was also in the Zoom call, but there was a long period of time where I did not hear a thing,” one church member told persecution watchdog group International Christian Concern (ICC). “I thought it’s the network connection issue at first, but I soon heard a quarrel erupt. Our co-worker Wang Jun was questioning some people, ‘Who are you to do this [to us]?’“
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CNN Heavily Revises Article Called Out for Looking Suspiciously Like Chinese News Release
When you look at CNN’s reporting and compare it with a Chinese military news release, the similarities are alarming.
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COVID-19 is a Man-Made Virus: HIV-Discoverer Says “Could Only Have Been Created in a Lab”
“In order to insert an HIV sequence into this genome, molecular tools are needed, and that can only be done in a laboratory.”
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Hong Kong Police Arrest Pro-Democracy Activists, Including Media Tycoon
Hong Kong police arrested 14 veteran activists Sunday — including two prominent politicians and a millionaire media mogul — in the biggest crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement since mass protests began last year.
Among those detained were Martin Lee, 81, founder of the Democratic Party founder and a senior barrister; publishing tycoon Jimmy Lai, 71; and former legislator and barrister Margaret Ng, 72, the Associated Press reported.
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New Wave of Infections Threatens to Collapse Japan Hospitals
TOKYO (AP) — Hospitals in Japan are increasingly turning away sick people as the country struggles with surging coronavirus infections and its emergency medical system collapses.
In one recent case, an ambulance carrying a man with a fever and difficulty breathing was rejected by 80 hospitals and forced to search for hours for a hospital in downtown Tokyo that would treat him. Another feverish man finally reached a hospital after paramedics unsuccessfully contacted 40 clinics.
The Japanese Association for Acute Medicine and the Japanese Society for Emergency Medicine say many hospital emergency rooms are refusing to treat people including those suffering strokes, heart attacks and external injuries.
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US Launches ‘Full-Scale Investigation’ Into Wuhan Lab
The investigation will help intelligence analysts piece together a timeline for what the CCP knew, as well as ‘create an accurate picture of what happened.’
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Australia May Mandate Smart Phone Tracking Apps to Help Coronavirus Containment
The Australian government has introduced TraceTogether, a contact tracing app that will be used to curb the spread of COVID-19. The app will use Bluetooth technology to track whether users who have voluntarily opted-in have come within nine meters of one another.
Australia’s Prime Minister, however, has not ruled out making TraceTogether mandatory.
“In Australia my preference, my very strong preference, is that we do it this way where Australians are doing it by permission,” Scott Morrison said.
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The newest plague of locusts swarming Africa is 20 times larger than the wave that came in January and February — and that wave was the biggest seen in 70 years.
As the continent fights COVID-19, it also fights the swarms of the voracious insects which devour Africans’ crops and sicken their livestock.
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Coronavirus: WHO Director Has a Long History of Cover-Ups
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is facing increased scrutiny over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than two million people around the world and killed at least 150,000.
Adhanom, who goes by the name Tedros, is an Ethiopian microbiologist who, with the help of China, began a five-year term as head of the WHO in July 2017. He has been accused of misrepresenting the severity and spread of the coronavirus in an attempt to pander to China.
The historical record shows that Tedros, the first African and the first non-physician to lead the WHO, has a long history of covering up epidemics and human rights abuses in Ethiopia, where he served as the minister of health and minister of foreign affairs.
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WHO Director Has a Long History of Cover-Ups
(GATESTONE INSTITUTE) The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is facing increased scrutiny over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than two million people around the world and killed at least 150,000.
Adhanom, who goes by the name Tedros, is an Ethiopian microbiologist who, with the help of China, began a five-year term as head of the WHO in July 2017. He has been accused of misrepresenting the severity and spread of the coronavirus in an attempt to pander to China.
The historical record shows that Tedros, the first African and the first non-physician to lead the WHO, has a long history of covering up epidemics and human rights abuses in Ethiopia, where he served as the minister of health and minister of foreign affairs.
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47 ‘Unaccompanied Minors’ From Greek Migrant Camps Arrive in Germany Amid Pandemic
BERLIN (AP) — A group of 47 unaccompanied children evacuated from refugee camps in Greece landed in Germany on Saturday, German officials said.
The Interior Ministry said the minors landed in Hanover on a flight from Athens. They were all tested for the coronavirus before departure and will remain in two-week quarantine before moving on to other German states
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Denmark Sets Up New Migrant Return Office to Increase Deportations
The Danish government has set up a new return office within the Ministry of Immigration and Integration aimed at increasing the number of deportations of migrants without residency permits.
The office, named the Home Travel Agency, is scheduled to begin work on August 1st. Its establishment is the result of a decision made in September 2019 and combines tasks currently under the responsibility of several other agencies.
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France: Police Shoot Dead Afghan Migrant Armed With Knife in Paris No-Go Zone
Police shot dead an Afghan asylum seeker in the no-go Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis after he attacked mounted police while armed with a knife.
It began when one of the equestrian officers approached 25-year-old Miakhil Zar Mohammad, who was walking around a park in the commune of La Courneuve on Wednesday afternoon by himself with a 12-inch knife.
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Illegal Border Crossings Into EU Surge 26 Percent
Invasion continues amid coronavirus pandemic.
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Illegal Alien Charged With 96 Child Sex Crimes
Pedro Rene Paguada is an illegal alien, according to jail where he is being held.
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More Illegal Boat Migrants Intercepted in English Channel
French authorities on Thursday night into Friday morning intercepted forty-four migrants while they attempted to illegally cross the English Channel to reach the UK.
It’s the second time this week that illegal migrants have been intercepted by authorities while trying to cross the Channel. Last Sunday, seventy-two illegal migrants, most of whom were men, were brought to England after the UK Border force intercepted them in the Channel.
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Sweden: Most Migrants Will Never be Self-Sufficient
A new study conducted in Sweden suggests that the majority of people born in other countries will never become economically self-sufficient.
The study, which was conducted by economists Johan Eklund and Johan P. Larsson at the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, examined self-sufficiency among immigrants living in Sweden, as reported by Fria Tider.
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Sweden: Somali Migrant Arrested for Raping 12-Year-Old Girl
A Somali migrant man, 40, was charged yesterday with raping a 12-year-old girl on Wednesday — the second time he has been charged with assaulting young girls.
The Somali has been in Sweden since 2005 and was granted Swedish citizenship in 2014, and court records indicate that he is a translator, according to a report by Nyheter Idag.
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UK: Afghan Migrant Pleads Guilty to Attempted Rape
A fighting-age Afghan migrant who had previously been living in Leeds, England plead guilty to attempted rape earlier this week during a video court appearance.
Speaking through an interpreter, Abudal Nishat, a 22-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, on Friday addressed prosecutor barrister Soheil Khan and Judge Simon Phillips QC via Skype from HM Prison in Leeds, The Yorkshire Evening Post reports.
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San Francisco Cancels Gay Pride Parade Over Coronavirus Fears
For the first time since its inception, San Francisco announced its famed gay pride parade and festivities, held on June 27 and 28, will be canceled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified in recent weeks, and the organization has concluded that the risks to public health of a large-scale gathering such as Pride preclude this year’s production of the annual event,” the Board of Directors of San Francisco Pride wrote in an open letter this week announcing the cancellation.
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The Wildlands Project and the Biodiversity Treaty — Agenda 21
So many issues about the Wildlands Project and Agenda21 have come up recently. I decided that, instead of trying to recap and explain, I would give it to you from one of the world’s leading experts.
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On June 29, 1994, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Biodiversity Treaty) by a vote of 16 to 3. Only Senators Helms, Pressler, and Coverdell voted no. Three months later, on September 30, Senate Majority Leader, George Mitchell, for the second and final time, withdrew the Convention from the Senate calendar.
The Treaty was never voted on, and now languishes in the bowels of government awaiting the arrival of a more friendly Senate. The defeat of the Treaty in the 103rd Congress came as a stunning victory for the private property rights and natural resource providers community, and was an astonishing defeat for the administration and its army of environmental organizations which had carefully orchestrated what it thought was certain ratification. The events that led to the defeat of the Treaty have been grossly misreported by the environmental community and by the mainstream press. Here is an accurate account of the events as they occurred, compiled from the records of many of the people who were in the forefront of the battle.
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UK: Former Government Official: ‘Transgender’Men ‘Raping Staff’ In Women’s Prison
A former British prison official is warning that male prisoners who “self-identify” as females have been raping women in prisons.
Rory Stewart, a former Tory Cabinet minister, said men should not be given access to women’s facilities.
“The important thing is: I think the rights of women to feel safe trump the rights of somebody who’s biologically male to enter that space,” he said, DailyMail.com reported.
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https://twitter.com/BrettEverest/status/1251366991463579651
Quarantine for the, but not for me.
to be honest it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if the western governments, paid and lobbied through and through by the Bill Gateses and the like, pushed some dirty untested and dangerous vaccine just to make money, by law, on the western people…
…and then, when the vaccinated westerners would become autistic nuts of auto-immune diseases… from the dirty vaccine… And the only healthy people remaining would be the unvaccinated migrant masses… and the westerners would become undone.
it would make quite a story, if I were into catastrophic story telling 🙂
https://twitter.com/RechesReport/status/1251869611710124032
In Tajikistan, doctors are made to buy protective suits, glasses and even pampers at their own expense
Doctors of the Karabolo hospital in Dushanbe complain that they are forced to buy special protective suits – plastic overalls and glasses at their own expense for 200 somoni (about $ 20) and prepare to receive patients infected with coronavirus. The doctors of this hospital were also demanded at their own expense to stock up enough diapers to work under the conditions of the alleged quarantine. Meanwhile, Lola Yakubova, a lawyer from the Sughd region, said on Facebook that in some parts of the north of Tajikistan doctors were forced to buy special suits and glasses for 150 somoni. This information was confirmed by doctors from the Spitamen district.
https://akhbor-rus.com/-p4242-179.htm?fbclid=IwAR0O-Y-dDXbzJDOfprlECju0nwL_j8kBn69Z3AnuQA8qr0sqX9LaP12caMg
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/16/uk-border-patrol-officer-begs-testing-airport-arrivals-coronavirus/
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/17/coronavirus-international-flights-bring-100000-unchecked-travellers-week-britain/
madness
News from the domain of a botox thief.
It is not surprising that in terms of the number of new infections, Russia has become a leader, saving other countries.
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Valentina Ignatenko, deputy head of the Ministry of Health of the Krasnodar Territory, chastised doctors for the lack of shoe covers and the reluctance to sew them on their own during a coronavirus pandemic during an online conference with doctors from regional hospitals.
“What is the difficulty to sew shoe covers? Of course, I understand Tyvek suits, or face masks, or goggles, or respirators … Aren’t you ashamed? Why are you waiting for manna from heaven? ” – Ignatenko was indignant, obviously, referring to the “manna from heaven” individual means of protection.
According to the official, to make shoe covers on their own is not at all difficult – “sew two rags.” Ignatenko even provided instructions on how to act in such a situation: “Take any fabric, plant two or three nurses who will stitch you. Now the people are sitting at home, there is nothing to do. ”
At the end of her speech, the official shamed the doctors of the central district hospital of Ust-Labinsk for bringing protective suits to dentists. Whether it is necessary for doctors to sew costumes on their own, Ignatenko did not specify, but added that for a thousand rubles any woman “sews” if she “knows how to sew, a dressmaker.”
Earlier, the authorities of the Perm Territory called on residents to sew medical masks themselves due to their shortage. According to Lev Gershank, deputy head of the regional administration, masks can be made of gauze, bandage and a piece of fabric. He added that this way citizens will be able to protect themselves and loved ones, and also said that “a four-layer mask is no worse than a standard disposable mask.”
https://lenta.ru/news/2020/04/19/baxily/