Reader’s Links for March 28, 2020

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    • Public unrest like this is another sign that the CCP is in trouble, it this spreads and it probably will we will see if the military and police will carry out the attacks that are necessary to keep the CCP in power.

    • Happy you posted this. I was just reading the thread, wanted to post it here.You are ahead of me.

      ALSO mid-thread: Hubei police and civilians marching TOGETHER to confront the Jiangxi police.

      1?? Lockdown in Hubei was lifted 2 days ago and people wanted to go back to work in Jiangxi. Jiangxi police would not let them in. People from Hubei got mad.

      2?? Jiangxi police invaded Hubei police jurisdiction, causing fights between the police.

      3?? Riots ensued.

      https://twitter.com/TruthAbtChina/status/1243475263222099968

  2. Snowden rambles a bit. I don’t know if he’s working for Uncle Vlad, or not, but his comments at 19:00, then particularly 26:00 are interesting.

    Algorithms to determine your “probable” nature and identity, police-state infrastructure…we are all Rip Van Winkle.

    https://youtu.be/9we6t2nObbw

    • The guaranteed economic collapse of Canada.
      One must wonder why Justin is insisting on remaining in isolation?

  8. https://twitter.com/g_christides/status/1243527805863890946
    #Exclusive in @derspiegel
    : Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has indications that Turkey deliberately fuelled riots at the Greek border in #Evros. According to the agency, Turkish forces mingled with migrants to provoke clashes at the fence.

    Links to article in German:
    https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/fluechtlinge-tuerkei-steuerte-laut-bnd-ansturm-auf-griechenlands-grenze-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000170213666

  10. Tweet about Turkish fake news. In Greek, translated with google translate:
    https://twitter.com/e_amyna/status/1243505057984905220
    photo of allegedly wounded military in Evros by Turkish fire. Nowadays, an uncharacteristic type and some page / group managers in IQs with Amoeba IQ are sufficient. Sample what we will face on a larger scale in the war with Turkey.
    Lessons learned.

  15. Germany: Corona treatment as a priority for “refugees” only

    In Bad Salzuflen, the municipality and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia are arguing about the use of the local spa clinic. Due to corona conditions, there is currently no medical treatment there. The municipality wants to set up the clinic for the treatment of people of all origins who are ill with corona and cannot be accommodated in the regular hospitals due to capacity constraints. The state, on the other hand, wants to take over the entire facility for the treatment of asylum seekers only. The municipality is fighting back bravely. So now it’s threatened with confiscation.Wasn’t it always said that all people were of equal value? Then why should only asylum seekers be treated in this clinic? Is their life worth more than that of all other people in Germany? Things are a little less drastic in Lower Saxony. There, the Refugee Council is only demanding that asylum seekers be accommodated in hotels, whose capacities are currently lying idle, because there is a ban on business activities. The consequences for the hotel operators would probably be similar to those for the shipowners whose cruise ships Sea-Watch wants to occupy with “fugitives”: They would not reopen so quickly after the Corona crisis, if the political establishment implements the wishes of the Lower Saxony Refugee Council.
    https://medforthblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/28/germany-corona-treatment-as-a-priority-for-refugees-only/

  16. https://news.trust.org/item/20200327201312-k2k1h
    EXCLUSIVE-Iranian diplomats instigated killing of dissident in Istanbul, Turkish officials say
    by Reuters
    Friday, 27 March 2020 20:51 GMT
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    * Vardanjani was shot dead in Istanbul in November

    * Police say victim was cyber expert and critic of Tehran

    * Iranian sources say Revolutionary Guards warned Vardanjani

    * One suspect smuggled back to Iran, official says

    ISTANBUL, March 27 (Reuters) – Two intelligence officers at Iran’s consulate in Turkey instigated the killing last November of an Iranian dissident in Istanbul who criticised the Islamic Republic’s political and military leaders, two senior Turkish officials told Reuters.

    The accusation is likely to strain ties between Turkey and Iran, two regional powers which had grown closer under the government of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.

    Masoud Molavi Vardanjani was shot dead on an Istanbul street on Nov. 14, 2019, a little over a year after the Turkish officials say he left Iran.

    A police report into the killing, published two weeks ago, said Vardanjani had an “unusual profile”. It said he worked in cyber security at Iran’s defence ministry and had become a vocal critic of the Iranian authorities.

    According to the report, Vardanjani had posted a message on social media targeting Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards in August, three months before he was shot dead.

    “I will root out the corrupt mafia commanders,” the post said. “Pray that they don’t kill me before I do this.”

    Reuters was unable to independently confirm either Vardanjani’s position at the Iranian defence ministry or his social media posts.

    No one at the Iranian embassy and consulate in Turkey responded to calls on Friday seeking comment on Vardanjani’s background or death. Asked about possible Iranian government involvement in the killing, a spokeswoman for Istanbul’s police said the investigation was continuing and declined to comment further.

    A week after the killing, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described it as “another tragic example in a long string of suspected Iran-backed assassination attempts” of Iranian dissidents. He did not elaborate further.

    Turkish authorities did not publicly accuse the Iranian government of involvement at the time. But the two senior Turkish officials said that the Turkish government would now raise Vardanjani’s killing with Iran and one of them said that Turkish prosecutors were also following the case.

    The suspected gunman and several other suspects, including Turks and Iranians detained in the weeks after the killing, told authorities they had acted on orders from two intelligence officers at the Iranian consulate, the first official said.

    “It was reflected in the testimonies of the arrested suspects that these two Iranians, carrying diplomatic passports, had given the order for the assassination,” he said, identifying the two men by their first names and initials.

    The second Turkish official said evidence including the suspects’ statements suggested “Iranian nationals played a serious role in both instigating and coordinating” the killing.

    Both of the Turkish officials said Ankara would soon deliver a formal response to Iran over Vardanjani’s killing and the role they said was played by officials with diplomatic passports.

    WARNINGS

    Vardanjani was on the radar of the Iranian authorities.

    Two Iranian security sources said he had defied a warning from the Revolutionary Guards not to cooperate with Turkish firms on drone projects, without giving details. They said he had also approached the United States and European states to work for them, although Reuters could not corroborate this.

    One of the Iranian sources said he had published documents online that he had either hacked or obtained from contacts in Iran and had ignored requests to contact the Iranian embassy in Ankara, instead meeting Americans and an Israeli diplomat. The source gave no details on the documents or his meetings.

    The second Iranian source also said that Vardanjani had been warned about his contacts with foreign diplomats.

    The second Turkish official compared Vardanjani’s death to the October 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a team of Saudi agents inside Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate.

    Erdogan has said Khashoggi’s killing was ordered at the “highest levels” of the Saudi government. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has denied ordering the killing but said he bore ultimate responsibility as the kingdom’s de facto leader.

    On Wednesday, the Istanbul prosecutor’s office said it had indicted 20 people, including a former aide to Prince Mohammed over Khashoggi’s killing.

    Relations between Turkey and Iran have been tested by the civil war in Syria, where they back opposing sides.

    Turkey has been particularly angered by the role of Iranian-backed fighters in a Syrian government offensive against rebels backed by Turkey in Idlib, a Syrian province just over Turkey’s southern border, launched not long after Vardanjani’s killing.

    ROADSIDE KILLING

    A joint investigation by Istanbul police and Turkish intelligence reviewed more than 320 hours of footage, searched 49 premises and spoke to 185 people, the police report said.

    Video footage broadcast on Turkish television after Vardanjani’s killing showed a gunman running past two men as they walked in central Istanbul’s Sisli neighbourhood at 10 pm on Nov. 14 last year. The gunman fired several shots at one of them, who fell to the ground while his companion took cover.

    The Turkish officials said the companion walking with Vardanjani had struck up a friendship with him after he arrived in Istanbul from Tehran in June 2018 and had passed information about him to Iranian intelligence.

    The morning before the killing, the companion, whom the police report and Turkish officials say was named Ali Esfanjani, went to the Iranian consulate. He later met the gunman to discuss details of the operation, the officials said.

    The police report describes Esfanjani as the leader of the team that carried out Vardanjani’s killing.

    Esfanjani was spirited across the border into Iran three days later by an Iranian smuggler, the first Turkish official said, showing a copy of a bus ticket he had used under a fake name to get to Turkey’s eastern border region of Agri.

    Reuters could not confirm Esfanjani’s whereabouts. (Editing b

  18. German Intelligence: Turkish Govt Agents Disguised as Migrants Fuelled Riots at Greek Border (breitbart, Mar 28, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/28/german-intelligence-turkish-govt-agents-disguised-as-migrants-fuelled-riots-at-greek-border/

    “German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) findings indicate that the Turkish government purposely incited riots by planting members of its security services among crowds of migrants.

    The BND accuses Turkish forces of intermixing with migrants along the border and posing as migrants themselves, throwing rocks and other missiles at Greek forces in an effort to incite riots and facilitate a breakthrough into Greece and the European Union.

    The findings were denied by the Turkish authorities, according to German tabloid Bild, and the BND did not disclose further detail on the allegations to the newspaper when asked to comment.

    Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened the border to Europe in late February, with Greece recording over 50,000 attempts by migrants to illegally cross the border by mid-March.

    The Turkish government was forced to close the border again due to fears that the large crowds that had gathered in the area could potentially spread the Wuhan coronavirus which has recently begun to surge in Turkey, with over 3,600 cases recorded as of Friday.

    Despite Turkey’s recent move to close their side of the border, however, attacks on the Greek border fence have continued, including one incident last week in which migrants armed with improvised ladders tried to scale the fence.

    Greek Minister for Citizens Protection, Michalis Chrisochoidis, stated that most of the small minority of families and elderly had left the border area already, and that only 5,000 or so young men, who he labelled “provocateurs,” remained.

    The German intelligence service’s claim that Turkey has co-ordinated the border violence are not the first levelled at the Islamist-led country since it “opened the gates” in late February.

    Greek authorities report that the Turks used buses and trains to help ship thousands of migrants to the border area along the Evros river, some direct from prison.

    The Greeks also stated that Turkish authorities helped both arm migrants with tear gas and provide them with cover during repeated attempts to break through the Greek border — which is also a common external border for the EU’s frontierless Schengen area.”

  30. McFiles Tuesday The Murder Of Philip Haney Discussed With Former CIA Operative Brad Johnson

  31. Hong Kong Chief Exec. Carrie Lam dodges question over whether she trusts Beijing’s coronavirus data

  33. Carrie Lam refuses to state whether Hong Kong will bar permanent residents from journalism

  34. redpravda – Lesbos Refugee Camp: The Crisis At The EU Border

    As the situation for refugees trapped on the Greek islands worsens amid the coronavirus pandemic, the right-wing is taking advantage of the situation to promote hatred against refugees.

    Facing inhumane treatment and an unimaginable reality, refugees in the camps fear the moment COVID-19 hits them. With no access to basic hygiene and extreme shortages in medical supplies, it will be impossible to contain the virus.

    redfish spoke with refugees and local residents who are fighting back against the attacks, the hatred and the inhumane treatment.

    “… you can’t tell who is wearing the swastika and who is right-wing…”

    • europravda Migrants arriving in Greece say they have no protection against coronavirus

  35. Urns in Wuhan far exceed official CCP virus death toll; riot breaks out in virus-hit Hubei

  36. redpravda – Interviews: Homelessness during COVID-19

    Homeless populations are increasingly vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic, often left entirely without support or access to food and shelter.

    As the situation worsens, hear from people living on the streets of Berlin, Madrid and London about what they’re facing right now.

  37. Morning Newswrap | Covid-19 Lockdown Disrupts Supply Chain; Blood Shortage In Maharashtra Hospitals

  41. COVID-19: Singapore has ‘sizeable’ reserves to tap, but important to be ‘careful stewards’, says DPM

  44. Sky News Coronavirus: Sky News crew enters quarantine in China

    A team from Sky News were on one of the last flights into China before borders were closed to foreigners and had to enter forced quarantine.


  45. Anadolu agency – Turkish musician records Hagia Sofia acoustics

    Turkish musician, singer Emre Yucelen, volunteer team behind recording inside historic building

    The acoustics of Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sofia was recorded for the first time simultaneously with eight cameras and voice recorders.

    Turkish musician and singer Emre Yucelen and a volunteer team are behind the recording.

    For an acoustics sound test, imam Onder Soy and muezzin Ahmet Toraman worked from a prayer room on the museum grounds and recited the Muslim call to prayer, or adhan, and other sections from the Quran inside the historic museum. A muezzin is the person who makes the call to prayer.

    Dubbed the “Eight Wonder of the World” by historians, the 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia was a Christian church until it was converted to a mosque when the Ottoman Empire conquered Istanbul in 1453 before it turned it into a museum in 1935.

    A graduate of Istanbul’s prestigious ITU-Turkish Music State Conservatory’s Sound Department, Yucelen uploaded the video to his YouTube channel which has so far been seen more than 5,000 times.

    This was not his first attempt to record acoustics from historical buildings in Turkey.

    In 2006, Yucelen visited 17 mosques in Istanbul and interviewed religious officials for two hours and recorded their naked voice during the adhans.

    – Gigantic mosques have magnificent acoustics

    In 2007, he released a CD, Istanbul Mosques and Muezzins and remembers the ambiance inside those structures. “Reciting the adhan in the morning with Ali Riza Sahin Hoca in [Istanbul’s historic] Fatih Mosque on a winter evening,” he recalled. “Those leaves outside … the magnificent acoustics of that big dome.”

    He said Istanbul’s gigantic mosques have magnificent acoustics and noted they were built based on reciting the adhan with a naked voice, but nowadays it is recited with a microphone.

    Yucelen said he had a “classic perspective” and since he also gives singing lessons he, “really wanted to listen to the acoustics of this place.”

    The recordings were made in three different locations inside the museum: under the dome, in the mihrab — a semicircular niche in the walls of a mosque indicating the direction the faithful should face while praying, and in the muezzin mahfili, a special platform in a mosque where muezzin carries out his duties.

    According to Yucelen a detailed recording like the one he did has never been done. He recalled professor Zerhan Karabiber of Istanbul’s Yildiz Technical University who did an acoustical test in the museum but it was a voice recording.

    – Everyone mesmerized during recording

    Yucelen recalled how everyone was mesmerized during the recording.

    Should Hagia Sophia remain a museum or be returned to a mosque, as it functioned during the Ottoman era? It is a subject that has been long-debated in Turkey and Yucelen said his purpose was never to create a conflict.

    “These are cultural heritage,” he said. “We are talking about architecture, a culture that has been standing for 1,500 years, and it is currently living in Anatolian lands.”

    “It is a great honor for us,” he said.

    https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/turkish-musician-records-hagia-sofia-acoustics-/1782735

    AYASOFYA AKUST?K

  46. Spain: ‘Youths’ Attack Ambulances Transporting Elderly Coronavirus Patients (breitbart, Mar 28, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/28/spain-youths-attack-ambulances-transporting-elderly-coronavirus-patients/

    “A number of youths in southern Spain attacked a convoy of ambulances carrying elderly patients with coronavirus, throwing rocks at the vehicles.

    The attack took place in the city of La Línea de la Concepción, which lies on the Spanish border with the British territory of Gibraltar, and saw the youths prevent the passage of the convoy of medical vehicles that were carrying 28 elderly infected with the Wuhan coronavirus.

    Local police arrested two people — a 25-year-old and a 32-year-old — but said that a total of 50 young people were involved in the incident, which also saw officers attacked with two homemade explosive devices, according to Sud Ouest.

    “Several youths gathered at the entrance to the town and threw stones at the ambulances as well as leaving a vehicle across the road to try to prevent it reaching its destination,” a police spokesman confirmed in comments reported by the Daily Mail.

    “Officers arrested the two occupants of the vehicle, two men aged 32 and 35. Once the elderly people were taken into the home, police had to establish a security cordon around the residence as around 50 people outside threatened to cause problems,” they added.

    Other acts of vandalism occurred later on in the town.

    “Several officers were identifying two individuals when an object was thrown from the roof of a nearby building which exploded as it hit the ground but missed the police.

    “Thirty minutes later there was a repeat of the incident in the same place. The objects were taken away to be analysed.”

    The city of La Línea de la Concepción is well-known for high unemployment and gang activity, particularly relating to drug trafficking.

    A police officer suggested that there “There is a tense atmosphere [in the area] because those who smuggle illegal tobacco or hashish can not do anything, can not leave their homes without justification.”

    The pensioners were being moved because of a coronavirus outbreak in their care home, which had infected dozens and killed three, so it could be disinfected.

    Prior to the incident, Spanish authorities found the bodies of several elderly people who had been abandoned in their homes, with Defence Minister Margarita Robles stating they had been “completely left to fend for themselves, or even dead, in their beds”.

    Spain has seen a recent surge in coronavirus cases and has become not only the second-largest in terms of both cases and deaths in Europe behind Italy, but also surpassed the official fatality count in China, where the outbreak began.

    Lockdown-related tensions have begun boil over in several other European countries, including Italy, where a migrant violently attacked a man at a supermarket who asked him to respect social distancing.”

  47. europravda – COVID-19: Wuhan partially reopens from months-long isolation

    The Chinese city where the global coronavirus pandemic began partly reopened on Saturday, after more than two months of almost total isolation

    • Deutsche Pravda –Coronavirus: Wuhan China opens up, South Korea shuts back down

  48. There are thousands of unused ventilators in New York, but everything is fine and neither Trump nor Cuomo is a jerk
    By J.E. Dyer March 28, 2020

    What we have here is a failure to communicate.

    The chief reason it’s so hard is that the media are trying to make it so.

    Here’s the deal. New York is trying to collect more ventilators. This is not because there’s a shortage today. There isn’t. In fact, there are thousands of ventilators sitting in storage in New York, not needed right now and waiting to be called for in the future.

    But according to the expert projections Governor Andrew Cuomo is getting, there won’t be as many as New York needs. The experts are saying the state will need about 40,000 ventilators about 21 days from now (now being Friday, 27 March).

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/03/28/there-are-thousands-of-unused-ventilators-in-new-york-but-everything-is-fine-and-neither-trump-nor-cuomo-is-a-jerk/

  49. sputnik – Is It Zombie Apocalypse? Quarantined Man Runs Away Nude, Bites Woman to Death in India

    New Delhi (Sputnik): The coronavirus pandemic has led to paranoia as some people have flooded social media with doomsday warnings while linking the virus to various prophecies and predictions. A bizarre report of a man biting a woman in southern India has further added fuel to the fire, with netizens calling it a “zombie apocalypse”.

    A man in his 30s, was under quarantine due to his travel history, but was reported to be “mentally disturbed” after he ran out of his house naked on Friday and killed a 90-year-old by biting her throat in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

    Immediately after the incident, the elderly woman was taken to a hospital to treat her neck injury but succumbed on Saturday as she didn’t respond to the treatment. The man was held by the police after locals raised the alarm.

    https://sputniknews.com/world/202003281078742220-is-it-zombie-apocalypse-quarantined-man-runs-away-nude-bites-woman-to-death-in-india/