A number of states in the USA will begin easing coronavirus restrictions this weekend or next week. Meanwhile, a man in Ontario was fined $1,200 for walking his dog during the lockdown. Also, undercover police arrested two women in Texas for providing cosmetology services in their homes.
In other news, a complaint from a Muslim MP caused Tommy Robinson to be banned from the Tik Tok platform.
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The economic shock of coronavirus in Australia has smashed jobs and businesses faster than the Great Depression.
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Why Illinois is Broke: 109,881 Public Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks Cost Taxpayers $14b
Submitted by Adam Andrzejewski, originally published in Forbes
Illinois could soon be the first state in history to have its bonds rated as “junk.” Last month, both Moody’s MCO and Standard & Poor’s downgraded Illinois debt to just one notch above junk status.
Last week, the Illinois State Senate President Don Harmon (D-Chicago) wrote a letter to Congress requesting a $41.6 billion bailout. Critics balked.
In many ways, Illinois may have already crossed the Rubicon.
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10 Indiana Malls Set to Open Saturday
On Saturday, ten malls throughout Indiana are opening their doors, a day after the state’s stay-at-home order is set to expire, according to a new report.
The locations are among 49 malls and outlet centers owned by Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group that plan to reopen May 4 across the country, according to a memo obtained by CNBC. The malls have been closed since March 18.
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2nd Illinois Lawmaker to File Suit Against Pritzker Stay-at-Home Order: Reports
According to multiple reports, another Illinois lawmaker is planning a legal challenge to Governor J.B. Pritzker’s stay-at-home order in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The news comes a day after downstate Rep. Darren Bailey won a temporary restraining order against the governor’s mandate.
Illinois Rep. John Cabello, who represents the 68th District in the state legislature, says that he plans to file a lawsuit in Winnebago County by the end of the day Tuesday, according to multiple reports, including from the Washington Examiner.
“I hope it sends a wake-up call to the governor,” Cabello told reporters. “The guy is acting like a dictator. There are ways of safeguarding yourself, but when you demand that the citizens’ assets are closed and since they still have to pay for them and not use them, I have an issue with that.”
The governor has already filed an appeal in the ruling against him Monday. Clay County Circuit Court Judge Michael McHaney awarded Bailey a TRO exempting him from the state’s stay-at-home order, potentially paving the way for other individuals to file their own lawsuits seeking exemptions from the restrictions.
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70% of Americans Want Trade Restrictions on China After Coronavirus
Nearly three-quarters of Americans support some form of trade restrictions on China, a sign that the two countries’ long-standing commerce arrangements may be coming to an end due to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to a Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen, 70% of respondents said the United States should make at least some alterations to its trade agreements with China. Eleven percent called for an all-out ban, while 41% said U.S. should “reduce our reliance” on trade with that country. Eighteen percent said the U.S. should demand compensation for the pandemic before normal trading should resume.
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Biden Says the World Needs More “Economic Intercourse”
Presidential candidate Joe Biden made another embarrassing gaffe when he said that the world needed more “economic intercourse.”
The slip-up occurred during Biden’s CBS4 Miami interview yesterday.
Biden was asked by host Jim Defede if he would restore funding to the World Health Organization as president.
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Biden Says He Would Reinstate WHO Funding as President
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic party’s presumptive nominee for the 2020 presidential election, recently told a Miami television news station that if he is elected president, he would restore funding to the World Health Organization.
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CDC: Social Distancing Also Applies to Pets
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have come out with new guidance on household pets in the era of coronavirus, declaring that social distancing rules apply to pets, as well.
Two cats in New York recently tested positive for coronavirus, the first in the country to do so. The CDC is thus urging pet owners to treat pets like “other human family members,” saying that means keeping cats indoors and walking dogs six feet away from other animals and people.
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Hillary Clinton to Endorse Biden Despite Mounting Evidence in Sexual Assault Claim
Hillary Clinton will endorse Joe Biden for president Tuesday, CNN reports, amid claims that he sexually assaulted a staffer in the 1990s and despite several new developments which appear to lend credence to the accusation.
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Throughout the country, law enforcement has set free thousands of prisoners to “protect them” from COVID-19 inside jails and prisons.
While innocents are locked in their homes hiding from “the invisible enemy,” as President Trump calls it, county sheriffs, prison overseers, and governors have been busy freeing convicted criminals to stop them from getting the coronavirus.
The rogue’s gallery of convicts is a justice reformer’s dream. Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva bragged he let prisoners out of his jail before he was even asked by the ACLU and other justice groups — this while he shut down gun stores so people could not buy guns to protect themselves.
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Iowa Tells Workers to Return to Jobs or Lose Benefits
Iowa is warning furloughed workers that they will lose their unemployment benefits if they refuse to return when their employer calls them back to work.
Gov. Kim Reynolds is moving to partially reopen 77 of the state’s 99 counties Friday, relaxing restrictions that were intended to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Restaurants, some bars, malls, fitness centers, and retail stores are expected to open their doors for the first time in several weeks.
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Lightfoot Sees Baseball Returning This Summer in Chicago, But Without Fans
More than a month has passed since the Major League Baseball season was set to begin, but Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she can “envision a world” where players will return to the diamond this season.
The MLB season, currently on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, was supposed to begin in late March, and although it seems extremely unlikely that play will begin any time soon, Lightfoot expressed some optimism on Monday.
“We’ve had ongoing conversations about what (opening the season) might look like,” she said. “We’re obviously a ways away from that, because we haven’t seen the level of cases decline on a consistent basis. We’re still seeing them rise. But can I envision a world where a baseball might return to Chicago this summer? Yes. Is it likely to be without fans? Probably.”
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Piers Morgan ‘Partied’ With Epstein’s Girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell
Piers Morgan partied with disgraced Jeffrey Epstein bottom girl Ghislaine Maxwell in 2013.
The under-fire Good Morning Britain host was pictured with Maxwell at a private New York residence in October 2013.
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Politico’s story about President Trump owing tens of millions of dollars on a loan that comes due in 2022 to the Chinese state-owned bank, Bank of China, was widely circulated on social media when it was published on Friday. On Monday, the news outlet had to issue a massive correction that undermined the story’s main premise.
After the story was published, Politico received a statement from Bank of China USA on Friday, which was not contacted by Politico before publication, to say the story was not true. The bank had sold off, or securitized, its debt shortly after the 2012 deal.
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A new study has found that 72% of Americans will reach their “breaking point” if the coronavirus stay-at-home order continues into the middle of June.
In a poll conducted by Kelton Global , 1,895 U.S. citizens were asked how long they could tolerate being cooped up due to COVID-19.
“The survey was conducted between April 3rd and 6th, and at that time, 16% said they had already hit their breaking point, with that number rising to 25% within the next two weeks. That would indicate that one in four Americans have likely reached wits’ end by now,” according to Study Finds.
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Tara Reade Calls for Release of Biden’s Senate Records
Tara Reade, the woman who has accused then-Senator Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her 23 years ago while she worked for him on Capitol Hill, has called for the unsealing of his Senate records, asking on Tuesday: “Why are they under seal?”
“I’m calling for the release of the documents being held by the University of Delaware that contain Biden’s staff personnel records because I believe it will have my complaint form, as well as my separation letter and other documents,” Reade said during an interview with Fox News.
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Texas to Let Stay-at-Home Order Expire, Other States Set to Open
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said on Monday that he will allow the state’s stay-home order to expire this week as Texas and other states are working to reopen after weeks of lockdown orders.
Mississippi, Tennessee, and Colorado let some businesses reopen on Monday, while Georgia, Oklahoma, Alaska, and South Carolina allowed some business to open with social distancing measures in place.
Abbott will allow retail stores, restaurants, malls, movie theaters, museums, and libraries to reopen on Friday at 25% capacity. The stay-at-home order is set to expire on Thursday.
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Tucker Carlson: “The Virus Isn’t Nearly as Deadly as We Thought it Was”
Fox News host Tucker Carlson appeared to join those demanding a move to re-open society as soon as possible when he said during his show last night “the virus isn’t nearly as deadly as we thought it was.”
Carlson questioned why the San Francisco Bay area was expanding its lockdown for another five weeks until the end of May.
“What is the scientific justification for doing that?” he asked. “They didn’t tell us because there is none. None.”
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Undercover officers in Laredo, Texas, arrested two women last week for violating a local quarantine order by providing cosmetology services in their homes.
Law enforcement says the women recruited customers on social media.
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US Schools Take Online Chinese Classes From Firm That Has Fired Teachers for Content Critical of CCP
As schools across the US started to close and switch to online learning because of the lockdowns, schools in Utah embraced a Chinese online learning platform from a company that has fired American teachers for discussing things in a way that is “at odds with Chinese government preferences.”
In mid-March, the online learning platform, Lingo Bus, which focuses on education for children aged 5-12, was “donated” to schools in Utah.
Lingo Bus is a subsidiary of China’s largest online education startup VIPKID which has over 60,000 teachers in the United States and in March 2019, it fired American teachers for using maps that depict Taiwan as independent of China and discussing the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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Wisconsin Governor Reopens 34 State Parks Closed Since April 10
Thirty-four closed Wisconsin state parks and recreational areas will reopen Friday, but their bathrooms will remain closed to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus by limiting enclosed spaces where the disease could be more easily transmitted.
“We’re asking people to go to the restroom before they enter the park,” Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Preston Cole said Tuesday
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YouTube Censors Viral Video of Doctors Criticizing ‘Stay-at-Home’ Order
YouTube has censored a viral video in which two doctors criticized the logic of whether California’s stay-at-home coronavirus order is necessary.
The video, which had racked up over 5 million views, featured Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi, co-owners of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield, Calif.
In the clip, Erickson asserts that there is only a “0.03 chance of dying from COVID in the state of California,” prompting him to ask, “Does that necessitate sheltering in place? Does that necessitate shutting down medical systems? Does that necessitate people being out of work?”
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YouTube Bans Videos That “Might” Encourage People to Ignore Stay at Home Advice
During the coronavirus pandemic, YouTube has greatly restricted what its users are allowed to say about the virus.
And now, in yet another coronavirus-related policy change, YouTube’s Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan has announced that content that “might” encourage viewers to go against stay at home advice is banned.
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Canadian Man Has Quarantine Fine Increased to $1255 for Walking His Dog
A Canadian man who was hit with a $880 fine for walking his dog outside his apartment in violation of a quarantine law had the fine increased to $1200 dollars after media coverage of the incident.
Retired carpenter Pat McHenry of Sarnia, Ontario, took his pooch outside to his apartment building parking lot so the dog could have a bathroom break. McHenry took the stairwell instead of the elevator to avoid other tenants.
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Canada’s current Chief Public Health Officer appeared in a recently resurfaced 2010 documentary in which she advocated using mandatory “tracking bracelets” for people who refuse to take a vaccine after a virus outbreak.
Theresa Tam has become one of the faces of Canada’s response to coronavirus, appearing in public service announcements encouraging social distancing.
On 23 April, she was was appointed by Justin Trudeau to be a member of the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, despite having previously asserted that there was “no reason to be overly concerned” about coronavirus back in January.
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Airline SAS Cuts Up to 5,000 Jobs Due to Pandemic
Scandinavian airline SAS said on Tuesday it could reduce about half its workforce as it struggles to survive the coronavirus outbreak.
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‘Asian’ Grooming Gang Member Jailed for Raping Young Girl in Huddersfield, England
An ‘Asian’ male has been sentenced to prison after being convicted for raping a 13-year-old girl, becoming the 35th grooming gang member to be imprisoned in the scope of a large-scale investigation conducted by police in Huddersfield, England.
Manzoor Akhtar, 31, was sentenced to four years and six months in prison after being found guilty by Leeds Crown Court on April 22nd of raping a young girl between 2005 and 2006.
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‘Bigoted Woman’: Two Words That Killed the UK Left and Led to Brexit, Ten Years Ago Today
On this day ten years ago, a hot-mic moment by a fading prime minister changed the course of British history and became one of a thousand straws that contributed to the breaking of the political consensus’s back, playing its part in both Brexit and Boris Johnson’s 2019 landslide election.
On April 28th, 2010, Labour’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown was touring northern constituencies, campaigning for that year’s general election. Meeting a voter in the street, Mr Brown talked to Gillian Duffy, who listed among her concerns high levels of taxation and mass migration to Britain from the European Union.
Clearly dissatisfied with the encounter, Prime Minister Brown got into his car and was driven away. What he had forgotten was he was still wearing a radio microphone, so the television cameras could capture his visit.
Sharing his disgust of the 65-year-old widow with an aide, and inadvertently broadcasting it, he said: “That was a disaster… should never have put me in with that woman. Whose idea was that? … she was just a sort of bigoted woman. She said she used be Labour. I mean it’s just ridiculous.”
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British Airways to Cut Up to 12,000 Jobs as Air Travel Collapses
British Airways is set to cut up to 12,000 jobs from its 42,000-strong workforce due to a collapse in business because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Airlines across the world have warned they face a fight for survival.
In the UK, EasyJet has laid off its 4,000 UK-based cabin crew for two months. And Sir Richard Branson has appealed to the government to help bail out his Virgin Atlantic airline with a loan thought to be up to £500m.
Elsewhere, Qantas has put 20,000 staff on leave, while Air Canada has done the same for about 15,200 employees. Norwegian Air has said it could run out of cash by mid-May. At American Airlines, about 4,800 pilots have agreed to take unpaid short-term leave and more than 700 are taking early retirement.
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CCP Tried to Pressure Germany Into Spouting China’s Coronavirus Propaganda
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) diplomats attempted to pressure members of the German government into praising China’s handling of the Wuhan virus pandemic, Germany’s interior ministry claimed in a letter.
The ministry sent the letter to a Green Party MP and frequent critic of the CCP, Margarete Bause, who questioned whether the Chinese government had been pressuring the German government to make positive statements about Beijing’s handling of the Wuhan virus.
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Donald Tusk Calls for Boycott of Poland’s Election
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Former European Council president Donald Tusk appealed Tuesday for a boycott of the upcoming presidential election in his native Poland, saying the postal vote the government has proposed carries health risks amid the coronavirus pandemic and would not meet democratic standards for free, equal and transparent elections.
Tusk, who served as Poland’s prime minister during 2007-2014, said in a video on Twitter that he would not “not take part in the voting procedure” for the May 10 balloting. He said the vote promoted by the right-wing ruling party “has nothing to do with an election.”
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Dutch Court Forces Government to Cut Emissions
The Dutch government has announced a new package of measures to lower the country’s greenhouse gas emissions — in order to comply with a court ruling.
In 2013, the non-profit Dutch environmental foundation Urgenda, on behalf of around 900 citizens, sued the state for the government’s failure to take responsibility for the Netherlands’ contribution to the climate crisis.
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Emmanuel Macron Humiliated: French President Condemned in Devastating Poll
MORE than half of French people think President Emmanuel Macron is doing a “bad” job, a poll published on Tuesday found, as the government scrambles to cushion the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak that has paralysed the economy and put daily life on hold.
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France: Radical Islamic Extremist Rams Police Motorcyclists With Car
Authorities in Paris on Monday evening arrested a radical Islamic extremist who rammed two police motorcyclists with his vehicle.
The attack, which was carried out by 29-year-old Youssef T., took place in the northern Paris suburb of Hauts-de-Seine and left one of the police officers gravely injured, according to a report from French newspaper Le Parisien.
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France: Suspect Behind Attack on Paris Police Pledged Allegiance to ISIS
The driver who rammed his car into two police motorcyclists in a Paris suburb on Monday had pledged allegiance to Islamic State, the French anti-terror prosecutor said in a statement.
The 29-year-old French man was arrested at the scene of the attack, which occurred in the suburb of Colombes, northwest of Paris, and was in custody, the prosecutor said. The two police officers were injured and taken to hospital.
A letter containing a pledge of loyalty to Islamic State was found in the suspect’s car, as well as a knife, the department said. It did not say if he had been formally charged.
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France: Paris No-Go Suburbs Breaking Lockdown Measures Three Times More Than Average
Residents in the no-go Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis have received three times the number of fines for breaking Wuhan coronavirus lockdown measures than the French national average.
The heavily migrant-populated department has seen a total of 41,103 tickets handed out for lockdown violations out of 242,259 checks by police, a booking rate of 17 per cent, compared to the national average of 5.9 per cent.
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French PM Reveals Detailed Plan to End Lockdown in France
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Tuesday presented to parliament the government’s detailed plan for gradually easing France’s strict lockdown. Here’s what he had to say on everything from when shops will reopen to a limit on social gatherings.
Main points on what changes on May 11th:
- No permission slip needed — as long as you are less than 100km from home
- France to carry out 700,000 tests a week after May 11th
- Those who test positive must be isolated for 14 days either at home or in special accommodation
- Masks will be made compulsory in some sectors, for example on the metro and in secondary schools
- Everyone working from home should continue to do so
- Crèches to reopen, but with max 10 children in each group
- Maximum 15 pupils in each school class
- Shops to reopen
- Bars, restaurants, cinemas and beaches remain closed
- Public gatherings of up to 10 people allowed
- No religious ceremonies before June
- BUT, rules may vary between départements
- French football, rugby seasons cannot resume till September…
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Internal Note Tells French Police to Limit Interventions in Muslim Areas During Ramadan
A leaked internal police memo in the northern department of Calvados told officers to limit their interventions to only serious crimes in Muslim areas during Ramadan.
The note, which was sent out on April 24th and came from the chief of staff of the Central Directorate of Public Security (DDSP) of Calvados, calls for officers to not intervene in certain districts.
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Matteo Salvini Attacks PM Conte: ‘It is Time for Italy to Reopen’
ROME — The leader of Italy’s principal opposition party has slammed Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte for failing to deliver on promises to liberate Italians from the coronavirus lockdown and get the country working again.
“After 47 days of imprisonment, we can say on behalf of millions of Italians, ‘basta.’ Let us out, let us earn, let us work, let us make a life again,” said Matteo Salvini following the prime minister’s disappointing announcement of continuing restrictions for Italy’s “phase 2” of the coronavirus lockdown.
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Muslim MP Gets Tommy Robinson Banned From Tik Tok
The social media app Tik Tok has removed the Islam-critical activist’s account following calls from the Labour MP Afzal Khan to deplatform him.
The shadow deputy leader of the House of Commons told Al Jazeera that he found it “worrying “far-right” figures were able to sign up to Tik Tok when they have been banned on platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.
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Pope Francis Calls for ‘Obedience’ To State Lockdowns
ROME — Pope Francis urged obedience to state lockdown measures Tuesday, just 36 hours after Italian bishops reproached the government for refusing to allow public worship.
“At this time, as indications emerge for a way out of quarantine, we pray that the Lord will grant us the grace of prudence and obedience to these indications, so that the pandemic does not return,” the pontiff said in a daily tweet.
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Several French Prisoners Released Due to Coronavirus Already Back in Prison
While France has been releasing people from prison to reduce overcrowding over coronavirus, a number of criminals have already ended up back behind bars after committing new crimes.
To stop the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus in the overcrowded French prison system, President Emmanuel Macron’s government released around 8,000 inmates in just one month.
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Swedish Academic Argues Virus Will End the EU, Globalism, And Mass Migration
In a recent video by SwebbTV, Swedish engineer, doctor of technology, business leader, and writer Lars Bern talks about the coronavirus and its impact on the world.
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UK: Facebook Apologises for Suspending Accounts That Posted English Flag on St. George’s Day
Representatives of social media giant Facebook have apologised for suspending the accounts of many British users who had posted images of the English flag on Thursday, which was St George’s Day. St George is the patron saint of England, and the English flag features St George’s cross.
Many Facebook users posted images which incorporated the English flag as part of wishing their friends and family a happy St George’s Day. In response, Facebook suspended and banned dozens of accounts. Other users were banned for posting an image which included the words “Proud to be English,” according to a report by The Sun.
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UK: Government Reveals There is No Clean-Break Brexit Planning
Senior minister Michael Gove revealed that the government has no ‘no-deal’ preparations, compromising the UK’s negotiating position that it is serious about leaving the EU’s institutions with or without a deal.
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster made the revelation while giving evidence during the Committee on the Future Relationship with the EU on Monday.
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UK: Greater Manchester Police Ask Residents to Call Police if Someone Repeats Conspiracy Theories
Asking people to call the police on family engaging in “conspiracy theories” is an idea that sounds like it comes out of China’s social credit system.
But it’s not. It’s happening in the United Kingdom.
Police in Manchester, England, are engaging in a social media campaign, requesting local residents to call police if any of their friends and family are engaging in “conspiracy theories.”
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UK: London Real Facebook Advertising Suspended After Airing Interview With David Icke
Ever since London Real dared to broadcast an interview with David Icke, it has felt the full force of not only the weight of big tech censorship, but also government complaints. Only through the support of the people has the storm been weathered.
But London Real isn’t out of the woods just yet.
Today, the London Real’s Facebook business advertising account was suspended by the tech giant, preventing the platform from using advertising to grow the reach of the network.
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Australians have been filmed soaking in the sun in Canggu, a resort village on the south coast of the Indonesian Island, completely ignoring social distancing.
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Activists in China Detained for Bypassing Censorship Using GitHub
We recently reported about how Microsoft’s GitHub was being used to make a record of censored media reports in China.
But now, it appears that even that process has hit a snag.
Three activists from mainland China who used GitHub to publish officially censored information around the coronavirus epidemic in that country are now held by the police, an anonymous source has said.
Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post (SCMP) writes about this, naming the activists as Cai Wei, his girlfriend, and Chen Mei.
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China has blamed and accused India of mishandling the coronavirus rapid testing kits after they were found faulty. China’s statement comes hours after India cancelled orders for about half a million Chinese rapid test kits for coronavirus procured from China after they were found to be faulty, demonstrating a mere 5 per cent accuracy rate.
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Australia Called ‘Gum Stuck to China’s Shoe’ By State Media in Coronavirus Investigation Stoush
Australia has been described as “gum stuck to the bottom of China’s shoe,” by a Chinese state media editor as Beijing criticised calls for an inquiry into the coronavirus origin as “political manoeuvring,” further straining ties.
Australia has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of Beijing as it calls for an investigation into the origins and spread of the virus, which emerged in China late last year and has now killed more than 200,000 people around the world.
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Communist Chinese Government Calls US Secretary of State ‘Sinister’ Threat to World Peace
The Chinese government has labeled US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ‘sinister’ and ‘an enemy of world peace’, saying that Pompeo’s demands for access to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other Chinese bio-labs should be ignored.
Declaring Pompeo to be “the worst U.S. secretary of state in its history,” state media The Global Times published a piece accusing him of “a string of violent attacks” on China.
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Coronavirus: China’s Global Intimidation Campaign
The European Union has caved in to pressure from China and has watered down a report on Chinese efforts to deflect blame for the coronavirus pandemic. Officials in Beijing reportedly threatened to block the export of medical supplies to Europe if the report was published in its original form.
The revelations come as Chinese diplomats around the world are waging an aggressive disinformation campaign — described as a “Wolf Warrior” style of diplomacy, named after a Chinese nationalist action film series — aimed at controlling the narrative about the origins of the coronavirus.
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The Morrison government — and the US administration — have called for the markets to be closed permanently to protect public health. But China is unlikely to listen.
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Spies from the Five Eyes network of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the US are examining the work of two staffers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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New Disinfectant Kills Coronavirus, Other Microbes for 90 Days After Application, Scientists Say
Researchers from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology say they have developed a new type of disinfectant spray that will continue killing bacteria and viruses — including coronavirus — for 90 days after application.
The substance is an anti-microbial coating called MAP-1. It contains polymers that are heat-sensitive and will release more disinfectant when it senses heat on the surface to which it has been applied, such as a droplet of spit landing on the surface or the touch of a hand. The inventors of MAP-1 say it is made with non-toxic ingredients.
The substance already has been tested in hospitals, schools, shopping malls, and other locations throughout Hong Kong. It is slated for release to the Hong Kong market in May. No information is available on when MAP-1 may be accessible outside of Hong Kong.
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US Intel Officials Believe 45,500 Corpses Were Incinerated in One Fortnight in Wuhan
US intelligence officials believe that the true scale of China’s coronavirus outbreak is at least FIFTY times worse than the communist state is admitting to, and that 60,000 dead bodies per month could have been processed by the funeral homes in Wuhan.
Speaking with Fox News, a Trump administration official said that “PRC numbers as reported today seem to be arithmetically impossible.”
“Again, we don’t know the real numbers today, but we do know the about 80,000 infections and 4,000 deaths as reported by the Chinese Communist Party propaganda are not even remotely close,” the official added.
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Ambassador Cheng Jingye said on Monday that Australia’s push for an inquiry into the origins of the virus could result in Chinese citizens rejecting Australian products.
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In total, 11 residents at the Newmarch House in Penrith, at the foot of the Blue Mountains, have now died from the deadly respiratory infection.
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Perth-based Linear Clinical Research will trial a ‘ground-breaking’ potential vaccine being developed to help the body produce antibodies to fight the coronavirus.
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An Australian health expert has revealed that stepping out in the sun for just 10 minutes per day can greatly reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19.
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In what could be a major breakthrough, only one of the 12 cases detected in Australia between Monday and Tuesday morning was unable to be traced.
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Bureau of Meteorology Victoria meteorologist Keris Arndt said temperatures would reach just 13 degrees on Thursday and Friday, an April low not recorded since 1996.
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New South Wales education union boss Angelo Gavrielatos has suggested teachers aren’t frontline workers like nurses and therefore shouldn’t have to turn up to school.
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New Species of Moray Eel Discovered
A team of researchers from South Africa has discovered that the Indo-Pacific undulated moray eel (Gymnothorax undulatus), first described by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1803, is in fact two genetically and morphologically distinct species.
The moray eels are members of the family Muraenidae, one of the most diverse, abundant and widely distributed families of eels.
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Nigerian Fulani Herdsmen Burn Church, Kill 2
Fulani herdsmen in Kaduna, Nigeria, last week burned a church and killed two people across multiple villages, yet another terrorist attack in a country that has been awash in violence in recent years.
Over two days, the Islamic herdsmen launched the attacks in the southern part of the state, also kidnapping one individual and demanding a ransom for his life. At least two people, a woman and a child, were injured.
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Dozens of hippies who got stuck at a festival in Panama due to coronavirus realized that the collectivist utopia they sought after is actually “hell” as they bicker over food and territory.
One doesn’t want to laugh too much at their misfortune, but dear God, this is funny.
The Tribal Gathering Festival, billed as “paradise on earth,” was supposed to end on March 15, but 40 western hippies remain trapped at the site because Panama announced a national emergency due to COVID-19 and placed them under quarantine.
A subsequent ban on all entry and departure flights now means the hippies are likely to be stuck in “paradise” until the end of May.
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Belgium: Afghan Migrant Who Threatened to Blow Up Christians Arrested
Belgian police on Sunday arrested an Afghan migrant and resident of the Houthalen Helchteren asylum facility for threatening to murder staff members and a blow up Christians.
The Afghan national, who has repeatedly caused problems at the asylum center in Flanders, is also suspected of committing sexual offenses, the Dutch-language regional newspaper Het Belang van Limburg reports.
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EU’s Libyan Adventure: Gunboat Diplomacy or Migrant Ferry?
The new EU naval mission off the coast of Libya EUNAVFOR IRINI was officially passed by the European Council on March 31, despite reservations from Italy, Austria and Hungary. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and AfD Foreign Policy Spokesman Petr Bystron battled it out in the German Bundestag over the mission on Thursday, while the Tripolis government rejected the mission Friday.
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Greece: Pakistani Man Charged With Seducing Minor
A 25-year-old Pakistani migrant is being charged with seducing a 11-year-old girl on the island of Karpathos, in Greece.
The girl had apparently been meeting with the Pakistani man regularly over a 10-day period when he finally dragged the girl into his house, according to a report by Greek City Times. Her older sister witnessed the incident and told her mother, who in turn alerted the authorities.
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Margin lender CommSec, which provides financing to buy shares, is predicting Australia’s border closures will cause immigration levels to plummet to levels that will harm the economy.
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Sweden Can’t Expel Migrant Serial Rapist
Bashiri Sahabu from Burundi has been convicted of 8 sexual offences in Sweden over the past 5 years, the last of which occurred in February. But the Prosecutor’s Office is unable to expel him from the country.
Sahabu, now 29, originally came to Sweden as a refugee in 2005. In addition to theft, drug offences, and other crimes, he has a string of sexual offences to his name as well. In the summer of 2015, he attempted to rape a man on a train in central Stockholm. In November 2017, he attempted to sexually assault a woman on a train, but was prevented by police officers. And in February of this year, he groped an 11-year-old girl’s legs and harassed other women at Stockholm Central Station before being arrested.
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Erdogan Backs Top Muslim Cleric Who Claims Homosexuality Brings Disease
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday threw his weight behind Turkey’s top Muslim cleric, who caused a storm by claiming homosexuality “brings disease and causes this generation to decay.”
In his first sermon during the holy month of Ramadan on Friday, Ali Erbas also maintained that hundreds of thousands of people every year are exposed to HIV due to homosexuality and adultery and called on worshipers to come together to fight “this kind of evil.”
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Twitter Bans Users for “Misgendering” But Behind the Scenes it’s Assuming Everyone’s Gender
One of Twitter’s most controversial rules is that, when you’re using the platform, you’re not allowed to “misgender” someone.
It works like this: if a person says they identify as a male, you’re not allowed to refer to them in a way that suggests they’re a female. And, vice versa.
The rule has resulted in people getting their account locked and even suspended — and has even been the subject of lawsuits after users have lost their account over the way they refer to someone on the platform
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About this ” mis-gendering” nonsense.
The English language already has a gender neutral pronoun.
The pronoun is … “IT”.
China certainly did spread a lot of needless panic and fear for authority.
Hopefully, the world can get rid of the oppressive virus from Asia.
The true virus is globalism, which the Chinese Virus has done much to expose. Hopefully there will be a large scale divestment of manufacturing from China after the immediate crisis has passed, and an end to open border nonsense as life returns to normal.
China will launch a massive military strike on the rest of the Globe. Xi and the CCP planned this from the start. They can lose a 100 t0 500 millions without a care in the world. Their Army has been on lockdown prior to December. China has also been testing it nuclear arsenal. In other words Xi wants the globe for China and will kill billions to achieve his aim. We have seen nothing yet. The Chinese regard all of us a cattle. The Left are having orgasms as they see Communism about to take the globe. I would rather perish than be ruled by Reds.
Those Chinese migrants outside China can be even more dangerous and more subtlety oppressive while pushing their greedy and cruel Chinese subhuman agenda in Western countries.
If their aim is to turn Western countries into another one of their filthy, oppressive, little China, they should go back to their China.
That’s ridiculous. Many Chinese people live here because they prefer it!
Mark H, Your western civilized sensibilities are what has allowed western civilization to be invaded by 3rd worlders and their 3rd world mentalities and backwards cultures. This what is called Balkanization, which in the end always, without exception leads to bloodshed. So your good intentions and wishful thinking is what started this bloody rot in the first place. We need men of iron, not spineless jellyfish which perpetuate this 3rd world invasion.
@Mark H
It is a known fact many uncivilized Chinese have this irrational hate for Westerners even after living in Western countries for so long. It is like they never left their China and still cling to many of their nasty traits from China. They are just like Muslims and many of them are as bad as Muslims most of the time in their brutal exploitation of our Western civilization.
Most Chinese are known to spread their oppressive backward Chinese culture and third world Asian mentality to the West. The virus from China should be a wake call to us as to how damaging their exploitive dysfunctional Chinese societies has been to our wellbeing and Western civilization.
re “Bigoted woman” by Gordon Brown:
BORROW-MORE BROWN
By Beleaguered Briton
Gordon Turn-a-Blind-Eye Borrow-More Brown
Skilfully drove the economy down.
Gordon Call-Her-Bigoted arrogant Brown
Couldn`t take a question without a frown.
Gordon Eat-the-Seedcorn Chancellor Brown
Sold all the gold: in debt we drown.
Gordon Move-The-Goalposts Brownshirt Brown
For boosting of your voter base, award yourself a crown..
Gordon Rub-Their-Faces-In-Diversity Brown
Has so enriched the culture of our local town.
Gordon Multi-Cultural Disaster-Maker Brown
Sucking up at Iftar you made yourself a clown.
What of immigration, then, Gruppenfuhrer Brown ?
“Open up the Floodgates! Let the Brits drown!”
Culture-Killing Class-Betraying Mega Bully Brown,
Look at how your handiwork has dragged us down
I spend part of every year in Panama working with family. It isn’t “paradise” except for these deluded “Weekend” Hippies. It can be hell even today if one does not follow the rules. These people are hypocrites and forget that Panamanians have to work every day just to survive. It isn’t an effing “hobby” to indulge these arrogant cretins. Panama is a beautiful country with very decent people. Welcome to the real world idiots! Bet you couldn’t exits on $10 a week? I have had to do so. It is nice to be there if you accept local ways and often harsh conditions. Bugs and snakes are common and I have been bitten to hell some years. Malaria is also present. Where my wife and family live we get about by horse. I studied this breed because the Roman cavalry used the same imported into South America back in the 15th Century. Also done archaeology there. Also studied local customs and housing- very similar in materials and style to Pompeii. I no longer get called “Gringo” but simply “El Guy”. I am accepted because I assimilate and get stuck in with local life….Real local life not like the Weekend Hippies above.
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The assassinations proceed in SVEDEB Inc.
https://youtu.be/iIaO_CvbWZ4
Wittness to murder. DrW
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Dr. Tallinger
Latifa Löfvenberg gives wittness statement in english.
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https://youtu.be/Umbsa7MYlSs
https://youtu.be/9ROnnsKUoO4
https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1255474142666768386
Americans finally feeling the sting of Islamization for themselves.
Neo-Nazi, who killed a German politician, trained on a migrant from Iraq
New details became known in the case of the murder of a senior member of the ruling Christian Democratic Union, Walter Lubke.
On charges of felony, 45-year-old Stefan Ernst was detained, who, according to the investigation, held a “racial, xenophobic and nationalist position.” According to the indictment, on June 1, 2019, Ernst made his way dark into the territory of a private house in Kassel, where Lubke lived, then crept up to him, sitting on the terrace, and shot into the head with a revolver from a short distance.
However, investigators found that three years earlier, Stefan Ernst decided to bind himself with blood – a quote – “through an arbitrary choice of the victim and an insidious act of violence.” In the nearby town of Lofelden, he chose a random migrant (later it turned out that he was an asylum seeker from Iraq named Ahmad), rode up to him on a bicycle and, shouting a right-wing extremist slogan with the word “Germany”, stabbed Ahmad in the back with a knife. The victim suffered damage to the vertebra of the spinal cord and remained crippled, but then the police could not identify the attacker.
Read more: https://eadaily.com/en/news/2020/04/29/neonacist-ubivshiy-germanskogo-politika-trenirovalsya-na-migrante-iz-iraka
Likely the “asylum seeker” was guilty of some criminal activity meriting the assault but had not been caught yet. Punishment was delivered in a roundabout way. I will not shed any tears over a crippled invader.
Like Moon, I shed no tears for 3rd world invaders nor communist politicians who encouraged this 3rd world invasion, I am just surprised we haven’t had more of it. Oh well, soon enough this will be a daily occurrence, especially as the economies of the west go into recession and harsh times.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1255237021385318401
The Scandal in England is bigger than you thought.
Indeed, and ignore some of the comments following his Tweet; he has a show on LBC radio, and journalists are allowed (so far) to travel freely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgTe0fco1sg
A migrant with a garden hoe opened ATMs in Noginsk
Police officers in Noginsk near Moscow tracked down the cameras and caught a 30-year-old native of one of the republics of the near abroad who was suspected of attempted theft of money.
– An attacker using a garden hoe 4 times tried to crack ATMs located in bank branches on the street. 3 Internationals. After the alarm went off, an unknown person was hiding from the scene.
The detainee stated that he needed money, but he did not find another way to earn it. He stole a garden hoe from a local resident, and set off for robbery.
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27126/4207832/