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Cheeseburger

McDonald's mandates 'diversity training' for Chinese branch that banned black customers

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© Andy Wong/ AP Photo
Although the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) insists the many reported incidents of blatant racism against Africans living in China during the coronavirus pandemic are merely "misunderstandings," McDonald's Corporation announced on Monday that it has temporarily closed a restaurant in Guangzhou that explicitly refused to serve black customers and posted a sign declaring they were not "allowed to enter."

"We've been informed that from now on black people are not allowed to enter the restaurant. For the sake of your health consciously notify the local police for medical isolation, please understand the inconvenience caused," read the English lettering on the sign, as captured in a viral video.

"Immediately upon learning of an unauthorized communication to our guests at a restaurant in Guangzhou, we immediately removed the communication and temporarily closed the restaurant," a McDonald's Corporation spokesman told the Hong Kong Free Press on Monday.


Yellow Vest

Best of the Web: Anti-Lockdown Resistance: Protesters gather at Michigan's state capital in 'Operation Gridlock'


Comment: This will grow and spread (please God).


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Hundreds of cars, trucks and SUVs descended on Michigan's state capital Wednesday afternoon as part of a noisy protest against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's social-distancing restrictions that critics say have gone too far.

Dubbed "Operation Gridlock" and organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition, the protest did just that - creating bumper-to-bumper traffic throughout downtown Lansing as demonstrators blasted their horns, waved Americans flags and hoisted placards deriding Whitmer's orders and demanding that she reopen the state's economy.

The lockdown measures are meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, but Whitmer has gone further than some other governors -- and the backlash in Michigan is among the most heated in the country.


Corona

Private healthcare chief warns UK care homes could have 70% infection rate; India revises lockdown guidelines; Putin promises business support

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© Reuters / Francis MascarenhasPolice officers in Mumbai, India, April 14, 2020.
Coronavirus infection rates in UK care homes may be as high as 70 percent, the chief executive of a major care provider has claimed, casting doubts over the validity of the government's official Covid-19 figures.

Jeremy Richardson, head of Four Seasons Health Care, one of Britain's biggest independent providers of care for the elderly, claimed on Sky News on Wednesday that the number of Covid-19 infections in such facilities is being massively underreported by PM Boris Johnson's administration.
I think the number is probably up at 60 or 70 percent. We're running at a similar number; I think the numbers are substantially underestimated.
The UK government has been widely criticized for not including deaths outside of hospitals - including within care homes - in its official daily Covid-19 numbers.

Comment: The new lockdown rules for India include mandatory face masks in public places and at work. After his recommendations were not followed by Russian banks, Putin has ordered the central bank to follow through instead, proposing even more support for small businesses affected by the shutdowns. Moscow's digital pass system was a pretty epic failure, with huge lines and traffic jams. Germany plans to reopen schools in May, and like in India, citizens are being "encouraged" to wear masks. More than half of French industry has restarted. But Amazon is threatening to shut down its French warehouses after a court ruled they violated workers' safety rights.

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'Protesting is non-essential': Raleigh Police make tyrannical claim as citizens demand economy reopen

Protesting is Non-Essential’
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." — Amendment 1, United States Constitution
The state of North Carolina is one of the least affected states in the country with regard to the current COVID-19 outbreak. With just over 5,000 confirmed cases and only 108 deaths related to the virus, many citizens are growing wary of the state's lockdown order and are demanding things go back to normal.

On Tuesday, more than 100 protesters took the the city streets of Raleigh, North Carolina to voice their desire to reopen the the state's economy. They were quickly met with police action but the well-organized protesters stood their ground through multiple threats.

According to the News and Observer, the protest was organized by ReopenNC, a private Facebook group organized last week that wants people to make their own stay-at-home decisions to avoid exposure to COVID-19 as the worldwide pandemic continues. The group surpassed 28,000 members on Tuesday afternoon.

When the protest began, the Raleigh police department put out a tweet that is sure to go down in history books as they declared the Constitutional right to peaceably assemble, otherwise known as the First Amendment — "non-essential."

Stock Down

US retail sales collapse as economy in 'free fall' from COVID-19 lockdown

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U.S. retail sales suffered a record drop in March and output at factories declined by the most since 1946, buttressing analysts' views that the economy contracted in the first quarter at its sharpest pace in decades as extraordinary measures to control the spread of the novel coronavirus shut down the country.

The reports on Wednesday came as millions of Americans have been thrown out of work, and were the most solid pieces of evidence yet that the economy was in deep recession and potentially at risk of a depression. States and local governments have issued "stay-at-home" or "shelter-in-place" orders affecting more than 90% of Americans to curb the spread of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the virus, and abruptly stopping economic activity in the country.

"Economists have long imagined over the years what a new Great Depression would look like, but today they can stop thinking about it," said Chris Rupkey, chief economist at MUFG in New York. "Things will plainly never be the same again for consumers and factories where everyone in the country will have to make do with less."

Arrow Up

Seed companies can't keep up with unprecedented demand

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As millions of Americans hunker down at home, the coronavirus outbreak has led to runs on everything from toilet paper to baker's yeast. Now people are reporting another shortage: seeds to start their "pandemic gardens."

Some seed companies said they've temporarily stopped taking new orders after seeing an overwhelming surge in demand. The increase in orders is "just unbelievable," said George Ball, chairman of Burpee Seeds, a 144-year-old seed company in Pennsylvania. The company closed to new orders last week because it needed time to catch up, although it plans to start accepting them again on Wednesday.

With Americans largely stuck in place, many are turning to home-based activities that are boosting sales of home improvement goods, alcohol — and gardening supplies.

Heart - Black

Inmate freed over COVID-19 hysteria killed man next day of his release

Edward Williams
A Florida man is accused of killing a man the day after being released from jail because of fears that coronavirus could spread in corrections facilities, authorities said Tuesday.

Edward Williams, 26, of Tampa, was arrested Monday and is facing charges of second-degree murder, gun possession, violently resisting an officer, drug possession and paraphernalia possession, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said.

He remained in lockup Tuesday night with no bond, according to jail records.

Comment: The issue here isn't how Williams 'took advantage of the health emergency'! The issue is that public officials are creating such situations in the first place and inflicting massive damage to the societies they represent out of hysteria, fear, and an unyielding desire for control.


Newspaper

Jail to House lock down: Turkey to release thousands of prisoners amid outbreak

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Paramedics escort a woman as she walks toward an ambulance during a two-day curfew which was imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Istanbul, Turkey, April 12, 2020.
Turkey's parliament on Tuesday passed a law that will allow the release of tens of thousands of prisoners to stem the spread of COVID-19 in the jails.

"The draft has become law after being accepted," the official Twitter account for the parliament's general assembly said.

According to the law, about 45,000 prisoners will be temporarily released under judicial control till the end of May, and the authorities can extend the period twice by a maximum of two months.

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Stormtrooper

Ontario family hit with $880 ticket after going rollerblading

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An Oakville, Ont., family is speaking out after a rollerblading outing turned into a costly ticket for allegedly violating COVID-19 physical distancing rules.

On Friday, Todd Nelson took his sons Liam, Brandon and Dustin to the parking lot of Glen Abbey Community Centre to go rollerblading, he said — but after about 45 minutes, a bylaw officer pulled up and told them they had to go.
"I kind of looked around. There was nobody near us. The whole parking lot was completely empty."
"I just said, 'Who are we hurting?' He said, 'Oh, you're not going to be like that, are you?' And I said, 'I'm just asking a question,' Nelson said. "And that was it. He said, 'Give me your ID', and next thing you know we got a ticket."

Bizarro Earth

Peeking behind the curtain of 'Climate Change'

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© DENIS BALIBOUSE/REUTERSA sniper in Davos, which hosts the annual World Economic Forum
'Climate Change' is a euphemism for the pollution, contamination and abusive exploitation of our common environment by international corporate entities, freed to act as private tyrannies by colluding governments — devoted to profit, wealth and power over all other concerns, including human welfare, human dignity, and human decency, along with an appalling absence of any sense of reverence for life and nature.

'Climate Change' is a label being popularized by those primarily responsible for our environmental destruction, degradation and fragility. This is the same 'class' or 'elite' who largely control mainstream media to deflect attention from their crimes against humanity and nature. Now they want to place the responsibility for correcting and improving the situation on the bulk of the various nation's populations. The people, that's most of us, are technologically and financially incapable of repairing the damage that has been done and continues to be done, by those ruthlessly controlling the international economy in the interests of their increasing power, control and domination.

Most people are only marginally complicit in the most heinous environmental offenses committed. Probably their major fault was going along with what their bosses told them to do, rather than risking their jobs by openly rejecting and fomenting resistance to actions they knew were destructive and immoral, if not illegal. Still, who is now certain they themselves would take such risks, after witnessing the fates of our most courageous whistleblowers, and while knowing they had young children to support?