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Some 700,000 children in Italy do not have enough to eat


The Brussels Times
Sun, 10 May 2020 00:00 UTC
Italian child
© BelgaMany children normally receive a hot meal at school but all educational institutions have been closed since March, due to the virus
At least 700,000 children in Italy do not have enough to eat each day due to a food shortage brought on by the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19), the Italian agricultural organisation Coldiretti reported on Sunday.

Many children normally receive a hot meal at school but all educational institutions have been closed since March, due to the virus. "The situation is now critical, especially for children whose parents have seen their incomes decrease," the head of Coldiretti said." Owners of small stores, seasonal or part-time workers and artisans now have no income left," he stressed.

Comment: Sadly, this sort of thing is more likely to be occurring, and getting increasingly worse, as supply chains get disrupted, food processing plants get hystericized over virus cases, and climate fluctuations continue to damage crops - world-wide.

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India, China face-off along Sikkim border, several soldiers injured

Rahul Singh
Hindustan Times
Sun, 10 May 2020 13:07 UTC
Chinese and Indian flags
© Arvind Yadav/HT Photo)
This is not the first time Indian and Chinese soldiers have exchanged blows along the border. In August 2017, Indian and Chinese soldiers threw stones at each other and also exchanged blows near Pangong Lake in Ladakh, close to the de facto border between the two countries.

Scores of Indian and Chinese soldiers were involved in a tense face-off along the India-China boundary in north Sikkim on Saturday, two senior officials said on the condition of anonymity.

The aggressive confrontation between the troops from the two sides happened near the Naku La sector (ahead of Muguthang), a pass at a height of more than 5,000 metres, said the first officer cited above.

Several soldiers were injured in the border stand-off as they exchanged blows.

"Four Indian soldiers and seven Chinese troops suffered injuries during the confrontation that involved around 150 soldiers," said the second officer cited above.

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Manufactured outrage as packed passengers on Paris metro unable to obey 'social distancing'


RT
Mon, 11 May 2020 12:23 UTC
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© AFP / Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt
Footage of Parisians crowded onto a Paris Metro train with no ability to implement social distancing rules left many French netizens fuming as the country began its 'gradual' reopening and easing of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions.

Passengers were packed like sardines onto a train running on Paris' busy Line 13 on Monday morning, video from news channel BFM showed, as many people finally returned to work and the government urged public caution to avoid a second spike in virus cases after eight weeks of confinement.

Social distancing seemed a thing of the past, however, as the metro was far too cramped to allow for much distance between commuters, leading many online observers to vent their frustrations.

Comment: Wearing masks - and worse, recycling them - will likely result in more illness than the coronavirus could've dreamed of:

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LA City council might seize private hotels like the Ritz to house homeless

M. Dowling
Independent Sentinel
Thu, 07 May 2020 00:01 UTC
homeless in california
Put them in the Ritz
Los Angeles, under the leadership of an extremely far-left official, Mayor Eric Garcetti, is talking about taking over hotels if they ever received a tax break for any reason.

The far-far-left Los Angeles city council voted on Wednesday to identify any hotels refusing to house the homeless as part of Project Roomkey. Then they want to investigate if any of those hotels have gotten tax breaks from the city in the past. If they had, they think these hotels may need to be "commandeered". Another word for 'commandeered,' is 'seized.'
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Ukrainian police demanded Jews' names & addresses 'to fight organized crime', leaked letter shows


RT
Mon, 11 May 2020 09:53 UTC
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© SputnikFILE PHOTO: Orthodox Jewish pilgrims in Ukraine
Outrage is brewing in Ukraine after the leak of an inquiry letter in which the national police demanded the Jewish community in a small city disclose the names and addresses of its members, supposedly to fight organized crime.

The letter was apparently sent in mid-February by a senior police official to Yakov Zalishchiker, the Jewish leader in the city of Kolomyya in the western Ivano-Frankivsk region. The official said he needed to know the names, phone numbers, and addresses of Orthodox Jews and university students "of Jewish ethnicity" who belong to the community.

The data was said to be necessary to fight "transnational and ethnic criminal organizations," which is the task of the department whose head sent the inquiry. Photo of the letter and Zalishchiker's written refusal to comply were published on Sunday by Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee.

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Saudi Arabia triples VAT rate in austerity push to counter oil price crash

Marwa Rashad
Reuters
Mon, 11 May 2020 03:55 UTC
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Saudi Arabia, May 11th 2020
Saudi Arabia will triple value added tax and suspend a cost of living allowance for state workers, it said on Monday, seeking to shore up finances hit by low oil prices as the coronavirus pandemic pummels global demand for its lifeline export.

Historic oil output cuts agreed by Riyadh and other major producers have given only limited support to prices after they sank on oversupply caused by a war for petroleum market share between the kingdom and its fellow oil titan Russia.

Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, is also being hit hard by measures to fight the new coronavirus, which are likely to curb the pace and scale of economic reforms launched by Crown Price Mohammed bin Salman.

Comment: Notably, in recent years, along with Saudi Arabia's faltering economy state executions have doubled.

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Flashback Best of the Web: How Dr Judy Mikovits' research into chronic fatigue syndrome turned into an ugly fight

Casey Schwartz
Daily Beast
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:45 UTC
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Comment: This article was originally published in 2012 and, as stated on the site, was updated in 2017. Without access to the original article it's difficult to say what has been changed (a note at the end only says an original reference to placing a sample in an ice chest was changed to an incubator). Note that there are discrepancies between this article and the story as Mikovits tells it. See her new book Plague of Corruption for more details.

In the meantime, the media is dragging Mikovits through the mud because of scientific debunking of Covid-19 and exposing the mad scientists' plan to vaccinate us all with 'gene-editing' RNA vaccines...


On Nov. 9, 2011, Judy Mikovits, a well-known chronic fatigue syndrome researcher at the center of one of the strangest scientific dramas in recent memory, found herself devising the following plan.

She would have to escape by boat.

There was a man in a car in front of her house in Oxnard, Calif., waiting to serve her with a temporary restraining order demanding the return of stolen property to the Whittemore Peterson Institute in Reno, Nev., from which she recently had been fired.

Comment: Again, from RFK Jr. in the introduction to Plague of Corruption:
While she was in jail, Judy's former boss told her husband and Dr. Ruscetti that if she just signed an apology admitting her paper was wrong, the police would release her from confinement and she could salvage her science career. Judy refused. No prosecutor has ever filed charges against her, but the pharmaceutical cartel and its captive scientific journals launched a campaign of vilification against her. Less than two years earlier, the journal Science had celebrated her. Now, the same journal published her mug shot and retracted her paper.
Although it's hearsay, it's still quite telling that Mitkovits' boss would say this. Since when, in the United States, is someone held hostage in jail until they retract a scientific paper? Does this sound like the land of the free, a country that prides itself on its freedom of speech?


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Putin: Russia to begin gradual easing of Covid-19 lockdown; joint non-working period to end May 12th


RT
Mon, 11 May 2020 13:36 UTC
Putin video link meeting Covid
© Reuters / Sputnik / Alexei Druzhinin / KremlinRussian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting via a video link.
Russia will begin to ease its coronavirus-related restrictions, President Vladimir Putin has said. Exit from the partial lockdown will be gradual and not too fast, he added.

"Starting from tomorrow, May 12, the joint non-working period for the whole country and for all the sectors of its economy ends," Putin said during a televised speech on Monday.
But the fight against the epidemic does not end. The danger persists, even in areas where the situation is relatively safe.
The non-working period was announced in Russia in late March and has been extended several times since then.

The end of the unified 'holidays' period allows Russia's regional authorities to begin lifting the coronavirus restrictions. This process will not be fast, Putin said, and all anti-coronavirus precautionary measures will remain in place. Any mass gatherings will remain banned across the country as well.
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Best of the Web: Fog around Covid-19 made thicker by new Ontario rules for handling deaths

Rosemary Frei
Global Research
Mon, 11 May 2020 08:44 UTC
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Alarming COVID-19 death statistics from seniors' facilities continue to be in the spotlight in Ontario and elsewhere. However, all is not as it seems in the mainstream media reports of those statistics.

Procedures that came into effect in Ontario one month ago for dealing with deaths in long-term care homes (LTCHs) and hospitals are contributing to exaggeration of the numbers of COVID-19 deaths — and preventing the true causes of many of those deaths from ever being uncovered.

This makes it an opportune time to cast an objective eye on procedures that came into effect in Ontario one month ago for dealing with deaths in LTCHs and hospitals. They differ drastically from both Ontario's previous regulations and other jurisdictions' procedures.
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Cuomo announces partnership with Bill Gates to "revolutionize" NY schools in wake of coronavirus

Alan Macleod
MintPress News
Wed, 06 May 2020 05:59 UTC
bill gates beijing
© Mark Schiefelbein | APGates speaks at a Toilet Expo in Beijing, Nov. 6, 2018.
Taking time off from mismanaging a pandemic and turning lifesaving masks sent from all over the country into an art installation, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared yesterday that he would use the deadly COVID-19 virus as an opportunity to "revolutionize" the state's school system, inviting Microsoft founder Bill Gates to implement his controversial ideas about education statewide. Cuomo did not divulge many details of what his imagined education revolution would look like but did mention virtual education and remote learning. However, Gates is best known for one thing in education: charter schools.

"Bill Gates is a visionary in many ways and his ideas and thoughts on technology and education he's spoken about for years but I now think we have a moment in history where we can incorporate and advance those ideas," Cuomo said. "When does change come to a society?...[when] we get moments in history" he added, "I think this is one of those moments."

One of only two centibillionaires in history, Gates is the world's most popular businessman according to polling company YouGov, enjoying a 54 percent positive and only nine percent negative opinion rating. Nevertheless, Cuomo's announcement was met with consternation by many. "Right-wing Wall Street puppet Cuomo is going to work with billionaire capitalist Bill Gates, one of the richest human beings in history, to privatize public education. "Philanthropy" is a scam. The Gates Foundation's goal is to privatize everything so billionaires can profit," wrote journalist Ben Norton.

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