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LOCKDOWN DEATHS – NOT COVID DEATHS
COVID-19 has been circulating for at least a year and yet there was no notable increase in unseasonable mortality anywhere until Lockdown regimes were imposed between late February and late March 2020. Let me repeat that: everywhere, the overall or “all cause” mortality data consistently tells the same story: there was no notable deviation from the statistical norm in any country until lockdown regimes were imposed. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), at the time of writing, with 11,841,326 supposedly confirmed cases and 544,739 alleged deaths, this is a global pandemic which has infected approximately 0.15% of the global population and has allegedly led to the deaths of 0.007%. This makes it slightly less deadly than a bad seasonal influenza which can kill 0.0085% of the world’s populace in a single year. Yet governments around the world decided that the only way to respond to this particular respiratory infection was to roll out the most oppressive form of governance ever seen in the west, outside of a time of war. The measures taken by our “elected representatives” have already killed many people and will prematurely end the lives of many more in the weeks and months ahead.
? COVID-19 Arrived Long Before The Lockdown Regimes
? No Pre-Lockdown Mortality
? Targeting The Most Vulnerable
? Lockdown Deaths Not COVID Deaths
In light of all the other factors we have discussed, it is reasonable to conclude that the majority of deaths reported as COVID-19 mortality, by the world’s mainstream media (MSM), were not attributable to the syndrome itself, but rather to the various national and statewide lockdown policies. These were Lockdown regime deaths not COVID-19 deaths. By restricting access to health care for the most vulnerable, any claim that Lockdown Regimes save lives is patently absurd.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/lockdown-deaths-not-covid-deaths
***AN OPEN LETTER TO TODD FRIEL FROM A MILITARY OFFICER:
RETRACT YOUR FOOLISH ARGUMENT ABOUT MASKS AND CHRISTIAN SUBMISSION
…when I listened to your feeble argument to American Christians that they should worship God by freely, joyfully, and willingly submitting to wearing a mask because the “government” says so and thereby “they will know we are different…” This form of argumentation has come a long way from your start at Way of the Master Radio and even further from Biblical truth. I was tremendously disappointed both as a Christian and as a serviceman. God is not worshipped by those practicing lawlessness or by those endorsing it. God is not honored by lame ascent to tyranny. People are not impressed by weak kneed feeble people going along with the crowd because the government said so. Standing up to tyranny, going against lawlessness, and looking out for the rights of others even when they don’t or can’t for themselves is more Christlike than the position you posit.
I took an oath to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic and I call upon you to assist me to that end by not bowing to lawlessness and by not encouraging others to do the same in the name of Our Lord! In our government their is a vital and key separation of powers because the Founding Fathers recognized the fact that “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9)
For this reason the executive branches of government are not bestowed the authority to make law, only to enforce it! The mask mandates to which you allude and attempt to convince honest God loving people to comply with are unlawful, unscientific, unhelpful, and ultimately a lie in several regards. It is a lie in the illegal powers assumed by governors and mayors. It is a lie in the neglect for longstanding scientific study on the use of protective equipment for the purposes for which is intended, designed, and built, and none of the masks in common use are effective against viral threats. It is a lie as it gives a false sense of security to those who rely upon its supposed protection, perhaps even rejecting more sound and beneficial protective measures or even risking harm from improper and prolonged use.
As a member of the military I have received direct orders to wear a mask and cannot disobey it despite the fact that we receive bio and nerve weapon hazard training and are taught to use equipment to protect us, I know that cloth, surgical, N95 and even N100 masks do nothing to stop a viral threat. The science has been quite clear on that for over a decade and many peer reviewed medical journal articles and research demonstrate that fact. The best opportunity we have for reason to prevail is for clear thinking Americans, ideally even Christians to stand up for the rights and liberties of citizens to choose, based on the research and data, whether to wear a mask or not.
I am tired of foolish Christian men telling other Christians that we must simply submit to the government in America under a foolish and misguided interpretation of Romans 13. These foolish men disregard the amazing blessing that God has bestowed upon all Americans through our founding upon His principles and the blessing to be responsible for our own governing and to be responsible to not allow tyranny. It is time for such men to be thankful for this blessing and take this responsibility and this blessing seriously and to stop looking for reasons to submit to anything they view as some kind of government direction believing that is honoring God’s instruction to believers in Paul’s letter to the Romans. It is not.
I ask you Todd to take this country seriously, take your responsibility in governing this country seriously, and take your foolish advice back. Until Jesus returns and we have a truly Godly government on this Earth, join me in supporting and defending this Nation that God has truly blessed from its founding!
Whether you have enlisted in the military or not; every American, including Christians, can state these words as a citizen of this country as we await our King:
I, an American, do solemnly affirm to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
https://www.worldviewweekend.com/news/article/open-letter-todd-friel-military-officer-retract-your-foolish-argument-about-masks-and
Amen! Authoritative male leadership, heavenly wisdom and God-given power. What this UK so lacks.
‘If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.’ James 1:5-7
‘But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.’ Isaiah 51:23
CZECH GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS ENACTING A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENSE WITH A WEAPON
According to the initiators of the proposal, led by Senator and former Police President Martin ?erví?ek, the amendment aims to counter the disarmament tendencies in the European Union.. DAR, ?T 24
https://rmx.news/article/article/czech-government-supports-enacting-a-constitutional-right-of-self-defense-with-a-weapon
SUPREME COURT SETS STAGE FOR NULLIFYING ELECTORAL COLLEGE
Last week, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that states could force presidential electors to vote as their legislatures directed them and even punish them for failing to do so. While the constitutionality of this decision may be debated, its likely effect is clear for all to see: the nullification of the Founding Fathers’ vision for electing presidents. Already, 15 states and the District of Columbia have signed on to the agreement; together, they represent 196 of the 270 electoral votes needed to capture the presidency. Not coincidentally, these states – even small ones that stand to lose influence as a result of such a system – are also dominated by Democrats, who recognize that the large populations of liberal cities such as New York, Chicago, and San Francisco tend to tilt the popular vote in favor of Democrats and that the Electoral College is the only thing standing in the way of practically permanent Democratic control of the executive branch. If the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact had been in force since the turn of the century, the White House would have been occupied by Democrats for the last 27 years. Only the Electoral College spared us the presidencies of Al Gore and Hillary Clinton. As long as Republicans control at least one chamber of Congress, the body is unlikely to consent to the agreement. “But,” remarked McCarthy, “if you don’t think a Democrat-controlled Congress would approve a Democrat-driven compact to make Democrat-controlled cities the determinant of American presidential campaigns, you’re not paying attention.” Michael Tennant
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/36360-supreme-court-sets-stage-for-nullifying-electoral-college
BRANNON HOWSE: DR JUDY MIKOVITS ON THE FAKE SCIENCE & DANGERS BEHIND THE MANDATORY MASK ORDERS – SHE ALSO TAKES THE QUESTIONS OF CALLERS LIVE ON AIR
audio – 57 mins 19 secs
Guest: Dr Judy Mikovits.
Topic: Dr Judy joins us to discuss her new book – The Case Against Masks: Ten Reasons Why Masks Should Be Limited.
Topic: Are many Americans that wear the masks damaging their health due to depleting their oxygen level and breathing in carbon dioxide?
Topic: How is SARS-CoV-2 spread?
Topic: How effective is a mask?
Topic: The myth of asymptomatic carriers.
Topic: Brannon explains why he believes the mandatory mask orders are based on lawless elected officials, fake science, and an attempt to brainwash Americans into believing lies, to embrace group consensus, destroy individuality, and to never question the technocrats.
Topic: Should children return to school this fall?
Topic: The difference between dying with the Coronavirus and dying from the Coronavirus.
Topic: We take lots and lots of your calls including callers that speak about becoming dizzy and disoriented from wearing a mask.
“Some Christians are saying that this is your opportunity to show that God is sovereign and you are submitting to your leaders by wearing a mask. Really! Or are you actually submitting to tyranny and lawlessness? There are three branches of government and a lot of these executive branches don’t have the constitutional right to make laws. They can enforce them but they cannot make them. That is the job of the legislative branch. I believe this is a test. It is psychological brainwashing, it is group consensus, it is to destroy the individual and it is to see who will comply and who will not.”
https://www.worldviewweekend.com/radio/audio/brannon-howse-july-13-2020
Somehow there is twisted nobility in this behavior?
https://driving.ca/hyundai/auto-news/news/watch-this-toronto-karen-get-mad-she-cant-park-her-hyundai-in-a-tesla-spot
Or hey, let it all hang out, man…
https://youtu.be/gYvdTvUcGIM
‘Reading the Signs…’
“Karen,” if you’re somehow not aware, is a term used on the Internet to describe predominantly middle-aged well-off white women caught throwing tantrums, typically out of their own ignorance.”
This definition did not apply to the reaction of the woman, who thought she could grab a rare parking spot to meet a friend.
Because the real “Karen” was the person videoing her. Videoing a woman stressing out and using every excuse to release herself from their will, was not seeing the upset person confronting another person with their video camera – about to get away with not complying with the Signs.
Humanity no longer valid. The all-seeing-eye cannot look away. No one to give each other a break. The Citizens are your Chinese. Communism: accusing you of what they actually do. Karens. These spys among us.
Good points, PC. But it was her spectacle that brought her attention, nothing else. Is this chicken and egging? maybe. I’ve done the same parking games, myself, but I won’t turn it into a political tirade if caught. Maybe we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one.
Only an additional point Johnnyu – you captured the main one. 🙂
She was not behaving as a nice person – that’s a fact of life – not a crime. Everyone has their bad moments.
An individual
An individual
“And the rest of you”
They said
The male counterpart is “Chad”.
Gender appreciation, a cause I didn’t fully understand till Jordan Peterson became a martyr for it.
– Him, Her, He, She – Yes!
– Latino, Latina – Yes!
So consistency requires I defend the gender of a slur (even if not so enthusiastically):
– Karen, Chad. – Yes, ok.
Is the blue pill the new red pill?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyt-chief-threat-democracy-eric-weinstein-takes-flamethrower-paper-record-after-bari
BLM Terrorist Statue in Bristol.
Un-fecking-believable , Colston statue replaced with protesters statue.
Humanist Academic Calls for Removal of ‘Problematic’ Cross from Swedish Flag (sputniknews, Jul 15, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202007151079887185-humanist-academic-calls-for-removal-of-problematic-cross-from-swedish-flag/
“According to scientist and board member of the Swedish Humanist society Patrik Lindenfors, the centuries-old Swedish flag is rife with Christian heritage and should be replaced with something more inclusive.
In the wake of the massive protests around the world, purportedly against racism and colonialism, calls have been made to do away with the cross on the Swedish flag, because it represents the nation’s Christian heritage and the oppression it allegedly stands for.
In his opinion piece in the newspaper Göteborgs-Posten, board member of the Humanist Society Patrik Lindenfors called the flag “problematic” and compared the Swedish cross to the Saudi flag that features the Islamic creed, or the shahada. Lindenfors is a researcher in biological and cultural evolution at the Institute for Future Studies, and is also associated with the Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution and the Department of Zoology at Stockholm University.
“We have had religious oppression in Sweden for many centuries, which the flag symbolises. Not at the Saudi level, but it is actually only in the past 70 years that we have had a reasonably sensible religious freedom where minorities’ views are accepted in society. Complete religious freedom was introduced as late as 1952”, Lindenfors mused.
The most decisive factor, however, Lindenfors claims, is its connection to slavery. According to Lindedfors, in the discussion about slavery in North America, there were Christians on both sides of the conflict, but those who argued for the preservation of slavery had more biblical words to quote.
“Although there is room for a ban on both eating seafood and dressing in fabrics of different yarns in the Bible, strangely enough there is no ban on slavery. And the conflict over North American slavery took place more than 1800 (!) years after Jesus,” Lindenfors wrote.
Furthermore, he stressed that most Swedes no longer profess Christianity and many have a different religious affiliation altogether. Merely 2% of the church’s members regularly attend Sunday services, an earlier poll has indicated.
Lastly, Lindenfors opined that using the Swedish flag for military operations in Middle Eastern countries is problematic, as it can be interpreted as a “crusade banner”.
In conclusion, he called the habit of using the flag “home blindness” and called for a more “unifying” symbol to represent Sweden.
However, his appeal didn’t hit home with many Swedes.
“No, Patrik. You can call yourself a researcher and a humanist, but when the word ‘problematic’ appears (here about the Swedish flag) reveal yourself as a university leftist. This very word, too, comes from the US, just like everything else in the identitarian left”, one Twitter user wrote.
?“How far shall we go?” mused another one.
?“It’s not an official flag day tomorrow, but sometimes you can feel the need to hoist the Swedish flag simply in protest against madness,” another one said.
?“I’m an enthusiastic atheist (= I do not believe in god and am glad that such a person probably does not exist), but this op-ed is silly. Symbols tend to exceed their historical origins. A yellow cross on a blue background means Sweden, full stop,” another one, an associate professor at Stockholm University, mused.
However, some were more sympathetic and even suggested variants such as three yellow coins or a yellow hedgehog on a blue background.
Recently there have been calls in Sweden to replace Swedish heritage seen as “problematic”, “racist” or “colonial”. Among others, there were calls to replace the statue of famous warrior king Charles XII with a statue of climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and remove the statues of “colonial” kings and even botanist Carl Linnaeus.
The flag of Sweden features a yellow or gold asymmetrical horizontal cross on a field of blue. The Nordic cross traditionally represents Christianity and is believed to stem from the Danish flag. The legend has it that 12th-century King Eric IX saw a golden cross in the sky as he landed in Finland during the First Swedish Crusade in 1157. Interpreting this as a sign from God, he adopted the golden cross against a blue background as his banner.”
Azerbaijani Forces Destroy One More Military Facility of Armenian Military (sputniknews, Jul 15, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/world/202007151079887589-azerbaijani-forces-destroy-one-more-military-facility-of-armenian-military/
“The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry announced on Wednesday about the destruction of one more military facility of the Armenian armed forces near Tovuz in the light of resumption pf border clashes between the two countries.
“During the combat operations in the direction of the Tovuz region, the stronghold of another company of the armed forces of Armenia was destroyed by the accurate fire of our units”, the statement said.
The ministry also posted video footage of the operation on its website.
The head of the ministry’s press service, Col. Vagif Dargyakhly, stated earlier in the day that the Azerbaijani side had destroyed an Armenian military facility and equipment near Tovuz.
Clashes broke out in the border area that separates Armenia’s Tavush province and the Azerbaijani region of Tovuz on Sunday and have continued into their third day. Baku and Yerevan have accused one another of provoking the conflict, which is taking place a reasonable distance away from the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, where the two sides have waged war for decades.
A total of 11 Azerbaijani troops have so far died during the violence, according to reports from Baku. On the other side, four Armenian servicemen have lost their lives in the recent escalation.”
Berlin Police Conducting Raids in Facilities Belonging to Alleged Islamists, Prosecutors Say (sputniknews, Jul 15, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202007151079891813-berlin-police-conducting-raids-in-facilities-belonging-to-alleged-islamists-prosecutors-say/
“Berlin police have been conducting raids in the facilities of alleged Islamists since Wednesday morning, Berlin’s public prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.
“Currently, investigators of the Berlin Criminal Investigation Division, at the request of the prosecutor’s office, are executing 20 search warrants against 12 people suspected of having links to Islamist circles and having committed various crimes, including the financing of terrorism,” the office wrote on Twitter.
According to the RTL broadcaster, citing the police, 450 law enforcement officers are involved in the operation. The police primarily conducted searches in apartments and non-residential premises. In total, the raids took place at 19 sites in various districts of the city.”
‘Reading the Signs…’
“Karen,” if you’re somehow not aware, is a term used on the Internet to describe predominantly middle-aged well-off white women caught throwing tantrums, typically out of their own ignorance.”
This definition did not apply to the reaction of the woman, who thought she could grab a rare parking spot to meet a friend.
Because the real “Karen” was the person videoing her. Videoing a woman stressing out and using every excuse to release herself from their will, was not seeing the upset person confronting another person with their video camera – about to get away with not complying with the Signs.
Humanity no longer valid. The all-seeing-eye cannot look away. No one to give each other a break. The Citizens are your Chinese. Communism: accusing you of what they actually do. Karens. These spys among us.
The ‘perfect environment’: how FGM is set to surge during the pandemic (telegraph, Jul 15, 2020)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/women-and-girls/perfect-environment-fgm-set-surge-pandemic/
“Faith* clambered through the forest after her friends, desperate to escape the cloud of stigma that had engulfed her for months.
All the other girls they knew had undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), or cutting, explains Faith. “We felt left out. They called us names and avoided us. They saw us only as children.”
So in an attempt to gain acceptance, the six girls traipsed for two hours through the pine and cypress trees to a meeting point near their village in West Pokot County, some 220 miles northwest of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital.
“We met the cutter in the forest and had the procedure in turns,” Faith says. “We went one at a time; I wasn’t scared until it was my turn.
“Peer pressure gives you the courage to endure pain,” the 14-year-old adds. “I had been determined not to have FGM. But I gave in when the pressure became unbearable.”
FGM has been illegal in Kenya for almost a decade. But Faith says this did not deter them – the girls thought the police and the government were “too busy” with the coronavirus pandemic to come to their village and stop them.
For centuries, girls have been forced by family members or cultural norms to undergo various forms of FGM, a non-medical practice where the genitals are cut. An estimated 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone the procedure.
Over the last three decades, significant progress has been made to stop FGM but now health workers and activists say that coronavirus lockdowns and school closures have triggered a resurgence of cutting in parts of Africa.
“Covid has given the perfect opportunity and the perfect environment for FGM to come back in full swing,” says Domtila Chesang, an activist who has been working to end the practice in West Pokot for a decade.
Ms Chesang estimates there were fewer than a dozen reports of FGM in her county from March to June last year. But since the schools closed to stop the spread of the virus in March, she has been “overwhelmed” by a staggering number of reports.
Local police support her claim; they say that some 500 girls have been cut in this region alone since March.
“Life has been turned upside down and people are turning back to old beliefs, while prolonged holidays means that cutting can take place without people noticing,” Ms Chesang says.
As uncertainty and the global economic downturn continues, she fears numbers will rise even further. To make matters worse, the Kenyan government has said that schools would not open until 2021.
“As soon as one person is cut in a community, expectation and pressure spreads like wildfire,” Ms Chesang adds.
Health workers say they are seeing similar trends emerging in at least six different regions in central, western and northern Kenya.
In Kuria East, near Lake Victoria, some community elders have reportedly blamed Covid-19 on a failure to uphold traditions like female circumcision that are believed to appease the gods. In the Loita region, south of Nairobi, families in dire economic straits are cutting their daughters to get a higher “bride price”.
The resurgence is not confined to Kenya. Activists have reported similar trends in several other African countries, including Nigeria and Tanzania.
In Somalia, where around 98 per cent of girls aged between five and 11 have been cut, the girl’s rights NGO Plan International has warned that a strict lockdown has led to a spike in incidents. Cutters who have fallen on hard times are reportedly going from house to house in the Somali capital Mogadishu offering to cut girls stuck at home.
“We’re very concerned about these girls’ futures,” says Rose Caldwell, chief executive of Plan. “Education is a vital lifeline for girls and young women across the world and we must not allow this to be lost as another casualty of this crisis.”
There is precedent for this. At the height of the West Africa Ebola outbreak between 2013 and 2016, five million children were out of school – research has found that a large proportion of girls, in particular, never returned.
And according to a recent survey by the charity Room to Read, 49 per cent of girls in low-income communities say they are unlikely to go back to the classroom after the pandemic due to financial struggles, instead turning to early marriages.
Delays in anti-FGM programmes due to the pandemic also mean that two million girls who would otherwise be safe from the practice could be at risk over the next decade, according to the UNFPA, the United Nation’s reproductive health agency.
“Covid-19 response measures have exacerbated many of the drivers of female genital cutting, such as social isolation, school closures, lack of law enforcement, and food insecurity due to loss of livelihoods,” says Ebony Riddell Bamber from the Orchid Project, a UK-based charity.
“On a global level, the pandemic could have a devastating impact on the progress we’ve made to end the practice,” she adds.
*We have changed Faith’s name in this report
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News Policy Boss Admits BBC Failed to Cover Euroscepticism, Immigration Concerns (breitbart, Jul 15, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/07/15/news-policy-boss-admits-bbc-failed-cover-euroscepticism-immigration-concerns/
“The BBC’s head of editorial standards has admitted that BBC news failed to reflect the wider nation’s concerns over immigration and the rise of Euroscepticism, with editors instead succumbing to metropolitan liberal “groupthink”…”
France: Radicalised Muslim Underage Girls Sentenced For Police Station Terror Plot (breitbart, Jul 15, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/07/15/france-radicalised-muslim-underage-girls-sentenced-for-police-station-terror-plot/
“Two Islamic convert underage girls have been sentenced by a French court after being convicted of plotting a terrorist attack on a police station in the city of Saint-Etienne.
The two girls, who were arrested in November of 2018, were 17-year-old and 14-years-old at the time of their arrest.
The case initially started after a call to the National Center for Assistance and Prevention of Radicalization that detailed the plot of the two girls, who wanted to enter the central police station in Saint-Etienne armed with knives and attack police officers, Le Figaro reports.
This week, the Saint-Etienne prosecutor’s office announced that both girls had been convicted and sentenced for their attempted plot with the elder girl, originally from Nord-Isère, being handed a 15-month prison sentence with five months probation. She is believed to have been the leader of the plot.
Her younger accomplice, meanwhile, was given a sentence of 10 months in prison with probationary suspension. Psychiatric experts testified that she showed signs of mental impairment during the trial.
Another youth was also sentenced in connection with the case. A 17-year-old male from the department of Gironde was given a nine-month sentence for a public apology for terrorism after he had sent the two girls several radical Islamic propaganda videos.
While female radical Islamic terrorists are rare, there have been several cases of women plotting terrorist attacks or being involved in such cases in European countries in recent years.
The most notorious such case in France took place last year when two Islamic radical women were given 25-year and 30-year sentences after being convicted of a terrorist plot that attempted to blow up Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris using a car filled with gas canisters.
Ornella Gilligmann and Ines Madani were unsuccessful in their plot as when they tried to blow up their car, they used diesel fuel which refused to ignite.
In 2016, a 15-year-old girl was arrested in neighbouring Germany after she attempted to stab a police officer at a railway station in Hanover. The teen later admitted she had been a supporter of the Islamic State terrorist group.”
Doctors Without Borders Accused of ‘Institutional Racism’ by Employees (breitbart, Jul 15, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/07/15/doctors-without-borders-accused-institutional-racism-employees/
“Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders/MSF) has been accused of reinforcing “colonialism and white supremacy” by 1,000 current and former employees in a letter to the NGO’s management.
The signatories have demanded an investigation into the activities of the NGO, which provides medical services around the globe and also previously engaged in transporting migrants across the Mediterranean from North Africa.
Several prominent members of the NGO spoke out about the group’s perceived faults including board members in the UK and in southern Africa who signed the letter that called on the group to get rid of “decades of power and paternalism”, Franceinfo reports.
Other signatories to the letter denounced a so-called “white saviour” mentality among members of the organisation.
According to The Guardian, the letter came in response to a statement released by the Italian branch of MSF that stated members of the group should talk about how “all lives matter”, with some seeing the phrase as conflicting with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Claudia Lodesani, Italy’s MSF president, later apologised for the statement saying that she and the Italian branch “fully support and stand with the BLM movement and that, like the whole of MSF, we condemn racism and all discrimination”.
Dr Christos Christou, international president of MSF, said he welcomed the letter. Dr Christou said: “Our priority is to shift the decision-making closer to where the needs are, and involving the patients and community in designing strategies of intervention. To shrink the decision-making power of Europe and redistribute it to the rest of the world.”
MSF halted its partnership with the French migrant transport NGO SOS Méditerranée in April. But the latter NGO and its ship, the Ocean Viking, have resumed operations in recent weeks.
Earlier this month, the Ocean Viking picked up around 180 migrants but was initially denied access to ports in Italy and Malta. The ship was later granted access to a port in Italy after unrest among the migrants on board was reported, including several threats to the crew and suicide attempts by migrants.”
US rejects Beijing’s claims in South China Sea
India-China Border Tensions: India, China Held 4th Round Of Corps Commander-Level Meet | India First
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On gold, silver, banking, coming sound-money fortress blocks:
https://youtu.be/XliHE6QgljY
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Tanker off UAE sought by US over Iran sanctions ‘hijacked’ (abcnews, Jul 15, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/seafarers-group-tanker-off-uae-sought-us-hijacked-71792451
“An oil tanker sought by the U.S. over allegedly circumventing sanctions on Iran was hijacked on July 5 off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, a seafarers organization said Wednesday.
Satellite photos showed the vessel in Iranian waters on Tuesday and two of its sailors remained in the Iranian capital.
It wasn’t immediately clear what happened aboard the Dominica-flagged MT Gulf Sky, though its reported hijacking comes after months of tensions between Iran and the U.S.
David Hammond, the CEO of the United Kingdom-based group Human Rights at Sea, said he took a witness statement from the captain of the MT Gulf Sky, confirming the ship had been hijacked.
Hammond said that 26 of the Indian sailors on board had made it back to India, while two remained in Tehran, without elaborating.
“We are delighted to hear that the crew are safe and well, which has been our fundamental concern from the outset,” Hammond told The Associated Press.
Hammond said that he had no other details on the vessel…”
US military: Russian mercenaries planted land mines in Libya (abcnews, Jul 15, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-military-russian-mercenaries-planted-land-mines-libya-71794564
“The U.S. military on Wednesday accused Russian mercenaries fighting on the side of eastern Libya forces of planting land mines and improvised explosive devices in and around the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
The U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM, said verified photographic evidence shows “indiscriminately placed booby traps and minefields” around the outskirts of Tripoli and all the way east toward the strategic coastal city of Sirte since mid-June.
There was no immediate comment from Russia or the Wagner Group, a Kremlin-backed private security company that has been implicated in the conflict in the North African country. Moscow has repeatedly denied playing any role on Libya’s battlefields.
AFRICOM said it assessed that the Kremlin-backed company introduced the weapons into Libya. It posted photos of improvised explosive devices and a concealed anti-personnel mine, allegedly found in a residential area in Tripoli.
“Imagery and intelligence assessments show how Russia continues to interfere in Libyan affairs. Wagner Group’s reckless use of landmines and booby traps are harming innocent civilians,” said Rear Admiral Heidi Berg, AFRICOM’s director of intelligence…”
Turkey marks fourth anniversary of failed coup attempt (abcnews, Jul 15, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-marks-fourth-anniversary-failed-coup-attempt-71792283
“Turkey is marking the fourth anniversary of the July 15 failed coup attempt against the government, with ceremonies and events remembering its victims.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday, accompanied by civilian “veterans” who fought against the coup, laid a wreath at a memorial in the presidential complex in Ankara and prayed. Erdogan was kicking off a series of events to commemorate the crushing of the coup, including one at parliament. Attendees were wearing masks as the event took place amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
On July 15, 2016, factions within the military used tanks, warplanes and helicopters to try to overthrow Erdogan’s government. A total of 251 people were killed and around 2,200 others were wounded as the coup plotters fired on people or bombed parliament and other government buildings. Around 35 alleged coup plotters were also killed.
Turkey has blamed U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former Erdogan ally, for the coup attempt. Gulen rejects the accusation.
The government declared a state of emergency after the coup attempt to crackdown on Gulen’s network, which is considered to be a terror group.
Under emergency powers that were in place for two years, tens of thousands of people were arrested for alleged links to the coup and to Gulen and the trials continue. More than 130,000 people were fired from public service through emergency decrees, among them teachers and police officers.
Critics say the arrests and dismissals went too far, targeting all opposition to the government under Turkey’s wide terror laws.”
German police find 31 migrants hidden inside Turkish truck (abcnews, Jul 15, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/german-police-find-31-migrants-hidden-inside-turkish-71791676
“German news agency dpa says police and customs officers discovered some 31 migrants hidden inside a refrigerated truck near the border with the Czech Republic.
The truck was stopped Tuesday night on the A 17 highway leading from the border to the eastern German city of Dresden. It had a Turkish number plate and was also carrying fruit.
The migrants were all male and aged between 18 and 47 years, public broadcast station MDR reported. They came from Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq. The driver of the truck was a 57-year-old Turkish citizen who was detained by police.
The migrants, who were taken to a federal police station, said they had to lie on top of boxes filled with melons during the drive, according to MDR.
The search of the truck was part of a regular operation to crack down on cross-border crime, MDR reported.
Dozens of migrants inside trucks have died over the past few years while trying to enter the European Union. In 2015, 71 migrants died inside a truck in Austria and in 2019, 39 Vietnamese migrants were found dead inside a truck in Britain.”
Stabbings in southern Norway leave woman dead, two injured (abcnews, Jul 15, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/stabbings-southern-norway-leave-woman-dead-injured-71791722
“Norwegian police say three women were stabbed, one of them fatally, in a city in the south of the country late Tuesday.
Police said Wednesday that the stabbings took place in various spots in Sarpsborg, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Oslo.
“The incident last night had a tragic outcome where one woman in her 50s died, another was seriously injured and a third injured but with less serious injuries,” police inspector Agnes Beate Hemioe said in a statement.
Police said one of the women had recognized the suspected stabber and that the assailant — a 31-year-old Norwegian citizen of foreign origin — was later detained in his apartment in central Sarpsborg. He has been arrested and will be charged with murder and attempted murder, police said.
The motive behind the attacks remains unclear. and Hemioe said police have no information linking the perpetrator to the deceased.
However, police said there appeared to be a relationship between the man and the two other women.
There are currently no signs of other attackers being involved.
Local newspaper Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad said the suspected attacker had a history of violence. Police said the man had previously been charged — but not convicted — with violent behavior.”
Turkish Embassy In Athens Calls for Extradition of 8 Participants of 2016 Coup Attempt (abcnews, Jul 15, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/world/202007151079893000-turkish-embassy-in-athens-calls-for-extradition-of-8-participants-of-2016-coup-attempt/
“The Turkish Embassy in Athens on Wednesday called for the extradition of eight former members of the military who escaped to Greece after the failed attempt to overthrow the country’s government in 2016.
“We have been waiting for four years now, for the extradition of the eight ex-military individuals (and others) who fled to Greece following the failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016. Justice must be done, and it must be done sooner than later,” the embassy posted on Facebook.
In July 2016, a group within the Turkish armed forces launched a failed attempt to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leading to mass arrests among the country’s military, intelligence services and law enforcement, including high ranking officials.
The government has blamed the followers of Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, referred to as the Fethullah Terrorist Organization, for being the driving force behind the coup attempt.”
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CBC – New Brunswick
Bill that would add Indigenous languages teaching to all schools wins all-party support
All MLAs on legislative committee back bill proposed by Green Party’s Megan Mitton
A bill that would require New Brunswick schools to teach Indigenous languages to all students has won unanimous support from a committee of MLAs.
Members from all four parties voted on Tuesday afternoon in favour of the bill, which was introduced last month by Green Party MLA Megan Mitton.
[…]”This is all part of a very necessary process that this province and this country needs to undertake as we examine issues around systemic racism in our country and society,” said Education Minister Dominic Cardy..
[…]there are fewer than 100 Wolastoqey speakers and about 2,000 who speak Mi’kmaq.
Last year the federal government passed an Indigenous Languages Act in response to calls from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the preservation and revitalization of Indigenous languages.
The law sets out a funding system for those languages.
[…]Cardy said Tuesday the language bill was “our opportunity as legislators to be part of moving toward some form of redress but also establishing some sort of foundation for a more harmonious relationship going into the future.”
He introduced an amendment to, as he put it, “broaden the scope” of Mitton’s bill.
It added the Passamaquoddy people to the existing section of the act and changed the word “Maliseet” to “Wolastoqiyik.”
It also changed the wording of a phrase that requires the province to “respond to the unique needs” of Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqi and Passamaquoddy children.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/indigenous-languages-unanimous-support-1.5649256
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IRAN – 7 ships catch fire in southern port of Iran
TEHRAN, July 15 (Xinhua) — At least seven commercial ships caught fire in the southern Iranian port city of Bushehr on Wednesday, Tasnim news agency reported.
According to the report, no casualties have been reported from the incident so far.
The cause of the incident is under investigation, it said.
Over the past weeks, Iran has witnessed a number of deadly fire incidents and explosions in different parts of the country.
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2020-07/15/content_76276173.htm
Update: Ship building yard on fire in southern port of Iran, 7 ships burnt
TEHRAN, July 15 (Xinhua) — At least seven commercial ships were burnt after a fire broke out in a ship building factory in southern Iranian port city of Bushehr on Wednesday, Tasnim news agency reported.
The fire fighters from different organizations are trying to contain the fire, said Jahangir Dehgani, the director of Crisis Management of Bushehr province.
However, due to the flammable materials and wind blow in the area, the fire has not been extinguished so far, Dehgani told Tasnim.
According to the official, no casualties have been reported from the incident.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, the report said.
Over the past weeks, Iran has witnessed a number of deadly fire incidents and explosions in different parts of the country.
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2020-07/15/content_76276212.htm
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Did Bill de Blasio misuse taxpayer funds for a personal project?
With New York City Department of Transportation painters receiving approximately $294 per day, Bill de Blasio’s misappropriation of taxpayer funds doesn’t begin to approach in severity the crime committed by his wife, who “misplaced” $850 million entrusted to her for a mental health project.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/07/15/did-bill-de-blasio-misuse-taxpayer-funds-for-a-personal-project/
‘Centrists’ Demand EU Cut Off Funding for Countries Against ‘Cultural Marxism’ (breitbart, Jul 15, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/07/15/centrists-eu-funding-cultural-marxism/
“European liberals have demanded that Brussels “stop funding” countries in the EU which stand up to globalism.
The Renew Europe Group, the successor to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) in the EU Parliament, blasted “ignorant” and “arrogant” populist governments in eastern and central European nations, who “do not wish to be bothered by [Brussels’] ‘cultural Marxism’”.
Head of the open borders-backing, so-called ‘centrist’ parliamentary grouping, Dacian Ciolo? launched an attack on European right-wingers following a conference at which heads of state promised to defend the continent against mass immigration and other challenges.
Leaders such as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán rule their countries through “a power fuelled by nationalism, an attitude of defiance towards Europe and most disturbingly – fear”, according to an editorial by Ciolo? published in Euractiv on Monday.
In it, he argues that Brussels must cut off the cash supply to countries ruled by leaders hostile to globalism, claiming that current funding rules mean “that in practice Europe is also funding their anti-EU propaganda, lies and hate”.
“They are net beneficiaries of EU funds, yet they dare call Europe ‘Marxist’, knowing very well the negative connotations this term has in their part of Europe. The language they use is not accidental; it is calculated to stir mistrust and fear,” said Ciolo?, whose parliamentary grouping includes parties such as Emmanuel Macron’s La République En Marche (LREM/Republic on the Move).
Bemoaning “nationalism in a post-truth and populist era”, the Romanian asserted that Orbán, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vu?i?’s professed hostility to “a so-called ‘cultural Marxism’” fails to reflect the views of their nations’ citizens, who he claimed are “more open-minded”.
“Orbán in particular, though sadly he is not alone, is cut off from reality; his sole aim is to stay in power. This model seems to be working and is catching on. We cannot allow EU funds to line the pockets of anti-democratic, anti-EU autocrats,” the former prime minister of Romania said.
He argued: “This is not a debate between Eastern and Western values, but between European and anti-European values. This is why the forthcoming European Summit has to put an end to any possibility of funding illiberalism.
“In addition to a well-financed and functioning European Public Prosecutor – which is thankfully now on the table – we need a new mechanism that makes EU funds conditional on the rule of law.”
“Europe’s future cannot be sacrificed at the altar of Viktor Orban’s illiberalism,” Ciolo? said, concluding his article by comparing the rule of conservative leaders in Europe’s centre and east to the continent’s “dark, painful past”.
“We cannot turn our backs to history and allow this to be repeated. Renew Europe will be relentless in fighting to prevent this, but we should not be fighting alone,” he writes.
In an online conference last Wednesday, entitled Europe Uncensored: European Leaders on the Future of Europe, the leaders of Hungary, Slovenia, and Serbia warned of regional tensions and of the dangers of aggressive left-wing ideology.
According to Euractiv, Janša — a major opponent of Communism during the 1980s — pointed to “cultural marxism” as one of the biggest dangers facing the 27-member bloc.
“To create a new world, you need to dismantle the nation, family, private property, private schools and religion, and this is going on now. This is cultural marxism, and this massive offensive is going on through mass media, universities, cultural industry, multinational institutions… and political parties,” he told the event, whose speakers Orbán referred to as a “special club of freedom fighters”.”
CBC – Quebec biotech company begins Canada’s first human trials for potential COVID-19 vaccine
Medicago says it administered the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine candidate to volunteers this week. The trial is a study of 180 healthy men and women between 18 and 55 years old.
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Health officials are voicing concern as Canada sees a spike in COVID-19 cases among young people, especially as more bars and restaurants open their doors for indoor service.
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Associated Press Positive result for 1st US COVID-19 vaccine trial
The 1st experimental COVID-19 vaccine in the US revved up people’s immune systems just the way scientists had hoped, researchers reported Tuesday. The vaccine will undergo its most important test later around July 27: a 30,000-person study.
Thirteen Migrants Escape French Detention Centre in Just 48 hours (breitbart, Jul 15, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/07/15/thirteen-migrants-escape-french-detention-centre-48-hours/
“Two groups of migrants comprised of a total of 13 people had escaped a detention facility in the French city of Metz in just 48 hours.
The first group of five migrants escaped the detention facility on the night of June 28th after they were able to cut through the wire mesh fence. Two members of the group were quickly captured, with the other three migrants, two Tunisians and an Algerian, arrested a short time later.
On June 30th, a second group of escapees, consisting of eight migrants, took advantage of the first escape as repairs to that section of the fence were still underway, Le Republicain Lorrain reports.
A police car was parked in front of the area where the fence was initially breached, but that was used by the migrants as a step ladder to remove barbed wire at the top of the fence and then climb over and escape.
The five captured migrants from the first group were brought before a court on July 2nd and were each sentenced to four months’ suspended sentences. Those among the second group are still awaiting a court ruling.
Breaking out of migrant detention centres in France is not uncommon, with some escapes and attempted escapes often seeing a great deal of planning by the migrants involved.
Last year in the Hendaye administrative detention centre, located near the French-Spanish border, a group of three migrants managed to escape the detention facility after unscrewing a door handle to smash a glass window and used bedsheets to scale a 20-feet high wall.
It was even revealed that the migrants had been sold plans of the facility to help them plot their escape.
Other countries have seen similar daring escape plots, such as in Sweden earlier this year when a local priest was accused of smuggling a migrant out of a deportation facility in a suitcase that he had brought with him, allegedly for use in an adult baptism ceremony.”
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