Texas, Saskatchewan, and Georgia are planning to ease their coronavirus restrictions and reopen in carefully managed stages. Meanwhile, a new French opinion poll shows that only 35% of citizens are satisfied with President Macron’s handing of the virus crisis. Also, Harvard has announced that it won’t accept coronavirus stimulus funds after all.
In other news, a Muslim woman in Uganda who converted to Christianity was severely beaten with sticks by other Muslims.
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Harvard Announces They Won’t Take Coronavirus Funds After All
Update (4/22/2020): After all after coming under pressure from President Trump, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Harvard has announced that it won’t take coronavirus stimulus funds after all, a reversal from their prior position that they would use the money set aside in the coronavirus stimulus for “direct assistance to students.”
“There has been confusion in recent days about funds allocated to Harvard as part of the CARES act,” reads a statement,” which notes that the funds were automatically allocated to them, and that they “did not apply for this support, nor has it requested, received or accessed these funds.”
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AOC Says Americans Should Refuse to Go Back to Work Once Economy Reopens
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday argued that Americans should refuse to return to work if and when their state economies reopen, claiming that workers should “just say no” if the opportunity arises to resume their jobs.
The politician made the argument during an interview with Anand Giridharadas, host of ViceTV’s “Seat at the Table”.
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California City Fills Skatepark With 37 Tons of Sand After People Ignore ‘No Trespassing’ Signs
California is not messing around when it comes to social distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus during this pandemic. After skaters ignored the “no trespassing” signs on a popular skatepark in San Clemente, extreme measures were taken to prevent people from going to the spot. To be certain no one would go there to hang out or skate, the park was filled with sand — a whopping 37 tons of it, according to CBS Los Angeles.
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D.C. Police Conducting “Active, Ongoing Investigation” Into Sexual Assault Claim Against Biden
Police in Washington, D.C., are investigating a sexual assault claim against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, a police department spokeswoman confirmed on Wednesday.
“This is an active, ongoing investigation that is part of our regular review process,” a police spokeswoman told The Daily Caller on Wednesday, noting that the D.C. statute of limitations law would preclude prosecution of Biden if he were found to have actually committed the assault.
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Email Addresses and Passwords From WHO, NIH, Wuhan Lab, And Gates Foundation Dumped on 4chan
A cache of nearly 25,000 email addresses and passwords allegedly belonging to the World Health Organization (WHO), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Wuhan Institute of Virology, Bill Gates Foundation and several other groups involved with the coronavirus pandemic response were dumped on 4chan before appearing on several other websites, according to the SITE Intelligence Group.
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First Known U.S. Coronavirus Death Was Weeks Earlier Than Previously Thought
America’s first known coronavirus death occurred on February 6 in California’s Santa Clara County, according to information released Tuesday by the county medical examiner — weeks earlier than previously thought.
A February 29 death in Washington state was previously believed to be the nation’s initial COVID-19 fatality.
The county also reported that a February 17 death, previously believed to be unrelated, was due to coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the virus in tissue samples from both individuals. Both people died at their homes at a time when testing for the virus was limited and only performed on people with specific symptoms and travel history.
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Georgia Dem Who Endorsed Trump Quits Office Because of Party Harassment
On April 15th Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones (D) broke with his party by endorsing President Trump’s reelection bid, citing the president’s handling of the economy and support for historically black colleges. A week later citing the Georgia Democratic Party’s harassment of him and his party, Rep. Jones announced he was resigning and would not complete his term.
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Gov. Greg Abbott could make an announcement as soon as Friday about reopening a wide range of Texas businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic, including restaurants, hair salons and retail outlets.
During a series of radio interviews Wednesday, Abbott gave the most details yet about the highly anticipated announcement, which he has been previewing since he announced preliminary steps to reopen the economy last week. He initially advertised the next wave of steps as scheduled for Monday but made clear in some of the interviews that they could now come sooner.
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Health Officials Now Believe Coronavirus Has Been Circulating in U.S. Since December
Health experts now believe COVID-19 has been circulating in the United States since December, after it was confirmed that two people in California died from the coronavirus weeks before the previously recorded earliest deaths.
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Norwegian Psychiatrist Claims Joe Biden is Suffering From “Dementia”
Norwegian psychiatrist Fred Heggen claims that Joe Biden is suffering from “dementia” and that his condition has worsened “at galloping speed.”
In an opinion piece published by Nettavisen entitled ‘Why Democrats are rallying behind a possibly demented candidate?’, Heggen, who is also a medical director at the Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital’s psychiatric clinic in Oslo, says the presidential candidate is suffering from obvious cognitive failure.
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On Sunday April 19, freelance photographer Alyson McClaran and her boyfriend Marc Zenn posted photos and videos of what they claimed to be “nurses” and “health care workers” counter-protesting lockdown protestors in Denver, Colorado.
These photos went viral on social media and were quickly picked up by many mainstream media outlets which repeated the claims that the man and woman in scrubs were health workers.
After the photos were posted, some social media users raised doubts about whether the individuals were actually health workers because:
- They didn’t provide any credentials
- They weren’t wearing the masks properly
- They had their faces covered by sunglasses and masks
- They declined to provide their names or place of employment to reporters
And now, the photographer behind these viral photos has admitted that she doesn’t actually know whether the individuals were health care workers as she had originally claimed.
“I believe that they are, but regardless of who they are, it’s more about the message they were sending,” McClaran told BuzzFeed News.
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Protesters Turn Out in Support of Mother Arrested for Bringing Kids to Public Playground
Protesters on Tuesday rallied in support of a mother arrested for bringing her children to a playground in defiance of Idaho’s stay-at-home order, an arrest which brought with it a charge of trespassing.
Police in Meridian, Idaho, took Sara Brady, 40, into custody when she refused to leave a public playground that had been closed down by local authorities. Brady was part of a group of parents who had broken the shutdown to allow their children to play on the equipment.
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Republican Congressman Accuses Joe Biden of “Simping” For China
Some are lamenting the death of the “simp” meme after it was used by a Republican Congressman to criticize Joe Biden’s fealty towards China.
Although its original meaning was “suckers idolizing mediocre pussy, “Simp” is normally used as an insult directed at men who overly praise or lust after e-girls on the Internet.
The growth of OnlyFans and other platforms where girls as young as 18 are encouraged to sell explicit photos and videos to thirsty men led to the popularization of the ‘Simp’ meme at the end of last year into early 2020.
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Several Hundred Protest in North Carolina, Call on Governor to Reopen State
Several hundred protesters in Raleigh, North Carolina, took to the state’s general assembly building on Tuesday to protest the governor’s lockdown orders and demand the state reopen.
Some protesters held signs that said “every business is essential” and “I am essential.”
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Skynet is Near — Google Scientists Create Artificial Intelligence That Evolves on Its Own
Authored by Jake Anderson via TheMindUnleashed.com
One of the biggest global players in artificial intelligence (AI) is Google and their high-tech Brain division has been pushing the envelope for years.
Now scientists working for their AutoML project have a new paper in which they claim to be developing algorithms that can evolve on their own without human input. Even more stunning is their claim that they can induce “mutations” into new generations of algorithms, which mimics principles of Darwinian evolution, namely “survival of the fittest.”
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PHILADELPHIA, April 22, 2020 — The majority of top public colleges and universities use a blacklist of secret words, created by Facebook, to automatically censor comments on university social media pages, according to a new survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. As campuses sit empty and much of student life moves online, this censorship has an amplified importance.
Colleges also compile custom lists collectively banning more than 1,800 words and phrases: from profanities to posts referencing matters of local and national concern, campus controversies, criticism of colleges’ corporate partners or sports teams, and even the weather. The findings, gleaned from public records from nearly 200 top institutions, show that public universities — bound by the First Amendment — are impermissibly censoring public dialogue.
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Trump Says He “Strongly Disagrees” With Gov Kemp’s Decision to Reopen Georgia
After a week in which President Trump deliberately courted blame for the entire coronavirus pandemic response by egging on demonstrators, reopening the national parks and repeatedly made snide remarks about the risks of waiting too long, it appears the president is finally listening to his advisors — at least on the messaging front.
In his first major break with Republican governors since the beginning of the pandemic, President Trump said during Wednesday evening’s press briefing that he “strongly disagreed” with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s decision to start reopening his state on Friday.
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US Police Begin Using Surveillance Drones Donated From China
Much of the world is currently blaming the WHO and China for delaying the news of the coronavirus outbreak, which makes it all the more ironic that US police departments are now using drones that have been donated from China through a manufacturer, DJI.
“On the manufacturer’s website, DJI uses examples of police agencies, like Daytona Beach, Florida police, who plan on using the drone’s loud speaker to disperse crowds to avoid the spread of COVID-19,” reported WOOD TV.
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Video: Mother Arrested for Letting Kids Play in Park
A mother in Idaho was arrested by police after she allowed her kids to play in a park in violation of the state’s lockdown order.
A video clip of the incident shows 40-year-old Sara Walton Brady being hauled away in handcuffs by police as two other mothers holding children attempt to stand in front of the officers.
“Not as a police officer, as a person, does this make sense to you?” one the women asks the officers.
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Watch: Tech Companies Rushing to Develop AI Social Distancing ‘Enforcement’ Tools
As PC plods in the UK and keystone cops in the US continue to bumble around trying to operate Chinese made drones, numerous tech companies are developing more sophisticated tools that will allow law enforcement to more effectively police social distancing rules.
Californian software developer Landing AI has created video surveillance software that watches people and sounds the alarm if they get too close to one another.
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Life lived in a cage.
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Ban on “Assault-Style Weapons” Coming to Canada, Trudeau Says After Mass Shooting
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised a ban on “assault-style weapons” after a weekend mass shooting in Nova Scotia that has now claimed at least 23 lives.
The shooting began late Saturday and lasted almost 14 hours as the gunman acted like a policeman in a mock police car and pulled over victims across many communities before killing them. It is the deadliest shooting in Canada’s history. Disrn will not name or publish a picture of the shooter.
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Saskatchewan to ‘Cautiously’ Reopen From the Coronavirus Pandemic in 5 Phases
Saskatchewan is ready to reopen as the number of new coronavirus cases flatten in the province.
But Premier Scott Moe said it needs to be done with great caution as it involves risks.
“If we move too quickly, we risk increasing the spread of COVID-19,” Moe said.
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It is too soon to make a final assessment on the management of COVID-19 by the countries of the world, but one thing is sure: Belgium is in the middle of a great carnage.
It all began in 2015, when the government of Prime Minister Charles Michel (today’s European Council president) decided to destroy Belgium’s entire “strategic stock” of 63 million protective face-masks, including the precious FFP2 type — 1,200 pallets carefully stored and guarded by the army in the Belgrade Barracks, in Namur. Because they were “out of date,” said Minister of Health Maggie De Block, who is still on the job today. “Not at all,” said the main union of the Belgian army, “these masks were incinerated… to ‘make room’ for housing refugees.” In 2015, Belgium and Europe were overwhelmed by migrants at the invitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and the laws of the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights made it effectively impossible to reject them.
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Denmark: Middle Eastern Man Arrested for Attempted Sexual Assault of a 15-Year-Old
A man identified by the authorities as being Middle Eastern attempted to sexually assault a 15-year-old girl on Sunday, but was prevented by the timely arrival of the police.
The girl went to an apartment on Jettesvej in Braband, by her own account to buy hashish. The girl was nervous about going to the meeting point, however, and instructed a friend’s mother to contact the police if she didn’t hear from her within 10 minutes.
After the girl had been in the apartment for 10 minutes, her friend’s mother received a text message from her asking her to call the police.
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France: ‘Youths’ Attack Police With Molotov Cocktails and Projectiles
Police officers on Sunday evening were attacked by dozens of ‘youths’ in Toulouse, France after being lured to the scene of a car fire in the Mirail district.
Upon arriving at the scene of the car fire shortly after 10 pm, the police were ambushed by 30 or so ‘youths’ who hurled Molotov cocktails, explosives, and other projectiles at them, French news outlet Actu 17 reports.
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France Opens Nine Terrorism Investigations During Coronavirus Lockdown
French investigators have opened at least nine preliminary terrorism investigations since the start of the coronavirus lockdown and warn that radical Islamic terrorism is still a significant threat.
The French national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office (Pnat) has been investigating several cases since the start of the lockdown measures in mid-March, including allegations of plots by French jihadists thought to have died fighting in Iraq and Syria for radical Islamist groups.
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Is Itay’s Exit From the EU Possible? New Poll Suggests So
Could Italexit be in the European Union’s near future? A new poll suggests that it is a distinct possibility.
As heated negotiations over financial aid for countries affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have dragged on in Brussels, anti-EU sentiment is rising in many countries. This is particularly apparent in Italy, which has been the hardest-hit member of the bloc during the crisis.
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ISIS Terrorist Suspect Detained in Poland by Border Police
Poland’s border police acting on information from Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) have detained a Lebanese citizen who was planning to organize a pan-European network of cells to carry out terrorist attacks.
According to the press spokesman of the minister responsible for security coordination, Stanislaw Zaryn, the individual concerned was closely connected through family ties with ISIS operatives in Syria and Iraq. He had been in contact with ISIS members in EU states and engaged in their financing.
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Italy: Draghi is Being Used to Attack Conte Says Di Maio
We must be close to ‘captain, who’s set to score EU penalty’
(ANSA) — Rome, April 21 — Some people are touting ex-ECB chief Mario Draghi as possible head of an unlikely national unity coronavirus government to unfairly attack Premier Giuseppe Conte, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said Tuesday.
He stressed the importance of being “close to the captain who is about to score the penalty in the EU” by winning a battle on coronabonds.
Di Maio also said he had made a mistake to request the impeachment of President Sergio Mattarella for allegedly impeding the formation of a government, which was subsequently formed, between his 5-Star Movement (M5S) and the League, before the current second Conte-led administration.
He also said M5S heavyweight Alessandro Di Battista was “always misinterpreted and his opinion in precious” after recent apparent misunderstandings.
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Poll Shows French Public Not Confident in Macron Govt Coronavirus Response
A poll has revealed that just 35 per cent of the French public are confident in the actions undertaken by President Emmanuel Macron’s government to tackle the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus.
The poll, conducted by firm BVA and published by broadcaster Europe 1 came after a speech delivered by French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and Health Minister Olivier Véran on Sunday on the current state of the country.
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Romanian Farmworkers Imported Amid Pandemic Despite Brits Applying
Romanian migrants have been drafted into Britain via Air Charter Service to ‘help bring the harvest in’ according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, despite British applicants applying.
The migrants will provide extra labour to farmers in due to an alleged ‘labour shortage’ — despite high numbers of British applications for these positions.
Concerns have been expressed by the farming community that the lockdown could lead to harvests could rotting.
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Swedish Politician Went to Stockholm and Licked Escalator to Intentionally Contract Coronavirus
Swedish local politician Urban Persson has come under criticism after he revealed that he had travelled to Stockholm to purposely get infected with the Wuhan coronavirus.
Persson, who left the populist Sweden Democrats to form his own party, the Storfors Democrats, said that he travelled to Stockholm with a doctor around four weeks ago. He was supposed to meet with a person who was confirmed to have coronavirus, but the meeting was cancelled. He also refused to reveal the identity of the medical professional.
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UK Has ‘Reached the Peak’ of Coronavirus, Says Health Secretary
The United Kingdom has reached the peak of coronavirus cases, health secretary Matt Hancock said Wednesday, his comments later bolstered by first secretary Dominic Raab.
Addressing the now near-empty, socially distanced House of Commons on Wednesday afternoon, UK health minister Matt Hancock was outlining government measures the nation was being instructed to take as the nation reached the peak of the outbreak. But Mr Hancock quickly corrected himself, stating Britons “have reached the peak” and that new actions would be taken “as we bring the number of cases down”.
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UK Won’t Change Its Mind on Huawei’s 5G Involvement, Says Top Civil Servant
A top civil servant at the Foreign Office has said that the British government has made a “firm decision” on allowing Chinese tech giant Huawei to help build the United Kingdom’s 5G network, and the arrangement will not be reconsidered.
Asked whether he would advise Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Dominic Raab, to reevaluate the UK’s position, Sir Simon McDonald, the Foreign Office’s permanent undersecretary, told MPs at the foreign affairs select committee on Tuesday: “As you know… the government decided to proceed with an investment but with very strict conditions… As far as I know that… is a firm decision and is not being reopened.”
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UK: Farage Says ‘Boris Needs to Get a Grip’ On Coronavirus and Fire Health Secretary
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that Boris Johnson “needs to get a grip” on the UK’s management of the coronavirus crisis, starting by firing health secretary Matt Hancock.
“We’re being very badly governed. We have some incredibly low-grade Cabinet ministers, and Boris needs to get a grip, quickly, to maintain public confidence,” Mr Farage saidduring a Facebook live stream on Monday.
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UK: Gunman Fires Shots From Balcony (Video)
A man, who has not yet been publicly identified, was firing guns from a balcony this morning in Medway in Chatham, Kent. He has since been taken into the custody.
The man, who police said is in his 30s, began firing multiple firearms into the air from the balcony of a penthouse apartment on Dock Head Road. The complex is located near the Dockside Outlet shopping centre at Chatham Maritime, according to a report by The Mirror.
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Israel and an anti-Semitism watchdog have condemned the Islamic Republic of Iran for launching an international cartoon contest on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that featured anti-Semitic and anti-Israel cartoons.
The Tehran Times reported last week that Iran’s “We Defeat Coronavirus International Cartoon Contest” has received 4,200 submissions from cartoonists from 88 countries.
“Out of all the submissions, about 2,000 cartoons were showcased for 28 days at irancartoon.ir, which has been visited by 1,340,000 people,” said Masud Shojaei-Tabatabai, the director of Iran’s Art Bureau’s Visual Arts Office that launched the competition.
Shojaei-Tabatabai has previously curated anti-Semitic and anti-Israel cartoon contests.
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Trump Instructs Navy to “Shoot Down and Destroy Any and All Iranian Gunboats” Harassing U.S. Ships
President Trump tweeted Wednesday morning that he has instructed the U.S. Navy to “shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.”
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At least 284 persons from Kerala who had participated in the Tablighi Jamaat convention in Nizamuddin in Delhi are still missing, giving a scare to the authorities.
According to a report in India Today, nearly 284 persons from Kerala who had attended the Markaz have switched off their mobile phones, which has made it extremely tough for the authorities to trace them.
Out of the thousands who had visited Delhi for Tablighi Jamaat congregation, 518 people had returned to Kerala. They had been soon identified and all of them was put under home quarantine. Incidentally, only six of them have tested positive.
However, another 509 suspected Tablighi Jamaat attendees who had attended the Markaz in the period March 12-28 are out of Kerala and are currently based in other states like Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka. Their details have been passed on to the home authorities of those states.
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Facebook has decided that doing business in Vietnam is more important than its support of free speech.
Vietnam, recognized by international organizations as a nation with great free speech problems, has allowed Facebook’s servers in the country to operate again after being down for seven weeks, now the social network has now agreed to censor anti-government content.
The Vietnam Communist Party last year enacted a new “cybersecurity” law prohibiting any anti-government content. The controversial law has resulted in some episodes in which people end up arrested for expressing themselves through Facebook and other social networks.
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Report: At Least Seven Federal Lawsuits Filed Against Chinese Government Over COVID Spread
According to a report, at least seven federal lawsuits have been filed against the Chinese government over the spread of the deadly coronavirus, with some specifically singling out the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as US intelligence is now ‘near certain’ that the virus leaked from the lab there.
Fox News reported that “Americans across the nation are really seeking now legal remedies of their own…targeting the Chinese government, seeking reparations of trillions of dollars in damages.”
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Watch: China Releases Video From Inside the Wuhan Bio-Lab
The Chinese government has released video it says was shot inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in an attempt to counter claims, investigations, and evidence that the coronavirus leaked from the bio-lab.
According to reports, the US government is now ‘near certain’ that the lab was the origin of the virus, and several lawsuits have already been filed stating exactly this.
The video, released by Chinese state media, is said to be from February, and shows scientists in full personal protective equipment working within the lab. An emphasis is placed on the safety measures in place at the lab.
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Virgin Australia, which was struggling before the COVID-19 pandemic restricted cashflows, went into voluntary administration on Tuesday with $5.3billion debts.
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The family living in Knoxfield in Melbourne’s east found the cruel message on Monday but were targetted again early Tuesday morning when a rock came smashing through their window.
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The group were parting in Bentleigh East in Melbourne’s south-east over Saturday night into Sunday morning in breach of the state’s strict isolation rules.
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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has slammed the Chinese Embassy after it claimed Peter Dutton was ‘serving orders’ from the US by criticising Beijing.
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Mahmoud Amirat and took his two sons out of Adelaide Secondary School of English every Friday for 60 to 90 minutes to attend a mosque for Friday prayer in 2017.
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4 Christians Killed, 38 Houses Destroyed in Nigeria Attack
Four Christians were killed by Muslim Fulani herdsman on Sunday in the Kaduna state of Nigeria, sources said.
Herdsmen attacked the Angwan Magaji Kamaru village in Kauru County shortly after 6:30 p.m. for two and a half hours, said survivor John Asaragi. Police and other security personnel did not intervene.
Asaragi said those killed were Hannatu Joseph, 70; Sunday David, 45; Sarah Sunday, 40; and Jummai Sajeh, 75.
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52 Villagers Killed in Mozambique by Islamist Insurgents, Police Report
Islamic insurgents murdered around 52 young villagers in the Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado on April 7, police report.
The massacre took place in the village of Xitaxi after several young men refused to join an unidentified militant group.
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Islamists Severely Beat Christian Woman With Sticks in Eastern Uganda
Islamic radicals severely beat 23-year-old Lydia Nabirye in Eastern Uganda, after the woman shared her Christian faith with a Muslim woman who subsequently converted to Christianity.
Morning Star News reported Monday both Ms. Nabirye and the young woman who converted from Islam to Christianity received beatings. The Christian convert, who is pregnant and preferred to remain anonymous, sustained serious injuries as a result of the assault.
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France: Migrant Areas of Paris Hit With 3rd Consecutive Night of Riots
Migrant areas of Paris were hit with a 3rd consecutive night of rioting following an accident in which a motorcyclist was seriously injured after a confrontation with police.
One clip shows firefighters trying to tackle a blaze after numerous vehicles were set on fire.
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Netherlands: 18-Year-Old Stabbed to Death by Sudanese Asylum Seeker
A Sudanese asylum seeker was arrested over the weekend for murdering an 18-year-old Dutch boy with a knife in the municipality of Oss, in the southern Netherlands.
The murder took place on Sunday morning at approximately 8 am when a 25-year-old Sudanese man attacked and stabbed the victim, Rik van de Rakt, with a knife while he cycling to work, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reports.
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Tucker: Trump’s Immigration “Ban” Still Allows Corporations to Import Cheap Foreign Labor
Tucker Carlson warned on his show last night that President Trump’s supposed immigration “ban” is nothing of the kind because it still allows corporations to import cheap foreign labor, failing to protect more than 22 million Americans who have just filed for unemployment.
As we highlighted yesterday, the draft executive order contains broad exemptions for “refugees,” “essential workers” and a number of other categories of people.
That’s a far cry from temporarily suspending all immigration to the United States, as Trump’s initial tweet suggested.
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…And some have even been chased barefoot by officers
Freddie Lucas is just 16, but he is already a seasoned fisherman on the Latney Star, a two-man boat he crews with his ‘skipper’, and one of about 25 berthed on the shingle on Hastings seafront.
The weather-worn hull of his little vessel sits in the shadow of the tall, tarred, wooden net huts that line the foreshore in front of the Old Town, an area beloved by the trendy middle classes who have grown sick of London.
In its Victorian heyday, the seaside resort was one of the most fashionable in the country. It was the setting for the TV drama Foyle’s War and, even today, retains in places a certain old-world charm.
It was an unlikely setting for the events that Freddie saw take place on Good Friday.
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#EarthDay at 50: None of the Eco-Doomsday Predictions Have Come True
More than three decades before Greta Thunberg was born — the Swedish environmental activist on climate change — more than 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970.
We now look back at quotes from Earth Day, Then and Now,” by Ronald Bailey of the spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions from Earth Day 1970.
Considering the current doomsday predictions scaremonger activists are verbalizing about global warming that will result in the demise of civilization within the next decade, many of those unscientific 1970 predictions are being reincarnated on today’s social and news media outlets.
Many of the same are being regurgitated today, but the best prediction from the first earth day five decades ago, yes 50 years ago, was that the “the pending ice age as earth had been cooling since 1950 and that the temperature would be 11 degrees cooler by the year 2000”.
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Pope Francis Delivers Earth Day Speech: “We Have Sinned Against the Earth”
Pope Francis delivered a speech for Earth Day Wednesday, offering an impassioned plea for people to protect the environment, praising climate change activists who “take to the streets,” and saying “natural tragedies” like the COVID-19 pandemic are a result of mankind “sinning against the Earth.”
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https://twitter.com/FrDesouche/status/1252717012247347201
Peaceful, isn’t it?
“School Told to Apologise to Muslim Family Over Letter Saying it Was Worried Boys Were Missing Lessons to Attend Friday Prayers”
Why bother? If they don’t catch up with the lessons or miss too many hours, they fail class and eventually the whole school and that’s that. If they balance it out then it doesn’t matter all that much, really.
Yeah, not as if they are on track to be rocket scientists or brain surgeons.
Classes on street accounting for drug dealers and pimps, or how to defraud the dhimmis through abuse of public support would be far more useful to the average young muslim buck once they are out of school.
I love WW1 history, and I found some amazing colourized images
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^My personal favorite.
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^Captured U boat in England
https://i.4cdn.org/his/1587634460080.jpg
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Medic helps wounded Senegalese soldier.
https://i.4cdn.org/his/1587634807058.jpg
Why are Germans such puny little munchkins next to towering Brits? Maybe the English are the true Aryans?
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3rd Battle Cruiser Squadron taken from HMS Invincible. Invincible was the worlds first Battle Cruiser as envisioned by First Lord of the Admiralty Sir John ‘Jackie’ Fisher. She was sunk at the Battle of Jutland.
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The French uniform was beautiful but deadly, France suffered 27,000 dead in single day on August 22 1914, thanks largely to the combination of launching major counter-attacks in the Alsace-Lorraine and the Ardennes with brightly silhouetted troops.
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The Americans arrive! (Saint Mihiel, Sept. 1918)
You can find more here
https://www.facebook.com/ww1incolour/
The Pope, in this Catholic’s opinion, seems…well…..er….dumb?
Worse, he promised to retire, right about NOW!
Francis, placating Marxists is no different than placating Satan.
Frank works on Satans behalf. He actually thinks that our planet hates us. He pushes lies and propaganda and I am disgusted that people think he is a Christian. He is an evil man.
He’s just in way over his head. Bluffing his Jesuit way at this point. God knows what this charact- ter has been up to.
Why We Get Sick And How To Get Well
https://youtu.be/u5JeQA0_MbM
•5 maj 2019
Dr. Mikael Nordfors talks about how our sick society and sick healthcare system has created a sick medical science which has prevented us from addressing our health issues in a clever and life-affirming manner. He focuses on the core issue, which is our life energy, which is related to our mitochondrial health. He addresses this problem with deuterium depletion, diet, light therapy, ozone, hydrogen therapy, C60, fighting off chronic infections and by living a loving, and meaningful life. This video is the expression of the personal views of Dr. Nordfors and is not intended as medical advice.
The British – a happy holiday!
St George’s Day: Six reasons why England’s patron saint is a symbol of multiculturalism
Thought George was just the patron saint of England? Think again
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/st-georges-day-google-doodle-immigrant-palestine-multicultural-a6996771.html
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So it turns out to what event this caricature referred to: Germany wanted to bring little girls from Greece, but the UN slipped adult men instead of them
https://www.focus.de/politik/ausland/komplexes-verfahren-in-24-schritten-erst-50-sind-in-deutschland-das-grosse-problem-mit-der-auswahl-der-fluechtlingskinder_id_11912047.html
Briefly in Danish. For some reason, Google translates from this language into Russian rather than from German.
Maybe this phenomenon will be true for English.
https://www.document.dk/2020/04/23/tyskland-ville-hente-unge-saarbare-piger-fra-graekenland-fik-aeldre-drenge/
https://twitter.com/SpongeBob/status/1253292835727605760
SpongeBob lost his mind on self-isolation and converted to Islam.
THAT IS SICK.
Trump Instructs Navy to “Shoot Down and Destroy Any and All Iranian Gunboats” Harassing U.S. Ships.
Apparently the Islamic Republic and their bloody foreign supporters (DNC/EU/China) are intent to draw President Trump into a war hoping to harm his image for the second term elections. Missiles has been launched toward US bases for the last six months and US carriers have been approached by boats. Basically these dirty desertmen are begging for a war and President Trump cannot ignore it forever.
If the war erupts, NYT, CNN and the rest of the clamorous muppets will blow in their horns to design Trump as the warmonger. I would like to ask Americans to heed all the Iranian [sic] military activity and understand who is the real warmonger. President Trump’s attitude and actions against the Islamic Republic is seriously flawed, and foolish, but he is not the warmonger, imo.
How exactly does one “shoot down” Iranian gunboats? Unless the Islamic Republic has made a technological leap unknown elsewhere, gunboats don’t fly!
ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand.
The same as Memorial Day, and Remembrance Day celebrated in other countries.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
At the moment many in NZ are in lock down, so must stay in their “bubble” and not travel.
There is no “dawn services” or other times of service & laying of wreaths.
At 6:00 am, they will stand, possibly at their driveway entrance, to do a “virtual service” as per the radio, the last post, a minutes silence, and raising the flag, then to half mast.
Concluding with the National Anthem.
Australia will in a couple of hours will also be remembering.
To many that have served, and are serving, thank you.
So we look after each other.
Lest we forget.
Simpleton 1
New Zealand and Australia have had almost half a morning in 25th of April.
Just realized I posted the above in an older News Feed and wondered if you could shift that across to the more recent one.
Thank you Baron,, and for all the work you do here.
Here you go, quote from simpleton1:
ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand.
The same as Memorial Day, and Remembrance Day celebrated in other countries.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
At the moment many in NZ are in lock down, so must stay in their “bubble” and not travel.
There is no “dawn services” or other times of service & laying of wreaths.
At 6:00 am, they will stand, possibly at their driveway entrance, to do a “virtual service” as per the radio, the last post, a minutes silence, and raising the flag, then to half mast.
Concluding with the National Anthem.
Australia will in a couple of hours will also be remembering.
To many that have served, and are serving, thank you.
So we look after each other.
Lest we forget.
Simpleton 1
Hostiles heading in ones direction weapons blazing hopefully will be shot down or up as long as they are shot down. Ca va?