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Russian PM Mishustin: Coronavirus-infected foreigners to be 'deported' if necessary - Deputy PM later walks back statement

Johnny Tickle
RT
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:59 UTC
Russian train virus
© Sputnik/Eugene Odinokov
A woman walks past the train from Beijing just arrived at Moscow's Yaroslavsky railway station, Russia.
Russia can isolate, quarantine, and deport foreigners struck down with the new Chinese coronavirus. The step was announced on Monday by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

However, in the evening, Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Galikova moved to calm fears of deportation and insisted that all foreign citizens diagnosed in Russia will be admitted for treatment until they recover completely. She stated that after being given the all-clear, and discharged, they "will decide themselves whether to stay in our country or not."

The country reported its first cases on Friday, raising fears that the epidemic affecting neighboring China could prompt a similar health emergency in Russia. However, Mishustin says the situation is currently contained, and there's no need for alarm.

Comment: Govts everywhere are being very indecisive about this Wuhan outbreak. They seem to be genuinely hesitant and uncertain about whether it's potentially The Plague or just 'something to keep an eye on'.

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Arrow Up

Chiefs' player celebrates Super Bowl win by paying all adoption fees for local shelter dogs

Elias Marat
The Mind Unleashed
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:44 UTC
Adopt dogs
© KC Pet Project
The Kansas City Chiefs managed to reach the highest pinnacle of professional sports with their brilliant Super Bowl win, and now one of the team's stars is paying it forward in a big way by helping some of the most vulnerable animals around.

Defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi will pay for the adoptions of all dogs currently available at the Kansas City Pet Project (KCPP), the nonprofit charity announced on Facebook.

The group wrote:
KC WINS! We are so excited to announce that the Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle, Derrick Nnadi is choosing to celebrate the Super Bowl win by paying for the adoptions of all the adoptable dogs currently at KC Pet Project!

We have had an amazing, season-long, partnership with Derrick and he couldn't have thought of a better ending.
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The gentler sex? Violence by females against men rises in UK

Ann Farmer
Mercatornet
Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00 UTC
Charlize Theron in 'Atomic Blonde

Charlize Theron in 'Atomic Blonde"
So why are we glamourising female violence in films and TV?

Domestic violence by women toward family members has risen twice as fast as those by men in the United Kingdom. According to statistics obtained by the Sunday Telegraph under freedom of information legislation, female perpetrators now account for 28 percent of cases of domestic violence - compared to 19 per cent a decade ago.

In a disturbing column in The Telegraph Celia Walden reports that in her own circle of acquaintances she finds that three out of four men have suffered some form, however mild, of abuse from women.

She is not ignoring the fact that most domestic violence is by men on women and that society has turned a blind eye to this for centuries. Indeed, she writes that in the year to March 2019, 1.6 million British women experienced domestic abuse. About two women a week are being killed by a current or former partner just in England and Wales.

As someone who has written about domestic violence against women before and will sadly feel the need to write about it again: I share that outrage. But whataboutery only ever paralyses discussion on and around any subject, and my aim today isn't to question "who are the bigger victims here?" We know that the vast majority anywhere in the world are female. No, I'm more interested in what has prompted this rise in female violence against men.

Comment: See also: Dispelling the myths about sexual abuse: Men are victims too, and women are often aggressors - but rates of violence are still lower than ever

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Rape kit backlog initiative in Missouri sends 1st batch to labs after sitting on a shelf

Ivan Pereira
ABC News
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 05:06 UTC
Rape kit
© Science Source/ Getty Images
An undated photo of sexual assault evidence collection kit.
A batch of rape kits that have been sitting on a shelf in Missouri has been sent to a lab for testing as part of the state's new initiative to clear out its backlog.

"We will move as quickly as we can to get as many kits tested," Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt told ABC News.

Missouri has thousands of rape kits that have not been tested, according to the AG's office, and advocacy groups say they hope this initial effort will help strengthen the efforts -- and, importantly, funding -- to get the remaining kits tested.

The attorney general said his office aims to get 1,250 kits tested over the next few months using a $2.8 million grant from the Department of Justice, which will also help in the prosecution of rape cases throughout the state.
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Louisiana executions stall for a decade amid legal quandary

Melinda Deslatte
ABC News
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 02:20 UTC
Death execution
Louisiana cleans its execution chamber at the state penitentiary daily, but it's been more than a decade since a condemned prisoner has laid on the chamber's black-padded gurney to die.

Sixty-eight people sit on Louisiana's death row, with no execution dates set. Though the state historically has been tough on crime and holds the dubious distinction as the nation's incarceration capital, Louisiana seems to be doing very little to carry out its death penalty.

Reaching the 10-year mark since its last execution this month, Louisiana has joined a trend of falling execution numbers across the country. Death chambers in 12 of 29 states with legalized capital punishment have gone unused for more than a decade, said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center. Utah will join that list in June.

Louisiana's execution protocols are tied up in litigation, and corrections officials say they can't obtain lethal injection drugs amid pushback from pharmaceutical manufacturers. Not surprisingly, people on opposite ends of the capital punishment debate disagree about the driving forces behind the drop in executions.
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UK: Posting 'anti-vaccine propaganda' on social media could become criminal offence, Law Commissioner says

Mike Wright
The Telegraph
Sat, 01 Feb 2020 21:00 UTC
Prof. Penney Lewis
© Ministry of Justice
Prof. Penney Lewis, who became the Law Commissioner for criminal law in January.
Posting anti-vaccine propaganda on social media could become a criminal offence - even if those promoting it believe the pseudoscience, the UK's new criminal Law Commissioner has said.

In her first interview since taking up the role, Penney Lewis, revealed she is considering whether laws should be amended to "lower the threshold" of criminality for posting false information online that endangers lives.

It comes as the Health Secretary Matt Hancock said in September he was "looking very seriously" at making vaccinations compulsory for state school pupils after the UK lost its official measles-free country status due to a steady fall in MMR immunisation rates.

Comment: When speaking the truth is outright criminalized, it doesn't get much more dystopic than this.

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Fire

Promoters of climate anxiety

Clifford F. Mass
Cliff Mass Weather Blog
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 00:01 UTC
fire
There is a special place in the underworld for those who promote anxiety, desperation, and terror in the most vulnerable. A place where the infernal warmth is particularly torrid.

And one does not have to spend much time looking for candidates for this netherworld — the front page of the Seattle Times will do fine.

On Sunday, our local tabloid featured a story about fearful/desperate folks dealing with their apocalyptic fears about climate change.

Comment: As was noted recently in this article, even the mainstream climate scientists who buy the IPCC schtick are pointing out the exaggerated claims of the extremists and the negative effect it's having on the general population. Radicals have essentially taken ahold of the the narrative and are running wild with it. It's no longer about science (nor was it ever).

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China unveils raft of financial measures including liquidity injection to prevent market crash

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 02 Feb 2020 14:44 UTC
Judging by the collapse in Chinese futures and the Offshore Yuan over the past week, China's key cash equity index - The Shanghai Composite - is set to plunge around 6-8% as the market re-opens for the first time since Lunar New Year (and the coronavorus chaos).

China stock futures have tumbled...
china stock future
© Bloomberg
And Offshore Yuan is fighting at the 7.00/USD level...

Comment: This news comes on the heels of the biggest January loss in oil prices in 30 years with those writers speculating this is related to the travel restrictions following the coronavirus.

That said, the US also took part in a massive injection of cash recently to prop up its staggering economy:
​Since recessionary indicators returned last year - ranging from the 10-year Treasury yield falling below the 3-month yield, to factory orders dropping, to continuing retail closures - gold's price started consistently ticking higher from around late May 2019. Said factors, coupled with scares within the overnight lending market, where the US Fed has been forced to essentially reprise its past Quantitative Easing program by injecting hundreds of billions of dollars into repo lending because at least one major financial institution is broken or insolvent, have kept gold's "price" above $1,450/oz. and rising.
See also: IMF warns of new 'Great Depression', Russia ahead of the curve due to increased cash & gold reserves

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Coronavirus deaths now exceed those from Sars, stocks fall 9%, China says US 'not helping'

Cissy Zhou
South China Morning Post
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 11:19 UTC
beijing face masks
© EPA-EFE
People wearing face masks in Beijing as China battles to control the coronavirus outbreak.
China has blamed the United States for spreading fears about the coronavirus, while also accusing Washington of doing nothing to help contain the outbreak.

The Chinese foreign ministry made the accusation on Monday, as the number of deaths in mainland China attributed to the coronavirus overtook the Sars epidemic of 2003.

Mainland health officials also called on people to pay extra attention to personal hygiene after traces of the coronavirus were found on surfaces, including a door handle.

Chinese health authorities announced 361 fatalities and 17,205 cases attributable to the rapidly spreading illness, as of Sunday, with 2,829 new cases and 57 deaths. That compares with 2,590 new cases and 45 deaths, nationwide, on Saturday.

Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a written statement that many countries appreciated China's efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus, with the exception of the US.

"But in the meantime, some countries, the US in particular, have inappropriately overreacted, which certainly runs counter to WHO advice," she said.

"The US government has not provided any substantial assistance to us, but it was the first to evacuate personnel from its consulate in Wuhan, the first to suggest partial withdrawal of its embassy staff, and the first to impose a travel ban on Chinese travellers. All it has done could only create and spread fear, which is a bad example."


Comment: Never let an opportunity to score political points pass you up! (This applies to both the U.S. and China.) Until the coronavirus is proven to have run its course, it's just common sense to implement a travel ban of one sort or another. Russia is doing something similar:
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Russia to suspend ALL rail passenger services with China over coronavirus outbreak from Monday


RT
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:12 UTC
train china
© Eugene Odinokov
A passenger wearing a protective mask walks past a train to Beijing at a railway station, in Moscow, Russia
All passenger trains between China and Russia, including a direct Moscow-Beijing link, will stop running from Monday due to the coronavirus outbreak, Russian Railways has announced. It's unclear when the ban will be lifted.

The company, Russia's largest state-run transport operator, announced on Sunday that it is expanding the temporary suspension of passenger trains connecting China and Russia to include a direct link between the capitals of the two countries.

The measure came into effect at midnight on Monday, Moscow time [9:00pm GMT Sunday].

Trains that embarked on their journey from Moscow to Beijing on Saturday would go no further than Zabaykalsk, a city in Russia located on the Sino-China border, the operator said.

Comment: Although the coronavirus hasn't yet proven to be more deadly or virulent than the flu, countries worldwide are enforcing more stringent border controls, repatriating citizens and stopping flights:

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