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India's migrant exodus: Media and liberals attempt to use national crisis to destabilize Modi government amid lockdown


RT
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 02:36 UTC
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© (L) Reuters / Anushree Fadnavis, (R) Reuters / Altaf Hussain
With India's 1.3 billion people now on Covid-19 lockdown, the country faces another urgent crisis; the sudden exodus of inter-state migrants, now out of work, desperately fleeing the capital to reach their countryside villages.

Thousands of poor migrants were seen crowding a bus station in Delhi on Saturday, with little choice but to completely ignore the rules on maintaining 'social distancing' — one of the necessary steps taken across the world to 'flatten the curve' of the novel coronavirus outbreak. Similar scenes were witnessed in other provinces, too, as migrants attempted to make their way out of cities and back home.

Health risks

It seems this mass movement has been sparked mostly by fear. These migrants, already poor, have been left with no money in their pockets — and with work no longer readily available, it's become even harder for them to feed themselves, let alone their families.

Comment: See also: Modi Wins Second Term as India's PM Following 'Unexpected' Landslide Victory in Largest Ever Democratic Election - Globalist Media Seething

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Nancy Pelosi: Cancer on the body politic

Patricia McCarthy
American Thinker
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 06:22 UTC
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"Nancy Pelosi is a cancer on the body politic."

Those are the words of Mark Levin, and he is profoundly correct. It is actually an understatement. This woman has dedicated her entire recent term to impeaching President Trump over a phone call. She stupidly bought into Adam Schiff's lunacy that they had the evidence that the president had threatened the president of Ukraine with a quid pro quo -- either investigate the Clinton campaign's meddling in the 2016 election or else. None of that was true, any more than the Russia collusion hoax, but Pelosi still gambled that she could take out Trump with that phony ploy. It was Biden who threatened Ukraine with an actual quid pro quo -- either fire the man investigating my son or lose a billions dollars in U.S. aid.

Then came the Wuhan virus. Oh my, were the Democrats thrilled. This would be the crisis they could use, manipulate to their desired end. This is how utterly stupid these Democrats are! This is how malicious they are; they are ready and willing to destroy the United States economy to take down a president they abhor. Why do the loathe him so? Because he is effective and successful. The American people, those not members of the political/academic class, love this man. They love him for a myriad of good reasons. Chief among them is that he recognizes and respects them, unlike the partisans of the left who view most Americans as nothing more than flotsam and jetsam, inconveniences they must tolerate. So superior to the worth of most citizens do the likes of those who inhabit Pelosi's circle of pals see themselves, they suffer no unease over dismissing us as invalid. That so many of us love and revere President Trump makes us all the more worthy of their dripping disdain.

Nancy Pelosi is a blight upon her district. San Francisco is a disaster about which she cares nothing. It is a city ravaged by drug abuse, homelessness, rampant crime and all the other scourges of leftism. She lives extravagantly in her gated mansion. She lives a life of wealth and privilege in city suffering a civilizational collapse created and orchestrated by her own party. She revels in it. She has become a near-billionairess by way of politics of the most corrupt variety. She is indeed a cancer on the body politic.

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Yemen's Houthi militia accuse Saudi-led coalition of weaponizing coronavirus


Sputnik
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 02:05 UTC
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Respiratory mask
Efforts to mediate the crisis in Yemen, which marked its fifth anniversary last week, have been complicated by repeated back-and-forth strikes by the Saudi-led military coalition and Yemen's Houthi rebels.

Houthi Information Minister Dhaifullah Al-Shami has urged civilians not to use facemasks and any other medical equipment dropped from Saudi-coalition aircraft in recent days, claiming that they may be contaminated with the coronavirus, Almasirah, a Yemeni television channel has reported.
Al-Shami voiced his "surprise" at seeing coalition aircraft dropping facemasks in Sana'a and other provinces, given that "US-Saudi aggression had caused the worst humanitarian catastrophe" in his country. According to the minister, there were no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Yemen. Al-Shami urged media and activists to spread the word about the alleged danger posed by the air-dropped masks.
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Because they 'care' so much: Health official says Israel may need to 'medically annex' West Bank

Sari Bashi
Responsible Statecraft
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 21:42 UTC
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© Ryan Rodrick Beiler / Shutterstock.com
Cars wait to pass through the Israeli military checkpoint in the separation wall controlling movement between Bethlehem and Jerusalem
The threat of COVID-19 in Israel/Palestine has created unprecedented cooperation between the Israeli and Palestinian authorities, including the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, to limit travel.

Israel has a genuine interest in preventing the coronavirus from spreading among Palestinians, too. But the newly imposed travel restrictions serve an additional goal: furthering Israeli annexation of the West Bank, as outlined by the Trump administration's Mideast peace plan.

In contrast to federal, state, and local governments in the U.S., the Israeli and Palestinian authorities began cooperating relatively early to contain COVID-19. They required travelers from at least some countries to self-quarantine in early February, they closed Palestinian schools on March 5 and Israeli schools on March 12, and as of last week, they mostly closed external borders and ordered residents of Israel and the West Bank to stay home.
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How a police state is born

Steve McCann
American Thinker
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:00 UTC
drone shaming quarantine UK

Many will have seen the films, pictured, taken by Derbyshire (UK) police drones, of lonely walkers on the remote, empty hills, publicly pillorying them for not obeying the regulations. It is genuinely hard to see what damage these walkers have done.
The United States and much of the western world, by utilizing the most draconian of tactics, is plunging many nations into potential economic and societal chaos as they attempt to stem the tide of the Chinese Coronavirus. Relying on dubious and error-prone projections, politicians and bureaucrats constitutionally or statutorily limited in their power, are now exercising near-dictatorial authority in their edicts, which are effectively suspending or terminating numerous freedoms under the guise of protecting their respective nations.

All Americans, not be just those with first-hand experience dealing with World War II and its aftermath or living in Eastern Europe under iron boot of the Soviet Union or escaping the Communist/socialist hellholes of Cuba, Southeast Asia or Venezuela, should view these actions with considerable trepidation.

When societies lose their freedom, it is not ordinarily because autocrats or tyrants have forcibly taken it away. It is usually the result of the population willingly surrendering their freedom in return for protection against an external threat. While the threat is oftentimes real, it is invariably exaggerated.

Comment: See also: Coronavirus as a substitute for world war

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UK government chose Covid-19 lock down model despite reputable alternatives, why?

Rob Lyons
RT
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 07:01 UTC
Enfield
© Reuters / John Sibley
A sign is seen on a trolley at a closed store in Crews Hill as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues, Enfield, Britain on March 31, 2020.
It may beggar belief that the UK government took the advice of a professor who's messed up before. But let's not forget that it's our leaders who chose to implement the measures causing long-term harm to our economy and society.

In the UK government's daily press conference on Covid-19 on Sunday, the deputy chief medical officer, Jenny Harries, explained the government's approach to the unprecedented measures put in place to tackle the pandemic. Her manner was calm, but her message depressing: "Three weeks for review, two or three months to see if we've really squashed it, three to six months ideally, there's lots of uncertainty in that, to see at what point we can get back to normal, it is plausible it could go further than that."

The measures are astonishing by the standards of wartime, never mind peacetime. Essentially, the UK is now under a form of house arrest. Healthy citizens under the age of 70 are allowed out only for exercise, to buy essentials, to go to work if they really can't work from home, and to help with the needs of others. For everyone over 70 or who has a health condition that leaves them particularly vulnerable to Covid-19, the strong advice is not to leave their homes at all till mid-June at the earliest.

Comment: It's more probable that the government simply used the research that supported their chosen course of action:

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Exploiting corona: Israel attacks Homs in Syria again


Sputnik
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 21:52 UTC
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The Lebanese media outlet earlier reported about a significant presence of Israeli warplanes flying low over the districts of Keserwan and Matn in northern Lebanon.

Alleged videos of Syrian air defences repelling a missile attack over Syria's Homs have emerged online.

According to the state news agency SANA, the air defence systems downed Israeli missiles. There were no immediate reports of damages or casualties.

The Syrian military often accuses Israeli Air Force jets of violating its airspace in order to conduct airstrikes on the country's territory.


Comment: Sputnik also reports the following:
Syrian air defences have intercepted Israeli missiles flying through the airspace above the city of Homs, Syria's SANA news agency reported. The agency added that none of the missiles succeeded in reaching their targets as a result.

Damascus has not officially commented on SANA's report.

Prior to the attack, Lebanon's Sham FM reported that Israeli jets were spotted flying low above the country's Kesrouan province, which lies on the way between the territory of Israel and the Syrian city of Homs. Alleged witnesses claim that the jets fired missiles while travelling through Lebanese airspace.


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Technology of death: The not-so-shocking report on Israeli weapons exports

Ramzy Baroud
The Jordan Times
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 21:07 UTC
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The Middle East region, battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left millions of people stateless, hungry and diseased, is in urgent need for peace, security and reconstruction. Thanks to the US, Russian, French, Israeli and other weapons manufacturers, however, it is now the dumping ground for military hardware, an ominous sign for the years ahead.

Data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on March 9, paints a grim picture of the world, in general, and the Middle East, in particular. According to the report, the demand for weapons in the warring region has increased by a whopping 61 per cent between 2015 and 2019.

The correlation between arms, war and casualty count needs no elaborate algorithm to be deciphered, as facts on the ground amply demonstrate. Syria remains the epicenter of conflict in the Middle East, with Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Palestine and South Sudan trailing, but not far behind.

The top five merchants of death, according to SIPRI, are the United States, Russia, France, Germany and China. Interestingly, while US arms exports have increased exponentially by 76 per cent in the last five years, Russia's arms exports fell by 18 per cent.

The US market is in constant expansion as it now includes 96 client countries, while Russia has, essentially, lost one of its most significant clients, India.

Ruled by a right-wing Hindu nationalist government, Delhi has found in Tel Aviv a more ideologically like-minded supplier. The special 'friendship' between India's Narendra Modi and Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has made India Israel's largest weapons market.
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Magic, morphing US satellite evidence for MH17: Now you see it, now you don't

John Helmer
Dances with Bears
Tue, 31 Mar 2020 20:43 UTC
MH17 trial lawyers

John Kerry, Fred Westerbeke, Tjibbe Joustra, John Tefft
The US satellite images proving that a BUK missile brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014, have existed for twenty-three days - between July 20 and August 12, 2014. Since then they ceased to exist. Since then too, for almost six years, no US Government official has claimed in public, nor told Dutch police, prosecutors, or military intelligence officials in secret, that the images can be viewed with the naked eye.

A week ago, on March 23, Hendrik Steenhuis, a judge of The Hague District Court, ordered the production and disclosure of these US satellite images as evidence in the trial of four men accused of transporting the missile to its launch site, participating in the order to fire, and intending to kill all 298 people on board the aircraft.

Steenhuis, the presiding trial judge, gave Dutch prosecutors until June 8 to comply with the order and prove the satellite images exist. If they do not, the foundation of the case against the four accused, and against the Russian military and political command for ordering the BUK launched, will collapse.
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Corona-circus updates: Putin grants govt emergency powers if Covid-19 worsens, global stocks dive again, Germany extends lockdown


RT
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 20:12 UTC
putin
© Sputnik / Aleksey Druzhinin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing the government to declare a nationwide emergency should the current efforts not be enough to keep the situation with coronavirus, also known as Covid-19, under control.

In a case of emergency, the government would be able to directly control all medical goods and drugs trade within a special response system as well as introduce stricter quarantine measures. It would also be able to temporarily freeze all potential bankruptcy cases. The new legislation also separately introduces additional measures to support Russia's tourism industry.

Most of the country has already imposed some form of lockdown anyway. Residents of Moscow, where more than a half of all confirmed coronavirus cases are registered, have to comply with a strict home-isolation regime.

Comment: The Russian military plane with medical aid landed in the New York today. If there's one good thing to come out of this, it would be better relations with Russia! Chances are slim, though. In Russia, the number of new cases dropped, and while RT says it is "cause for alarm" that almost half of those infected are under 45, that's actually not a bad thing. Younger people have a better chance of surviving. (Alcohol sales in Moscow are up 148%.)

European and American markets took another dive, after Trump quoted guesses that "up to 240k" Americans could die. Where are they getting these numbers, especially given that China, a nation with a population several times larger than the U.S., experienced a fraction of that? The Pentagon refused one aircraft carrier captain's plea to evacuate and quarantine his ship after over 100 tested positive. Do they know something we don't? Cruise ships sequestered off the U.S. east coast have been ordered to remain at sea and prepare to treat passengers who get the virus on-ship.

Germany extended their lockdown until April 19. Georgia (the country) declared a curfew. These unnecessary lockdowns will have an effect: many right now are fully supporting them and acting like Gestapo informants on their neighbors, while some are growing resentful. The latter will probably increase in numbers as the lockdowns continue. For example, an Arab neighborhood in Jaffa rioted after Israel cops targeted an alleged "quarantine-breaker".


Over 400 Spanish journalists rejected a new press conference format in which questions are filtered by government press officers. US nurses are protesting over lack of safety gear. And over in the UK, only 15% of the number of medical personnel self-isolating or under quarantine have tested positive. It turns out that the vast majority are fine and fit for work. What a great way to ensure health facilities are ready for the alleged expected "surge" in patients: make sure health workers can't actually work! They can't even follow through on a plan that was already dumb to begin with. But that's government for you.

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