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the gateway pundit –Instagram Forces Right-Wing Author Brittany Pettibone to Delete All Photos With Her Political Activist Husband — Including From Their Wedding
Instagram suspended right-wing author and political commentator Brittany Pettibone three months ago for seemingly no reason. It turns out, she was barred from the platform for posting photos of her husband’s face.
Pettibone’s account was just like any normal twenty-something woman’s account, though perhaps a bit more enviable. There were beautiful photos from balls, charming pictures with her family and friends, whimsical wedding portraits and captivating images of her travels. Though there might have been some politics scattered in here and there, it was largely a personal look at her everyday life.
The problem, in Instagram’s eyes, is that last year Pettibone married right-wing Austrian political activist Martin Sellner.
Sellner focuses on non-violent protests over the dangers of European nations taking in migrants — and the nonprofit organizations that assist them. He has never been convicted of a crime nor advocated for violence, and yet, he was labeled a “dangerous person” and Instagram does not allow posts that “promote” any “dangerous” person or organization. Their label likely stems from Sellner’s home being raided twice in 2019 because he was one of many people who received a donation from the man who became the Christchurch mosque shooter.
Sellner maintains that he receives donations for his activism from people all over the world and that he had no knowledge of what was to come over a year later. His property was later returned and nothing was found that could implicate him.
The High Court of Austria ultimately deemed the raids on Sellner’s home to have been illegal.
Other “dangerous” people whose faces can’t be posted on Instagram or their parent company, Facebook, include Tommy Robinson and Paul Joseph Watson. Curiously, we have yet to hear of bans on Antifa imagery, or heck, even serial killers.
“Per instagram’s TOS, it appears that I am forbidden from posting photos that show the face of my husband, Martin Sellner—including non-political photos, such as from our wedding or at a Viennese Christmas market. Instagram categorizes these photos as promoting ‘dangerous people and organizations,’” Pettibone told the Gateway Pundit. “ My husband has never advocated for violence against anyone. He has never been convicted of a crime either. He is a strict advocate of non-violent political protest. It’s utterly unprecedented and unjust for Instagram to label him a ‘dangerous person’, even going so far as to ban his name and face from their platform.”
In order to restore her account, Pettibone was forced to delete nearly 100 posts and story archives that showed her husband’s face, including the stunning portraits from their wedding.
Speaking to the Gateway Pundit, Sellner compared what Instagram is doing to him and others to George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984.
“In Orwell’s 1984, there is a term ‘to vaporize’ a person,” Sellner began. “This is what’s happening today in the digital sphere to people like Tommy Robinson, Alex Jones and myself. Every photo of me, and even just sharing a video or news article with my name in the title, will get the post deleted on Facebook and Instagram.”
Sellner explained that even the logo for Generation Identity, a European patriotic youth movement that he is a member of, is recognized by the algorithms and immediately banned.
“Dozens of people, and even some patriotic newspapers, have lost their Facebook accounts for simply sharing videos about me or writing articles which included me. This leads to a situation where people even have to avoid posting my name, which effectively means that I don’t ‘exist’ anymore on important platforms like Facebook and Instagram,” Sellner continued. “This even affects people who share my last name, especially my wife, Brittany. The reason for this is a baseless investigation for ‘terrorism’, including two house-raids in 2019. Both house-raids have been declared illegal. The Austrian police were forced to return my property and delete all the data they collected. The highest court in Austria ruled that there was never a substantial suspicion to begin with. However, Facebook and Instagram still treat me as if I was a terrorist and Generation Identity a terrorist organization like ISIS.”
In 2018, Sellner and Pettibone travelled to the United Kingdom where he was scheduled to give a speech on migration. Though the couple were facing violent threats from Antifa militants, he continued to spread his message of using words and not violence to promote his ideology. Despite the fact that they were the ones who were being targeted with violent threats, the couple was stopped in the airport, detained, branded “dissidents,” and forced to leave the country. All of this for holding right-wing political views.
In 2019, Sellner had planned to travel to the US to marry Pettibone, who is from Idaho, but US authorities canceled his permit to travel without a visa. The couple had planned to wed in her home state, but their efforts were unsuccessful even with lobbying from her local Republican Committee of Kootenai County.
The Gateway Pundit has reached out to Instagram to ask if these photos were flagged using facial recognition software or from manual reporting by users, what their guidelines are for determining who is a “dangerous person,” and why they would remove and ban inoffensive non-political personal photos. We will update this report if a comment is provided.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/instagram-forces-right-wing-author-brittany-pettibone-delete-photos-political-activist-husband-including-wedding/
zero hedge – Did Bill Gates Just Reveal The Real Reason Behind The Lock-Downs?
On March 24 Bill Gates gave a highly revelatory 50-minute interview to Chris Anderson. Anderson is the Curator of TED, the non-profit that runs the TED Talks.
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How we must respond to the coronavirus pandemic – Bill Gates
( 51 min 50 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe8fIjxicoo
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[…]The Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust with support from Mastercard and now others, created this therapeutic accelerator to really triage out [candidate therapeutics]…
You have hundreds of people showing up and saying, ‘Try this, try that.’ So we look at lab assays, animal models, and so we understand which things should be prioritized for these very quick human trials that need to be done all over the world.”
[…]Then a few seconds later, at 33:45, Gates drops another bomb:
We don’t want to have a lot of recovered people…
To be clear, we’re trying – through the shut-down in the United States – to not get to one percent of the population infected. We’re well below that today, but with exponentiation, you could get past that three million [people or approximately one percent of the U.S. population being infected with COVID-19 and the vast majority recovering]. I believe we will be able to avoid that with having this economic pain.”
[…]It appears that rather than let the population be exposed to the virus and most develop antibodies that give them natural, long-lasting immunity to COVID-19, Gates and his colleagues far prefer to create a vast, hugely expensive, new system of manufacturing and selling billions of test kits, and in parallel very quickly developing and selling billions of antivirals and vaccines.
[…]Right after that, at 34:14, Gates talked about how he sees things rolling out from there.
Eventually what we’ll have to have is certificates of who’s a recovered person, who’s a vaccinated person…
…Because you don’t want people moving around the world where you’ll have some countries that won’t have it under control, sadly.
You don’t want to completely block off the ability for people to go there and come back and move around.
So eventually there will be this digital immunity proof that will help facilitate the global reopening up.”
[…]Yet in the March 27 press conference, just like all the others he has participated in during the COVID-19 crisis, Dr. Williams lectured the public about maintaining social distancing. He told people not to go outside on the coming weekend to enjoy the nice weather because, otherwise, they might walk past someone and not be two metres apart.
Dr. Williams is among the large cadre of powerful officials who’ve crashed the global economy by forcing tens of millions of small- and medium-sized businesses to close in the name of the need for forced, severe, social distancing and lock-downs.
They’ve shattered society, suspended most civil liberties and prohibited most activities and connections that kept people mentally and physically healthy. At the same time the officials have prioritized COVID-19 care over everything else and, as a result, severely limited billions of people’s access to life-saving healthcare services ranging from acquiring medication and blood transfusions to having organ transplants and cancer surgeries.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/did-bill-gates-just-reveal-real-reason-behind-lock-downs
The federal government announced on Sunday that they would be spending $159.5 million to fight coronavirus internationally.
The $159 figure includes a previously mentioned $50 million.
The announcement was made by Minister of International Development Karina Gould.
The federal government is allocating $159.5 million to support global efforts to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes $50 million announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last month. News release:
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/trudeau-govt-to-give-159-million-to-developing-countries-for-coronavirus-feminism
(The chaos begins, slowly but if the Wuhan Flu doesn’t go dormant with hot weather it will grow.)
The Resource Wars Are BEGINNING Right As The World Needs To Be United Like NEVER Before
Three Sudanese arrested over French ‘terror’ stabbing
https://news.yahoo.com/three-sudanese-arrested-over-french-terror-stabbing-145104995.html
French police have arrested three Sudanese nationals in a terror probe after a stabbing spree in the southeast left two people dead, investigators said on Sunday.
The attack by a lone perpetrator took place in broad daylight Saturday, with the country on lockdown to stem the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
Prosecutors have launched an investigation into “murder linked to a terrorist enterprise” and “association with terrorist wrongdoers” after the rampage through a string of shops in the riverside town of Romans-sur-Isere, which has a population of 35,000.
The alleged assailant, identified as Abdallah Ahmed-Osman — a Sudanese refugee in his 30s who lives in the town — was arrested without a fight.
Police arrested a second Sudanese man aged 28 at Ahmed-Osman’s home shortly after the assault. He was described as an acquaintance of the alleged attacker.
Later Saturday “a young Sudanese man from the same household” as the main suspect was also arrested, the anti-terror prosecutor’s office told AFP.
The third suspect was an asylum seeker.
– ‘On his knees praying’ –
On Sunday, the number two in France’s interior ministry, Laurent Nunez, told France Inter that “to our knowledge he (Ahmed-Osman) acted alone”.
Investigators have found no references among Ahmed-Osman’s belongings to the Islamic State or other jihadist groups, two sources close to the probe told AFP, but stressed the inquiry was only just beginning.
Ahmed-Osman was found by police “on his knees on the pavement praying in Arabic” after the attack, the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office (PNAT) said.
According to witnesses cited by local radio station France Bleu Drome Ardeche, he shouted “Allah Akbar!” (God is Greatest) as he stabbed his victims.
“Anyone who had the misfortune to find themselves in his way were attacked,” the town’s mayor Marie-Helene Thoraval told AFP.
David Olivier Reverdy, from the National Police Alliance union, said Ahmed-Osman asked police to kill him when they came to arrest him.
The assailant first went into a tobacco shop where he attacked the owner and his wife, Thoraval said.
He then went to a butcher’s shop where he seized another knife before heading to the town centre and attacking people outside a bakery.
Five people were injured in the spree, two remain in intensive care in stable condition.
– Suspect agitated –
Ahmed-Osman obtained refugee status in France in June 2017, according to investigators. He was previously unknown to the police or intelligence services.
The initial investigation has “brought to light a determined, murderous course” that was targeted “to seriously disturb public order through intimidation or terror”, PNAT said.
It said that during a search of the suspect’s home, “handwritten documents with religious connotations were found in which the author complains in particular that he lives in a country of non-believers”.
A source close to the probe told AFP the alleged attacher had said that “he did not remember what happened”. An initial interrogation was delayed as Ahmed-Osman was very agitated.
A psychological evaluation has been scheduled for Sunday.
President Emmanuel Macron denounced the attack on Twitter Saturday as “an odious act which casts a shadow over our country which has already been hit hard in recent weeks.”
France is in the third week of a national lockdown over COVID-19, with all but essential businesses shut and people confined to their homes.
The country has been on terror alert since a wave of deadly jihadist bombings and shootings in Paris in 2015.
In all, 258 people have been killed in France since then in what have been deemed terror attacks.
Youtuber licking a subway pole.
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/youtuber-princezee-licks-subway-pole-coronaviru/
This clip was featured in PJW’s latest video:
https://twitter.com/WORLDSTAR/status/1240480350192775172
China’s new game: Extortion.
Macron asked China for 1 billion masks and Xi said we will give them to you if you implement 5G with huawei.
https://twitter.com/KokeReport/status/1246538388129415174
Third man arrested in French ‘terror’ stabbing
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/france-launches-terror-probe-after-two-killed-in-stabbing-spree
“French police have arrested a third suspect, another Sudanese national, in an expanding terror probe after a knife attack in the country’s southeast left two people dead, investigators said on Sunday (April 5).
The attack in broad daylight Saturday in the riverside town of Romans-sur-Isere, took place with the country on lockdown to stem the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
Prosecutors have launched an investigation into “murder linked to a terrorist enterprise” and “association with terrorist wrongdoers” after the rampage through a string of shops in the town with a population of 35,000.
The alleged assailant, identified as Abdallah Ahmed-Osman – a Sudanese refugee in his 30s who lives in the town – was arrested without a fight.
Police later arrested a second Sudanese man at Ahmed-Osman’s home – “an acquaintance” of the alleged attacker – and on Saturday night “a young Sudanese man from the same household” as the main suspect, the anti-terror prosecutor’s office told AFP on Sunday.
Ahmed-Osman was found by police “on his knees on the pavement praying in Arabic” after the attack, said the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office (PNAT).
“Anyone who had the misfortune to find themselves in his way were attacked,” town mayor Marie-Helene Thoraval told AFP.
David Olivier Reverdy, from the National Police Alliance union, said the assailant had called on police to kill him when they came to arrest him.
‘JUMPED OVER THE COUNTER’
The suspect first went into a tobacco shop where he attacked the owner and his wife, Thoraval said.
He then went into a butcher’s shop where he seized another knife before heading to the town centre and attacking people in the street outside a bakery.
“He took a knife, jumped over the counter, and stabbed a customer, then ran away,” the butcher’s shop owner Ludovic Breyton told AFP. “My wife tried to help the victim but in vain.”
Five people were injured in the spree.
Two were in intensive care, but stable, one was recovering, and two have been discharged from hospital, a source close to the investigation said Sunday.
Ahmed-Osman obtained refugee status in
France in June 2017, according to investigators. He was previously unknown to the police or intelligence services.
The initial investigation has “brought to light a determined, murderous course likely to seriously disturb public order through intimidation or terror”, PNAT said.
It said that during a search of the suspect’s home, “handwritten documents with religious connotations were found in which the author complains in particular that he lives in a country of non-believers”.
A source close to the probe told AFP the alleged attacker had said that “he did not remember what happened”. An initial interrogation was delayed as Ahmed-Osman was very agitated.
A psychological evaluation has been scheduled for Sunday.
Macron denounced the attack in a statement on Twitter.
“All the light will be shed on this odious act which casts a shadow over our country which has already been hit hard in recent weeks,” he said.
France is in its third week of a national lockdown over Covid-19, with all but essential businesses ordered to shut and people told to stay at home.
The country has been on terror alert since a wave of deadly bombings and shootings in Paris in 2015.
In all, 258 people have been killed in France in what have been deemed terrorist attacks.”
Iranian Official Urges Probe into US’ Role in Creation of COVID-19
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2020/04/05/2237175/iranian-official-urges-probe-into-us-role-in-creation-of-covid-19
“Head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization called for the formation of a fact-finding committee to look into the possible role of the US government in the creation of coronavirus…”
Iraq’s Popular Forces Vow to End US Occupation of Iraq
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2020/04/05/2236612/iraq-s-popular-forces-vow-to-end-us-occupation-of-iraq
“Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, in a joint statement vowed to put an end to the occupation of the Arab country by “American occupation forces”….”
Yemeni Troops Kill, Injure over 80 Saudi-Backed Mercenaries in Ma’rib
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2020/04/05/2236663/yemeni-troops-kill-injure-over-80-saudi-backed-mercenaries-in-ma-rib
“Yemeni troops continued their fight against Saudi-backed militants in Ma’rib, managing to kill and injure at least 80 mercenaries in the central province, reports said…”
Arab Coalition Accuses Houthis of Firing Ballistic Missile from Sanaa
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/2217726/arab-coalition-accuses-houthis-firing-ballistic-missile-sanaa
“The Saudi-led Arab coalition announced Sunday that the Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen had fired a ballistic missile from Sanaa on Saturday.
Coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki said the militias fired the projectile from a residential area in Sanaa. It fell in an agricultural and densely populated area in the al-Safra district in Yemen’s Saada.
He accused the Houthis of deliberately violating international humanitarian law by continuing to launch ballistic missiles that arbitrarily land in residential areas.
He reiterated the coalition’s vow to continue to take firm measures to neutralize and destroy the Houthis’ ballistic capabilities in order to protect the Yemeni people and regional and international security.”
Tit-for-Tat Abductions in Syria’s Suwaida, Daraa
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/2217636/tit-tat-abductions-syria%E2%80%99s-suwaida-daraa
“Tension has prevailed in southern Syria’s Suwaida and Daraa since the end of March as a result of kidnappings and armed attacks.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) revealed that armed men from Bosr Al-Harir in the eastern countryside of Daraa hijacked a bus carrying regime soldiers from Suwaida and took them to an unknown location.
The kidnapping was in retaliation for the abduction of a person from Bosr Al-Harir by fighters from Suwaida on Friday, according to the kidnappers.
Several areas in the eastern countryside of Daraa and Suwaida’s countryside have been tense amid concerns of a possible protracted gunfight, which elders are trying hard to prevent.
On March 28, SOHR sources reported that Bosra Al-Sham gunmen who attacked Al-Quraya area – in the southern countryside of Suwaida – executed six local armed men and sent the victims’ photos to their families after the execution.
Sources added that tense calm returned to the southern countryside of Suwaida after dramatic developments in several areas on Friday, while local gunmen in the area were on high alert in anticipation for possible attacks.
Tension began ten days ago when a gang abducted two young men from Bosra Al-Sham and took them to the group’s stronghold in Al-Quraya.
Subsequently, gunmen from Bosra Al-Sham attacked Al-Quraya and attempted to abduct residents on Friday.
The tit-for-tat attacks were followed by fierce clashes between the attackers and local gunmen from Al-Quraya, leaving ten armed men from local factions dead and six others injured, while four attackers were killed.”
Greece Quarantines 2nd Migrant Camp after Coronavirus Case Confirmed
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/2217616/greece-quarantines-2nd-migrant-camp-after-coronavirus-case-confirmed
“Greece has quarantined a second migrant facility this week after a 53-year-old man tested positive for coronavirus, the migration ministry said on Sunday.
The Afghan man, who has a prior ailment, had personally sought help with virus symptoms at the in-camp medical facility. He was subsequently taken to an Athens hospital where he tested positive, and his family was quarantined.
A full screening of the Malakasa camp is in process, the ministry said. The camp, 40 km (25 miles) northeast of Athens, had been placed under “full sanitary lockdown” for 14 days, with no one allowed to enter or leave. Police guarding the site would be reinforced to ensure the restrictions are implemented.
On Thursday, authorities quarantined the Ritsona camp in central Greece after 23 tested positive for the coronavirus. It was the first such facility in Greece to be hit since the outbreak of the disease.
Greece was the main gateway into the European Union for more than a million people fleeing conflict in 2015-16. More than 110,000 people currently live in migrant facilities across the country – 40,000 of them in overcrowded camps on five islands.
No cases have been recorded in the camps on the islands so far. Aid groups have urged the government to evacuate them, warning the risk of the fast-moving virus spreading among people living in squalid conditions is high and containing an outbreak in such settings would be “impossible”.
A separate closed-type facility started operating last month for migrants who arrived after March 1, the ministry said.
Greece recorded its first case of the new coronavirus at the end of February. Since then, it has confirmed 1,673 cases of COVID-19 and 68 deaths.
It has imposed a nationwide lockdown and banned arrivals from non-EU countries as well as Germany, Britain, Italy and Spain.”
Coronavirus: Iraqi women at risk as conservative families refuse treatment
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/coronavirus-iraqi-women-risk-conservative-families-refuse-coronavirus-treatment
Yemen: Oil pipeline attacked, both warring parties accuse each other
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200405-yemen-oil-pipeline-attacked-both-warring-parties-accuse-each-other/
“Warring factions in Yemen accused each other on Sunday of attacking an oil pipeline pumping station in the central province of Marib, where clashes have raged for weeks and displaced tens of thousands of civilians, reports Reuters.
The oil ministry of the Saudi-backed government in Yemen said on Sunday the Iran-aligned Houthi group had targeted the station, according to the Saudi state news agency SPA.
Hussein al-Ezzi, an official in the Houthi-controlled government based in the capital Sanaa since 2014, said Saudi-led coalition forces had attacked the Kofel pumping station in what he described as a dangerous escalation.
Both sides gave no details of the reported attack…”
Egyptian lawyers to sue China for trillions over ‘coronavirus damages’
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/4/5/egyptian-lawyers-to-sue-china-for-trillions-over-coronavirus
“Two Egyptian lawyers have raised a multi-trillion dollar lawsuit against Chinese President Xi Jinping for his presumed role in spreading the coronavirus to Egypt, Egyptian social media users and news websites reported on Sunday.
Mohammed Talaat and Amr Bayoumi, two lawyers with the Egyptian State Council, filed a complaint against Xi via the Chinese ambassador to Egypt, according to the Egyptian news site Al-Yawm Al-Jadid.
A photo widely circulated on social media purportedly showed the letter presenting the lawsuit, which called on the Chinese leader to pay $10 trillion because of his “responsibility” for the spread of the deadly Covid-19 virus throughout the world…”
Tripoli forces hit eastern Libyan cargo plane near capital
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-security/tripoli-forces-hit-eastern-libyan-cargo-plane-near-capital-idUSKBN21N0Y8
“An eastern Libyan military plane was hit on Sunday by forces allied to the internationally recognised government near the capital Tripoli, both sides said.
The Libyan national army (LNA) commanded by Khalifa Haftar, whose forces have been trying to take the Tripoli for a year, said its cargo plane was hit at Tarhouna, a town south of Tripoli which the LNA controls and uses as a main forward base.
LNA spokesman Ahmed Mismari said the plane was carrying medical supplies to fight the coronavirus outbreak, while the Tripoli forces said it had been carrying ammunition.
The UAE has been supporting the LNA, supplying them with Chinese-made Wing Loong drones that long gave them an aerial advantage over less powerful Turkish drones used by their rivals, according to U.N. experts, diplomats and analysts.
However, Turkey has recently been sending reinforcements to the GNA, which include air defense systems and new drones as well as military advisors, analysts say.
The LNA has been trying since last year to capture the capital Tripoli, seat of the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA).
An escalation in the fighting could spell disaster for Libya’s already fragmented and badly stretched health system in handling the coronavirus, after authorities confirmed the first case of the disease in late March.”
Morocco Arrests 32 Sub-Saharan Would-Be Irregular Migrants Near Dakhla
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/04/298709/morocco-arrests-32-sub-saharan-would-be-irregular-migrants-near-dakhla/
“Morocco’s security services arrested a total of 32 would-be undocumented migrants from sub-Saharan African countries on April 3 near Dakhla, southern Morocco.
The Royal Moroccan Navy arrested the migrants on a small fishing boat 100 kilometers south of the city of Dakhla, a security source told Maghreb Arab Press (MAP).
The navy transferred the migrants to the Dakhla reception center as part of confinement measures.
Friday’s operation against irregular migration comes weeks after a similar intervention.
The Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie arrested 45 would-be irregular migrants on March 10 in the fishing village of Idlan, north of Dakhla.
The operations are part of Morocco’s framework to combat undocumented migration and strengthen cooperation with its partners based on shared responsibility approach.
Morocco’s cooperation with Spain against irregular migration has been fruitful, according to both governments.
The European country recently remarked that working against undocumented migration with partners, especially Morocco, helped the country to cut irregular migrant flows by more than half last year.
For years, Morocco has been fighting irregular migration, foiling at least 74,000 irregular migration attempts in 2019.”
French-Moroccan Politician Files Complaint Against Racist Doctors
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/04/298693/french-moroccan-politician-files-complaint-against-racist-doctors/
“French parliamentary representative M’jid El Guerrab addressed a complaint to his lawyers on April 4 condemning the racist statements two French doctors, Jean-Paul Mira and Camille Locht, made on April 1.
The doctors sparked outrage on social media after they suggested testing COVID-19 vaccines on Africans during a live talk show on the French television channel LCI.
Mira, the head of the intensive care department at the Cochin Hospital in Paris, proposed testing potential coronavirus vaccines on African populations to Locht, the research director at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM).
“The message behind the two doctor’s statements is shocking and clear: let’s test the vaccine first on Africans and see if it will work,” El Guerrab told Maghreb Arab Press.
“This is an evident call for discrimination based on race. These statements are not only unacceptable but punishable by the law.”
El Guerrab, the son of Moroccan immigrants, clarified that the doctors’ statements constitute a dual crime according to the July 29, 1881, law about press freedom.
“The first crime is the public insult against Africans,” explains El Guerrab, who serves as a member of the National Assembly for the 9th district of French people living abroad.
“The second crime is the call for serious medical testing on Africans based on their origins.”
Despite apologies from Mira on April 3, El Guerrab is determined to take the case to court. Mira expressed apologies to all those who were hurt by the racist remarks he “clumsily suggested” during the conversation with Locht.
While discussing the Bacillus Calmette–Guerin (BCG) vaccine, currently used to prevent tuberculosis, as a potential COVID-19 treatment, Mira suggested taking the trials to Africa.
“If I can be provocative, shouldn’t we do this study in Africa where there are no masks, no treatment, no intensive care? A bit like we did in some studies on AIDS. We tried things on prostitutes because they are highly exposed and do not protect themselves,” said Mira.
Locht agreed with the suggestion: “You are right. We are actually thinking about leading a study in Africa… We have already launched a call for bids and we are strongly considering the idea.”
The exchange between the two doctors triggered outrage online and caught the attention of several celebrities, including Cameroonian football star Samuel Eto’o and Ivorian football legend Didier Drogba.
The Moroccan Lawyers Club also slammed the French doctors, announcing that they will file a complaint for defamation and racism.
The lawyers’ collective described the exchange between the two Frenchmen as “hateful and racist.”
INSERM, Locht’s employer, issued a statement following the incident. However, instead of presenting an apology, the institute justified Locht’s crude remarks by saying they were “wrongly interpreted.””
Mob loots truck carrying ration bags in Hyderabad
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2191595/1-mob-loots-truck-carrying-ration-bags-hyderabad/
“A truck transporting ration bags to a district administration distribution point was looted by a mob in Hyderabad on Sunday.
The vehicle, which was heading towards the distribution point near the Niaz cricket stadium, was ransacked near Giddu Naka area, in the limits of the Hussainabad police.
The truck was loaded with around 400 ration bags, all of which were stolen by the robbers, who were reportedly residents of the suburban area…”
Lal Masjid cleric booked for defying Friday congregation ban
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2191133/1-lal-masjid-cleric-booked-defying-friday-congregation-ban/
“The Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in the federal capital once again echoed with anti-state slogans as its administration flouted the ban on congregational prayers on Friday meant to prevent the spread of coronavirus (Coivd-19).
The Abpara police have registered a First Information Report (FIR) against the Red Mosque former khateeb (ex-prayer leader) Maulana Abdul Aziz and seven others on charges of provoking people against the state, playing jihadi anthems and organising congregational prayer despite ban.
The police officials said that they were on-duty near the mosque when they heard an announcement from the mosque’s loudspeakers for Friday prayers congregation.
Congregational Friday prayers have been banned by the district government as a preventive measure to contain spread of coronavirus.
Maulana Aziz started delivered a sermon and provoked people to resist the state’s decisions. The police officials rushed inside the mosque and asked the management to discontinue congregational prayer citing ban. The police also showed official notification issued by the Islamabad Capital Territory Administration (ICTA) to mosque’s management.
However, the former Red Mosque cleric continued his speech and started chanting slogans and playing jihadi anthems to incite the worshippers. Aziz said that they did not accept orders of a state that followed international agenda, adding that they would only abide by their own rules and laws. The FIR read that Aziz provoked people in an attempt to sabotage the peace.
Case against chasing suspects
The police on Saturday registered a case against five suspects for aerial firing amid chasing down a victim’s car and hitting it. The complainant Zainab Ali informed Bara Kahu police officials that Shazaib, Shehbaz, and three unidentified suspects in a car started chasing her vehicle. When they reached Prince Road, the suspects started firing into the air and later rammed their car into her vehicle, leaving it damaged, and then drove away. The police have registered a case and started the investigation.
Teenager allegedly kidnapped
A teenage boy has been allegedly kidnapped from the suburban area of Seeri Chowk in the precincts of Bhara Kahu police station on Saturday. Abid Abbasi informed the police that his 17-year-old son Hussain Abid left the house in anger and then did not return.
The father alleged that his son had been kidnapped by unidentified suspects. Bhara Kahu police have registered a case of the incident and started investigation into the matter.”
Turkey: Army ‘neutralizes’ 80 terrorists over past month
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-army-neutralizes-80-terrorists-over-past-month/1793201
“Turkish Ministry of National Defense on Sunday said a total of 80 terrorists were neutralized as part of cross-border and domestic anti-terror operations over the past month.
The ministry said 52 terror posts, shelters and cellars used by terrorists were also destroyed as part of operations.
Turkish authorities often use the word “neutralize” to imply the terrorists in question either surrendered or were killed or captured.
Although the statement did not mention any specific terrorist group, Turkish forces have been conducting operations against the PKK terrorist organization and its branches as part of cross-border and domestic anti-terror operations.
In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and EU — has been responsible for the deaths of 40,000 people, including women, children, and infants. The YPG is the PKK’s Syrian branch.”
Taliban accuses US of violating Doha peace agreement
https://www.dw.com/en/taliban-accuses-us-of-violating-doha-peace-agreement/a-53023482
“The militant group said it is “asking the Americans to seriously comply” with a preliminary peace deal. US military officials have accused the group of distorting the deal, saying it should be the one reducing violence…”
Why Did Hundreds Of CEOs Resign Just Before The World Started Going Absolutely Crazy?
In the months prior to the most ferocious stock market crash in history and the eruption of the biggest public health crisis of our generation, we witnessed the biggest exodus of corporate CEOs that we have ever seen. And as you will see below, corporate insiders also sold off billions of dollars worth of shares in their own companies just before the stock market imploded. In life, timing can be everything, and sometimes people simply get lucky. But it does seem odd that so many among the corporate elite would be so exceedingly “lucky” all at the same time. In this article I am not claiming to know the motivations of any of these individuals, but I am pointing out certain patterns that I believe are worth investigating.
One financial publication is using the phrase “the great CEO exodus” to describe the phenomenon that we have been witnessing. It all started last year when chief executives started resigning in numbers unlike anything that we have ever seen before. The following was published by NBC News last November…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/why-did-hundreds-ceos-resign-just-world-started-going-absolutely-crazy
“Exclusive: Learn How Bill Gates Secretly Controls Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force”
Guest: Patrick Howley
The Alex Jones Show – April5, 2020
https://banned.video/watch?id=5e8a73df7454650087847e78
Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai – YT Page
https://www.youtube.com/user/drvashiva/videos
“Dr.SHIVA LIVE: We are at War. #FireFauci. End the Shutdown.”
Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai – April 4, 2020
zero hedge – Japan To Declare State Of Emergency On April 7
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to declare a coronavirus emergency, according to the Nikkei, as new cases in the capital surged at a record pace. And while the Japanese publication notes that the government will hold an unofficial meeting of a panel of experts and start preparing for the declaration, Kyodo reported moments ago that Japan will declare a state of emergency on April 7, which would take effect on April 8.
An emergency declaration gives governors in the areas covered formal powers, such as issuing requests that people stay home; Tokyo and surrounding areas, as well as Osaka, are expected to be affected by the declaration.
Abe has been criticized for not having already declared an emergency – a hesitance thought by many to stem from a strong desire to hold the Olympics this summer in Tokyo as originally planned. The International Olympic Committee decided in late March to postpone the games to 2021 after consulting with the prime minister and others.
And yet, a conflict is set to emerge almost instantly because Japan’s constitution does not permit the government to demand that individuals stay home, owing to civil liberties concerns. Is Japan – which already buys billions in stocks just to avoid a market crash and preserve social order – about to also have a constituational crisis?
In any case, we find it strange that there were almost “no cases” in the weeks leading up to Japan’s reluctant decision to postpone this year’s Olympics, only to see a sudden record surge afterwards as Japan’s cases “mysteriously” soared, demonstrating once again that the coronavirus – or rather the tracking of its case and death toll – is first and foremost a political priority.
Abe met with parties including Health Minister Katsunobu Kato and Yasutoshi Nishimura, the economic and fiscal policy minister, on Sunday to discuss the spread of infections.
“If necessary, we will decide [to declare an emergency] without hesitation,” said Nishimura, who heads the government’s coronavirus response, on a show of public broadcaster NHK on Sunday. “We are looking for signs of an overshoot,” he said, referring to an explosion in cases, and noted that the atmosphere has grown extremely tense. On the same program, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike called on the central government to issue an emergency declaration promptly.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/japan-declare-state-emergency-april-7