Brazilian gangsters impose curfew as President Bolsonaro calls coronavirus a ‘little flu’

Criminal gangs in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, that have long held sway over the city’s favelas (slums), are enforcing their own lockdown to curtail the spread of coronavirus, even as President Jair Bolsonaro has dismissed the pandemic as a “little flu”.

According to Brazilian media, threatening messages are being circulated in the slums of Rio de Janeiro by gangsters who have said they will “teach people to respect” an 8 pm shutdown.

One of the messages by a gang read: “Attention all residents of Rio das Pedras, Muzema and Tijuguinhal! Curfew from 8 pm…Whoever is seen on the street after this time will learn to respect the next one.”

Another read, “We want the best for the population. If the government does not have the capacity to fix it, organised crime will solve it.”

As of Tuesday, Brazil’s health ministry reported over 2,201 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Governor Wilson Witzel has warned that the state’s public health system was likely to “collapse” in the next 15 days.

‘Better to stay home doing nothing’

Apart from gangs and militias imposing curfews, ‘baile funk’ (a form of modern Brazilian music) dance parties have also been called off. “Open-air drug markets” have similarly been closed.

Rio-based newspaper Extra has reported that in the ‘City of God’ — a sprawling complex of slums made famous in 2002 by a movie of the same name — gangsters were driving around, blaring loud messages to residents.

One of their messages said: “We’re imposing a curfew because nobody is taking this seriously. Whoever is in the street screwing around or going for a walk will receive a corrective and serve as an example. Better to stay home doing nothing. The message has been given.”

‘Disease of the rich’

People in Brazil have dubbed the outbreak as a “disease of the rich“. They believe the viral illness has come from the country’s rich populace who had returned from Europe. It is now feared that the outbreak has reached poorer communities who have limited access to healthcare facilities.

Paulo Buss, director of the Center for International Relations, a public health research center at Fiocruz, said, “The irony is that the disease was brought to Brazil by plane, by the rich, but it is among the poor that it will explode.”

Vania Ribeiro, vice-president of the Local Neighbourhood Association, also said, “Here people are very afraid. The nearest health centre is the same that the elderly people in Copacabana and tourists from all over the world use.”

http://www.stationgossip.com/2020/03/brazilian-gangsters-impose-curfew-as.html

DOCTORS EXPERTS DEBUNK THIS PANDEMIC

“Nice Try, FBI”: Stay Fit While Quarantined With The Government’s Home Fitness App

All across the United States people are spending a lot more time in their homes and will be there for the foreseeable future.

As such, many people are looking for new activities to occupy their time, including ways of staying fit. Thankfully the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has an app for that.

Those of us who simply can’t do sit-ups and push-ups on our own and are somehow unable to download one of the numerous fitness apps out there that aren’t associated with the U.S. government finally have an option.

On Monday, the FBI promoted an app on Twitter for #MotivationMonday. According to their tweet, the app provides users with “tips for indoor workouts” and “exercises you can do at home.”

The tweet links to an FBI.gov page that advertises the Bureau’s Physical Fitness Test app that “will help you learn the benchmarks of the official FBI Physical Fitness Test.”

According to the website, the app includes videos of FBI trainers who work at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, take the fitness test with the actual FBI scoring system, and “use your phone’s GPS and accelerometer for a more realistic PFT experience.”

https://governmentslaves.news/2020/03/26/nice-try-fbi-stay-fit-while-quarantined-with-the-governments-home-fitness-app/

Hospital In Chicago Is Considering A Universal DO-NOT-RESUSCITATE Policy For Infected Patients, Regardless Of Patient Wishes…

Hospitals on the front lines of the pandemic are engaged in a heated private debate over a calculation few have encountered in their lifetimes — how to weigh the “save at all costs” approach to resuscitating a dying patient against the real danger of exposing doctors and nurses to the virus’s contagion.

The conversations are driven by the realization that the risk to staff amid dwindling stores of protective equipment — such as masks, gowns and gloves — may be too great to justify the conventional response when a patient “codes,” and their heart or breathing stops.

Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago has been discussing a universal do-not-resuscitate policy for infected patients, regardless of the wishes of the patient or their family members — a wrenching decision to prioritize the lives of the many over the one.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/25/coronavirus-patients-do-not-resucitate/

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/hospital-in-chicago-is-considering-a-universal-do-not-resuscitate-policy-for-infected-patients-regardless-of-patient-wishes/

ISIS Attacks Sikh Temple in Kabul, Killing 25

Interior Ministry: Security forces have killed all attackers

Wednesday say ISIS gunmen attacked a Sikh temple in central Kabul . At least 25 people were killed in the temple, and Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry reported that they’d ultimately killed all the attackers.

Afghanistan has a small population of Sikhs, an estimated 8,000, mostly in big cities like Kabul. ISIS and other militants are keen to attack religious minorities, and the Afghan government has struggled to provide security for them.

During Taliban rule, the Sikhs were largely tolerated, if not treated equally. ISIS has attacked them often in the past few years, and many Sikhs have sought asylum in India as a result.

The gunmen who infiltrated the temple included one dressed in a police uniform who shot the guard outside the temple, forcing his way in. Once inside, ISIS gunmen were shooting pretty much everybody, and all the deaths are apparently civilians.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/03/25/isis-attacks-sikh-temple-in-kabul-killing-25/

After 5 years, Saudi Arabia is finally on the verge of defeat in Yemen

Exactly five years ago, the US-backed, Saudi-led Arab coalition carried out its first air strikes on Yemen in an effort to reinstate the disgraced, exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. He is a statesman in name only who I have argued previously has neither power, authority nor legitimacy. The strikes targeted the Houthi movement, which is supported by the Yemeni armed forces, and the war, claimed the Saudis, was supposed to be over in a matter of weeks.

The war’s devastating effects have claimed over 112,000 lives and created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The steadfast and resilient Yemeni people have prevented the coalition from toppling the Houthi-aligned government in the capital, Sanaa.

After five years, in fact, it is fair to say that the Saudis and their mercenaries are on the verge of defeat. The Yemeni armed forces and “popular committees” which include Houthi forces are continuing their advances with their sights set firmly on the stronghold of Marib and the pro-Hadi, Islah militia which makes up the coalition-backed force on the ground.

The province of Marib is currently facing onslaughts on several main fronts: from the Nahm district of Sanaa province to the west; much of the recently-liberated Al-Jawf in the north; and from Sirwah district – a part of Marib already under Houthi control — and from the south in the Baydah province. Saudi air strikes continue in support of its mercenary ground forces although, as the years of conflict have shown, they are strategically ineffective.

The terrain, internal divisions among the mercenary forces, local distrust of Hadi and the relative ease of establishing relations in tribal areas captured by the Houthis are also reasons for their advance. Developments in missile defence systems which, according to the Yemeni armed forces, have been effective against some Saudi air strikes, coupled with more pre-emptive cross-border operations targeting Saudi military and economic interests are likely to change the direction of the war.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200326-after-5-years-saudi-arabia-is-finally-on-the-verge-of-defeat-in-yemen/

UN Secretary-General says humanity so far losing war against virus

Solidarity is essential, "among the G-20 - and with the developing world, including countries in conflict," he said

UNITED NATIONS, March 26. /TASS/. G20 leaders should work out a joint "war-time" plan to emerge victorious in the fight against coronavirus, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the G20 virtual summit held as a video conference on Thursday.

"We are at war with a virus - and not winning it," he stressed. "It took the world three months to reach 100,000 confirmed cases of infection. The next 100,000 happened in just 12 days. The third took four days. The fourth, just one and a half," Guterres noted.

"This war needs a war-time plan to fight it," the UN Secretary-General emphasized. "Solidarity is essential. Among the G-20 - and with the developing world, including countries in conflict."

Guterres then proceeded the three key areas where he believes G20 efforts are crucial - suppression of COVID-19 transmission as quickly as possible, minimization of the social and economic impact and setting the stage for "a recovery that builds a more sustainable, inclusive and equitable economy." He also again called on all states to introduce a ceasefire.

In late December 2019, Chinese authorities notified the World Health Organization (WHO) about the outbreak of a previously unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, central China. Since then, cases of the novel coronavirus - named COVID-19 by the WHO - have been reported in more than 150 countries.

On March 11, the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. As of now, over 457,000 people have been infected around the world and more than 21,000 have died. Russia identified 840 cases, while 38 people recovered, and two people died.

The G20 leaders met via video conference on Thursday at the virtual summit inaccessible to press. The summit participants discussed coordination of actions to tackle the coronavirus spread and economic fallout of the pandemic.

https://tass.com/world/1136179

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Nevada Governor Bans Chloroquine For Most Coronavirus Patients By 'Emergency' Decree

Nevada's Democratic governor appears to be trying to stick it to Drumpf by denying potentially life-saving medicine to coronavirus patients.

From the AP, "Nevada governor bars malaria drugs for coronavirus patients":

Nevada's governor has signed an emergency order barring the use of anti-malaria drugs for someone who has the coronavirus.

Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak's order Tuesday restricting chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine comes after President Donald Trump touted the medication as a treatment for the virus.

[…] Sisolak said in a statement that there's no consensus among experts or Nevada doctors that the drugs can treat people with COVID-19.

There's been several promising small-scale studies and many coronavirus patients swear it helped turn their condition around.

The drug has been used safely for a whole range of diseases for nearly a century, though there's risks of overdose if it's taken in excess as we just saw with a couple in Arizona.

His order also limits a prescription to a 30-day supply so that people cannot find a way to stockpile the drug and ensure it's available for "legitimate medical purposes."

The governor's rule comes a day after a Phoenix-area man died and his wife was in critical condition after they took an additive used to clean fish tanks known as chloroquine phosphate, similar to the drug used to treat malaria.

Trying to prevent hording is perfectly reasonable considering panic buying, shyster resellers and looming shortages but banning a potentially life-saving drug from being used because some grossly uninformed people decided to consume dangerously large amounts of it in fish tank cleaner form and overdosed or died seems extremely excessive.

UPDATE: The AP changed their story to clarify that while Sisolak's executive order bars many coronavirus patients from taking the drug there is a carve out for "patients who are hospitalized with coronavirus."

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61325

Bezos And Other Corporate Execs Sold Billions In Stock Before COVID-19 Rocked Market

Jeff Bezos and other corporate executives across the country sold approximately $9.2 billion in shares of their own companies between early February and the end of last week, salvaging potential losses of up to $1.9 billion, according to an analysis of more than 4,000 regulatory filings by the Wall Street Journal.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bezos-and-other-corporate-execs-sold-billions-stock-covid-19-rocked-market

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Mossad's Yossi Cohen goes to war with coronavirus and Iran

It is not a surprise that Netanyahu would turn to Cohen for a mission of the utmost primacy, after the Mossad chief has led dramatic and daring efforts against Iran for years.

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced late Tuesday night that Mossad Director Yossi Cohen was taking over the country’s efforts to purchase medical equipment abroad, it was not a huge surprise.

Already last week, Cohen succeeded in bringing to Israel 100,000 test kits, with an estimated four million more on the way.

The Jerusalem Post learned at the time that the kits were obtained from countries which Israel does not have diplomatic relations with (later reported by al Jazeera to be moderate Arab countries in the Persian Gulf), one reason why the Mossad took the lead.

Since then, there are other eye-popping medical purchases on the way being handled by Cohen and the Mossad, because the spy agency has a global reach and ability to cut through red tape unmatched by any other Israeli agency.

It is also not a surprise that Netanyahu would turn to Cohen for a mission of the utmost primacy after the Mossad chief has led dramatic and daring efforts against Iran for years.

Even as Cohen takes on the coronavirus crisis, he appears dedicated to being ready for “the day after” it has wrapped up – because all of the same national security challenges confronting Israel, especially Iran, will remain serious dangers.

It’s estimated that the Mossad chief’s view is even that with all the changes the coronavirus will cause, much of what makes the world go around and of long-term rivalries between nations will continue.

Tracking and stopping Iran’s nuclear program and terror activities in the Middle East remains Cohen’s top objective.

How great is the danger posed to Israel by the Islamic Republic at this point?

Numbers and dates help tell the story.

On January 14, IDF Chief-of-staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said that Iran would not obtain enough enriched uranium for a nuclear missile (around 1,000 kilograms) before December, and that it would need another year beyond that to have the capability to fire the missile.

By March 4, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had reported that the ayatollahs already had enough low-enriched nuclear material for 1.5 nuclear bombs, if they chose to enrich the material to weaponized levels.

HOW WAS the IDF prediction so far off, and why was Israel’s response to Iran crossing this key threshold so deafeningly silent?

There are multiple pieces to the answer.

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https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Mossads-Yossi-Cohen-goes-to-war-with-coronavirus-and-Iran-622517

Peter Navarro: ‘Big Pharma and its Well-heeled Swamp Creatures’ Should Stop Being Divisive

Trump’s proposed executive order that aims to reduce dependence on China, will encourage companies to relocate the production of essential medicines, medical equipment, and supplies to the United States.

In response to the push by the lobby groups against the executive order, Peter Navarro told the Epoch Times in an email, “America is more than up to that task and Big Pharma and its well-heeled Swamp Creatures need to stop being such a divisive element in American politics.”

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The Association for Accessible Medicines, a trade group for major pharmaceutical manufacturers such as 3M, has drafted a letter dated March 24 to Trump, opposing the plans of reshoring medical supply chains. The draft letter leaked by Spectator USA Magazine stated that such measures “could undermine the complex arrangements between firms that allow for efficient delivery of medicines to patients.”

The letter, signed by 40 organizations, including PhRMA, a Big Pharma lobbying organization, warned that the proposed plan could harm efforts to supply necessary equipment and medicines to fight the growing pandemic.

“None of the Buy American provisions in the proposed Executive Order would apply during the current COVID-19 crisis,” Navarro responded.

“That’s a Big Pharma red herring designed to preserve its offshore oligopoly at the expense of American citizens,” he added.

Navarro has been working for weeks on the executive order, which could be released in the coming days. The hope is that increasing government demand for American-made products will help create a market for manufacturers to invest and to produce in the United States.

“If this crisis teaches us anything at all, it is that we cannot rely on Big Pharma, which is renown already for its price gouging, to provide America with the medicines and medical supplies we urgently need from its offshored production during the China virus crisis,” Navarro said.

He noted that other countries where the supply chains and plants are located are already imposing export restrictions for critically needed items. So it’s becoming harder for big pharmaceuticals to bring products to the United States.

“Ten of the top 20 countries exporting medicines to the U.S., including four of the top five, have already imposed some form of restrictions,” he said.

The executive order would ensure that government agencies, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Defense buy American products.

‘National Security Threat’

The CCP virus, commonly referred to as the novel coronavirus, has disrupted the U.S. pharmaceutical industry’s global supply chain that is largely dependent on China, calling attention to a dangerous level of dependence by the United States on this global competitor.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/peter-navarro-big-pharma-and-its-well-heeled-swamp-creatures-should-stop-being-divisive_3287136.html

Nicolás Maduro Moros and 14 Current and Former Venezuelan Officials Charged with Narco-Terrorism, Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Criminal Charges

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/nicol-s-maduro-moros-and-14-current-and-former-venezuelan-officials-charged-narco-terrorism