Illinois Gov. Pritzker Secretly Bought Medical Supplies From China. And The White House Is Not Happy.

The White House issued a sharp rebuke Saturday to billionaire Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who reportedly spent over $1.7 million on flights bringing medical supplies from China in secret—out of fear the Trump administration would seize the cargo for the federal stockpile.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/04/18/illinois-gov-pritzker-secretly-bought-medical-supplies-from-china-and-the-white-house-is-not-happy/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

‘To Catch a Predator’ Vigilante Posts Video Online Appearing To Show Police Chief Caught Trying To Meet Child For Sex

STOW, Mass. — Video posted on online Sunday purports to show the police chief of Stow, Massachusetts being caught trying to meet a minor for sex.

The YouTube channel is ‘Predator Poachers Massachusetts,’ the user is a vigilante activist who posts videos of men he has caught in ‘to catch a predator’ type schemes.

Breaking911 has not independently confirmed that the man in the video is indeed Police Chief Ralph Marino. Although, on Saturday, Marino was ‘relieved of his duties,’ the city said in a statement.

From the town of Stow:

On Saturday, April 18, 2020, representatives of the State Police met with Stow Police Chief Ralph “Rusty” Marino at the Stow police department. After that meeting, Chief Marino placed himself on indefinite administrative leave and named Sgt. Darren Thraen as Acting Chief. Chief Marino has been relieved of all duties.

The Town of Stow and its police department will cooperate fully in any investigation of Chief Marino or any other matters. There is no reason to believe that the activities being investigated involve or concern the operations of the Stow Police Department. We refer all inquiries to the State Police.

https://breaking911.com/breaking-to-catch-a-predator-vigilante-posts-video-online-appearing-to-show-police-chief-caught-trying-to-meet-child-for-sex/

'Caught by surprise': Tonne of ice seized on yacht off NSW coast

A tonne of drugs worth up to $750 million that was destined for Australia has been seized after police and immigration officers swooped on a yacht just off the NSW coast without two men on board knowing what was happening.

The large seizure of methamphetamine has prompted state and federal police to warn that international drug syndicates continue to target Australia despite severe restrictions on movements imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic.

The La Fayette yacht crewed by two foreigners was intercepted at 4am on Saturday, about 50 nautical miles east of Lake Macquarie, just south of Newcastle.

A 33-year-old New Zealand man, and a 34-year-old man who has both British and South African nationality, have been charged with importing a commercial quantity of drugs, the maximum penalty for which is life imprisonment.

After the yacht was towed to Sydney, NSW Police State Crime Commander Assistant Commissioner Stuart Smith said the two men and officers involved in the operation were decontaminated and tested for COVID-19 as a safety precaution.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/caught-by-surprise-tonne-of-ice-seized-on-yacht-off-nsw-coast-20200419-p54l51.html

Sheriff: Parents Arrested After 3-Year-Old Drinks Meth Water

Oroville, CA- On April 16, 2020, Butte County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) deputies were dispatched to assist CAL FIRE with a medical call involving a three-year-old child. Deputies arrived at the intersection of Oroville-Bangor Highway and Swedes Flat Road and contacted CAL FIRE personnel and Joseph Webb of Bangor, 42. Webb told deputies his three-year-old step-child had ingested methamphetamine water. Deputies determined Webb resided with Alisha Crandell of Bangor, 38, in the 300 block of North Stoney Oaks Loop, Bangor.

The child was transported to Oroville Hospital and then was flown by helicopter to a hospital in the Sacramento area. Initial tests conducted by medical staff indicated the child had ingested methamphetamine. The child is currently receiving medical care at the Sacramento area hospital.

Deputies determined Webb, Crandell, and their children were residing in a travel trailer at the aforementioned property. Detectives and deputies responded to Webb’s residence and contacted several people to include Crandell and Anita Morgan of Bangor, 49, and two children. Morgan was contacted in a stolen vehicle and was placed under arrest for felony vehicle theft. The overall condition of the property was deplorable.

A search warrant was obtained for the property and detectives interviewed Webb and Crandell. Webb and Crandell both admitted their three-year-old child ingested methamphetamine water that Webb and Crandell had removed from their “water bong,” which Webb and Crandell were using to smoke methamphetamine.

After the child ingested the methamphetamine, Webb admitted he did not immediately summon medical aid. Instead Webb and Crandell spent approximately 15 minutes attempting to get the child to vomit. The child eventually began having what Webb described as a seizure. Webb then placed the child in a pond located on his property. Webb told detectives he was attempting to “cool down” the child. After removing the child from the pond, Webb then summoned medical aid. All three children were detained by detectives.

During a search of the property detectives from the Felony Investigations Unit and the Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force located numerous evidence items to include methamphetamine pipes and methamphetamine “water bongs.” Webb and Crandell were both placed under arrest for three felony counts of child endangerment. Webb and Crandell’s bail was set at $500,000. Their arraignment in Butte County Superior Court was set for April 20, 2020.

https://breaking911.com/sheriff-parents-arrested-after-3-year-old-drinks-meth-water/

Son Of Former Hezbollah Top Military Commander Was Targeted In Alleged Israel Strike On Syria

The son of one of Hezbollah’s founders was the target of the alleged Israeli strike on the Syrian-Lebanese border earlier this week, the al-Arabiya TV reported on April 16.

According to the UAE-based channel, the drone strikes targeted Mustafa Mughniyeh, the elderly son of late commander Imad Mughniyeh, known as al-Hajj Radwan. Mughniyeh was Hezbollah’s top military commander. He was assassinated in the Syrian capital, Damascus, in 2008, allegedly by the Israeli intelligence.

32-year old Mustafa Mughniyeh is heading “Unit 112,” a Hezbollah division specialized in transporting the group’s high-ranking personnel between Syria and Lebanon.

Al-Arabia claimed that Mustafa and an officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were on a mission when an Israeli drone targeted their SUV in the Syrian town of Jdaidit Yabws on the border with Lebanon on April 15.

Lebanese sources shared a CCTV video of the strike, showing not only two but three men leaving the SUV, a black Jeep Grand Cherokee, seconds before it explodes. The three men retrieving several bags from the vehicle before leaving.

Israel has a track record of targeting Mughniyeh’s family members. In 2015, an Israeli airstrike on the town of Mazraat Amal in the southern Syrain governorate of al-Quneitra, killed Mustafa’s younger brother Jihad Mughniyah and several Iranian commanders. Jihad was also a prominent commander of Hezbollah, working mainly in Syria.

Al-Arabiay’s report is highly plausible. Nevertheless, Hezbollah usually announces Israeli attacks on its personnel, even if they failed. The group is yet to comment on Jdaidit Yabws incident. The group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, is having a speech in two days. Some observers believe that he may touch on the incident in the speech.

https://southfront.org/son-of-former-hezbollah-top-military-commander-was-targeted-in-alleged-israel-strike-on-syria/

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White House Petition To Investigate “Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation” For ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ Surpasses Quarter-Million Signatures

https://conservativeus.com/white-house-petition-to-investigate-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-for-crimes-against-humanity-surpasses-quarter-million-signatures/

You can sign the petition HERE

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/we-call-investigations-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-medical-malpractice-crimes-against-humanity

South Australia, the NT and ACT record ZERO coronavirus cases over the entire weekend after widespread testing - sparking calls for lockdowns to be eased

South Australia, NT, ACT have no new cases of coronavirus over the weekend

Western Australia has only one new case on Sunday, a man from the gold fields

Slowing growth of the virus prompts calls to ease harsher lockdown measures

Banning people from sitting in parks is not 'biologically needed' expert says

Learn more about how to help people impacted by COVID

Australia's falling coronavirus infection rate has sparked calls for a loosening of lockdown rules, but experts warn restrictions must stay until after winter.

South Australia, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory all reported no new cases of coronavirus over the weekend.

South Australia, with a population of 1.76 million remained at only 81 confirmed cases as of Sunday evening despite a testing blitz of more than 5000 coronavirus tests across the state during the past two days.

The state's last increase was an uptick of one case on Friday.

SA Health Minister Stephen Wade said it was too soon to remove border controls but other restrictions would ease in the next few weeks, including for elective surgery.

'The border control will not be the first wave of restrictions eased. We're going to be very cautious as we ease back on these restrictions,' he told ABC News on Sunday.

The Northern Territory, with a population of 245,600, had just 28 cases as of Sunday and no deaths.

Australian Medical Association NT president Rob Parker praised the NT Government for swiftly shutting the borders.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8234065/Australia-ZERO-new-coronavirus-cases-Adelaide-Perth-Canberra-weekend-calls-easing.html

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Alabama mayor deleted a tweet thanking Yair Netanyahu for masks donation

A spokesperson for Netanyahu Family said on Sunday that Yair has nothing to do with the donation that was made on his behalf as a pro-Israel PR campaign

WASHINGTON - Mayor Sandy Stimpson of Mobile, Alabama, removed on Sunday a tweet thanking Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for donating 1,000 KN95 face masks for first responders in his city. A spokesperson for the Netanyahu Family said on Sunday that Yair has nothing to do with the donation that was made on his behalf as a pro-Israel PR campaign.

On April 14, Stimpson wrote as a part of his daily update: “Today, we received an unexpected gift of 1,000 N95 masks from my friend Yair Netanyahu, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Yair visited my office last year to share ideas on how to improve law enforcement. We are incredibly blessed by his donation, which is sorely needed.”

The Mayor also thanked Netanyahu on social media – on Twitter and Facebook. However, later these posts were changed, and instead of Netanyahu, Stimpson thanked Yisroel Stefansky of ASTI for the donation. “These masks are sorely needed and will be put to immediate use by our first responders and health care workers who are on the front lines in the fight against Coronavirus,” the Mayor added in a different tweet that still appears on his account.

Stimpson also uploaded a video on April 14 with Jim Jewell, Special Agent in Charge for the Mobile office of the FBI, who delivered the masks to his office. In the video, Special Agent Jewell said that the donation was made by Netanyahu and Stefansky. The Mayor praised Netanyahu for the contribution. “Not in our wildest dreams did we think he would remember us during this crisis and send us these masks to be distributed for first responders,” he said in the video.

A spokesperson for the Netanyahu family told Israeli media that Yair is not the person behind the donation. “It was not coordinated with him, and he learned about it from the media,” the spokesperson said. “A private American organization that Netanyahu worked for in Alabama among other places, bought and sent the masks on his behalf, without his knowledge, as a part of a pro-Israel PR campaign,” the spokesperson added.

https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Alabama-mayor-deleted-a-tweet-thanking-Yair-Netanyahu-for-masks-donation-625159

Israeli indicted for spying for Iran named as Ayman Haj Yahya

“The results of the investigation indicate the depth of ties between Iran and the PFLP and their efforts to carry out espionage and terrorist activities within Israel," the Shin Bet said.

Ayman Haj Yahya was named on Sunday as the Israeli citizen indicted for spying for Iran earlier in April.

The Lod District Court removed the gag order on Yahya's name, while maintaining the order on others aspects of evidence related to the case.

On April 7, the Shin Bet announced it had arrested an unnamed citizen - now known to be Yahya - on suspicion of having links with Iranian intelligence agencies and providing intelligence on strategic sites in Israel.

The man was arrested on March 16 in a joint Shin Bet and Israel Police operation. At the time of his arrest, authorities seized encryption devices, as well as a disk drive that he tried to destroy during his arrest.

He had been in contact with Iranian intelligence officials, according to the investigation, as well as an operative of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Lebanon, Khaled Yamani.

The man had also held meetings with Iranian intelligence officers several times while abroad during which he is said to have received funds, training, secret encryption tools and more so that he could continue to be in contact with his handlers “in an encrypted manner even after his return to Israel,” the Shin Bet said.

According to the security agency’s investigation, as part of his meetings with Iranian intelligence officials, he was asked to provide information on several issues, including security and strategic sites in Israel; the way in which the rifts in Israeli society could be deepened; recruit Israeli-Arabs to help Iran; and carrying out terror attacks against targets in Israel in the name of liberating Palestine.

“The results of the investigation indicate the depth of ties between Iran and the PFLP and their efforts to carry out espionage and terrorist activities within Israel, even during the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic that has spread so badly in Iran,” the Shin Bet said. "This investigation demonstrates that once again Iran and its proxies are working to recruit and exploit Israeli civilians to work for Iran.”

https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israeli-indicted-for-spying-for-Iran-named-as-Iman-Haj-Yahya-625138

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>.who the fuck votes for these people

they rig the vote

Cabal mouthpiece running cover???

Neither ‘lab’ nor ‘wet market’? Covid-19 outbreak started months EARLIER and NOT in Wuhan, ongoing Cambridge study indicates

The novel coronavirus may have first passed to humans somewhere in southern China months before the outbreak in the city of Wuhan, a new study found, cutting against widely held theories about the origins of the pandemic.

Mapping a “network” of coronavirus genomes and tracing mutations over time, a team of researchers led by a Cambridge University geneticist determined the first Covid-19 infection may have come as early as September in a region south of Wuhan, noting the pathogen could have been carried by humans well before it mutated into a more lethal form.

“The virus may have mutated into its final ‘human-efficient’ form months ago, but stayed inside a bat or other animal or even human for several months without infecting other individuals,” geneticist Peter Forster told the South China Morning Post. He leads the ongoing yet to be peer-reviewed research, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.

https://www.rt.com/news/486194-study-coronavirus-southern-china/

At least ten people killed by Nova Scotia shooter, including police officer, gunman also dead - Canadian police

In excess of ten people in multiple locations were killed by the shooter in Canadian province of Nova Scotia, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said. One of the officers has also lost his life.

RCMP warned that there might be more victims as they were still conducting investigation.

Const. Heidi Stevenson, a 23-year veteran of the RCMP and a mother of two, was killed responding to the active shooter incident, Assistant Commissioner Lee Bergerman said. Another RCMP officer was injure is in hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The gunman, identified by police as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, went on a shooting spree in rural area near the town of Portapique late on Saturday.

Officers responded to multiple 911 calls and found several casualties inside and outside the house, said Chris Leather, the criminal operations officer with the RCMP in Nova Scotia. The gunman was not there. Police said that he committed several homicides in the northern part of the province.

"If you see him, call 911. DO NOT approach," RCMP tweeted Sunday morning, calling the suspect "armed and dangerous."

He led the police on a long manhunt, reportedly dressed like an officer and travelling in a law enforcement vehicle.

The chase went along one of the province's busiest highways and ended near a gas station some 35 kilometers north of Halifax close to noon. The gunman is deceased, Leather said without going into further details. He did confirm that there was an exchange of fire.

https://www.rt.com/news/486271-canada-shooting-nova-scotia/

Number of people hospitalised for Covid-19 in France falls for fifth straight day

France on Sunday reported 395 deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours as the number of new hospitalisations continued a slow decline.

France - which has recorded close to 20,000 deaths as a result of the pandemic and has the fourth-highest toll in the world - has been in virtual lockdown for nearly five weeks and is due to start lifting some confinement measures from May 11.

Philippe told a news conference that falls in the number of people in intensive care were one of the encouraging signals that pressures on hospitals were easing.

But he shut down any expectations that the gradual exit from confinement in May, due to start with the reopening of schools, would allow people to move around or interact as before, especially as a vaccine against the virus was still far off.

"It won't be a return to normal life," Philippe said, adding that as France introduces more testing, people with coronavirus would have to remain isolated at home or in hotels laid on by the government. "From May 11, we will enter a second phase, when we will regain some of our freedoms."

The French state has given few details yet of the pace at which businesses like cinemas or bars will reopen, only saying that as some stores open up again, people will have to maintain safe distances from each other.

France will, however, lift its ban on visits to nursing home residents, provided people did not touch their relatives, Health Minister Olivier Veran told the same briefing. Elderly people in nursing homes account for nearly 40% of the coronavirus fatalities in the country.

The government has come under fire in recent weeks after shortages of medicines, hospital equipment such as ventilators and face masks for doctors as well as front line workers in sectors like supermarkets added to problems in handling the crisis.

https://www.france24.com/en/20200419-number-of-people-hospitalised-for-covid-19-in-france-falls-for-fifth-straight-day

https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1251344554692947969

Ugly Bette: POTUS Has 30,000 Corpses on His Hands

https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1251578359437496324