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From lions to lambs: Covid-19 reveals supposedly freedom-loving British to be anything but, as we happily clap away our liberty

Guy Birchall
RT
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:57 UTC
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The country that gave the world the Magna Carta has reacted to the pandemic by allowing centuries of hard-earned personal and financial freedoms to be stripped away in the name of safety.

We Brits like to think of ourselves as a freedom-loving people. Two world wars, a 50-year Cold War, and interventions in the Middle East against totalitarian regimes, were all conducted in the name of liberty.

The myriad of nations once in our empire are now some of the freest countries in the world. The US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, even the planet's largest democracy, India, were all born out of what is often thought of as a distinctly British attitude to freedom. The Magna Carta, John Lock, John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith all emerged from this small island off the coast of mainland Europe, and we should damn well be proud of that.
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Airlines are in freefall amid Covid-19 pandemic, but why should taxpayers foot the bill?

Jason O'Toole
RT
Sat, 25 Apr 2020 15:53 UTC
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Airlines are turning to governments for rescue money - but bailing out the massive capitalist ventures makes about as much sense as leaving the middle row empty to avoid the virus.

With the world in a tailspin from Covid-19, airlines are in for a bumpy ride - and some of them are inevitably going to crash and burn. Everything may be up in the air but one thing is for certain: flying will never be the same again.

Air travel will be a much different beast when this lockdown nightmare is over. Some airlines and EU states now want to introduce in-flight social distancing with the middle seats left vacant, as part of a set of new rules to be announced next month. There's also talk about airlines cancelling or reducing their in-flight food and beverages service to reduce interaction.

There will no doubt be some other regulations, such as compulsory facemasks, tedious longer queues when boarding, and temperature taking - which is almost pointless because some Covid-19 carriers will be asymptomatic.
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Cult

Murder, burglary soars in New York City during coronavirus lockdown

John Binder
Breitbart
Sun, 26 Apr 2020 13:48 UTC
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While New York City remains under lockdown orders from Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, major violent crime continues to soar.

Cuomo implemented stay-at-home orders on March 20 that effectively force the closure of most businesses, except those deemed "essential," to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Even with the lockdown, major crime categories such as murder, burglary, and auto theft have spiked across New York City.

Over the last 28 days, in the middle of the lockdown, murders in New York City have jumped more than 55 percent compared to this same time last year, when there were no lockdown orders in place.

Between April 13 to April 19, murders increased 100 percent compared to the same week last year. From year-to-date, murders are up by 5.7 percent.

Likewise, grand larceny auto — a crime that no longer warrants bail in New York — has increased more than 53 percent compared to last year. Specifically, there have been 500 charges for auto theft in the last 28 days. During that same time in 2019, there were 326 charges for auto theft.

Over the last week, grand larceny auto crimes across the city have jumped 50.5 percent and they are up more than 62 percent overall since the year before — the largest spike in crime year-to-date for any major category.
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Health

Scamdemic: Most US hospitals are empty. Rural ones are closing up, and soon they might be closed for good

Rick Jackson
Newsweek
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 09:42 UTC
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© Gregory Shamus/GettyA undercover SUV passes by the Children's Hospital of Michigan during a parade to support health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic on April 17 in Detroit.
Tens of thousands of health care workers across the United States are going without pay today, even as providers in the nation's hot spots struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic.


Comment: There is no "struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic" because there is no "coronavirus pandemic."


This "tale of two hospitals" is a function of clumsy, if well-intentioned, federal and state directives to halt all non-emergency procedures, which appeared at first blush to be a reasonable precaution to limit unnecessary exposure and safeguard staff, beds and equipment.


Comment: No, that's not why they said they postponed all 'non-essential' medical treatments: they said they did so because a 'surge' of COVID-19 cases were coming and hospitals had to prepare accordingly for the influx of patients. It never happened...


But instead of merely preserving hospital beds and other resources, this heavy-handed injunction has created a burden of its own design: a historic number of empty beds in systems left untouched by the pandemic.


Comment: Because so few are sick with COVID-19.


Comment: Neither, in fact. It should be the President and the Executive making decisions, but they're hostage to a medical mafia with mad scientific designs on humanity.

See also: First, Do No Harm: If Primary Healthcare Remains Shut Down, Toll on Elderly Will be Worse Than COVID-19

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Best of the Web: When COVID-19 deaths go up, other deaths go down

Koen Swinkels
Medium
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:01 UTC
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CDC data show that increases in the number of COVID-19 deaths coincide with roughly proportional decreases in the number of non-pneumonia & non-influenza deaths.

The result is that the overall numbers of weekly deaths are roughly the same in 2020 as they were in the 4 years prior. (Do note that the 2020 numbers for Week 16 could still be revised upwards)

As to why this is so, there are likely multiple reasons, but part of the explanation may have to do with the way COVID-19 deaths are counted, as described in this (frankly shocking) video: If someone dies and at the time of death was also known to have tested positive for COVID-19 they are automatically counted as a COVID-19 death. In other words, deaths are listed as COVID-19 deaths even when the cause of death was clearly something else.

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'How do you prosecute Assange and not prosecute journalists everywhere?' - Greenwald to RT on threat to journalists worldwide


RT
Sun, 26 Apr 2020 17:20 UTC
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© REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/File PhotoA supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange posts a sign on the Woolwich Crown Court fence in London.
The US' request to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange sets a dangerous precedent, the Intercept's founder Glenn Greenwald has told RT, warning that it puts journalists around the world in danger.

The most "amazing" fact about Assange's case, as far as Greenwald is concerned, is that the US government is seeking to charge him for violating the Espionage Act. But the WikiLeaks founder "is not an American citizen, he never worked with a media outlet in the United States, [and] none of the alleged crimes he committed took place on American soil," he said during former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa's show on RT Spanish.

If Assange is successfully extradited to the US, Greenwald predicts this will prove the country has the right to "reach over and grab" someone "anywhere in the world" reporting things they don't like.

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Yellow Vest

Israel's lockdown unrest: Market traders protest unfair closure while other stores reopen, banks raise interest on loans, unemployment rising


Times of Israel
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 09:54 UTC
Merchants clashed with police at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda fruit and vegetable market on Sunday during a demonstration called to protest the continued closure of the landmark open air market even as most stores nationwide have been allowed to reopen during the COVID-19 crisis.

Videos posted online showed a scrum of small businessmen scuffling with uniformed officers at the market's Agrippas Street entrance. One of the protesters was arrested and later released and Tali Friedman, who represents Mahane Yehuda's shop owners, was summoned for questioning by the police.

In an interview with Army Radio, Friedman said it was illogical for Mahane Yehuda and Israel's other outdoor markets to be kept closed while all other stores outside of shopping malls were now permitted to open, declaring that "this cannot go on." She said that the shop owners had tried to maintain social distancing during their protest, but that it hadn't always been possible.

Comment: See also: #Resistance: Protesters gather in southern Russia and Germany to demand end to 'pandemic lockdown'

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South Dakota Governor leads the lockdown rebellion: Kristi Noem vows to keep her state open

Luke Kenton
Daily Mail
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:40 UTC
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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem accused Americans across the nation of giving up their 'liberties for a little bit of security', vowing to go against the grain and continue to keep her state open despite nationwide calls to order a shutdown.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem accused Americans across the nation of giving up their 'liberties for a little bit of security', vowing to go against the grain and keep her state open as protests against lockdown orders are staged nationwide.

Infections in the state have trebled in just one week and is home to one of the country's largest virus hotspots following an outbreak at a pork processing plant.

At the start of the month there were only 129 infections in the state but, as of Thursday, 988 cases have since been confirmed and six deaths reported.

Comment: Good on Noem! She kept her state open and the numbers are not particularly high. At the end of the day, those who panicked and shut everything down are going to have a lot to answer for.

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Brooklyn man arrested on attempted rape days after being released from Rikers Island over coronavirus fears

Tina Moore and Vincent Barone
New York Post
Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:30 UTC
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© ShutterstockPolice responding to a 911 call found Robert Pondexter, 57 -- and his crackpipe -- at around 5:45 a.m. Saturday on East New York Avenue, between Schenectady and Troy avenues, the sources allege.
An East Flatbush man accused of rape almost raped another woman just 10 days after he was released from Rikers Island over coronavirus fears, police sources said.

Cops responding to a 911 call found Robert Pondexter, 57 with a crack pipe at around 5:45 a.m. Saturday on East New York Avenue between Schenectady and Troy avenues, the sources allege.

Pondexter had been walking across the street from the Concern Heights Apartments building, a supportive housing development on the block, when he allegedly grabbed the woman by the collar and pulled her into a school parking lot.

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Info

Staff slam empty London Nightingale hospital as a 'complete waste of money' as patients drop to a 'ludicrously low' 26

Mark Nicol
Daily Mail
Sun, 26 Apr 2020 08:37 UTC
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Military personnel work inside the ExCel centre in London on March 31, 2020, which has been transformed into a field hospital but remains empty despite its high capacity.
The number of patients being treated at the NHS's new showcase Nightingale Hospital fell to just 26 last week after managers failed to tackle a chronic nursing shortage.

A source at the 3,600-bed flagship facility told The Mail on Sunday the 'ludicrously low' number of Covid19 victims had shattered morale among medical staff and claimed the Nightingale was 'a complete waste of money and resources'.

The 26 patients are being looked after on a single ward by up to 180 medical practitioners and welfare staff, many of whom are being accommodated at hotels near the hospital in London's Docklands.

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