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Trump threatens to make WHO funding freeze permanent

Phil Helsel
NBC News
Tue, 19 May 2020 16:29 UTC
Donald Trump
© Tom Brenner / Getty Images file"The only way forward for the World Health Organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from China," President Donald Trump wrote in the letter.
President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to make the freeze on U.S. funding for the World Health Organization permanent.

He also laid out allegations of "missteps" in the way the agency responded to the coronavirus in a letter he said he sent to the WHO's leader.

The letter, which was posted to Trump's Twitter account and comes midway through the World Health Assembly, is addressed to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. It accuses the organization of an "alarming lack of independence from the People's Republic of China."

The coronavirus outbreak began in Wuhan, China. As of late Monday, it had killed more than 318,000 people around the world, according to Johns Hopkins University. In the U.S., more than 91,100 have died, according to an NBC News count.

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Don't hold your breath: WHO chief promises independent & 'transparent' review of its handling of Covid-19 pandemic response


RT
Mon, 18 May 2020 17:05 UTC
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The World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has promised that an independent review of the organization's response to the Covid-19 pandemic will begin at the "earliest appropriate" time.

Speaking to the annual meeting of the World Health Assembly on Monday, Tedros said the WHO had "lessons to learn" and that the body "must examine its response" to the global health crisis.


Comment: Perhaps they ought to look into the fact that lockdowns and social distancing have shown to have very little effect in containing the coronavirus. Once they do that, they should all then resign from their positions.


He promised that the WHO was committed to "transparency" and "accountability" following criticisms of the organization's handling of the pandemic, particularly from the Donald Trump administration, which cut its funding last month, triggering international criticism.

Trump has accused the WHO of acting in a "China-centric" manner and of "covering up" information about the spread of the Covid-19 infection at Beijing's command. Both the WHO and China have rejected those claims. On Monday, Tedros said that the organization had "sounded the alarm early" and "sounded it often" as the virus spread around the world.
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Trump and top aides question accuracy of virus death toll

Jonathan Swan, Sam Baker
Axios
Wed, 06 May 2020 16:30 UTC
Donald Trump
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Comment: Please excuse the nauseating propaganda that follows. It is, however, a good example of how the diseased political mind can't even understand or interpret the very facts being reported.


President Trump has complained to advisers about the way coronavirus deaths are being calculated, suggesting the real numbers are actually lower — and a number of his senior aides share this view, according to sources with direct knowledge.

What's next: A senior administration official said he expects the president to begin publicly questioning the death toll as it closes in on his predictions for the final death count and damages him politically.
  • The U.S. death toll has surpassed 71,000, with more than 1.2 million confirmed cases, according to the latest figures.
  • Trump's engagement could amplify a partisan gulf we saw in this week's Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index over believing the death statistics.

Comment: Note the reliance on what the authorities say in the above article, and then note how this 'advice' is contrasted with the actual facts in the article. The authors clearly have problems with basic reading comprehension. Here's just a few examples of how to understand these numbers: And speaking of experts:

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Leftist logic: Fat-shaming OK if it's against Trump - Pelosi sparks #MorbidlyObese trend on Twitter after insulting president's weight


RT
Tue, 19 May 2020 16:37 UTC
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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was cheered by President Donald Trump's critics after dubbing him "morbidly obese," even making the phrase trend online, but many have condemned what they see as a double standard over "fat shaming."

Pelosi's comment came during an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Monday, telling the pundit she was concerned about the president's health after he said he was taking hydroxychloroquine - a controversial treatment for Covid-19 which Trump says he's taking as a preventative measure. Speaking on air, Pelosi "diagnosed" the US leader as "morbidly obese."


Trump's critics online wasted little time before cheering on Pelosi's dig at the president, while simultaneously racing to explain that it was not an example of "fat shaming" - which for some progressives is tantamount to a hate crime. "Morbid obesity" is a scientific term which Pelosi used accurately, many argued, insisting she did not intend it as an insult.
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Syria seizes stock of terrorist weapons, including US-made TOW and LAW missiles


Sputnik
Tue, 19 May 2020 16:21 UTC
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Over the past three years, authorities in Syria have seized enough terrorist weapons, ammunition, communications equipment and medical supplies to field a small army. Many of the arms were covertly delivered to the country from abroad, and paid for by powers seeking the illegal armed overthrow of Syria's government.

Local authorities found another major stock of arms and ammunition, including US-made TOW anti-tank missiles, in southern Syria on Tuesday, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) has reported.

Photos of the haul show over a dozen heavy machineguns, a cache of rocket propelled grenade launchers, some of them still sealed in their protective wrapping, hundreds of boxes of ammo of various calibers, and at least six US-made TOWs, as well as Israeli-sourced M72 LAW bazookas. Other equipment includes automatic rifles, sniper rifles and hand grenades.


The weapons are said to have been seized during recent operations to comb through liberated areas in the provinces of Daraa and As-Suwayda along Syria's southern border with Jordan.

Comment: Never forget, in the Syrian war, the U.S. and Israel were and are on the side of terrorists - specifically al-Qaeda, the organization against whom the war on terror was supposedly launched.

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

Rhea Mahbubani
Business Insider
Mon, 18 May 2020 16:01 UTC
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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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