“After living and working in China for over 10 years and speaking fluent Chinese, you get to know a society pretty well… and let me tell you this – if you’re applauding or admiring the political leadership of China, you’re all deluded beyond belief.“ That is how “laowhy86” begins this succinct video exploring the ‘facts’ – not conspiracies – behind the source of the coronavirus that […]
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The Trump administration has said it intends to pay providers treating coronavirus patients at ‘Medicare rates’ and prohibit additional billing – in effect, testing a flagship progressive proposal for nationalized healthcare. “We will send money to providers through the same mechanism used for testing,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on Friday, referring to the $100 billion in funds earmarked for healthcare providers […]
Via MassPrivateI blog, The biometrics industry has never been known to miss an opportunity to make a profit. Especially when it comes at the expense of everyone’s privacy. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, facial recognition companies have been hard at work creating a new sales pitch that will allow them to maximize their profits. Across the globe, facial recognition companies are hard at work trying to […]
Amed groups in Yemen, Syria, and Libya have not fully adhered to a United Nations call to lay down their guns during the novel coronavirus pandemic, the world body’s chief Antonio Guterres said on Friday. Speaking with reporters via a video link, Guterres said that his call for a global ceasefire had been well received around the world by Pope Francis and many others as part […]
A monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev, who commanded the forces that liberated Prague from the Nazis in 1945, has been removed and mocked for ‘not having a mask’ by one local official, in what Russia has condemned as an insult. Konev is one of the most celebrated Red Army generals, who commanded the 1st Ukrainian Front (army group) that liberated the Auschwitz death camp in […]
You can always count on the government to take advantage of a crisis, legitimate or manufactured. This coronavirus pandemic is no exception. Not only are the federal and state governments unraveling the constitutional fabric of the nation with lockdown mandates that are sending the economy into a tailspin and wreaking havoc with our liberties, but they are also rendering the citizenry fully dependent on the government […]
(Natural News) Some people think they’ve found the “end all, be all” of advice every time they hear a nurse or doctor speak on the news, or some CDC or WHO “official” advice gets spewed onto their smart device like a contagious, infectious thought. These folks go and repeat, verbatim, what they heard, like it’s the holy grail of modern medicine theory, and then they go and make […]
Russia will put all international flights on hold – this time without any exceptions – starting April 4 in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus, Russian news agencies reported citing their sources. This would mean that Russians who still remain abroad, and foreigners looking to leave the country, won’t be able to return home until the ban is lifted. The decision will come into […]
New York state sees highest daily jump in Covid-19 deaths, from 2,373 to 2,935 – Governor Cuomo — RT USA News icon bookmark-b icon bookmark icon camera icon check icon chevron down icon chevron left icon chevron right icon chevron up icon close icon v-compress icon download icon edit icon v-expand icon fb icon file icon filter icon flag ru icon full chevron down icon full […]
Via PeakProsperity.com, So many of you asked us to create a short educational clip for why masks are so important, so that you can get others onboard this movement. That was a GREAT idea! Because the most effective single step each of us can take right now to beat covid-19 is to start wearing a mask. It’s cheap. It’s easy. And if we all do it, […]
Poland’s deputy PM Jaroslaw Gowin has suggested extending current President Andrzej Duda’s term to deal with the coronavirus crisis — not for weeks or months, but for a whole two years. Poles are set to go to the polls for a presidential election on May 10, despite mounting concerns that holding elections in the middle of a pandemic could be careless. Gowin, who heads Porozumienie, which […]
With France reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic, the head of the Paris police force has been rebuked for suggesting that the worst-affected patients have only themselves to blame for their illness. France has been hit especially hard by the coronavirus outbreak. The country has confirmed nearly 60,000 cases as of Friday, and more than 5,000 people have died. With a strict nationwide lockdown in force and […]
Payrolls in the US plunged by 701,000 in March, according to a US Labor Department report released on Friday. While the figures are much higher than forecast, economists say the worst is yet to come. The unemployment rate rose to 4.4 percent, up from 3.5 percent in February. The decline in payrolls has become the first since September 2010. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones earlier predicted […]
Sweden has decided to indefinitely delay its Aurora 20 military drills, after allies reportedly pulled out over the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. The Scandinavian nation’s troops initially said it was against canceling the exercises. The country’s military announced on Friday that it would postpone the war games in response to the ongoing health crisis in Sweden and around the world. The drills, scheduled to be held from […]
As coronavirus attacks the respiratory systems of people all around the world, perhaps there will be one less thing destroying the lungs of Russians – cigarettes. With the designation of tobacco as a non-essential product, half of the country’s production will grind to a halt. Before President Putin’s Thursday confirmation of an extended self-isolation period, experts suggested that any extension could lead to a shortage. Now, […]
The head of the European Commission is advocating for measures to drive Europe out of the coronavirus crisis stronger than it was before, but the cracks inside the bloc’s relations may cast a shadow on her bright projects. Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday that member states had begun discussions about what to do with closed borders, which were shuttered in an attempt to stop […]
After providing coronavirus aid to Italy and the US, Russia is sending its military medics to Serbia. The virologists and equipment are already at the airfield, prepared to depart for the Balkans. Eight teams of doctors and nurses with state-of-the-art equipment as well as a unit of nuclear, biological and chemical protection (NBC) troops to carry out disinfection have been assigned by the Defense Ministry for […]
Angela Merkel has been in quarantine since late March after meeting with a doctor who contracted Covid-19. Now the 65-year-old chancellor is ending her self-isolation after being confirmed as not infected with the deadly virus. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, revealed on Friday that she had taken three tests, all of which came back negative. The chancellor had been working from her home in […]
An indoor parking lot in Barcelona has been converted into a makeshift extension of the morgue, as the city struggles to cope with the death toll from the novel coronavirus. Memora funeral home will be the largest field morgue in Spain, with the capacity for almost 2,000 coffins. Fernando Sanchez, the director of communications for the facility in Barcelona, said on Thursday, “We have the possibility […]
Federal Health Agencies Block Journalists’ Access To COVID-19 Experts And Information By Gary Schwitzer, HealthReviewNews.org. April 2, 2020 Federal Health Agencies Block Journalists’ Access To COVID-19 Experts And Information2020-04-022020-04-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/04/cdc_atlanta-e1585844424872.jpg200px200px It is a form of censorship. Journalists trying to cover COVID-19 are not allowed to talk with many federal health researchers or administrators without checking in first with government “public information officers” or PIOs. Sometimes the request is […]
Authored by Alan Macleod via MintPressNews.com, The job is being presented as a voluntary service. But in reality, prisoners have little choice… One month ago, MintPress News reported that, in the case of a particularly bad COVID-19 (coronavirus) epidemic in New York City, authorities had drawn up contingency plans to dump the bodies in mass graves on Hart Island, a small island just off the Bronx in the Long […]
Authored by Con Coughlin via The Gatestone Institute, The Iranian regime’s disastrous handling of the coronavirus pandemic could ultimately pose a greater threat to the survival of the ayatollahs than the impact of Washington’s uncompromising sanctions regime. Up until the coronavirus outbreak, the main challenge facing the clerical regime was the devastating impact the Trump administration’s hard-hitting sanctions were having on the Iranian economy. With the economy shrinking […]
Libya confirmed its first death from the novel coronavirus on Thursday, Anadolu reports. An 85-year old woman who tested positive died from COVID-19, the Libyan National Center for Disease Control said in a statement. Eleven cases have been reported in the country so far. The war-torn country recorded its first coronavirus case on March 24 and authorities later banned travel between cities to curb the virus’ spread. The […]
Authored by Jonathan Turley, Jose L. Gomez, 19, may have the dubious distinction of being the first person charged and convicted of a Corona hate crime. Gomez is accused of stabbing three members of a family of four inside a Sam’s Club. The family is Asian and police say that he was trying to stop them from spreading the virus. His victims included a 2-year-old and […]