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UN angry after hundreds of Europe-bound migrants stopped at sea, returned to Libya


Breitbart
Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:00 UTC
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Libya's coast guard intercepted over 400 Europe-bound migrants off the country's Mediterranean coast and returned them to the capital of Tripoli over the past 24 hours, the UN migration agency said Sunday.

The International Organization for Migration tweeted that 301 migrants on three boats were intercepted on Saturday and brought back to Tripoli. Another 105 migrants on two boats were intercepted on Sunday.

It said most of the migrants were taken to detention centres in Libya, where there are "serious concerns over their safety."

Some migrants managed to escape at the disembarkation point, as the boats were brought back to shore, the IOM said.

"It is unacceptable for this to continue despite repeated calls to put an end to the return of vulnerable people to detention and abuse," said Safa Msehli, a spokeswoman for the IOM.


Comment: Under the mask of humanitarian concerns the UN continues to take the view that allowing more migrants into Europe is somehow a good thing. But then again the UN by its statements and policies appears to be deluded about a good many things; climate change, regime change wars, free speech among others. The UN is held captive by ideological possession ala George Soros, and would benefit from the knowledge and the wisdom of wiser minds.

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Bad Guys

New police powers to be rushed through UK gov to 'tackle coronavirus'

Annabelle Dickson
Politico
Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:32 UTC
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© Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesPolice and immigration officers in the U.K. could receive new powers to detain people
The U.K. government on Tuesday set out a suite of new powers it will seek to tackle coronavirus.

Police and immigration officers would be given new powers to detain people and put them in isolation facilities "if necessary to protect public health," under the proposed new law due to be introduced in parliament on Thursday.

The U.K. Border Force would be allowed to temporarily suspend operations at airports and other transport hubs "if there are insufficient resources to maintain border security."

The emergency bill also proposes a relaxation of the rules around registering deaths; measures to allow recently retired National Health Service staff and social workers to return to work without it hitting their pensions; and a reduction in paperwork so patients can be discharged from hospital quicker.

Comment: Will these new 'relaxed' rules really be switched off once the 'crisis' has blown over?

See also: Panic Pandemic: Why Are People Who Should Know Better Buying The COVID-19 Hype?

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Bizarro Earth

Multiple rockets hit Green Zone in Baghdad, US coalition denies attack on Camp Taji


RT
Wed, 18 Mar 2020 20:17 UTC
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© Reuters / Thaier al-Sudani
At least three rockets have reportedly struck Baghdad's Green Zone, according to Iraqi authorities. The spokesman for the US-led coalition denied reports of a rocket attack on nearby coalition base Camp Taji, however.

Several unguided Katyusha rockets struck the fortified area on Tuesday, reportedly striking homes in the al-Jadriya neighborhood.

The projectiles landed over 2km from the US embassy in Baghdad, according to coalition spokesman Myles Caggins, and there were no reported casualties.

Caggins denied a report of late-night rocket fire on Camp Taji, the coalition base where one British and two American servicemen were killed last week.

The attack was the fourth in a week and came just a day after two rockets hit Besmayah, a coalition base 45km southeast of Baghdad that is home to NATO troops including a large Spanish contingent. On Saturday, a strike on Camp Taji wounded two Iraqis and three American servicemembers.
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Arrow Up

Trump officially cinches Republican Party nomination

Tamar Lapin
New York Post
Wed, 18 Mar 2020 01:30 UTC
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It was a 'for Don' conclusion.

President Trump officially cinched the GOP nomination on Tuesday night after raking in wins in the Florida and Illinois primaries.

Trump — who had only token opposition — now has more than the 1,276 delegates, the necessary threshold for the nomination, according to an Associated Press count.

"It shows the enthusiasm behind President Trump, it shows how unified Republicans are behind President Trump and how intense their support for him is," said Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh.

"Republicans and President Trump's supporters have been just itching to get involved in the process that will end with his reelection in November," Murtaugh said.

The president had 1,141 delegates going into Tuesday's contests and needed 135 more to win. Arizona was not holding a Republican primary.

His re-nomination came much faster than in 2016, when he passed the magic number in late May in North Dakota.

Trump reaped all but one of the available delegates this primary season, with former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld winning one in the Iowa caucuses.
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Vader

Chinese Foreign Ministry announces plans to expel New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal reporters from country

Ken Meyer
Mediaite
Tue, 17 Mar 2020 03:15 UTC
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The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that they will expel American journalists from three news outlets — the New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal — who are stationed to work in the country.

The press release, entitled "China Takes Countermeasures Against US Suppression of Chinese Media Organizations in the United States," claims that "the US government has placed unwarranted restrictions on Chinese media agencies and personnel in the US, purposely made things difficult for their normal reporting assignments, and subjected them to growing discrimination and politically-motivated oppression." The announcement goes on to say that the Chinese government will direct a number of retaliatory measures against The New York Times, Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Voice of America and Time Magazine.
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Putin: Russians will vote on constitution changes on April 22 if coronavirus situation allows


RT
Wed, 18 Mar 2020 03:08 UTC
moscow polling station
© AFP / Kirill KudryavtsevMoscow polling station
Given COVID-19, it's difficult to predict what may happen in the coming months. But if the spread is contained, Russia's nationwide vote on proposed constitutional changes will be held on April 22, Vladimir Putin has confirmed.

The decree setting the date for the upcoming vote was signed by the president on Tuesday. Voters will be asked one simple question: 'Do you support the constitutional changes?'

The package of constitutional amendments was tabled by Putin in January and approved by legislators earlier this month. The changes, among other things, envision extra powers for Russia's Upper House, restricting future president's time in office to two overall terms, and creating a new government body - the State Council.
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Dominoes

Coronavirus cancels major military drills, gives Europe reprieve from NATO warmongering


RT
Tue, 17 Mar 2020 03:05 UTC
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NATO's massive military exercise 'Defender Europe 2020' has been effectively canceled over the covid-19 pandemic. Instead of hype about Russia, perhaps the alliance should address the actual danger to Europe, analysts tell RT.

The Pentagon had already deployed some 6,000 troops and 3,000 pieces of equipment to Europe by March 13, when the transfers were halted amid the rapid spread of the coronavirus. The decision to cancel the drills actually improved European security, since the risk of covid-19 transmission among the troops - and from them to civilians - was unacceptably high, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and international security commentator Scott Ritter told RT.
Social distancing is impossible in military formations.
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Attention

Obama DOJ officials privately told Mueller they were 'alarmed' by FBI's treatment of Flynn

John Solomon
JusttheNews.com
Wed, 18 Mar 2020 02:09 UTC
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© Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesRetired General Mike Flynn
Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates and other senior Obama-era Justice Department officials told the Russia special prosecutor in private interviews they had concerns about the FBI's conduct in investigating former Trump National Security Adviser Mike Flynn, according to memos that paint a dark portrait of the bureau's behavior.

The documents, which include a letter from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team transmitting exculpatory evidence to Flynn's defense lawyers in 2018, offer the most detailed montage to date about why Attorney General Bill Barr recently appointed a special prosecutor to review the government's actions in the Flynn case.

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No Entry

Translator present at Trump Tower meeting told FBI 'no collusion', but the Mueller Report buried it

Mark Hemingway
RealClearInvestigations
Thu, 12 Mar 2020 17:49 UTC
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© Eyewitness News ABC7NY
Just days after news of the infamous Trump Tower meeting drew the attention of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, the translator present told the FBI there was no talk of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, according to recently released documents.

Anatoli Samochornov, translator, quoted in FBI memo: "There was no discussion of the 2016 United States presidential election or Collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign."

This exculpatory evidence - which backed accounts of Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign officials in attendance - was not mentioned in Special Counsel Mueller's final report two years later. And the silence in the interim occurred as sinister theorizing on cable TV and in the press helped shape a public impression of the June 9, 2016 meeting as central to collusion.
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Snakes in Suits

Best of the Web: Evidence shows WHO severely overstated the fatality rate of the coronavirus leading to the greatest global panic in history

Joe Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Tue, 17 Mar 2020 01:27 UTC
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Director General of the WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
The controversial Ethiopian politician and Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, claimed in a press conference in early March that the fatality rate for the coronavirus was many multiples that of the fatality rate of the common flu. This egregiously false premise has led to the greatest panic in world history.

The Director General of the WHO spoke on March 3, 2020 and shared this related to the coronavirus:
While many people globally have built up immunity to seasonal flu strains, COVID-19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity. That means more people are susceptible to infection, and some will suffer severe disease.

Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.
This statement led to the greatest panic in world history as the media all over the world shared and repeated that the coronavirus was many, many times more deadly than the common flu.
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