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'Belongs in the Hague': Online disgust follows glowing praise for George W. Bush's Covid-19 message

Andrea Germanos
Common Dreams
Sun, 03 May 2020 00:00 UTC
Bush
© Kevin Lamarque/AFP/Getty Images
Then-President George W. Bush addresses the nation during his State of the Union address from Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2004. Bush vowed that the United States "will never seek a permission slip" to go to war as he took aim in his annual State of the Union speech at critics of the invasion of Iraq. At left is Vice President Dick Cheney; at right House Speaker Dennis Hastert, (R-Ill.).
Key aspects of the 43rd president's administration were highlighted this weekend after Trump critics appear to have whitewashed Bush's legacy.

George W. Bush's record in office became the subject of numerous tweets after a video message released Saturday from the former president elicited praise from some Democrats.

In the video statement, shared on Twitter by the George W. Bush Presidential Center, Bush called on people to come together to face the "shared threat" of the coronavirus pandemic. The former president said "we have faced times of testing before," referencing the post 9/11 period when he said the nation rose "as one to grieve with the grieving" — a time period his administration rolled out its war on terror, which included a torture program.

Comment: The newfound public support and cheering on of war criminal and psychopath George W. Bush just beggars belief. Thankfully, in this world of collective amnesia, there are those who remember who Bush is and what he did and are speaking up about it.

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California Governor claims state budget went from surplus to billions in deficit in weeks and needs help from federal govt.

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 03 May 2020 21:25 UTC
Newsom
© Gage Skidmore
California Governor Gavin Newsom
"Last year I did a May revise with a $21.4 billion budget surplus," Newsom said on Friday during his daily coronavirus briefing, according to Bloomberg. "This year I will be doing a May revise looking at tens of billions of dollars in deficit. We just went tens of billions in surplus in just weeks to deficits."
Newsom, a first-term Democrat, is scheduled to revise his budget proposal by May 14 with the latest estimates on revenue and spending. In January, he proposed a $153 billion general-fund budget that increased spending by about 2% from the current year that ends June 30 and socked away about $5 billion more into rainy day funds. -Bloomberg

Comment: According to doctors on the front lines in the fight against Covid-19, the lockdown of California was unnecessary, and the Governor himself has made the situation worse by enacting such draconian measures that local officials along with the populace are finally rebelling. Perhaps some of California's uber wealthy celebs who love a good cause to showcase their virtue signaling skills could help out the Governor?

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Former security guard for rap stars and school cop charged with raping multiple children

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 02 May 2020 00:00 UTC
cop charged with child rape
While most parents of school children in the United States will take comfort in knowing a police officer is at their child's school, all too often, school cops are caught committing the vilest of offenses. As the following case out of Philadelphia illustrates, "protection and safety" are the last things some of the young children receive from their school cop.

A now-former Philadelphia school police officer has been charged in multiple instances of child sex abuse from his time as a school police officer. Former cop Howard Rubin, 51, was arrested on 12 counts and is being held on $3 million bail, court records show.

As the Philadelphia Inquirer points out, the most serious charge, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse — an adult engaging in sodomy with a person 15 or younger — is a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The charges also include witness/victim intimidation, statutory sexual assault of a person 11 years or older, indecent assault of a person under 13 years old, and displaying obscene sexual materials.

According to the report, the exact details of these charges are unavailable and cannot be requested currently due to closures from the COVID-19 outbreak. Questions regarding the case were referred by a Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson to the District Attorney's Office. Jane Roh, spokesperson for the District Attorney's Office, declined to comment, saying it is an open case.
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Scientists conclude people cannot get coronavirus twice


Sky News
Sun, 03 May 2020 06:23 UTC
Scientists South Korea

Scientists in South Korea say coronavirus patients cannot relapse
A number of reported cases of coronavirus patients relapsing after overcoming the disease were actually due to testing failures, South Korean scientists say.

Researchers at the South Korean centre for disease control and prevention (CDC) now say it is impossible for the COVID-19 virus to reactivate in human bodies.

There have been more than 10,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in South Korea, with 245 deaths - a 2.3% fatality rate, which is lower than the 3.4% average as stated by the World Health Organisation.

A total of 277 patients in the country were believed to have fallen ill for a second time, as had patients in China and Japan.

This prompted concerns that the virus could be mutating so quickly that people were not necessarily immune to catching it again.

However, genetic analyses of the virus have not found any substantial changes which would effectively disguise it from the immune system.

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War Whore

Lockdowns ending but their politics still rule

Tom Luongo
Gold Goats n Guns
Fri, 01 May 2020 05:00 UTC
NYC park lockdown
© REUTERS / EDUARDO MUNOZ
While it looks like the worm is turning against the draconian economic shutdowns decreed by governments, so much damage has already been done it likely won't matter now.

I began the week hopeful that my home state of Florida would lead the way towards challenging the anti-human and thoroughly intolerable lock down mentality imposed on us by officials at the WHO, NAIAD, Johns Hopkins and the IHME.

That hope continued earlier this week while watching Governor Ron DeSantis give a half-hour presentation of why Florida not only outperformed all of the grossly negligent predictive models but nearly every other state in the union in nearly every metric relevant to COVID-19.

It, however, vanished completely when he finally unveiled his new plan, which was to graciously allow the private economy to get back to 25% capacity, following the same tyrannical guidelines of those now discredited members of President Trump's Task Force.

I guess I need to remind myself of why hope is the most negative of all emotions.
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How (and when) to prepare for the NEXT lockdown

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Sat, 02 May 2020 00:00 UTC
next lockdown
Back when the New Year rolled around, did you ever expect you'd spend months in lockdown, unable to go eat at a restaurant or visit with friends? 2020 has been full of surprises, but more of the "angry clown with a chainsaw" variety than "here, have some flowers."

As the time for this lockdown to end draws near, spend some time reflecting on what you learned about preparedness and what you need to do before the next lockdown rolls around. (It's almost inevitable there'll be a next lockdown - more on that in a moment.)

There will probably be another wave of COVID-19.

The COVID-19 virus is not just going to vanish magically after we've stayed in our homes for a certain number of days. The virus will still be out there when the lockdown is over and people will still get sick from it.

At some point, the dreaded "second wave" will occur. Some experts think this will occur almost immediately after lockdown ends, while others believe there's a seasonal link and it will strike in the fall. To be perfectly honest, at this point it's too soon to know. There are a few muffled reports out of China about a possible second wave, but accurate information from China has been impossible to get since the very beginning.
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TYRANNY! Oregon Gov. Kate Brown extends lockdown to JULY 6 despite ranking 40th on state coronavirus list with 104 deaths

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sat, 02 May 2020 18:40 UTC
Gov Kate Brown

Oregon Governor Kate Brown
Several states reopened at least partially on Friday May 1st after the six-week-long Fauci lockdown.

But Democrat-led Oregon is not one of them. Oregon, a state with 4.14 million residents did not reopen on Friday. In fact, the liberal state is not reopening anytime soon.

Far Left Oregon Governor Kate Brown is extending the state's lockdown until JULY 6th! TWO MORE MONTHS!
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Struggling small business owner arrested 10 minutes after reopening

Ethan Hyman, Julia Wall
The News & Observer
Sun, 03 May 2020 18:22 UTC
apex tattoo owner arrested
Matthew "Jax" Myers vowed to open his Apex tattoo parlor in defiance of North Carolina's stay-home order, insisting his rights had been trampled and his business ruined.

But 10 minutes after he flicked on the red "open" sign Wednesday afternoon, police led him away in handcuffs, placing him under arrest for violation of an executive order.

Myers, 38, said he knew his act would get him charged, but under Cooper's order, he is losing so much money that he fears he will lose his new house and won't be able to feed his three children as soon as June.

He said neither he nor any other small business owners he knows have received any small business loans or federal Paycheck Protection Program money, and he only got approval for insufficient unemployment payment after 13 attempts to sign up.
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'Seize empty hotels and motels': Homeless activists are losing patience with Los Angeles amid coronavirus 'pandemic'

Doug Smith, Benjamin Oreskes and David Zahniser
Yahoo! News
Sun, 03 May 2020 18:00 UTC
Homeless at W. LA hotel
© Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times
Omar Spry pushes a cart of bags into a West L.A. hotel that has been turned into housing for homeless people during the pandemic.
Not long after L.A. County reported more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases on Friday, Davon Brown decided he was done putting himself at risk. So he put on a blazer and went to The Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles.

Joined by activists with Street Watch L.A., he told hotel staff that they were interested in renting several rooms but wanted a tour first. The concierge happily obliged, he said, and took the group to room 2221.

Then he revealed his plan: "I'm homeless in Echo Park and I'm not leaving this hotel."

Brown, who was later arrested and released, told The Times that he had planned to stay until government officials had commandeered enough hotel rooms to house every homeless person in Los Angeles.

"If I stayed outside," he said, "I could die."
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Mexican Army kills 7 Los Zetas gunmen in border city shootout

Cartel Chronicles
Breitbart
Sun, 03 May 2020 17:45 UTC
mexican army
Mexican Army soldiers killed seven Los Zetas gunmen who had set up an ambush attack. Two of the gunmen were the personal bodyguards of a regional cartel boss. The shootout is the latest bout of violence in the border city of Nuevo Laredo where the criminal organization has historically set their base of operations.

The shootout took place this week in the Nuevo Laredo when a Mexican Army convoy driving near Cavazos Lerma Boulevard attempted to enforce coronavirus containment measures when they spotted a convoy of cartel gunmen. The gunmen, part of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas, began shooting at the soldiers as they fled and then tried to set up an ambush-style attack at a highway overpass.
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