1. Coronavirus researcher nearing ‘very significant findings’ dead in apparent murder-suicide

A researcher who was reportedly nearing some “very significant findings” in his work on the coronavirus was found killed at his Pittsburgh-area home, a local TV station reported.

 

Bing Liu, 37, was fatally shot in his head, neck and torso over the weekend in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, in what police are calling a murder-suicide, according to CBS Pittsburgh affiliate KDKA.

 

A second man, who police say knew Mr. Liu but did not identify, was found nearby in his car with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Ross Township detectives do not believe there is a suspect loose, KDKA reported.

A researcher who was reportedly nearing some “very significant findings” in his work on the coronavirus was found killed at his Pittsburgh-area home, a local TV station reported.

 

Bing Liu, 37, was fatally shot in his head, neck and torso over the weekend in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, in what police are calling a murder-suicide, according to CBS Pittsburgh affiliate KDKA.

 

A second man, who police say knew Mr. Liu but did not identify, was found nearby in his car with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Ross Township detectives do not believe there is a suspect loose, KDKA reported.

2. Canada lockdown tyranny slide accelerates with arrest of mom at playground

3. US Security Council contemplating new International medical body that includes Taiwan and ditch the WHO. Finally.

4. Guns drawn, a bar is raided by police with a small tank cause… people are inside having a drink and a bite to eat.

This seems like a good time to repost this:

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

-Ronald Raegan.

5. Government scientist Neil Ferguson resigns after breaking lockdown rules to meet his married lover

Prof Ferguson allowed the woman to visit him at home during the lockdown while lecturing the public on the need for strict social distancing

The scientist whose advice prompted Boris Johnson to lock down Britain resigned from his Government advisory position on Tuesday night as The Telegraph can reveal he broke social distancing rules to meet his married lover.

 

Professor Neil Ferguson allowed the woman to visit him at home during the lockdown while lecturing the public on the need for strict social distancing in order to reduce the spread of coronavirus. The woman lives with her husband and their children in another house.

 

The epidemiologist leads the team at Imperial College London that produced the computer-modelled research that led to the national lockdown, which claimed that more than 500,000 Britons would die without the measures….

6. MORE Swedish doctors coming forward

https://twitter.com/E_L_Imanuelsen/status/1257413990742986752

7. House Republicans Announce Investigation Into Chinese Propaganda On American Campuses

8. Lockdown in Fez Morocco. Everyone tries to stay one sword length apart.

Thank you M., Wrath of Khan, Richard, PePi, Xanthippa, ET., EB., EW., Yucki, and all who contributed this week. 

1. President Trump seems clear on the consequences of the Swedish solution and it is not a close call to lock down neighbours

2. Germans appear to be getting fed up with the new state powers and pretty selective enforcement of them.

https://twitter.com/ThiloKrohn/status/1256304954395947008

5000 people demonstrate for fundamental rights in Stuttgart

https://twitter.com/Ray47080863/status/1256621044808417282

“We are the people”

https://twitter.com/PeterPa26072415/status/1256616099292086272

3. Police violence in Berlin

4. Sources Close to John Durham Say Criminal Actions Laid Out in Recent DOJ Documents Enough to Bring Charges Against Obama Deep State Officials (VIDEO)

Lou Dobbs: Sources familiar with the investigation tell FOX News that US Attorney John Durham has reviewed the recently released documents from the Flynn case and that Durham now believes the corrupt actions laid out in those documents are sufficient to bring charges against members of the FBI and the Department of Justice who carried out criminal acts against General Flynn.

 

Durham is said to be speaking regularly with Attorney General Bill Barr and is building what some sources call a serious case against those FBI and DOJ officials. Durham is expected to wrap up his investigation by the end of this summer.

5. Tucker has it explained that Flynn wasn’t the target, Trump was

Author of Ball of Collusion

6. Townhall has stats on the Covid infection Vs sickness vs. death rates. At this stage I have no clue what to believe whatsoever.

(Townhall is usually very good though. And this is specifically just NY with official stats.)

7. Elon Musk and analysis of his recent libertarian stance on the suspension of the US constitution

8. Federal government says Canada Post must deliver Epoch Times despite union objection

Union rep asked minister to halt delivery of coronavirus issue over carrier concerns it could stoke hate

The federal government has declined a request from a postal workers union local in Toronto to issue an order stopping delivery of a special coronavirus edition of the Epoch Times, because it doesn’t meet the criminal threshold for hate speech.

 

The special eight-page edition is headlined, “How the Chinese Communist Party Endangered the World.” It includes an editorial arguing the coronavirus should be called the “CCP virus,” a reference to the Chinese Communist Party, as well as an opinion piece that raises questions over whether the virus could have been created as a bioweapon by the Chinese military.

 

Derek Richmond, vice-president of the Scarborough local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers in northeastern Toronto, said copies started showing up in some mail stations in the city last Friday. Several union members expressed concern the newspaper could fuel hatred toward the Chinese Canadian community, Richmond said.

 

The next day, Richmond wrote to Public Services Minister Anita Anand, the minister responsible for Canada Post, to ask for an interim order to stop delivery of the newspaper.

(Someone at a Federal office of the government is gonna be looking for a new job soon)

9. Woodstock Occurred in the Middle of a Pandemic

In my lifetime, there was another deadly flu epidemic in the United States. The flu spread from Hong Kong to the United States, arriving December 1968 and peaking a year later. It ultimately killed 100,000 people in the U.S., mostly over the age of 65, and one million worldwide.

 

Lifespan in the US in those days was 70 whereas it is 78 today. Population was 200 million as compared with 328 million today. It was also a healthier population with low obesity. If it would be possible to extrapolate the death data based on population and demographics, we might be looking at a quarter million deaths today from this virus. So in terms of lethality, it was as deadly and scary as COVID-19 if not more so, though we shall have to wait to see. 

 

“In 1968,” says Nathaniel L. Moir in National Interest, “the H3N2 pandemic killed more individuals in the U.S. than the combined total number of American fatalities during both the Vietnam and Korean Wars.”

 

And this happened in the lifetimes of every American over 52 years of age. 

I was 5 years old and have no memory of this at all. My mother vaguely remembers being careful and washing surfaces, and encouraging her mom and dad to be careful. Otherwise, it’s mostly forgotten today. Why is that? 

10. Really getting hard to trust anything at all.

Story here and graph below.

Thank you M., Wrath of Khan, Richard, EB., ML., and a LOT of great people who have their eye on the discrepancies between the narrative, reality, and history.

1. Although this story is from September of 2019, the fact that a person at the RCMP who happens to speak Mandarin, was arrested for wholesale dumping of Canada’s top secrets to an unnamed foreign government, deserves looking at again in the wake of the Wuhan Flu. Do the Chinese have Kompromat on Trudeau? Do they even need it?

“These are kind of the Crown jewels of national security intelligence,” said Leah West, who teaches national security law at Carleton’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.

 

A source tells CBC News that because Ortis’s work was so central to national security, federal departments across government are conducting in-house damage assessments in the wake of his arrest. […]

 

“There’s really no overstating what he could have had access to. The devil is in the details on what he actually took,” said former CSIS analyst Jessica Davis. 

“This could range from somewhat injurious to seriously detrimental to our national security and the partnerships we have with our allies.”  […]

 

Over the span of his career Ortis had some of the highest access to classified and allied information within the RCMP, said Davis. Sources who are familiar with his work said he would have had knowledge of code words and operations.

He was known for his expertise in East Asian affairs, critical infrastructure and the use of “bots” online. According to his LinkedIn profile, Ortis speaks Mandarin.

2. New Danish Bible translation purges Israel

A new official translation of the Bible into Danish arouses wonder among religious people. The Danish “Bible Society”, which is responsible for the translation, has cleansed the New Testament – which in the new edition is called “The New Agreement” of the word “Israel”.

 

According to Jan Frost, who has read the new edition, it applies both when the land of Israel and when the people of Israel are mentioned. Israel is otherwise mentioned in this way in the New Testament more than 60 times.

 

Mr. Frost states in a video posted on YouTube that the word ‘Israel’ is only used once in the “Bible 2020”, which is the name od the new edition. In all other passages, the word ‘Israel’ is either replaced with ‘Jews’, ‘the land of the Jews‘ or not replaced with an alternative term at all

The translators of the new edition, according to Jan Frost, offer the explanation, that the land of Israel in biblical times was not identical to present Israel.

 

But the same logic is not applied by the translators when the land of Egypt is mentioned. This land is also called ‘Egypt’ in the new edition of the Bible.

 

On social media, several users are furious at the radical change of such a central element of the New Testament, and a widespread criticism suggests a suspicion that Israel has been removed for political reasons.

3. This is why Turkey has a fast COVID-19 recovery rate

(This article is pretty obviously pro-Erdogan propaganda to a high degree. But there is substance there nonetheless.)

• Tactical Talk: The death rate in Turkey is slower than in the top 10 countries in terms of the number of cases, and the recovery rate is one of the highest. For instance, the ‘increase rate’ of deaths in Turkey is half of that in the U.S., which has suffered the most casualties.How? According to the Turkish Ministry of Health, Turkey had stockpiled 1 million units of the medicines hydroxychloroquine and favipiravir exactly one-and-a-half months before any cases were seen in the country. So far, no country has utilized hydroxychloroquine under protocols similar to the one implemented in Turkey. While this medicine is used to treat the second or third stages of the disease in many countries, Turkey has required not only diagnosed patients, but also patients who are under tight medical follow-up at home, and even ones suspected of being infected, to take this medicine in the early stages of infection.* The number of beds per 1,000 inhabitants is about 2.8 in Turkey, where public hospitals have 75 percent of the total bed capacity *

In addition, according to the Ministry of Health, favipiravir brought from China is also being used in a unique protocol in Turkey. Unlike Chinese doctors, Turkish doctors have discovered that early intubation extends the length of the disease and giving high-flow oxygen leads to more successful and faster treatment. Currently, Turkey is working on plasma therapy, stem cell use and vaccines to combat the virus. A patent application has also been filed for a medical device that shines ultraviolet light into the lungs.

4. Hungary reacts to the usual Communist spin of the EU on Hungary’s new laws concerning authority during the Wuhan Flu crisis

5. More anti-quarantine protests in the USA in multiple states. Fox News challenges a State Attorney and appears to challenge him on the loss of rights but is actually kind of submissive to his view. The video may or may not play. If it doesn’t leave a comment and I will restore.

6. A more real video on restoration of individual rights

7. Computing Forever 2 part on connecting the dots.

Part I:

(One small issue with part 1 love and its no fault of the speaker. On tourism, they are bringing in 3rd world illegals by the boat and planeload now anyway despite the lockdowns. So any restrictions based on a health ‘passport’ to come will be selectively enforced against Greek thinkers, or in other words, white people, or any people who are steeped in the culture, traditions and methods of thought and behaviour that makes up Western Civilization. It will become very hard to travel from Italy to the US. But not from Somalia or Afghanistan to anywhere they bloody well please.)

Part II:

8. Libyan Grand Mufti says suicide bombings perfectly permissible. In case there is anyone left out there with heads in the sand so very deep that they don’t already know this

9. Oil prices below zero.

10. A good explanation of what the negative price on oil really means. Its not quite what people are saying it is.

Thank you Xanthippa, M., Wrath of Khan, Johnny U., EB., ET., Richard, and so many more who are being so dedicated to this community with their efforts in many ways.

I hope to have an especially good interview with Brad Johnson up this evening ET. Two actually.

1. Yes, the model DID account for lockdowns

2. On academia bias and public health worker bias

3. Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca rushes its blood cancer drug Calquence into coronavirus trials ‘after it showed benefit for patients in intensive care’

(I’m losing count of the number of treatments there are now. And did Boris Johnson get Hydroxylchloroquine?)

A British-based pharmaceutical giant has revealed plans to trial a blood cancer drug on severely ill coronavirus patients after it showed promise in the US.

 

AstraZeneca said there was anecdotal evidence of Calquence improving the condition of ventilated and intensive care patients. 

 

The leukaemia drug, said to work by suppressing the virus and preventing it from scarring the lungs, will now be rushed into a large clinical trial of 400 patients.

 

Calquence, which is available on prescription on the NHS, was given to a small number of COVID-19 patients at the Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington.

4. China McDonald’s apologises for Guangzhou ban on black people

McDonald’s in China has apologised after a branch in the industrial city of Guangzhou barred black people from entering.

 

A video shared on social media showed a notice that read: “We’ve been informed that from now on black people are not allowed to enter the restaurant.”

McDonald’s said that when it found out about the notice it temporarily closed the restaurant.

 

Tensions have been running high between Africans and local people in the city.

 

Last week, hundreds of Africans in Guangzhou were evicted from hotels and apartments after online rumours that coronavirus was spreading among African people, community leaders told the BBC.

 

Guangzhou is a hub for African traders buying and selling goods and is home to one of China’s largest African communities.

5. Trudeau government needs to stop taking COVID orders from WHO

Some days it really does feel like Canada has farmed out its entire health policy during this COVID-19 crisis to the World Health Organization.

 

From the early days, answers to questions on testing, on the spread of the virus, on approving treatments or even rapid testing, have been to cite what the WHO recommends.

 

That is nothing short of a dereliction of duty by Canada’s top health officials.

 

The latest example is the decision of Health Canada not to approve a cheap and rapid test for COVID-19, one made right here in Canada, because of what the WHO says. BTNX Inc. of Markham, Ont. makes a test that can have results in 15 minutes and costs just $10 a piece.

6. We already know that Trudeau feels that his and our rules are for others, not for him. But that doesn’t mean we should not track the times he breaks laws, rules, or is a hypocrite.

7. Youtube’s galloping dialectic negation of all things not Neo-Marxist

(Our channel with hundreds of thousands of subs and tens of millions of views was deleted in a very similar manner)

8. Canada in worse shape than Oz in terms of Chinese influence 

‘When I look at the subtle but intense influence of China on Canadian institutions … it makes me deadly worried,’ says Clive Hamilton

[…]

9. China joins U.N. human rights panel, will help pick experts on free speech, health, arbitrary detention

GENEVA, April 2, 2020 — China was appointed on Wednesday to a United Nations Human Rights Council panel where it will play a key role in picking the world body’s human rights investigators — including global monitors on freedom of speech, health, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention — in a move that has sparked protest by international human rights activists.

 

“Allowing China’s oppressive and inhumane regime to choose the world investigators on freedom of speech, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances is like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a non-governmental human rights organization based in Geneva that closely monitors the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council, and a leader in speaking out at the UN for victims in China.

 

“It’s absurd and immoral for the UN to allow China’s oppressive government a key role in selecting officials who shape international human rights standards and report on violations worldwide,” said Neuer.

 

China’s appointment to the UNHRC’s influential Consultative Group, comprised of only five nations, was announced in a letter submitted to the UNHRC on Wednesday by Oman on behalf of the Asian Group, and confirmed by a notice on the website of the UN human rights office.

 

By joining the UNHRC panel, China will be able to influence the selection of at least 17 UN human rights mandate-holders over the next year, known as special procedures, who investigate, monitor, and publicly report on either specific country situations, or on thematic issues in all parts of the world, such as freedom of speech and religion.

10. Palestinian journalist thinks Corona will sink the US and let China take over. Which he says, cannot be worse than the US. Maybe someone should ask the Uyghurs.

11. Oh yeah about China, the US and news:

https://twitter.com/JSmithpolitics1/status/1249860586545926145

Thank you M., Wrath of Khan, Johnny U., Gates of Vienna, C., ML., EB., C., and MANY more who are keeping tabs on events and their wits about them.

A little Russian folk music

1. China threatens the UK about not using Huawei to set up 5G

(We are of the opinion at this time that 5G is as safe a technology medically as any other radio technology, although the data is not all in yet. However the use of China to install that technology is suicidal for our autonomy and freedoms, and for setting both foreign and domestic policies. For a quite good explanation of why and how this is, watch the last season of South Park)

Chinese telecoms company Huawei has said that disrupting its involvement in the rollout of 5G would do Britain “a disservice”.

 

In January, the UK government approved a limited role for Huawei in building the country’s new data networks.

But in March, a backbench rebellion within the Conservative party signalled efforts to overturn the move.

 

In an open letter, the firm also said it was focused on keeping the UK connected during the Covid-19 crisis.

But the pandemic may increase pressure on the government to take a tougher line on the company.

Related: MI6 urges UK government to rethink UK-China relations after pandemic

2. Indonesia implements stricter measures in advance of Ramadan

3. Singapore has less strict punishments for social distancing violations than the UK by far

4. Somali Gang Rapist Whose Deportation Was Blocked by Air Passengers to Be Freed

A convicted Somali gang rapist is to be released on bail after his deportation was blocked by airline passengers, who staged a revolt to block him from being sent back to his country.

 

Yaqub Ahmed, one of four men who gang-raped a 16-year-old girl in 2007, should be released from detention after being granted “bail in principle” despite the authorities acknowledging he poses a “real risk” to the public.

In announcing his release, Judge Margaret O’Keeffe acknowledged that there is a “real risk that he would commit offences if released on bail.”

 

“I am also satisfied that the applicant poses a risk of absconding. He failed to comply with bail conditions in the past and was caught attempting to leave the jurisdiction,” the judge admitted.

 

But she said that she was bound by guidance for immigration judges which limits the government’s ability to detain someone for more than six months before they are deported.

5. Trump Threatens Countries With Visa Sanctions If They Stop Accepting Deported Citizens

(As usual, the Trump administration is the last reasonable government in the West, adopting measures you would expect any government to adopt against hostile states)

President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold visas from countries that refuse to accept deported citizens from the United States out of concern stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.

 

Trump issued a memo late Friday, ordering acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf to notify the State Department of any government that refuses to accept deportees from the U.S.

Upon notification, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would have seven days to impose visa sanctions, making it harder — and likely impossible — for citizens of those countries to obtain U.S. visas.

 

The memo dramatically ratcheted up pressure on governments, particularly in Central America, to keep allowing deportation flights into their countries.

6. Dozens of arrests of migrant ‘youths’ in Belgium following riots and looting of police van

Dozens of people have been arrested in the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht after migration-background youths staged a riot and fired shots from a stolen police service weapon.

The trigger for the riot in the European Union capital — which is under strict lockdown as Belgium experiences one of the worst per capita coronavirus death tolls in the world — seems to have been the death of a 19-year-old identified as “Adil”.

The young suffered fatal injuries after running a police checkpoint on a scooter and subsequently colliding with a police van which was sent as back-up, according to POLITICO.

Calls for a “protest” soon followed, despite bans on public gatherings, and video footage shows youths who appear to be from a migration background trashing police vehicles with slabs of stone in the middle of the street.

7. One Killed, Four Injured as Artillery Firefight Continues Between India, Pakistan

Thank you M., ML., Wrath of Khan, Coram Deo, Richard, Babs, Johnny U., Hellequin GM., Malca, and all who sent in materials. Making sense of our world right now is a challenge beyond the ability of most. So a special thank you to you all who make the effort so that we all might do so at some point.

1.In Philadelphia, masks are a must on public transport

https://twitter.com/phillyTRU/status/1248656214642262016

(I wonder if they check under burkas for masks? Or if the burka is enough)

2. Samsung ends mobile phone production in China

SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) has ended mobile telephone production in China, it said on Wednesday, hurt by intensifying competition from domestic rivals in the world’s biggest smartphone market.

(Its a reasonable guess that Chinese made competition for Samsung is made with 100% stolen IP from Samsung as well. Tesla however is beginning to build in China. Look for Canada to subsidize Tesla sales to support that)

3. Chinese police reportedly put a professor under house arrest, cut his internet, and kicked him off social media after he criticised President Xi over the coronavirus

(Isn’t it good to live in Canada where the Chinese controlled PM (rumour has it) is under house arrest and no one pays attention to him on social media?)

• A Chinese professor who wrote a scathing essay criticising President Xi Jinping’s handling of the novel coronavirus was placed under house arrest and had his internet services cut, The Guardian reported, citing his friends.
• After returning from his Chinese New Year holiday, Xu Zhangrun was put under house arrest, with several people patrolling the entrance of his home in Beijing.
• Friends of the professor told The Guardian that Xu’s social-media accounts have either been removed or suspended.

4. UN being hijacked by dictators and far-left activists warns human rights campaigner

(Funny how long it takes for the media to notice someone who is saying that. UN Watch pretty much has been on this day after day for many years now)

FAR-LEFT activists have been allying with some of the world’s most brutal dictatorships to hijack UN proceedings according to a leading human rights activist.

 

The claim was made by Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of the Geneva based UN Watch. UN Watch seeks to monitor and counter the efforts of authoritarian regimes to gain influence through UN institutions.

 

Current members of the UN’s Human Right’s council include countries with deeply questionable human rights records such as Venezuela, Libya and Qatar.

Past members in the last few years have included China, Cuba and Russia.

 

Speaking to Express.co.uk Mr Neuer said: “The far-left in a given society, lets say Britain or other European countries or the United States, their agenda typically fails at the ballot box.

“They were unable to get the population in their countries to vote and support their views.

5. China’s racist policies

(Diversity is our strength is only for White people for some reason)

Related:

6. Anti-parasitic drug killed coronavirus within 48 hours in lab: Australian scientists

Amid a barrage of research on finding treatment for coronavirus, Australian scientists have found that a common anti-parasitic drug killed SARS-CoV-2 virus within 48 hours in lab settings

 

Amid a barrage of research on finding treatment for new coronavirus, Australian scientists have found that a common anti-parasitic drug killed SARS-CoV-2 virus, growing in cell culture, within 48 hours in lab settings.

Ivermectin is an FDA-approved anti-parasitic drug that has also been shown to be effective in vitro against a broad range of viruses including HIV, dengue, influenza and zika virus.

 

Thank you M., Wrath of Khan, Richard, PC., PePi, Sassy and all who sent in materials.