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Taliban claims responsibility for deadly attack on Afghan military site as peace deal crumbles further


RT
Mon, 04 May 2020 22:59 UTC
Afghan National Army soldiers
© Reuters / Omar SobhaniFILE PHOTO. Afghan National Army soldiers keep watch.
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the bombing of a military training center in the Helmand Province. Amid the failing peace process, the militant movement accuses Kabul of stalling on an agreed prisoner exchange.

"Dozens of members belonging to the enemy forces have been killed and wounded in the attack," said Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, a spokesman for the Taliban, referring to the Sunday bombing.

The truck bomb attack in Nahri Saraj district in the south of the country killed at least five members of the Afghan security forces, TOLO news reported citing the provincial governor's office. A security source said the blast "destroyed" the base and left as many as 18 dead.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot warns stay-at-home violators: 'We will take you to jail, period'

Robby Soave
Reason
Mon, 04 May 2020 22:42 UTC
Lori Lightfoot
© Screenshot via Twitter
Following reports of half a dozen parties being held around the Chicago area this weekend, Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued a sinister warning to stay-at-home violators: "We will take you to jail, period."

She then proceeded to yell at a small group of teens who were hanging out in a parking lot across the street. It was a moment that brilliantly captured the collapse of common sense among government officials trying to enforce an extreme and increasingly unreasonable form of social distancing.

Lightfoot's press conference on Saturday addressed the news that Chicago police had broken up several social events with more than 50 people in attendance on Friday. The authorities had learned that more parties were expected to take place on Saturday and Sunday.

"We will shut you down, we will cite you, and if we have to, we will arrest you," said Lightfoot. "Don't make us treat you like a criminal, but if you act like a criminal and you violate the law and refuse to do what's necessary to save lives in the middle of a pandemic, we will take you to jail, period."
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Airplane

Seven dead as plane carrying aid hit by rocket grenade in Somalia


Sputnik
Mon, 04 May 2020 22:39 UTC
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© Natalia Seliverstova / Sputnik
According to Kenyan news outlet Kahawa Tungu, the plane was a light Kenyan Embraer 120 aircraft with six people onboard.

Seven people have perished after a plane carrying aid supplies crashed in southern Somalia, Reuters quoted a security official as saying. The official provided no further details about the incident, who the plane belonged to or what kind of aid it carried.

Kenya's Kahawa Tungu previously reported that the plane was brought down by a rocket-propelled grenade launched by Ethiopian forces. The media outlet understands that the plane was brought down by mistake.

​The Embraer 120 plane belonging to African Express was reportedly downed while landing in the town of El Bardale. Ethiopian forces controlling the town were unaware that the plane was scheduled to land there, according to the Kenyan media outlet.

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Bulb

SOTT Focus: Your Mask is Making You Meaner, Dumber, More Afraid & Less Safe


lovebreedsaccountability.com
Mon, 04 May 2020 19:03 UTC
masks
© EFE
I'll try to keep this respectful but it's not easy because the masks that so many of you are so proudly wearing are the pinnacle of stupidity and I just don't know how to be nice about communicating that.

I know we're all desperate to stay positive. And I know most Americans don't have the time or energy to really look past the top-line news they see and hear. And I know the media, academia and Hollywood are very effective at shaping our impressions of social and political goings-on. And I know politicians on both sides of the aisle are congratulating you for "doing your part" to help beat the COVID-19 virus. And I know that makes you feel good at a time we could all really use some lifting up.

It's a powerful cocktail of forces especially when virtually everyone you know is 100% bought in, too. But as every good parent will at some point tell their children: just because everyone else is doing it, doesn't make it right.
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Attention

Opioid deaths surge amid social isolation orders

Kate Briquelet
The Daily Beast
Mon, 04 May 2020 19:38 UTC
opioids
© Illustration by Guardian Design Team/Christophe Gowans
Lynn sat in the parking lot of her opioid treatment clinic in Columbus, Ohio, for hours on a recent Tuesday. Like in other parts of the country, the coronavirus pandemic was leading to longer wait times for medication — in this case, Suboxone.

Around her, people idled in their cars or stood in a smoking area until the doctor called them inside via text message. The process to get treatment took nearly four hours. "I was worried COVID might escalate more. I didn't want to be dependent on something that I wouldn't be able to get all of a sudden," said the 30-year-old, who asked to be identified only by her middle name. "I kind of weaned myself off Suboxone. That led to an overdose."

Lynn has struggled with heroin addiction since 2018. She said she hadn't used opioids for three months, until she was hit by the stresses and isolation of COVID-19, which public health officials fear may be contributing to relapses in Ohio's recovery community and beyond. Lynn thought she could taper off doses of Suboxone, a drug containing buprenorphine that's used to treat opiate addiction, in case the pandemic caused more roadblocks for her treatment.
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Red Flag

Police probe shooting of Michigan security guard in confrontation over face mask

George Hunter and Ariana Taylor
The Detroit News
Mon, 04 May 2020 20:58 UTC
Calvin Munerlyn commemoration
© Jake May/Associated PressFamily and friends lift their candles to the sky and release balloons to honor Calvin Munerlyn during a vigil Sunday, May 3, 2020, in Flint, MI.
Michigan State Police investigators are looking into reports that a Flint dollar store security guard was fatally shot Friday after an argument with a customer who refused to wear a mask in the store.

The 43-year-old guard was shot in the head at about 2:15 p.m. Friday at the Family Dollar store at 877 Fifth Ave. He later died in an area hospital. Police are not yet releasing the name of the guard.

Michigan State Police 1st Lt. David Kaiser said Sunday that detectives are investigating a flood of reports on social media from people who say the violence sparked when the guard told a customer he had to wear a mask, a policy set forth by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.

"We're seeing a lot of these reports on social media, so we're investigating them," Kaiser said. "We'll talk to all the potential witnesses."
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Yellow Vest

'Beach wars' heat up as 'arbitrary' rules gall stir-crazy Americans determined to enjoy early summer


RT
Mon, 04 May 2020 20:11 UTC
Protesters at Huntington Beach
© Reuters / Kyle GrillotProtesters at Huntington Beach
Coastal states are facing a salty insurrection as warming temperatures send lockdown-weary citizens running for the beaches. Faced with seemingly arbitrary closures, thousands of would-be sunbathers became protesters.

Federal stay-at-home guidelines have expired and only state-level measures remain, placing governors and city officials on the opposite sides of the barricades. A unique situation has emerged in which citizens are technically violating the law and law enforcement is looking the other way, unless they choose not to.

There were no arrests made at Huntington Beach after beachgoers defied Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order closing all beaches across Orange County in the name of the ever-present threat of coronavirus. Police and lifeguards were there, and a helicopter barked loud warnings that the beaches were closed, but not a single citation was issued, according to the city's public information officer. Nor were there any arrests on Friday, as the water gleamed invitingly while tightly-packed, sweaty crowds of protesters jammed the streets, waving flags and signs protesting the beach closure and demanding an end to the lockdown.
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Family

In Paris only 10% of children to be allowed to attend school starting May 11th


EN24
Mon, 04 May 2020 12:00 UTC
france school
From May 11, the date of the start of deconfinement, many Parisians will have to find their way back to the office. But for their children, the situation looks more complicated. In the capital, only 10% of schoolchildren will be able to be accommodated in their public schools, explained to Figaro Patrick Bloche, deputy mayor responsible for education. Which would correspond to 13,000 children. "If we reach it (this digit, Note), it will already be very good, "added the deputy, referring to the classification of Paris in" red zone ".

This very limited reception - due to the numerous health measures to be implemented in schools - should pose a problem for parents forced to return to work from May 11. Always according to Figaro, which is based on several estimates from school directors in the capital, 40% to 60% of Parisians would nevertheless like to put their children back in school as early as next week despite the still complicated health context.

Comment: The day after Macron's May Day address announcing the 'easing' of the lockdown, another followed instead extending the lockdown for a further 2 months.

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Bizarro Earth

Taliban truck bombing kills at least five at Afghan military center


RFE/RL
Mon, 04 May 2020 07:27 UTC
Taliban prisoners
© ReutersA group of Taliban prisoners is released from Bagram prison, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 11.
A truck-bomb attack at a military center in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province has killed at least five people and wounded several others.

The May 4 attack came as U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said attacks by the Taliban were increasing, despite the United States and the militant group having signed a peace deal in February.


Comment: If attacks are increasing why has the Pentagon has stopped reporting on the key metric that documents them?


The Taliban, claiming responsibility for the bombing in Helmand, said it attacked a center where at least 150 members of the Afghan army and intelligence wing were stationed.

"Five members of the Afghan security forces and intelligence services were killed and seven others were wounded in a truck-bomb explosion in Grishk district," Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the regional governor, told RFE/RL.
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Broom

London's 4,000-bed Nightingale hospital to be SHUT after treating just 51 Covid-19 patients


RT
Mon, 04 May 2020 15:59 UTC
Nightingale
© REUTERS/Stefan Rousseau/Pool - AFP/Stefan Rousseau/PoolHealth Secretary Matt Hancock at the opening of the London Nightingale Hospital (R) Inside the Nightingale
NHS England's flagship Nightingale hospital in London - which opened to much fanfare a month ago - is to close its doors and be placed on 'standby' after treating just 51 Covid-19 patients, despite having room for 4,000.

The construction of the 'field hospital' at the ExCeL Centre in East London, which was opened by Prince Charles on April 3, was hailed as a huge success by the UK government. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the makeshift hospital showed the "best of the NHS."

The hospital's chief executive, Professor Charles Knight, emailed healthcare staff on Monday morning, telling them the site would be placed on standby after the remaining 20 patients are transferred to other medical facilities over the next four days. Knight added that they will be "ready to resume operations as and when needed in the weeks, and potentially months, to come."

Comment: It would appear that the truth about the coronavirus and the manufactured hysteria is coming to light, such as with the Telegraph newspaper recently reporting that the pandemic wasn't a pandemic at all and the lockdown was a mistake:
"Fact 1: The overwhelming majority of people do not have any significant risk of dying from Covid-19. The recent Stanford University antibody study now estimates that the fatality rate if infected is likely 0.1 to 0.2 percent, a risk far lower than previous World Health Organization estimates that were 20 to 30 times higher and that motivated isolation policies."
See also: Genocide of the 'impure': Surge in Do Not Resuscitate orders for learning disabilities patients issued during UK lockdown

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