Demonstrators in Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin gathered today to protest the coronavirus lockdown. Meanwhile, more than 1,000 crew members aboard the French aircraft carrier have tested positive for the disease. Also, more than a hundred Italian priests who tested positive for the coronavirus have died.
In other news, 180 illegal migrants who were “rescued” by a Spanish vessel have been quarantined on a ferryboat off the coast of Sicily.
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Coronavirus Has Put 21 Million in Economic Difficulty in Italy — Study
Half without income says Università della Tuscia
(ANSA) — Rome, April 17 — Some 21 million Italians are in economic difficulty due to the coronavirus and half of them have no income, a university report said Friday.
Some seven million Italians are living on gross income of 500 euros a month, said the report from the Università della Tuscia.
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Illinois Democrats are demanding $41 billion from the federal government for coronavirus relief, including $10 billion for Illinois’s cash-strapped and underfunded public pension plan. The most fiscally mismanaged state in the union that has criminally neglected funding its public pension fund for two decades wants Washington to pull its chestnuts out of the fire?
Certainly, states should get something. But what Illinois is asking for is shocking.
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Is Macron Right to Say That Coronabonds Will Save the Eurozone?
by Matt Snape
by French President Emmanuel Macron provided a stark warning to his EU counterparts on Friday as he warned that the bloc is facing a “moment of truth.” He is arguing that the COVID-19 crisis has strengthened the need for greater solidarity among EU member states, particularly those nations that are most vulnerable to the economic effects of the virus, which includes Spain, Italy and Portugal.
The French leader added that now was the appropriate time for coronabonds to be issued which would pool member states’ debt and lessen the burden on them. The bloc could then issue common debt with a common guarantee. However, Austria, the Netherlands and Germany all oppose this plan.
The Disagreement Over Coronabonds
As the European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen was forced to issue a heartfelt apology to Italy for the way that the EU has responded to the country’s plea for help during this time, Macron believes that if the bloc cannot agree to issue indebted nations with coronabonds, it will spell the end of the eurozone.
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California City Dumps 37 Tons of Sand in Skatepark to Keep Kids Out
How much does it take to enforce government restrictions during the era of the coronavirus?
In San Clemente, California, the answer comes to 37 tons of sand, which the city dumped into Ralph’s Skate Court to keep kids away.
The city said it acted because despite issuing social-distancing guidelines and officially closing all parks on April 1, the skateboard park was still being used.
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Chicago Prosecutors Hide Names of Released Prisoners From Police
(WASHINGTON TIMES) Cook County, home of Chicago, released hundreds of inmates from its jails during the coronavirus crisis. But good luck trying to find out who is back on the streets or what crimes they are accused of committing.
The prosecutors and public defenders, who handle the cases in special COVID-19 court hearings, keep a close hold on the information and refuse to share it with the public or other law enforcement agencies.
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office that runs the jail says it doesn’t know who was released because of the coronavirus.
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Linking to his “Reliable Sources” newsletter on Saturday, CNN’s Brian Stelter explained that he had missed the previous day’s deadline because he “hit a wall” due to the “death toll” and the “govt’s shortcomings” so he “crawled in bed and cried … tears [that] had been waiting a month to escape.”
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Cornell Tells Students Not to Record Professors’ Lectures
Cornell University has joined a list of institutions actively reminding students not to record professors’ lectures as classes are now online.
The Cornell Faculty Senate, Graduate, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, and Student Assembly passed a resolution in April to renew their “commitment to academic integrity, equitable instruction, trust, and respect.”
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Mayor Bill de Blasio on Saturday encouraged New Yorkers to report any fellow citizens who they believe are not social distancing by snapping a picture of them and texting it to the authorities.
De Blasio promised that once a photo is received by authorities, “we will make sure that enforcement comes right away.”
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Detroit Police Issue 736 Citations, Shutdown Dozens of Parties During Lockdown
Detroit Police have touted on social media that they issued hundreds of citations and broke up dozens of parties during the coronavirus lockdown, reported Detroit Free Press.
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Donald Trump Challenges China, Iran Coronavirus Mortality Numbers
“Does anybody really believe that number?”
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Harvard Smart People Misspell ‘Arithmetic’ While Advocating ‘Ban’ on Homeschooling
Harvard Magazine’s May-June issue published an article that warned of the inherent dangers of homeschooling — and featured a photo that contained a spelling error.
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Indictments Against Obama’s Deep Staters May Come This Week, Says Journalist
SpyGate scandal under investigation by John Durham nearly complete, says John Solomon.
[Comment: About time.]
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Kansas State Prof: GOP is ‘Death Cult, ‘ Republicans Are ‘Plague Spreaders’
A professor at Kansas State University said that Republicans are part of a “death cult” and asked why no one has yet “developed an app to track Republicans,” who he calls “plague spreaders.”
In response to Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly criticizing Republican leaders for not banning churches and other faith organizations from meeting amid the pandemic, KSU English professor Philip Nel tweeted “Local branch of death cult, aka @KansasGOP, votes to exempt churches from quarantine rules, endangering the lives of us all. This leads me to a serious question.”
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Michael Moore Tweets Video of Trump Dummy Being Repeatedly Punched, Kicked in the Face
Far-left activist Michael Moore tweeted a video Saturday showing numerous people assaulting a dummy that was dressed up to look like President Trump.
Men, women, even children pummeled the likeness of the president with their fists, feet, and makeshift clubs, some jumping on top of the dummy once it was down to continue assaulting it.
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New York Post Slams Facebook for “Fact-Checking” And Suppressing Its Article
The New York Post is now feeling vindicated for its early reporting on coronavirus — and is also starting to understand how social media giants, taking up the news space, operate these days.
Lots of self-declared fact-checking, but little actual fact, might be a good summary of the “news” effort made by the likes of Facebook.
In late February, the New York Post ran an opinion piece, speculating on the origin of a virus that was at the time ravaging China’s region around the city of Wuhan.
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Protests and Rallies Across US Call for End to Coronavirus Stay-at-Home Orders
Protesters gathered across the country on Saturday to vent frustrations at coronavirus stay-at-home measures.
Organized events in Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin took place even as the governors in some of those states have started to roll back the stay-at-home restrictions in question.
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They Don’t Want You to Know the Truth! It’s Time to End the Tyrannical Lockdown Ourselves
The truth is that the government is lying about the real statistics and continuing to tell us that reopening the economy can’t happen right now. Well, it’s time we reopen it ourselves. We’re Americans! Since when have we ever needed the government’s permission?
Fear and panic has gripped the public as the mainstream media did their job of providing the right kind of scary propaganda to the masses. I walked on eggshells before Easter so we wouldn’t get shadowbanned more than we already are. But not anymore. It’s time we, as a people, stand up to tyranny and tell the elitists they don’t control us!
ZeroHedge and others, such as us are targets of big tech for speaking truth to power! They don’t want people exposed to even differing opinions at this point, because the official narrative is all they want you focused on. If you are panicked and afraid and need them, you are easy to control and manipulate.
Not only has our favorite site for financial news (ZeroHedge) been banned from Twitter, but I recently noticed that when I went to click on its articles shared by others, I end up getting a special disclaimer that gives the vibe that it’s a virus site and is about to crash my computer!
We should have stood up years ago when they throttled our freedom in the aftermath of 9/11 to “keep us safe.” But with the coronavirus, I now see the mainstream press and its elitist master are going for the final death blow to our liberty — a decapitation strike that has been very successful so far while they keep pushing lies about the viruses severity to keep everyone in a deep state of fear.
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Trump Swings at Matt Drudge, Drudge Fires Back in Ultra-Rare Statement
Formerly pro-Trump media giant Matt Drudge, whose eponymous news aggregator has in the last year turned decisively anti-Trump, was the target of a presidential tweet on Saturday, with Trump saying he “gave up on Drudge long ago, as have many others,” adding “People are dropping off like flies!”
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Trump Says New York Times Reporter Maggie Haberman Should ‘Give Back’ Her Pulitzer Prize
President Trump said New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman should give back her Pulitzer Prize for her reports on Russia.
Trump addressed a report Haberman wrote on Thursday, which claimed his new chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is emotional and cries at work.
Haberman wrote in her story, titled “For Mark Meadows, Transition From Trump Confidant to Chief of Staff Is a Hard One,” that, “In the case of Mr. Meadows, it has not helped him with his White House colleagues that the former North Carolina congressman, who has a reputation for showing his emotions, cried while meeting with members of the White House staff on at least two occasions.”
Trump defended Meadows during a Saturday press briefing and unleashed on Haberman for her reports on Russia.
“I even read a story where Mark Meadows, he’s a tough guy, he was crying. He was crying. It was Maggie Haberman, you know she won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of Russia. But she was wrong on Russia. So was everyone else. They should all give back their Pulitzer Prizes,” Trump said.
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Imagine if a ‘right’-leaning figure posted something similar.
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Nova Scotia Gunman Shot Dead After Killing 17 People in ‘Senseless’ And ‘Random’ Rampage
One of the worst mass killings in Canadian history unfolded over 12 hours starting late Saturday night, as Gabriel Wortman, 51, a denturist in the Halifax area, murdered 17 people in a rampage through northern Nova Scotia, setting fires and shooting at police while dressed, terrifyingly, as an RCMP officer and driving a mocked up cruiser.
The spree killing that began Saturday night in the seaside village of Portapique, N.S., ended 100 km away on Sunday morning at a gas station outside Halifax, where Wortman was located by a huge force of police officers and dogs, and died in a confrontation.
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20% Rise in Deaths in Italy in March and April Reports ISTAT
Bergamo deaths up five fold says statistics agency
(ANSA) — Rome, April 17 — There has been a 20% rise in deaths in Italy in March and April this year compared to the average of 2015-2019, ISTAT said amid the coronavirus emergency Friday.
Deaths in Bergamo, one of he hardest-hit provinces, are five-fold up.
The survey was done on a sample of 1,689 municipalities.
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Coronavirus: Over 100 Priests Have Died in Italy Says CEI
They are the Church’s beautiful face say bishops
(ANSA) — Rome, April 17 — Over 100 priests have died in Italy with the coronavirus, the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) said Friday.
“They have offered up their lives, expressing once again the beautiful face of the Church,” it said.
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“Carl Schmitt would be very proud of Viktor Orban,” said Donald Tusk in a recent interview in the German Der Spiegel, which happened to be published on the Hungarian Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Mentioning someone in the same sentence with the scholar who contributed to the establishment of Hitler’s legal order is not exactly the most subtle way of calling that person a Nazi.
The smaller problem with that is that it has nothing to do with reality. Orban — and it’s starting to get boring writing it now for the hundredth time — has never made any statement that would support such a claim. At the same time, he noted on numerous occasions that he employs a “zero tolerance” policy for anti-Semitic behavior. In fact, Jewish life in Hungary is enjoying a renaissance, a fact supported by the testimony of many proud, Hungarian Jews, including me.
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EU Commission Boss Issues Another Coronavirus Apology as Bloc Cracks
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has issued another apology to Italy over the European Union’s lack of solidarity during the Chinese coronavirus outbreak.
Mrs von der Leyen stated in the European Parliament this week that she wanted to extend a “heartfelt apology” and said: “Too many were not there on time when Italy needed a helping hand at the very beginning.”
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France: Illicit Drug Shortages Threaten an Increase in Violence
Travel restrictions that have been put in place in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak are leading to increased tensions between dealers, as well as law enforcement, in France’s illicit drug trade.
In many areas where street trafficking is usually commonplace, such as the migrant-majority Paris suburbs, open dealing has dropped off due to the lockdown. The police are making more frequent patrols, and are issuing many fines for curfew violations. Given that the streets are largely empty these days, drug deals stand out more than usual.
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Greece is the Best Performing Country in “Flattening the Curve”
Greece is the best performing country in flattening the curve for the number of confirmed coronavirus cases, according to a new report published on Thursday by the International Think Tank The Bridge.
The comparative study identifies the best and worst performing countries in Europe, and investigates the factors responsible behind their respective performance in flattening the curve.
The report particularly noted the comparison between Greece, which took steps before the first 100 cases were discovered, and Spain, which took similar decisions at a much later stage of the epidemic.
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Italy: Coronavirus: Pharmacist Death Toll Rises to 10
Latest victim is a man from a town near La Spezia
(ANSA) — Rome, April 17 — The death toll from the coronavirus among Italy’s pharmacists rose to 10 as another one died Friday.
The latest casualty is Camillo Alinovi from Varese Ligure, in the province of La Spezia.
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Care England, the country’s largest representative body for care homes, said the number of residents dying from the illness far surpassed government estimates.
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NHS Rationing Oxygen, U.K. Hospitals Instructed to Lower Patients’ Levels Below “Adequate” Range
Oxygen is being rationed at hospitals in the U.K. amid high demand from coronavirus patients and doctors have been instructed to lower patients’ oxygen levels to a range below what is considered “adequate,” The Telegraph reports in an exclusive.
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Norwegian Leftist MP: There is as Much Extremism in Churches as in Mosques
Trond Giske, a member of the Norwegian parliament for the Labour party, recently shocked the Norwegian public when he claimed that extremism and the oppression of gender equality were just as prevalent in Norwegian churches as they are in Norwegian mosques.
Last Tuesday, during a parliamentary debate on a newly proposed law called the Religious Society Act, Christian Tybring-Gjeddemember, a well-known Islam-critical MP and member of the Right-wing Fremskrittspartiet, and Trond Giske butted heads with one another on this issue of Islam in Norway, Document Norway reports.
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Over 1,000 French Sailors Aboard Aircraft Carrier Test Positive for Coronavirus
More than 1,000 sailors aboard a French naval aircraft carrier have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus, of whom some 50 percent have no symptoms at all, French media report.
The French minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, announced on April 17 that 1,081 sailors had tested positive for COVID-19 out of a crew of 2,300 sailors on the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and the aeronautical group accompanying it.
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Police Discover ‘Disturbing Scene’ at Address Used as Suspected Illegal Abattoir in Telford, England
Police officers in Telford, England, have arrested seven men after uncovering what they believe to be an illegal slaughterhouse at a blood-spattered residential address.
Officers reported discovering “a disturbing scene” at an address on Charles Road, Arleston, “with a large amount of blood on the driveway.”
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The European Union is Dead But Does Not Yet Know it
The new coronavirus appears to be tearing apart the fragile framework of the European Union.
“Europe” said the former Commission chief and a EU godfather, Jacques Delors, “is in “mortal danger”.
If citizens feel themselves abandoned at the heart of the pandemic, said Former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, the EU could “collapse”.
The EU objective was evidently supposed to be an “ever closer union”. But now, if the EU does not show solidarity and strength at a time of global crisis, what is the EU’s purpose? Its ideological supporters have a mantra: each new problem must be solved by more Europe. “Europe is our future, we have no other”, Germany’s former Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher once said.
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UK: 7,500 Feared to Have Died With Coronavirus in Care Homes
Care England said its data suggests fatalities are far higher than the 217 figure released by the Office for National Statistics.
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UK: BBC is Regularly Broadcasting Islamic Call to Prayer for the First Time
BBC Radio has adopted a novel approach to responding to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown measures: broadcasting the azaan, or the Islamic call to prayer.
Every Friday at 5:50 AM, which is the holy day for Muslims, the azaan is being recited at the start of its weekly “Islamic Reflections” program, according to a report by Global Village Space. Each week, a different imam will give the broadcast. 14 local BBC stations are currently hosting the program.
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UK: Boris is Back! PM Making Rapid Coronavirus Recovery and Could be in No10 by End of Week
BORIS JOHNSON could return to work this week so he can spearhead the UK’s fight to defeat Coronavirus.
The Prime Minister is said to be making rapid progress in his recovery from Covid-19 and has already started giving instructions to his Cabinet. He recently spoke to his stand-in Domonic Raab in his first serious bout of work since being hospitalised.
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Elizabeth Diacon, 97, said if she was going to die of coronavirus she would rather do it in her care home than in a hospital. (Pictured: Ms Diacon, left, with the Duchess of Cambridge).
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UK: Police Issue CCTV Appeal in Hunt for Would-be Rapist
The British Transport Police have issued a CCTV appeal as part of their hunt for a man who physically assaulted a woman at the Solihull train station, in the West Midlands, last month.
The man in the video followed a woman into the ladies’ restroom off the station’s platform between 12:20 and 12:30 PM on Tuesday, March 10. He shoved the woman into one of the toilet stalls, grabbed her, and demanded that she have sex with him, according to a reportat the British Transport Police website.
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Video: British Police Officer Says He’ll ‘Make Something Up’ To Arrest Man
Video footage showing a UK Lapolice officer threatening to arrest a man on made-up charges during a confrontation has gone viral on social media.
“If you want to f***ing step to me and push your chest out and something like that then fine, I’ll lock you up. We’ll do that shall we?,” the officer says.
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Serbian Leader of the Opposition Nikola Sandulovic was reportedly ‘arrested and poisoned’ by Serbian Police during the Eastern European nations Coronavirus ‘state of emergency’ after he spoke out about faulty Chinese Coronavirus tests, according to bombshell claims revealed to Politicalite.
Mr Sandulovic, who is the leader of the opposition ‘Republican party’ in Serbia is well known in the Eastern European country and is said to be “a huge opponent” of current Serb President Aleksandar Vucic.
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Fumed Over Corona Criticize Islamist Scholar Calls to Expel Hindutva Men From the Gulf
Ayesha Zubair | Gulf Monitor | Dubai | April 19, 2020:: Claiming that Hindutv supporters spreading hatred and committing crimes against Muslims should be expelled from the Gulf, a Saudi Arabian Islamist scholar Sheikh Abidi Zahrani has said, amid a growing number of hate crimes by Hindu supremacists against India’s Muslim minority. But, Zahrani has failed to produce any definite document in support of his claim.
Such alleged attacks have increased during the spread of the coronavirus pandemic as Hindus loyal to the ruling far-right BJP government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi blame Muslims for the spread of the virus.
In a statement the Islamist scholar conveyed, “Modi was barred from the US over his role in the 2002 Gujarat riots that killed over 1,000 Muslims. His supporters have dubbed the virus “corona jihad” and spread the false allegation that the pandemic is a conspiracy by Muslims to infect and poison Hindus”.
Sheikh Abidi Zahrani has fanatically responded to this hostility by urging governments in the Middle East, especially the Gulf, to clamp down on anyone showing sympathy with extremist Hindu ideology. Writing on his official twitter account, Zahrani shared the “Send_Hindutva_Back_home” hashtag: “I propose to all respected followers to list all militant Hindus who are working in the GCC and spreading hate against #Islam #Muslims or our beloved Prophet [Muhammad, peace be upon him] under this #hashtag #Send_Hindutva_Back_home.”…
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We are now witnessing the spread of COVID-19 pandemic arising from the novel Coronavirus. Several countries are battling this disease adopting a multi-pronged approach. The primary focus in all the countries has been to flatten the curve so that their medical infrastructure can handle the number of infected people. Discovery of a vaccine against this virus, newer and faster ways of detecting this virus, and curbing the spread of this infection are being taken up in war footing manner in our country too. In this direction, the government of India have been taking several diverse yet focussed measures and declaring a countrywide lockdown for duration of 14 hours Janata curfew on March 22, 2020 by when 396 cases were detected positive for the novel coronavirus in India. This was followed by a countrywide lock-down from 24/03/2020 initially announced till 14/04/2020. Furthermore, the government has extended this lock-down till 03/05/2020 with a review on 20/04/2020. This has been a very bold, well-planned and strategic step taken by our government with the sole aim of containing the spread of COVID-19 despite the possible deleterious effect of the lock-down on our economy.
Unfortunately, there have been few unprecedented activities that have severely affected the social distancing pattern anticipated during this lock-down period. The congregation of thousands of people at Markaz Nizamuddin Mosque in Delhi during March 13-15, 2020 followed by the attendees’, hereinafter referred to as the Jamaats, movement and clandestine activities have proved to be detrimental in containing the spread of this infection.
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The Rise and Fall of the Islamic State in Afghanistan
by Ezzatullah Mehrdad
by Islamdeen Bahaduri woke up, washed his face and began his morning routine. He ran for an hour and then returned back to his home in the Barchi neighborhood of Kabul, the Afghan capital. Bahaduri ate breakfast and went to accept his certification for completing his TOEFL iBT preparation course and then walked home for lunch. Bahaduri’s passion was for shoot boxing, in which he had won an international gold medal and after lunch he went to practice shoot boxing in a nearby sports club.
The next day on March 6, Bahaduri went to to attend a gatheirng in Kabul. The 21-year-old and winner of 26 medals was thinking about opening a new sports club in memory of his fellow athlete and friend who had been killed in an attack in the past, Mohammad Baqir.
Suddenly two militants opened fire on the crowd.
A friend of Bahaduri’s called his brother Mahram Ali Bahaduri to ask about Islamdeen after hearing of the attack, so Mahram called Islamdeen. Islamdeen’s phone rang without an answer. Mahram called again, and this time someone else picked up the phone and told him that Islamdeen had been killed. Mahram fell on the ground and his uncles helped him to regain consciousness.
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Two men in hazmat suits told businessman Fang Bin they had come to take him into quarantine. But the textile trader, in his 40s, wasn’t ill and the men outside his Wuhan apartment weren’t doctors.
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Chinese Coronavirus is a Man Made Virus According to Luc Montagnier the Man Who Discovered HIV
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.
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Curse of the ‘Bat Woman’ — What Went on in Wuhan Lab?
As America puts the screws on Beijing, there is closer scrutiny of claims that the coronavirus leaked from a research centre.
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Director of Wuhan Lab Denies Coronavirus Escaped From His Facility
The director of a lab studying the coronavirus in Wuhan — the Chinese city where the global outbreak is believed to have originated — denied that the bug accidentally spread from his facility.
“There’s no way this virus came from us,” Yuan Zhiming, director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, told state media on Saturday.
Yuan’s denial came days after a fresh round of reports suggesting the novel coronavirus escaped from the Wuhan Institute or another similar laboratory miles away in the Chinese city.
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Lies, Damned Lies and Coronavirus Statistics
The numbers are in on the great Covid-19 pandemic . . . but unfortunately those numbers are unreliable. From mendacious models and puffed-up projections to dodgy death data and tainted tests, today on The Corbett Report James highlights what the accredited scientists and award-winning researchers are saying about the pandemic pandemonium of 2020.
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Now is Exactly the Time to Investigate the WHO’s Catastrophic Public Failures and Internal Rot
President Trump made precisely the right call in suspending U.S. funding to the World Health Organization, pending a review of its role in “severely mismanaging and covering up the coronavirus.” Trump is doing an important service not only to America, but to the world, with his demands that the WHO clean up its abysmal and misleading act, and stop kowtowing to China.
But here comes the chorus of alarms that this particular moment, in the midst of the worst pandemic since 1918, is not the time to interrupt the WHO’s annual intake of roughly $500 million from U.S. taxpayers. Bill Gates, a big backer of the WHO, declares the United Nations health agency irreplaceable. A Beijing government spokesman proclaims that Trump’s decision will weaken the WHO and “undermine international cooperation.” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opines that the WHO is “absolutely critical to the world’s efforts to win the war against COVID-19” and any review of the WHO should wait till “we have finally turned the page on this epidemic.”
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Shock Photos Inside Wuhan Lab Which Stores 1,500 Virus Strains
A rare glimpse inside the Chinese lab at the centre of the Covid-19 pandemic has done nothing to dispel fears it was caused by a catastrophic leak which has been covered up by Beijing.
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Wherever it originated, the first person that China claims to have contracted the virus was in Wuhan, China in the month of November of 2019. In the five plus months since then it has spread, literally, worldwide. Whatever the original source of this virus, what happened after the virus started infecting humans in China, provides a clear example of how China’s Communist government became a great danger to the entire world and needs to be exposed for what they did, and did not do.
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Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak Reveals “Lethal” Threat of Chinese Communist Party
With the world focused on the coronavirus pandemic, how is China’s communist regime taking advantage of this crisis to expand its grip on Hong Kong?
How exactly has Hong Kong managed to contain the coronavirus, or CCP virus, to relatively few cases?
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The 43-year-old from Fairfield, in Sydney’s southwest, was stopped by officers in Kings Cross, near the CBD and more than 30km from his home, just after midnight on Saturday.
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California to Give $125 Million in Cash to Illegal Immigrants in New Coronavirus Relief Plan
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced a $125-million relief effort for illegal immigrants in response to the coronavirus pandemic. California will offer $500 each to 150,000 adults living in the country illegally who were not included in the $2.2-trillion stimulus package passed by Congress, The Associated Press reported.
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Chaos on Chios: Migrants Riot on Greek Orthodox Holy Saturday (Video)
Migrants living on the eastern Aegean Greek island of Chios set fires and attacked police on Orthodox Holy Saturday into the early morning hours of Easter Sunday.
Two cars, tents, a canteen inside of the migrant camp, and houses were burned during the chaos which ensued after false news of an Iraqi woman dying from COVID-19 caused fear and anxiety to spread among the camp’s migrants, news portal Politis Chios reports.
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Greece Did an Excellent Job Guarding Europe’s Border, Says German Minister
German Deputy Interior Minister, Helmut Teichmann said that Greece did an excellent job guarding Europe’s border, but fell short of criticising Turkey for its illegal actions and dangerous behaviour.
He also called the relocation of 50 unaccompanied minors from Greece to Germany on Saturday the first step of many to come.
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Rescued Migrants to Quarantine on Ferry Off Italy
ROME — Some 180 migrants rescued at sea will be held in isolation on an Italian ferry off the coast of Sicily, the coast guard said Sunday.
Italy has refused to take in saved migrants due to the coronavirus epidemic, saying the outbreak, which has killed over 23,000 people, meant it could no longer be considered a port of safety.
Thirty-four people pulled to safety by Spanish NGO rescue vessel Aita Mari were being transferred Sunday to the Rubattino ferry, which is anchored outside the port of Palermo and staffed by 22 Red Cross volunteers.
They join 146 migrants who were transferred to the ferry on Friday from the The Alan Kurdi rescue vessel, run by the German NGO Sea Eye.
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Turkish Ships Transporting Illegal Migrants Into Greek Waters Stopped (Video)
Several Turkish ships escorting illegal migrants to the island of Lesbos were prevented from entering Greek territorial waters by the Hellenic Coast Guard, dramatic video footage has revealed.
There were several failed attempts to communicate with the Turkish authorities and the Turkish coast guard ships who were attempting to escort illegal migrants into Greek maritime waters, according to an official statement from the Hellenic Coast Guard.
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UK: Conor McGregor Angered as Migrant Workers Fly in While Locals Banned From Loved Ones’ Funerals
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) star Conor McGregor has expressed his anger at governments allowing businesses to fly in migrant workers while the people “cannot go to the funerals of our loved ones”.
McGregor, the first UFC fighter to hold belts in two weight classes simultaneously and still the biggest draw in mixed martial arts (MMA), posted his message on social media after a follower sent him Facebook screenshots of a what was claimed to be an anonymous message sent to a local politician about flights into the Irish capital of Dublin from Bulgaria.
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Video: Angry Migrants Cry Racism at Protest Outside German Living Facility
Two weeks ago, protests erupted outside of Camp Lindenstrasse — a migrant living facility in Bremen, Germany. Forty or so angry migrants took to the streets and called on government authorities to shut the facility down amid the coronavirus crisis.
One of the protesters can be heard yelling: “They only care about whites! The racism is too much” one of the angry
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The Real Religious Jihad on America
We are living in a time of revealing. Christians, Conservatives, Libertarians, Patriots, and other freedom and liberty minded people, should take the time to rejoice. There are many reasons to rejoice today but here is one that some may be missing — we should rejoice because the God-haters, the America-haters, the freedom-haters, the liberty-haters, in short, the satanic, demonic, Leftists among us are finally being exposed on a scale and at a depth never before seen in American history.
Leftists, Marxists, Communists, Democrats, America-haters, and God-haters, all have one thing in common — they serve a demonic master who has completely destroyed their innate ability to reason for the common good. I and many others have said for many years that Leftist politics, whether Marxist, or Globalist, is a mental disorder. We are seeing that truth verified like never before…
Woke politics is nothing more than hatred of the Caucasian race. For white liberals it is self-loathing, for people of color it is cover for their blatant racism. The goal of woke politics and woke religion is the total destruction of America and the deliberately engineered restructuring of it as a progressive utopia where alleged marginalized people of gender and sexual dysphoria, people of color, people of aberrant practices and beliefs foreign to this nation and our history, will rule and enforce their version of justice upon the majority. If you are white then you are out.
If you think I’m exaggerating then you are deceived and ignorant, willfully or because of slothfulness. Here is what I wrote recently on the Trojan horse called Critical race Theory.
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I came across an interesting video which makes a case that Covid-19 came from a lab.
The creator of the video says that he had lived in China for around ten years and is fluent in the language.
There are at least two commenters on the video who say that they are native Chinese speakers and that the video maker used the Chinese language materials correctly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU&t=318s
About the story of 100 dead priests in Italy:
ah yes, the by now notorious Italian death stats, where dying WITH the virus is the same as dying OF it, that is, assuming a test was even done!
Not to mention high smoking rates and bad air pollution in N Italy and 100,000 Wuhan textile workers in N Italy commuting back and forth.
So how old were these priests typically, and how many were already ill?
Because Point 4 of Facts at http://www.swprs.org today 19.04:
“The median age of the deceased in most countries (including Italy) is over 80 years and only about 1% of the deceased had no serious previous illnesses. The age and risk profile of deaths thus essentially corresponds to normal mortality. Up to 60% of all Covid19-related deaths have occurred in particularly vulnerable nursing homes.”
“Orban — and it’s starting to get boring writing it now for the hundredth time — has never made any statement that would support such a claim. At the same time, he noted on numerous occasions that he employs a “zero tolerance” policy for anti-Semitic behavior.” You forgot that lefties don’t care about facts. They expect you take the information as they present it. How dare we call them out on their bs! Had they the power to send us to gulags, they would happily do so, no doubt.
Killing in Nova Scotia:
For those interested about the history of mass killings in Canada – Check out this Wikipedia list. It starts at 1689, lists the 1872 Cypress Hills Massacre which brought the RCMP into being. There’s the 1989 Montreal Polytechnique killing and right up to the latest one in Nova Scotia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Canada
Montagnier was the 2008 winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the identification of the virus responsible for AIDS. Montagnier proclaimed he is one hundred percent certain the virus was designed by molecular biologists.
https://rairfoundation.com/breaking-nobel-prize-winning-scientist-coronavirus-was-leaked-from-a-chinese-laboratory-and-has-hiv-dna-watch/
You must not have noticed my post yesterday on the same topic, same video, plus the transcript: https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/04/nobel-prize-winner-violates-the-covid-narrative/