1. Mayor de Blasio gives a textbook lesson on how to deploy useful idiots to create a full on authoritarian police state.
(Swimming pools kill 10X as many people as guns do. Make sure you take a picture of anyone with a pool and get enforcement over there ASAP)
2. Trudeau reverses Harper cabinet order to unwind Chinese takeover deal.
3. Bill Maher does odd video about the media and trump. Still good though
4. Pastor who feeds the homeless in Calgary, fined $1200.00 for whatever they wanted to invent to fine him for.
Here is an interview we did with him in 2018:
5. There really is something terribly wrong with the way some governments are grabbing power and abusing it. Most of it seems to have nothing to do with public health at all.
Protestors at an anti-lockdown rally in Texas yelled ‘fire Fauci’ in a targeted chant against President Trump’s top medical advisor, as thousands of Americans defied stay-at-home and social distancing orders at rallies.
Meanwhile, anti-Trump activists launched counter-protests outside of the president’s properties and laid body bags on the ground.
Hundreds of protestors gathered at the capitol building in Austin on Saturday to fight the state’s coronavirus stay-at-home orders. The Texas protest was organized by Owen Shroyer and attended by Alex Jones from Infowars.
Cell phone footage from the protest showed people hoisting Trump 2020 flags and anti-lockdown signs into the air while calling for the dismissal of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top immunologist and infectious disease expert.
7. Trudeau envies China’s basic dictatorship.
8. Berlin police making aggressive arrests of people at a protest against being turned into a prison nation.
This video needs to be in black and white
There are many more protest videos from Berlin in today’s Reader’s Links post, most of which don’t need translation. Like this one!
9. 44 suspected Boko Haram jihadis found dead in Chad prison
In Chad, 44 suspected members of the jihadi group Boko Haram have been found dead following a recent arrest. Coroners have said they suspect the prisoners ingested a substance to cause heart and breathing complications.
A group of 44 suspected members of the jihadi group Boko Haram were found dead in prison in Chad’s capital city of N’Djamena on Saturday, the AFP news agency reported, citing police authorities.
The dead were among 58 suspected jihadis who were arrested during a recent operation against the Boko Haram carried out near Lake Chad, the country’s chief prosecutor Yousssouf Tom said on national television.
“Following the fighting around Lake Chad, 58 members of Boko Haram had been taken prisoner and sent to Ndjamena for the purposes of the investigation,” he said.
“On Thursday morning, their jailers told us that 44 prisoners had been found dead in their cell,” Tom said.
- Was an ardent supporter of Nicaragua’s Marxist Sandinista government in the 1980s
- Describes himself as an advocate of “democratic socialism”
- Was executive director of the New York branch of the pro-socialist New Party
- Served as the New York/New Jersey regional director of the Clinton administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1997-99
- Was campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2000 U.S. Senate bid.
- Served on the New York City Council from 2001-09
- Was elected as New York City’s third Public Advocate in 2009
- Was deeply influenced by liberation theology
- Was elected mayor of New York City in 2013
11. Doctors banned from prescribing potential COVID-19 drug
Australia:
Doctors who prescribe an anti-malarial drug being trumpeted as a potential COVID-19 treatment face a $13,000 fine.
New prescription rules, brought into effect in Queensland on Tuesday, mean clinicians are banned from prescribing the drug, hydroxychloroquine, as a COVID-19 treatment.
Hydroxychloroquine is an anti-malarial now used to treat autoimmune conditions such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
There is no solid evidence it is effective against COVID-19, but federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said there had been “some promising research so far”.
The new restrictions were introduced after some doctors began prescribing the drug to themselves and their families in February, following early research that suggested the drug might minimise the impact of the disease and help patients recover faster.
Worldwide shortages were caused after US President Donald Trump tweeted about the drug’s potential last month.
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“Prior to the clinical trials going ahead, the medications were given to some of the first patients in Australia infected with COVID-19, and all have completely recovered without any trace of the virus left in their system,” he said.
Thank you EB., M., MissPiggy, Wrath of Khan, ET., Sassy, Richard, and everyone who sent in materials. Apologies if things are not as organized as usual. Lots going on behind the scenes.
You just have to love Trey Gowdy
5 – The left wing politicians in the US are using the Wuhan Flu as an excuse to seize all the power they can. There is a backlash to this and the people in the center (you know the ones the Propaganda Media calls Nazi’s) are organizing to protest the government overreach. The left is discovering that the ordinary people are sick and tired of the governments on all levels taking rights away from them. We are organizing and preparing and the next election is going to be a bigger disaster for the left then the 2016 election was. The Dems have proven to the voters that they don’t believe in democracy, don’t care for anything but personal power and are really Communists in disguise. The latter fact is surprising a lot of people who have believed the Propaganda Media when they say that Far Left politicians are moderate.
Hang in things are changing all around the world, but it is going to get real nasty before they get better.
Keep your musket clean, your power dry, your bug out bag packed and your bug out route scouted and alternative routs chosen and scouted.
So they’re crediting “staying at home” and “isolating” with the big drop in COVID deaths and not a word of hydroxychloroquine or its effects has been mentioned. Hmmm… Doctors the world over tell each other about a drug by word-of-mouth with a subsequent increase in orders and then the death ratio drops, but nobody sees a relationship? If you scan the internet looking for an update on the situation it looks like hydroxychloroquine is a bust – doesn’t word – false hope – snake oil. Imagine being so stupid as to take Mr. Trumpy’s word over that of the scientists. But then it keeps on saving people whether they like it or not…
Why is it so damn difficult to get some good information on the observed effectiveness of the hydroxychloroquine/Z-Pac combo in a world full of hospitals full of COVID-19 patients and doctors? Why is that so damn impossible and always months away waiting on extensive double-blind placebo-testing…? And why do they keep trumpeting as fact the lie that “They have absolutely no idea whether it works or not.”?
So you missed the trial by Raoult with over 1000 patients which showed a 98% cure rate?
I didn’t miss it, I’m talking about the impression you get when you look casually at the internet with a less than expert eye. I even saw one that called hydroxy a “failure” because it didn’t clear the virus from the patient’s body quickly enough but failed to mention that the drug actually made the symptoms lessen, which is the point in real life, of course. To the casual observer, it looks as if hydroxychloroquine tried and failed and it’s time to move on while reality, I suspect, tells a different story…
Like, are they routinely giving it to patients in New York or aren’t they. I would like to see the answer to that question and a few more like it. The nurses and doctors ought to have a pretty good impression of whether the stuff is useful or not and be damned the double-blind placebo tests…
The Prescribing, Dispensing or Supply of Hydroxychloroquine Direction is unlawful. s. 362B(3)(a) Public Health Act 2005 states: ‘A public health direction must state – (a) the period for which the direction applies;’ The direction does not do this. It says how long the public health emergency lasts, but not the direction. They are two different things. The direction is therefore null and void.