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Best of the Web: #Resistance: Protesters gather in southern Russia and Germany to demand end to 'pandemic lockdown'


RT
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:37 UTC

Comment: Social distancing doesn't apply to NWO goons apparently...


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German polizei 'beat some sense into' a 'Covid-19 denialist'
Hundreds of protesters - most of them unmasked - gathered on Monday in Vladikavkaz, the capital of the southern Russian Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, to demand the cancellation of the self-isolation regime. The unauthorized meeting took place near the building of the local government despite restrictions, which will last till April 30.

A group of representatives was formed among the protesters and began negotiations with officials, TASS reported. The head of the republic, Vyacheslav Bitarov, spoke with some of the demonstrators earlier, saying that authorities will help everyone in need of aid. Bitarov also asked the republic's residents to stay home because of the coronavirus pandemic, "as people in other countries do it," but those gathered did not listen to him, according to reports. Around 1,500 people took part in the action, the Kommersant daily said.

Videos from the Svoboda (Freedom) Square in the capital of Russia's Republic of North Ossetia showed the demonstrators trying to break police cordons and tossing stones at officers in full riot gear.


Comment: It appears even Russia isn't immune to the global COVID-19 hysteria virus.

There have also been protests in the US and in Germany, with German police returning to their old ways after a 75-year hiatus:



The protests in the US are the biggest so far - and many of the protesters are armed:


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Light Saber

Unidentified forces attack, destroy US military hummer in northeast Syria


Sputnik
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 19:31 UTC
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© AP Photo / Baderkhan AhmadU.S. Hummer deployed in northern Syria
US occupation forces, Syrian troops and local residents have been engaged in a tense standoff in the country's northeast for several months now, with locals attempting to block US convoys zipping along local highways to fulfill President Trump's orders to "keep" the region's oil resources.

Unidentified forces have attacked and destroyed a US military vehicle and injured several troops at the junction outside the village of Rouished, Al-Hasakah governorate, the Syrian Arab News Agency has reported, citing local civilian sources.

The sources said the vehicle, believed to be a military Hummer, was carrying both US troops and Syrian Democratic Forces militia, the predominantly Kurdish militia group which is in de facto control of much of northeast Syria.
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Star of David

Israel: Anti-Netanyahu demonstrators protest but keep social distance


RT
Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:29 UTC
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© AFP/Jack GuezProtesters in Tel Aviv maintain social distance, April 19, 2020
Israeli demonstrators turned out in droves to protest the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Mindful of the need for social distancing, they stood two meters apart from each other in a visually spectacular gathering.

Tel Aviv's Rabin Square is often a staging ground for rallies. Tens of thousands flocked to the plaza to protest police restrictions on music festivals last year, while the year before saw gay rights activists turn up to shout down a controversial surrogacy law.

Sunday, however, saw a gathering unlike any other before. Crowds of protesters - estimated by liberal newspaper Haaretz at more than 2,000 - stood two meters apart from each other, their places marked on the ground with black crosses.

The gathering, part of Israel's ongoing 'Black Flag' demonstrations, was sanctioned by police, as long as social distancing rules were followed to the letter, and as long as organizers shelled out to supply the protesters with protective face masks.

Comment: It seems that people can identify one source of disinformation and protest against it, while adhering to another with completely clueless submission.





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World economy seizes up: Oil prices hit $15 for the first time in 21 years

Michael Kern
Oilprice.com
Sun, 19 Apr 2020 19:31 UTC
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A gruesome combination of crumbling demand for crude and global storage filled to its brim has pushed oil prices to levels not seen in over two decades.

U.S. benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, has fallen to the $15 range as global economies remain on lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, crushing crude demand. To add insult to injury, global oil storage is reaching its limits. The situation is so dire, in fact, that the Department of Energy is even considering paying domestic oil producers to keep crude in the ground.

Just this Wednesday, the International Energy Agency reported a record 19 million barrel increase in domestic crude oil supplies.

Not even OPEC has been able to provide any relief for the ailing industry. While the cartel and its global partners were able to agree upon a 9.7 million barrel per day cut, the market clearly thinks it's not enough.

Comment: Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi is sounding the alarm over the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on the global economy, saying that it could result in the worst crisis since the end of World War II.

What this basically means is that the world economy is in a state of cardiac arrest. It'll be restarted, but we suspect it'll be severely damaged.

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Bad Guys

Cassandra shrugged

Michael Prescott
michaelprescott.typepad.com
Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:25 UTC
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© Mila Strugatsky/milastrug.comCassandra, Circles of Ruin
I'm weary of arguing about the dreaded coronavirus, so I'll sum up my position here and let it go. Feel free to be as disputatious as you like in the comments, while staying civil, as always.

When the virus became known outside of China, there were few data points, and the info from China was either incomplete or intentionally misleading. As a result, authorities had to rely on computer models and their projections. These models are only as accurate as the data that are fed into them, and without adequate data, the projections could only be speculative. But the models were all anyone had, and governments can't be blamed (too much) for acting on them. The models predicted mass death and the breakdown of hospital systems under an overload of ICU cases, even with severe countermeasures in place.

As a result, drastic "mitigation efforts" were undertaken in most developed countries. The idea was to "flatten the curve" — not necessarily to reduce the overall death toll significantly (though some lives might be saved), but to space out the cases and prevent hospitals from collapsing under the strain. The nightmare scenario was Italy, where demand for ICUs exceeded the supply and ventilators had to be rationed. Lost in all this was that Italy has a chronically underfunded healthcare system that is prone to shortages and rationing even in normal years, and that the Lombardy region of Italy was in many ways a worst-case scenario because of demographics, air pollution, and a large influx of Chinese workers.

Comment:

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Yellow Vest

Best of the Web: White House petition to investigate Bill Gates for crimes against humanity to hit half a million signatures - 5 times the number to qualify

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:01 UTC
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Bill Gates
A petition to investigate Bill Gates for "crimes against humanity" and "medical malpractice" has gained a staggering 289,000 signatures from concerned citizens, almost tripling the number required to get a response from the White House. Because the petition is only ten days old, it may hit half a million signatures.

The "We the People" petition < — - which can be signed by going to that site — asks the federal government to call on Congress to investigate the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, stating that "Congress and all other governing bodies are derelict in duty until a thorough and public inquiry is complete."

The petition created on April 10 reached the threshold of 100,000 signatures within days and is currently one of the most popular petitions on the site.

Comment: People are starting to see through "Saint Bill"

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Bad Guys

China accused of discriminating against Africans as part of coronavirus fight

Linda Givetash, Matteo Moschella and Leou Chen
NBC News
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:47 UTC
Guangzhou's Sanyuanli area
© David Kirton / ReutersTemporary temperature checkpoint is seen behind the once bustling markets of Guangzhou's Sanyuanli area, as the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in the country
Chinese officials are denying allegations that people of color are facing discrimination and even eviction under coronavirus mitigation efforts, as they report that Africans are among the country's newly confirmed cases.

The Chinese state news agency, Xinhua, reported last week that 111 people from Africa living in the city of Guangzhou had tested positive for the coronavirus. This followed confirmation from U.S. and African officials — and at least one business — that people were being denied services, subjected to COVID-19 tests and forced into supervised quarantine.

A group of African ambassadors in Beijing were the first to raise the issue, co-signing a letter saying Africans were being subjected to humiliation and harassment despite adhering to local policies designed to mitigate the spread of the virus. Africans from Togo, Nigeria and Benin had been evicted from hotels in the middle of the night, a group of African students was forced to take tests despite not having traveled recently, and others reported being threatened with having their visas and work permits revoked, said the letter, addressed to China's foreign ministry.

Comment: The US is trying to fuel disputes in China, but this doesn't mean that some parts of China aren't utilizing racist policies either. China's regional governments are massive and complex, but it's problems are their own to sort out with the countries they work with.

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Left-leaning philosophers are more discriminatory to their opponents than right-leaning ones

Cory Clark
Heterodox Academy
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:39 UTC
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© Joseph Giansante ’76 / Wikimedia Commons
Academics are a powerful group. They produce the ideas, theories, and data that form our collective human knowledge; they educate the next generation of thinkers and leaders; they are the gatekeepers to scientific journals; they are the experts called upon to advise on many of the most consequential societal issues; they determine who receives funding to pursue their research; and, they decide who else gets to be an academic. Academics are also overwhelmingly politically liberal, as numerous reports have now shown. Many critics have argued that this political uniformity might create systematic biases or discrimination against non-liberal ideas and non-liberal scholars, but empirical evidence is limited.

A new paper just published in Philosophical Psychology by Uwe Peters, Nathan Honeycutt, Andreas De Block, and Lee Jussim examines whether the political views of academic philosophers are associated with willingness to discriminate against peers in grant applications, paper acceptances, symposium invites, and hiring decisions. Spoiler alert: they are.

Peters and colleagues sent a survey to an email list of philosophers and (after exclusions) collected responses from 794 philosophers (graduate students, postdocs, professors, and lecturers) primarily from Europe and North America. Participants indicated their own ideological views on a continuum from very left-leaning to very right-leaning. And they reported a variety of attitudes about their perceptions of ideological discrimination in the field and their own willingness to discriminate on ideological grounds.
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Dow drops 500 points amid coronavirus concerns & oil price collapse


RT
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:39 UTC
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© Reuters / Andrew Kelly
US stocks dropped sharply to start the week on Monday as investors are focused on coronavirus news along with plunging crude prices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 500 points at the opening bell on Wall Street.

The S&P 500 index of America's top-500 corporations slid 1.6 percent, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was down just under one percent during early trading.

Stocks are headed lower as the price of US crude benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crashed below $11, the weakest level since December 1998. Oil is selling off as the May crude contract is set to expire, and suppliers are running out of places to store it. WTI rebounded slightly, but was trading down more than 34 percent as of 13:52 GMT, at $12 per barrel.

Comment: Spain's central bank believes its economy will dive more than 12% this year if the Covid-19 lockdown lasts eight or 12 weeks.

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Mayor de Blasio asks New Yorkers to rat each other out over social distancing, gets lit up on Twitter

Pat Droney
Law Enforcement Today
Sun, 19 Apr 2020 16:18 UTC
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Time was, when you heard the term "see something, say something" it was in reference to anti-terrorism measures.

After 9/11, people were told that if you saw something suspicious, report it. Well in 2020 America, that has taken on an entirely different meaning.

What started with Eric Garcetti in Los Angeles has now headed east, where New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is encouraging New Yorkers to narc each other out. And de Blasio is getting lit up on Twitter for his lame suggestion.

De Blasio, who last month encouraged New Yorkers to go out to restaurants, attend a Broadway show or a move and ride the subways, only to reverse course mere days later when the severity of the coronavirus began to be taken seriously, wants to know if some wascally wabbits are not obeying his commands.

"New Yorkers, you are being extraordinary at social distancing" de Blasio said in a video on Twitter. "But we still know there's some people that need to get the message."

But according to de Blasio, that was not enough. He wants photographic evidence too!

"How do you report places that aren't enforcing social distancing? It's simple: just snap a photo and text it to 311-692 #AskMyMayor."
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