Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/21/2020

The state of Missouri is suing China to recover costs incurred due to the Chinese government’s mendacity at the onset of the coronavirus outbreak. Meanwhile, in Italy a Mafia boss was caught hoarding 11 tons of hand sanitizer.

In other news, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 94th birthday.

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Financial Crisis
» EU Facing Collapse: Coronavirus Has Accelerated Bloc’s Descent — Eurozone on Brink
» EU Summit Won’t Decide on Recovery Fund — Sources
» Trump Admin. Plans to Slash Federal Regulations to Aid Economic Recovery
» Vice President Pence’s Hand-Picked Globalists Destroyed Our Economy
 
USA
» After Pushback, Whitmer Cancels Coronavirus Tracing Contract Awarded to Democrat Political Intel Giant
» Bill Gates Revealed, The Real COVID-19 Agenda
» Bill Clinton Restrained CIA From Killing Osama Bin Laden, New Documentary Reveals
» CDC’s Failed Coronavirus Tests Were Tainted With Coronavirus, Feds Confirm
» Expert Says U.S. Is on the Brink of “Mass Civil Unrest”
» ‘It’s Not the Same’: College Students Revolt Against Online Classes, Sue for Tuition Refunds
» Justice Department May Take Action Against States With Overly Strict Coronavirus Lockdowns
» Living and Dying in Bill Gates’ Fish Bowl
» Missouri Files Lawsuit Against China for Coronavirus Cover-Up
» New York’s Le Cirque Restaurant Founder Dies
» ORNL Researcher Helps Discover New Species of Cave Snail
» Soros-Funded Organization Wants Prisoners Released Due to Coronavirus
» State Governors Say Facebook Contacted Them About ‘Reopen America’ Events
» State Governors Say Facebook is Lying, Facebook Alone Decided to Shut Down Protest Groups
» Trolls Flood Bill De Blasio’s Coronavirus Snitch Line With Dick Pics & Hitler Memes
» U.S. Records Lowest Number of Coronavirus Deaths in 2 Weeks
» Understanding Coronavirus on April 15, 2020
» Video: Trump Owns PBS Reporter With Ridiculous Questions About Him ‘Causing Sickness’ And ‘Not Taking Virus Seriously’
» Watch: Trump Campaign Ad Blasts Pelosi for Eating Ice Cream While Economy Collapses
» Watch: Trump to Tell Harvard to ‘Pay Back the Money’
 
Canada
» ‘Hundreds’ of Inmates Quietly Released From Federal Prisons Over COVID-19 Fears: Blair
 
Europe and the EU
» At Least 25 French Cities and Towns Erupt in Riots as ‘Youths’ Attack Police
» Coronavirus: Nurse Death Toll in Italy Rises to 34
» Coronavirus: No. of Infected Falls for First Time in Italy
» Coronavirus: UK’s Historic Parliament Reopens With Zoom-Based Hybrid Digital Chamber
» ‘Extremely Violent’ Terrorist Dubbed ISIS Rapper Nabbed in Spanish Hideout
» Finding Europe’s Hidden Conservatives
» Italian Doctor Claims Coronavirus Was Already in Italy in Early January
» Italy: Coronavirus: ‘200 Out of 1,000’ Died at Trivulzio Home
» Italy: Distancing Until Vaccine, EU Summit Won’t be Last Word — Conte
» Italy: Mafia Boss Caught Hoarding 11 Tonnes of Antiseptic Gel
» Italy Announces ‘Phase Two’ Lockdown Update, Permitting Family Visits
» More 5G Towers Torched Across Europe
» ‘Operation Kowtow’ — Ex-PM May’s Top Adviser Admits UK Submission to ‘Brutal’ Chinese Regime Was ‘Naive’
» Orban: Exit Plan to be Outlined in Early May
» Police in French Department Attacked Almost Daily for Last Two Weeks
» UK ONS Figures Show Three Times More Deaths From Flu & Pneumonia Than Coronavirus
» UK Reliant on PPE Shipments From Tyrant Nations China and Turkey
» UK: “I’ll Make Something Up” Lockdown Cop Suspended
» UK: Boris Expected to Return to Work Next Week After Recovering From Coronavirus
» UK: Coronavirus: Cancer Treatment Cutbacks Could Lead to 60,000 Premature Deaths, Oncologist Warns
» UK: Farage on Coronavirus Policing: Liberties Have Been Surrendered, But Getting Freedoms Back May Take Years
» UK: Happy Birthday! World’s Longest Reigning Monarch Queen Elizabeth II Turns 94
» UK: London Police Ask Citizens to Report COVID-19 Hate Crimes
» UK: Two Men Arrested for Posting “Pubs Closed, Borders Open” Stickers
» UK: Three Middle Eastern Men to Stand Trial for False Imprisonment and Rape
 
Balkans
» Novak Djokovic’s Wife is Shamed With a ‘False Information’ Badge by Instagram for Spreading Coronavirus 5G Conspiracy Theories, After the Tennis World No 1 Revealed He’s an Anti-Vaxxer
 
Middle East
» Imprisoned Iranian Christian Mary Mohammadi Gets 3 Months in Prison, 10 Lashes
 
South Asia
» India: Amidst Coronavirus Outbreak, PM Modi’s Approval Rating Soars to 68%, Higher Than Any Other World Leader: Here Are the Details
» India: Hapur, UP: Muslim Youth Attack Hindus Suspecting Them of Disclosing the Location of Tablighi Jamaat Members, Five Injured
 
Far East
» Missouri Files Suit Against China for ‘Enormous’ Consequences of Coronavirus ‘Deceit’
» Trump: Kim Jong Un’s Health Unclear, But ‘I Wish Him Well’
» US Public Opinion of China Hits New Low, Pew Research Survey Shows
» Wuhan Doctors Who Were Critically Ill With Coronavirus Wake Up to Find That Their Skin Has Turned Dark After Virus Damaged Their Liver
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘Arrogant’ Parents Who Hosted a Huge Party for Their Son’s Eighth Birthday Are Fined $1,652 for Breaking Lockdown Laws — But None of the Guests Will Have to Pay a Cent
» Australia Smashes the Coronavirus Curve: Just 13 People Are Diagnosed Nationwide in a Remarkable 24 Hours That Saw Four States and Territories Record Zero New Cases — Here’s When Lockdowns Could End
» Australia’s Meth Capital: Ice Use is So Rampant in One State That Children Are Being Exposed to the Deadly Drug Through Their Junkie Parents
» Australia’s Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs to 72 as Woman, 92, Dies at COVID-19-Riddled Nursing Home
» Backpackers Living in a Stunning Country Town Are Terrorized by Angry Locals Who Shout and Throw Rocks at Them in a Desperate Bid to Get Them to Go Home Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic
» Exposed: The Incredibly Wealthy Elites Who Think They Deserve Your Cash to Bail Out Virgin Australia After Loading it Up With an Astonishing $5.3billion of Debt
» How Super-Rich Americans Fled to New Zealand to Stay in Their Lavish Doomsday Survival Shelters During Coronavirus Crisis — But Some of Them Didn’t Even Know How to Get Into Their Bunkers
» Moment a Shirtless Man is Arrested in His Caravan After Four Australian Children as Young as TWO MONTHS Are Filmed Being Raped in Sick Videos Sent to Paedophiles Around the World
 
Immigration
» EU to Pay for Migrant’s Hotel Accommodations on Greece’s Mainland
» Germany: 1,800 “Unaccompanied Minors” Immigrants Are Missing
» Greece: Over 100 Migrants Staying at Hotel Infected With Wuhan Coronavirus
» Greece: Migrant Camps Infiltrated by Turkish Intelligence
» Trump’s Immigration Ban Exempts “Refugees” & “Essential Workers”
 
Culture Wars
» Italy: Wife’s Homosexuality Recognised as Cause for Annulment
» UK Nurses Remove Twitter Maori Tribute Video After Being Accused of “Cultural Appropriation”
» Wired: Global Warming is ‘Second Great Crisis’ After Coronavirus
 

EU Facing Collapse: Coronavirus Has Accelerated Bloc’s Descent — Eurozone on Brink

THE plight of the eurozone now amounts to an “existential crisis” for the EU, exposing a “fundamental chasm” at the heart of the bloc, most notably between Germany and Italy, former Tory leader William Hague has said.

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

EU Summit Won’t Decide on Recovery Fund — Sources

Summit will back Eurogroup’s 540bn recovery plan say sources

(ANSA) — Rome, April 21 — Thursday’s European Union summit will not decide on a recovery fund for the coronavirus emergency, EU sources said Tuesday.

The summit, they said, will back the Eurogroup’s decision on a 540 billion euro recovery plan, but “it won’t give all the answers on the numbers of the next EU budget or on what innovative instruments will be fielded to give a response”, such as a recovery fund or coronabonds. “All this is an ongoing process”, and such instruments “will not be discussed at this summit”, the sources told ANSA.

Italy is still pushing for coronabonds and is against the use of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), while Spain has just proposed perpetual bonds, an idea also espoused by financier and philanthropist George Soros.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Admin. Plans to Slash Federal Regulations to Aid Economic Recovery

The Trump administration is planning to slash federal regulations and red tape in the coming weeks, hoping to free up burdens on small businesses and help hasten an economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

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

Vice President Pence’s Hand-Picked Globalists Destroyed Our Economy

After Alex Azar was sidelined, President Trump’s second choice to head the Coronavirus Task Force was establishment globalist Vice President Mike Pence. Trump knew it was a make or break job, and how has that worked out for us?

Pence brought in the Bill Gates/Rockefeller WHO team of Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci. Their false prognostication models were used to purposely lockdown and destroy America’s economy. Why? Because the Democrats knew the one thing that would guarantee Trump’s second term was his booming economy. Oh yes, this was planned. Bill Gates forecast a pandemic in 2015, and Anthony Fauci forecast a pandemic for President Trump in January of 2017 at Georgetown University.It was set in motion…

MIT scientist and biological engineer, Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai crushes Dr. Fauci, exposes Dr. Birx, the Clintons, Bill Gates and Dr. Tedros’ World Health Organization (WHO) in this 15 minute video.

In an open letter to President Trump, Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, who holds a PhD from MIT in biological engineering, systems biology, wrote, The current trajectory of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s public “health” policy will result in the short— and long-term destruction of our citizen’s immune health as well as our nation’s economic health — perhaps a conscious and intended goal. Dr. Fauci’s policy, at best, is based on a 1950s outdated “one-size-fits-all,” non-personalized approach to medicine and public health; at worst is derived from a “fake science” understanding of the immune system.

Former U.S. Congressman Dr. Ron Paul has also called for Fauci to be fired. On the April 9, 2020 episode of the Ron Paul Liberty Report, Dr. Paul said, Of course, a significant move would be to get rid of Fauci. He should be fired, but if you don’t do it in the literal sense the people have to fire him. They have to fire him by saying, “He’s a fraud!” He doesn’t give us any good information.

Dr. Rashid A. Buttar goes even further and blames Dr. Anthony Fauci for the pandemic. Why? Dr. Buttar tells that this was a chimeric version virus, something that was developed here in the United States in 2015 and was published in Nature Magazine. The virus was originally developed at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and that’s where all the initial studies were done. They were doing chimeric research despite a moratorium by the U.S. government preventing it.

Our Government said there was no reason for this kind of research because there was a potential for it to cause harm and a pandemic, and that’s why the government passed a moratorium in 2014. Dr. Buttar says that Fauci basically broke the law, that he went against a government moratorium, he used taxpayer money through his National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)and funded research that led to Covid-19, and then he was documented at Georgetown University in 2017 saying that President Trump will face a pandemic…

The virus agenda plays right UN Agenda 2030 regarding population reduction and control, especially of the elderly who know true freedom in America.

Globalists are using COVID-19 to usher in UN Agenda 2030’s “Brave New World” ten years ahead of schedule. Their trial balloon via this Chinese bioweapon, originally started in the USA, has worked extraordinarily well with a majority of the population who has fallen prey to the epidemic of fear.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

After Pushback, Whitmer Cancels Coronavirus Tracing Contract Awarded to Democrat Political Intel Giant

As Disrn reported Tuesday afternoon, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had awarded a coronavirus tracing contract to a noted Democratic consultant and information firmcalled NGP VAN, raising concerns that the commission, which is meant to help track and halt the disease’s spread in the state, was poised to harvest political intel for the Democratic Party from its gathering of COVID-19 data.

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

Bill Gates Revealed, The Real COVID-19 Agenda

In the video above, Spiro Skouras reviews how the global COVID-19 pandemic is being used to snatch freedom and liberty away from us, and the role Gates is playing in the process.

“We have been encouraged to sacrifice our liberty for a false sense of security, being conditioned more and more each day to rely on the state for protection and now many of us find ourselves relying on the state to pay our bills,” Skouras says.9

“Some are beginning to see that there may be more to the official story than what we are led to believe. The very few may have seen this coming and are waiting for the next phase of what very well could be another step closer to global governance.

The exact same individuals and government agencies, in addition to global institutions who stand to benefit the most, are the ones calling the shots.”

Gates, surely, fits the description of someone who is both calling the shots and stands to gain handsomely from the COVID-19 pandemic. How? First, by investing in the same industries he’s giving charitable donations to and, second, by promoting a global public health agenda that benefits the companies he’s invested in and supports.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Bill Clinton Restrained CIA From Killing Osama Bin Laden, New Documentary Reveals

Bill Clinton during his presidency thwarted the CIA from an open opportunity to kill Osama bin Laden, in essence binding them with red tape, according to a new documentary.

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

CDC’s Failed Coronavirus Tests Were Tainted With Coronavirus, Feds Confirm

As the new coronavirus took root across America, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent states tainted test kits in early February that were themselves seeded with the virus, federal officials have confirmed.

The contamination made the tests uninterpretable, and—because testing is crucial for containment efforts—it lost the country invaluable time to get ahead of the advancing pandemic.

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

Expert Says U.S. Is on the Brink of “Mass Civil Unrest”

An expert with the United States Studies Centre says that America is on the brink of “mass civil unrest” that threatens to emerge out of anti-lockdown protests now taking place nationwide.

Demonstrations against coronavirus stay-at-home measures have exploded across the country over the last week after President Trump encouraged them on social media. The National Guard has been called out in some areas to deal with potential disorder.

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

‘It’s Not the Same’: College Students Revolt Against Online Classes, Sue for Tuition Refunds

College students are in revolt against their universities as the institutions have refused to budge on tuition reimbursements or reductions while offering sub-par remote learning classes in online-only format.

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

Justice Department May Take Action Against States With Overly Strict Coronavirus Lockdowns

The State Department may take legal action against states with overly strict coronavirus lockdowns, Attorney General William Barr said on Tuesday, an indication the federal government may already consider some state shutdowns to have been overreaching.

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Living and Dying in Bill Gates’ Fish Bowl

Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the recipient of an academic award from Chinese communist authorities, has emerged in recent weeks as an “expert” on coronavirus when just a few months ago the media were starting to pay attention to his sleazy involvement with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Even the New York Times was on to the story, digging up photos of Gates and Epstein at his mansion. One of Epstein’s associates had been placed at the Gates Foundation.

Epstein was among a group of global elites who shared an atheist belief that scientific advances could help them live forever artificially. It’s not exactly clear what Epstein, Gates, and others were contemplating. But Gates’ relationship began after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes.

More recently, Gates has emerged as a Trump critic and big backer of the U.N.’s World Health Organization. But to almost everyone except those blinded by their hatred of President Trump, it is becoming painfully obvious that both Red China and the World Health Organization (WHO) are implicated in what John West, executive director of the Asian Century Institute, calls “the greatest disaster and blunder the world has seen since the Second World War” — the release of the coronavirus and attempts to cover-up its lethal nature and killing potential.

The use of the term “blunder” assumes the virus leaked out of China, or a lab, by accident. That’s not necessarily the case. In any event, West writes that, “The COVID 19 crisis has highlighted the bankruptcy of China’s authoritarian governance which not only greatly facilitates cover-ups and fake narratives, but in that process evidently puts the health of the world’s population at risk.” He suggests pursuing the Australian government proposal for an independent international inquiry “on the origin and handling of the COVID 19 crisis, including the role of the WHO…”

While there is some merit to this idea, what is also required is a serious examination of those in the global elite class who have made it possible for China to conduct human biological experiments that threaten our humanity and survival. As I recently noted in a column titled, “A Frankenstein Monster Devouring the World,” the Human Genome Project opened the door to a Communist Frankenstein project of human genetic modification and manipulation when a Chinese scientist went public in November 2018 with the news that he had created the world’s first genetically-altered babies. The Chinese authorities were not prepared for this public admission at that time and sent the scientist to prison for speaking out of turn.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Missouri Files Lawsuit Against China for Coronavirus Cover-Up

The Missouri state government on Tuesday announced it was filing a lawsuit against the Chinese government, citing Beijing’s mishandling and “deceit” in the initial coronavirus outbreak that has led to a deadly global pandemic.

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

New York’s Le Cirque Restaurant Founder Dies

Sirio Macconi entertained film stars, presidents and popes

(ANSA) — Montecatini Terme, April 20 — Sirio Macconi, founder of New York’s legendary Le Cirque restaurant, died in his native Tuscany aged 88 on Sunday night, Macconi, who had worked in Paris and Hamburg before reaching New York, opened Le Cirque in 1974 and went on to entertain presidents from Nixon to Clinton as well as the cream of US movie stars and Pope John Paul II.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

ORNL Researcher Helps Discover New Species of Cave Snail

A researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory helped discover a small cave snail.

The new snail species has been named the Tennessee cavesnail, or Antrorbis tennesseensis. Its name honors the state where it was found and the fact that several researchers involved in its discovery are affiliated with the University of Tennessee. A paper describing and naming the species was published in December.

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

Soros-Funded Organization Wants Prisoners Released Due to Coronavirus

A Soros-funded organization in the US is petitioning the governors of all 50 states to release inmates from state prisons as a coronavirus “social distancing” measure.

The letter came from the Brennan Center for Justice, and has been published online. The Brennan Center is urging governors to use their power to issue executive orders to “release as many people as possible from incarceration.” The justification offered is that prisons tend to be cramped, thus making it difficult for prisoners to follow social distancing guidelines. According to the letter, this puts them especially at risk for coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreaks.

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

State Governors Say Facebook Contacted Them About ‘Reopen America’ Events

State governors have denied asking Facebook to remove ‘Reopen America’ event pages, saying that it was the social network that contacted them over the matter, not the other way around as initially reported.

Fake news CNN reporter Oliver Darcy tweeted Monday that Facebook had taken down pages promoting lockdown protests, pointing to California, New Jersey, and Nebraska, and saying that the action was taken “on the instruction of governments in those three states”.

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

State Governors Say Facebook is Lying, Facebook Alone Decided to Shut Down Protest Groups

It’s slowly becoming clear that US state governors were contacted by the social media giant Facebook over “Reopen America” events, not the other way around.

While CNN reporters initially tweeted that the governors were the ones to ask Facebook to ban the event pages of “Reopen America”, it’s now looking more likely that Facebook actively pursued guidance from state governors in a move to shut down groups that were organizing protests themselves.

State governors say they didn’t ask Facebook to censor the groups.

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

Trolls Flood Bill De Blasio’s Coronavirus Snitch Line With Dick Pics & Hitler Memes

People reacted to the launch of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s coronavirus snitch hotline by flooding it with dick pics and Hitler memes.

The Mayor launched the service on Saturday to encourage New Yorkers to report people who violate social distancing rules.

However, the response didn’t quite go as planned as it was deluged by trolls seeking to stick the figurative middle finger up at the Stasi-like nature of the hotline.

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

U.S. Records Lowest Number of Coronavirus Deaths in 2 Weeks

Monday marked the lowest number of coronavirus-related deaths in the U.S for the past two weeks. It follows a surge in deaths that spiked at 4,591 in a single day.

The coronavirus killed 1,433 people in the United States on April 20, according to Johns Hopkins University, bringing the overall death toll to 42,364.

Nearly 93% of all coronavirus-related deaths in the U.S. have occurred in the past three weeks, with 44% occurring in the past seven days. Deaths seems to have slowed since then, with an average of 600 fewer deaths than previous days.

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

Understanding Coronavirus on April 15, 2020

By Dr. John Ure, MD

I rather dislike the title of being a conspiracy theorist because I consider myself a conspiracy fact person. My mother always preached to we children that she could not stand a thief or a liar. I feel exactly the same way. I do not like being lied to. It reminds me of the movie A Few Good Men with Tom Cruise as an attorney and Jack Nicholson as a Marine Colonel on the witness stand who essentially lost it. He began screaming at the top of his lungs,” you cannot handle the truth.” This is exactly what is going on with our government and all of the alphabet agencies we have to deal with. They are treating us as though we are mushrooms, keeping us in the dark and feeding us bullsh*t.

At this particular time I have two different tracks or thoughts and I’m not exactly sure which one is correct or if it’s a blend of both. This will become apparent in the article.

I am not going to be quoting facts, figures and numbers because those can easily be manipulated and changed at will. What I will be attempting to do is give you a picture as I see and understand to the best of my ability.

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Video: Trump Owns PBS Reporter With Ridiculous Questions About Him ‘Causing Sickness’ And ‘Not Taking Virus Seriously’

In what has become a daily occurrence at the White House press briefings, President Trump had to fend off baseless accusations from a left wing reporter. This time that he hasn’t taken the coronavirus outbreak seriously, causing families to become sick.

PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor told Trump that she knew people who became infected with the virus because they saw the President didn’t “have a mask on,” so they didn’t take precautions.

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

Watch: Trump Campaign Ad Blasts Pelosi for Eating Ice Cream While Economy Collapses

A new campaign ad from President Trump’s team shows Nancy Pelosi boasting about her extensive ice cream collection, after Democrats blocked legislation to help Americans financially to the tune of $250 billion during the coronavirus shutdown.

The ad is titled “Let them eat ice cream” — Nancy Antoinette, a reference to the infamous “let them eat cake” jibe commonly attributed to French queen Marie Antoinette in 1789 upon learning that peasants had no bread.

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

Watch: Trump to Tell Harvard to ‘Pay Back the Money’

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will personally request that Harvard University return the nearly $9 million it was allocated as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act passed by Congress in March.

At Tuesday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force press conference, a reporter asked Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin if he would request big businesses ending up with stimulus money from the Paycheck Protection Program, which was intended for small businesses, return the cash.

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

‘Hundreds’ of Inmates Quietly Released From Federal Prisons Over COVID-19 Fears: Blair

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says “hundreds” of federal inmates were quietly released amidst a COVID-19 outbreak in several government-run institution.

Speaking at a news briefing in Ottawa, Blair wanted to assure Canadians the government, Correctional Services Canada (CSC), and the Parole Board took “a number of very significant steps” to ensure the health and safety of the inmate populations.

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

At Least 25 French Cities and Towns Erupt in Riots as ‘Youths’ Attack Police

Areas in at least 25 cities and departments in France erupted into rioting on Monday night, including attacks on police and attempts to burn down a police station in Strasbourg.

Some of the incidents are believed to have been sparked by a Saturday night motorcycle accident in the Paris suburb of Villeneuve-la-Garenne which also involved the local police.

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

Coronavirus: Nurse Death Toll in Italy Rises to 34

Professional federation reports three more deaths

(ANSA) — Rome, April 17 — The death toll from the coronavirus among Italy’s nurses rose to 34 as three more died on Friday.

Some 8,800 nurses are currently infected with COVID-19, the federation of nurses guilds FNOPI said.

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Coronavirus: No. of Infected Falls for First Time in Italy

Number of patients in intensive care lowest level in a month

(ANSA) — Rome, April 20 — The Civil Protection Department said Monday that, for the first time since the start of the coronavirus emergency, the number of infected fell with respect to the previous day.

There are currently 108,237 people infected with COVID-19 in Italy, compared to 108,257 Sunday, a drop of 20. On Sunday the rise was 486.

The department said 24,114 people have died with the coronavirus here, up 454. On Sunday the daily rise was 433.

It said 48,877 people have recovered from the coronavirus in Italy, up 1,822. Sunday’s rise was 2,128.

There are 2,573 people are in intensive care with the coronavirus in Italy, 62 fewer than Sunday, as a trend continues.

“It’s the lowest figure in a month,” said Civil Protection Chief and Emergency Commissioner Angelo Borrelli.

The overall number of sabs taken is 1,398.024, 41,483 more than Sunday. Almost 661,000 have been taken in Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna and Veneto.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Coronavirus: UK’s Historic Parliament Reopens With Zoom-Based Hybrid Digital Chamber

The UK House of Commons has resumed its business with a digital hybrid chamber reportedly powered by Zoom, the popular video conferencing service shunned by U.S. and Taiwanese lawmakers over security concerns.

While Britain’s House of Commons is cramped by design — it has 427 seats for 650 members, said to be a deliberate decision to make crowded sittings feel more urgent and momentous — the new coronavirus parliament is forcing members to give each other personal space. Limiting those allowed to be physically present to 50 out of 650 who should have the right to sit, several rows of seating have been physically blocked with temporary wooden barriers.

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

‘Extremely Violent’ Terrorist Dubbed ISIS Rapper Nabbed in Spanish Hideout

One of Europe’s most wanted terrorists — known as the ISIS Rapper — has hit a sour note with cops in Spain.

According to police, British-Egyptian jihadist Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary was nabbed at his southern Spain hideout in Almeria.

Cops didn’t mince words in saying the ISIS terrorist has an “extremely violent criminal profile” and a “criminal record in the ranks of ISIS.”

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

Finding Europe’s Hidden Conservatives

Does Europe have any conservatives? That is, believers in individual responsibility, national independence, free markets, a single law for all, the traditional family, and maximum freedom of speech and religion.

Seemingly not. Politicians called conservative — such as Angela Merkel of Germany, Jacques Chirac of France, and Fredrik Reinfeldt of Sweden — are often in reality mild leftists, as are their parties. One might conclude that conservatism is defunct in its homeland.

One would be wrong. A substantial conservative movement exists and is growing in Europe. It is hiding in plain sight, obscured by being tarred as populists, nationalists, extreme-right, or even neo-Nazis. I call this group by another name: civilizationists, acknowledging that (1) they focus on preserving Western civilization and (2) they forward some distinctly un-conservative policies (such as increased welfare and pension payments).

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

Italian Doctor Claims Coronavirus Was Already in Italy in Early January

A doctor in northern Italy has claimed he saw patients with Wuhan coronavirus symptoms a month before Italy’s “patient one” was diagnosed as the first confirmed case.

Dr Pietro Poidomani practices medicine in the town of Cividate al Piano, which lies around 16 miles from the city of Bergamo, one of the areas of Italy hardest hit by the Chinese virus outbreak that has claimed tens of thousands of lives across the country.

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Italy: Coronavirus: ‘200 Out of 1,000’ Died at Trivulzio Home

Situation at Milan care home ‘very critical’ say relatives

(ANSA) — Milan, April 20 — Some 200 out of 1,000 residents at Milan care home Pio Albergo Trivulzio have died since the beginning of March, a relatives committee said Monday.

It described the situation at the well-known home, whose managers are under investigation on suspicion of culpable negligence, as “very critical”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Distancing Until Vaccine, EU Summit Won’t be Last Word — Conte

ESM activation will be up to parliament says PM

(ANSA) — Rome, April 21 — Social distancing and facemasks will be needed in phase two of the coronavirus emergency until a vaccine is ready for use, Premier Giuseppe Conte said Tuesday, while the possible activation of the European Stability Mechanism bailout fund to help economic recovery would be up to the Italian parliament.

Conte said Thursday’s European Union summit on the economic response to the emergency “won’t give the last word but will have to issue a clear direction” on the instruments to combat the shock generated by the virus.

A contact tracing app will be voluntary and without penalization, Conte added in briefing the Senate on phase two.

The premier said “we will reactivate the country’s economic engine with a structured programme” and said that social distancing norms would be “modified” in phase two.

Conte stressed that reopening activities must be achieved according to a “homogeneous” programme, implemented on a national basis despite differences in regional governors’ requests.

“Phase two will be complex and haste would wreak damaged,” he added.

Conte said a new decree to help businesses and the unemployed would be worth no less than 50 billion euros, bringing the total under two decrees to “no less than 75 billion euros”.

The premier said “the IMF estimates negative growth of 9.1% (this year) so we must boost our economic response”.

He said “there is the risk of new poverty, so we must have more incisive help” for those who have little or no income because of the virus lockdown.

Conte said he was “fully aware” that parliament must be involved in decision-making, after being criticized for announcing policy on social media.

He said “a responsible opposition will find me open to their proposals”.

On the European Union, Conte said that “if it repeats the mistakes of 2008, the EU project is at risk”.

Conte has called for a unified European response to the emergency by issuing euro bonds, or ‘coronabonds’.

This has been rejected by northern European countries like Germany and the Netherlands, who argue that the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) bailout fund is enough.

The topic will top the agenda at an EU summit on Thursday.

Spain has proposed perpetual bonds but northern deficit hawks says southern European countries must be content with drawing on the ESM with fewer strings attached than in the 2011 sovereign debt crisis.

Conte told the Senate: “on the now over-famous ESM a debate has been fueled in the last few weeks that risks dividing Italy into opposing fan bases,” referring to divisions within government and with the centre-right opposition.

He said the intention was to proceed “with the utmost caution”.

Parliament would have the last word on activating the ESM, he said.

Conte has previously said he would not activate the bailout fund.

The premier told the Senate Tuesday that countries like Spain have shown interest in using the ESM with fewer strings attached, and “refusing this new line of credit would mean hurting these countries that are flanking us in the battle” in the EU.

Conte called for an EU ‘Recovery Fund’ in line with EU treaties, even if it is linked to the EU budget.

He said Italy supported France and Spain’s proposals on this.

Conte said a recovery fund with common debt was essential.

He said that Italy would have to wait for the details of the new credit line to be released in order to understand whether the Pandemic Crisis Support will “effectively be without conditions”.

In the negotiations with the EU, Conte said, “I won’t accept a shabby compromise. We’re not faced with a zero-sum negotiation. Here, either we all win or we all lose”.

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Italy: Mafia Boss Caught Hoarding 11 Tonnes of Antiseptic Gel

Greek police have seized 11 tonnes of antiseptic gel from a warehouse owned by a Roma mafia boss who sought to profit from the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.

Police found the medical equipment in a warehouse in Elefsina near Athens that reportedly belongs to 40-year-old Dimitriou Sefentinoglou, also known by his nickname “Sefkis”.

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Italy Announces ‘Phase Two’ Lockdown Update, Permitting Family Visits

ROME — The Italian government has published the new regulations for “phase two” of the coronavirus lockdown, which include a gradual easing of some of the harshest rules.

One of the biggest changes of the new rules, which will go into effect on May 4, involvesallowing citizens to leave their homes to visit family members who live in a different domicile, a practice that has been forbidden since March 9.

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More 5G Towers Torched Across Europe

LONDON (AP) — The CCTV footage from a Dutch business park shows a man in a black cap pouring the contents of a white container at the base of a cellular radio tower. Flames burst out as the man jogs back to his Toyota to flee into the evening.

It’s a scene that’s been repeated dozens of times in recent weeks in Europe, where officials are pushing back against conspiracy theories linking new 5G mobile networks and the coronavirus pandemic are fueling arson attacks on cell towers.

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‘Operation Kowtow’ — Ex-PM May’s Top Adviser Admits UK Submission to ‘Brutal’ Chinese Regime Was ‘Naive’

Nick Timothy, the former Chief of Staff to Theresa May, has called on the British government to reverse its policy of grovelling to the Chinese Communist Party.

The pursuit of a so-called “golden era” of friendship with the Chinese communists — described in revealing terms as “Operation Kowtow” even by its supporters, in reference to the act of ritual prostration before the Chinese emperors of old — was pioneered by May’s predecessor David Cameron, according to the adviser, a once-key figure in the Conservative Party.

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Orban: Exit Plan to be Outlined in Early May

Hungary will outline its plan of how to emerge from epidemic-related restrictions on May 3, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an interview on Monday.

The plan takes into consideration the related experiences of various countries, Orban told broadcaster Maria Radio. Hungary will be in “full protection mode” on May 3, he said, adding that from that time onwards the country could gradually return to normal life. “I’ll be in a position to talk about this on May 3-4 at the earliest,” he said. “By then I hope to be able to present a sober, serious plan to the country.”

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Police in French Department Attacked Almost Daily for Last Two Weeks

For around two weeks, locals in the troubled no-go neighbourhoods in the department of Yvelines have attacked police officers nearly every single evening.

The Yvelines department, which lies just outside of the French capital, saw multiple attacks against police over the weekend, including several incidents from Friday night to Saturday morning.

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UK ONS Figures Show Three Times More Deaths From Flu & Pneumonia Than Coronavirus

New figures from the UK’s Office of National Statistics show that the number of deaths from flu and pneumonia is three times higher than the total number of coronavirus deaths this year.

The figures show that there were 18,500 total deaths in England and Wales in the week up until April 10, which is around 8,000 above what would be considered “normal” at this time of year. Around a third of those 18,500 are linked to coronavirus.

“But the figures for 2020 also show the impact of flu and pneumonia compared to coronavirus,” reports the BBC. “The number of deaths from flu and pneumonia — at more than 32,000 — is three times higher than the total number of coronavirus deaths this year.”

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UK Reliant on PPE Shipments From Tyrant Nations China and Turkey

The United Kingdom has found herself in the position of having to purchase personal protection equipment (PPE) for frontline medical staff treating coronavirus patients from human rights abusers China and Turkey.

While a NATO member and a European Union candidate member, Turkey has increasingly come under criticism for its offences against democracy in recent years, including imprisoning journalists, opposition politicians, and rights activists. Earlier this year, the country’s Islamist president Recep Tayyip Erdogan sought to weaponise the migrant crisis by opening the gates of Europe to Syrian asylum seekers. The move came after months of Erdogan claiming Brussels had breached the EU-Turkey migrant deal that promised money for the near-east country and eventual visa-free travel to the bloc for Turks.

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UK: “I’ll Make Something Up” Lockdown Cop Suspended

A police officer who was caught on camera saying he would “make something up” in order to arrest a man during the coronavirus lockdown has been suspended from the force.

The clip showed officers confronting a group of men in Accrington who were using a quad bike outdoors in an apparent violation of the COVID-19 stay-at-home measures.

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UK: Boris Expected to Return to Work Next Week After Recovering From Coronavirus

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to return to work next week following his recovery from Chinese coronavirus.

Prime Minister Johnson had caught the virus in March. After experiencing symptoms for ten days, Mr Johnson was admitted to Saint Thomas’ Hospital in London on April 5th, before being transferred to intensive care on the 6th.

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UK: Coronavirus: Cancer Treatment Cutbacks Could Lead to 60,000 Premature Deaths, Oncologist Warns

Leading cancer charities are dealing with an increasing surge in calls from cancer patients concerned about delays to their treatment amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Vital cancer care has been stopped in various regions with a postcode lottery developing whether a patient’s chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery is delayed or even cancelled by their NHS trust. Some patients are being told chemotherapy is no longer an option because it would leave their immune system weakened and therefore put them at greater risk of falling seriously ill if they contract Covid-19.

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UK: Farage on Coronavirus Policing: Liberties Have Been Surrendered, But Getting Freedoms Back May Take Years

The peoples of Western nations were quick to surrender their hard-won liberties to national governments in the early days of the coronavirus panic, but it may take years or decades to get them back, ‘Mr Brexit’ Nigel Farage has said.

Speaking to Breitbart News Network editor-in-chief Alex Marlow on the Breitbart News Daily show on Sirius XM Patriot, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage told listeners of his serious concerns about the way the British public “under virtual house arrest” were being policed during the coronavirus lockdown, remarking that forces were becoming a “rule unto themselves”.

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UK: Happy Birthday! World’s Longest Reigning Monarch Queen Elizabeth II Turns 94

Queen Elizabeth II, the head of state of 16 countries worldwide, is marking her 94th birthday on Tuesday, but without the usual pomp and ceremony that accompanies the day due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Traditionally, the Queen’s birthday is marked by the firing of ceremonial field guns and a ringing of bells in Westminster Abbey, but those have been suspended in the monarch’s 94th year.

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UK: London Police Ask Citizens to Report COVID-19 Hate Crimes

The Metropolitan Police (the Met, London’s police force) recently asked the public to report, “hate crime related to the Covid-19 pandemic”.

“Are you a victim or witness of hate crime related to the COVID-19 pandemic? We do not tolerate hatred or abuse directed at communities because of their race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity. If you experience hate crime, please tell us & we will act” the Met tweeted on March 28.

“Someone using offensive language towards you or harassing you because of who you are or who they think you are is also a crime,” a constable told followers of the force’s Twitter account.

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UK: Two Men Arrested for Posting “Pubs Closed, Borders Open” Stickers

Two men in the UK were arrested on charges of racially aggravated offenses after they posted stickers related to the coronavirus outbreak which said “pubs closed, borders open.”

The stickers, another of which said “open border, virus disorder,” were posted on lamp posts, bins, bus stop signs and bollards around areas of Sheffield. They are believed to be the work of the Hundred-Handers group, described as “far right” by the BBC.

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UK: Three Middle Eastern Men to Stand Trial for False Imprisonment and Rape

A trio of fighting-age, Middle Eastern men who’ve been charged with false imprisonment and rape are set to stand trial later this year.

The alleged incident took place in the small seaside resort town of Redcar in North Yorkshire, England during the early morning hours of December 15th, 2019, region daily morning newspaper The Northern Echo reports.

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Novak Djokovic’s Wife is Shamed With a ‘False Information’ Badge by Instagram for Spreading Coronavirus 5G Conspiracy Theories, After the Tennis World No 1 Revealed He’s an Anti-Vaxxer

Jelena Djokovic, 33, shared a 10-minute video of an American physician which focuses on the conspiracy theory that 5G technology has played a role in creating the current global health crisis.

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Imprisoned Iranian Christian Mary Mohammadi Gets 3 Months in Prison, 10 Lashes

Mary Mohammadi, the 21-year-old Iranian Christian convert imprisoned earlier this year for criticizing the Iranian government, has been sentenced to three months in prison plus 10 lashes.

Mohammadi had allegedly participated in demonstrations critical of the Iranian government after it mistakenly shot down a passenger airliner in January.

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India: Amidst Coronavirus Outbreak, PM Modi’s Approval Rating Soars to 68%, Higher Than Any Other World Leader: Here Are the Details

India has managed to relatively control the Coronavirus pandemic effectively. For its mammoth size and extremely dense population of 1.3 billion people, India has managed to arrest the spread to a large extent, better than many developed countries, due to early imposition of strict lockdown and containment measures. Even after the soar in cases due to the Tablighi Jamaat cases, the lockdown coupled with aggressively finding absconding Tablighi Jamaat members, the country managed to save itself from utter chaos and disaster, had the virus spread to a population this dense. Amidst the world battling the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic, pollster Morning Consult releasedapproval ratings for every leader from most major democracies. In those approval ratings, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has bagged the highest approval rating, ahead of any other world leader.

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India: Hapur, UP: Muslim Youth Attack Hindus Suspecting Them of Disclosing the Location of Tablighi Jamaat Members, Five Injured

Sarawa village in Hapur district, Uttar Pradesh, simmered after a minor argument between youths of different communities, over grocery, triggered communal tension in the village, with the two factions coming face to face Monday. According to a report by Amar Ujala, a small argument between one Imran and Prashant Tyagi, both locals of the area, escalated and suddenly Imran’s supporters started assaulting Prashant. They were soon joined by many other local Muslims, who attacked the Tyagi family and several other Hindus in the village. The mob pelted stones and assaulted with sticks, batons and sharp weapons. Soon the entire village was engulfed in this violence.

As per the report, the situation in the village had remained tensed for quite sometime after the police had caught some Tablighi Jamaat attendees from the village on the basis of the information passed on to them by an unknown informer.

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Missouri Files Suit Against China for ‘Enormous’ Consequences of Coronavirus ‘Deceit’

Missouri became the first state to file a lawsuit against China on Tuesday, accusing the country of being responsible for the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and seeking damages to make up for “the enormous loss of life, human suffering, and economic turmoil” resulting from the disease.

The suit in the Eastern District of Missouri follows at least seven federal class-action suits that have been filed by private groups, with one filed in Florida saying that China knew “COVID-19 was dangerous and capable of causing a pandemic, yet slowly acted, proverbially put their head in the sand, and/or covered it up in their own economic self-interest.”

It also comes on the heels of 22 Republican lawmakers on Monday requesting that the Trump administration bring a case against China to the International Court of Justice (ICIJ) for the country’s actions during the pandemic.

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Trump: Kim Jong Un’s Health Unclear, But ‘I Wish Him Well’

President Trump on Tuesday wished North Korean leader Kim Jong Un well during the White House’s coronavirus press briefing after being asked about the dictator’s reportedly deteriorating health.

Fox News’ Bret Baier inquired about Kim’s medical status after it has been reported that the rogue nation’s leader underwent a cardiovascular procedure on April 12.

“Well, these are reports that came out, and we don’t know. We don’t know,” Trump said. “I’ve had a very good relationship with him. I wouldn’t — You know, I can only say this — I wish him well. Because if he is in the kind of condition that the reports say… that’s a very serious condition.

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US Public Opinion of China Hits New Low, Pew Research Survey Shows

Americans’ views toward China fell to their lowest level since Pew Research Centre started asking the question in 2005 as respondents’ opinion of President Xi Jinping hit a new low, according to survey results released Tuesday.

The Pew poll of 1,000 people taken last month found that 66 per cent of respondents held an unfavourable view of China, up from 47 per cent in 2017 when President Donald Trump took office. And a large majority of Americans said they lacked confidence in Xi to do the right thing when it came to global affairs, a steep increase since last year.

“It’s hardly surprising,” said Orville Schell, director of Asia Society’s Centre on US-China Relations. “It’s now just about the only thing in Washington that Republicans and Democrats agree on, that we should have a much more sceptical view of China’s intentions.”

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Wuhan Doctors Who Were Critically Ill With Coronavirus Wake Up to Find That Their Skin Has Turned Dark After Virus Damaged Their Liver

Two Chinese doctors who were critically ill with COVID-19 have seen their skin turned dark after being brought back from the brink of death.

Dr Yi Fan and Dr Hu Weifeng, both 42, caught the novel coronavirus while treating patients at the Wuhan Central Hospital in January.

Their abnormal skin colour is caused by hormonal imbalances after their livers were damaged by the virus, their doctor told Chinese state media.

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‘Arrogant’ Parents Who Hosted a Huge Party for Their Son’s Eighth Birthday Are Fined $1,652 for Breaking Lockdown Laws — But None of the Guests Will Have to Pay a Cent

At least 16 parents and children were seen standing outside a home in Beaumaris, 20km south-east of Melbourne’s CBD, on the weekend.

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Australia Smashes the Coronavirus Curve: Just 13 People Are Diagnosed Nationwide in a Remarkable 24 Hours That Saw Four States and Territories Record Zero New Cases — Here’s When Lockdowns Could End

Australia’s low mortality and high testing rates are among the world’s best. But health officials are cautioning against complacency

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Australia’s Meth Capital: Ice Use is So Rampant in One State That Children Are Being Exposed to the Deadly Drug Through Their Junkie Parents

Doctors fear ‘significant numbers’ of children are being exposed to the illicit drug after seven were found with met in their system during autopsies conducted by Forensic Science South Australia.

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Australia’s Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs to 72 as Woman, 92, Dies at COVID-19-Riddled Nursing Home

The elderly woman died at Anglicare Newmarch House in Caddens, in Sydney’s west, on Tuesday morning.

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Backpackers Living in a Stunning Country Town Are Terrorized by Angry Locals Who Shout and Throw Rocks at Them in a Desperate Bid to Get Them to Go Home Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic

The stunning riverside town of Loxton, three hours east of Adelaide, has built a strong relationship with backpackers that provide a critical workforce for farmers during harvesting.

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Exposed: The Incredibly Wealthy Elites Who Think They Deserve Your Cash to Bail Out Virgin Australia After Loading it Up With an Astonishing $5.3billion of Debt

Some of the richest people in the world are asking the hardworking mums and dads of Australia to pay for the failure of their airline.

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How Super-Rich Americans Fled to New Zealand to Stay in Their Lavish Doomsday Survival Shelters During Coronavirus Crisis — But Some of Them Didn’t Even Know How to Get Into Their Bunkers

Quick-thinking Silicon Valley billionaires booked flights for New Zealand as soon as the COVID-19 crisis began to escalate.

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Moment a Shirtless Man is Arrested in His Caravan After Four Australian Children as Young as TWO MONTHS Are Filmed Being Raped in Sick Videos Sent to Paedophiles Around the World

Four children, one as young as two-months-old old, have been filmed being raped before the videos were distributed to sick paedophiles all over the world.

Sixteen people were charged with 728 sexual abuse and child exploitation offences after a two-year investigation by the Australian Federal Police in conjunction with the US Department of Homeland Security.

The children were reportedly related to their abusers, who used the dark web and encryption technologies to send explicit images and videos around the world before they were finally rescued.

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EU to Pay for Migrant’s Hotel Accommodations on Greece’s Mainland

The Greek migration ministry has approved a plan to move 2,380 migrants from reception centers located on its Eastern Aegean islands to hotels and apartment accommodations on its mainland.

The plan, which comes as European economies suffer massive losses as a result of the Wuhan coronavirus, is being organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations. The European Union will foot the enormous bill.

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Germany: 1,800 “Unaccompanied Minors” Immigrants Are Missing

Some 1,800 so-called unaccompanied minor immigrants have vanished without a trace in Germany.

At the end of last month there were 1,074 adolescents and 711 children who were reported missing, according to the newspapers of the Funke media group, which cited figures from the federal government which were given to the Left Party’s parliamentary group following a request.

Most of the missing migrants are Afghani, Syrian, Moroccan, Guinean, and Somalian nationals.

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Greece: Over 100 Migrants Staying at Hotel Infected With Wuhan Coronavirus

Greek medical authorities on Tuesday announced that over 100 migrants staying at a hotel on the country’s mainland have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus.

The hotel, which located in Kranidi, Peloponnese, is being temporarily rented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to accommodate migrants and asylum seekers. After a 28-year-old pregnant migrant from Somalia tested positive for the virus on Monday, medical workers then carried out tests on all of the residents who’re being housed at the hotel, Greek newspaper Kathimerini reports.

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Greece: Migrant Camps Infiltrated by Turkish Intelligence

Turkey’s National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) has been infiltrating the migrant camps in Greece, according to recently revealed classified documents.

The purpose of the initiative is to spy on critics of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to a report by Nordic Monitor, which also published copies of the documents, including police reports. Specifically, the documents state that the agents’ mission was to monitor members of the Gülen movement, a political association that was banned in Turkey in 2016, forcing its members to take refuge in Greece.

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Trump’s Immigration Ban Exempts “Refugees” & “Essential Workers”

While President Trump’s immigration ban was celebrated by many of his supporters, it has since emerged that the draft executive order contains broad exemptions for “refugees,” “essential workers” and a number of other categories of people.

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Italy: Wife’s Homosexuality Recognised as Cause for Annulment

Ruling by top court

(ANSA) — Rome, April 20 — The homosexuality of a wife who had been with her husband for over 10 years and had three children with him was recognized Monday as a valid cause for annulment.

Italy’s supreme Court of Cassation rejected the woman’s appeal against what she had termed a lower court’s “discriminatory” verdict.

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UK Nurses Remove Twitter Maori Tribute Video After Being Accused of “Cultural Appropriation”

Recently, healthcare workers such as nurses have been blowing off steam by singing or dancing together in viral videos.

In the past month, several videos featuring healthcare professionals dancing have gone viral. While some were deemed courageous, others were deemed outright cringe.

But in one particular case, a group of nurses in England have had to delete their viral video after being accused of “cultural appropriation” when creating a Maori-style tribute dance.

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Wired: Global Warming is ‘Second Great Crisis’ After Coronavirus

Alarmists at Wired magazine announced Tuesday the “world is in the grip of two crises,” the coronavirus pandemic and global warming.

We mustn’t let the clear and present danger of coronavirus so occupy our minds that we forget about the climate crisis, Matt Reynolds suggests, because when we finally come out of lockdown it will be there waiting for us.

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14 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/21/2020

  1. “..But in one particular case, a group of nurses in England have had to delete their viral video after being accused of “cultural appropriation” when creating a Maori-style tribute dance.”

    What on earth is cultural appropriation and why is it such a “crime” against the sensibilities of political correctness?

    More leftist BS?

  2. “Start with demographics: Each year, because of its low birth rate of about 1.5 children per woman, the indigenous population of Europe declines by more than one million persons, a number that steadily increases over time. To maintain the population requires an annual immigration of more than that number (few immigrants arrive in Europe as newborns).”
    The worst thing is that this isn’t even true.
    There’s no need to have the same number of people as we do today.
    Just look at post-WWII Germany: they had roughly 20 millions less people than today and yet they were able to rebuild their country and restart their economy just fine.
    If left to natural processes, eventually there would be a baby boom with families having 3-4 or more children again, but there’s no need for that right now. Common sense tells you to invest in inovation to need less people for the same work, hence no need for immigration. Like Japan does.
    Countries like the UK are clearly overpopulated at this point.
    You can’t promote food and energy self-sufficiency if you have so many people that all the fields need to be turned into housing.
    A no immigration policy would simultaneously loose the problem in Africa, because there’s only that much a population can grow until it has no place and no food and has to shrink again. Africa is plenty capable of sustaining a vast population, but not the number it has become in the recent decades.
    In 1950’s it was estimated there’s 12 acres of fertile land avaiable per person to grow food for anybody around the world. Today, I believe, the number is around 5 acres per person, might be even less. Add to that how we constantly ruin our soil with artificial fertilizers that kill soil microbes and cause erosion and you’ll know that’s a pandemic famine waiting to happen!

  3. “Orban: Exit Plan to be Outlined in Early May”
    Oh… I was hoping this was about EU, but it’s about the Coronavirus.

  4. https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/04/panic-in-the-world/#comment-
    547905

    Mass murder, not only mass immigration, is
    administered by the social democratic power
    establishment in Sweden

    “Significant increase in the number of deaths
    among pensioners in Stockholm.
    New data from Statistics Sweden.”

    “Strong increase in the number of deaths in
    the age group 65 years and older living in
    retirement homes”

    How is that?
    No oxygen is available!
    Alternativelacking palliative care is inserted – high doses of morphine are given (which further complicates breathing)
    – instead of oxigen + broadspectrum antibiotica
    against pneumonia + high doses of vitamin C
    intravenously.

    Result: the patient dies quickly and painfree.

    The so-called “consuming meat mountain” has been
    reduced by another unit.

    CONTINUATION

    The stupidity and inhumanity
    at the Svedish Socio-Lliberal
    ‘Folkhrmmet’ (Folk’s Home)
    are boundless.

    No oxygen for the infected at Gävleborg’s elderly homes
    April 21, 2020

    The directive that Region Gävleborg issued on April 17 stipulates that covid-19 infected persons in the region’s elderly housing should not be given oxygen, since the staff lack the skills to administer this. Instead, the elderly should be offered opioids to weaken the respiratory function and thus provide a more comfortable death process.

    The directives , which Fria Tider points out, include:
    “Oxygen therapy in palliative or curative care at home and at SÄBO is not relevant at covid-19. In palliative care, the association between hypoxia and perceived dyspnea is low, so the symptoms should be monitored rather than oxygenated. Most often, opioids have better symptom-relieving effects than oxygen delivery.”

    SÄBO is an abbreviation for Special housing for the elderly , also called the elderly housing.
    The same directive also states that “oxygen therapy and intensive care with respiratory therapy improves survival and the chance to recover completely in severe covid-19”.

    The employees’ lack of competence is stated as the main reason why the elderly should be denied oxygen.

    “Oxygen is a drug that should be prescribed and dosed like all other drugs. Oxygen treatment requires special technology and training both by the patient and by the staff [?!].
    The treatment is usually given in hospital care. There are exceptions, for example in certain lung diseases, where individually tested treatment can be given outside hospitals. Treatment is initiated after careful diagnosis, testing and training of the patient. Inserting oxygen treatment outside hospitals without the above handling is not relevant.”
    https://samnytt.se/ingen-syrgas-till-smittade-pa-gavleborgs-aldreboenden/

  5. Michael Scheuer’s books about Clinton’s protection of Osama are detailed as he ran the CIA operation to kill bin Laden and was blocked a dozen times before 911 by bobbing Billy.

      • Indeed so, Theresa. I recall a case in Mali some years back, when a pre-pubescent girl was forcibly married to an older imam. She became pregnant, and the birth (the child didn’t survive) caused a fistula, making her incontinent, so she was rejected by her “husband” and her family.

        A western doctor (French, I seem to recall) who specialised in such cases, repaired the damage, and told him not to touch her until her body had matured sufficiently to cope with childbirth, but did he pay attention?

        As has been said many times, here and elsewhere, the most numerous victims of Islam are muslim women (and girls); this kind of abuse stirs me to violence even more than the threat to our civilisation, but where should I direct it?

  6. “Four children, one as young as two-months-old old, have been filmed being raped before the videos were distributed to sick paedophiles all over the world.“

    Grotesque

  7. A mass fight of workers took place in a warehouse parking lot in the Dmitrov city near Moscow. The conflict occurred between Slavic employees and fired migrants.
    The brawl took place on the territory of the warehouse “White Rast”. According to sources, the incident was preceded by a massive reduction in migrant workers.
    Dismissed employees were angry with their fellow Slavs, who saved jobs. The conflict resulted in a massive brawl.
    https://news.rambler.ru/fire/44064214-migranty-i-slavyane-podralis-u-sklada-belyy-rast-v-podmoskove/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzK4JkzSfi4

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