A retirement home in Stockholm will be converted into housing for migrants. The residents had been moved out temporarily last winter while the facility was renovated, but it has now been announced that migrants will be moved in instead. It’s not clear where the displaced elderly Swedes will be relocated.
In other news, ten Albanian doctors and nurses who came to Italy to help fight the coronavirus were arrested and fined for holding a party to celebrate the end of their service.
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2 More People Corroborate Tara Reade’s Allegations Against Biden; Ap Buries Story
At least two additional people have confirmed that Tara Reade told them that she was sexually harassed or assaulted by then-Senator Joe Biden when she was his staffer in the 1990s, according to a new Associated Press report. One of the sources claims that Reade told her that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her “when it happened,” in 1993.
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Coronavirus Drug Remdesivir Available This Week; Gilead Donating Entire Supply
COVID-19 drug remdesivir will be available for coronavirus patients this week, Gilead Sciences’ CEO said Sunday — and the company is donating the entire supply.
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Could Retroviruses Play a Role in COVID-19?
Judy Mikovits, Ph.D. is a cellular and molecular biologist,1 researcher and was the founding research director of the Whittemore Peterson Institute that researches and treats chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in Reno, Nevada.
She is likely one of the most qualified scientists in the world to comment on this disease because of her groundbreaking research in molecular biology and virology.
Mikovits is absolutely brilliant, but like many gifted researchers, her complex discussions on science quite challenging for the average lay person to follow.
For this reason, I present her interview in a different format, cutting and splicing pieces together to present a more cohesive and coherent presentation of her many important points. I would encourage you to watch the initial, very short, videos first, so you will be well-grounded, and if you are motivated, watch the entire interview at the bottom of this article.
One of the most shocking revelations Mikovits reveals is that she doesn’t believe SARS-CoV-2 is the cause of COVID-19 but merely serves to activate or wake up a dormant XMRV infection. To support her assertion, she states that COVID-19 patients have the same cytokine signature as the gammaretrovirus XMRV, which she published many years ago.
XMRV stands for “xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus.” Xenotrophic refers to viruses that only replicate in cells other than those of the host species. So, XMRVs are viruses that infect human cells yet are not human viruses.2
The XMRV retrovirus is actually the virus that has the same cytokine storm signature as COVID-19, not coronaviruses, which are far more benign. (I delve into what retroviruses are in another section further below.)
Additionally, there may be other infections that also are contributing to the infection, such as Borelia and Babesia or parasites, which may be why some of the antiparasite drugs like Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are working.
Getting back to the issue of gammaretroviruses, Mikovits research showed that many of our vaccines are contaminated with them. How did this happen? In short, vaccine viruses were replicated and grown in animal cell cultures that were already contaminated with retroviruses. In other words, the root of the problem stems from the use of contaminated cell culture lines…
What’s more, the initial decision to use RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) testing instead of antibody testing was an unwise one, as it virtually guaranteed an overestimation of the problem. RT-PCR is now being used to diagnose an active infection by detecting the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material.5 However, by doing that, you end up with high rates of false positives. Mikovits explains how the RT-PCR test works:…
My belief is that the use of PCR instead of a proper antibody test was intentional, as it inflates the case numbers. Mikovits agrees, saying “I wouldn’t get any tests right now. I’d simply wash my hands and drink hot lemon water as I always do for any flu season.”
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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Epstein Had Extensive Ties With Harvard University
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times
Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had extensive ties with Harvard University, which admitted him as a Visiting Fellow and later gave him his own office, according to a review conducted by Harvard attorneys and an outside law firm.
Epstein was awarded the title of Visiting Fellow, which goes to independent researchers, in 2005 despite the fact he “lacked the academic qualifications Visiting Fellows typically possess and his application proposed a course of study Epstein was unqualified to pursue,” according to the review (pdf).
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FL Man Gets Boat Wrapped in “Trump” Graphics After Told He Can’t Fly Trump Flag From Dock
A Jupiter, Florida boater was told by his community association that he was not allowed to fly a “Trump” flag at the end of his boat dock.
In response, Carlos Gavidia got his entire boat wrapped in “TRUMP” graphics.
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We have BEEN living under these drastic measures for two months now, as we watch our liberty and our hope bleed out and die a long, slow, agonizing death — and this once-great nation turn so quickly into a socialist state, ruled by tyrants. Everyone’s life has been seriously disrupted and it seems the government is doing it’s level best to make things as miserable as possible for all of us. Small business owners who have poured their whole lives into their companies were forced to shut down suddenly in March. Now, after nearly two months of no income — and no hope for future income anytime soon — most have lost everything. For them, the “American Dream,” which they worked so hard to achieve with a lot of blood, sweat and tears, has been unceremoniously ripped away from them. Their dream has become a nightmare. But maybe they can get a job at Walmart. I hear they need guards there now, rather than “greeters.”…
As the normal “flu season” ended a month ago, we were told the country would be “open” again by Easter. Then we were told by the end of April. Now the Federal Government has handed down a three-step plan to SLOWLY open things back up — but only state-by-state, and only IF each state meets the near-impossible guidelines in the plan. I say “impossible” because they keep changing the rules of their little “game,” and they continue to manipulate the numbers, regardless of the truth.
This plan comes in three phases, and if a state manages to somehow make it all the way to Phase 3, (which takes a minimum of six weeks even under the very best of circumstances), it’s important to note that there IS NO “Phase 4.” Phase 3 is as good as it gets, but this still comes with serious restrictions. For example, in Phase 3, even “low risk” people are told they should still minimize time spent in crowded environments. “Large Venues,” as they’re called, which include sit-down dining, movie theaters, sporting venues and places of worship will be allowed to operate again — but ONLY under physical distancing protocols. How’s that for getting back to “normal?”
What makes me so angry about all this — and what should make you JUST as angry — is the fact that it’s pretty clear now that this has all been a big hoax. Yes, there was a virus. But the virus, for 99% of the people, was no more serious than the common cold. Even after all the media hype, and even with doctors being coerced into attributing the “cause of death” on as many death certificates as possible to “COVID-19,” thereby bolstering the numbers to TRY to give this thing some level of legitimacy, the number of those dying from COVID-19 are still well below those who died of the normal seasonal flu.
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‘Murder Hornet’ Reaches North America, Reported on Vancouver Island
The Asian Giant Hornet, which also goes by the nickname of the “murder hornet,” has made its way to Washington State, the New York Times reports.
The hornets can grow up to two inches in length, with a quarter-inch stinger. While one sting may not be fatal, multiple stings can cause a person to go into shock. The hornets are aggressive when defending their territory.
The hornets are estimated to kill 50 people a year in Japan alone.
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New Virus Pandemic in U.S. — Hundreds Infected
Just when governors are ready to cancel the quarantine, with all citizens staying home and distancing themselves from one another during the Coronavirus emergency, a new virus has formed and is running loose in the United States, and this happened just when we were able to get rid of the face masks.
Unlike the Coronavirus, which affected all people, this virus, according to medical professionals, attacks a specific group of people, mostly democrats who seem to have been infected by a virus of stupidity. Stupid can not really be fixed. It is an inbred condition.
Three Muslim women, members of the Democrat Party, have been voted into congress. They would not take their oath on the Bible as is tradition in America, but used a Koran instead. What in insult! Every decision that they influenced was to serve their country not ours and to serve their “religion” not Christianity. From there the muslims will multiply until they are the majority in the house and can take control which is their goal.
Democrats have invited all immigrants to simply cross the border, come in and go on the government payroll, meaning housing, education and medical assistance and even food, while genuine Americans have to struggle to obtain such services.
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Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence to Make Coronavirus Predictions
NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Columbia University led a team of American and Chinese scientists to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in a new prototype that will predict the severity of lasting effects from COVID-19.
The researchers set out to demonstrate the effectiveness of artificial intelligence techniques in predicting which patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, would later develop potentially fatal acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
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Trump’s impeachment was all based on a false quid pro quo so they would investigate Joe Biden. He has a duty to ask as it was his responsibility to ensure that we weren’t investing taxpayer money into a country where the politicians operated corruptly. Yet liberals continue to ignore the fact that Biden demanded that a prosecutor that was investigating the company Hunter ‘worked’ for, Berisma, be fired or we would not give them $1 billion in aid. President Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, repeatedly claimed that Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden engaged in corruption while the two had dealings in Ukraine.
But no evidence of corruption has ever been found?—here’s what actually happened:
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Watch: Video of NYPD Officer Brutalizing Bystander During ‘Social Distancing’ Arrest Sparks Outrage
We’ve been covering the NYPD’s ‘War on Barbecuing’ since news first broke that the NYPD — presumably at the behest of Mayor de Blasio — was ordering 1,000 more cops to patrol the city’s parks and public space to crack down on any ‘social distancing’ violations with tickets, summonses and arrests.
The same mayor who once dismissed the threat posed by the virus is flexing his muscles after the ultra-orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg openly defied him last week by gathering for the funeral of a Rabbi, prompting Hizzoner to threaten a crackdown (eliciting an immediate backlash and accusations of anti-semitism).
On Sunday, ABC 6 shared a video of a New York City cop arresting a man and violently taking him down over an alleged social distancing violation.
The video, filmed by a bystander, showed the plainclothes officer, who was not wearing a protective face mask, slapping 33-year-old Donni Wright in the face, punching him in the shoulder and dragging him to a sidewalk after leveling him in a crosswalk in Manhattan’s East Village.
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Watch: Child Almost Hit With Incendiary Device at Antifa Protest
Disturbing footage has emerged from a Chicago May Day demonstration on Friday where left wing groups and antifa converged to protest in the streets outside a non-profit organization.
A video shows incendiary devices that appear to be flares being set off by protestors. One flare is set off and lands inches away from a young child. The mother can be seen dragging her daughter away from the lit flare a couple of feet and continues participating in the protest.
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YouTube CEO Responds to Congress, Working Hard to “Protect People From Misinformation”
After years of Big Tech’s public-facing extremely defensive posture and retreat (though not because of consistently trampling their users’ rights, or because of the accusations of stifling competition and antitrust issues) — now these giants appear to have gained the upper hand once again with the pandemic and lockdowns. And the may never relinquish that new power.
Beyond what’s just the fear and loathing that the average, normal person might feel about any of these developments — here’s what seems to be going on.
Governments are now franticly trying to impose new overreaching measures. And who better — (and who else?) to help them than Big Tech to make the mass censorship and surveillance, “pandemic edition,” happen?
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Albanian Doctors Fighting Coronavirus in Italy Fined for Throwing Party
Authorities have fined Albanian doctors and nurses who came to Italy to help fight the Chinese coronavirus outbreak for throwing a party in their hotel room following the end of their mission.
The ten medical professionals arrived in the city of Brescia around a month ago to help local hospitals deal with the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus. They came after the Albanian government offered assistance to Italy, with Albanian prime minister Edi Rama sending a total of 30 doctors to the country at the end of March.
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Denmark: Mosque Receives Permission to Broadcast Islamic Call to Prayer Over Loudspeaker
A mosque in Århus, Denmark’s second largest city, has received permission from local authorities to broadcast its Islamic call to prayer from a loudspeaker.
The mosque, named the Mosque of Peace, is located in the crime-ridden ghetto Gellerup.
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Ending Lockdown in France: What Does it Mean if My Département is Coloured Red?
France’s government will use a map with red and green zones to determine which départements have more stricter restrictions when lockdown starts to be eased on May 11th. So what does it mean if your area is coloured red?
France on Thursday presented the first version of the map that will split the country into green and red zones, classifying each area according to its state of affairs regarding Covid-19 and consequently determining how some restrictions might be maintained or eased from May 11th onwards.
When Prime Minister Edouard Philippe presented his plan for lifting the lockdown, he said that each of the country’s 96 mainland départements would be given their final colour designation on May 7th, in effect determining the extent of certain changes to their lockdown restrictions four days later.
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French No-Go Zone Saw Third Straight Night of Anti-Police Violence
For a third night straight, the “vulnerable neighbourhood” of Monnaie in the commune of Romans-sur-Isère saw clashes between “youths” and police as violence continues to occur despite coronavirus lockdown measures.
On Thursday morning an incident took place near the rue Ninon Vallin when a stolen Fiat Punto crashed into the mast of a video camera on a roundabout in the area.
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Germany: Left-Wing Extremists Assault Television Crew, Some Hospitalised
Left-wing extremists assaulted a television crew in Berlin on May Day, resulting in a number of injuries, some severe enough to require hospitalisation.
The attack took place in the Kreuzberg district on Friday evening. A team of seven, including three security guards, from the satirical news programme Heute-Show (Today Show), which airs on Germany’s channel ZDF, had been filming as hundreds of demonstrators marched in the area. The march was held in violation of the ongoing lockdown in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The demonstrators shouted chants against the police and threw smoke bombs as officers attempted to disperse the crowd, according to a report by Die Welt.
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Greek Defense Minister: “We Are Not Afraid at All”
Greek Minister of National Defence, Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos spoke about the incident that took place on Sunday, when Turkish fighter jets harassed the helicopter that himself and the Chief of General Staff General Konstantinos Floros were flying in.
The Minister of Defence and the Chief of General Staff, were visiting outposts in Oinousses and Farmakonisi in the eastern Aegean close to the Turkish mainland.
Shortly after take-off from from Oinousses, the helicopter carrying the two top military heads of Greece, was harassed by a pair of Turkish F16 fighter jets.
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Italian Jews Angered as City Govt Uses ‘Work Sets You Free’ Phrase on Posters
Members of the Italian Jewish community expressed anger after the Naples city government created a poster to celebrate May Day containing the same phrase used on the gates of the Auschwitz death camp.
The phrase “solo il lavoro rende liberi“ or “only work makes you free” was seen on the posters created by the Naples Department of Social and Work Policies — nearly identical to the Auschwitz gate’s infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei“ or “work sets you free” slogan.
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Man Accused of Iran-Backed Murder Plot in Denmark Goes on Trial
The trial of a Norwegian-Iranian man accused of espionage and attempted murder in Denmark on behalf of Iran, opened Friday in Roskilde, west of Copenhagen.
The 40-year-old is accused of preparing the assassination of an Iranian exile, leader of an Arab separatist group, ASMLA (the Arab Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz), prosecutor Soren Harbo told the court.
The accused, who denies the charges, is said to have carried out an intelligence operation in Denmark “on the orders and under the instructions of the Iranian intelligence service”, according to the indictment consulted by AFP.
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Foreign states are mounting cyber-attacks against British universities researching the coronavirus, according to security sources.
Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre is said to be working flat out to fend off the attacks, which they have condemned as “utterly reprehensible”.
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UK: Boris: Doctors Were Preparing for ‘Death of Stalin’ Situation if I Died
Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed that in his battle with the Chinese coronavirus he received “litres and litres of oxygen” as his condition began to “deteriorate” — forcing doctors to begin planning for a “Death of Stalin-type scenario” if he perished.
Mr Johnson, who was hospitalised in early April, described his frustration with the virus, saying how “the bloody indicators kept going in the wrong direction and I thought, ‘There’s no medicine for this thing and there’s no cure’.
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While Brits Are on Lockdown, 100,000 People From Abroad Arrive at Airports Every Week
While Brits remain on lockdown and most domestic flights are cancelled, it has been revealed that 100,000 people are arriving at British airports from abroad every single week.
The detail was revealed in a London Times article about three British airports requiring passengers to cover their faces from this week onwards.
“While most domestic flights are grounded, more than 100,000 passengers a week are still arriving at UK airports,” reports the newspaper.
A policy for those arrivals to be asked to quarantine themselves for 14 days has yet to be put in place.
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World Leaders Mark Poland’s May 3 Constitution Anniversary
Numerous world leaders including US President Donald Trump, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Hungarian President Janos Ader on Sunday congratulated Polish head of state Andrzej Duda on the 229th anniversary of Poland 1791 May 3rd Constitution.
In his congratulatory message, Trump wrote that the May 3rd Constitution reflected the community of values between the US and Poland, adding that these values underlie both countries’ relations today.
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Caroline Glick: The Final Days of the Iran Nuclear Deal
There is a growing chance that by October, the nuclear deal with Iran, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) will be dead. Under the deal with the U.S. China, Russia, Germany, Britain and France, Iran purported to accept limitations on its nuclear program. These limitations included capping its low enriched uranium stockpiles at 300 kg, restraining its enrichment activities and accepting the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency’s right to inspect its declared and undeclared nuclear sites.
In exchange, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany agreed to cancel the Security Council sanctions resolutions that had been imposed on Iran due to its illicit nuclear activities over the previous decade.
The JCPOA, which was never formally signed, was anchored in UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which was passed immediately after the JCPOA was concluded.
At the time, the JCPOA was vociferously opposed by U.S. lawmakers from both sides of the partisan divide. Their opposition owed to the fact that even if Iran abided by the restrictions on its nuclear activities prescribed by the JCPOA, it would still be able to develop a full-blown nuclear arsenal within ten to fifteen years.
To placate the deal’s opponents, and secure its approval in the Senate, the Obama administration added two safeguards to Resolution 2231. The first imposed a five-year embargo on conventional weapons sales to Iran.
The second enabled all sides to the agreement to end the JCPOA by triggering the reimposition of the UN sanctions cancelled under 2231. According to Articles 10-12 of the resolution, if a party to the agreement informs the Security Council that Iran is breach of its commitments under the agreement, such a declaration will automatically trigger the reimposition of the sanctions within thirty days. The Obama administration dubbed this mechanism “snapback sanctions.”
Now both of these safeguards are being tested…
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Turkish Islamic Leader Calls for Muslim Prayers in Hagia Sophia
The Religious and Foundation Employees’ Union (Diyanet Bir-Sen) called for the first Friday prayer after the coronavirus pandemic to be performed in Hagia Sophia. Friday is considered the Holy Day in Islam.
Hagia Sophia is the spiritual home for Orthodox Christians, in the same way the Vatican is for Catholics or Mecca and Medina is for Muslims.
The world famous cathedral was completed in 537AD and served as the seat of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople until 1453 when the Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople and turned it into a mosque. When the Muslims took over the cathedral, much of it was destroyed, including icons, mosaics, paintings, bells and the alter.
It was then turned into a museum in 1935.
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Western Europe Relaxes Virus Measures, Russia Numbers Spike
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spaniards filled the streets Saturday to exercise outside in gorgeous spring weather for the first time in seven weeks, while German children rushed to playgrounds as countries in Western Europe moved ahead with the gradual relaxation of coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
Russia and Pakistan, however, reported their biggest one-day spikes in new infections, in a sign the pandemic is far from over.
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A group of motorcycle-riding Muslim men kidnapped and gang-rapedtwo 12-year-old Christian boys. The children were playing video games at a local arcade when a gang of Muslims approached and lured them to check out and eventually sit on their motorcycles. Once the boys were atop the vehicles, the men rode off to a remote field where “the young boys were beaten till they submitted to the demands of the Muslim men, at which point the 12 year olds were raped,” notes the March 23 report:
“After the ordeal Suneel and Harry [the two boys] were threatened not to say anything by the gang as they rode off … leaving the boys behind naked. Suneel and Harry then tearfully and in pain got dressed and walked for 3 hours till home. Suneel managed to stagger home at 3:30 am early the following morning and was received by his father Naeem (40 yrs) who had not slept all night. Naeem and other family members were praying for Suneel and were shocked when they found him crying and trembling with fear.”
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The parents of deceased Daniel Pearl, the South Asia Chief of the Wall Street Journal, have moved the Pakistani Supreme Court against the decision of Sindh High Court to free 4 convicts involved in the gruesome beheading of their son in 2002. Pearl was researching about Islamic extremism when he was abducted from Karachi and killed.
In a viral video, Pearl’s father Judea said that he was fighting not only for the justice of his son but also for his “dear friends in Pakistan” so that they can live in a society free of violence and terror and raise their children in peace and harmony. In his son’s memory, Judea stated that Daniel was committed to writing the truth and upholding principles of justice and humanity.
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China Cracks Down on Coronavirus Information Written in Morse Code and Klingon
Social media users in China who noticed censors had deleted articles and messages that criticized communist China’s handling of the coronavirus recreated messages in Morse code, but they were still deleted.
Communist China has come under heavy criticism after authorities in Wuhan arrested whistle-blowers who sought to warn the public about the spread of the coronavirus, which has given way to rumors that the cover-up fueled the pandemic.
One deleted article about the ugly situation in Wuhan that caused an outcry was written out again and re-posted by dozens of social media users in over 10 languages in a bit to test out the severity of the censorship.
Some posted it in Morse code, ancient Chinese script, and even Klingon—the widely known fictional language used in the Star Trek universe—to see what the government would do.
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DHS Report: China Hid Virus’ Severity to Hoard Supplies
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials believe China covered up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak — and how contagious the disease is — to stock up on medical supplies needed to respond to it, intelligence documents show.
Chinese leaders “intentionally concealed the severity” of the pandemic from the world in early January, according to a four-page Department of Homeland Security intelligence report dated May 1 and obtained by The Associated Press. The revelation comes as the Trump administration has intensified its criticism of China, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying Sunday that that country was responsible for the spread of disease and must be held accountable.
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Video Shows Chinese Officials Raiding Church, Dragging Out Christian as Members Try to Fight Back
A video captured during a Chinese church service in Xiamen, Fujian province shows communist government officials raiding the church and dragging a man away as congregants try to fight back and stop them from taking one of their fellow believers.
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Parents have been forced to abandon their jobs to educate their children from home after Australian states and territories shut schools as part of efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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New Zealand Government Bans Books as ‘Non-Essential’
Besides video games and Netflix, books are the only things any of us have left to keep us sane besides conversations with our significant others on Facetime. Yes, there’s plenty to do—plenty of options to fill the time in between trips to the grocery store and reading news about the Chinese coronavirus, and books fill a void that otherwise goes unfilled, leaving only anxiety to take its place.
Books are essential in lockdown, but the New Zealand government doesn’t think so. Under the onerous orders of Jacinda Ardern, a leader praised for her ability to lead the country through this global struggle under the auspices of “sympathy, love, and integrity” according to The Guardian, New Zealand has banned the sale of books as non-essential items.
[Comment: Article dated April 23, 2020.]
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Nigeria: Islamists Massacre 12 Christians, Kidnap Bride and Groom From Wedding
Muslim Fulani raiders in north-west Nigeria slaughtered 12 Christians and kidnapped a couple from their church wedding ceremony in recent days, Christian Today reports.
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Thousands of Hungry People Line Up for Food in South Africa
OLIEVENHOUTBOS, South Africa — Thousands of people stood in line for hours on Saturday in a South African township waiting for handouts of food.
The scene has repeated for days in one of the world’s most unequal countries as charities haul essentials to low-income neighborhoods suffering under coronavirus restrictions.
A five-week lockdown, one of the world’s strictest, eased slightly on Friday, allowing more businesses to resume and giving more hungry people a chance to support themselves and their families.
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Greece: Migrants Attack Church on Lesvos, Again
Migrant attacks on Greek Orthodox churches on the island of Lesvos have become commonplace recently. Now, the Saint Catherine church in the town of Moria has been subjected to the latest atrocity.
Photos that have been released in a report by Greek City Times show the church to be thoroughly vandalised, with religious icons broken and thrown on the floor.
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Italy: Migrants in Turin Ignore Coronavirus Lockdown Rules
Migrants in the Barriera di Milano, an area in the city of Turin containing many ethnic shops, have been accused of ignoring strict coronavirus lockdown measures by local Italians.
Locals in the area have complained that despite the strict lockdown measures, many migrants continue to gather in the various ethnic shops in the area with a local named Roberto stating that “in reality, they have turned into meeting places for foreigners who camp out with a beer in hand.”
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Migrants Harass Police and Sweden Democrats by Phone (Video)
A migrant in Sweden has been entertaining audiences by recording threatening and insulting phone calls to police and politicians from the Right-wing Sweden Democrats which they then circulate on social media. In the colorful recordings, officers are told that they and their family members should be raped, among other things.
The recordings are posted on multiple social media platforms under the name of “Roast Live.” The main individual behind the account is known only as Nabbe, a 34-year-old migrant from Lebanon who lives in the vicinity of Malmö, in southern Sweden.
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Migrants Keep Burning Down Their Own Camps in Greece and Other Nations
Migrants have now burned down significant portions of their camps in three separate incidents following riots and ethnic clashes, and despite Greece dealing with coronavirus lockdowns and a crashing economy, Amnesty International is now calling for Greek authorities to evacuate migrants from Greek islands camps to the mainland.
The incidents on the Greek islands follow a long history of migrants starting fires in their own camps, both in Greece and other European nations.
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Sweden: Stockholm Retirement Home to be Turned Into Migrant Apartments
A retirement home in the Swedish capital of Stockholm that is currently awaiting renovations will be turned into apartments for newly-arrived migrants.
Initially, the residents of the building, which has 63 apartments in total, were moved out only temporarily due to expected renovations last winter, leaving it empty.
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Nigel Farage has slammed the mainstream media for suggesting that the public no longer cares about mass migration or what he has to say about it in a video message.
The Brexit Party leader’s riposte was prompted, in particular, by an article by Sunday Times journalist Sarah Baxter titled ‘The old Nigel Farage immigrant song sounds way off key’, in which she chastised him for his statements taking the government to task for failing to turn back the boatloads of illegal migrants crossing the English Channel from infectious French encampments.
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GamePlanet, SJW Website Got Woke and Went Broke
New Zealand based GamePlanet.co.nz is shutting down. On April 29th, 2020 there’s a news post over on GamePlanet’s front page indicating that the site is coming to an end.
In the post they explain…
“Casualties in the media business keep piling up. We’ve watched numerous games publications fall over in recent years, including some other homegrown ones here downunder. More recently in New Zealand, The Listener and Woman’s Day publisher Bauer Media kicked the bucket during lockdown. Now, sadly, Gameplanet is going the same way.
“The current economic situation is not helping anyone. But Gameplanet has been on life-support for a while now, as some readers may have observed. We’ve held out and sustained the financial losses for as long as we could, but there is, sadly, no realistic prospect of the business recovering, and so the decision has now been made to turn off the machine and put it to rest. The website will be shut down in the next few days.”
What they don’t explain is that over the course of the 20-year run they decided to sell their audience out to court the Social Justice judicature.
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The representative for churches and religious communities of the Union faction in the Bundestag, Hermann Gröhe (CDU), has rejected calls for a permanent muezzin call. “The muezzin call is a verbal, exclusive proclamation of God” and is therefore part of the prayer and a “cultic act”, warned Gröhe on Tuesday in the daily mail . “This is different from the abstract ringing of bells that calls for prayer. I therefore think the equation is wrong, ”said the former Federal Minister.
https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/deutschland/2020/debatte-um-muezzinruf-cdu-gegen-gleichsetzung-mit-glockengelaeut/
The CDU has not, infact, backed public calls to prayer and has actually blocked it in numerous cities like Haiger. Despite the refugee invasion welcome they are more similar to the British Conservative party in mindset than the Labor Party. But oh well, thats my opinion.
So far as I can make out, amid numerous reports from various countries, the exemption for calls to prayer (especially when amplified) is mostly a one-off concession for this year’s Ramadan, because of the Coronavirus pandemic. It remains to be seen whether, in future, some muslims will try to make it permanent, and how the authorities in western countries will respond.
Yesterday, I posted a link to the Chechen version of “The Battle of St. Sulpice.” But the comments are even more interesting than the crocodile tears of the Chechens.
In Russia there is a saying “small bedbug, but smelly.” A small nation of Chechens, in gratitude for shelter and welcome, is plotting:
… This is very sad and unnatural. Kafir France has been colonizing these Muslim Muslims for a hundred years. They, in theory, should be worried, not Chechens or any other Muslims. … Relations should not remain on the knives constantly. Now is the month of Ramadan. For example, try to invite iftar to their elders, if they have elders. And on iftar it’s just to show them their absurd behavior: tell, for example, how many Muslims France killed in Algeria, and so far this blood has not been avenged. Tell how France can export uranium and diamonds from African countries, and local Africans starve to death. Etc. And now, it so happened that for some reason they see the Muslims as enemies for themselves. Not just ayahs and hadiths, but first remind you of the difficult situation they live by the grace of the kafirs, and how these kafirs divide us in order to continue to humiliate and destroy us on our lands. And how many Muslims are easily led to this propaganda. They, brother, really VERY long ago suffer from kafirs, more than we even, although we got a lot. But they have experienced and are still experiencing.
https://www.facebook.com/304010963606057/posts/529353134405171/
The priest kissed the dog’s paw.
The Italian priest, Father Tomas, made a symbolic gesture that touched everyone: he bowed and kissed the dog’s paw.
https://wikipet.ru/3049-svyaschennik-poceloval-lapu-sobake.html
What a sweet one! Make him Pope instead of Bergoglio.
It’s better to kiss a dog’s paw than a migrant’s legs!
How inane.
Re: Italian jews angered…
I suspect the Naples authorities were unaware of the implications of “arbeit macht frei”, as displayed above the entrances of Nazi concentration camps. Insensitive? Maybe, but how many of us know as much history as we should; at 72, I’m still learning, not least from the erudite posters and contributors on GoV!
Apparently many Indians have Stockholm Syndrome towards their former Mughal rulers.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TarekFatah/status/1257079691682463750
https://mobile.twitter.com/priyaakulkarni2/status/1256710279603220480
Violence in Turin
https://mobile.twitter.com/RadioSavana/status/1257260211418673153
Also, more rapeyness from my homeland!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11004647/asian-grooming-gang-huddersfield-victim/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/11/13/12-million-illegal-immigrants-uk-quarter-entire-total-europe/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw
1.2 million illegal migrants in the UK
https://www.bitchute.com/video/AJMJ4LHpYmlR/
Very satisfying. Englishman puts migrant in his place.
Antifa are to Germany what immigrant ghettos are to France — constant rioting.
Richard Everitt was hunted down like an animal and murdered at the age of 15 purely for being White in London.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Richard_Everitt
One of his killers is now a member of Labour representing the Camden ward in London
Only in the UK could you hunt down and murder an indigenous child for his race, then become a cherished and loved representative in the UK government
https://twitter.com/FallenAngel_One/status/1254439080747769856/photo/1
https://face2faceafrica.com/article/meet-ramla-ali-first-muslim-woman-to-win-a-boxing-title-for-england
Somali Muslims now represent us in boxing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1efTgrQRS8g