The government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin “Baby Doc” Trudeau has been forced to ban the use of a million faulty face masks purchased from China. It is not clear whether the government will get its money back. Meanwhile, the chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany demanded that the government bail out mosques due to the coronavirus crisis.
In other news, migrants in Libya are being put in contact with Italian lawyers before they (the migrants) even cross the Mediterranean.
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4.4m More Americans Filed for Unemployment Last Week, Bringing 5-Week Total to 26.5m
Another 4.4 million Americans filed for unemployment last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday, bringing the five-week total number of U.S. citizens filing for first-time jobless benefits to a staggering 26.5 million.
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European Summit Flops: No Agreement Reached, Four “Frugal” EU Countries Oppose Grants
Update: Earlier today, when previewing today’s EU Summit, we concluded that just one word summarizes best what to expect from today’s EU summit: disappointment.
Sure enough, we were right because moments ago Reuters reported that today’s talks have ended with no agreement on the recovery package as four “frugal” EU countries oppose grants, with the “Northern Camp” demanding that recovery aid be linked to the next EU long-term budget, an outcome that will lead to a furious reaction from Italy — and potentially another near collapse of the Eurozone — as the heavily-indebted Italy was hoping to get a blank check from Brussels due to the historic recession that has hit Italy due to the coronavirus. It no longer appears that that will happen:
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German Muslim Leader Demands Government Mosque Bailout
Aiman Mazyek, chairman of the Central Council of Muslims, has called on the German government to give aid to mosques struggling financially due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
Mr Mazyek said that many mosques in Germany were facing financial difficulties due to the lockdown measures and that many were on the verge of bankruptcy as they rely on individual donations from worshippers.
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House Passes $484bn Relief Bill Aimed at Small Businesses, Hospitals; Trump Expected to Sign
The House on Thursday evening gave overwhelming approval to a massive $484 billion coronavirus relief package aimed at boosting the small business Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and providing billions in liquidity to hospitals.
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Biden Says He is ‘Excited’ By Coronavirus ‘Opportunities’ For ‘Institutional Changes’
While three quarters of Americans expressed fear for their future freedoms, presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden said Wednesday that he is ‘excited’ at the ‘opportunities’ that coronavirus is bringing with it for ‘institutional change’.
Biden made the comment during a video conference fundraiser, saying that the coronavirus outbreak is exciting because it will allow “institutional changes” to be made without the US “becoming a ‘socialist country,’ or any of that malarkey.”
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In a 180-degree turn, Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones, a Democrat, said Thursday he will not resign because of the backlash from his endorsement of President Trump.
Jones, 59, announced his support for the president on April 14, pointing to Trump’s “handling of the economy, his support for historically black colleges, and his criminal justice initiatives.”
The endorsement earned swift condemnation from fellow Democrats in Georgia, who vowed retribution. In the face of this criticism, Jones said he intended to resign and not seek reelectionfor Georgia House District 91 on Wednesday.
He had a change of heart on Thursday.
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De Blasio Shuts Down Social Distancing Informant Line Following Obscene, Vulgar Submissions
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s social distance informant line, to which New Yorkers were urged to report if they witnessed fellow city-dwellers standing too close to each other, was forced to close down after it received a wave of obscene, vulgar submissions.
The mayor had originally invited city residents to snap photographs of people standing close to each other and send them to the city tip line.
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Stow, MA — A police chief in Stow, Massachusetts has been pulled from his job as the city’s top cop after video by a self-declared pedophile hunter was posted online. The video allegedly shows the cop attempt to meet a boy — who the chief knew was only 14 — for sex. Instead of meeting the boy, however, the chief was confronted by Predator Poachers Massachusetts.
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Nearly All NYC Coronavirus Patients Had Underlying Health Conditions, Study Finds
Nearly all the patients hospitalized for the coronavirus in New York City had underlying health conditions, according to a new study.
Health records showed that 94% of the 5,700 patients in the Northwell Health system — which has had the most patients in the country during the pandemic — had at least one disease other than COVID-19, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. 88% had more than one ailment on top of coronavirus.
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Pompeo: United States Might “Never” Return to Funding WHO
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that the United States might never resume funding the World Health Organization, further indicating a significant policy shift at the White House in response to the WHO’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Pork Shortages to Strike America in Two Weeks
We have some troubling news developing deep inside America’s food supply chain network, suggesting rapid food inflation could be dead ahead.
In the last several weeks, six major US meatpacking facilities have shuttered operations because of the coronavirus outbreak. That means 15% of America’s hog-slaughtering capacity has been shifted offline, and there is an additional risk that beef and poultry capacity could be reduced in the weeks ahead, reported Bloomberg.
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Twitter Removes 2nd Biden Meme From Trump’s Account, Citing Copyright
Twitter took down a meme posted by President Trump making fun of Joe Biden, citing a copyright complaint.
The meme was an edited video of Obama responding nonchalantly to an unusual statement from Biden. The quote is from Biden describing his work as a lifeguard in Delaware when he was younger.
“I got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun, and the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and then watch the hair come back up again. They’d look at it… So I learned about roaches, I learned about kids jumping on my lap,” Biden said in the video.
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U.S. Intel Officials Believe Chinese Diplomats May Have Spread Fake Texts to Cause Social Unrest
US intelligence officials have claimed that Chinese agents attempted to stoke panic and social unrest in the US by spreading text messages in March warning of coming curfews and martial law with troops on the streets.
The New York Times highlighted the claims from six intelligence officials from different agencies that people acting on behalf of the Chinese communist government worked to spread the rumours, with advice to take as much money out of bank accounts as possible and fill up on gas.
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U.S. Judge Dismisses Actor Jussie Smollett’s Lawsuit Alleging Malicious Prosecution
(Reuters) — A U.S. federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett who accused the city of Chicago of malicious prosecution in concluding that his claim to having been the victim of a racist and homophobic beating was a hoax.
U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall said in the ruling, published on the court’s website, that Smollett “cannot bring a state malicious claim until proceedings against him have been terminated.”
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Usama bin Laden wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama so that the “totally unprepared” Joe Biden would take over as president and plunge the United States “into a crisis,” according to documents seized from bin Laden’s Pakistan compound when he was killed in May 2011.
The secretive documents, first reported in 2012 by The Washington Post, outlined a plan to take out Obama and top U.S. military commander David Petraeus as they traveled by plane.
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Will All College Campuses Reopen in the Fall?
Continuing online classes, suspending large lectures and delaying the semester are among the contingency plans colleges and universities are making in case the coronavirus outbreak keeps some or all campuses closed in fall 2020, The Boston Globe reports.
Administrators are also concerned about the size of freshmen enrollment and whether returning students might take a year off or even drop out, The Globe reported.
Surveys, for example, have found that interest in enrolling in colleges in Boston and New York has declined since those cities became COVID-19 hotspots and that parents facing financial strain are also considering keeping students closer to home, according to The Globe.
“Colleges have to assume that enrolling populations will be smaller than what they were,” Kristin R. Tichenor, a special consultant with Maguire Associates and senior adviser to the president at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, told The Globe.
Some 58% of higher ed respondents are considering or have already decided to continue online learning in fall 2020, according to an American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers survey of 262 institutions.
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Citizens to Hold Rally to Protest Shutdown Measures in Toronto
Protestors have gathered across the US and Canada in the last few weeks to push back against the coronavirus lockdown and Toronto is the next city set to host a major protest, scheduled for April 25 at Queen’s Park.
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Ford Government Planning ‘Safe Reopening’ Of Economy
Premier Ford addressed media Monday, providing an update on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ford started by giving his condolences to the communities in Nova Scotia impacted by the shooting spree.
“To have an unthinkable, active evil rip into their community… Nothing could be worse,” said Ford.
Premier Doug Ford has asked the recovery comity for a gradual, measured, and safe reopening of the province based on the data presented earlier today.
Health officers said Ontario is expecting 20,000 cases in this wave of the pandemic, aligning it with the “best case” that was previously set.
“We’re now looking at a much lower number, hopefully under 20,000 cases, in this wave of the pandemic,” said public health dean Prof. Steini Brown earlier on Monday.
[Comment: Article dated April 20, 2020]
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Trudeau Government Rejects One Million Faulty Masks From China
The Trudeau government has confirmed that approximately one million face masks that were purchased from China will not be used because they do not meet the standards of Health Canada. Therefore, they will not be distributed for use by health care workers.
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Czech Republic: Closed Borders Making Life Hard for Illegal Drug Producers
Producers of illegal drugs in the Czech Republic are suffering due to border closures enacted due to the coronavirus crisis, according to Jakub Frydrych, head of the National Anti-Drug Central.
Illicit drug manufacturers do not have access to ingredients for methamphetamine, and there is a lack of heroin in Prague. On the other hand, marijuana supplies could exceed demand, says Frydrych.
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Despite Lockdown: France Rocked by Four Straight Nights of Riots
Riots erupted across France for the fourth night in a row, spreading to cities and towns with cars set on fire and mobs of locals attacking police and firefighters despite the Wuhan coronavirus lockdown measures.
The riots began on Sunday following an incident between a local on a motorcycle and police in the Paris suburb of Villeneuve-la-Garenne. They have spread to even more areas with violence continuing to increase.
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Christopher Steele told a British court last month that he no longer has documents and other information from his meetings with the main source for his Trump dossier, suggesting that the former British spy has no way of backing up his side in a dispute with the Justice Department’s inspector general (IG), according to a deposition transcript obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Steele also told the court that his communications regarding the dossier, including with Fusion GPS, were “wiped” in December 2016 and January 2017, the transcript shows.
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French researchers are planning to give nicotine patches to both frontline workers and coronavirus patients after research showed nicotine may lessen the effects of or even prevent the coronavirus.
Research has shown that the proportion of smokers infected with COVID-19 is much lower than the rate of the general population.
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Germany: Lenin Statue to be Erected Despite Protests
The court in Gelsenkirchen has overruled the city government’s order to prevent the construction of a statue of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union and Communism’s main icon, there.
The statue is being put there by the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD), which owns the plot of land where it will stand. The plot is in front of the MLPD’s headquarters. Gelsenkirchen, a city of approximately 260,000 citizens, is in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany.
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Greenland Ready to Take US Aid But Won’t Accept Conditions
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Greenlanders said Thursday they welcome reports that the United States wants to invest in their island, but the money has to come without conditions.
The U.S administration is expected to announce the opening of a U.S. Agency for International Development office at the new American consulate in the capital, Nuuk, and at least $12 million in new aid projects.
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Italy: Alitalia Being Nationalised for Now Then We’ll See — Minister
Newco at start of June, fleet will be 90-plus says Patuanelli
(ANSA) — Rome, April 23 — Alitalia will “initially” be 100% state owned but “then we will have to see”, Transport Minister Stefano Patuanelli said Thursday.
He said the troubled former national flag carrier will be put into a newco starting up at the beginning of June amid the coronavirus emergency, and its fleet would not be limited but have “over 90 planes”.
Bids for the chronically lossmaking Italian airline are currently being considered.
Alitalia has been the subject of successive bailouts and the European Commission is looking into its latest bridge loan.
Patuanelli added that it would be “difficult” to keep redundancies down to zero but jobs would be “safeguarded”.
He said the government would keep injecting cash into the airline until the end of May, despite its constant losses.
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Pope Francis: The Earth Does Not Forgive, Expect an ‘Ugly’ Response
ROME — Human beings have despoiled the earth, sinned against the earth, and “its response will be very ugly,” Pope Francis said Wednesday in a message for Earth Day 2020.
We have “failed to care for the earth,” we have “sinned against the earth,” the pope saidduring his Wednesday audience. “And how does the earth react?”
“There is a Spanish saying that is very clear about this. It goes: ‘God always forgives; we humans sometimes forgive, and sometimes not; the earth never forgives,’“ he warned, departing from his prepared text. “The earth does not forgive: if we have despoiled the earth, its response will be very ugly.”
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Romanian Farm Workers ‘Not Tested for COVID-19’ After Arriving in UK
180 Romanian farm workers were not tested for the coronavirus before arriving in the UK to work on farms, despite the global pandemic and a UK-wide lockdown.
According to The Sun, the workers were not tested upon landing at Stansted Airport. Despite Transport Secretary Grant Shapps claiming that such workers are necessary to stop food rotting,.
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Spanish Leftist Mayor Resigns After Biting Police Officer
Spanish socialist politician Alex Pastor has resigned as mayor of Badalona after biting a police officer who caught him violating Wuhan coronavirus lockdown measures and driving drunk.
Pastor’s resignation was announced on Wednesday after the former mayor had been arrested the evening before in Barcelona’s Eixample district. Miquel Iceta, the head of the Socialist Workers’ Party, claimed that Pastor’s actions were “incompatible with socialism”.
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UK: “Disrespectful”: Families of Cancer Patients Slam Nurse Dancing Videos
Families of cancer patients whose loved ones are not able to receive treatment in hospitals because of the coronavirus pandemic have slammed videos which show nurses dancing as “disrespectful.”
Scores of videos of health workers performing the dances have flooded Tik-Tok and other social media platforms in recent weeks despite Brits being told by the government that the COVID-19 outbreak would overwhelm NHS hospitals.
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Professor Richard Sullivan warns that excess cancer deaths will outstrip coronavirus deaths over the next 5 years.
Why? People are avoiding the hospital.
2,300 cancer diagnoses are being missed each week as hospitals are devoted to COVID-19.
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UK: Home-Made Masks Do Slow Spread of Coronavirus, Govt Scientists Told
Experts have told government scientists that there is evidence that the public using homemade masks could help reduce the risk of them transmitting coronavirus.
The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), which provides the British government with scientific advice to support decision-making during emergencies, met on Tuesday for the third time to discuss the public wearing masks.
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UK: Hospitals Accused of Hoarding PPE as Military Criticised NHS’s ‘Appalling’ Distribution Network
A senior official at NHS Supply Chain has accused some National Health Service trusts of hoarding personal protective equipment (PPE). Meanwhile, military sources have condemned the socialised health service’s “appalling” distribution network.
Speaking to customers of the organisation that acquires materials for the NHS, Rachel Repper said that some trusts failing to return delivery cages “indicates that there is stockpiling going on locally because that is where product is being held… within hospital estates”.
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UK: Man Who Threw Urine on Female Prison Guard Jailed for ‘Administering Poison’
A man who spayed a female prison guard with urine while on remand has been imprisoned for “administering poison” in a first-of-its-kind conviction.
22-year-old Michael Raheem, of no fixed abode, sprayed the human waste on the guard while he was awaiting trial for robbery at Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) Belmarsh.
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A professor at King’s College London has warned that there will be more excess cancer deaths over the next 5 years than the number of people who die from coronavirus in the UK due to the disruption caused by the coronavirus lockdown, which is preventing cancer victims from getting treatment.
Richard Sullivan, professor of cancer and global health and director of its Institute of Cancer Policy, said: “The number of deaths due to the disruption of cancer services is likely to outweigh the number of deaths from the coronavirus itself over the next five years.”
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UK: Social Distancing Could Last Rest of Year, Govt Expected to Recommend Public Wear Masks
Britain’s Chief Medical Adviser, Chris Witty, has said that it would be “wholly unrealistic” to believe lockdown restrictions will be lifted entirely, forecasting that some kind of social distancing measures may be in place for the rest of the year.
Prof Whitty told the Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: “In the long run, the exit from this is going to be one of two things, ideally.
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Mainstream media by no means provides a balanced or an exhaustive enough reportage to be used for a fair, pan-India analysis. It has been seen that many media houses cherrypick cases in which the victim-perpetrator equation suits their narratives. It is essentially tailor-made to show Muslims as overwhelmingly the victims and Hindus overwhelmingly as the perpetrators, creating a false perception among minorities that they are under attack from ‘fascist’ Hindus with active cooperation from the state machinery. The harsh reality is that the Hindus have been an overwhelming target of hate crimes in India. Hindus have been murdered brutally and lynched for speaking up, in riots that were specifically anti-Hindu and driven by Islamists and some, just for being Hindus.
The media often shies away from talking about these cases and the ones who do are attacked by the same ecosystem. In fact, even when the perpetrators are not Muslims, somehow, Hindu victims fail to inspire the outrage that Muslim victims do.
Here are 27 incidents where Hindus were brutally murdered, but they failed to inspire any outrage from the mainstream media and the ‘liberal’ establishment.
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Attacks on Minority Hindu Community in Islamic Bangladesh During Corona Lock Down
Threats of deportation of minority Hindus of Islamic Bangladesh, at least 25 people were fatally injured including children, women and aged men! Several people are currently hospitalized!
Biswajit Das | Jago Hindu FB Media | Dhaka | April 24, 2020:: On Tuesday (April 21), a fatal Jihadi attack took place on 30 minority Hindu families at Shukladash Para in Sadhur shop of Dharmapur union in Satkania upazila of Chittagong district, ignoring the lock down crossroads of the country.
It is reported that at about 2 pm on Tuesday during the Corona lock down period, at the behest of a local and Mslim influential leader, some Muslim perpetrators attacked upon Hind minority people for the expansion of certain political domination out of political rifts. It is believed that the attack was carried out with domestic weapons such as da (type of machetes), kiris (sickle), knife, lathi (sticks)! The attackers injured about 25 women, men, the elderly and children from minority Hindu families in Shukladashpara. The injured were taken to the local hospital and Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
Eyewitnesses were unwilling to disclose their names and said that the attack was led by local Muslim terrorist like Md. ATM, Md. Rashed, Md. Abdullah, Md. Zia Uddin, Md Habibullah and Md. Musa Uddin.
They carried out a sudden attack on a Hindu village with a force of more than 70/80 men in a planned manner to trap the opponent political domination and threatened the Hindu minorities to drive out from Bangladesh, if the local Hindus don’t support a particular political party.
Most of the women were victims of this attack. A compliant has been filed in Satkaniya police station against those involved in the attack.
The attack has caused panic among local Hindu minorities. There is anger and fear both in the area over this incident. The Hindu locals demanded proper investigation against those involved to arrest them immediately…
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China Declares ‘Publicity Stunt’ US Lawsuits ‘Will Never Happen’
In response to at least 7 US lawsuits being filed against the Chinese government, as well as the Wuhan Institute of Virology, over the spread of the coronavirus, the CCP said that ‘they will never happen’, and it is a ‘farce’ to believe that China will ever pay reparations.
Pointing in particular to the Missouri’s lawsuit, which is seeking up to $44 billion in reparations, China’s state-run Global Times responded calling it a case that will be “impossible to win” for the US state.
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China Rejects Pompeo’s Request for Access to Wuhan Lab
China is rejecting calls by U.S. officials to give international inspectors access to labs to make sure dangerous pathogens similar to the coronavirus are not being released accidentally.
The U.S. is conducting an investigation into whether the virus somehow escaped from a lab in Wuhan, the initial epicenter of the pandemic that has resulted in unprecedented lockdowns and crippled the global economy.
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Chinese State Media Uses Tik-Tok Video of Trevor Noah for Coronavirus Propaganda
A Chinese state media outlet is using Tik-Tok videos of the Daily Show’s Trevor Noah to amplify Communist Party propaganda about the coronavirus pandemic.
“Chinese state propaganda is now making TikToks of Trevor Noah,” tweeted Jack Posobiec. “We are entering a whole new era of information warfare.”
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Coronavirus: YouTube Bans ‘Medically Unsubstantiated’ Content
YouTube has banned any coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts World Health Organization (WHO) advice. The Google-owned service says it will remove anything it deems “medically unsubstantiated”.
Chief executive Susan Wojcicki said the media giant wanted to stamp out “misinformation on the platform”.
The move follows YouTube banning conspiracy theories falsely linking Covid-19 to 5G networks.
Mrs Wojcicki made the remarks on Wednesday during her first interview since the global coronavirus lockdown began.
“So people saying, ‘Take vitamin C, take turmeric, we’ll cure you,’ those are the examples of things that would be a violation of our policy,” she told CNN.
“Anything that would go against World Health Organization recommendations would be a violation of our policy.”
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama Extends Support to Indian Govt Efforts to Combat Coronavirus
Dharamshala, India — The spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has made a donation from his trust to the PM CARES Fund, created to enable people to contribute to the government’s containment and relief measures against the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Nobel Peace laureate has strongly expressed his support to the measures being taken by India, within the country, and among SAARC nations, to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
[Comment : Article dated March 31, 2020.]
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A Chinese journalist who went missing for approximately two months after exposing the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan has resurfaced in a video praising local police for their “civil” treatment of him during forced quarantine.
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Tibetan Father, Son Detained for Listening to Dalai Lama Teachings
An elderly Tibetan man and his son were detained in the Tibet Autonomous Region at the end of last year for listening to teachings by exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, RFA’s Tibetan service has learned.
Jampa Dorje, 75, and his son were taken into custody by Chinese police on or around Dec. 30, 2019, in Chamdo (in Chinese, Changdu) prefecture’s Dzogang (Zuogong) county, Geshe Jampa—a Tibetan monk living in south India—told RFA on Monday.
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Tibetan Shopkeeper Freed After Serving 5 Years for Dalai Lama Photo
A Tibetan shopkeeper jailed for carrying a flag with a color photo of the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan figures at a festival in 2015 was released and returned to his family in Ngaba (in Chinese, Aba) at the weekend after serving his full five-year term, sources familiar with the case told RFA.
Sonam Dhargye was released on April 4, and returned to his home in Sowa Village in Ngaba county.
“Outwardly he looks to be fine. But his family have decided to take him to the doctors for a thorough physical checkup,” said the source
Dhargye was detained in Ngaba in Aprl 2015, two months after he attended the Monlam festival at Ngatoe Gongma Monastery, where he carried a blue religious flag with a world peace symbol and a 8×10-inch color photo of the Dalai Lama, and two other prominent Tibetan exile figures, the source said.
“At the end of April that year, he went to Ngaba county to buy merchandise for his shop. It was there the Chinese police took him into custody at the market in Ngaba county and sentenced him for five years,” said the source.
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Excess mortality figures — the number of deaths that occur above seasonal averages — from 13 countries and regions have revealed some 31,000 deaths not being counted in official totals.
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White House Trade Adviser: ‘China Spawned the Virus in a Lab’
As evidence mounts, investigations take hold, and lawsuits are filed against China over the apparent lab based origin of the coronavirus, another prominent voice has leant his weight to the matter in the form of White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro.
Appearing on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Navarro stated clearly that he believes the US intelligence position that the virus was leaked from a Chinese lab, and that the communist state fed a pack of lies to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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THE coronavirus is the result of Wuhan scientists doing “absolutely crazy things” in their laboratory, a leading Russian microbiologist has claimed.
World renowned expert Professor Petr Chumakov claimed their aim was to study the pathogenicity of the virus and not “with malicious intent” to deliberately create a man-made killer.
Professor Chumakov, chief researcher at the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow, said: “In China, scientists at the Wuhan Laboratory have been actively involved in the development of various coronavirus variants for over ten years.
“Moreover, they did this, supposedly not with the aim of creating pathogenic variants, but to study their pathogenicity.
“They did absolutely crazy things, in my opinion.
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Helen Shao said she’s faced several racist attacks in Sydney because she is Chinese, blaming US President Donald Trump for linking COVID-19 to China.
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Australia has sought the support of world leaders in overhauling the embattled World Health Organisation following its bungled response to coronavirus pandemic.
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Australia to Probe China Coronavirus Lab Theory
Drawing the ire of the communist Chinese government, Australia has announced that it will follow the lead of the United States and investigate the possibility that the Coronavirus leaked from A Wuhan bio-lab.
“The issues around the coronavirus are issues for independent review, and I think that it is important that we do that. In fact, Australia will insist on that,” the country’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne said earlier this week.
The Australian opposition party also expressed support for Payne and announced that it hopes the Chinese government will fully cooperate with an investigation.
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Virgin Australia, which is 90 per cent foreign owned, went into voluntary administration on Tuesday with $5.3billion in debts with the government so far refusing to offer a bail out the airline
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The NSW Government is in the process of acquiring 200million face masks for the next year, to meet the demands of the health crisis.
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At the end of the 30 days, Muslims celebrate Eid with a huge gathering for prayers at Sydney’s Lakemba mosque and other mosques around the country.
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The Prime Minister needs to make the case for Australians downloading the TraceTogether app and not his accident prone government services minister or law-and-order focused attorney-general.
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Coronavirus: South Africa Deploys 70,000 Troops to Enforce Lockdown
More than 70,000 extra troops will be deployed in South Africa to help enforce a lockdown intended to stop the spread of coronavirus, President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced.
South Africa has had 3,465 confirmed coronavirus cases — second only to Egypt in Africa — and 58 deaths.
The country has some of the most stringent coronavirus lockdown restrictions in the world.
But security forces have struggled to enforce them.
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Food Riots Erupt in South Africa as Lockdown Intensifies
People in Cape Town have broken into tuck shops and attacked each other and police because hunger, one resident said.
In a viral video, Joanie Fredericks, a civic activist in Cape Town’s Mitchells Plain Township, said:
‘Mr President, we are in the midst of a food crisis. It’s war out here.’
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Bosnia: We Will Not be a Parking Lot for Migrants Going to the EU
Officials in Bosnia’s Service for Foreigners’ Affairs (SFA) have begun developing a list of illegal migrants to be deported. The country is currently hosting approximately 10,000 migrants.
The list was ordered by Bosnia’s Security Minister, Fahrudin Radoncic, who said that his country has become “a parking lot for migrants for Europe,” according to a report at Balkan Insight. “That is not going to happen!” he exclaimed.
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France: Migrant Areas of Paris Riot for 4th Night Running
Migrant areas of Paris hit by riots for 4th consecutive night.
Noticeable lack of social distancing, but at least diversity remains a strength.
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Greece: Migrants on Lesbos Shot After Violating Lockdown Measures
A pair of migrants who are being housed at the Moria camp on Lesbos were shot with a shotgun after they violated lockdown measures by leaving the camp, police said on Wednesday.
After incident, the two migrants were taken to a hospital where they were treated for light injuries. While they were at the hospital, the pair told police officers that they had broken the camp’s strict lockdown measures and that they were shot at, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reports.
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Migrants Given Contacts of Italian Lawyers Before They Even Cross Mediterranean
An incident that took place over Easter weekend has revealed that migrants leaving North African shores are being given contact details of Italian lawyers before they even leave for Europe.
Two migrants were able to contact a lawyer and start an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights while they were still in the process of crossing the Mediterranean in a rubber dinghy, shortly after they had departed from the port of Al Khoms, near Tripoli.
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Netherlands: Crime Among ‘Asylum Seekers’ Surged in 2019
The number of crimes committed by asylum seekers living in the Netherlands sharply increased in 2019, up nearly 30 percent from the previous year.
According to a report from the Ministry of Justice and Security that was obtained by Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, around 6,000 crimes were committed by asylum seekers in 2019 , an increase of 27 percent from the previous year which saw nearly 5,000 crimes committed by asylum seekers.
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Serbia: Migrants Attempt to Escape From Reception Centers Amid Lockdown
Migrants and asylum seekers have repeatedly made attempts to break quarantine and escape from reception centers in Serbia, according to statements made by the country’s defense minister.
On Tuesday, Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandr Vulin said that military personnel were forced to fire shots into the air outside reception centers along Serbia’s border with Croatia and near the nation’s capital to prevent the migrants from escaping amid lockdown measures, RIA Novosti reports.
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Sweden: Romanian Gypsy Pimp Sentenced for Kidnapping, Raping, And Torturing Young Girl
A 37-year-old Romanian, who refers to himself a gypsy, has been sentenced to six years in prison for the kidnapping, rape, and torture of a Romanian girl in Gothenburg.
The Romanian gypsy migrant, who according to the police worked as a pimp in Gothenburg, had apparently brought the girl to Sweden with the hope that he would be able to sell her as a prostitute, Swedish news portal Samhällsnytt reports.
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Swedish Official Says Migrants Fail Because Swedes Are Prejudiced
The reason migrants who come to Sweden aren’t more self-sufficient is because Swedes are prejudiced against them. At least, this is what Fadi Barakat, the Director of the City of Malmö’s Office for Industry and Trade, is saying.
A recent study that was conducted by the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum showed that it takes an average of 12-13 years after their arrival before even 50% of migrants in Sweden have achieved basic self-sufficiency, as previously reported by Voice of Europe. For the most part, migrants live on government funding. The study showed that migrants from Africa and the Middle East do the most poorly.
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“Mr Mazyek said that many mosques in Germany were facing financial difficulties due to the lockdown measures and that many were on the verge of bankruptcy as they rely on individual donations from worshippers.”
They should ask their muslim brothers for funds or, failing that, they should go bust and go back to where they came from. They are not wanted in Europe.
Wot about the feelthy steenking’ Saudis?
“Czech Republic: Closed Borders Making Life Hard for Illegal Drug Producers”
Don’t worry, our liberal opposition has forced our government to open our borders starting today…
A judge in Prague ruled that the ban was against the law. Prague is ruled by the Pirate party, aka Antifa. That should make it clear who’s interests are at stake here.
“There is a Spanish saying that is very clear about this. It goes: ‘God always forgives; we humans sometimes forgive, and sometimes not; the earth never forgives,’“ he warned, departing from his prepared text. “The earth does not forgive: if we have despoiled the earth, its response will be very ugly.”
If he’s putting Earth, as an entity, above God, shouldn’t he be stripped of his position as Pope?
Frank is not a Christian. He has never been a christian. He is just a Jesuit politician who is evil to the core.
You and I we both know that, but clearly, the Church doesn’t.
What a nice feel-good news story from the Morian orc-hole on Lesbos.
A shame the ending wasn’t happier though. Had the unknown orc-hunter loaded the shotgun with 00 buck instead of birdshot, those two orclings could have been dispatched to an early meeting with Allah and blissful eternal rape of their endowment of virgins.
Just when you thought we finally had a really good feel good ending, the 3rd worlders were only wounded! Dang! Nabit!
If he had killed the bastard he would have a few years in jail.
All the governments we had so far are protecting the bastards and punish the Christian natives.
If he gets caught he will still have a few years in jail for attempted pest control. Better to do the time for actually succeeding in squashing a few roaches than for merely trying to.
https://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-american-beat-queen.html?m=1
The Queen of England everybody!
Greece: Migrants on Lesbos Shot After Violating Lockdown Measures
They must shot at the moment they land on the island,so nobody will try again to enter illegally.
We are fed up with them .The future looks very bleak.
Thankfully there are still real men and patriots on Lesbos; hopefully they will have better luck hunting next time.
There should have been some consequences for the orcs that chopped down the 5000 olive trees because they were angry.
Make Greece Greek again!
Hunting time is approaching.
As for our politicians there is a Greek saying “ἡ τιμωρία ἔρχεται κουτσαίνοντας”(the punishment comes by limping).
The future looks darned bright to me! Especially when you open fire on 3rd worlders. Simples!
Re: “Romanian farm workers ‘not tested’ for Covid-19… after entering UK.”
As reported, this is misleading. Migrant agricultural workers from Romania (and Bulgaria) are now quarantined for two weeks after arrival.
They have been a regular feature for many years, and live in accommodation provided by their employers, close to the farms where they work; this, combined with the disparity in currency values, makes it worth their while to come here and send remittances home. About 70% are returnees, so little time or expenditure is needed to train them (some of the equipment used is hazardous to the inexperienced).
One might argue that unemployed Brits could do the job, but the salaries offered would be worth much less in Birmingham or Coventry than Bucharest or Sofia, and such large Midlands cities are hardly within commuting distance of the farms where the work is, even if they had transport; and even if they could find affordable accommodation (in increasingly short supply in the UK) close to the work, it would not be worth their while to move themselves and their families for a few weeks’ seasonal employment.
Some language hygiene:
“salaries offered”? how mellifluously deceptive, offer is such a polite word, e.g. may i offer you some tea?
and a salary is the pay of a white collar worker and not an agricultural worker doing exploitative piece work. such a person gets a wage, in theory anyway.
in fact, “nominal wages withheld” is more accurate
Lewycka’s novel show the economics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Caravans
https://twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1253371053222461447
https://twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1253659773989523457
Rioting continued for the 5th night, none of the MSM are reporting it. Figures.
Editor,
You are one of my new news sources. No play on words intended.
The Drudge Report has been bought by, it is rumored Google.
Starting six months ago, I began to see omissions and leftist preaching on Drudge.
Just deleted The Drudge Report icon from my computer and replaced it with yours.
Regards,
Jack Lawson
On the Trudeau thing: First, he “donated” tons of PPE to China. China took the donation, then responded by banning any further sales of PPE to Canada. That ban was eventually lifted, so Trudeau promptly ordered more PPE to replace what he gave away. He basically wanted to pay twice for the PPE he originally bought from China. The Chinese took his money but wouldn’t send the product. So Justin sent two cargo planes to China to pick up the PPE. The Chinese let those planes sit at the airport for a few days, then kicked them out of the country, still empty-handed. Finally, a third-party broker managed to get a load of PPE from China, and now look: the whole shipment is defective.
Justin Trudeau is a buffoon, and the communist Chinks treat him accordingly.
We in the US need to learn a lesson from all of China’s behavior and cut off all trade and all immigration with their ugly mistake of a nation. They have no place doing business with any self-respecting westerners. Cut them off and watch their ugly, parasitic country wither away. And cut off Canada, too, until they can elect a PM who’s worth a damn. I don’t see how any Canadian citizen can look himself in the mirror these days with that milquetoast fop running the place.
Now, thry will MURDER the wvisselblower too.
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Swedish Doctor Pleads For Help: Gov’t Denies Elderly Coronavirus Patients Life Saving Oxygen
https://youtu.be/ssNVQPirF80
Read RAIR Article about this Exclusive interview:
https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https://rairfoundation.com/exclusive-swedish-doctor-pleads-for-help-govt-denies-elderly-coronavirus-patients-life-saving-oxygen-watch/&redir_token=VYYVogwe2JQh6A-upfljQNfO3LF8MTU4Nzg0NzY3NUAxNTg3NzYxMjc1&event=video_description&v=ssNVQPirF80
https://mobile.twitter.com/SimonJonesNews/status/1253726363829391361
Our ‘border’ force are traitors.
Meanwhile, across the pond
https://mobile.twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1253785868449525769
“EU Parliament says:
1. Hungary’s decision to introduce a state of emergency is a threat to democracy
2. Poland’s decision to NOT INTRODUCE a state of emergency is a threat to democracy
Meanwhile, last night ppl woke up in Strasbourg (EU Parliament HQ) to see their cars on fire”