Virginia Could Take 2 Years To Allow Businesses To Reopen, Governor’s Adviser Says

Ralph Northam, Virginia’s Democratic governor, on Friday said once the percent of positive tests for COVID-19 and hospitalizations drop for 14 consecutive days, the state can begin Phase One of reopening.

That time has not yet come, and Northam’s original lockdown is set to run until at least June 10.

“We cannot and will not lift restrictions like one turns on a light switch,” Northam said, who added that under Phase One, some businesses would have to remain closed. “Easing too much too soon could jeopardize public health and consumer confidence.”

But Norman Oliver, Northam’s state health commissioner, said that Phase One restrictions will likely remain in effect until an effective treatment or a vaccine are widely available. Immunologists and researchers say a vaccine could still be 18 months away.

“I, personally, think Phase One will be a two-year affair. There are a lot of people working on this, and I hope they prove me wrong, but I don’t see it happening in less than two years,” Oliver said.

Phase One will keep some businesses closed, while others reopen under “strict safety restrictions,” state officials said Friday. Phase One will also involve “continued social distancing, continued teleworking [and] face coverings recommended in public,” according to an outline of the plan made public Friday.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/virginia-take-2-years-allow-businesses-reopen-governors-adviser-says/

HUNDREDS Protest Against Stay-At-Home Rules in Southern California on Friday

Liberals have been pushing draconian measures ever since the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 began sweeping across the U.S.

Backed by the mainstream media, liberals pushed for states to shut down all businesses deemed “non-essential,” and even backed orders for all Americans to hunker down in their homes for months, if need be.

But that mood is changing swiftly, even in liberal states.

On Friday, more than 200 demonstrators gathered for a protest in Southern California, railing against the state’s stay-at-home-orders in reaction to the virus, according to reports.

The protest occurred in Huntington Beach, south of Los Angeles, with demonstrators bashing state-government-imposed restrictions, intended as safeguards, saying they are an infringement on their rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution.

Placards held by protesters Friday held messages such as “Defy Fascist Lockdown,” “Stop the Tyranny, Open California,” and “We Deem Our Governor Non Essential,” Fox News reported.

“I don’t think there’s any reason for us to be on lockdown now,” Paula Doyle, 62, of Costa Mesa told the Los Angeles Times. “We didn’t have any dangers. We have no danger in our hospitals now of overflowing.”

“It’s not dangerous out here. It’s not,” Benny White, 33, of Compton, The Times. “I’ve seen plenty of people out here. The beaches are open. It’s a nice, beautiful day. What are we doing? Stop being a germophobe.”

“In a posting on social media Friday evening, Huntington Beach police said that while the protest was peaceful, it could have escalated into something more dangerous,” the Orange County Register reported.

“While the department worked to get enough resources there to manage the protest effectively, the people at the location began violating some of our local ordinances regarding public assembly including walking in the middle of the street and carrying signs with large sticks that could be used as weapons,” the police department said on Facebook. “Once we had sufficient officers in place, they utilized great restraint in dealing with circumstances that could have escalated into significant police action.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/protest-stay-home-rules-breaks-california/

Mike Flynn was 'deliberately set up and framed' by the FBI — and his lawyers have the evidence to prove it

'The government's misconduct in this case is beyond shocking and reprehensible'

Lawyers for Michael Flynn claimed in new court documents filed on Friday that the government recently produced previously undisclosed evidence that "proves" Flynn was "deliberately set up and framed" by the FBI.

In a supplemental court filing, Flynn's attorney, Sidney Powell, wrote:

This afternoon, the government produced to Mr. Flynn stunning Brady evidence that proves Mr. Flynn's allegations of having been deliberately set up and framed by corrupt agents at the top of the FBI.

It also defeats any argument that the interview of Mr. Flynn on January 24, 2017 was material to any "investigation." The government has deliberately suppressed this evidence from the inception of this prosecution—knowing there was no crime by Mr. Flynn.

The reference to "Brady evidence" suggests the government withheld exculpatory evidence from Flynn's defense team that could have helped prove Flynn's innocence.

The landmark Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland requires that prosecutors turn over all evidence favorable to the defendant. Withholding such evidence amounts to a violation of due process, the court ruled.

In Friday's court filing, Powell also claimed there is evidence that Brandon Van Grack, the head prosecutor on the case, coerced a guilty plea from Flynn by threatening to also prosecute Flynn's son despite making a "side deal" with Flynn's former defense team to not prosecute his son.

Withholding that information violated another landmark Supreme Court case, Giglio v. United States, Powell said.

"All this new evidence, and the government has advised there is more to come, proves that the crimes were committed by the FBI officials and then the prosecutors. The government's misconduct in this case is beyond shocking and reprehensible. It mandates dismissal," Powell wrote.

The Daily Caller reported on Friday that FBI Director Christopher Wray pushed to withhold the exculpatory evidence in the Flynn case. However, officials with the Justice Department and FBI denied that assertion.

"The assertion that Director Wray pushed to withhold exculpatory evidence in the Michael Flynn case is 100% false," DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec told the Daily Caller.

FBI Assistant Director of Public Affairs Brian Hale also called the allegation "absolutely false."

President Donald Trump said in February that he is considering a "full pardon" for Flynn.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/mike-flynn-was-deliberately-set-up-and-framed-by-the-fbi-and-his-lawyers-have-the-evidence-to-prove-it

Andrew Cuomo Orders Postage-Paid Absentee Ballot Applications Sent to Every New York Voter

Election officials will automatically mail New Yorkers a postage-paid absentee ballot application during the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said Friday.

“We’re making great progress to flatten the curve and decrease the spread of infection, but we don’t know when this pandemic will end and we can’t put democracy on hold,” he stated.

“I am issuing an Executive Order to ensure every New York voter automatically receives a postage-paid application for an absentee ballot because no New Yorker should have to choose between their health and their right to vote,” the governor continued.

Recently, Cuomo also issued an executive order allowing residents to vote absentee in the June 23 primary election, the announcement noted.

However, the New York GOP called the move an “illegal and unconstitutional political power grab that will severely undermine the integrity of our elections,” according to Breitbart News.

“The ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ mentality has permeated the Governor’s office and Cuomo is using this pandemic as a reason to expand his powers and force his political agenda through,” said chairman Nick Langworthy.

He continued:

There have been numerous cases across the country that should serve as a grave warning sign for the potential problems: ballot harvesting, ballots arriving late, ballots going to the wrong or old address, more than one ballot being delivered and bins of ballots that were never delivered. I have spoken directly to Boards of Elections commissioners from across the state of New York who oppose this order and characterize it as an impossible task.

Langworthy also warned that the New York GOP was ready to “legally challenge” Cuomo’s decision at every level.

Nearly 30 million mail-in ballots sent to registered voters went missing in the last four election cycles dating back to 2012, Breitbart News reported.

“In 2012, for instance, more than 33 million mail-in ballots were sent to registered voters. Of those, nearly four million went missing, more than 425,000 were undeliverable, and almost 260,000 were rejected,” the article read.

In a statement, Public Legal Interest Foundation (PILF) President J. Christian Adams called vote-by-mail a “disaster.”

“People who think it works haven’t studied the failures. The facts show mail voting doesn’t work,” he concluded.

https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/04/25/andrew-cuomo-orders-postage-paid-absentee-ballot-applications-sent-every-new-york-voter/

Chinese Government Pressured EU To Alter Report On Coronavirus Disinformation

The European Union caved into pressure from the Chinese government regarding a report on disinformation related to the coronavirus pandemic, news reports show.

According to news reports, the EU removed language from a report that criticized Beijing over a ‘global disinformation’ campaign to deflect blame for the early response to the pandemic.

EU analysts circulated emails saying that the Chinese government was ‘very angry’ with the language in a draft of the report. Another accused the EU of ‘self-censoring’ to appease the communist regime.

The Chinese government successfully pressured European Union officials to water down language in a report that cited the communist regime’s disinformation campaign regarding the coronavirus pandemic, according to news reports.

Chinese diplomats reached out to the EU earlier this week after learning through a Politico story about the imminent release a report noting Beijing’s disinformation efforts, according to Reuters.

“China has continued to run a global disinformation campaign to deflect blame for the outbreak of the pandemic and improve its international image,” the initial version of the report, obtained by Reuters, said. “Both overt and covert tactics have been observed.”

The report also criticized the Chinese government for casting blame on France for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

The revelation in Politico angered Chinese diplomats, who reached out to their EU counterparts threatening ramifications if the report was published.

“The Chinese are already threatening with reactions if the report comes out,” a diplomat with the European Union, Lutz Güllner, wrote in an email on Tuesday, according to The New York Times.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/25/chinese-disinformation-coronavirus-european-union-report/

Luciferianism: A Secular Look At A Destructive Globalist Belief System

Over many years of investigating the mechanics of global events and the people behind them I have become perhaps a little obsessed with one particular subject – the source and motivations of evil. This fascination does not stem from a simple morbid curiosity, but a strategic need to understand an enemy. Much like an exterminator needs to understand the behavior of cockroaches to be effective, I seek to understand the behavior and nature of organized evil.

One very important fact that must first be made clear in people’s minds is that evil does indeed exist. Establishment propaganda has spent immense time, effort and capital attempting to condition society into believing that evil is nothing more than a social construct – an opinion. Evil is supposedly in the eye of the beholder; a product of religious conditioning. This is a falsehood. Just like concepts of beauty, concepts of evil are actually inherent in our psyches from birth. The “eye of the beholder” is irrelevant.

Two particular areas of human psychology support this fact:

First, as the work of Carl Jung (and by extension anthropologists like Joseph Campbell) exposed, all human beings no matter where in the world they are born, from the most isolated tribe in the Amazon to the largest metropolis in America, carry the same archetypal symbols in their psyche. That is to say, we ALL have the same psychological elements in our minds regardless of environment.

This fact alone is so overwhelming to modern man that some people refuse to even acknowledge it as a possibility. We have been trained like lab rats to see only one path through the maze; we have been told over and over again that everything is “relative”; that each person is entirely a product of environment and that we all start out empty as “blank slates”.

The vicious attacks on Carl Jung by the establishment (including lies that he cooperated with the Nazis) tell me that Jung was very close to the mark. He had stumbled upon something very dangerous to the establishment; something that could derail their conditioning of the public.

Second, the undeniable existence of the human conscience suggests that we are born with an understanding of duality. Meaning, just as Jung discovered, our psyches contain inherent concepts of good and evil that influence our decisions and reactions. Jung referred to evil, or psychologically destructive impulses, as the ‘personal shadow’ and the ‘collective shadow’.

The vast majority of people have an intuitive relationship with good and evil. They feel anxiety when confronted with evil actions or thoughts, and they feel personal guilt when they know they have done something evil to other people. Some might call this a “moral compass”. I would refer to it as part of the soul or spirit.

In any case, there is a contingent of people in the world that do not have it – a small percentage of the population that is born without conscience, or that finds it easy to ignore conscience. We’ll get to those people in a moment, but first, we should probably define what evil is.

Evil is first and foremost any action that seeks to destroy, exploit or enslave in the name of personal gain or gratification. Unfortunately, evil actions are often misrepresented as advantageous for the group, thereby making them morally acceptable. The needs of the many supposedly outweigh the needs of the few, and thus evil is rationalized as a means to a “positive end” for the “greater good”.

In most cases, however, destructive actions do not end up serving the interests of the majority, and only end up giving more wealth and power to an elitist minority. This is not a coincidence.

Evil begins with the denial of the existence of conscience, or the denial of the existence of choice. Each person is born with a capacity or freedom to choose. We can listen to conscience, or we can ignore it. We can do good, or we can do evil. Evil tells us the choice is relative and that morality is relative; that there is no difference between a good choice and a bad choice, or, that the evil choice is the only choice.

Beyond ignoring conscience, we must also define the motivation that drives evil. Psychology would suggest that destructive self serving actions stem from an obsessive desire to obtain or control things we cannot or should not have. Interestingly, this is also what some religions teach us, but let’s stick to a secular examination.

http://tapnewswire.com/2020/04/luciferianism-a-secular-look-at-a-destructive-globalist-belief-system/

Officials Back Down from Enforcing Coronavirus Orders Against Defiant Texas Restaurant Owner

HOUSTON, Texas — Harris County law enforcement officials backed down as the owner of the Federal American Grill decided to re-open his restaurant on the city’s west side despite orders directing restaurants to be closed except for curbside orders. Multiple law enforcement agencies in Houston said they were not responsible for enforcing the ordinance.

“We’ve complied 100 percent until now,” Brice told the Houston Chronicle. “What I don’t like is that the government is picking and choosing which businesses win or lose. They are sinking the economy. We have to stand our ground and get people back to work.”

After he announced the re-opening of his restaurant for dining-in, customers flocked to his side. Brice said he is only seating up to 30 percent of his capacity in order to maintain social distancing.

Customers reacted positively to the re-opening. “We are ready to get out and have some fun with our girlfriends. I’ve read all the precautions (Brice) is taking, and I think it’s fabulous,” Houston resident Brenda Cheney told the local newspaper.

In contrast to Dallas, Houston law enforcement officials chose to not enforce the prohibition against in-house dining at the restaurant.

“No law enforcement officers or agencies attempted to stop or cite Brice for defying Harris County’s stay-at-home order, which limits restaurants to delivery and takeout orders in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus,” the Houston Chronicle wrote.

The Houston newspaper contacted several police agencies including the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Harris County Fire Marshal, Precinct 5 Constable’s Office, and the Houston Police Department. Each said that a different agency was responsible for enforcement of the to-go or curbside only orders.

In contrast, law enforcement officials in Dallas ticketed the owner of a hair salon after she re-opened in defiance of Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins’ stay-home order, Breitbart Texas reported.

Dallas police officers and fire department investigators came to the local hair salon numerous times after the owner stood up to county and state officials, opening her business on a limited-service basis, WFAA ABC8 in Dallas reported. Shortly after lunch, fire department officials issued a citation for what they called her illegal re-opening.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/04/25/officials-back-down-from-enforcing-coronavirus-orders-against-defiant-texas-restaurant-owner/

Miami goes seven weeks without a homicide for first time since 1957

Crime rates in cities nationwide have dropped as stay-at-home orders keep people indoors in an effort to fight the coronavirus pandemic. In Miami, Florida, there were no homicides for seven weeks for the first time since 1957, according to the Miami Police Department.

There were also no homicides during a six-week period for the first time since 1960. "We can say that it's due to our police high visibility, attributed with the pandemic and the Stay At Home order," a Miami Police Department spokesperson told CBS News.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez declared a local state of emergency on March 12 to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and the order has since been extended six times in week-long increments.

From February 17 until April 12 of this year — a total of seven weeks and six days — Miami had no reported homicides, according to police. In 1957, the city went 9 weeks and 3 days without any reported homicides. In 1960, a period of 6 weeks and 5 days passed without a homicide.

According to the Miami police, other crimes have also decreased. The department said the decrease has extended to domestic violence calls. But Miami Police Chief Jorge Colina told The New York Times he is concerned incidents of domestic violence and child abuse may be underreported during the order.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2020/04/miami-goes-seven-weeks-without-homicide.html

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UN-WHO collaborate in coronavirus fight, increased efforts to find COVID-19 vaccine

As the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic continues to create chaos with most of the countries across the globe imposing lockdown measures, the hunt for a vaccine has also picked up pace. Several trials and studies are being conducted in US, UK, China and India with the hopes of finding the elusive vaccine to stop the novel coronavirus pathogen.

As the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic continues to create chaos with most of the countries across the globe imposing lockdown measures, the hunt for a vaccine has also picked up pace. Several trials and studies are being conducted in US, UK, China and India with the hopes of finding the elusive vaccine to stop the novel coronavirus pathogen.

In an effort to unite the world in the fight against coronavirus the UN launched a collaboration to bring together world leaders, the private sector, scientific and humanitarian actors and other partners to promote health in these difficult times and to share information on the virus, exchange data amongst each other without any political boundries.

The collaboration is co-hosted by World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, French President Emmanuel Macron, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

On the backdrop of the launch of this collab, the Secretary-General of United Nations Antonio Guterres expressed the idea for a universal solution to the universal COVID-19 problem. On twitter Guterres wrote: "A COVID-19 vaccine must be considered a global public good. Not a vaccine for one country or one region – but a vaccine that is affordable, safe, effective, easily-administered and universally available – for everyone, everywhere."

"A world free of COVID-19 requires the biggest public health effort in global history: Data must be shared, resources mobilised and politics set aside. We are in the fight of our lives. We are in it together. And we will come out of it stronger, together," he said.

The media statement issued after Friday`s announcement, said that the group will seek to implement innovative diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines at record speed and at record scale in a bid to defeat COVID-19.

Meanwhile, the novel coronavirus has infected more than 27.9 lakh people and killed over 1,95,000 worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University data on Saturday morning.

http://postnewsd2.blogspot.com/2020/04/un-who-collaborate-in-coronavirus-fight.html

Proof that they are considering almost everyone who dies as having covid-19, to pad the death numbers to push draconian measures.

It is real. But why lie to exaggerate the numbers?

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/proof-that-they-are-considering-almost-everyone-who-dies-as-having-covid-19-to-pad-the-death-numbers-to-push-draconian-measures/

Feds Were Buying Cats from Chinese Wet Markets, Fed Them to American Cats for Research: Report

Do you find your stomach turning when you think of the treatment and handling of domestic animals, and the apparent disregard for sanitation, at China’s now-infamous wet markets?

According to one report, you may have been providing those markets financial assistance for many years.

A March 2019 report from the White Coat Waste Project — a watchdog group that wants to “drain the swamp” by ending federal spending on projects that use dogs, monkeys, cats and other animals as guinea pigs — revealed that U.S. taxpayer funding went to these repulsive centers for death and disease.

And it gets worse.

According to the the report, U.S. government researchers had been conducting “kitten cannibalism” experiments — spending taxpayer dollars to buy cats and other animals from Chinese wet markets and then feeding their tissue to kittens in the U.S.

The practice had apparently gone on for some time, too.

“Since 1982, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has conducted, and continues to perform, toxoplasmosis experiments on cats,” the report said.

“The currently approved protocol for this project calls for up to 100 kittens to be bred each year at ARS’s Animal Parasitic Disease Laboratory (APDL) in Beltsville, Maryland. At eight weeks old, the kittens are fed raw meat infected with the Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) parasite, and their feces is collected for up to 3 weeks so experimenters can harvest oocysts (eggs) for use in food safety experiments. These healthy kittens — who briefly pass the parasite’s eggs and become immune within weeks — are then killed and incinerated by USDA because they are no longer useful.”

That’s where the wet markets come in.

“In addition to the cats USDA breeds and kills itself, for at least a decade — and as recently as 2015 — the same ARS experimenters purchased and killed hundreds of pet, stray or ‘unwanted’ cats (and dogs) from countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America,” the report said.

“Particularly troubling is that some of these cats and dogs were purchased by the USDA from meat markets the some of the same Asian countries (China and Vietnam) that U.S. Congress roundly condemned for their dog and cat meat trades.”

The foreign cats’ tissues, the White Coat Waste Project said, were then fed to the USDA’s lab-bred cats.

It remains to be seen how many American dollars were spent at such markets, though the report said the entire project cost $650,000 a year.

http://www.tathasta.com/2020/04/feds-were-buying-cats-from-chinese-wet.html

Michigan Gov. Whitmer Could be in “Big Trouble,” after No-Bid Contract Attempt. Democrat money laundering at it’s finest.

Somehow, she’ll place the blame on Trump. DURRR!!!! If Trump didn’t make the Chinese start the plandemic, I wouldn’t have been forced to act in a corrupt manner!

Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt said Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer could be “in big trouble” for attempting to give a no-bid contract to a Democratic political operation.

Whitmer’s administration admitted earlier this week that “normal protocols were bypassed when a no-bid contract for coronavirus contact tracing was awarded by the state to Great Lakes Community Engagement, which is operated by a well-known Democratic consultant Michael Kolehouse,” Fox News reported.

“Great Lakes Community Engagement isn’t a neutral company fluent in health statistics, it’s a political operation founded by a Democratic political consultant” that intended to use technology from a firm that provides tech “for almost every Democratic campaign in a America,” said Fox News host Tucker Carlson before introducing Laxalt. “Imagine, gathering information from the people of Michigan under the pretext of public health and sending it to a Democratic campaign outfit. That’s what Gretchen Whitmer tried to do with tax dollars.”

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/michigan-gov-whitmer-could-be-in-big-trouble-after-no-bid-contract-attempt-democrat-money-laundering-at-its-finest/