China Govt Spox Accuses US Military of Starting Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan

The propaganda war over the novel coronavirus went nuclear Thursday with the spokesman for China’s foreign ministry accusing the United States military of starting the virus outbreak in Wuhan. The accusation comes after high ranking U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have made a point of calling the virus the Chinese or Wuhan virus to pushback on China’s efforts to disavow responsibility for the virus.

The outbreak occurred in the Chinese city of Wuhan in Hubei province late last year and has since infected most of the nations of the world in just a few months. The communist government in China imposed a brutal quarantine on Wuhan and Hubei in an effort to stop the outbreak. President Xi Jinping visited Wuhan this week, visiting patients and medical workers there via video.

Lijian Zhao, Spokesperson & Deputy Director General, Information Department, Foreign Ministry of China, wrote on Twitter in Chinese and English, “1/2 CDC Director Robert Redfield admitted some Americans who seemingly died from influenza were tested positive for novel #coronavirus in the posthumous diagnosis, during the House Oversight Committee Wednesday. #COVID19”

“2/2 CDC was caught on the spot. When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!“

The spokesman keyed off a video of CDC Director Robert Redfield being asked about testing and autopsies of flu patients to see if they actually had the Wuhan virus, COVID-19. Redfield said it’s possible some cases were missed by not being tested.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/china-govt-spox-accuses-us-military-of-starting-coronavirus-outbreak-in-wuhan/

"They Know Nothing" (Again): Jim Cramer Calls For Government To Suspend Taxes, Print Way Out Of COVID-19

Jim Cramer on Thursday called for the federal government to immediately print $500 billion to address the coronavirus outbreak, and suspend all taxation during the crisis.

"Everyone owes the government at all time. Everyone in this country, individuals, corporations. That has to be suspend right now so they have more money," he said.

"Are these radical actions? You bet they are," Cramer added. "This is the time for radical action and the action can be done by the federal government."

"They know nothing," the CNBC host began to rant, referring to the government's response to the crisis, " there are no signs anyone in government understands problem."

"We know more than they do, and that’s not acceptable either," he added.

Cramer also recommended that companies tap their credit revolvers and that there should be no stigma attached to it when they do so.

His comments come on the heels of President Trump's prime-time Wednesday address in which he announced that travel would be suspended to most of Europe for 30 days in an attempt to slow the spread of coronavirus. He said he will also ask Congress to provide payroll tax relief for Americans - and would instruct the Small Business Administration to "provide capital and liquidity" to small businesses.

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/they-know-nothing-again-jim-cramer-calls-government-suspend-taxes-print-way-out-covid-19

Several Connections Discovered Between Guccifer 2.0 and Obama’s White House

Why does the name of Joe Biden’s former Internet Technology guru, Warren Flood, appear in the meta data of documents posted on the internet by Guccifer 2.0? In case you do not recall, Guccifer 2.0 was identified as someone tied to Russian intelligence who played a direct role in stealing emails from John Podesta. The meta data in question indicates the name of the person who actually copied the original document. We have this irrefutable fact in the documents unveiled by Guccifer 2.0–Warren Flood’s name appears prominently in the meta data of several documents attributed to “Guccifer 2.0.” When this transpired, Flood was working as the CEO of his own company, BRIGHT BLUE DATA. (brightbluedata.com). Was Flood tasked to masquerade as a Russian operative?

Give Flood some props if that is true–he fooled our Intelligence Community and the entire team of Mueller prosecutors into believing that Guccifer was part of a Russian military intelligence cyber attack. But a careful examination of the documents shows that it is highly unlikely that this was an official Russian cyber operation.

Here’s what the U.S. Intelligence Community wrote about Guccifer 2.0 in their very flawed January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment:

We assess with high confidence that the GRU used the Guccifer 2.0 persona, DCLeaks.com, and WikiLeaks to release US victim data obtained in cyber operations publicly and in exclusives to media outlets.

Guccifer 2.0, who claimed to be an independent Romanian hacker, made multiple contradictory statements and false claims about his likely Russian identity throughout the election. Press reporting suggests more than one person claiming to be Guccifer 2.0 interacted with journalists.

Content that we assess was taken from e-mail accounts targeted by the GRU in March 2016 appeared on DCLeaks.com starting in June.

The laxity of the Intelligence Community in dealing with empirical evidence was matched by a disturbing lack of curiosity on the part of the Mueller investigators and prosecutors. Here’s the tall tale they spun about Guccifer 2.0:

On June 14, 2016, the DNC and its cyber-response team announced the breach of the DNC network and suspected theft of DNC documents. In the statements, the cyber-response team alleged that Russian state-sponsored actors (which they referred to as “Fancy Bear”) were responsible for the breach. Apparently in response to that announcement, on June 15, 2016, GRU officers using the persona Guccifer 2.0 created a WordPress blog. In the hours leading up to the launch of that WordPress blog, GRU officers logged into a Moscow-based server used and managed by Unit 74455 and searched for a number of specific words and phrases in English, including “some hundred sheets,” “illuminati,” and “worldwide known.” Approximately two hours after the last of those searches, Guccifer 2.0 published its first post, attributing the DNC server hack to a lone Romanian hacker and using several of the unique English words and phrases that the GRU officers had searched for that day.

[Appelbaum note–According to Crowdstrike and Special Counsel Mueller, both were present, APT28 AKA "Fancy Bear” and APT29 AKA "Cozy Bear”.]

The claims by both the Intelligence Community and the Mueller team about Guccifer 2.0 are an astounding, incredible denial of critical evidence pointing to a U.S. actor, not a Russian or Romanian. No one in this “august” group took the time to examine the metadata on the documents posted by “Guccifer 2.0” to his website on June 15, 2016.

I wish I could claim credit for the following forensic analysis, but the honors are due to Yaacov Apelbaum. While there are many documents in the Podesta haul that match the following pattern, this analysis focuses only on a document originally created by the DNC’s Director of Research, Lauren Dillon. This document is the Trump Opposition Report document.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/larry-c-johnson-revealed-several-connections-discovered-between-guccifer-2-0-and-obamas-white-house/

‘Leave me be’: Did the Simpsons REALLY predict Tom Hanks would get CORONAVIRUS?

The news that Tom Hanks has been struck down with coronavirus has shocked fans around the world. The outpouring has even sparked a viral meme claiming that The Simpsons predicted the beloved actor’s illness. But is it true?

The iconic cartoon is famous for its uncanny ability to foresee major world events – from the election of US President Donald Trump, a voting machine controversy in the US, and the 2014-2016 Ebola crisis

The current, breathless claim is that Hanks’ cameo in the 2007 feature film ‘The Simpsons’ during which he appears to self-isolate and asks “if you see me in person, leave me be!” was somehow a prediction is somewhat of a stretch, even for a show credited with some truly staggering predictions in the past.

Over-eager fans previously claimed that the cartoon series predicted the coronavirus itself in a 1993 episode in which a Far-Eastern virus outbreak threatens Springfield, the characters’ hometown.

True believers think that The Simpsons not only predicted the outbreak of the virus but it also provided us with the solution in the form of the giant dome that was once placed over Springfield by the Environmental Protection Agency.

While the show did nail some predictions, it may simply be a case of a broken clock being right twice a day, as the half-hour show originally began airing on Fox in 1989 and has since run for 31 seasons and is expected to enter its 32nd sometime after March 2020. So it was bound to get some predictions right during that time, just not Tom Hanks’ unfortunate run-in with the coronavirus.

https://www.rt.com/news/482956-simpsons-predict-tom-hanks-coronavirus/

MIT Biologist and Inventer of Email – Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai – Says Deep State Fear Mongering on Coronavirus Will Go Down as Biggest Fraud to Manipulate Economies

Boston-based entrepreneur and inventor of Email Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai says the coronavirus fear mongering by the Deep State will go down in history as one of the biggest frauds ever.

Ayyadurai is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is best known for his claim to have invented email.

Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, who performs research nearly every day on the humun immune system, says the coronavirus scare the #coronavirus fear mongering by the Deep State will go down in history as one of the biggest fraud to manipulate economies, suppress dissent, & push MANDATED Medicine!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/mit-biologist-and-inventer-of-email-dr-shiva-ayyadurai-says-deep-state-fear-mongering-on-coronavirus-will-go-down-as-biggest-fraud-to-manipulate-economies/

Capitol Building & Congressional Offices Go Into Lockdown After Senate Staffer Tests Positive

With anxiety on the rise about the potential spread of coronavirus on Capitol Hill, especially among Congress' vulnerable and ageing members, late Wednesday night it was announced a senate staffer who works on the hill tested positive.

Washington state Democratic senator Maria Cantwell's office said a staffer in her D.C. office tested positive in the first known instance of a congressional staffer getting the virus, prompting Sen. Cantwell to order her office closed for at least the remainder of the week.

"The individual who tested positive for COVID-19 has had no known contact with the senator or other members of Congress," the statement said. "The senator is requesting that testing be done on any other staffers who have been in contact with the individual and show symptoms."

Currently at least seven other members of Congress have out of an abundance of precaution taken steps to isolate themselves after possible instances of exposure.

This includes five Republican lawmakers — Sen. Ted Cruz, Reps. Matt Gaetz, Doug Collins, Paul Gosar and Mark Meadows — who are self-quarantining after attending the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland where an infected individual was present. And two Democrats include California Rep. Julia Brownley and Virginia Rep. Don Beyer, who earlier this week said they may have recently interacted with acquaintances who tested positive.

The average Congressional age is around 60-years old, and law makers and their staffers often work in a close quarter environment, alarming given that D.C. — already under a newly declared state of emergency after local cases started exploding for the first time days ago — sees a constant influx of international visitors and foreign dignitaries, and also given earlier this week the CDC urged Americans older than 60 to avoid crowds, as the elderly have been shown to be most vulnerable.

According to The Hill, steps are finally being enacted (but is it too little too late?) to keep crowds away from Congress and staffers:

The House and Senate sergeants-at-ams are also preparing to announce the suspension of all tours in the Capitol in an effort to limit the potential spread of the virus on the hill.

"The two sergeant at arms … are preparing to announce that they will stop tours of the Capitol due to the coronavirus," a source told The Hill.

And the Associated Press confirms Thursday: "Congress is shutting down the US Capitol building to the public until April 1, along with all House and Senate offices over concerns of the coronavirus spreading."

Both chambers will continue to conduct business, but without a public, in-person audience.

The Democratic-led House will vote Thursday on a novel coronavirus response package that would provide support to families affected by the pandemic, including paid sick leave, free testing and funding increases to food security programs. — AP

It's perhaps only a matter of time before all Congress members and their staff begin working from home to contain the spread on the capitol.

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/senator-closes-dc-office-after-staffer-tests-positive-capitol-building-stops-public-tours

Rumor of police shooting unarmed teen in back sparks violent protests, flag burning, property damage. The rumor proves false.

Protesters even marched to North Carolina governor's mansion and Raleigh police chief's home

Paul Engram owns a barbershop in Raleigh, North Carolina, near the scene of a police-involved shooting Tuesday evening and told WRAL-TV that "rumors were flying around that it was a child that might have gotten shot" and that "we all need to know the truth."

Cops indeed shot somebody, but the truth is that it wasn't a "child." Rather, it was a 26-year-old man, and police said he was flashing a gun in public.

But, alas, with the rumor fresh in their heads that a cop shot an unarmed 16-year-old in the back, as WRAL's Joe Fisher noted, protesters got proactive and participated in "violence & damage to property."

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Paul Engram owns a barbershop in Raleigh, North Carolina, near the scene of a police-involved shooting Tuesday evening and told WRAL-TV that "rumors were flying around that it was a child that might have gotten shot" and that "we all need to know the truth."

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Cops indeed shot somebody, but the truth is that it wasn't a "child." Rather, it was a 26-year-old man, and police said he was flashing a gun in public.

But, alas, with the rumor fresh in their heads that a cop shot an unarmed 16-year-old in the back, as WRAL's Joe Fisher noted, protesters got proactive and participated in "violence & damage to property."

"Almost every protester I spoke w/ showed up b/c they heard an officer shot an unarmed 16yo in the back," Fisher tweeted. "This misinformation spread on social media, not news media & rumors fueled turnout, violence & damage to property. Let's do better."

What did the protesters do?

Just before midnight Tuesday, protesters gathered on Fayetteville Street and chanted "RPD is the KKK!" and "Whose streets? Our streets!" WRAL reported.

Protesters even marched to the mansion of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and took flags off poles and burned them, a Raleigh police officer told the station around 1 a.m. Wednesday.

https://youtu.be/js5fcJUbAqE

https://www.theblaze.com/news/rumor-of-police-shooting-unarmed-teen-in-back-sparks-violent-protests-flag-burning-property-damage-the-rumor-proves-false

Virus is Chinese Gov't Psyop, Say Falun Gong

“Fake! It’s All Fake!” This is what the Chinese are saying about Coronavirus (CV). The name COVID19 has meaning, too. Kovid is a name in Hebrew that means wise. 19 is a spiritual number meaning your goals have just been completed or will soon be completed. A chapter has just ended and the next chapter will soon begin. CV is the start of the next phase.

Because I’ve been doing Falun Gong meditation for 12 years, I know a lot of Chinese people. Many were persecuted by the CCP for meditating (faluninfo.net). They’re telling me “it’s just a bad flu” and “there’s no medical reason to lock 700m people down.”

People on the street in Wuhan were asked “Are you grateful to the government and the country?” — “What the hell should I be grateful for? They’re killing us!” is a common response.

People die every day and some die from the flu, but CV is not even at the level of regular flu yet. As of Monday, only 28 people in the US have died from CV; many were over 80 years old with critical medical conditions, yet they propose locking down society. Regular flu was responsible for about 70,000 deaths in the US last year, but no one calls for a lockdown for flu.

There is no logical reason to lock everything down like they did in China, unless eliminating political opposition is the main goal. Lockdowns that are pre-announced actually can help spread an epidemic, as infected people flee and bring the illness to new areas. Self-quarantine of at risk groups does work, they should do this on their own.

Another friend who has a business importing Chinese electronics to the US told me “we were down for about two weeks, but everything is now back to normal in China, I have no supply problems.” Another person in China told a friend, “the CCP is using this to eliminate people using social credit scores”.

https://www.henrymakow.com/2020/03/Coronavirus-is-CPC-Psyop.html

Mike Pence: There Will Be ‘Thousands’ More Coronavirus Cases

The nation should expect “thousands” more cases of the coronavirus before the disease blows over, Vice President Mike Pence said on the TODAY Show Thursday.

Pence’s statement comes after President Donald Trump gave an Oval Office address on the federal response to COVID-19, announcing near-total bans on travel from Europe as well as financial relief for impacted workers. Pence’s statement is the first time the coronavirus task force has given a numerical estimate for expected cases, previously telling Americans to simply “expect more cases.”

Pence also criticized those who have sad Trump isn’t taking the virus seriously enough. The criticism arose when various media outlets falsely claimed the president called the coronavirus a “hoax” at a campaign rally. Trump later threw fuel on the fire by comparing the virus to the seasonal flu.

Trump has also faced criticism from his conservative allies, some of whom say his chaotic messaging is making it harder for his coronavirus task force to do its job.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/12/mike-pence-thousands-coronavirus-cases/

U.S. Stock Futures Slam Into ‘Limit Down’ Guard Rails Again

U.S. stock futures lurched lower Thursday as stock indexes around the globe plunged on renewed fears about the economic costs of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

Futures contracts linked to each of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq Composite once again hit the so-called ‘limit down’ thresholds, a rare event that occurred earlier in the week. These thresholds prevent new contracts from trading below 5 percent of the underlying indexes last close.

President Trump’s 30-day ban on most travel from Europe to the U.S. put renewed pressure on the price of oil and gave rise to concerns that operations of many global businesses could be hurt. In addition, just after the president addressed the nation from the Oval Office, the NBA suspended the professional basketball season, making the economic toll on the U.S. became more salient for many Americans.

What’s more, President Trump’s call for measures to bolster the economy fell short of announcing a program agreed to by Capitol Hill lawmakers. On Wednesday, many lawmakers in both the Democratic and Republican parties either rejected the president’s proposals or said they were unlikely to pass. That raises the prospect that any economic stimulus could be delayed by weeks or months, perhaps coming too late to stave off a recession.

Stocks were down sharply in Europe, with the major indexes in Germany, France, and the U.K. down by more than 5.5 percent. Asian markets were also down, with Japan’s Nikkei falling 4.4 percent the the Shanghai Composite dropping 1.5 percent.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/03/12/u-s-stock-futures-slam-into-limit-down-guard-rails-again/

Overnight, U.S. Gov’t and Corps Announce Coronavirus Lock-down Measures

This morning Americans woke up to a new socio-economic reality, as the government along with other leading corporate institutions, implemented extreme emergency measures to try and mitigate the spread of the deadly Coronavirus.

Following the World Health Organization’s official designation yesterday of the COVID-19 crisis as a global pandemic, President Donald Trump declared halt in air travel between the US and Europe. During his address he stated:

“The European Union failed to take the same precautions (as the US) and restrict travel from China and other hotspots. As a result, a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe.”

“After consulting with our top government health officials I have decided to take several strong but necessary actions to protect the health of all Americans. To stop new cases from entering our shores we will be suspending all travel from Europe to our shores for 30 days.”

Major U.S. fears are stemming from an unprecedented call for a state of emergency in Italy, where officials instituted what amounts to a total commercial lockdown of most local economic activity.

Department of Homeland Security acting secretary Chad Wolf added that, “President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Proclamation, which suspends the entry of most foreign nationals who have been in certain European countries at any point during the 14 days prior to their scheduled arrival to the United States.”

No doubt this will have severe consequences economically, eviscerating the bottom lines of numerous airlines, as well as a devastating blow to sectors like tourism and trade, sectors which are already struggling on both sides of the Atlantic.

Saudi Arabia also announced its own travel ban to and from Europe, mirroring U.S. measure.

To date, the U.S. has recorded some 1,300 infections, including 38 deaths, spread across 44 states and the District of Columbia.

‘Social distancing’

Trump’s air travel ban also coincided with the announcements of the canceled major public gatherings and sporting events, and even the temporary closure of an entire professional sports league. These type of prohibitive measures are known now as “social distancing.”

Last night, the NCAA college sports authority announced that it would be closing its upcoming national championship games to fans, and instead require university teams to play their televised national basketball tournament games – to empty stadiums.

https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/03/12/overnight-u-s-govt-and-corps-announce-coronavirus-lock-down-measures/

Greece: Migrant reception center on Lesbos torched by locals

A migrant reception center on the Greek island of Lesbos, where the latest wave of migrant invaders recently arrived, was burned down over the weekend.

The building – operated by the Swiss NGO One Happy Family – which serves as a migrant reception center on the island “has been seriously damaged” according to a source in the NGO, Franceinfo reports.

Angry residents of Lesbos island – apparently fed up with the living conditions on the island – are said to have torched the facility. While the NGO reported that serious damage had been inflicted upon the reception center, no injuries to any persons were reported.

Just a day before the arson attack, a local court handed two Lesbos residents three-month suspended prison sentences for threats and violence made toward pro-migration NGO activists and journalists after hundreds of migrant invaders – most of whom are fighting-age men – arrived on the island after Erdogan ‘opened the gates’.

Following his conviction, Konstantinos Alvanopoulos – one of the men who was slapped with a suspended prison sentence – told AFP, “I will continue to defend my homeland as a Greek. Most of the NGOs here operate like spies. These gangsters must leave the island.”

“We did not intend to threaten the life of anyone,” he added.

For months, the situation on Lesbos and Greece’s other islands in the Eastern Aegean has been tense. Over 42,000 migrants are estimated to be on the islands of Lesbos, Samos, Chios, Leros, and Kos.

Moria, Europe’s largest migrant camp, is currently housing around 20,000 migrants. The camp was originally designed to house just 3,000 people.

A week ago, Voice of Europe reported that a Greek Orthodox church on the island of Lesbos was trashed by a mob of angry, anti-Christian migrants. Pictures of the church’s desecration showed the alter knocked over, pictures ripped from the walls and debris thrown everywhere.

Since Turkey’s Islamist regime leader Recep Erdogan opened the gates late last month, more than 1,000 migrants have landed on the Greek islands in the Eastern, Greek daily newspaper Kathimerini reported.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/03/greece-migrant-reception-center-on-lesbos-torched-by-locals/

EU condemns Trump travel ban from Europe as coronavirus spreads

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Thursday lashed out at President Donald Trump’s “unilateral” decision to restrict travel from Europe to the United States over the coronavirus, saying that the illness does not respect borders.

Trump announced that all European travel would be cut off, but U.S. officials later clarified that restrictions would apply only to most foreign citizens who have been in Europe’s passport-free travel zone at any point for 14 days prior to their arrival to the United States.

“The European Union disapproves of the fact that the U.S. decision to impose a travel ban was taken unilaterally and without consultation,” EU Council President Charles Michel and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a joint statement.

“The coronavirus is a global crisis, not limited to any continent and it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action,” the two said.

They rejected Trump’s suggestion that Europe is not doing enough to combat COVID-19, saying that the 27-nation bloc “is taking strong action to limit the spread of the virus.”

The so-called Schengen area comprises 26 countries including EU members France, Italy, German, Greece, Austria and Belgium, where the bloc has its headquarters, but also others like Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.

The restrictions announced by Trump don’t apply to the United Kingdom, where the number of confirmed cases has reached 460, or Ireland, which isn’t part of Schengen.

According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s latest figures, more than 17,000 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed across Europe, and more than 700 people have died on the continent.

For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. The vast majority of people recover from the new virus.

With the virus now present in all 27 EU countries, the bloc’s top officials have pledged to stand united in fighting the disease and are likely to adopt a common approach in their response to Trump’s announcement.

This week, von der Leyen announced the launch of a “corona response investment fund” seeded with 7.5 billion euros that she said would reap billions more. It’s aimed at propping up health care structures, small businesses suffering from the impact of the virus and labor markets where jobs might be hit.

Von der Leyen postponed a trip Thursday to Greece to discuss the migrant stand-off with Turkey in order to focus on combating the rapid spread of the virus.

Several EU meetings have been cancelled to slow the spread, but the bloc’s interior ministers are still scheduled to gather in Brussels on Friday. EU health ministers were holding a video-conference later Thursday.

As the virus spreads, more European countries are adopting drastic measures. After Italy entered a lockdown, Denmark said all schools and day-care facilities in the country will be closed from Monday. All public servants who don’t perform critical functions, have been ordered to stay home for the next two weeks.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Army decided to cut down the number of troops taking part in massive war games that have been planned across Europe over the next six months because of the virus pandemic.

The Defender-Europe 2020 exercises were set to involve around 20,000 American personnel, the biggest deployment of U.S. troops to Europe in the last 25 years.

But U.S. Army Europe said “in light of the current coronavirus outbreak, we will modify the exercise by reducing the number of U.S. participants.” No details on numbers were provided.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/03/eu-condemns-trump-travel-ban-from-europe-as-coronavirus-spreads/

Coronavirus: Boris Govt Throws Travel Ban Exception Back in Trump’s Face

President Trump offered a lifeline to the United Kingdom by exempting it from an anti-coronavirus ban on travel from Europe, but Boris Johnson’s government has thrown it back in his face, claiming the restrictions won’t work and complaining about their economic impact.

“The advice we are getting is that there isn’t evidence that interventions like closing borders or travel bans are going to have a material effect on the spread of the infection,” complained Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson’s Chancellor of the Exchequer.

“That is why we have taken the decisions we have,” he said in comments to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 reported by The Times.

British government ministers have, as yet, taken little direct action on the pandemic besides advise people to wash their hands for as long as it takes to sing the first two verses of God Save the Queen, several times a day.

Discussing the U.S.-Europe travel ban in more detail, Sunak claimed the Trump administration is “still deciding the details of what exactly [the policy] means.”

He made it clear that the Johnson administration is concerned by the economic impact of the coronavirus and measures to mitigate it, telling the BBC: “As I talked about yesterday [when presenting the budget], there will be an impact on the demand side of our economy as people are unable to spend in the way they normally would and travel, but it also affects the supply chains for businesses and that impacts the supply side of our economy.”

While several European nations are actually exempt from the travel ban — it only applies to members of the European Union’s internal tree travel zone, which includes several of the worst impacted nations worldwide — President Trump namechecked only the United Kingdom during his address, a clear signal of interest in the nation.

The clash between Trump’s support for Britain and the UK government’s pessimism is perhaps unsurprising, as while Prime Minister Johnson is often seen as something of a “British Trump” there are in fact many differences between the two.

For example, Johnson is a committed market-first free trader, where Trump has sought to bring jobs back to America; Johnson is an enthusiast for working with the Chinese Community Party — a stance which already caused ructions with the U.S. and other allies after it saw him agree to involve China in British 5G infrastructure — where Trump sees the regime as a global threat; and Johnson is a supporter of illegal migrant amnesties, where Trump has border control as a key plank in his platform.

While many politicians from countries failing to ban travel from countries infested with the coronavirus have, like Sunak, claimed they would make no difference, they seldom offer any explanation as to how they could not slow its spread.

Mongolia, for example, closed its border with China in late January and restricted travel from Japan and South Korea shortly thereafter.

It did not report its first coronavirus case until March 10th — which arrived via a French worker — buying it significantly more time than countries like Britain and Italy, where it is now endemic.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/12/coronavirus-boris-govt-throws-travel-ban-exception-back-in-trumps-face/

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A 'passionate Zionist': Boris Johnson is UK's prime minister

https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/A-passionate-Zionist-596689

Fear-Based Manipulation: How Politicians, Marketers and the Media Create Panic to Control the Masses

“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” ~Bertrand Russell

Fear. Without it we wouldn’t be able to survive.

Why? Because it’s the emotion that warns us about potential threats to our survival and urges us to protect ourselves from them.

Let me give you an example to illustrate what I mean.

Imagine that you’re walking outside in the dark and suddenly you see a snake jumping right in front of your feet. Immediately fear kicks in. You start sweating, your heart rate goes up, and your cortisol as well as adrenaline levels increase. The snake could be poisonous so you immediately need to protect yourself from it.

In such a dangerous situation, your natural response is most likely going to be one of the following:

Run away from the snake.

Injure, kill or somehow immobilize the snake.

Freeze in hopes that the snake will be undisturbed by your presence and leave you alone.

Fear, as the above example shows, is a protective mechanism that is part of our survival instinct, helping us to stay alive and healthy. But here’s the problem: when that mechanism becomes overactive and we start fearing things that don’t actually pose us any threat, it can wreak havoc not only with our well-being (due to too much stress), but also with our decision-making (because fear, as you’ll soon find out, can hinder clear thinking).

Manipulative people are extremely aware of the latter and try their best to control how you think and behave by using fear-based tactics. Here you’ll learn what some of those tactics are, as well as what you can do to avoid falling into their trap.

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Fear drives better ratings and better ratings means increased profit. The mass media knows this very well and is doing its best to capitalize on it. By terrorizing us, it’s able to keep our attention hooked and ruthlessly exploit us for its financial gain.

You are What You Buy

Another way fear is used to control you is through commercial advertisements.

You might not be consciously aware of it, but corporations are heavily using fear-based advertising to make you buy their stuff. And it has been found to work pretty well. By instilling fear in people, advertising manipulates them into making emotional rather than reasoned choices.

Let’s see an example of how fear-based advertising works.

All the great marketers know well that one of the primary human desires is to connect with other humans and feel part of a community, and hence that one of the things people are most afraid of is to be excluded from their social groups. And through advertising they try to convince you that if you don’t buy stuff nobody will like you anymore and that you’ll probably be ostracized by your community.

Buy the latest iPhone and you’ll not appear to be poor. Get this pair of Nike shoes and you’ll be cool. Obtain this wristwatch and you’ll feel important. Purchasing them will cost you some money, but not doing so will cost you your happiness.

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Newly Unsealed Docs: Ben Affleck, Other Famous Names On Weinstein’s ‘Red Flag List’

Newly revealed documents from the trial against disgraced mega-producer and former progressive darling Harvey Weinstein shows that several high-profile figures, including actor Ben Affleck, were on the now convicted sex offender’s “red flag list.”

Last week, a Manhattan jury convicted Weinstein on two of the lesser of the five charges brought against him in the state of New York. The jury found Weinstein guilty of a criminal sex act in the first degree and rape in the third degree, but acquitted him on two counts of predatory sexual assault and one count of first-degree rape. The producer now faces five to 29 years in prison.

Variety, which has published a series of reports on the roughly 1,000 pages of newly unsealed court documents, revealed Tuesday that Affleck and Weinstein accusers Annabella Sciorra and Rose McGowan, are among the roughly 70 individuals who appear on a “red flag list,” which was initially cited during the much-publicized New York trial.

“Prior to the publication of bombshell reports, which ignited the #MeToo movement and led to the former movie mogul’s downfall, Weinstein kept a list of names of people he was concerned could be talking to journalists in 2017 about his sexual conduct with women,” Variety explains. “Affleck’s name appeared on that document, known as the red flag list, which was reviewed by Variety on Tuesday afternoon.”

“Roughly 70 names are on the list, including Affleck and Sciorra, in addition to accusers Rose McGowan, Zelda Perkins, Lysette Anthony and Rowena Chiu,” the outlet reports. “Also on the list are former Weinstein Company exec Irwin Reiter; Weinstein’s former assistant and “Russian Doll” creator Leslye Headland; and producers Megan Ellison, Donna Gigliotti, Jason Blum and Jennifer Todd.”

Variety notes that the “red flag list” came up during Weinstein’s widely covered trial, but only Sciorra, who testified at the trial, was cited as having appeared on it. “The lead prosecutor requested that the list (which included both men and women) be provided to the jury so they could see all of the names, but the judge denied that plea,” Variety notes.

In a separate report, Variety revealed Tuesday that Weinstein wrote in an Oct. 31, 2017 email that actress Jennifer Aniston “should be killed.”

“Jen Aniston should be killed,” the producer wrote in response to a request by a National Enquirer reporter for comment about an allegation that he sexually assaulted her, a claim the actress has since said is untrue.

“In October 2017, the National Enquirer reached out for comment from Weinstein’s then-rep Sallie Hofmeister, a crisis management expert he had hired shortly after the reports of sexual harassment and assault broke in the New York Times and New Yorker in October 2017,” Variety reported Tuesday.

“The National Enquirer intends to publish a story reporting Jennifer Aniston was sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein,” the reporter wrote in the request for comment.

A representative for Aniston responded to the revelation. “The National Enquirer claims are false,” Stephen Huvane told Variety in an emailed response. “Jennifer has not been harassed or assaulted by Harvey.”

http://www.cuzzblue.com/2020/03/newly-unsealed-docs-ben-affleck-other.html

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