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Turkey to extend travel restrictions, impose 4-day nationwide lockdown over Eid holiday period, Erdoğan says


Daily Sabah
Mon, 18 May 2020 16:22 UTC
Erdogan
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Erdoğan speaks following a weekly cabinet meeting, May 18, 2020
Turkey has decided to impose a 4-day nationwide lockdown over the Eid al-Fitr holiday between May 23-26 as part of measures taken against the coronavirus pandemic, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced Monday following a weekly cabinet meeting.

Ankara has imposed lockdowns across major cities over the past five weekends, as well as on national holidays, in order to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.

Turkey usually celebrates the holiday, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, across a three-day period. This year's holiday period is scheduled to fall between May 24-26.
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International cooperation: US to send 200 ventilators to Russia after Moscow dispatches planeload of aid to New York


RT
Tue, 19 May 2020 16:18 UTC
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Ventilators
The US has sent 200 ventilators to Russia, where the number of new coronavirus cases continues to ebb. The assistance comes more than a month after Moscow sent medical supplies to America in a similar move.

The California-manufactured equipment was donated on orders from President Donald Trump, who was responding to the request of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a US administration official told TASS. The life-saving equipment is being delivered free of charge, the official added.

Although Russia has recently seen a decrease in the number of daily infections - that have dropped below 10,000 for two days in a row, down from around 11,000 a week ago - the official argued that the Covid-19 outbreak is "worsening" there.

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Beaker

More WHO fear-mongering about possible second wave of Covid-19 this winter

Rhea Mahbubani
Business Insider
Mon, 18 May 2020 16:01 UTC
mask propaganda
European countries may be relaxing coronavirus restrictions and reopening their economies, but the pandemic is far from over, a World Health Organization official warned.


Comment: Irresponsible guesswork. So far the so-called pandemic has been a flop - on par with a particularly bad flu season. Hyping a second wave makes no sense when comparing to the actual effects - including deaths - caused by the lockdowns.


Dr. Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, urged leaders to prepare for a second, more deadly wave of the infection. The disease has already sickened more than 4.7 million people worldwide and killed at least 315,822, based on data from Johns Hopkins University.


Comment: Is Kluge a psychic? He must be, because there's no other way he could know 1) that a second wave is coming, and 2) that it will be more deadly.


In an exclusive interview with the Telegraph published Monday, Kluge stressed that even though the number of cases across a broad swath of the continent — including Italy, France, and the UK — are falling, "now is the time for preparation, not celebration."


Comment: Why should anyone trust this clown?


The outbreak's center has simply moved east, he said, into Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.


Comment: Where death rates are lower than in Western nations...


So officials would be well served by using this lull to their advantage by bolstering local hospital systems, the Telegraph reported. Kluge hailed Singapore, Japan, and Scandinavian countries as models, saying, "They don't exclude a second wave, but they hope it will be localized and they can jump on it quickly."

Comment: Meanwhile, WHO's chief Ghebreyesus has promised an independent review of the organization's response, promising transparency and accountability. Yeah right.

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Macron loses absolute majority in parliament

Rym Momtaz
Politico
Tue, 19 May 2020 16:10 UTC
Emmanuel Macron
© Francois Mori / AP
French President Emmanuel Macron narrowly lost his absolute majority in the lower house of parliament Tuesday, with the defection of seven MPs from his party La République en Marche.

The new group called "Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity" plans to advocate for "social and environmental justice" and will be the ninth in France's lower house of parliament. It will side "neither with the majority, nor the opposition" in parliament but rather vote depending on the issues according to the group's political statement.

A lower number of LREM MPs ended up defecting than first rumored. The new group has 17 members in total, mostly disgruntled leftist LREM MPs, including Cédric Villani who ran for Paris mayor against LREM's candidate Agnès Buzyn, as well as MP Matthieu Orphelin who is close to the former Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot.
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Hillary Clinton calls armed Michigan lockdown protests 'domestic terrorism'

Brooke Seipel
The Hill
Fri, 15 May 2020 15:58 UTC
Hillary Clinton
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Hillary Clinton is condemning armed protests calling for the end to stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic, calling the demonstrations "domestic terrorism."

"Armed men storming a legislature to disrupt its democratic proceedings is domestic terrorism. It cannot be tolerated," Clinton tweeted Friday.

Her tweet linked to an article by Newsweek about Michigan choosing to close down its Capitol and cancel its legislative session after armed protests and death threats to Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

On Thursday, armed protesters had gathered outside the state Capitol for planned "judgment day" demonstrations against the state's stay-at-home order, which opponents have demanded be lifted businesses and the economy suffer during the pandemic.


Comment: The real thugs and perpetrators of domestic terrorism here are the governors who have placed extreme lockdowns, instilled fear of others, and have devastated their states economies.

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Deep State sanctions fail: Russia got rid of 96% of its US debt holdings in favor of massive gold reserves, China follows suit

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ
Mon, 18 May 2020 15:33 UTC
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Moscow has continued to sell off United States Treasury securities, cutting its stockpile by US$8.73 billion in March alone, according to the latest data from the US Department of the Treasury. Russia's holdings of US state debt amounted to $3.8 billion in March, compared with $12.5 billion just a month earlier, according to RT.

For reference, just three years ago, the amount of United States Treasury securities in Russia stood at $105 billion, which is virtually a 3-fold slump in a relatively short time period. Moscow has liquidated over 96 percent of its holdings in that period. The country's long-term US Treasury securities decreased by $928 million, while short-term securities plunged by $7.8 billion to just $473 million.

Comment: Not only does 'he who has the gold, makes the rules', but they who have no debts are free to act as they choose. Russia and China have been steadily freeing themselves from financial entanglement with the West. They are well aware that western economies, and the US' in particular, are on the razor's edge of collapse.

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Saudi Arabia blocks food and medical supplies to Yemen

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ
Mon, 18 May 2020 12:00 UTC
Sanaa, Yemen hospital
© Reuters / Khaled Abdullah
Hospital in Yemen
Yemen asked the international community to try and pressure the Saudi Arabia-led coalition, which has been attacking the impoverished country since 2015, into letting in medical supplies that are urgently required for the most basic healthcare to work in the country.

"We ask this of nations to pressure the Saudi coalition into relieving Yemen's siege and allowing in medical equipment," Mohammad Ali al-Houthi, chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee of Yemen, tweeted on Sunday, PressTV reported.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its allies invaded the Arab world's already most impoverished nation in March 2015 to try and restore power to its former Riyadh-backed officials.

The invaders have, throughout the course of the war, been enforcing an all-out aerial, naval, and land blockade on the country under the pretext of preventing the transfer of arms to Yemen's popular Houthi Ansarullah movement that has been defending the nation against the military campaign.

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Network

Korean IT firm KT bands together with Bill Gates for research on ICT-based response to infectious diseases

Choi Moon-hee
Business Korea
Mon, 18 May 2020 11:34 UTC
KT web conference

Byun Hyung-kyun (second from left), vice president of KT’s AI and Big Data Services, discusses research on ICT-based infectious disease prevention and containment with Dan Wattendorf, director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, via a teleconferencing system.
KT will join Microsoft founder Bill Gates to develop an infectious disease response system to prevent a second COVID-19 crisis.

KT announced on May 17 that it will launch a research project on next-generation quarantine for infectious diseases. The three-year project, which will cost 12 billion won, will be 50 percent funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

With this study, KT will develop an AI-based algorithm for early diagnosis of infectious diseases and a communication data-based disease spread path prediction model.

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Info

Is the lockdown the greatest policy disaster in US history?

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Mon, 18 May 2020 00:00 UTC
breaking the chains
"Lockdowns are meant to condition people to obey without question. A nation of people who just do what they are told by the "experts" without question is a nation ripe for a descent into total tyranny."

— Ron Paul
Donald Trump calls the media "the enemy of the people", but it's much worse than that. The media is a national security threat. Just look at the way they've handled the coronavirus. The hysterical 24-7 coverage has people so terrified they've locked themselves in their homes inflicting catastrophic damage on the economy. That disaster never would've taken place if the media hadn't focused all their energy on scaring people to death. Now the damage is done, millions of people have lost their jobs, tens of thousands of small and mid-sized businesses are facing bankruptcy, and the world's biggest economy has been reduced to a smoldering wastelands. And what was gained? Nothing. Check out this excerpt from an article by economist Jack Ramsay:
"The magnitude and rapidity of the shutdown of the real economy in the US is unprecedented. Even during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the contraction of the real economy occurred over a period of several years — not months....

...once the contraction in the real economy accelerates and deepens, it inevitably leads to defaults and bankruptcies.... The defaults and bankruptcies then provoke a financial crisis that feeds back on the real economy, causing it to deteriorate still further. Income losses by businesses, households and local government thereafter in turn cause a further decline. Once negative feedback effects within the economy begin, it matters little if the health crisis is soon abated. The economic dynamic has been set in motion. ....The Fed.. can make a mass of free money and cheap loans available, but businesses and households may be reluctant to borrow, preferring to hoard their cash — and the loans as well. In other words, the deeper and faster the contraction, the more difficult and slower the recovery" ("The Myth of V-Shape Economic Recovery", Jack Rasmus)
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Health

'I'm still here': Trump reveals he's been taking Hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19


RT
Mon, 18 May 2020 00:28 UTC
trump
© REUTERS/Leah Millis
US President Donald Trump shocked reporters by revealing that he has been taking the anti-malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine as a preventative against the coronavirus, following the advice of the White House physician.

"I've been taking it for about a week and a half now and I'm still here," he said on Monday, following a meeting with governors at the White House. "I was just waiting to see your eyes light up when I said this," he told the reporter asking the question.

Asked what evidence he had that the drug was helpful, Trump said "I get a lot of positive calls about it," before adding, "What do you have to lose?"

Comment: Previously:

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