WHO Launches Historic Fundraising Effort to Fight Coronavirus Pandemic

The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a first-of-its-kind fundraising drive for companies, philanthropies and individuals to contribute to as it continues to fight the growing coronavirus pandemic.

The United Nations Foundation and the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation will manage the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund to address the need for money to prepare for and respond to the spread of the coronavirus.

WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the new fund on Friday. The organization anticipates a need of $675 million through April to address the worldwide outbreak, and said funding needs will likely increase as the crisis evolves.

“We hope it will become the foremost way for businesses, individuals and philanthropies to get involved in this fight against this virus on a global scale, which is exactly what we need at this moment,” a UN Foundation representative told reporters Thursday.

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The money will be used to support efforts in tracking and understanding the spread of COVID-19, ensuring that patients can access the care they need and that frontline workers can get supplies and information, and accelerating the development of vaccines, tests and treatments, according to UN Foundation representatives.

Scott Pendergast, director for strategic planning at WHO’s emergency preparedness and response program, told reporters donations to the fund will be used to provide medical equipment, such as ventilators and oxygen, along with personal protective supplies to countries, particularly those with weaker healthcare systems, in an effort to ramp up their responses to COVID-19.

“One of the major actions is making sure that countries are prepared for and can respond to COVID-19, and this includes putting in place coordination mechanisms at the country level,” Pendergast said.

https://time.com/5802413/who-covid-19-fund-coronavirus-pandemic/

Andrew Gillum involved in suspected crystal meth incident in Miami Beach, police say

Gillum is former mayor of Tallahassee, former Democratic candidate for Florida governor

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Former Democratic candidate for Florida governor, Andrew Gillum, was involved in a suspected crystal meth incident early Friday morning in Miami Beach, authorities said.

According to a police report, Miami Beach Fire Rescue crews were called to a hotel at 1100 West Avenue shortly before 1 a.m. regarding a suspected drug overdose.

Authorities said Gillum, 40, and two other men were inside the hotel room at the time.

According to the report, one of the men, Aldo Mejias, 56, told officers that he gave Travis Dyson, 30, his credit card information to rent a hotel room for the night.

Police said Dyson rented the room around 4 p.m. Thursday and Mejias arrived at the room later that night, at which time he found Dyson and Gillum inside the hotel room, appearing to be under the influence of an unknown substance.

According to the police report, Dyson opened the hotel room door and then immediately walked to the bed and collapsed in a prone position.

He told officers Dyson was having difficulty breathing and began vomiting on the bed before collapsing a second time, the report stated.

He said he began conducting chest compressions on Dyson before calling 911.

According to the police report, officers who responded to the hotel tried to speak with Gillum but he was too inebriated.

Fire Rescue personnel took Dyson to Mount Sinai Medical Center in stable condition.

They returned to the hotel to check on Gillum, who authorities said was stable and whose vitals were now normal.

According to the police report, officers found three small clear bags inside the hotel room containing suspected crystal meth.

The suspected narcotics were impounded as evidence.

Authorities said Gillum left the hotel room and "returned to his residence without incident.”

Gillum released a statement, saying he was at a wedding Thursday night and was drinking, but denied taking any methamphetamines.

“I was in Miami last night for a wedding celebration when first responders were called to assist one of my friends,” Gillum said in the statement. "While I had too much to drink, I want to be clear that I have never used methamphetamines. I apologize to the people of Florida for the distraction this has caused our movement.

“I’m thankful to the incredible Miami Beach EMS team for their efforts. I will spend the next few weeks with my family and appreciate privacy during this time.”

It’s unclear whether any of the men involved will face drug-related charges.

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/03/13/andrew-gillum-involved-in-suspected-crystal-meth-incident-in-miami-beach-police-say/

Will the Coronavirus Kill the New World Order?

What does the future hold? It may one day be said that the coronavirus delivered the deathblow to the New World Order, to a half-century of globalization, and to the era of interdependence of the world’s great nations.

Dr. Brian Monahan, attending physician of Congress, told a closed meeting of Senate staffers this week that 70 million to 150 million Americans — a third of the nation — could contract the coronavirus. Dr. Anthony Fauci testified that the mortality rate for COVID-19 will likely run near 1%.

Translation: Between 750,000 and 1.1 million Americans may die of this disease before it runs its course. The latter figure is equal to all the U.S. dead in World War II and on both sides in the Civil War.

Chancellor Angela Merkel warns that 70% of Germany’s population — 58 million people — could contract the coronavirus. If she is right, and Fauci’s mortality rate holds for her country, that could mean more than half a million dead Germans.

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis called Merkel’s remark “unhelpful” and said it could cause panic. But Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch seemed to support Merkel, saying between 40% and 70% of the world’s population could become infected.

Again, if Fauci’s 1% mortality rate and Lipsitch’s estimate prove on target, between 3 billion and 5 billion people on earth will be infected, and 30 million to 50 million will die, a death toll greater than that of the Spanish Flu of 1918.

There is, however, some contradictory news.

China, with 81,000 cases, has noted a deceleration in new cases and South Korea appears to be gradually containing the spread of the virus.

Yet, Italy, with its large elderly population, may be a harbinger of what is to come in the West.

As of Thursday, Italy had reported 12,000 cases and 827 deaths, a mortality rate of nearly 7%. This suggests that the unreported and undetected infections in shutdown Italy are far more numerous.

In the U.S., the death toll at this writing is 39, a tiny fraction of the annual toll of tens of thousands who die of the flu.

https://buchanan.org/blog/will-the-coronavirus-kill-the-new-world-order-138281

Europe now center of coronavirus pandemic, death toll has passed 5,000 – WHO chief

The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has surpassed 5,000 worldwide and Europe has become the epicenter of the outbreak, the head of the World Health Organization has said.

WHO director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at Friday’s daily briefing that the death toll has passed the “tragic milestone”. He told the virtual press conference that Europe has become the epicenter of the outbreak and the continent has more cases and deaths than the rest of the world combined, apart from China.

“More cases are now being reported every day than were reported in China at the height of its epidemic,” he said.

The global health body said it is “impossible” to say when the pandemic will peak and Tedros warned world governments that a raft of measures are needed to tackle the disease.

He said that any country that thinks it could not fall victim to a large outbreak of the Covid-19 illness is making a “deadly mistake”.

The health chief announced that the WHO is launching a Covid-19 solidarity response plan to enable individuals and organizations to contribute to disease control efforts.

The funds raised will be used to coordinate the response to tackling the crisis as well as buying masks, gloves, gowns, goggles and other essential materials. It will also be invested in research and development.

Speaking at the briefing, the WHO's Dr Mike Ryan said that there is a major funding gap for potential vaccines against the virus.

The novel coronavirus outbreak started in China late last year but official figures show that the Asian country has stabilized the spread of the disease. Meanwhile, the number of cases in European countries has skyrocketed in recent weeks and it was declared a pandemic on Wednesday.

https://www.rt.com/news/483074-europe-center-coronavirus-pandemic/

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Wow just was thinking this exact thing, show me the bodies!

Evil Leftists Create PAC to Pay the Person Who Infects President Trump with Coronavirus “Ten Stacks”

A new PAC was formed this week in Chicago, Illinois to pay the first person who infects President Trump with coronavirus.

The group’s FEC filing includes the purpose of the newly formed group: “CORONAVIRUS PLEASE KILL DONALD TRUMP!!!!”

The founder and treasurer are listed in the filing(?)

That was not the brightest move.

The Treasurer listed on the form has the title of “Trump Killer.”

This is the modern day left: wicked, deadly, violent and out of ideas.

Law and Crime reported:

A political action committee (PAC) was created on Thursday with the express purpose of infecting President Donald Trump with the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

The group is named “10 Stacks to the person who infects Donald douchebag Trump with Coronavirus/Covid-19,” and the official paperwork was filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) establishing the organization as an entity legally entitled to raise and spend money in federal elections.

The group’s form text file elaborates on what it apparently hopes to achieve: “CORONAVIRUS PLEASE KILL DONALD TRUMP!!!!” This is likely the kind of thing that will get the FBI or some other law enforcement knocking on your door.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/evil-leftists-create-pac-to-pay-the-person-ten-stacks-who-infects-president-trump-with-coronavirus/

‘Not a glorious episode!’ UK PM Johnson sparks war-analogy battle with his ‘Digital Dunkirk’ Covid-19 rally cry to tech giants

UK premier Boris Johnson attracted some lessons in British history after a ‘rousing speech’ to leading tech firms, described by an attendee as “digital Dunkirk,” saw him urge them to help in the fight against the global pandemic.

The meeting on Wednesday night in Downing Street saw around 30 different big tech firms in attendance, including Google, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon. Johnson reportedly used his speech – described as Churchillian by one guest – to try to encourage the tech industry in the UK to provide useful resources to contain the outbreak.

The description of Johnson’s summit as a “digital Dunkirk” riled many on Twitter, who took issue with yet another war analogy to characterize the prime minister’s approach to a major issue.

One frustrated person tweeted: “How can lots of little boats rescuing soldiers from across the Channel be relevant?” Some suggested that Dunkirk during World War II was “a disaster,” adding: “not exactly a glorious episode!” There were also sarcastic takes on the attendee evoking the War.

Other critics of the PM’s meeting also took a swipe at reports that Dominic Cummings – Johnson’s chief adviser – asked tech bosses what they could commit to in the fight against the deadly virus. “Have they tried all paying their taxes?”another cheekily asked.

It comes after Johnson emerged from a COBRA meeting to tell reporters assembled at No 10 on Wednesday afternoon that the Covid-19 pandemic is “the worst public health crisis for a generation” and warned Britain that the worst of the crisis is still weeks away.

“I have to level with you: more families, many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time,” the UK PM said, adding that, for the UK, the “most dangerous period is still some weeks away.”

https://www.rt.com/uk/483036-coronavirus-digital-dunkirk-johnson/

Mnuchin Floats Pause on Student Loan Payments

Appearing Friday on CNBC, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the Trump administration could provide temporary student loan suspensions to help Americans amid the coronavirus outbreak.

A transcript is as follows:

JIM CRAMER: It’s so important for everyone, for every working person to able to get a break here, I think, whatever the Treasury can do, whatever the country can do. Let’s pick the group that you and I are not a part of — Millennials — they are burdened with a lot of student debt. Can we suspend their payments for the next three months, so they suddenly have money in their pockets? We’re going to beat this thing and we need these people to be ready, and willing to go back to work, but we need them to have enough money to be able to sustain this period. Suspending student debt, just for three months, not canceling. What do you think?

SEC. STEVEN MNUCHIN: I can tell you that’s on our list of 50 different items we’re bringing to the president for a decision, so that will be something that we’re looking at. We have lots of authorities. Things were we don’t have authorities, we’re going to work with both the House and the Senate on a bipartisan basis. I can assure you that the president is all about action, action, action.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/03/13/coronavirus-mnuchin-floats-pause-on-student-loan-payments/

US Intel Agencies Played Unsettling Role in Classified and “9/11-like” Coronavirus Response Plan

As coronavirus panic grips the world, concern over government overreach is growing given the involvement of US intelligence agencies in classified meetings for planning the U.S.’ coronavirus response.

As the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis comes to dominate headlines, little media attention has been given to the federal government’s decision to classify top-level meetings on domestic coronavirus response and lean heavily “behind the scenes” on U.S. intelligence and the Pentagon in planning for an allegedly imminent explosion of cases.

The classification of coronavirus planning meetings was first covered by Reuters, which noted that the decision to classify was “an unusual step that has restricted information and hampered the U.S. government’s response to the contagion.” Reuters further noted that the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Alex Azar, and his chief of staff had “resisted” the classification order, which was made in mid-January by the National Security Council (NSC), led by Robert O’Brien — a longtime friend and colleague of his predecessor John Bolton.

Following this order, HHS officials with the appropriate security clearances held meetings on coronavirus response at the department’s Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility (SCIF), which are facilities “usually reserved for intelligence and military operations” and — in HHS’ case — for responses to “biowarfare or chemical attacks.” Several officials who spoke to Reuters noted that the classification decision prevented key experts from participating in meetings and slowed down the ability of HHS and the agencies it oversees, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to respond to the crisis by limiting participation and information sharing.

It has since been speculated that the decision was made to prevent potential leaks of information by stifling participation and that aspects of the planned response would cause controversy if made public, especially given that the decision to classify government meetings on coronavirus response negatively impacted HHS’ ability to respond to the crisis.

After the classification decision was made public, a subsequent report in Politico revealed that not only is the National Security Council managing the federal government’s overall response but that they are doing so in close coordination with the U.S. intelligence community and the U.S. military. It states specifically that “NSC officials have been coordinating behind the scenes with the intelligence and defense communities to gauge the threat and prepare for the possibility that the U.S. government will have to respond to much bigger numbers—and soon.”

https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-intelligence-unsettling-role-classified-9-11-like-coronavirus-response/265687/

Trump: Obama Helped Create Issues At CDC; I’ve Fixed Them And We’re ‘Ready To Go!’

On Friday morning, President Donald Trump criticized his predecessor former President Barack Obama for refusing to fix issues at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and allegedly making “changes” that only “complicated” the problems. The president told the public that his administration, however, has cut threw the “red tape” and are now “ready to go.”

“For decades the [CDC] looked at, and studied, its testing system, but did nothing about it,” President Trump posted to social media. “It would always be inadequate and slow for a large scale pandemic, but a pandemic would never happen, they hoped.”

“President Obama made changes that only complicated things further,” the president said.

In a follow-up tweet, Trump said that the Obama administration’s “response to H1N1 Swine flu was a full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing problem, until now.”

“The changes have been made and testing will soon happen on a very large scale basis. All Red Tape has been cut, ready to go!” he assured the public.

According to information from the CDC, compiled at Becker’s Hospital Review, the H1N1, or the swine flu, “caused 60.8 million illnesses, 273,304 hospitalizations and 12,469 deaths in the U.S.” between April 12, 2009 and April 10, 2010.

“On Oct. 5, 2009, the U.S. began administering a newly approved H1N1 vaccine to select Americans, with vaccination coverage expanding nationwide by that December,” the outlet noted, adding that an estimated 151,700 to 575,400 people died globally from swine flu in the first year of the pandemic.

COVID-19 “has sickened 1,323 Americans and killed 38, as of March 12,” CDC data shows, Becker’s Hospital Review said. “More than 127,00 cases and 4,700 deaths have been reported globally.”

As concerns continued to grow over the virus, Trump addressed the nation on Wednesday night, assuring the public that the crisis is being taken seriously and appropriate actions are being taken, most significantly a 30-day travel band from Europe to the States.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, the travel ban “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” and excludes “legal permanent residents, (generally) immediate family members of U.S. citizens, and other individuals who are identified in the proclamation.”

Moreover, as stressed by The New York Post on Thursday, “Trump was right in January to stop most Chinese nationals from entering the US, a fact that many of his critics still can’t accept.”

The administration was also able to get major insurance companies to agree to waive copays on coronavirus testing.

Later on Friday morning, the president promoted a payroll tax cut intended to provide economic relief amid the outbreak.

“If you want to get money into the hands of people quickly & efficiently, let them have the full money that they earned, APPROVE A PAYROLL TAX CUT until the end of the year, December 31,” Trump wrote. “Then you are doing something that is really meaningful. Only that will make a big difference!”

http://www.womensystems.com/2020/03/trump-obama-helped-create-issues-at-cdc.html

Coronavirus: London Mayoral Election Suspended For 12 Months

The vote to elect the next mayor of London, as well as a host of other city mayoral votes and local council elections that were due to be held in May, has been suspended for 12 months over coronavirus concern.

While the British government has not taken steps to protect the public like strengthening border control or even banning travel from infection hotspots like Italy as other countries such as the United States and the Czech Republic have done, it moved to protect politicians on Friday when it announced the suspension of campaigning for the May 12th elections.

Local government and mayoral — including the vote on London’s mayor — will now not take place until May 12th 2021, 12 months after their due date. As local elections run on a rolling basis with half of the councils being elected at any given time, it is not clear whether the next term would be shorter, or if the other half of the cohort would also be given 12 months more to keep the votes in-synchronisation.

The decision means at least 12 months more for London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who was due to face the ballot box and the residents of London as his first four-year term came to an end. While crime has indeed soared during his tenure, Mayor Khan is polling highly and was expected to win.

The suspension may possibly benefit Conservative challenger Shaun Bailey, who is comparatively little known compared to the heavyweights who have traditionally vied for the position of London mayor. An extra year’s campaigning may allow him to raise his profile.

The decision to defer the vote came after advice to the government by the Electoral Commission on Thursday. The commission had told the government there were “growing risks” to the election and that many people may be prevented from voting, the Daily Telegraph reports.

Election campaigning tends to involve a lot of personal contact, travel, and knocking on the doors of strangers, and the height of the campaign would have come at the point the government predicts the coronavirus outbreak in the UK would be at its most intense.

The decision comes just days after Mayor Khan told radio audiences in London that be believed it would be safe to go ahead with the election. He said he had been told by the Chief Medical Officer that “there is no logical reason to postpone or cancel the elections. If somebody is worried about going to a polling station, it is important to make postal votes as easy as possible.

“If there is some very small risk, the way to make that risk even smaller… is wiping the pencils with a wipe. You can always wash your hands after you’ve voted and stuff… the key thing is, the advice from the experts is there’s no logical reason to cancel or postpone.”

Taking the opportunity to hit at his opponents, the Mayor quipped that there were some other candidates that would appear on the ballot paper where the public would want to wash their hands after voting for them.

The decision by the UK government contrasts with the decision reached by the French government on Thursday to press on with their local elections despite being worse hit by coronavirus nationally than the UK. Speaking to the nation on Thursday afternoon, French President Emmanuel Macron said despite the epidemic, “It is important (…) to ensure the continuity of our democratic life and of our institutions”, reports Le Monde.

President Macron said polling stations would be instructed to make voting as hygienic as possible, and that he had been told by a medical advisor: “There was no more danger in going to vote than going to the bakery or buying carrots for soup. The limited social life does not call into question the elections.”

Coronavirus has now killed over 5,000 people worldwide, and the World Health Organization has stated the global centre of the pandemic is now in Europe, not Asia. The United Kingdom is among the less impacted developed European economies, with 798 cases and 10 deaths compared to over 15,000 cases and over 1,000 dead in Italy, the worst impacted.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/13/coronavirus-london-mayoral-election-suspended-12-months/

Canadian Parliament Shuts Down Over Coronavirus Spread Fears

Canadian members of parliament have voted to suspend the activity of the country’s parliament over fears of the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus just a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his self-isolation.

The move comes a day after Prime minister Trudeau’s wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau tested positive for the coronavirus following a trip to the UK, and the Canadian leader announced he would be isolating himself and working from home.

All parties in the parliament agreed Friday to suspend activity for over a month until April 20th, with no MPs voting against the suspension, Canadian broadcaster CBC reports.

The Canadian annual budget, which was expected to be released at the end of the month, is likely to be delayed as well.

Parliament managed to pass the C-4 bill on the subject of the new trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico but that bill will require royal assent from the Governor-General before coming into force.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced a stimulus package on Thursday to help ease the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak after speaking with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney who said that at least $20 billion would be needed.

While Canada has not imposed strict travel restrictions, PM Trudeau said Friday that his government was considering restricting some international travel.

Canadian airline Air Canada, however, suspended all flights to Italy, one of the countries with a major outbreak of the coronavirus, earlier in the week.

Meanwhile, on a provincial level, both British Columbia and Quebec have warned residents about international travel and Ontario has closed all schools in the province for the next three weeks.

“As you’ve seen, there are recommendations not to travel outside of Canada. We’re in the midst of coordinating with the Americans, obviously, on our borders, on our actions. We’ll continue to evaluate what we can do and how we can keep Canadians in security and we won’t close the door on any idea,” Trudeau said in an interview with Radio-Canada.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/13/canadian-parliament-shuts-down-over-coronavirus-spread-fears/

174 House Dems: Convicted Terrorists Must Not Be Barred from Working for TSA

Of course. Voting the other way would have been “Islamophobic."

As old Joe Biden would say, Look, Fat, look, here’s the deal: I’ve been warning for years that it would sooner or later become “Islamophobic” to offer even the mildest opposition to jihad violence, and that the “Islamophobia” mongers would become increasingly open about their support for jihad terrorists, and here we are. On Thursday, 174 Democrats in the House of Representatives voted against an amendment to the Rights for Transportation Security Officers Act that would prevent the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from hiring convicted terrorists.

Yes, you read that right: if these House Democrats had gotten their way, on your next flight, you could have gotten a pat-down from a TSA agent who previously conspired to down the airplane you were planning to fly on. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) explained that the amendment “was pulled back by leadership because the socialist wing of the party did not want to have that amendment go forward on this bill. When it was offered, overwhelmingly the majority of the House would like to see the TSA not hire terrorists or those who have been convicted of sexual misconduct with minors and others. But the socialist wing of the party, that controls now the Democratic Party, said that that could not be offered.”

Allahu akbar, as these prospective TSA employees might have said, the whole thing exploded in their faces: enough Republicans and renegade Democrats votes for the amendment to pass it. But among the luminaries who thought it so important to avoid even the appearance of “Islamophobia” that they opposed an amendment barring terrorists from pawing through your belongings as you made your way through security were the infamous “Squad,” Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D, Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), and Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.), along with the supposedly sane and responsible House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.).

The TSA has always been more security theatre than actual security, but that’s beside the point here: AOC, Omar, and Tlaib and the 171 other House Democrats who opposed this measure didn’t vote against it because it would be ineffective, but clearly because it would offend a key portion of their constituency, which for most, if not all, Democrats today consists of people who believe that terrorists are victims and American imperialism is the real problem, and that Donald Trump is “racist” for wanting to protect Americans from jihad terror attacks by foreign nationals coming from the countries included in his Travel Ban and violent crimes by illegal aliens coming into the country from Mexico.

The Democrats’ vote was not just about about pandering to their increasingly unhinged base. You have to give these feted and cosseted anti-Americans credit for one thing: they’re consistent. Ever since shortly after 9/11, and in the cases of some even before that, Democrat Party leaders have denounced even the weakest, most token anti-terror measures as “Islamophobic.” The American people have been relentlessly conditioned to believe that it is “racist” to offer even the smallest murmur against jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others.

The establishment media, of course, has gone along with this, never asking the likes of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) or the sinister and discredited Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) what analysis of the motivating ideology behind jihad violence would not be “Islamophobic,” and treating these groups as if they were dispassionate, objective, carefully judicious authorities when they smeared, demonized, and marginalized all those who spoke with any reasonable degree of accuracy about the jihad threat.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/03/174-house-dems-convicted-terrorists-must-not-be-robert-spencer/

Italy Is Second Country With Coronavirus Outbreak Preceded By A Tuberculosis Epidemic

There are two hotspots in the world for coronavirus infections: Wuhan, China (Hubei Province) and Italy. Both of these geographic areas were grappling with tuberculosis outbreaks prior to the eruption of the mutated COVID-19 coronavirus. Strangely, coronavirus appears to spread to the rest of the world from these hotspots via airplane travel. But the infection remains in those infected and may spread within a household, but not into the community. Other geographical outbreaks must be questioned as there are too many false positive tests to confirm COVID-19 coronavirus, which at this point in time may be nothing more than a passenger virus that accompanies tubercular infections.

The COVID-19 epidemic in Italy, which has that country in a lockdown, is worthy of investigation because of the politics and migration in that country.

In a prior report I cited the pre-coronavirus outbreak of tuberculosis in Wuhan China coupled with culling and incineration of herds of pigs infected with African swine flu that created aerosolized pig waste particles that infected humans with a Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is largely a lung disease that kills 1.7 million humans annually. TB may be the origin of this deadly infection as normally coronavirus produces mild infections. Tuberculosis fills the lungs with fluid and the patient drowns in their own secretions. That is what is happening in Wuhan.

Of interest, most cases (70%) of TB in the U.S. emanate from immigrants who travel to the U.S. or who are foreign born and acquired TB years ago, only for latent TB to erupt into symptomatic disease when the immune system could no longer keep it in check. Are reported cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. occult tuberculosis?

Inexplicably, there are far more cases of COVID-19 in Italy than other European countries. These cases of COVID-19 coronavirus infection occurred, like in China, in a background outburst of TB infections.

Prime minister weighs in

Italy’s Prime minister Matteo Salvini claims migrants have brought on this TB plague to his country. News reports dating back to September of 2018 cite Salvini’s assertion that a TB “invasion without rules or controls” has swept through Italy, carried by indigent migrants seeking asylum in his country.

At the same time, denials that migrants are spreading coronavirus throughout Italy have been aired and political criticism has been launched against Prime Minister Salvini for not being humanitarian by blocking entry to Italy by migrants. Political opponents say: “Rescued migrants have been disembarking in Italy for many years; this has not led to any major outbreaks of disease among Italians.”

But now what is to explain the exceptionally high number of COVID-19 infections in Italy compared to other European countries? Maybe it IS TB and not COVID-19.

While TB rates in Italy have generally been low, the rate of COVID-19 infection on a comparative basis is now greater in Italy than in China (97.3 cases per million in Italy, 56.1 cases per million in China)!

It is not necessarily newly arriving migrants that are carrying TB, masquerading as COVID-19 coronavirus, to Italy. TB can remain in a latent state in the human body for many years before it erupts into disease symptoms.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/03/no_author/italy-is-second-country-with-coronavirus-outbreak-preceded-by-a-tuberculosis-epidemic/

Bosnia: Large brawl breaks out between migrants groups near reception center

A fight broke out between large groups of migrants in Velika Kladusa, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Monday.

The incident took place near the Miral migrant reception center, according to a report by the Sarajevo Times. An amateur video of the incident that is available online shows at least several dozen migrants shouting and fighting with each other. Eyewitnesses said that some of the migrants were armed.

In the city of Tuzla, another fight between migrants took place on Sunday in a guest house where they were renting a room. It has been reported that there were serious injuries, and that the fight’s main protagonist escaped before he could be arrested. The migrants involved did not possess immigration documents and refused to provide them when police officers requested them.

The canton’s prosecutor, Mensur Mujaric, reported that “the injured person was transported to the University Clinical Center Tuzla.”

“We are awaiting information on the extent of injuries,” he added.

Mujaric further said that the suspects will be questioned once an Arabic court interpreter becomes available.

Fights between illegal immigrants have become commonplace throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina in recent years. Migrants are known to be involved in criminal activities; in Tuzla alone, there are a dozen people who are known to authorities for being frequent troublemakers.

Late last month, Voice of Europe reported that Bosnia’s Security Minister Fahrudin Radoncic, during an official address, warned European officials that close to 100,000 illegal migrants could be headed towards Western Europe via the Balkan route and that Bosnian border personnel would be ill-equipped to stop it.

https://twitter.com/V_of_Europe/status/1237778284114595840

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/03/bosnia-large-brawl-breaks-out-between-migrants-groups-near-reception-center/

Polish FM Expresses High Hopes for Russia-Poland Reconciliation

WARSAW – Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Chaputović stated the importance of improving relations with Russia, expressing the hope that the countries will be able to find a common language.

“Poland and Russia are neighboring countries, and normal relations should exist between our politicians and societies. Now these relations cannot be called good, they are tense, but we would like to improve them, ”the politician said in an interview with RBC.

Chaputović emphasized that he was interested in meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He allowed a meeting with a colleague before the Council of Europe ministerial meeting, scheduled for May.

“There is still time to come to an agreement,” he said.

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According to the Polish diplomat, Warsaw hopes to restore cooperation with Moscow in the study of history, paying attention to the fact that this work should not become a hostage to attempts to make propaganda from history.

“We would like to carry out a general analysis of documents, to come to a common understanding of historical facts and our relationships,” says Chaputović.

He noted that Poland does not present any conditions for Russia to start a dialogue on historical reconciliation. The diplomat speaks of the need to reduce the intensity of historical disputes, offering to provide an opportunity for professional historians to study documents and verify sources.

Yesterday Chaputović said that the Soviet Union played a leading role in the victory over fascism. The diplomat noted that Warsaw is in solidarity with Moscow’s position on the USSR’s contribution to ending the war.

https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/03/polish-fm-expresses-high-hopes-for-russia-poland-reconciliation/

Germany’s largest state votes against accepting more migrants

In a sign Germany’s so-called “welcome culture” to migrants may be fraying, the German state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, the largest state in Germany, voted against the admission of migrants with the votes of four major parties, according to WDR.

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Alternative for Germany (AfD), all voted together against accepting any refugees.

The Green Party had previously submitted an application to admit unaccompanied minors and other vulnerable refugees, with the party asking to transport 5,000 migrants from Greece to North Rhine-Westphalia. Their asylum procedures were then supposed to be processed in Germany.

The rejection comes on the heels of a new poll released in Germany, which shows that only 32 percent of Germans support the idea of Germany taking in more migrants while 44 percent are opposed. Another 15 percent do not know what their position is on the issue.

Germany just announced it would be taking in 1,500 migrant minors at the federal level, but it is still unclear which German states will be accepting them. The latest vote in North Rhine-Westphalia means it is unlikely they will be distributed there.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/03/germanys-largest-state-votes-against-accepting-more-migrants/

Anyone with courage and clear thinking will do extremely well

The year 1348, in the words of historian A.L. Maycock, was the closest that humanity ever came to going extinct.

That was the year the Black Death descended on the European continent. And many historians today estimate that it killed as much as 60% of Europe’s population.

Italy was hit especially hard by the plague. Port cities like Venice were accustomed to receiving ships from all over the world, and many of them carried the Yersina pestis bacteria which caused the plague.

And it was out of this pandemic that the first modern public health measures emerged.

Venice created a special council to reduce the outbreak… and one of their first decrees was to ban infected (or suspected) ships from docking.

Plus, any traveler who arrived from a plague-infested area was required to isolate themselves for a period for 40 days, or quaranta journi in Italian. This is the origin of the word quarantine—it’s a reference to the 40-day isolation period during Bubonic Plague.

Even when the worst was over, though, the effects of the plague were disastrous.

In his book An Introduction to the History of Medicine, author FH Garrison described the social impact of the pandemic, writing that family members and lifelong friends abandoned one another in an effort to save themselves from infection.

And public gatherings, including church attendance, declined dramatically.

The Black Death also ravaged European economies. So many people died that there simply weren’t enough willing, healthy workers. Commerce ground to a halt. Trade was nonexistent.

And by many measures, Europe didn’t fully recover its population or economic activity for hundreds of years.

What we’re experiencing right now is not going to be anywhere near as bad as that. Not even close. I wrote about this on Monday—the world is not coming to an end despite what you might read on Twitter.

But Corona will certainly have a major impact.

Just look at Italy. The entire country is on lockdown, practically frozen in time like the ruins at Pompeii. We can’t even begin to grasp how much of an impact that will have on the economy.

China– the world’s second largest economy and biggest manufacturer—effectively shut down last month. That alone is enough to tip the world into recession.

Planes, trains, and ships are virtually empty. This is as bad as 9/11 was for the airline industry. Tourism—which comprises more than 10% of global GDP, has completely collapsed.

Sporting events and concerts are being cancelled; even the Olympics may be cancelled… all of which will clearly have a nasty economic impact.

And we’re barely scratching the surface.

You might remember back in late 2018 that the US stock market fell nearly 20%, mostly because the Federal Reserve in the United States had gradually raised interest rates to 2.25%.

I mean… 2.25% is so low. It’s a joke. And yet that was enough to cause investors to panic and the stock market to plummet. Apple shares fell 40%. Facebook shares fell 43%. All because people were afraid of a tiny interest rate.

Afterwards I wrote about this, saying:

“[T]he lesson is, these falls can happen faster and be more severe than anyone expects.

We saw some of the most popular and largest stocks in the world nearly get cut in half because the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a few basis points.

What happens when we have a real reason to be worried?

That “real reason to be worried” is now upon us.

Stocks are down around 20% from the peak, just like in 2018. And it’s worth considering: if the market fell 20% back in 2018 because the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to a measly 2.25%, it seems like this crash might still have a ways to go.

There’s going to be real damage to the global economy. Corporate earnings will fall. Plenty of companies will fail (especially in oil and tourism). The unemployment rate will rise. Tax revenue will shrink and government deficits will skyrocket.

And central banks will be completely powerless.

Usually when there’s a big crisis, the Federal Reserve steps in and restores some calm.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/anyone-with-courage-and-clear-thinking-will-do-extremely-well/

Israel kills 10,000th Palestinian since 2000, US media largely ignore it

Israeli forces invading Palestinian Territory have just killed a 15-year-old unarmed Palestinian boy. A sniper shot him in the head with an expanding bullet. This is the 10,000th Palestinian killed by an Israeli since the round of violence that began in fall 2000. The boy was reportedly shot in the face.

During the same period, Palestinians have killed 1,270 Israelis. See the list and details on this Timeline of Israeli and Palestinian deaths.

Because US media rarely cover Palestinian deaths, while often emphasizing Israeli deaths, most Americans are unaware that Israeli forces have killed far more people than Palestinian resistance groups, and that Israel kills first in nearly all cycles of violence.

If the situation were reversed, and a Palestinian military force invaded an Israeli town and shot a teenager in the head, it would in all probability be front page news across the U.S.

US news reports also fail to mention that the violence began when colonizers began moving to Palestine in the early 1900s with the intention of taking over the land for a Jewish state, and that Israel was established through a war of what an Israeli historian terms “ethnic cleansing.”

Once again, U.S. news media are largely ignoring Israel’s latest killing of a Palestinian youth. Other than an automatic Associated press feed buried on their websites, there don’t seem to have been any reports on the death by NPR, CNN, the New York Times, Washington Post, PBS, etc.

https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-kills-10000th-palestinian-since-2000-us-media-largely-ignore-it/

Congress Tries to Sneak Through Dangerous Spying Bill Under the Cover of the Coronavirus Crisis

Leading members of the House of Representatives are rushing a vote on Wednesday to extend abusive government surveillance powers before they’re set to expire on March 15.

If approved, the USA Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2020 would reauthorize Section 215 powers Congress established under the USA Patriot Act in 2001. Section 215 is the provision national-security agencies have cited to support their unwarranted collection of phone records of hundreds of millions of people in the United States.

The new legislation, unveiled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, is sponsored by Reps. Jerrold Nadler of New York and Adam Schiff of California, chairmen of the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees respectively. This bill makes some minor reforms, including adding a public advocate to some additional secretive FISA court deliberations. But it fails to put in place limits favored by privacy, racial-justice and civil-liberty advocates, most of whom support an alternative bill, the Safeguarding Americans’ Private Records Act, introduced earlier this year with bipartisan support.

Free Press Action Government Relations Director Sandra Fulton made the following statement:

“In the last few weeks, progressive lawmakers have demanded legislation to protect their constituents and avoid a rubber-stamp renewal of the Patriot Act’s most dangerous provisions. But now leading Democrats are bypassing regular order, rushing the renewal process, and quietly cutting a deal with pro-surveillance Republicans to allow the NSA and other intelligence agencies to continue spying on innocent people across the United States. These lawmakers are attempting to sneak this bad bill through despite strong bipartisan opposition from the public. And they’re doing this without a proper debate, or any chance for amendments from members who want to protect our civil liberties, while the country is focused on the spread of COVID-19.

“The supporters of this harmful legislation are touting it as a strong reform measure, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. It would renew invasive spying powers that endanger vulnerable communities — like people of color, trans folks, activists and journalists — for a president who acts in open and cruel defiance of constitutional limits to his power.

“This makes no sense. The same House leaders who voted to impeach the president for abuse of power are now handing him massive and destructive spying powers in the middle of a public-health crisis. Congress has until March 15 to pass a bill or the sunset provisions of the Patriot Act will kick in and the law won’t be renewed. There are very good reform bills on the table that would renew some of these Patriot Act powers while curbing the worst abuses. But the USA Freedom Reauthorization Act isn’t one of those good options.

“The Patriot Act passed in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks and created a massive and deeply problematic surveillance infrastructure that national-security forces have repeatedly abused. That’s why Congress put in place sunset provisions: so it could reexamine the potential for government misuse of these spying powers and allow for reforms. We need Congress to debate whether the government should maintain such broad and invasive powers. Congress has had almost five years to prepare for this debate, but here lawmakers are sneaking through a renewal of these laws just days before they expire and in the midst of a national health emergency.

“It’s unthinkable that any member of Congress would now seek to grant an extension of these powers to the same agencies that have so often sidestepped safeguards and ignored the spirit and the letter of previous similarly milquetoast reforms. Every member of Congress must vote against the USA Freedom Reauthorization Act and demand more reforms and restrictions to runaway government surveillance.

“While we’ve fought these dangerous spying powers since they were enacted, the Trump administration poses a unique threat to the most vulnerable communities in this country. House Democratic leaders who have opposed Trump’s abuse of power in other circumstances shouldn’t enable his ability to violate our fundamental privacy rights.”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/congress-tries-sneak-through-dangerous-spying-bill-under-cover-coronavirus-crisis/5706189

Gold Falls 4% As Futures Sold Aggressively While Buying of Coins and Bars Surges

Gold fell for a few days after the Lehman collapse but ended 2008 higher by 5.6% and

it continued its gains in 2009, 2010 and in the sovereign debt crisis of 2011 and 2012

◆ Stock markets around the world collapsed yesterday as market panic led to massive sell offs of over 10% on U.S. markets, the worst crash since October 1987 and European stocks had the largest falls seen since 1940.

◆ Gold started the day well and only started falling at 1130 GMT and ended the day 4% lower; the sell off was once again solely a futures market phenomenon as government mints, refineries and gold bullion brokers around the world including GoldCore, saw very significant demand for coins and bars – and very little selling.

◆ Margin call selling is being blamed for this latest gold futures sell off but given the evidence and convictions regarding gold manipulation by banks in recent years, it would be naive to rule out the possibility of banks attempting to push gold lower either for profit motives or on behalf of officialdom in order to calm markets. If gold had been allowed to surge 10% on the day in a free market, then it would likely have unleashed a ‘gold rush’ the like of which the modern world has never seen.

◆ Gold remains up nearly 5% year-to-date and over 23% over a twelve month period, while most stock markets are now down more than 20% in lees than a month. Bitcoin collapsed nearly 50% yesterday, further underlining that it is a highly volatile and risky and speculative crypto asset rather than a safe haven asset.

◆ Stocks have bounced higher today but it will likely be one of many “dead cat bounces.” The scale of yesterday’s collapse was breath taking. The FTSE 100 closed down 9.8%, the DAX 30 plunged 12.2% the CAC 40 tumbled 12.3%. Dublin’s ISEQ index collapsed another 10% and in Milan the Italian stock market collapsed 17% in one day.

◆ Prudent investors will continue to diversify into gold on weakness as the devastating financial and economic impact of the pandemic on already massively indebted companies and governments is realised.

◆ Corporate and government bonds are also very vulnerable and investors still have the opportunity to re-balance portfolios out of risk assets including bonds and own gold.

https://news.goldcore.com/gold-falls-4-as-futures-sold-aggressively-while-buying-of-coins-and-bars-surges/

Victories continue to mount against pro-Israel defamation campaign

Libelling human rights activists who expose the brutal reality of Israel’s seemingly never-ending military occupation of Palestine has been the standard modus operandi of anti-Palestinian groups. This tactic has been relatively successful in recent years because a number of western governments, including Britain’s, view vocal support for Palestine and opposition to Israel’s brutal occupation through the lens of “Palestinian terrorism” and not, as one would expect, within the context of the legitimate right to resist occupation as well as oppose racism. Moreover, a controversial “working definition of antisemitism” which conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Jewish hostility, has empowered advocates of Israel to defame critics of the Zionist state and the racist ideology that underpins it.

While both of these factors can be said to have had a chilling effect on free speech across Europe and the US when it comes to exposing Israel’s crimes, there is good reason to believe that despite the current hostility wherein universities and public institutions cave in to pressure and clamp down on pro-Palestinian activism, challenging the organised defamation campaigns by Israel’s network of civil society organisations can bear fruit. One such organisation is UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLfI).

A recent challenge was made against UKLfI by Defence for Children International – Palestine (DCIP), which is dedicated to defending and promoting the rights of children living in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. DCIP successfully sued the lawyers’ group at the High Court of Justice in London after UKLfI published blog posts on its website and sent letters to institutional donors alleging that DCIP had strong “links” to a “designated terrorist group”. It was, alleged DCIP, “a well-orchestrated political and media misinformation campaign” carried out since 2018.

As far as DCIP is concerned, UKLfI is part of a network of Israeli groups and their global partners “with the support of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs” which has led “targeted and organised defamation campaigns to delegitimise humanitarian and human rights organisations” working in Palestine.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200312-victories-continue-to-mount-against-pro-israel-defamation-campaign/

Egypt: 13 injured as trains collide in Cairo

Thirteen people were injured when two passenger trains collided amid bad weather conditions in Cairo yesterday, causing a brief suspension of rail services.

One train, travelling from Aswan, collided with the back of a second train, going from Sohag to Cairo, between Ramses – also known as Misr Station, the main train station in Cairo – and Imbaba train stations in the Rod El-Farag area.

Seventeen ambulances were sent to the crash site, according to Khaled Megahid, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health.

All those wounded were hospitalised, but the injuries sustained were “minor bruises and scrapes” and not life-threatening, he said.

Megahid added that the injured were taken to the Nasser Institute Hospital in Shoubra in southern Cairo.

Egypt’s Transportation Minister Kamel Al-Wzeir visited the site of the crash and ordered an investigation into the incident, according to an official statement.

Following the accident, the Egyptian Railway Authority announced a nationwide suspension of railway movement due to the weather conditions.

The Cairo Metro announced a partial suspension yesterday over the weather, with no service from New Al-Merg station to the Martyrs station at Tahrir Square.

Adding that the city’s second and third metro lines are operating as usual.

A rainstorm struck Egypt yesterday, accompanied by high winds, thunder and freezing temperatures.

The storm has killed at least five people and injuring a further five, as officials have closed schools, government offices and transport hubs.

Official reports state that a total of 31 trees, 16 electricity towers, a minaret of a mosque, and five houses in the governorate of Cairo have collapsed has a result of the weather.

The Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA) has predicted more heavy rain and thunderstorms today in Cairo, Lower Egypt, and the north western coast, with heavy rainfall predicted for central Sinai, South Sinai, the Red Sea mountains and norther Upper Egypt.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200313-egypt-13-injured-as-trains-collide-in-cairo/

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