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Germany’s domestic intelligence service is putting part of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party under systematic surveillance, judging it a threat to the democratic order.
The decision targets Flügel (the wing), an AfD group especially strong in eastern Germany.
Flügel is led by Björn Höcke, a controversial MP for Thuringia, who was at the centre of a scandal that rocked German politics last month.
Informers may now keep watch on Flügel.
Describing Flügel as an extremist organisation, the domestic intelligence service (BfV) said the faction had some 7,000 members, or 20% of the AfD membership.
Inflammatory language
Surveillance is a very sensitive issue in privacy-conscious Germany, where many people have memories of intrusive, abusive spying in communist and Nazi times.
Mr Höcke has long been accused of inflammatory rhetoric against Islam and immigrants. He triggered uproar last month by doing a deal in Thuringia with a liberal FDP politician, Thomas Kemmerich, who became the region’s prime minister thanks to AfD and Christian Democrat (CDU) votes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51850840
Note: Yes, Germany just ANNOUNCED they are putting AfD under surveillance
https://youtu.be/n3_iLOp6IhM
A bipartisan effort is underway in US Congress to pass the EARN IT Act – that if successful would jeopardize free speech and data security on the internet, digital rights activists say.
The bill was introduced by Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Richard Blumenthal as a set of rules to combat child exploitation online but added that in reality, the proposed legislation “offers no meaningful solutions” to that problem.
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What it would do instead is provide a legal framework to undermine end-to-end encryption, the San Francisco-based rights group EFF said, and described the bill as essentially a thinly-veiled attempt to achieve that goal hiding behind a concern as serious as children’s safety online.
Yet despite the rhetoric, the EARN IT Act will not be useful to organizations helping victims, nor to law enforcement officers who deal with such crimes – the act would not only undermine Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), but also the US Constitution’s First Amendment. Both of these are designed to, in their own way, protect free speech.
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-proposed-online-earn-it-act-will-harm-free-speech-rights-groups-say/
Vice President Mike Pence has been selected by President Donald Trump to serve as the point-man on its coronavirus response team.
While Democrats are endlessly blaming Trump and claiming he’s not doing enough, the vice president is making big moves.
On Tuesday, Pence announced the nation’s largest health insurance companies have agreed to waive all co-payments for coronavirus testing and treatment, demonstrating the Trump administration had secured a deal to ensure the government will partner with the private industry to benefit the American people.
During a White House meeting with Trump and top health insurance company executives, Pence estimated almost 240 million Americans would be covered between the private insurers’ plans and their support Medicare and Medicaid programs.
https://explainlife.com/mike-pence-comes-forward-makes-gigantic-announcement-20490/?utm_source=ExplainLife.com&utm_medium=Martin
London’s Sadiq Khan Attacks Trump Coronavirus Travel Ban: ‘Policy on a Whim’ (breitbart, Mar 12, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/12/londons-sadiq-khan-attacks-trump-coronavirus-travel-ban-policy-whim/
“London’s left-wing Mayor Sadiq Khan was unable to resist indulging his long-running feud with Donald Trump on Thursday, accusing the U.S. President of ignoring evidence and making “policy on the hoof” by closing his country’s borders to most travellers from Europe for 30 days.
Speaking to radio host James O’Brien on London’s LBC on Thursday morning, Mayor Khan was discussing the coronavirus when he was asked whether he could “make any sense” of President Trump’s announcement on Wednesday night that the United States would close its borders with a number of European Union nations for 30 days.
Despite opening by saying “…far be it from me to question the wisdom of what President Trump does”, Mayor Khan ploughed on, saying it was “a bit odd” for the U.S. to block Europeans but not U.S. citizens or Britons from entering the United States.
U.S. citizens returning home to the United States from Friday will be subject to “enhanced” health screening, as presumably will British travellers coming from the UK.
The mayor alleged the fact the U.S. government was to prioritise its capacity to screen and admit its own citizens home again was evidence of President Trump not listening to experts, but making up rules on the spot. He said: “I fear this is another example of policy on a whim, rather than on evidence. It is a bit odd… Donald Trump has been in denial in relation to this; his policy last night is a bit odd. Another example of policy on the hoof rather than based on evidence.”
President Trump extended the travel restriction to the 26 nations within the European Union’s internal free movement zone on Thursday night. The restriction means anyone who travelled to any of the countries part of the scheme 14 days before they were due to travel to the United States for the next 30 days would not be permitted to enter.
The members of the Schengen area include some of the worst impacted coronazone nations, such as Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and Switzerland. They are: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.
While the United Kingdom was specifically mentioned by name as being exempt from the travel ban, other European nations are also not party to the Schengen area and also escaped the ban, among them are several Balkan states, Ireland, and Romania.
Former Brexit Party MEP Martin Daubney has called out the Schengen area — long known for being a free movement area for criminals and contraband, as well as legitimate travellers — for being a liability during the coronavirus health crisis. He wrote on Thursday: “Ironic that it’s taken the [coronavirus pandemic and] Trump’s Schengen travel ban to underline fact that the EU’s sacred freedom of movement principle has long been a disaster waiting to happen[.]
“Without control, you always have a greater propensity for chaos. Disease, terror, crime…”
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has long seen himself as an opponent to U.S. President Trump, frequently using his platform to portray himself as an anti-Trump figure in the United Kingdom. Just last week, the mayor used an International Women’s Day speech to hammer the point home — perhaps part of his campaign to be reelected Mayor in May — saying “unlike Trump, I am a proud feminist”.
Previous remarks have been sharper, with the mayor calling the President of the United States a “global threat”. President Trump has replied in kind on occasion, calling Khan a “stone cold loser” as well as “dumb and incompetent” in 2019. The President has also referred to Khan’s record on law and order during his time as mayor, which has seen a dramatic rise in knife attacks and killings.”
Sounds like Mr Khan was making good use of his time.
‘The EU Disapproves’: Brussels Angry Trump Acted on Coronavirus Without Their Permission (breitbart, Mar 12, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/12/the-eu-disapproves-brussels-angry-trump-acted-on-coronavirus-without-their-permission/
“The European Commission has said that the European Union “disapproves” of President Donald Trump’s decision to protect his citizens from further foreign exposure to coronavirus by banning entry from most of the bloc’s countries without having consulted with Brussels, first.
President Trump announced the 30-day ban on Wednesday which will go into effect on Friday. The ban is limited to mainland Europe, specifically the countries in the visa-free travel area known as the Schengen Zone, like France, Germany, and Sweden.
The UK and Ireland are not affected, as are non-Schengen countries like Croatia and Romania. Non-EU countries on the continent like Serbia and Ukraine are likewise not affected.
The European Commission, the EU’s powerful executive arm, said on Thursday: “The coronavirus is a global crisis, not limited to any continent and it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action.
“The European Union disapproves of the fact that the U.S. decision to impose a travel ban was taken unilaterally and without consultation.
“The European Union is taking strong action to limit the spread of the virus.”.
In an effort to show President Trump that Eurocrats were working on a ‘European Solution’ to the outbreak, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted that same hour as her office released the statement a picture of her and her colleagues sitting around a table “working on responses on all fronts to tackle the coronavirus impact”.
President Trump said the temporary ban is as a result of the EU failing to take “precautions and restrict travel from China and other hotspots” which he said resulted in European travellers to the U.S. triggering infection “clusters” stateside.
The European Commission is not the only EU voice to have expressed offence at the targetted travel ban. A leading figure in the European Parliament, Dacian Ciolo?, complained that President Trump was treating Europe as a “scapegoat” and said what is needed is not “nationalism”, but “global solidarity”.”
Greek PM Labels Evros River and Aegean Sea the ‘Shield’ of Europe (breitbart, Mar 12, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/12/greek-pm-labels-evros-river-and-aegean-sea-shield-europe/
“Conservative Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has commended support pledged from other European Union member states to help reinforce the Greek border, calling the Aegean sea and the Evros river the “shield” of Europe.
Discussing the Austrian Migration Service personnel arriving at the border Wednesday, the Greek leader stated: “From today on, the Greek flag will be waving in Evros, as well as the Austrian, Cypriot, and shortly, flags of many other EU member states. Evros and the Aegean are Europe’s ‘shield’.”
The move comes after Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz had pledged his support for Greece enforcing strict border controls in order to prevent a repeat of the 2015 migrant crisis.
Earlier this month, the Austrian leader slammed the Turkish government led by Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying that the Turkish move to open the gates to Europe was an attack on Greece and the European Union.
Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer added that the central European nation would not be accepting new asylum claims and stated: “We will not accept them, there is no point in coming.”
The entire membership of the Visegrad Group — Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic — also pledged to help Greece secure the border earlier this month.
Not all European Union member states have been as supportive of the Greeks. Finland’s largely millennial female-led government stated they too would be sending officials to the border but said they would be there to help migrants register for asylum claims, not to guard the border.
Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin acknowledged that Turkey is attempting to use migrants “as political pawns” but slammed Greece for suspending all asylum claims, a policy the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has also claimed is not legal.
“The Finnish government’s position here is clear. When we secure our borders, we are abiding by international obligations. International obligations include [observing] the right to apply for asylum. This is one of the areas where we will try to support Greece,” Finland’s Interior Minister Maria Ohisalo said.”
Molotov Cocktails Thrown at Greek Border as over 700 Attempt Crossing (breitbart, Mar 12, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/12/molotov-cocktails-thrown-at-greek-border-as-over-700-attempt-crossing/
“Video footage has emerged of war-like scenes on the Greek land border with Turkey as over 700 migrants attempted to illegally cross the border.
The footage allegedly shows the results of migrants from the Turkish side of the border using Molotov cocktails and setting fires along the Greek border fence in an effort to break through into Europe between Wednesday and Thursday.
The clip also purports to show a gas being fired at the Greek border, newspaper Proto Thema reports, and comes after the Greek government last week accused Turkey of supplying migrants with tear gas canisters at the border area.
According to the Greek paper, incidents of violence and provocation have significantly escalated within the last 24 hours including a Turkish vessel colliding with a Greek coastguard patrol boat and two Turkish F-16 jet fighters flying at low level above Greek territory. The newspaper alleged the aircraft were harassing a Greek helicopter operating in the area.
Greece has accused the Turkish government of several other incidents at the border earlier this week, including alleging that a Turkish vehicle attempted to tear down parts of the border fence to help migrants get across the border.
From 6 am Wednesday to 6 am Thursday, a total of 741 migrants attempted to cross the fortified border. Three of the migrants were taken into custody by Greek forces, two of those migrants coming from Tonga and the other from Pakistan.
The arrests highlight previous claims by the Greeks that very few of the migrants attempting to get into their country are from Syria, as previously claimed by the Turkish government and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Turkish leader walked out of a meeting with European Union leaders earlier this week when no resolution to the ongoing migrant issue was agreed upon and went on to slam the Greek border guard as being no different from Nazis.
“There is no difference between what the Nazis did and the images we are seeing from the Greek border,” he said.
Earlier in the week, Erdogan also announced a migrant summit would be held in Istanbul on the 17th of March and that French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel would attend.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, however, has not been invited.”
Iran asks for billions in loans as virus death toll climbs (abcnews, Mar 12, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/spike-cases-gulf-pushes-mideast-past-10000-infections-69552358
“Iran said Thursday it asked the International Monetary Fund for a $5 billion loan to fight the coronavirus, the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that it has sought such assistance, in a staggering admission of how fragile its economy has become amid the epidemic and punishing U.S. sanctions.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted that the Washington-based IMF should “stand on right side of history & act responsibly” by releasing the funds. He also said the fight against the virus, which has infected more than 10,000 people in Iran and killed hundreds, has been “stymied by vast shortages caused by restrictions,” a reference to the U.S. sanctions.
Even before the virus struck, Iran’s economy was being battered by plunging oil prices and the sanctions imposed by President Donald Trump since May 2018 after he unilaterally withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal that Tehran struck with world powers.
Iran’s Central Bank chief Abdolnasser Hemmati said he asked for the $5 billion loan last week in a letter to IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva. She had said the IMF was prepared to make rapid support available to low-income countries through a $50 billion emergency fund that the group maintains to help nations facing an economic crisis.
IMF spokesman Gerry Rice confirmed it had received a loan request from Iran. He said the IMF is “proceeding expeditiously with all requests and in line with our policies.”
The last time a loan for Iran was approved from the IMF was under its final shah in 1960, well before the revolution that established clerical rule.
Zarif also demanded that the U.S. immediately halt what he called a “campaign of economic terrorism” and lift sanctions, saying in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that Washington has made it increasingly difficult for Iran to export oil and virtually impossible to import medicine and medical equipment to treat those with the illness.
He said it is “unconscionable” that the U.S. government has not only increased its “maximum pressure” campaign “just as the virus has spread and is killing our most vulnerable citizens, but that it additionally has the audacity to lecture us on containing the coronavirus as it itself is evidently incapable of containing its onslaught.”
Iran says it needs more N95 face masks, ventilators, surgical gowns, testing kits, portable digital X-ray machines and other medical supplies. The World Health Organization recently sent Iran a shipment of medical gear via cargo plane, including 1,100 kits that can test more than 105,000 people for the virus.
Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 75 people had died in Iran in the past 24 hours from the coronavirus, pushing the death toll to 429. The number of Iranians with the COVID-19 disease was 10,075.
There are concerns that the number of infections is much higher than the confirmed cases reported by the government, with some Iranian lawmakers even speaking out.
The outbreak has not spared Iran’s top officials, with its senior vice president, Cabinet ministers, members of parliament, Revolutionary Guard members and Health Ministry officials among those infected.
Iran has suspended schools and banned spectators from stadiums, but religious shrines remain open and the markets and streets of the capital, Tehran, which has been hit hardest by the virus, are still crowded.
The head of Tehran’s task force for combating the virus, Ali Reza Zali, said most people in the capital are not treating the crisis seriously enough and many are not taking any preventive measures.
For most people, the coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. The vast majority of people recover from the new virus and the COVID-19 illness it causes.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday urged Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, chief of staff of the armed forces, to form a health and treatment task-force for the epidemic.
In the order, Khamenei said there was “some evidence suggest possibility of biological attack” through the virus, and he demanded that mobile hospitals and other facilities be set up by the armed forces. He did not elaborate on his reference to a biological attack.
The Revolutionary Guard also has trafficked in baseless conspiracy theories amid the outbreak, with its leader Gen. Hossein Salami falsely suggesting the U.S. created the virus amid the wider tensions with America.
President Hassan Rouhani’s government has faced criticism for not being out front on the response to the virus. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused Iran and China, where the virus first appeared, of censorship and of trying to cover up the severity of its spread.
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, both bitter rivals of Iran, have accused the country of being directly responsible for the rising infections in the region. Most cases in the Middle East outside Iran are linked to travelers from there. Saudi Arabia said its citizens’ passports were not stamped by Iran and so they evaded tougher screenings for the virus upon returning.
Countries have imposed varying levels of travel restrictions, from halting all commercial flights in Kuwait, to Saudi Arabia banning travel to 39 countries.
Regional stock markets were down at the close of the business week Thursday, reflecting investor concerns and nerves felt globally as oil prices plunge and tourism revenue is eroded by the virus.
Elsewhere in the region, confirmed cases in Israel rose to 100, alongside 31 cases in the West Bank and none reported in the Gaza Strip. Starting Thursday night, Israel will ban foreigners from entering the country unless they’re able to prove they can self-quarantine for two weeks.
Israel’s chief rabbi instructed synagogues not to gather more than 100 worshipers together at a time, following Health Ministry instructions. The Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City remained open.
Jewish, Christian and Muslim authorities said religious services would continue to be held but announced new precautions after Israel’s Health Ministry barred gatherings of more than 100 people.
At the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the holiest site where Jews can pray, authorities will limit entrance to an enclosed area and set up tents that each accommodate up to 100 people. They said there would be no restrictions on worship in the main plaza as it constitutes a “wide, open space.”
The Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem urged churches to enforce the Health Ministry’s guidelines, including with Sunday services.
The Islamic endowment that oversees the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, the third holiest site in Islam, said Friday prayers would be held as normal but encouraged people to pray in the outer courtyards and refrain from crowding in the mosques. It advised the elderly and sick not to enter mosques with large gatherings.
Saudi Arabia, which has 45 cases of the virus, said groups of more than 50 could not gather in public, potentially impacting how communal Friday prayers are held. The kingdom has already suspended pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest sites.
Kuwait closed all workplaces and nonessential business for two weeks, including restaurants, cafes and health clubs. Its stock market was closed for trading Thursday. Schools and universities have already been suspended. All commercial flights are being halted to Kuwait starting Friday. The country has over 70 confirmed cases of the virus.”
Finland jails Sierra Leone man in Liberia war crimes case (abcnews, Mar 12, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/finland-jails-sierra-leone-man-liberia-war-crimes-69557858
“A Finnish court has jailed in a custody hearing a 50-year-old Sierra Leone man suspected of committing serious war crimes and crimes against humanity from 1999 through 2003 during Liberia’s bloody second civil war.
The man is suspected of several murders, gross human rights abuses in exceptional circumstances, aggravated war crimes and an aggravated rape, said the Pirkanmaa District Court during Thursday’s hearing in the southern city of Tampere.
The man wasn’t publicly named but the Finnish newspaper Iltalehti, citing court documents, identified him as Gibril Ealoghima Massaquoi, a citizen of Liberia’s neighbor Sierra Leone who had lived in Finland for more than 10 years…”
Turkey blames Kurdish fighters for Syria blast that killed 4 (abcnews, Mar 12, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-blames-kurdish-fighters-syria-blast-killed-69560358
“A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint manned by Turkey-backed opposition fighters in northeast Syria killing at least four people Thursday, local officials and Syrian opposition activists said.
The governor’s office of Turkey’s southern Sanliurfa region said in a statement on its website that one gendarmerie corporal and three local security personnel were killed in the attack.
It blamed Kurdish militants for the blast on the road leading to the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn Thursday afternoon…”
Pakistan anti-graft body arrests newspaper, TV mogul Rehman (abcnews, Mar 12, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistan-anti-graft-body-arrests-newspaper-tv-mogul-69559581
“Pakistan’s anti-graft body Thursday ordered the arrest of the owner and editor-in-chief of Pakistan’s largest independent group of newspapers and TV stations in a decades-old case related to allegations of tax evasion in a real estate purchase.
Mir Shakilur Rehman’s Jang Group of Newspapers, which includes Geo TV, has been critical of the government. He was arrested in the eastern city of Lahore, the National Accountability Bureau said, without giving additional details.
Rehman’s arrest drew condemnation from the country’s journalistic community, with Geo News calling the arrest a “political victimization.”
“This is an attack on the freedom of expression,” said Rana Jawad, Geo News’ news director.
Pakistan, one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists to work, has witnessed an intensified crackdown on journalists, human rights workers, activists and members of civil society in recent years.
Rehman, whose media house has been critical of the government, had been facing questions from the anti-graft body for the past several months…”
MI-BASED IMAM WHO ENDORSED BERNIE SANDERS: ISLAM IS FAR SUPERIOR TO MAN-MADE SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT
video – 4 minutes 49 seconds
Covid-19 Patients Shed Virus Far Longer Than Thought, Researchers Report
A newly published paper identifies the risk factors and clinical course of patients who died from Covid-19 and suggests for the first time that patients shed the virus far longer than expected.
The paper, produced by a team led by China-Japan Friendship Hospital Vice President Cao Bin and published Monday by the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, is the first research focusing on fatal cases of coronavirus disease. It may provide important clinical guidelines to help doctors anticipate mild patients turning into severe cases, Cao said.…
The paper … found that the median duration of viral shedding was 20 days in survivors, but the virus was detectable until death in nonsurvivors. The longest observed duration of viral shedding in survivors was 37 days, and the shortest was eight days.
Viral shedding refers to the expulsion and release of virus progeny following successful reproduction during a host-cell infection. Once replication has been completed and the host cell is exhausted of all resources in making viral progeny, the viruses may begin to leave the host.
The level and duration of virus replication are important factors in assessing transmission risk and guide decision-making in treatment and quarantine…. Cao said the median duration of 20 days completely overturns previous assumptions on the detoxification time for acute respiratory virus infection. Longer viral shedding also means longer treatment and quarantine times…
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-03-12/covid-19-patients-shed-virus-far-longer-than-thought-researchers-report-101527219.html
MI-Based Imam Mustapha Elturk, Who Endorsed Bernie Sanders: Islam Is Far Superior to Man-Made Systems of Government; I Immigrated to U.S. Because Here, People Can Freely Spread Islamic Ideology
https://www.memri.org/tv/michigan-imam-mustapha-elturk-bernie-sanders-jihad-islam-superior-system
Michigan-based Islamic scholar Imam Ameer Mustapha Elturk, who immigrated to the United States from Lebanon in 1976 during the Lebanese civil war, said in a lecture that was uploaded to YouTube on October 12, 2019 that Allah revealed Islam to the Prophet Muhammad so that it could be made to prevail over all man-made non-Islamic systems of law and government, including liberal democracy, Communism, socialism, and the laws of “We, the People” that are currently in countries such as the United States. He said that Muslims must not abide by any law that contradicts shari’a law, that they must struggle in order to restore the glory of Islam and the Muslims, and that he chose to immigrate to the United States instead of Communist Romania because he had no desire to be a Communist and because the liberty and freedom of speech in the United States enable people to freely preach Islam and propagate Islamic ideology. Imam Elturk said that the Jihad of the Quran and of the heart is the biggest Jihad Muslims can do and that in pursuit of justice, he sometimes has to “deal with” non-Muslims, LGBTQ people, and atheists. The lecture was delivered at the Evergreen Islamic Center in San Jose, California. Imam Elturk is the Imam of the Islamic Organization of North America (IONA) Masjid in Warren, Michigan and on March 8, 2020, U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) retweeted a video of Imam Elturk endorsing Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for President.
COVID-19 forces Ontario government to extend school March break by 2 weeks
All publicly-funded schools will close from March 14 to April 5
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-government-closing-schools-1.5495736
Note: will the striking teachers still go out and picket? If they really believe what they are saying, they’d better continue picketing, or they will reveal that it was all just a load of dingo’s kidneys!
The entire country of Norway is ‘shutting down’
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Norway Parliment.
JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images
If you think things have gotten bad in the United States — where St. Patrick’s Day parades have been canceled, and the NBA is suspended for the rest of the season — just wait until you hear about Norway. Starting Thursday, the small Nordic country announced “measures that will be the most extensive Norway’s population has experienced in peacetime,” and which involve practically shutting down the entire country in order to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, Norwegian Minister of Health and Care Services Bent Høie told the national broadcaster, NRK.
In addition to kindergartens, child care facilities, schools, and universities closing nationwide, and a ban on both professional and amateur sports — measures that have been taken only regionally so far in the U.S. — the entire country of Norway is also requiring all hairdressers, massage clinics, gyms, and tattoo parlors to close, Life in Norway and Swedish journalist Peter Imanuelsen report based off the announcement on NRK. Cultural events are also banned, with museums, pools, and libraries additionally closing. While grocery stores will remain open, restaurants, bars, pubs, and nightclubs are required to close if they can’t guarantee a three-foot distance between patrons. Buffets, naturally, are banned.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/901770/entire-country-norway-shutting-down
Starving Chinese Citizens Kneel Down to Beg Officials
At Anti-AIPAC Protest in D.C.: The Holocaust Will Come Back to You; Hitler Will Come Back and Burn You!
https://www.memri.org/tv/protest-outside-aipac-policy-conference-holocaust-come-back-you-hitler-burn
Greece is Coming Under Severe Pressure
Leader of college social justice group claimed she was threatened and attacked, leading school to shut down classes. Cops say she made it all up.
‘I think she was trying to instigate some racial issues within the university,’ police chief said
https://www.theblaze.com/news/leader-of-college-social-justice-group-claimed-she-was-threatened-and-attacked-leading-school-to-shut-down-classes-cops-say-she-made-it-all-up
COVID-19: How effective are social distancing, quarantine measures at curbing the virus’ spread?
Now This Promotes Race War
COVID-19 outbreak ‘won’t be over this year’: Health expert
ty, Richard.
I love this Singapore channel. Coverage of the Wuhan has been the best, right from the start.
This is the mess that the US gov’t finds itself in. I had so hoped that Trump would reverse this mindset buy nay, it doesn’t seem like it will happen anytime soon.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/if-not-for-the-fbis-pc-willful-ignorance-at-least-70-people-wouldnt-have-been-killed/
If Not for the FBI’s PC Willful Ignorance, at Least 70 People Wouldn’t Have Been Killed
BY ROBERT SPENCER MARCH 11, 2020CHAT COMMENTS
From left, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper sit together in the front row before President Barack Obama spoke about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance.
From left, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper sit together in the front row before President Barack Obama spoke about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
As if participating in the failed deep state coup against President Trump weren’t enough, the FBI has covered itself in glory once again. A new report released Wednesday documents how the feds missed opportunities to stop at least six lethal terror attacks on American soil. The report focuses on failures of “oversight” and “procedure,” but itself becomes part of the problem, in failing to note that the Bureau’s troubles go much deeper.
According to the Washington Times, those six attacks killed 70 people, and each of their perpetrators “had been on the FBI’s radar.” Nonetheless, “agents quickly closed the cases after concluding they were not national security threats, Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz said in the report.”
The attackers, according to the Times, included these jihad terrorists:
? Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in 2016.
? Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who killed three people at the Boston Marathon in 2013.
? Nidal Hasan, who massacred 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.
? Esteban Santiago, who killed five people in a 2017 attack at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
Santiago was a convert to Islam who said that he committed his murders in the service of the Islamic State (ISIS).
Horowitz observed that “the FBI has acknowledged that various weaknesses related to its assessment process may have impacted its ability to fully investigate certain counterterrorism assessment subjects, who later committed terrorist acts in the United States.”
Of course it did, because the FBI is still institutionally committed to ignoring, downplaying, or denying the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism. Failing to investigate suspected jihadis is all part of the same willful ignorance. The bureau doesn’t want to appear “Islamophobic” by scrutinizing these people too closely; such scrutiny would abet the impression that there is something about Islam that incites some believers to violence, and the feds have already ruled out that possibility.
The Horowitz report won’t lead to the fixing of the problem, either. It makes scant mention of Islam and jihad, and makes no attempt whatsoever either to identify or explain the importance of the motivating ideology behind jihad terror attacks. This problem goes back to the early years of the Obama administration, and is the result of Obama’s deliberately chosen policy. On October 19, 2011, Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates wrote a letter to John Brennan, who was then the assistant to the president on national security for Homeland Security and Counter-Terrorism. The letter was signed not just by Khera, but by the leaders of virtually all the significant Islamic groups in the United States: 57 Muslim, Arab, and South Asian organizations, many with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Islamic Relief USA; and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).
The letter denounced what it characterized as U.S. government agencies’ “use of biased, false and highly offensive training materials about Muslims and Islam,” as well as supposedly biased trainers (including me), and demanded that all such materials be removed, although the letter didn’t even attempt to prove that any of the objectionable material was actually inaccurate.
Brennan assured Khera that all her demands would be met. He detailed other specific actions being undertaken, including “collecting all training materials that contain cultural or religious content, including information related to Islam or Muslims.” In reality, this material wouldn’t just be “collected”; it would be purged of anything that Farhana Khera and others like her found offensive—that is, any honest discussion of how Islamic jihadists use Islamic teachings to justify violence. And so it has been in the FBI and other agencies ever since.
This is what has led to the failure of the intelligence community, and a great many of the procedural errors upon which the report does focus: agents in all too many cases simply didn’t know what to look for, or how to understand the significance of the information they did have. Unless and until this is corrected, these failures of oversight and procedure will continue, no matter what safeguards are put into place.
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Coronavirus burial pits in Iran so vast that they’re visible from space
Iranian authorities began digging a pair of trenches for victims just days after the government disclosed the initial outbreak. Together, their lengths are that of a football field.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/iran-coronavirus-outbreak-graves/
At the Behesht-e Masoumeh complex in Qom, about 80 miles south of Tehran, the excavation of a new section of the graveyard began as early as Feb. 21, satellite images show, and then rapidly expanded as the virus spread. By the end of the month, two large trenches — their lengths totaling 100 yards — were visible at the site from space.
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US Initiates Retaliatory Strikes in Iraq Following Deadly Camp Taji Attack – Report
https://sputniknews.com/military/202003121078552137-us-initiates-retaliatory-strikes-in-iraq-following-deadly-camp-taji-attack—report/
“Two US officials have confirmed to Reuters that US retaliatory strikes are underway in Iraq following the Wednesday attack on the Camp Taji military base in Iraq that killed at least three service members and injured 12 others.
According to the two officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the US response would be “proportional” to the Wednesday attack, Reuters reported. One US official told AP that the strikes were targeting the Kataib Hezbollah weapons facilities inside Iraq and that the strikes were a joint operation with Britain; one British national died in the Wednesday attacks. However, there are conflicting reports online that Britain is not partaking in the retaliatory strikes. The strikes are allegedly taking place in Babylon, located southwest of Baghdad, al-Arabiya reported.
Kataib Hezbollah was commanded by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was killed, along Iranian major general Qasem Soleimani, in a January 3 US airstrike in Baghdad. In February, the US State Department designated Ahmad al-Hamidawi, the new leader of Kataib Hezbollah, as a global terrorist.
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman and ranking GOP lawmaker, Lindsey Graham, warned Thursday that the US would have a “very aggressive” response to the attack.
“I think the president’s going to be very aggressive,” Graham said, cited by The Hill. “At the time of our choosing, we should hit back.”
Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters Wednesday night that US President Donald Trump has given him permission to do what needs to be done.
“We’re going to take this one step at a time, but we’ve got to hold the perpetrators accountable,” Esper said, AP reported. “You don’t get to shoot at our bases and kill and wound Americans and get away with it.”
The Wednesday strike comes after the US announced that it would be moving air and missile defense systems into Iraq in order to defend against ballistic missile and drone threats. That development followed two months after the Ayn al-Asad Air Base in Western Iraq was struck by some 16 Iranian missiles, Sputnik reported.”
Iran’s Ambassador Elected Vice-Chair of OPCW Executive Council
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2020/03/12/2222086/iran-s-ambassador-elected-vice-chair-of-opcw-executive-council
“The Permanent Representative of Iran to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was elected as one of the vice-chairs of the Executive Council of the OPCW…”
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Covid-19: India cancels almost all visas, closes Myanmar border
MUMBAI (Reuters): India said on Wednesday (March 11) it will suspend the vast majority of visas to the country in a wide-reaching attempt to prevent the spread of coronavirus, as cases across the region continued to rise.
The virus has hit Europe and the United States far harder than China’s most immediate neighbours in South Asia, where no one has yet died.…
On Tuesday, India suspended issuing visas to citizens of France, Spain and Germany until further notice.
Such restrictions were already in place for citizens of China, Italy, Iran, Japan and South Korea – the five countries worst hit by the outbreak of the virus.
National airline Air India said on Wednesday it was suspending flights to Italy and South Korea until March 28 and March 25 respectively.
India has also closed a border with neighbouring Myanmar to counter the outbreak, as countries across South Asia reported a rise in cases. No cases have so far been confirmed in Myanmar.
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/03/12/covid-19-india-cancels-almost-all-visas-closes-myanmar-border
Saudi Arabia expands travel ban to 39 states including EU
http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/590835/SAUDI-ARABIA/Saudi-Arabia-expands-travel-ban-to-39-states-including-EU
“Saudi Arabia temporarily suspended on Thursday the travel of its citizens and residents to 39 countries including 27 European Union states amid a jump in the number of coronavirus cases from 21 to 45 with reporting of 24 new cases, including 21 in Makkah.
The new measures were taken as part of the Kingdom’s efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Saudi Press Agency reported citing statements of the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Health sources. The statements follow confirmation of the first case of recovery among the coronavirus infected persons in the Eastern Province on Wednesday.
“Saudi Arabia’s government decided to temporarily suspend the travel of citizens and residents, and to suspend flights to the European Union countries, as well as Switzerland, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Sudan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Eritrea, Kenya, Djibouti, and Somalia,” said the source at the Ministry of Interior.
The government will also be suspending the entry to those coming from the aforementioned countries and entry to those who were in those countries within a time period of 14 days prior to their arrival to the Kingdom.
The Kingdom also suspended passenger traffic through land crossings with Jordan, while commercial and cargo traffic is still allowed.
The government’s decision grants Saudi nationals and citizens of those countries with valid Saudi residency visas 72 hours to return to the Kingdom before the travel suspension comes into effect.
The travel ban excludes Indian and Filipino medical practitioners working in the Kingdom and evacuation, shipping and trade trips, taking into account the necessary and required precautions.
The ministries of interior and health would coordinate while dealing with humanitarian and exceptional cases, without prejudice to the necessary precautionary and preventive measures.
The ministry said the new measures were taken in accordance with the preventive and precautionary measures recommended by the concerned health authorities in the Kingdom, as part of its decisive efforts to stem the spread of the virus, and also based on the keenness to protect the health and safety of citizens and expatriates.
It is noteworthy that the Kingdom on March 9 suspended travel to Oman, France, Germany, Turkey, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Italy, and South Korea. It also suspended the entry of those coming from those countries, and entry of those who were there during the 14 days prior to their arrival.
The Kingdom announced on Feb. 27 the temporary suspension of entry for Umrah performers in Makkah and visitors to the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah, as well as tourists traveling from countries where the coronavirus poses a major risk to health and safety of people.
Later, it suspended Umrah performance of citizens from other Gulf states as well as that of domestic pilgrims.
Early on Thursday, Saudi Arabia confirmed 24 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of cases in the Kingdom to 45, according to a statement of the Ministry of Health.
The new cases include 21 Egyptian nationals who were in contact with the infected Egyptian visitor about which an announcement was made earlier on Wednesday.
Other new cases are a Saudi man and woman who were placed in quarantine after their return from Iraq and a 12-year-old Saudi girl, who was in contact with her infected grandfather, who had been previously declared coronavirus-positive in Qatif and who had returned from Iran.
“This brings the total number of infections to 45 cases, one has recovered and the rest of the cases are in quarantine and medical care is being provided to them according to the approved procedures,” the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA.
The ministry earlier announced the first recovery case among the coronavirus infected people. A Saudi citizen who was in medical isolation in Qatif Central Hospital in the Eastern Province has recovered and is currently in good health.
All medical tests and procedures related to his case have been completed and it has proven that the citizen is free of the virus, the ministry statement said, adding that he will leave the hospital soon.
The ministry urged all those who arrive in the Kingdom to declare the countries to where they had traveled before their entry into the Kingdom by contacting the ministry’s Emergency Call Center No. 937.
Dr. Muhammad Al-Abdul-Aali, spokesman of the Ministry of Health, said that there are 28 women among the total of 45 coronavirus infected people in the Kingdom. Of these, the condition of a Filipino, who arrived in the Kingdom via Italy, is critical.
Most cases, 22 in number, are reported in Makkah while 17 cases in Qatif, four in Dammam, and one each in Riyadh and Jeddah.
Seven infected people arrived in the Kingdom without disclosing that they had traveled to Iran while another five traveled to Iraq, he said on Thursday following a meeting of the committee in charge of following up the developments of the corona-related health situation in the Kingdom.
He also denied reports that some 600 cases were confirmed to have contracted coronavirus. He called on the public to contact the No. 937 to get informed of the correct information on the coronavirus situation.
He said this after a meeting of the committee in charge of following up the developments of the corona-related health situation.”
Even Bibi-haters are recommending this one.
Netanyahu on beating the virus: ‘We love to embrace, shake hands, kiss. No more’
Prime minister tells citizens they need to change their behavior to defeat global pandemic: ‘I am talking about your lives… Safeguard your grandfather and your grandmother’
[Full text, address to the nation on March 12, 2012, asking Israelis for “behavioral change” to help defeat the coronavirus pandemic.]
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-tells-israelis-change-behavior-to-beat-virus-full-text/
Yes, it’s kind of weird. Had to knuckle-bump my lawyer today.
Iraq: Sadr accuses Trump of spreading coronavirus among US’ opponents
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200312-iraq-sadr-accuses-trump-of-spreading-coronavirus-among-us-opponents/
“Influential Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr accused US President Donald Trump of spreading the coronavirus among America’s opponents.
In a tweet, Al-Sadr said: “Trump … You and your likes are accused of spreading this disease, especially since most of those who suffer from it are against America.”
“Trump, yesterday you claimed that America had toppled great empires and suppressed terrorism, and today you are fighting a virus that is not visible to the naked eye, should not you be ashamed of yourself,” he added….”
Gunmen assassinate 2 prominent activists south of Iraq
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200312-gunmen-assassinate-2-prominent-activists-south-of-iraq/
“Unknown gunmen shot dead two prominent anti-government activists on Tuesday in Maysan governorate, south of Iraq, Anadolu Agency reported.
A police officer in the Maysan police department told the news agency that unidentified gunmen opened fire on the activists – Abdul Quddus Qasim and Karrar Adel – near the industrial zone in the city of Amara.
“The activists were killed instantly, while the attackers fled the scene,” added the source, who asked not to be named because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
He pointed out that the security authorities have opened an investigation into the accident…”
UN praises Turkey’s treatment of refugees
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200312-un-praises-turkeys-treatment-of-refugees/
“United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Deputy Representative for Turkey Jean Marie Garelli today praised efforts toward asylum-seekers in every region of Turkey.
“Turkey is a country where refugees and asylum-seekers are welcomed in the best way and get significant support; you are a praiseworthy model to the whole world in this manner,” Garelli said during a delegation visit to Edirne where asylum-seekers wait at the Greek border to be allowed to cross to Europe.
At the end of last month, Turkey allowed thousands of migrants and asylum seekers to cross its borders with Greece in response to the EU’s lack of action in the Syrian governorate of Idlib…”
Turkey says schools, universities to shut over coronavirus
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200312-turkey-says-schools-universities-to-shut-over-coronavirus/
“Turkish schools will be closed for one week and universities for three weeks from March 16, and all sports events will be played without spectators until the end of April in response to the coronavirus outbreak, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said, Reuters reports.
The moves came after Turkey confirmed its first coronavirus infection on Wednesday, becoming the last major economy to report an outbreak after taking what the World Health Organization (WHO) described as vigilant measures.
At a news conference following a meeting of ministers at the presidential palace, Kalin also said that President Tayyip Erdogan’s foreign visits and programmes will be postponed for some time due to the spread of the virus.
Kalin said primary, middle and secondary schools would initially be closed for one week and after that students will receive remote online teaching from March 23.
Until Wednesday’s announcement, Turkey had officially managed to avoid an outbreak, though all its neighbours except war-ravaged Syria had reported cases. Iran has an especially high number of cases and deaths.”
Greek asylum agency employees launch strike against ‘terrible conditions’ at Lesbos refugee camp
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200312-greek-asylum-agency-employees-launch-strike-against-terrible-conditions-at-lesbos-refugee-camp/
“Employees of Greece’s asylum agency are on strike due to “terrible” conditions in the country’s Moria refugee camp on Lesbos Island, Anadolu Agency reports.
Speaking exclusively to Anadolu Agency, Irini Zanni, one of the employees, said the Moria camp was in “terrible” condition and called for more “humane” treatment of the refugees and asylum seekers held there.
Zanni said that the refugees and asylum seekers were living under “unbelievable” dire conditions on the island.
“I was in Lesbos two weeks ago, I’m saying that I haven’t seen anything like this. I was there three years ago, in 2017, but its latest situation has become unbelievable,” she said.
Zanni underlined that the camp’s capacity was very limited and that families were living “in terrible and unhygienic conditions” with some families living “close to hills and forests.”
“We want to have a chance to save these people,” Zanni added.
Noting that Athens had taken a “political” stance towards the asylum seekers, she said they have been on strike since yesterday, demanding improved “working conditions” for themselves and “humanitarian” treatment of refugees and asylum seekers.
That is why, Zanni added, they were protesting at Syntagma Square in front of the Greek Parliament.
There are approximately 25,000 asylum-seekers in Moria camp, the first stop of asylum seekers trying to escape from wars and internal turmoil in their countries.
Authorities warn that disease could spread faster in the camp due to overcrowding and unhygienic conditions.
A 40-year-old woman working in a supermarket in the town of Plomari on Lesbos tested positive for the novel coronavirus — now declared a pandemic — on Tuesday.”
Influential Somali academic in hiding after ‘blasphemy’ death threats
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/3/12/influential-somali-academic-in-hiding-after-blasphemy-death-threats
“An influential Somali academic and social reformer is in hiding due to threats to his life, after one of the country’s leading Muslim scholars called for his killing over allegations of blasphemy.
Prof. Mahmoud Jama Ahmed was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail in 2019 for “blasphemy” but was released in January after a presidential pardon.
Activists say Ahmed was forced into hiding after prominent imam, Adam Sunna, threatened his life during Friday prayers on 6 March.
“Killing this apostate is bad for him in this life but he will benefit from it in the afterlife,” he said, according to Humanists International.
Ahmed is unable to leave his hideout to work due to the dangers if he appears in public, having to rely on financial assistance from Humanists International to survive.
The advocacy group considers the 34-year-old intellectual to be at “extremely high-risk of a violent attack”.
Humanists International’s representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Kacem El Ghazzali, highlighted his case on Wednesday.
“Mahmoud is a committed professor and author who has advocated humanist values and freedom of speech in Somalia,” El Ghazalli told The New Arab in a statement.
“He is one of the Somali intellectuals who studied abroad but decided to return to Somali and contribute to the rebuilding of his country. Defending him and his right to freedom of speech is what Somalia really needs.”
Humanists International Chief Executive, Gary McLelland, said that pressure needs to be applied on the Somali government to protect the academic.
“We are urging all our supporters around the world to join us in putting pressure on the Somali authorities to protect Mahmoud. There is never any justification for the use of so-called ‘blasphemy’ laws, but this case is even more egregious when we consider the mild statement at the heart of this accusation, from a prominent Somali academic,” he said in a statement.
“We will not allow him to be murdered with impunity by religious bullies.”
Activists believe that Ahmed was targeted due to his advocacy for controversial social reforms in Somalia.
Ahmed introduced three draft laws against tribalism and discrimination and hosted talk shows on national television on political and social issues.
Ahmed also co-authored sections of the national curriculum taught in Somali schools.
In 2019, Ahmed authored two books – one called “Are You Free?” and another on freedom of press – which received a hostile reception from some Somalis due to contentious nature of some of the content.
Allegations of blasphemy relate to a Facebook post when he questioned the validity of rain prayers – known as Salat Al-Istisqa in Islam – in Somalia.
Police then detained Ahmed for a month, where he said he was subjected to ill-treatment and death threats by officers.
In April, he was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail for blasphemy but was eventually released after spending 307 days behind bars and banned from teaching for five years.
Since he left prison, he has been unable to leave his home or hideouts due to threats to his life.”
Afghanistan’s first buzkashi league gets roaring reception
The fear of terror attacks or coronavirus did little to deter thousands from packing a Kabul stadium to watch horsemen play polo with a goat carcass at Afghanistan’s first buzkashi league.
‘Money laundering curbs political rights of Pakistanis living in Canada’
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2174927/1-money-laundering-curbs-political-rights-pakistanis-living-canada/
“Canada-Pakistan Business Council (CPBC) President Samir Dossal on Thursday said that money laundering is the biggest challenge for Pakistanis living in Canada especially when it comes to gaining political rights since they cannot reap maximum benefits from their financial standings in the country in terms of exercising the power to vote or gaining other citizenship rights.
“Pakistanis have been facing a lot of problems in Canada and the Pakistani government should make strict laws against money laundering,” said Dossal, who will lead Canada in Non-Resident Pakistanis (NRP) business investment in Pakistan.
Non-resident Pakistanis in Washington DC a year ago had launched NRP movement in April 2019 as a joint forum to support Pakistan economy, he added.
While talking to The Express Tribune, he suggested that the government of Pakistan should give incentives and formulate friendly policies for the non-resident Pakistanis to attract maximum investment.
“North America has a huge economy and vast potential for making investments in Pakistan. We are planning to generate investment of $20 billion for Pakistan.”
The CPBC president went on to say that the NRP was launched to assemble all the overseas Pakistanis at one platform so that Pakistan could not only reap benefits from remittances but also from investment.
Shedding light on the aim and objective of the NRP movement, he said that the platform is created to generate investment and employment opportunities for Pakistanis in other countries of the world. “We are trying to present a prosperous and peaceful picture of Pakistan and of the whole region.”
Hailing from Karachi, Dossal is currently working with the Canadian government on various business ventures and has been actively promoting small business, trade and investment in Pakistan.
Highlighting the potential benefits of investing in Pakistan at recent session organised by Hon Vic Fedeli, minister of economic development, job creation and trade in Ontario, Dossal said: “Whenever I am invited in these sessions, I, as a Pakistani, portray a positive image of my country.”
Dossal is known for his experience in dealing and negotiating at all levels of corporate sector and in establishing all levels of contact internationally with special emphasis on South East Asia and Canada.
A month ago, he called on President Dr Arif Alvi and offered his continuous support in extending bilateral relations between Canada and Pakistan.
While playing a significant role in establishment of Canada-Pakistan Education Council in which both the countries agreed on strengthening education corridor, the president said that Pakistani students could come and secure their admissions in 20 universities of Canada.”
FOX is reporting that we are bombing Iranian positions in Iraq, this is in retaliation of the missiles that killed US personal.