Real or not the lockdown continues WW

Saudi Arabia Suspends Entry for Pilgrims over Coronavirus

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2020/02/27/saudi-arabia-suspends-entry-for-pilgrims-over-coronavirus/

Japan, China Close Schools Nationwide As CDC Reveals 'Unkown Origin' Patient From Solano County: Live Virus Updates

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/japans-abe-closes-schools-nationwide-south-korea-confirms-505-new-cases-surpassing

Australia Ready for Global Coronavirus Pandemic: Extends China Travel Ban

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/02/27/australia-ready-for-global-coronavirus-pandemic-extends-china-travel-ban/

A second hotel is under lockdown as Europe tries to contain the spread of coronavirus

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/hotel-austria-lockdown-coronavirus-europe-italy-2020-2?r=US&IR=T

France faces coronavirus 'epidemic', Macron warns

https://www.france24.com/en/20200227-france-faces-coronavirus-epidemic-macron-warns

CNN Adds ‘Clarification,’ Removes ‘Fetus That Was Born’ Phrase Describing A Baby

CNN quietly removed the phrase “a fetus that was born” from a CNN report on pro-life legislation following coverage from conservative media outlets.

CNN did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday regarding CNN reporter Caroline Kelly’s use of the phrase “a fetus that was born” to describe a baby that survived a botched abortion.

“CLARIFICATION: This story has been updated to more precisely reflect the language used in [Sen. Ben] Sasse’s bill,” a note at the bottom of the article says. “This story has been updated with additional developments Tuesday.”

The publication removed the phrase from the Tuesday CNN report sometime Wednesday, following coverage of its phrasing from the DCNF, National Review, Fox News, the Washington Examiner and other publications. (RELATED: CNN Report Describes A Baby Who Survives An Abortion As A ‘Fetus That Was Born’)

The CNN report covered legislation that aimed to protect babies who survive botched abortions as well as legislation that would make abortion illegal after 20 weeks when an unborn baby can feel pain: the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

Democratic senators blocked the votes of both bills Tuesday.

“The second bill to be considered Tuesday is the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, sponsored by Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, that would require abortion providers to work to ‘preserve the life and health’ of a fetus that was born following an attempted abortion as they would for a newborn baby, or face up to five years in prison,” Kelly wrote.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/27/cnn-adds-clarification-removes-fetus-that-was-born-phrase-describing-a-baby/

Speaker Pelosi Tells Reporters She Will Support Bernie Sanders and His Agenda of Raw Socialism

Speaker Nancy Pelosi held her weekly presser this morning on Capitol Hill.

The far left politician uses her weekly event to trash the US president. Rarely does she offer anything of substance.

On Thursday Nancy Pelosi WOULD NOT commit to supporting Bernie Sanders if the open socialist heads into the DNC convention with a plurality of votes but not enough votes to outright win the nomination.

Speaker Pelosi then added that she will support Bernie Sanders and his positions.

They’re all Marxists now.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/here-we-go-speaker-pelosi-tells-reporters-she-will-support-bernie-sanders-and-his-agenda-of-raw-socialism-video/

UK Schools Close as Two More Coronavirus Cases Confirmed

Schools across the United Kingdom have closed in response to the growing European outbreak of the coronavirus, as two more people have been confirmed to have contracted the virus in England.

In Derbyshire, a primary school was closed following the return of a pupil’s parent, who had tested positive for the coronavirus after travelling abroad, prompting the school to close as a precautionary measure.

A GP in the area also closed after a case was confirmed at the practice, bringing the total number of people infected with the virus to fifteen in the UK.

“The virus was passed on in Italy and Tenerife and the patients have been transferred to specialist NHS infection centres in Royal Liverpool Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital, London,” Witty said per Sky News.

The two new cases bring the total number of infected people in the UK to 15. The newly infected patients will be held in quarantine at aa NHS infection specialist centre said The chief medical officer for England, Professor Chris Witty.

In Italy, there are now over 440 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, and fourteen people have died. In Tenerife, 168 British citizens are currently in quarantine at the Costa Adeje Palace hotel, after the virus was discovered.

To date, at least eight schools have closed in order to protect students from contracting the coronavirus, with others sending students home if they came in contact with anyone who had recently travelled to northern Italy, the epicentre of the European outbreak.

Public Health England (PHE) has said that it will increase testings to determine “whether there’s evidence of infection more widespread than we think there is”. So far 7,132 people have been tested for the virus in the UK.

Worldwide the number of cases has topped 82,000 with over 2,808 confirmed deaths, reports The Telegraph. In Europe, three people have been confirmed to be infected in Greece and another three have been infected in Switzerland. Estonia and Denmark have both recorded their first case of the coronavirus as well.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/27/uk-schools-close-as-two-more-coronavirus-cases-confirmed/

Mexico Welcomes Cruise Ship Rejected in Jamaica for Coronavirus Fears

Mexico’s federal government welcomed an Italian cruise ship that was rejected in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands amid fears of a possible Coronavirus case. The ship docked in Cozumel where health officials are expected to check passengers before disembarking.

We cannot discriminate,” said in Spanish Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during his daily morning press conference. “If there is any case detected it will be dealt with. We have information that there is no possibility of that, but anyways we cannot be inhumane.”

The ship MSC Meraviglia, with approximately 4,500 passengers and 1,500 crew, recently sailed out of Miami. However, according to Milenio this week, the ship had not been allowed to dock in Jamaica or the Caymans after one passenger became ill and was suspected of carrying Coronavirus (Covid-19). That has since been denied by the cruise liner who claims that the passenger suffered from Type -A Flu and is making a recovery.

As of Thursday morning, the ship remains docked in Cozumel with passengers not allowed to disembark as health officials prepared the screening and interview process, local newspaper NotiCaribe reported.

Currently, Mexico does not have any confirmed cases of Coronavirus, however, on Wednesday evening, the Health Secretariat released an update claiming there was one suspicious case in Mexico City. Tests are pending in that case. Mexico has disclosed 18 suspicious cases that were all eventually cleared.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/02/27/mexico-welcomes-cruise-ship-rejected-in-jamaica-for-coronavirus-fears/

Turkey Targets Syrian Gov’t Positions in Idlib 'in Response' to Killing of Two Troops in Airstrike

The Turkish Ministry of Defence reported on Wednesday that two Turkish soldiers were killed and 2 injured in an airstrike in Idlib, Syria, the ministry said in a statement on Twitter.

The ministry said that its army had conducted a retaliatory strike targeting Syrian government forces in the region. As a result of the strikes, 114 members of the Syrian forces were "neutralised", one air defense system, one anti-tank system, one ZU-23 anti-aircraft installation, three tanks and one vehicle transporting ammunition were destroyed, while three tanks were captured.

"The blood of our martyrs has never been left on the ground, nor will it be left after that," the Turkish military statement added.

The statement from Ankara noted that retaliatory attacks on Syrian government targets had been taken "immediately " and would "continue to be taken".

earlier on Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that his country's army will not take "smallest step back" in Syria’s Idlib province, saying that the time Ankara has given Damascus to pull its troops away from Turkish observation posts in Syria’s Idlib is coming to an end.

Erdogan vowed that Turkish forces will push the Syrian Army beyond the perimeter of those posts by the end of February.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202002261078413319-turkey-targets-syrian-govt-positions-in-idlib-in-response-to-killing-of-two-troops-in-airstrike/

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‘We’re the hosts there’: Erdogan says Turkey won’t pull back from Syria’s sovereign territory, gives Assad ultimatum to retreat

The Turkish leader has ruled out withdrawal from Idlib, where his forces are backing militants fighting the Syrian Army. He also gave Damascus an ultimatum to retreat beyond Turkey’s observation posts placed on Syrian soil.

“We will not step back in Idlib. We are not the guests in this realm, we are the hosts,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a meeting of his AK party on Wednesday. Vowing to bring “the regime’s attacks” to an end, Erdogan said Ankara is giving Damascus time to pull forces back from Turkish observation posts, but that time “is expiring at the end of the month.”

Erdogan said he'd tried to secure Donald Trump's support before getting tough on Idlib, “but there is no support yet.” He said: “It seems that we will have another meeting this time.”

Situated in Syria’s northwest, Idlib is the last remaining bastion of anti-government rebels and Islamist militants, who have held grip over the province since as early as 2011.

Hostilities escalated dramatically in recent weeks as the Syrian military renewed its offensive in an effort to capture strategic towns in the province and unlock the M4 highway connecting Aleppo – once Syria’s second most populated city – to other parts of the country.

Damascus’ push prompted Turkish military to deploy thousands of soldiers and hundreds of tanks in order to reinforce their militant allies battling Bashar Assad, while also accusing Syrian troops of bombing civilians and shelling its soldiers.

Meanwhile, Ankara has demanded that Russia pressure Assad into bringing his operation in Idlib to a halt.

However, Moscow insists that the Syrian army is acting within its own territory and has every right to restore sovereignty and quell Islamist insurgency; it also insisted that Turkey failed to separate the 'moderate opposition' from the terrorists – a key provision under the 2018 Sochi accord, which set out several “de-escalation zones” across Idlib.

https://www.rt.com/news/481712-erdogan-idlib-step-back/

Virginia Senate Committee Advances Nine Gun Control Bills

God Help Us: 41 Dem Senators Vote Against Protecting Already Born Babies from Being Legally Murdered

In a shocking move Tuesday, nearly every Democratic senator voted against requiring that medical care be provided to babies who survive abortions.

A cloture vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act garnered the support of 56 senators, compared to 41 who voted to block it.

All 53 GOP senators and three senators voted to proceed, while 41 Democrats voted no, meaning the measure fell short of the 60 votes needed for cloture, ending debate.

The bill requires, in part, that medical personnel “exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child [who survives an abortion] as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.”

The proposed legislation includes some teeth of potential criminal and civil penalties, including up to five years in jail, for health care providers who fail to offer the requisite care.

Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, who sponsored the bill, rightly observed from the Senate floor prior to Tuesday’s vote, “This ain’t hard stuff people.”

“Every one of us … should be able to say without any hesitation, ‘leaving babies to die is unacceptable,'” Sasse said. “There’s really no debate to be had here, which is why so many people who were planning to speak on the other side, decided not to speak this afternoon.”

“This should be a 100 to zero no-brainer.”

In fact, the “Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002” was passed by unanimous consent and also sailed through the House on a voice vote.

That legislation did not specify the penalties for failing to provide the needed care.

CBN News congressional reporter Abigail Robertson pressed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on why Democrats opposed the legislation, given Sasse’s argument that current law prevents health care providers from killing babies born alive during abortions, but does not address the withholding of care.

http://www.tathasta.com/2020/02/god-help-us-41-dem-senators-vote.html

Anonymous Sources and the Guys and Gals Who Made the Iraq War a Reality Are Now Claiming That the Kremlin Is at It Again!

Those hapless individuals who run the United States are again slipping into a fantasy world where Americans are besieged by imaginary threats coming from both inside and outside the country. Of course, it is particularly convenient to warn of foreign threats, as it makes the people in government seem relevant and needed, but one might recommend that the tune be changed as it is getting a bit boring. After all, there are only so many hours in the day and Russian President Vladimir Putin must pause occasionally to eat or sleep, so the plotting to destroy American democracy must be on hold at least some of the time.

Yes, anonymous sources and the guys and gals who made the Iraq war a reality are now claiming that the Kremlin is at it again! Hints over the past year that Putin might try to replay 2016 in 2020 only do it better this time have now been confirmed! Per one news report the enemy is already at the gates: “U.S. intelligence officials told lawmakers last week that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election campaign by aiming to cast doubt on the integrity of the vote and boost President Donald Trump’s re-election.”

And there’s more! In a New York Times article headlined “Same Goal, Different Playbook: Why Russia Would Support Trump and Sanders: Vladimir Putin is eager both to take the sheen off U.S. democracy and for a counterpart who is less likely to challenge his territorial and nuclear ambitions,” it was revealed that the Kremlin is intending to also help Bernie Sanders, so whichever way the election goes they win.

According to the Times Bernie has been “warn[ed]… of evidence that he is the Russian president’s favorite Democrat.” The article then goes on to explain, relying on its anonymous sources, that “…to the intelligence analysts and outside experts who have spent the past three years dissecting Russian motives in the 2016 election, and who tried to limit the effect of Moscow’s meddling in the 2018 midterms, what is unfolding in 2020 makes perfect sense. Mr. Trump and Mr. Sanders represent the most divergent ends of their respective parties, and both are backed by supporters known more for their passion than their policy rigor, which makes them ripe for exploitation by Russian trolls, disinformation specialists and hackers for hire seeking to widen divisions in American society.”

https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/anonymous-sources-and-the-guys-and-gals-who-made-the-iraq-war-a-reality-are-now-claiming-that-the-kremlin-is-at-it-again/

Israel to form 'anti-Palestinian resistance force' in occupied West Bank

Israeli authorities will establish a joint defence agency tasked with "supressing Palestinian resistance", if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu goes ahead with plans to annex West Bank settlements, according to a Haaretz report.

Composed of state institutions - including the army and police - the new agency is drawing up contingency plans for a range of possible scenarios, including mass popular uprisings in cities across the West Bank.

Intelligence assessments fear mass unrest among Palestinians in the event of Netanyahu's victory in next week's elections, which will likely pave the way for Israel to impose full sovereignty over settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The Knesset caretaker government's attempts to adopt the measure in December drew criticism from Israel's security establishment due to its timing.

The efforts came as US President Donald Trump announced his Middle East peace plan - dubbed Deal of the Century - which Israeli intelligence predicted would cause major uproar from Palestinians.

The deal is seen by Palestinians as a clear capitulation the demands of the Israeli right-wing, giving Israel the green light to annex large parts of the West Bank, including settlements, which are considered illegal under international law.

Netanyahu, who stood by Trump's side as he unveiled the deal at the White House, has leveraged his enthusiasm for the plan in order to entice pro-settler votes in the election.

The new agency is preparing to combat "terror attacks" and "rocket fire" which could emerge from the Gaza Strip, as well as the possibility of Lebanese activists breaching Israel's northern and southeastern borders to join the ranks demonstrators, according to the report.

On Tuesday, a shaky ceasefire took hold between Israel and Islamic Jihad - a militant group active in the coastal enclave - following two days of heavy fighting, where the group launched over 80 rockets, according to the Israeli army.

Jerusalem has also been singled out as another "main theatre of escalation" according to intelligence assessments, the report adds, even predicting "attempts by Palestinians to barricade themselves on the Temple Mount".

Israel's military will clamp down on popular protest in the West Bank and along the Gaza border, while the police and border force will protect settlements.

The preparations will cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and will include holding joint exercises and purchasing military equipment.

https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/2/26/israel-to-form-anti-palestinian-resistance-force-in-occupied-territories

Bloomberg is the only candidate who has announced that he’ll attend AIPAC conference

After Tuesday night’s South Carolina debate, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar told the Jewish News Syndicate that she wouldn’t be attending next week’s AIPAC Policy Conference because it coincides with Super Tuesday. Today, a spokesperson for Pete Buttigieg told reporter Jacob Kornbluh that the former South Bend Mayor would also be skipping the conference.

https://mondoweiss.net/2020/02/bloomberg-is-the-only-democratic-candidate-to-confirm-hes-definitely-attending-aipac-conference/

Activists block Israel lobby censorship effort in New Zealand

Activists in New Zealand are celebrating victory after they blocked an effort to censor speech supportive of Palestinian rights.

The city council in the capital Wellington was due this week to consider adopting the International Holocaust Rememberance Alliance’s misleading definition of anti-Semitism.

But the motion was withdrawn after a campaign by supporters of Palestinian rights.

The so-called IHRA definition is being promoted worldwide by Israel and its lobby, and this measure was proposed by the Wellington Jewish Council and supported by the New Zealand Jewish Council.

But the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa, a national coalition, urged the mayor and city council to abandon the measure.

“It would be far better for Wellington City to pass a comprehensive anti-racism resolution rather than have a divided vote on the proposed ‘anti-semitism’ resolution,” the group stated.

Progressive Jewish voices

Jewish activists also spoke out against the resolution.

Marilyn Garson and Fred Albert, members of a progressive synagogue, wrote an op-ed noting that the IHRA definition incorporates a set of supposed examples of anti-Semitism “which have been used to conflate criticism of Israel with a hatred of Jews.”

“Given this document’s global trail of controversy, we were stunned to see a motion on Wellington City Council’s agenda for Wednesday, 26 February, to adopt the IHRA document for our city,” they added.

The activists also noted that Kenneth Stern, the main author of the IHRA definition and a former executive of a major US Israel lobby group, has condemned efforts to legislate the definition and use it to police speech supportive of Palestinian rights.

City councilor Iona Pannett told media she supported the decision to remove the item from the agenda. She acknowledged she had heard from members of the Jewish community who did not agree with its wording.

“We want a peaceful and safe way of discussing it, away from the public glare,” Pannett said.

Garson and Albert are members of Alternative Jewish Voices, a new group which says it aims to “to provide alternatives to the current narrow range of voices that speak publicly in the name of the Jewish community.”

“Racism is not just a Jewish issue, and there will be no separate Jewish resolution,” Alternative Jewish Voices said.

“Muslims and other marginalized groups face racism and bigotry. The community must support a strategy to address racism against all groups.”

Concern about racism in New Zealand – a settler-colonial state established on Maori land – has been especially urgent since a white supremacist gunman murdered 51 people at two mosques in the city of Christchurch in March 2019.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/activists-block-israel-lobby-censorship-effort-new-zealand

1 in 5 Europeans says secret Jewish cabal runs the world, survey finds

In each of the countries polled, a representative sample of 1,000 adults was presented with 45 questions or statements in face-to-face interviews about Jews and Israel.

PARIS – A secret network of Jews influences global political and economic affairs.

That’s the feeling among a fifth of the 16,000 respondents to a survey among Europeans from 16 countries. The same number also agreed with the statement that “Jews exploit Holocaust victimhood for their own needs.”

The survey was presented Monday at a conference about antisemitism organized in Paris by the European Jewish Association. It was conducted in December and January in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Poland, among other countries.

Other findings:

• A quarter of respondents agreed with the statement that Israel’s policies make them understand why some people hate Jews.

• More than a quarter concurred with the statement that “Israel is engaged in legitimate self defense against its enemies.” A quarter of respondents disagreed and 46% did not express a position.

• More than a third agreed with the assertion that “During World War II, people from our nation suffered as much as Jews.”

Holocaust revisionism and classic antisemitic stereotypes were more common in Eastern Europe, whereas anti-Israel sentiments,

including anti-Semitic ones, were more common in the west, according to Rabbi Slomo Koves, chairman of the Action and Protection League. The Budapest-based group is affiliated with the Hungarian Jewish community’s main watchdog on anti-Semitism.

In each of the countries polled, a representative sample of 1,000 adults was presented with 45 questions or statements in face-to-face

interviews about Jews and Israel, according to the Action and Protection League. The survey has a margin of error of 0.8%.

Koves said his group is still working on a breakdown of the results in each country, but it’s complicated “by challenges in the collection process,” noting the difficulty of finding pollsters willing to go into the poor neighborhoods and ghettos of Paris and Brussels, for example. That, he said, “is necessary for arriving at a representative sample.”

https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Antisemitism/1-in-5-Europeans-says-secret-Jewish-cabal-runs-the-world-survey-finds-618830

State to indict two more top defense officials in Case 3000

The Submarine Affair has jumped to the forefront right before next week's election.

The state announced on Thursday that it will likely indict for bribery two more top defense officials, in addition to a group already noted in December, in Case 3000, the Submarine Affair.

One of the officials is Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Avriel Bar-Yosef, who served as deputy chief of the national security council and was due to be promoted to chief until he came under investigation. The other official, Shai Brosh, was a top navy official, reaching the rank of brigadier general, until 2001.

The Justice Ministry said that the announcement regarding Bar-Yosef was delayed because he was out of the country when the December 5 announcement came down. Brosh's part in the case is connected to Bar-Yosef as a middleman for passing messages with other allied conspirators.

The two men join two top former aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a former commander of the navy and others who are under the gun for bribery and a variety of crimes in Case 3000.

The decisions are subject to pre-indictment hearings which have been delayed to date by working through a security protocol with the IDF.

In November 2018, the police recommended that several of Netanyahu's top aides be indicted for a scheme to skim off the top of large deals in which Germany’s Thyssenkrupp firm was selling Israel nuclear submarines.

Netanyahu himself was not a suspect at the time, though there were later developments which the police are still probing regarding Netanyahu's potential financial connections to the affair.

The two top Netanyahu officials are David Shimron, who has served as a Netanyahu confidante, lawyer and is also his cousin, as well as David Sharan, who served as his chief of staff.

Shimron stands accused of money-laundering, while Sharan stands accused of bribery, money-laundering, breach of trust and violation of campaign financing laws.

Eliezer Marom is the former chief of the navy accused of bribery, money-laundering and tax crimes.

Yuval Steinitz, who at various times served as finance minister and then as energy minister, has two aides, Rami Taib and Yitzhak Liber, who are accused of serving as middle men in the bribery scheme and money-laundering and aiding in tax fraud respectively.

Steinitz himself has never been a suspect, though the prosecution statement says that Bar Yosef acted to persuade Thyssenkrupp official Walter Freitag of his and Ganor’s usefulness by obtaining a meeting for Freitag with Steinitz.

Former minister Eliezer Zandburg is accused of bribery, money-laundering, breach of trust and tax crimes while he was running the Keren Hayesod fund. He was allegedly paid NIS 103,000 to advance the scheme between 2012-2016.

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/State-to-indict-two-more-top-defense-officials-in-Case-3000-619077

Trump’s New Spy Chief Once Got $100,000 from a Group Funded by the Hungarian Government but Never Reported It

Richard Grenell’s past clients could raise concerns about his access to state secrets, according to his own office’s rules.

President Donald Trump’s acting director of national intelligence, Richard Grenell, worked as a paid publicist for a foundation funded by Hungary’s increasingly authoritarian government — his second former client to prompt scrutiny because Grenell did not disclose the work.

In 2016, the Magyar Foundation of North America paid Grenell’s consulting firm, Capitol Media Partners, $103,750 for “public relations” services, according to the foundation’s tax filing. The foundation was funded and supervised by Hungary’s government, according to records obtained by the Hungarian nonprofit news organization Atlatszo. The foundation’s director, Jo Anne Barnhart, had been a registered lobbyist for Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Grenell, however, did not register, even though public relations work on behalf of a foreign government falls squarely under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, according to lawyers specializing in the matter. FARA is the same law that Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and former deputy campaign manager, Rick Gates, were convicted of violating.

The work for Hungary is Grenell’s second foreign consulting engagement that was not previously disclosed. On Friday ProPublica reported that Grenell did consulting work on behalf of the Moldovan politician Vladimir Plahotniuc, who the U.S. later said was involved in corruption. Craig Engle, a lawyer for Grenell, said Grenell did not have to register under FARA because “he was not working at the direction of a foreign power.”

The White House and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not respond to requests for comment.

Grenell’s past work for Hungary was first reported on the blog of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a foreign policy think tank whose funders include conservative billionaire Charles Koch and liberal financier George Soros. In emails published in the blog post, Engle said Grenell knew that the Hungarian government was the “sponsor” of the foundation. He said Grenell’s work didn’t “qualify as registerable activity” under FARA but did not explain. Engle, whose practice at the firm Arent Fox includes FARA compliance, was also a board member of the foundation and served as its lawyer.

Reached on his cellphone on Monday, Engle said he couldn’t talk because he was at a luncheon. He later replied in an email: “I am not doing any more work on this issue.”

Both Plahotniuc and Orban were clients of the Republican political operative Arthur Finkelstein, who died in 2017. A payment of at least $5,000 from Finkelstein’s firm appears on Grenell’s personal financial disclosure from when he became ambassador to Germany. The form does not list a payment from the Magyar Foundation.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-new-spy-chief-once-got–100000-from-a-group-funded-by-the-hungarian-government-but-never-reported-it#177414

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I'll pray for you that the Father pours his judgement on (You) soon!

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Israeli scientists: 'In a few weeks, we will have coronavirus vaccine'

Once the vaccine is developed, it will take at least 90 days to complete the regulatory process and potentially more to enter the marketplace.

A team of Israeli scientists are on the cusp of developing the first vaccine against coronavirus, according to Israel’s Minister of Science and Technology, Ofir Akunis. If all goes as planned, the vaccine could be ready within three weeks and available in 90 days.

“Congratulations to MIGAL [The Galilee Research Institute] on this exciting breakthrough. I am confident that there will be further rapid progress, enabling us to provide a needed response to the grave global COVID-19 threat,” Akunis said, referring to the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

For the past four years, a team of MIGAL scientists has been developing a vaccine against infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), which causes a bronchial disease affecting poultry, and whose effectiveness has been proven in pre-clinical trials carried out at the Veterinary Institute.

MIGAL is located in the Galilee.

“Our basic concept was to develop the technology, and not specifically a vaccine for this kind or that kind of virus,” said Dr. Chen Katz, MIGAL’s biotechnology group leader, who explained that “the scientific framework for the vaccine is based on a new protein expression vector, which forms and secretes a chimeric soluble protein that delivers the viral antigen into mucosal tissues by self-activated endocytosis, causing the body to form antibodies against the virus.”

Endocytosis is a cellular process in which substances are brought into a cell by surrounding the material with cell membrane, forming a vesicle containing the ingested material. Katz said that in pre-clinical trials, the team demonstrated that the oral vaccination induces high levels of specific anti-IBV antibodies.

“Let’s call it pure luck,” he continued. “We decided to choose coronavirus as a model for our system - just as a proof of concept for our technology.”

But after scientists sequenced the DNA of SARS-CoV-2 – the official name of the novel coronavirus causing the current worldwide outbreak – the MIGAL researchers examined it and found that the poultry coronavirus has high genetic similarity to the human one, and that it uses the same infection mechanism, a fact that increases the likelihood of achieving an effective human vaccine in a very short period of time.

“All we need to do is adjust the system to the new sequence,” Katz continued. “We are in the middle of this process and hopefully in a few weeks we will have the vaccine in our hands. Yes – in a few weeks, if it all works, we would have a vaccine to prevent coronavirus.”

Katz cautioned that MIGAL would be responsible for developing the new vaccine, but that the vaccine would then have to go through a regulatory process, including clinical trials and large-scale production.

https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Israeli-scientists-In-three-weeks-we-will-have-coronavirus-vaccine-619101

Former housekeeper sues Sara Netanyahu over abusive behaviour

Sara Netanyahu is being sued by a former housekeeper who claims to have been the victim of mistreatment while working at the Israeli Prime Minister’s residence. The accusations made by the 56-year-old immigrant from France include work-related harassment and abusive employment, Channel 12 has reported.

After working at the residence for only five months up to November 2019, lawyer Opheer Shimson says his client, who wishes to keep her identity secret, is demanding $190,000 in damages for the abuse from the Prime Minister’s wife.

“She adores the Prime Minister and saw her work at his home as a form of national service,” Shimson told Associated Press. “But she’s been traumatised by her experience. Everyone knew what was going on there, and no one can say otherwise.”

In diary entries submitted to the court, the ex-employee describes how Sara Netanyahu abused her, humiliated her and lashed out at her. “Enough, save me, I want to die, the problem is that I don’t have any choice and everyone knows that,” reads one passage. “It’s impossible to live every day with a psychopath. I’m dying to leave before it’s too late. I pray that everything will pass and a miracle will happen. God, make a miracle for me! I can’t live another day with this psychopath. I’m dying to get out of here before it’s too late.”

This case is only the latest of several lawsuits by ex-employees against Mrs Netanyahu; she has been accused of abusive behaviour towards her personal staff before. Last year, for example, she testified in court in a civil suit in which she is the defendant. Former employee Shira Raban’s complaints included “relentless” insults by the prime minister’s wife, not being allowed to take leave when one of her children was sick, and being forced to use the washroom outside the main building.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200227-former-housekeeper-sues-sara-netanyahu-over-abusive-behaviour/

Top Marine Orders Confederate Paraphernalia to Be Removed from All Bases

As states continue to grapple with the passionate debate over whether to display statues and other tributes to Confederate leaders, Marines have been told the materials won't be tolerated on any of the Corps' installations.

Commandant Gen. David Berger last week instructed top Marine leaders to remove Confederate-related paraphernalia from the service's bases worldwide. The directive is one of several forward-leaning initiatives Berger said he is "prioritizing for immediate execution."

In his memo, a copy of which was obtained by Military.com, Berger also ordered leaders to find ways to move more women into combat jobs, to review the possibility of yearlong maternity leave for female Marines, and to extend parental leave policies to same-sex partners.

The commandant's order came about a week after a congressional hearing on the rise of extremism in the ranks. A recent survey of active-duty troops by the independent Military Times also found signs of white supremacy are on the rise.

Maj. Eric Flanagan, Berger's spokesman, did not specify the types of Confederate paraphernalia the general wants stripped from Marine Corps bases.

"Last week, the Commandant of the Marine Corps directed specific tasks be reviewed or addressed by Headquarters Marine Corps staff," Flanagan said. "Many of the tasks were published on Twitter Friday. Other tasks not published previously are mostly administrative matters."

Official policy decisions, changes or implementation plans will be published in appropriate orders or service-wide messages, he added.

The debate over Confederate materials and names on military installations has swirled for years. Ten Army bases are named after leaders of secessionist states, a point of contention for many – especially after a 2015 racially motivated attack on a South Carolina church thrust the debate over honoring Confederate history onto the national stage.

The attack prompted fierce debate over whether state and local governments should remove statues, street names and other references to Confederate leaders. Major retailers announced they would no longer sell Confederate flags.

But the military's response to Confederate names, flags and other materials was less clear. The Defense Department didn't take any immediate action on the issue, Military Times reported at the time, opting to leave it up to individual services to address.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/02/26/top-marine-orders-confederate-paraphernalia-be-removed-all-bases.html

Pentagon Leaders Can’t Say If Any Secret Annexes in Afghan Peace Dea

Esper, Gen. Milley both claim they weren't told about anything

Arguments about the Afghanistan peace deal that the US is about to sign with the Taliban continue, with substantial concerns that secret annexes exist to the peace language which would threaten the deal’s sustainability.

Recent reports claimed that among a series of secret annexes, the US included language saying they’re not actually going to leave Afghanistan militarily, and that this seeming deal-breaker was accepted on the grounds it would be a secret.

Pressed on the matter, top Pentagon figures claimed complete ignorance on it. Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Gen. Mark Milley both claimed to have no idea if there were ultimately any secret annexes.

Esper said he knew there were/are annexes to the final deal, but that he doesn’t know if any of them are formally secret or not, saying he would ask the Secretary of State at some point.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/02/26/pentagon-leaders-cant-say-if-any-secret-annexes-in-afghan-peace-deal/

Another Israeli offensive against Gaza will expose US and UN complicity

Ever since Israel’s Operation Protective Edge military offensive in 2014, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategy has been to seek the normalisation of bombing the Gaza Strip. This has involved evading the kind of lengthy, wide-ranging aggression which attracts unwanted media attention, and has regaled Israel with a shift in international condemnation of its war crimes and human rights violations. On several occasions, the UN and the EU have blamed the Palestinians in the haste to excuse Israel’s frequent bombing of the enclave.

With the Israeli General Election looming, and having gained the absolute backing of the US, Defence Minister Naftali Bennett announced that the government is planning yet another violent offensive against Gaza’s largely civilian population. Netanyahu is said to be in agreement with Bennett that the government and the military are on board with the plans for another “inevitable” massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

“I have come to the conclusion that there is a 95 per cent chance that it is inevitable that we will have to launch a large campaign to restart Gaza,” Bennett declared. He defined the future military campaign as a “war”. This definition not only distorts the image of Israel’s military capabilities and Gaza’s lack of them, but also refuses to set out the parameters of the colonising power in wreaking yet more irreparable damage upon a colonised and besieged population, lacking in even the most basic of fundamental freedoms, including freedom of movement.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200227-another-israeli-offensive-against-gaza-will-expose-us-and-un-complicity/

Government Wants to Ban Everything — New World Next Week

https://youtu.be/C3RZw-J3fqg

Welcome to #NewWorldNextWeek — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news.

This week:

Story #1: Posting Anti-Vaccine Propaganda on Social Media Could Become Criminal Offence

Zero Hedge Suspended On Twitter

Outrage as YouTube Reportedly Blocks History Teachers Uploading Hitler Archive Clips

UK Police Deny Responsibility for Poster Urging Parents to Report Kids for Using Linux

Story #2: UNESCO Claims Climate Denial To Be Criminalized And Prosecuted

Jerome Ravetz on The Corbett Report

Story #3: Foreign Interference In Elections Is Unacceptable. Congress Must Make It Illegal

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/02/government-wants-to-ban-everything-new-world-next-week.html

Is Wall Street Behind the Delay in Declaring the Coronavirus Outbreak a “Pandemic”?

A little known financial mechanism set up by the World Bank could be behind the decision not to declare the coronavirus a pandemic reports Whitney Webb.

A little known specialized bond created in 2017 by the World Bank may hold the answer as to why U.S. and global health authorities have declined to label the global spread of the novel coronavirus a “pandemic.” Those bonds, now often referred to as “pandemic bonds,” were ostensibly intended to transfer the risk of potential pandemics in low-income nations to financial markets.

Yet, in light of the growing coronavirus outbreak, the investors who purchased those products could lose millions if global health authorities were to use that label in relation to the surge in global coronavirus cases.

On Tuesday, federal health officials at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that they are preparing for a “potential pandemic” of the novel coronavirus that first appeared in China late last year. The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that an estimated 80,000 worldwide have contracted the disease, most of them in China, while more than 2,700 have died.

However, some have argued that the CDC’s concerns about a likely pandemic have come too late and that action should have been taken much earlier. For instance, in early February, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, had told the New York Times that the novel coronavirus is “very, very transmissible, and it almost certainly is going to be a pandemic,” while former CDC director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden had echoed those concerns at the time, stating that it is “increasingly unlikely that the virus can be contained.”

Despite those warnings, among many others, the CDC waited to announce its concerns that the virus could spread throughout the United States. Their Tuesday announcement riled markets, wiping out $1.7 trillion in stock market value in just two days. The CDC’s warning has reportedly angered President Trump, who accused the agency of needlessly spooking financial markets.

Notably, WHO officials have taken an even more cautious approach than the CDC in their recent comments, stating that it is still “too early” to declare the coronavirus outbreak a “pandemic” while also asserting that “it is time to do everything you would do in preparing for a pandemic.”

The refusal to label the outbreak a pandemic is odd, since it refers to an epidemic or actively spreading disease that affects two or more regions worldwide. This currently describes the geographical spread of the highly contagious novel coronavirus, which has now resulted in significant clusters of cases far from China, namely in Italy and Iran. Countries closer to China, like South Korea, have also recently experienced an explosion in novel coronavirus infections.

It is possible that concerns over using the word “pandemic” could upset global markets and lead to economic turmoil, similar to what happened to the U.S. stock market following the CDC announcement on Tuesday. Though such concerns are valid, there is also evidence that a particular class of bonds issued by the World Bank that are closely related to official declarations of pandemics may also be responsible for having steered WHO and CDC officials away from using this term, even though the consequences of doing so could negatively impact global public health.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/wall-street-behind-delay-declaring-coronavirus-outbreak-pandemic-bonds/265264/

High Court rules homosexual couples be allowed surrogacy rights

In unanimous decision, justices say current laws ‘disproportionately harm the right to equality and the right of parenthood’; gay rights group cheers ‘historic victory’

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-february-27-2020/

Is that the MAPS flag?

The Covert Financial War Against Hezbollah: Lebanon’s Money Trail

The new Lebanese Government has been pre-destined to fail; and for no wrong doing on its part. Actually, PM Diab formed the cabinet on the 22nd of January 2020, and as I sit down to write this on the 26th of February, I would have to say that, irrespective of the conditions upon which Diab was chosen to be the new PM, he has not yet had the chance to prove his worth or otherwise.

The popular street anger that emerged in Lebanon on the 18th of October 2019 has forced former PM Hariri to resign. Among other reform requests, the protesters demanded a cabinet comprised of new non-political faces, and Diab’s cabinet as well as Diab himself, are technically-speaking indeed new on the Lebanese political arena. But even before Diab formed the new cabinet, he himself was touted to be a Hezbollah supporter, and this made him unacceptable by the protestors. And after he named his cabinet members, more such claims were made; and I am not in a position to assert them or otherwise.

In a series of articles that were published on my blog, https://intibahwakeup.blogspot.com/2020/02/lebanons-dilemma-revolving-identity_27.html, I focused on the on-going Lebanese unrest from an identity-based perspective and the conflict of loyalties. But money, as some say, makes the world go round.

This article is not intended to address history as such and/or Diab’s alleged loyalties. It is rather about what is behind the money trail that has been part-and-parcel of all political developments in Lebanon ever since 1975 and before.

When the Lebanese Civil War broke out in 1975, the exchange rate of the Lebanese Lira (LL) to the US Dollar (USD) was in the vicinity of 3 LL to 1 USD . And, even though the war devastated the country whose economy was primarily underpinned mainly by tourism and banking services, the Lebanese economy did not seem to suffer, at least significantly. There were times when certain commodities were hard to find, but that was mainly due to transport-related problems caused by road closures, and not due to economic conditions that stood in the way of their availability.

The LL remained strong, but eventually slipped and took a minor dive towards the end of 1984. By September 1984, the exchange rate was 5 LL to 1 USD. Even though that 5:1 mark generated panic, in hindsight, it reflected further fiscal strength of the LL given that this landmark happened more than nine whole years into the war. And, between 1984 and 1990 or so, it slipped to 1500 LL to 1 USD.

There was much turmoil during this period and many retirees and ex-pats lost their life-long savings. As for those still at a working age, they suffered severely until their wages were eventually indexed and the LL maintained its 1500-1 ratio to the USD for a very long time; actually till the time the recent uprisings commenced just 3 months ago.

In hindsight, there is no mystery or divine intervention behind the rather strong Lebanese economy during the first 9 years of the Civil War and which kept the exchange rate steady.

The buck stops with war money and the war money trail.

https://thesaker.is/the-covert-financial-war-against-hezbollah-lebanons-money-trail/

DHS advises storing at least two weeks worth of food and water as part of Coronavirus prep

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security offers tips for planning for a possible pandemic in relation to the Coronavirus on a preparedness website.

Ready.gov now contains a topic titled, “Human Coronavirus — Know the facts about Coronavirus. Public health is everyone’s responsibility.” That website redirects to recommendations for how to prepare for a possible pandemic. DHS recommends storing a two-week supply of water and food. Officials also urge Americans to make sure they have all needed prescription medications filled for that time period.

Specifically, DHS recommends:

Before a Pandemic

Store a two week supply of water and food.

Periodically check your regular prescription drugs to ensure a continuous supply in your home.

Have any nonprescription drugs and other health supplies on hand, including pain relievers, stomach remedies, cough and cold medicines, fluids with electrolytes, and vitamins.

Get copies and maintain electronic versions of health records from doctors, hospitals, pharmacies and other sources and store them, for personal reference. Get help accessing electronic health records.

Talk with family members and loved ones about how they would be cared for if they got sick, or what will be needed to care for them in your home.

If a pandemic should break out in the United States, officials urge the public to take steps to limit the spread of the germs to prevent infection. Tips include staying away from those who might be sick, frequent hand washing, and avoiding touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with your fingers.

DHS recommends:

During a Pandemic

Limit the Spread of Germs and Prevent Infection (emphasis from website)

Avoid close contact with people who are sick.

When you are sick, keep your distance from others to protect them from getting sick too.

Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick.

Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs.

Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.

Practice other good health habits. Get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage your stress, drink plenty of fluids, and eat nutritious food

https://www.thedailysheeple.com/dhs-advises-storing-at-least-two-weeks-worth-of-food-and-water-as-part-of-coronavirus-prep/

House Follows Senate In Passing Anti-Lynching Hate Crime Bill Inspired By Jussie Smollett's Hate Hoax

Jussie Smollett's fake lynching was exploited by Democrats to get a bill passed to make broadly defined "lynching" a federal hate crime.

From the AP, "Congress makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Till":

Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law.

The bill, introduced by Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush and named after Till, comes 120 years after Congress first considered anti-lynching legislation and after dozens of similar efforts were defeated.

The measure was approved 410 to 4 on Wednesday in the House and now goes to the White House, where President Donald Trump is expected to sign it. The Senate unanimously passed the legislation last year. It designates lynching as a federal hate crime punishable by up to life in prison, a fine, or both.

Rush, a Democrat whose Chicago district includes Till's former home, said the bill will belatedly achieve justice for Till and more than 4,000 other lynching victims, most of them African Americans.

The AP failed to mention that 1,297 white people were lynched from 1882-1968 according to Tuskegee Institute archives.

They also failed to mention that the bill was sold as being in need of imminent passage because of the supposed "modern day lynching" of Jussie Smollett.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61241

More Store Closings For JC Penney: Financial Woes Continue For The Struggling Retailer

Struggling JC Penney (JCP) continues to have financial woes reporting another sales decline for Q4 2019. Along with its weak earnings report, the retailer said it would be closing more stores.

According to JC Penney, at least six stores will be closed in fiscal 2020. This adds to the 30 stores the company closed in 2019, in addition to the shuttering of a call center, which caused 243 layoffs.

While JC Penney did not indicate which of its stores would be closing, it did say more information about the closures would be available on April 7, when it holds its Analyst Day. To date, JC Penney has about 850 store locations.

The sales decline for JC Penney is not expected to be over just yet, as it said it expected its store sales to fall another 3.5% to 4.5% in 2020. But the company said its operating profit should improve over this timeframe.

JC Penney reported a total net sales decrease for Q4 2019 of 7.7% to $3.38 billion. Comparable store sales for the retailer also decreased by 7% for the quarter.

Under the leadership of CEO Jill Soltau, JC Penney has undergone a holistic turnaround that includes new store formats, a focus on a new denim collection for women of all sizes, and a new outdoor men’s collection under the St. John’s Bay label.

JC Penney has also partnered with thredUP for secondhand clothing sales and continues to look for new ways to innovate its image. The company also exited the furniture and appliance business back in February 2019.

https://www.ibtimes.com/more-store-closings-jc-penney-financial-woes-continue-struggling-retailer-2930320

Brandon Straka at CPAC: 'Hell Hath No Fury Like a Gay Man Scorned by the Democrat Pary'

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — Former Democrat Brandon Straka, the founder of the #WalkAway movement, hit the stage at CPAC on Wednesday with roaringly funny one-liners to a very appreciative crowd. Straka spoke on the importance of being brave enough to stand up for what you believe in, even if it isn't popular. He talked about his transformation from a narrative-swallowing leftist to a Trump-supporting conservative.

"I thought Rachel Maddow was telling the truth!" he said. "But the media lies." Straka described the moment he realized the media had been lying to us about President Trump "making fun of a handicapped person." Straka believed the media lie until someone showed him a video of Trump using the same gestures to mock lots of people he doesn't like. Context is everything.

Straka is a dynamic and hilarious speaker. A former hairdresser, he cracked, "Maxine Waters's wigs are a hate crime against my retinas." The crowd loved it. But the loudest applause came after Straka revealed that the #WalkAway movement he founded for Democrats to leave the party has 500,000 members. "Hell hath no fury like a gay man scorned by the Democrat Party," he said. "They really pissed me off."

Commenting on the extreme identity politics of the left, Straka noted that the #WalkAway group contains gay, trans, and lesbian members but "we like straight white people in our movement too." He decried the "hateful divisive left" that separates people and causes constant division.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/brandon-straka-at-cpac-hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-gay-man-scorned-by-the-democrat-pary/

Frankfurt School–Cultural Decline Follows (((Communist))) Blueprint

The Frankfurt School were a group of Marxist Jewish intellectuals at Frankfurt University in the 1920-1930's. (They emigrated to NYC after Hitler came to power.) They included Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse & Erich Fromm, and were responsible for the "New Left" and feminism. Financed by Jewish millionaire Felix Weill, they were instrumental in the degradation of Western society according to the long-term Cabalist Jewish (Satanist) plan outlined in the Protocols of Zion. The connection between Communism and Judaism is the Cabala, i.e. Freemasonry.

Timothy Mathew's "The Frankfurt School: Conspiracy to Corrupt" (Catholic Insight, March 2009) demonstrates that Cabalist (Masonic) Judaism is a satanic cult. First Jews, then Masons and now humanity as a whole has been inducted into this satanic cult, Communism/Zionism, whose aim is to pervert, enslave and exploit humanity.

(Editor's Note- I plan to repost basic articles because new people are now waking up to our true condition. The fact that corporations and media unashamedly promote the globalist, anti-white, anti-family agenda prove that we have succumbed to Communism. But Gentile Freemason traitors made it possible.) See Makow, "What is Communism?"

"The witch hunt on today's campuses is merely the implementation of Marcuse's concept of 'repressive toleration'- 'tolerance for movements from the left, but intolerance for movements from the right'-enforced by the students of the Frankfurt School'."

https://www.henrymakow.com/frankfurt-school-satanic-judaism-in-action.html

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>>8266054

2/2

Any else think Pence looks kind of nervous in his new role?

Almost like he knows POTUS is on to him

>>8266034

Election funding

payments to their terror proxies WW

And a healthy cut for themselves IMO

>>8266144

Genocide squad

>>8266172

Good job protecting Israel

>>8266194

Fuck off Rabbi