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DPR emergency statement describes latest Ukrainian war crimes in Gorlovka

Joaquin Flores
FRN
Sat, 14 Mar 2020 00:00 UTC
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Text of an urgent statement by the official representative of the People's Police (NM) of the DPR:
The Ukrainian side continues trying to destabilize the situation in the Donbass, provoking NM divisions to aggravate the situation.
"Tonight at 1:35 am militants of the 58th brigade, on the orders of a war criminal, Kashchenko fired at the mine settlement named after Gagarin from 122-mm artillery, firing 10 shells at the village."
As a result of the shelling, a high-voltage power line in the village of Kurgan was damaged. More than 1000 subscribers were left without electricity, boiler rooms No. 13.14 and 15 were de-energized. Emergency services are working to restore electricity.

According to updated data, as a result of shelling the area mine them. Gagarin, Gorlovka from 122-mm artillery, three civilians were injured : a man born in 1952, a woman born in 1959, and also a fourteen-year-old teenager.
"The victims were taken to the city hospital No. 2 of Gorlovka, where they were provided with qualified medical care. Currently, nothing threatens their life and health."
The cynicism of Ukrainian militants has crossed all borders. The ongoing genocide of the civilian population of Donbass should not go unnoticed by international observers and the world community. In this regard, we urge the leaders of Western countries to exert influence on the Ukrainian leadership to stop criminal acts against the Republic, and the Armed Forces command to curb their subordinates, for whom the killing of civilians has become the norm.

Comment: A long-running conflict, more on past encounters between Ukraine and the city of Gorlovka:

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Russia to launch $4 billion anti-crisis fund to stabilize economy


RT
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:41 UTC
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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced on Monday the establishment of a 300-billion-ruble anti-crisis fund in order to support the country's economic sectors and citizens amid the global coronavirus pandemic.

"We have developed a number of priority measures, and I think it is necessary to take a number of actions today to prevent the negative impact of coronavirus on the country's economy and people's lives," said Mishustin, who has headed the government's Coordinating Council to combat the spread of Covid-19.

The prime minister said that the government will soon launch a single hotline and an online alert system for citizens (including through social networks) to provide them with the latest information on the spread of coronavirus.

Comment: Russia is not the only country resorting to massive financial injections, but it is considered to be one of the best prepared for a global recession:

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Japanese man who killed 19 at centre for disabled sentenced to death by hanging


The Guardian
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:11 UTC
Satoshi Uematsu
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Satoshi Uematsu has been sentenced to death for the killing of 19 people with disabilities at a care home in Japan.
A man who stabbed to death 19 residents at a care home in Japan for people with disabilities has been sentenced to death.

Satoshi Uematsu, a former employee of the Tsukui Yamayuri En (Tsukui Lily Garden) facility in Sagamihara, south-west of Tokyo, carried out the attack in 2016, in which residents were targeted as they slept.

Twenty-four other residents and two care workers were injured in what is one of post-war Japan's worst mass killings.

The 30-year-old admitted to the rampage during hearings at Yokohama district court but pleaded not guilty on the grounds of diminished responsibility, with his lawyers claiming he was suffering from a psychiatric disorder at the time of the attack.

Comment: See also:

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Covid craziness updates: Iran reports record single-day death numbers, Serbia declares state of emergency


RFE/RL
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:08 UTC
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Health workers on motorbikes fumigate as a preventive measure against the coronavirus along a street in Hyderabad, Pakistan, on March 15.
A roundup of the latest news on the coronavirus crisis in RFE/RL's broadcast countries:

Iran

Iran says the COVID-19 illness has killed 129 more people, a single-day record high for one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus outbreak.

During a televised news conference on March 16, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur appealed to the public to drastically curb outings, especially intercity trips.

"Our plea is that everyone take this virus seriously and in no way attempts to travel to any province," Jahanpur said.

The deaths bring the overall toll to 853 fatalities since February 19, when the government announced Iran's first two deaths from the COVID-19 disease sparked by the coronavirus.

Jahanpour also reported 1,053 confirmed new cases of infection in the past 24 hours, raising the total to 14,991.

Iran has the third-most registered cases after China and Italy.

Comment: France's top health official warns the situation is "extremely worrying" as cases are doubling every few days. France's borders remain open, though "tighter controls" are being implemented with Germany, who will crack down on "non-essential travel". Border checks have been established with five countries. German Police President said "We don't close borders; North Korea does." Ursula von der Leyen says it's of the "utmost importance to keep our common ... market going." The European Commission has recommended restricting all non-essential travel to the EU for 30 days. Spain and Portugal have locked down their borders.

Over in the U.S., Health and Human Services faced a cyber attack , assumed to be from a "hostile foreign actor" (blame Russia!). 950 tested positive in New York, with 7 deaths. Casinos, gyms, theaters are closing, and gatherings with 50+ people are banned. The number of cases and deaths outside China now exceeds the numbers within China. Keep in mind, though, that we still do not know the extent of asymptomatic and extremely mild symptomatic cases. Those figures will push the death rate down. So far, Covid-19 isn't even in SARS and MERS league in that department.

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Evicting migrants from Danish inner-city ghettos is NOT racism, it's common sense - and immigrants will benefit the most

Damian Wilson
RT
Sat, 14 Mar 2020 06:50 UTC
Protest
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Protest in Aarhus, Denmark, 2018 in defiance of the Danish Governments ban on the burka and niqab.
Evicting migrant tenants from culturally isolated inner-city ghettos and insisting they learn a new language might not appeal to liberal commenters, but Denmark insists its "social experiment" is what the nation needs.

The Scandinavian country is pressing ahead with tough plans to clear and rebuild its troubled and increasingly Islamicized inner-city ghettos, in a move that, predictably, is being condemned by the United Nations and other liberal organizations.

But this is not some cruel social engineering - or the "social experiment" as the Danish media have dubbed it - designed to force generations of immigrants onto the back foot: it is good common sense that can only benefit everyone concerned.

And it's not just Danish society as a whole that stands to gain but, crucially, the immigrants themselves. Not that the United Nations sees it that way.
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Norway launches $10 billion crisis fund amidst economic downturn & 'coronavirus crisis'


Sputnik
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:28 UTC
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Despite the extensive relief package, the government admitted that layoffs will be unavoidable as numerous companies have already seen their revenues "vanish overnight", in the words of the Norwegian prime minister.

Norway is establishing a coronavirus crisis fund worth at least NOK 100 billion ($10 billion) to secure the liquidity in companies, the newspaper Aftenposten reported.

According to Prime Minister Erna Solberg, half of it is earmarked for small- and medium-sized businesses and the other half for large companies. The goal is to help them survive the country's worst economic downturn in many years.

"We are in a crisis," Prime Minister Solberg declared at a press conference Sunday evening. According to her, the most important job was to "limit the outbreak of the coronavirus as much as possible and to save lives".

Comment: With the taxpayer barely getting by these days and with many out in the streets protesting the deterioration of living standards, prior to the coronavirus hysteria, and now with companies going bust and massive layoffs, just who is going to pay for all these emergency bailouts?

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Popular television doctor, Dr. Drew, says press should be 'held accountable' for coronavirus panic: 'They are hurting people'

Jessica Chasmar
The Washington Times
Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:01 UTC
Dr. Drew Pinsky
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In this April 9, 2016 file photo, Drew Pinsky arrives at the MTV Movie Awards in Burbank, Calif. Pinsky's show "Dr. Drew," has been canceled by the HLN network. His last episode will air on Sept. 22.
Celebrity physician Dr. Drew Pinsky isn't changing his tune about the novel coronavirus, declaring Monday that the news media should be "held accountable" for the damage they're doing to people's lives and the economy by over-hyping the virus.

"A bad flu season is 80,000 dead. We've got about 18,000 dead from influenza this year; we have 100 from corona," Dr. Pinsky told CBS Local's DJ Sixsmith in an interview.

"Which should you be worried about, influenza or corona, 100 versus 18,000? It's not a trick question," he continued. "Look, everything that's going on, with New York cleaning the subways and everyone using Clorox wipes, and get your flu shot, which should be the other message, that's good, that's a good thing. So I have no problems with the behaviors.

Comment: Where's the lie?

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Light Sabers

France slaps Apple with record €1.1 BILLION for monopoly practices


RT
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:10 UTC
apple
© Reuters / Arnd Wiegmann
France's national competition regulator announced on Monday it has fined American tech giant Apple a record €1.1 billion ($1.23bn) for anti-competitive practices after nearly a decade of investigations.

The decision comes over Apple's alleged anti-competitive behavior in its distribution and sales networks.

The authority said that two of Apple's wholesalers, Tech Data and Ingram Micro, were fined €63 million and €76 million respectively for unlawfully agreeing on prices.

According to the French regulator, "Apple and its two wholesalers have agreed not to compete with each other and to prevent distributors from competing with each other, thereby sterilising the wholesale market for Apple products."

Comment: The beginning of tit for tat? White House threatens to sanction $2.4bn worth of French imports in retaliation for digital tax targeting US tech giants

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Panic will end but tyranny will not

Gary D. Barnett
lewrockwell.com
Sat, 14 Mar 2020 07:21 UTC
Boot on your Face
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Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they wish to remain free: as they cannot destroy either one or the other of these contrary propensities, they strive to satisfy them both at once. They devise a sole, tutelary, and all-powerful form of government, but elected by the people. They combine the principle of centralization and that of popular sovereignty; this gives them a respite: they console themselves for being in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own guardians. Every man allows himself to be put in leading-strings, because he sees that it is not a person or a class of persons, but the people at large that holds the end of his chain.

By this system the people shake off their state of dependence just long enough to select their master, and then relapse into it again. A great many persons at the present day are quite contented with this sort of compromise between administrative despotism and the sovereignty of the people; and they think they have done enough for the protection of individual freedom when they have surrendered it to the power of the nation at large. This does not satisfy me: the nature of him I am to obey signifies less to me than the fact of extorted obedience."

~ Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Any real state of fear will bring panic, and once panic is the prevailing attitude of society at large, the herd seeks safety at all cost. Seeking safety under these circumstances allows for tyranny by the ruling class, and when the restrictive consequences of that tyranny are in place, escape from mass servitude is almost impossible to achieve. It must be understood that decisions made under stress due to fear end with a loss of freedom, and when freedom is compromised, what is left is slavery.

Comment: In the US many have already lost their sanity, and the 'freedoms' we had have already lost. The real pandemic is the dictatorial response by all countries, and all driven by the same hysteria.

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Utah police request criminals to 'cease nefarious behavior', respect quarantines and 'wash your hands' during coronavirus crisis


RT
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 03:37 UTC
utah police
© REUTERS/George Frey
Police in Logan, Utah
Several Utah police departments have pleaded with criminals to stop their "nefarious" behavior in light of increasing amounts of coronavirus cases in the US. Is this all one big joke?

It's difficult to tell how seriously the US government is taking the coronavirus when politicians are urging people to quarantine themselves indoors, but state officials are using the virus as a punchline.

Comment: Most Twitterati recognized the humor and joined in:


Similar humour with a message, often goes out during severe weather events. From last January:
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© Warrensburg Police Department/Facebook
The City of Lawrence, Kansas police department has developed a devoted following with its clever Twitter messaging, with the corresponding community support:






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