Over 16,000 Inmates Released from U.S. Prisons Due to Coronavirus Pandemic Prisoners freed across the United States amid COVID-19 crisis

Over 16,000 inmates have been released from prisons across the United States due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to reports. As of Thursday, a total of approximately 16,622 inmates have been freed from U.S. prisons so far amid the COVID-19 crisis. Most of the prisoners listed have already been released while some are scheduled to be released shortly. The majority of the jailbirds were being held on non-violent charges or deemed to pose no immediate threat to society if released.

As of Thursday, there have been more than 16,000 inmates released from prisons all over the United States due to the novel coronavirus.

A total of approximately 16,622 inmates have been released – or are scheduled to be released shortly – due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The majority were being held on non-violent charges or were deemed to pose no immediate threat to society if released.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/here-is-how-many-prisoners-have-been-released-covid-19

Nigerian President’s Chief Of Staff Dies From Coronavirus

LAGOS (Reuters) – The Nigerian president’s chief of staff died on Friday from COVID-19, the presidency said on Saturday, making him the most high profile person in the country to die in the coronavirus outbreak.

Abba Kyari had acted as the gatekeeper to 77-year-old President Muhammadu Buhari. After his re-election last year, Buhari ordered ministers to channel all communications through him.

Kyari had underlying health problems including diabetes. His age was not officially disclosed, although two presidency aides said he was 70. Reuters reported on March 24 that he had contracted the disease.

“The deceased had tested positive to the ravaging COVID-19, and had been receiving treatment. But he died on Friday, April 17, 2020,” presidency spokesman Garba Shehu said in a tweet.

Nigeria has 493 confirmed cases and 17 deaths, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

Kyari travelled to Germany in early March with a delegation of other Nigerian officials for meetings with Siemens AG.

He attended meetings with senior government officials upon his return to Nigeria before he was diagnosed as having contracted the new coronavirus.

https://intnet.org/2020/04/18/nigerian-presidents-chief-of-staff-dies-from-coronavirus/

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KEK

Closer Everyday

Control goes automatic: Manned checking of digital passes in Moscow to be replaced by electronic systems

Moscow's roll-out of digital passes to limit non-essential travel had a rocky start this week. Now the city has announced the checks will remain in place, but in automatic form.

This week the Russian capital introduced ‘digital passes’ to reduce travel in the city and thus slow the spread of Covid-19. Non-essential workers were limited to two trips a week, and everyone taking a ride had to apply for a pass – a string of numbers and letters – beforehand.

But enforcement of the new measures didn’t get off to a smooth start. Long queues of commuters formed at the entrances of Moscow Metro, the city's most-popular public transit system, as police checking their permits couldn't handle the load. Since blanket screening obviously did the opposite of what it was intended to do, it was replaced with random checks.

https://www.rt.com/russia/486208-moscow-automatic-travel-permits/

Closer Everyday

Facial Recognition “Robocops” See Through Our Clothes And Listen To Our Phone Calls

Facial Recognition “Robocops” See Through Our Clothes And Listen To Our Phone Calls originally published at MassPrivateI via Alt-Market

It has been six months, since I informed the public about the dangers of police Knightscope robots that look an awful lot like Doctor Who’s infamous Daleks.

In my article I warned people that police would use Knightscope’s thermal imaging cameras to identify what is under everyone’s clothes. (To learn more about public imaging scanners click here.)

A recent article in One Zero revealed that Knightscope has turned their Robocops into mobile facial recognition devices that can also blacklist people.

https://thedailycoin.org/2019/11/27/facial-recognition-robocops-see-through-our-clothes-and-listen-to-our-phone-calls/

Trump Says He’ll End Obama-Era Funding To Chinese Lab That May Have Spawned The Coronavirus

President Donald Trump said Friday he will end federal funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology that some are claiming spawned the coronavirus.

At the daily coronavirus task force news conference, the president was asked why the National Institutes of Health would provide the Chinese laboratory with an annual $3.7 million dollar stipend to conduct research.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/18/donald-trump-end-funding-china-lab-coronavrus-covid-19/

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Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance poses an unprecedented danger to human rights

Facebook and Google’s omnipresent surveillance of billions of people poses a systemic threat to human rights, Amnesty International warned in a new report as it called for a radical transformation of the tech giants’ core business model.

Surveillance Giants lays out how the surveillance-based business model of Facebook and Google is inherently incompatible with the right to privacy and poses a systemic threat to a range of other rights including freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of thought, and the right to equality and non-discrimination.

“Google and Facebook dominate our modern lives – amassing unparalleled power over the digital world by harvesting and monetizing the personal data of billions of people. Their insidious control of our digital lives undermines the very essence of privacy and is one of the defining human rights challenges of our era,” said Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of Amnesty International.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/

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Trump administration files new paperwork for border wall construction

The Trump administration has registered new border wall waivers for Starr County in its efforts to make good on a campaign promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Filed Wednesday, the new waivers would allow for construction of physical barriers and walls without the formal environmental studies and other procedural steps typical of this type of construction along the border.

The “project areas” are the following: west boundary of Salineno, Texas, along the Rio Grande, south and east to the southern boundary of Salineno, west of the Los Negros Creek Tract of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge following along the river, west of Rio Grande City extending east approximately 215 feet southeast of the international bridge.

The waivers are the newest to be filed by the Trump administration as it tries to fulfill a campaign promise of President Trump’s to secure the nation’s borders with Mexico to stem illegal drugs and human smuggling into the U.S.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/04/trump-administration-files-new-paperwork-for-border-wall-construction/

>>8838821

That is the best version of that song IMO

Remember this

Bullet - White Lies, Blue Eyes (1971)

US intelligence prepared ‘secret report’ on coronavirus in November: Israel’s Channel 12

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:10 P.M.) – Israel’s Channel 12 reported that the U.S. intelligence warned NATO and Israel of an unknown virus outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan last November.

On Thursday evening, the Israeli channel reported that Israeli intelligence had learned of a virus outbreak in Wuhan in mid-November 2019, and had prepared at the time a “secret report” warning of the outbreak.

The channel noted that the U.S. President, Donald Trump, “did not show at that time a special interest in this report, but his administration decided to inform only two allies, namely NATO and Israel, of the situation, and this information reached the decision makers and the Ministry of Health, but they did not do anything.”

They said that the “secret report” that was sent to Israel and NATO talked about monitoring a new virus outbreak in Wuhan in the second week of November, noting that U.S. intelligence was following the spread of the virus even though this confidential information had not been discussed by even the Chinese authorities.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/us-intelligence-prepared-secret-report-on-coronavirus-in-november-israeli-channel/

Green New Deal Eyes Immediate Startup During Great Panic Of 2020

It is not the Green New Deal architects who are confused about the immediate future and its prognosis. Rather, the confused are those Americans who laugh and shrug it off as a radical pipe-dream. They will be sorry that they didn’t pay better attention. ⁃ TN Editor

Javier Moreno Zacares (JMZ): Somewhere in between left accelerationism and de-growth lies the idea of a ‘Green New Deal’ now being championed by social-democratic forces in different countries. Despite its different incarnations, what unites all these Green New Deals is the idea of rolling out large-scale public investment to engineer a transition toward a more environmentally-sustainable society.

This is the most likely strategy to be implemented, so let’s explore it in a bit more detail. Are the Green New Deal proposals being floated around any better than the alternatives put forward by growth-boosters, or do they fall into the same pitfalls?

Gareth Dale (GD): The Green New Deal proposal has transformed the landscape of debate around the question of climate breakdown and made a radical politics around climate much more real for many people. So we have to thank its early theorists, like the New Economics Foundation, Larry Elliot of The Guardian, Ann Pettifor, and many others. And then of course, the fact that it was taken up by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, easily one of the most inspiring politicians in the world, by the left of the Democratic Party, and now by Momentum and the Labour Party.

https://www.technocracy.news/green-new-deal-eyes-immediate-startup-during-great-panic-of-2020/

Opinion: Coronavirus brings Europe's borders back

The coronavirus has not just brought globalization to a standstill. The COVID-19 crisis also shows how fragmented united Europe actually is — not only relations between countries but between generations and classes.

The most astonishing thing about the coronavirus pandemic is how easily borders can come back. The internet metaphor that we use ever more often tells it best: One after the other European countries are installing a firewall with a simple click of the mouse. Then tourism is dead, trade is down, the stock exchange loses trillions and globalization itself is brought to a standstill.

Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers return home to Bulgaria, Serbia or Romania, only to be welcomed with mixed feelings. On the one hand, "bringing our children back" had been a constant lament in recent decades, now everyone is back in "their place." On the other, there are no jobs to offer to the returnees, especially not in times of crisis. In addition, national economies will badly miss the remittances they used to send home.

https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-coronavirus-brings-europes-borders-back/a-53134507

>>8838928

Don't be so sure…There are and have been to many articles claiming/brainwashing people into believing the shutdown of the world is somehow glorious for the planet ..Just another part of their plan in the 2030 U.N agenda/green-deal ..And EXPECT to see Moar of their Bullshit lies in the future

Worldwide Shutdown Leads to Visible, Positive Environmental Impacts

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2020/04/06/worldwide-shutdown-leads-to-visible–positive-environmental-impacts

Coronavirus: Will the global shutdown help or hinder progress in the climate crisis?

Air pollution has fallen across the globe, but experts warn the respite will only be temporary

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-climate-change-pollution-emissions-china-a9427356.html

Forty years ago, Zimbabwe was born

HARARE: The Union Jack is slowly lowered. An enormous clamour rising from across Salisbury’s Rufaro stadium hits fever pitch as 36,000 people celebrate the hoisting of the new green-gold-red-black-white flag, marked with a star and a Zimbabwe bird, symbols of the new state.

The crowd roars to a 21-gun salute. The din of planes fills the night sky. The applause and cries of joy gradually subside and the singing starts.

It is shortly after midnight on Friday, April 18, 1980. Zimbabwe has just been born.

A new start

Ninety years of colonisation is brought to an end with Britain’s granting of independence to its former rebel colony.

In front of the excited crowd, the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, hands the text of the constitution to the president of the new state, Canaan Banana, in a symbolic transfer of power.

There are 100 foreign delegations in the official stands.

Apartheid South Africa and most of the countries of communist Eastern Europe are not represented.

https://www.thesundaily.my/world/forty-years-ago-zimbabwe-was-born-HX2275595

>>8839075

The Brainwashing is almost complete…Turn Off the TV..People

20 Virus Outbreak Movies, From ‘The Seventh Seal’ to ‘Contagion’ (Photos)

https://www.thewrap.com/virus-outbreak-movies-coronavirus-hackers-seventh-seal-contagion-cabin-fever/

So now people are letting Amazon be in charge of their health…Damn

Exclusive: Amazon Deploys Thermal Cameras At Warehouses To Scan For Fevers Faster

The cameras in effect measure how much heat people emit relative to their surroundings. They require less time and contact than forehead thermometers, earlier adopted by Amazon, the workers said.

Cases of the virus have been reported among staff at more than 50 of Amazon’s U.S. warehouses. That has prompted some workers to worry for their safety and walk off the job. Unions and elected officials have called on Amazon to close buildings down.

The use of cameras, previously unreported, shows how America’s second-biggest corporate employer is exploring methods to contain the virus’ spread without shuttering warehouses essential to its operation.

U.S. states have given Amazon the green light to deliver goods with nearly all the country under stay-at-home orders.

https://intnet.org/2020/04/18/exclusive-amazon-deploys-thermal-cameras-at-warehouses-to-scan-for-fevers-faster-2/