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7 countries plagued by coronavirus scamdemic corruption scandals

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A year into the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, government officials across the globe are facing accusations of taking advantage of the crisis to profit off of increased aid intended for public health relief.

Below are a few examples of coronavirus corruption scandals that plagued corrupt governments over the past year.

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean authorities arrested the country's health minister, Obadiah Moyo, in June on allegations of corruption regarding the government procurement of Chinese coronavirus tests and equipment worth $60 million.

Bizarro Earth

UK: Spike in police assaults in Sussex amidst Christmas lockdown, 30% increase throughout the country in 2020

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© AFP / Glyn KirkA police officer talks with a couple sitting on the beach in Brighton, on the south coast of England on April 10, 2020.
Christmas is typically associated with acts of kindness and merry-making, but it appears the goodwill was not extended to police in Sussex. The force has reported more than a dozen assaults on its officers during the holiday.

In a statement published on its website, Sussex Police said that at least 16 officers had been assaulted while on duty across the county on Christmas Day.

The violent incidents included spitting, kicking, punching and biting, while one officer suffered a dislocated shoulder. The force condemned the "significant" number of assaults as "completely unacceptable" and said such behaviour would not be tolerated.

Comment: A basic tenet of human psychology appears to be that, following lockdowns, the need for people to relieve the stress it caused is increased. As previous lockdowns were lifted, there seems to have been a rise in protests and rioting all over the world.

This autumn UK citizens were told by their government that if they locked down now they would 'be free' at Christmas, but instead the government locked them down again. In addition police have been tasked with, and are willingly enforcing, inhumane laws that are tearing families and communities apart, that they find themselves a target of public ire is rather predictable: UK Home Sec Patel urges neighbours to SNITCH on each other over the Christmas period

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Ambulance

At least 7 killed in knife attack in northeastern China

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At least seven people were killed and another seven injured in a knife attack in northeastern China, state media reported Sunday.

The attack in the city of Kaiyuan in Liaoning province was carried out outside a sauna and bathhouse. The suspect, identified by the media by his surname Yang, was arrested while the motive for the attack remains unknown.

Chinese law restricts the sale and possession of firearms, and mass attacks are generally carried out with knives or homemade explosives.

Bad Guys

Victims in Arkansas Christmas Day massacre were all women

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The five people found dead at their home in a Christmas Day massacre in Arkansas were all women and members of the same family, according to local law enforcement.

Pope County Sheriff Shane Jones released new details in the shooting in Atkins, a city of 3,000, 50 miles north of Little Rock at a news conference Saturday afternoon. He said the victims, two adults and three juveniles, ranged in age from 8 to 50, and some were killed by gunshots in what he described as a "domestic" incident.

"We believe this is an isolated incident and we do not feel there is any continued danger to the local public," he said.

Evil Rays

FBI investigates if '5G paranoia' was behind mysterious Nashville Christmas RV explosion - reports

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© Reuters / Harrison McClaryInvestigators gather outside a house in Antioch, Tennessee, December 26, 2020.
Federal agents were tipped off that a person who had rigged an RV with explosives in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, may have been driven by fears surrounding 5G technology, a report claims.

Nashville realtor Steve Fridrich told local WSMV TV channel that the FBI had interviewed him about whether a man investigated in connection to Friday's bombing had "paranoia about 5G technology."

Fridrich contacted the FBI because a man with the same name had done IT work for him for several years, he said.

Comment: See also: Christmas morning explosion in Nashville, Tennessee was 'an intentional act' - police - UPDATES: AT&T building damaged, internet outages reported, human remains found


Stock Down

Wheels come off for bus companies, closing down travel options for poor Americans

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A Greyhound bus driver wears a protective mask and gloves as he prepares to depart a station in San Antonio, Texas.
The wheels on the nation's buses aren't going round and round very much these days according to MPRnews, which notes that demand for bus travel has fallen by more than 80 percent during the pandemic, as public health authorities urge people to avoid travel where possible. That is raising concerns about the potential long-term damage to an essential transport method for millions of lower-income Americans even as air travel has shown signs of picking up since the Thanksgiving holiday period.

And those who have to take the bus, for whatever reason, are finding fewer options, and often higher prices as a result.

Feeling the pinch most are people like Andrew Sarkis. He paid $97 for a one-way bus ticket from Hampton, Va., to New York City, a 12-hour journey that required two transfers.

"It's expensive, man," said Sarkis, while stretching his legs after his bus took a brief stop at Union Station in Washington, D.C. "I used to go on another bus for $45 a trip, that goes straight to New York," he added.

Propaganda

Mass media propaganda is enemy #1

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The most Orwellian tool of our rulers which does the most damage and affects the most lives is not surveillance, nor police militarization, nor government secrecy, but domestic mass media propaganda. It's also the most overlooked. It's good to protest the other mechanisms of authoritarian control, but propaganda is enemy number one.

You don't need the ability to spy on dissident groups if you can control public thought enough to prevent those groups from forming in the first place. You don't need the ability to quash public uprisings if you can propagandize people away from rising up at all. And they can. And they do.

The ability of the plutocratic class to manipulate public thought at mass scale is the single most overlooked and under-appreciated aspect of our society. It warps the entirety of our political spectrum, all our thinking, all our discourse, and what we perceive as normal. And you just don't see people fighting it. The ACLU isn't protecting people's mental sovereignty from the manipulations of sociopathic government-aligned oligarchs. People aren't taking the media-owning class to the Supreme Court for brazen election interference. People aren't taking to the streets protesting it. But they could.

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Cross

Russian Orthodox Church has 'flexible' stance on abortion & does not demand practice be made illegal, spokesman reveals

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© Sputnik / Nina ZotinaFILE PHOTO Vladimir Legoyda
The Russian Orthodox Church is not proposing a blanket ban on abortion and its official position is actually "more flexible" than a complete prohibition. That's according to Vladimir Legoyda, the institution's main spokesperson.

Speaking on Saturday to RTVI, a New York-based Russian-language channel aimed at expats, Legoyda revealed that the Church is not entirely against the termination of pregnancy being legal.

"We are taking a softer and more flexible position in this case: we demand [abortion] be withdrawn from the compulsory health insurance fund," he said. The Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund is a taxpayer-funded state program that guarantees the provision of free medical care for a wide range of illnesses.

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Newspaper

China lowers age of criminal responsibility to 12 for 'abominable' crimes

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China has lowered the age of criminal responsibility to 12 years old for "abominable" crimes such as murder or causing injury that leads to death or severe disabilities by extremely cruel means, the China Daily said.

The revision was passed by the National People's Congress Standing Committee on Saturday after a third review and will be effective from March 1. It applies to children aged between 12 and 14, the state-backed newspaper said.

Children in China aged 14-16 can be held criminally liable if they intentionally commit serious violent crimes such as murder and rape. For most other offences, the age of criminal liability is 16.

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Twelve times the lockdowners were wrong

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This has been a year of astonishing policy failure. We are surrounded by devastation conceived and cheered by intellectuals and their political handmaidens. The errors number in the thousands, so please consider the following little more than a first draft, a mere guide to what will surely be unearthed in the coming months and years. We trusted these people with our lives and liberties and here is what they did with that trust.

1. Anthony Fauci says lockdowns are not possible in the United States (January 24):

When asked about the mass quarantine containment efforts underway in Wuhan, China back in January, Fauci dismissed the prospect of lockdowns ever coming to the United States:
"That's something that I don't think we could possibly do in the United States, I can't imagine shutting down New York or Los Angeles, but the judgement on the part of the Chinese health authorities is that given the fact that it's spreading throughout the provinces... it's their judgement that this is something that in fact is going to help in containing it. Whether or not it does or does not is really open to question because historically when you shut things down it doesn't have a major effect."
Less than two months later, 43 of 50 US states were under lockdown - a policy advocated by Fauci himself.

Comment: No matter what they say or tell us to do, the responsibility to recognize the truth and research the correct response is ours.

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