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Corona-madness: Indian police mistakenly book 6-month-old baby, 3-year-old for not following quarantine measures

Bipin Negi
Hindustan Times
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:38 UTC
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A six-month-old baby and a three-year-old child were among more than 40 people booked in a village in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district for 'not following home quarantine and endangering the life of others.'


Comment: Nonsense.



As soon as the incident came to light, villagers raised objection following which the official, on whose report they were booked, was suspended by the district magistrate and a probe was ordered, said officials.

The suspended official identified as Girish Singh Rana, an assistant engineer in irrigation department, was deployed as Covid-19 magistrate by district magistrate (DM) Ashish Chauhan in Chinyalisaur area to ensure home quarantine of the people who return to the district, said officials.

Chauhan said the incident happened on April 10 when a family comprising the two children returned to their village from Haryana along with 47 others and were asked to remain in home quarantine as a precautionary measure.

"However, it was found that they didn't follow the home quarantine following which action was directed against them. Covid-19 magistrate concerned Rana was asked to prepare a report of the violators for necessary action," Chauhan said.
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Yellow Vest

'Political repression': Woman detained by police in France for displaying 'Macronavirus' banner on garden wall


RT
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:36 UTC
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A French woman was reprimanded by police for displaying a banner with the words "Macronavirus, when is the end?" outside of her home as social tensions grow amid a strict Covid-19 lockdown.

The woman complied with a police order to remove the banner on April 21, but officers returned a day later with a summons for a hearing on April 23. When she showed up, she was taken into custody for "contempt." She was released after four hours, local media reports said.

The banner that was critical of President Emmanuel Macron had been hung on the woman's garden wall in Toulouse - and the word "Macronavirus" was a reference to a cover of the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine from January.

The incident follows several others since early April in which residents in Paris, Marseille and other cities who have displayed banners with "political overtones" have been visited by the police, according to Mediapart.
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Megaphone

Handing out free cash to citizens as part of coronavirus relief will lead to hyperinflation in Russia - Central Bank


RT
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:19 UTC
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Distributing money to people as part of coronavirus relief measures could be catastrophic in terms of inflation, according to the Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina.

"If the Central Bank prints money and gives it out at a zero rate, what could that lead to? I can recall the 1990s. This will lead to an 'explosion' of inflation, and for those who received those banknotes it will be hard to buy anything," she said.

Nabiullina added that, according to the bank's estimates, an easing of monetary policy is needed to maintain annual inflation close to four percent over the forecast horizon.

"The slump in domestic and external demand this year will significantly contain inflation, which reduces the risk of its substantial deviation downwards from the target in 2021 and over a medium-term horizon if no additional monetary policy measures are introduced," she said.

The bank governor also said that the economic situation will be "returning to normal step-by-step," assuming that governments will be gradually lifting or considerably easing the majority of current restrictions in the second quarter of the year. "In this case, we can expect that in the third and fourth quarters, economic activity will be recovering quarter-on-quarter," she said.
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Dollars

Amazon will be fined €100,000 for EVERY 'non-essential' delivery in France after court rejects appeal in worker safety dispute

Laura Kayali
Politico
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:08 UTC
amazon warehouse
© Thomas Samson / AFP
A French court upheld a ruling Friday restricting Amazon deliveries to essential products only until a risk assessment is carried out, but reduced fines for breaches and extended the list of products that can be delivered.

"The court of appeal confirms [the April 14 ruling] that requires Amazon France Logistique to carry out, in association with representatives of workers, an evaluation of professional risks linked to the COVID-19 epidemic in all its warehouses," the Versailles court of appeal said in a statement.

Amazon has temporarily closed its warehouses in France in response to the original ruling, arguing the order was too ambiguous.
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Bullseye

Tucker Carlson: Here's why Gov. Whitmer wants Michigan residents quiet and subservient during coronavirus crisis

Tucker Carlson
Fox News
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:59 UTC
Whitmer
© APMichigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
All last week, we told you about Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and what she was doing in the name of science to respond to this coronavirus pandemic.

She banned the sale of forbidden objects -- paint, carpet, gardening supplies. She took control of the state's highways. She forbade residents from traveling to their own homes. She claimed this was rational and legal, though she never cited, of course, any scientific justification for all of this.

She says she must continue to do it, however, because keeping residents indoors is comparable in importance to beating Nazi Germany.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: President Trump called this a war and it is exactly that. So, let's act like it.

In World War II, there weren't people lining up at the capitol to protest the fact that they had to drop everything they were doing and build planes or tanks or to ration food. They rolled up their sleeves and they got to work.
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Dominoes

Federal judge blocks California law requiring background check to buy ammunition

Dennis Romero
NBC News
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:55 UTC
bullets
© Rich Pedroncelli / AP file
A federal judge Thursday blocked background checks for ammunition buyers in California, calling the state's law on the matter "onerous and convoluted."

San Diego-based U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez granted a preliminary injunction against the rule after plaintiffs, including the California Rifle and Pistol Association and six-time Olympic medalist skeet shooter Kim Rhode, sued the state.

In 2016, Golden State voters approved Proposition 63, which included the background checks as well as a ban on high-capacity magazines for firearms. The same judge halted sales of the magazines as the state appeals another court challenge.
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Eye 1

Duper's delight! Bill Gates giggling through Ellen interview evidences lying


Fort Russ
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:29 UTC
Bill Gates smiling
Noun. duping delight (uncountable) The pleasure of being able to manipulate someone, often made visible to others by flashing a smile at an inappropriate moment.

Getting Away With Lies

By: Dr. Paul Ekman
December, 2009

The Navy warrant officer John Anthony Walker, Jr. was convicted as a spy for the Soviet Union in 1987, and is serving a life sentence. The New York Times said he had been the most damaging spy in history, having helped the Soviets decipher over 200,000 encrypted naval messages. It wasn't the polygraph that caught him, nor surveillance by U.S. counter-espionage officers. His wife Barbara turned him into the FBI. He was bragging about all the money he was making, but Barbara was his ex-wife and Walker was behind in alimony payments.

What motivated this smart, devious fellow to be so foolish? Probably what I call duping delight, the near irresistible thrill some people feel in taking a risk and getting away with it. Sometimes it includes contempt for the target who is being so ruthlessly and successfully exploited. It is hard to contain duping delight; those who feel it want to share their accomplishments with others, seeking admiration for their exploits.
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Ambulance

The anti-lockdown strategy

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
drmalcolmkendrick.org
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:15 UTC
Elderly woman and carer
© Getty Images (stock photo)
Unfortunately, it seems that COVID-19 has infected everyone involved in healthcare management and turned their brains into useless mush.

Lockdown has two main purposes. One, to limit the spread of the virus. Two, and most important, to protect the elderly and infirm from infection - as these are the people most likely to become very ill, end up in hospital, and often die. [In my view, if we had any sense, we would lockdown/protect the elderly, and let everyone else get on with their lives].

However, the hospitals themselves have another policy. Which is to discharge the elderly unwell patients with COVID directly back into the community, and care homes. Where they can spread the virus widely amongst the most vulnerable.

This, believe it or not, is NHS policy. Still.
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Shopping Bag

Dr. Mark Sircus: Facing Food Shortages

Dr. Mark Sircus
drsircus.com
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 13:04 UTC
food shortages
Dumped Milk, Smashed Eggs, Plowed
Vegetables: Food Waste of the Pandemic.
Beware the ominous rumblings of an increasing number of nations making preparations for the possible loss of food imports. Protectionist measures by national governments during the coronavirus crisis could provoke food shortages around the world, the UN's food body has warned.

Harvests have been good and the outlook for staple crops is promising, but a shortage of field workers brought on by the virus crisis and a move towards protectionism - tariffs and export bans - mean problems could quickly appear in the coming weeks, Maximo Torero, chief economist of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, told the Guardian. As the coronavirus continues to infect more and more people, food supply chains have started to become more strained in recent days.

In normal times, 35 per cent of the food we eat - around 70 million meals every day - is prepared outside our homes, by restaurants and caterers, in cafes and school canteens. Because restaurants' needs are very different to those of people cooking at home, billions of pounds of produce was suddenly left without a buyer. British farmers are warning they have been forced to throw millions of gallons of milk down the drain because it no longer has a buyer
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Eye 1

UK benefit claimant sanctioned for not finding a job during lockdown, amidst soaring mass unemployment

Emma Munbodh
Mirror
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:26 UTC
benefit sanctions
© MirrorPixTracy said she had a shock when the payment statement arrived
A 23-year-old who waited an entire month for his universal credit payment to arrive was eventually told he'd receive nothing, despite the Government pledging to freeze sanctions during the coronavirus crisis.

Ben, 23, had been sanctioned earlier in the year for being unable to find work, however, like payment holidays for homeowners and furlough for the employed, he believed the freeze would be lifted to support struggling households during the pandemic.

"How can he be sanctioned for being unable to find work during a lockdown?" Ben's mum, Tracy told Mirror Money.

The family said they waited weeks for the payment after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced plans to freeze benefit sanctions under emergency measures last month.

Comment: This is the same country that wants to roll out Universal Basic Income which would put millions more at the mercy of a callous and corrupt system: Universal basic income plan for post-lockdown UK endorsed by over 100 opposition MPs

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