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Moscow: New coronavirus hospital opens; Russia braces for Covid-19 peak

Jonny Tickle
RT
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:03 UTC
Moscow hospital
© Denis Voronin/Moscow News Agency/Handout via REUTERSAerial view of new infectious hospital for coronavirus disease, near Moscow, April 17, 2020.
Moscow's brand-new infectious diseases hospital has admitted its first patients, despite construction having begun in mid-March. It comes as Russia recorded over 5,600 Covid-19 cases in a day, with the peak still approaching.

The 800-bed facility's completion is a much-needed antidote to the country's ever-worsening coronavirus crisis. As of Tuesday afternoon, Russia has 52,763 confirmed cases of Covid-19, and more than half of infections are in Moscow and the Moscow Region. With 5,642 cases nationwide confirmed in the last 24 hours, the opening of the hospital could not have been more timely - and, according to data mentioned by President Vladimir Putin on Monday, the worst is still to come.

The new hospital is capable of conducting more than 10,000 tests a day and includes a 1,300-capacity hostel to accommodate staff, according to Moscow's government website.
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Harvard, richest US university, nabs nearly $9M in taxpayer CARES aid

Mary Papenfuss
Yahoo! News
Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Harvard statue
© UnknownHarvard's bio-contagious statue
Harvard University, already supported by a massive $41 billion endowment, is getting nearly $9 million in taxpayer aid from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, the U.S. Department of Education announced.

Under the terms of the payout from CARES' Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund, at least half of the $8.7 million earmarked for Harvard must be reserved for emergency financial grants to students, according to the Harvard Crimson, which was the first to report the aid.

But at least some of that money — which could be used to cover tuition payments and course materials — would also end up in Harvard coffers. The funds would also likely be spent on extra technology, food and housing costs that students incurred amid "disruptions in their education" due to COVID-19, according to CARES provisions.

Though Education Secretary Betsy DeVos hailed the program in a statement earlier this month, a spokesperson later told Newsweek that DeVos "shares the concern that sending millions to schools with significant endowments is a poor use of taxpayer money."

Comment: Harvard receives some blowback!






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Ukrainian man admits killing girlfriend and cooking her legs after drinking party

Roksana Panashchuk
Irish Mirror
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:51 UTC
Oleksandr and his victim
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A 41-year-old man has admitted to killing his girlfriend and cooking her legs after feeling hungry during their drinking party.

The cannibal, identified only by his first name of Oleksandr, is said to have been frying and eating his victim's legs when police raided his house in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, in Ukraine.

According to police, Oleksandr and his 50-year-old girlfriend, who has not been named, were having a boozy party on April 13. At one point Oleksandr grabbed a kitchen knife and cut the woman's throat open, causing her death, detectives said.

Comment: How in the world is this man only facing 15 years in prison after such a gruesome crime?! It is beyond obvious monsters exist. Once they've shown to such depravity, they should by no means be allowed back into society. It appears the value of life and the protections for it are eroding quite rapidly.

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Best of the Web: Respiratory doctor calls BS on the coronavirus 'pandemic'

Makia Freeman
The Freedom Articles
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:52 UTC
respiratory doctor
© YouTube screenshotThis respiratory doctor lays out the truth behind the fake coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 test is flawed and the case count is inflated.



Comment: This video has already disappeared from the originating article. An alternate upload was found but may yet be censored.


Transcription:

"Good evening YouTube. This is our future and the power's with the people. Just wanted to let you know I am a respiratory therapist and I've been doing this for 21 years. I've been kind of all over the place doing this. I wanted to show you our equipment room here. So we want to talk about COVID-19 for a few minutes and the first thing I want to say is: does it look like there's a ventilator shortage? There's not, okay! As a matter of fact, we're running less ventilators right now than we would normally run and that's cause people are just staying home. They're not having elective surgeries. I want to talk about the numbers and the criteria that goes into what a COVID patient is, or a patient under investigation (what's also called a PUI). Basically right now, and the way it has been last couple of months when they locked us down, is that any patient that came in with a respiratory problem was labeled COVID. Now that doesn't matter if it's you got stage 4 lung cancer, pancreatitis, heart disease, liver failure and everything else - you're still, because you come in with breathing problems, you're labeled a COVID patient.
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Desertions in the desert: US 'rebel' mercenaries at Syrian base are leaving

Steven Sahiounie
Mideast Discourse
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:07 UTC
Maghaweir al-Thowra (MAT)
The last Syrian 'rebel' unit on the US payroll is dissolving by desertions. A former senior officer in the US-backed mercenary unit Maghaweir al-Thowra (MAT) deserted his unit in Syria on April 14. Samir Ghannam al-Khidr deserted the Eastern Syrian desert along with his whole family and 26 armed men. The convoy was subject to a video on social media, which showed 8 pickups, 1 truck, 11 small arms, including 5 M-16 rifles, 4 large-caliber machine guns, 5 grenade launchers and 6-7 thousand rounds of ammunition. All of the vehicles and weaponry were US military property. Al-Khidr left the illegal US base at Tanf, which is home to about 200 US soldiers, and about 100 mercenaries of MAT. Previous desertions occurred in early April.

The official Twitter account of MAT was busily posting scenarios in English. Their 'spin-doctor' belittled the deserter and made it seem that MAT allowed him to leave peacefully as if they packed him a lunch for the road.
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'Everyone was coughing & had a fever': Lukaku reveals '23 out of 25 Inter Milan players' were ill with coronavirus-type symptoms in January


RT
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:11 UTC
Romelu Lukaku
Romelu Lukaku
Romelu Lukaku has said almost every one of the Inter Milan first-team squad was stricken with illness in January which left them "coughing and with a fever," but that they were not tested for coronavirus.

Speaking in an Instagram Live chat with Belgian TV presenter Kat Kerkhofs, wife of Napoli striker Dries Mertens, Lukaku said the majority of the Inter squad had returned from the winter break in January suffering the effects of sickness.

"We had a week off in December, we returned to work and I swear that 23 out of 25 players were ill," Lukaku said, according to Football-Italia.
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SOTT Focus: The Right Perspective In Troubling Times

Tony Costa
Sott.net
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:13 UTC
group network STO
These seemingly Orwellian times are testing each and every one of us in some way. It is impossible to escape the increasing sense of dread that many feel during the current Corona Virus outbreak, whether that stems from the threat of the illness itself; from the 'lock downs' imposed upon the populace all over the world to 'keep people safe'; the increasing numbers of unemployed and sick due to the lock down; the systematic attacks upon personal rights meant to enforce 'social distancing'; or the talk of eventually imposing an electronic ID program that uses generalized vaccination as a platform for digital identity. (1)

What I'm going to share here stems from reading and synthesizing a great number of articles from the news and various blogs, and especially personal posts from the forums of those websites regarding the current Corona Virus outbreak and its ramifications. Almost everyone on those threads has contributed material that helped me to crystallize something deep within me that may be useful to share with others. I do want to thank all of these anonymous people for sharing portions of their souls and struggles that resonated very deeply within me.
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Best of the Web: I'm in ghost town Madrid, witnessing a brutal lockdown enforcement. Is it even constitutional?

Jason O'Toole
RT
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:03 UTC
madrid police
© Twitter / Policía Nacional
Madrid has felt eerily like a ghost town ever since the radical lockdown began almost six weeks ago, but an investigation is now looking into whether the heavy-handed approach by the Spanish police is even constitutionally sound.

There's a deafening silence here in the Spanish capital, which is broken only by the ominous sounds of police or ambulance sirens. The city briefly comes to life every night at 7:58pm, when Madrilenos take to their balconies to applaud healthcare workers on the frontline. It's done with such great gusto - there are even vuvuzelas blasting away and people singing - that it can feel like a cup final night in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

It obviously helps to create a positive spirit of togetherness, but tensions are running high. I don't want to come across like controversial radio host Alex Jones harping on about far-right conspiracy theories, and I certainly won't say the situation in Spain is like a return to the bad old days under Franco's regime - but with the military visible on the streets of Spain it's hard not to describe the situation as martial law in all but name.
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Liquor stores & gun shops open for business, but churches closed. Why are US governors trashing the First Amendment?

Robert Bridge
RT
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:18 UTC
church
© REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs
At a time when Americans could use some spiritual support to see them through the coronavirus pandemic, states have banned worshipers from assembling under a single roof. How quickly US politicians forget about the Constitution.

Let's start by stating the obvious: Yes, there are potential risks involved in allowing people to assemble in churches, mosques and synagogues at a time when a viral pandemic is sweeping the planet. And yes, nobody wants to be responsible for spreading a deadly disease. That said, it seems that downgrading church attendance to 'non-essential' status, while many businesses remain open, is not only over-the-top and hypocritical, but also a slap in the face to believers.
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Louisiana pastor arrested after allegedly backing bus in direction of protester


WAFB
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:56 UTC
Tony Spell in a bus
© Chris Graythen/Getty Images
Police have arrested a controversial pastor of Life Tabernacle Church in Central, La.

Pastor Tony Spell is accused of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, the Central Police Department says.

He was taken into custody Tuesday morning, April 22, outside of the church. He was transported to the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

Police in Central say Spell allegedly backed up a church bus into the direction of a person protesting in front of his church Sunday.

"At first I thought he [Spell] was just turning around his bus and was going to pull away, but he just kept coming in reverse," said Trey Bennett, the protester.


Video of the alleged incident shows the bus coming to a stop just short of where the protester was standing.

Comment: See also: Another pastor arrested for holding services in spite of lockdown order

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