When in the early morning hours of April 27th the window panes of a grocery store in Waldkraiburg burst and the shop was burst into flames, many residents of the Bavarian town no longer believed in coincidence. The fire developed quickly, the residents could no longer escape through the main entrance of the building, six residents were injured. Only the alarm of a resident and the quick action of the fire brigade prevented something worse. Only a ruin remains of the store, and the damage is amounting to millions.

The arson attack, which as it turns out later was preceded by an explosion, is part of a series of attacks: within ten days, in addition to the attack on the fruit and vegetable shop, there were stone throwing attacks against a hairdresser’s shop, a pizzeria and finally a kebab shop in Waldkraiburg. All the victims are of Turkish origin. The local criminal investigation department founded the fifty-member special commission “Prager”, and the Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism of the Munich Attorney General’s Office took over the case management.

In the meantime, a 25-year-old man was arrested who confessed to all four crimes and a warrant was issued against him. According to the investigators on Sunday noon, he called himself a follower of the “Islamic State” and had committed crimes out of hatred against Turks. No other country has suffered so many attacks and deaths by the so-called “Islamic State”. Turkey is therefore taking strong action against the Islamic terrorist militia. Just in the past few months there have been raids against the IS in Turkey, money has been confiscated and possible accounts of the Islamists have been blocked. In its publications, the IS repeatedly threatened to conquer the Turkish metropolis Istanbul. The Turkish state is seen as an enemy of the Islamists. The suspect is a German citizen born near Waldkraiburg, whose parents are from Turkey. Investigators have expressly denied that he had acted on the basis of the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. He had been unemployed for several months. Witnesses questioned by the investigators reported an Islamic-religious radicalization of the man in recent years, which had led to quarrels with his family. Apart from violations of the narcotics law, he had not previously committed any criminal offences.The man had attracted attention at the train station in Mühldorf am Inn because he did not have a valid ticket. He was carrying a trolley and a sports bag containing ten ignitable pipe bombs and 20 kilograms of chemical materials for the production of explosives. The station was therefore cleared and closed off for safety reasons.After the man’s arrest, investigators of the State Criminal Police Office searched the offender’s apartment in Waldkraiburg as well as a vehicle in an underground garage in Garching an der Alz. According to the investigators, the vehicle contained 13 additional functional bombs as well as ten kilograms of materials suitable as explosives. In addition, a weapon with ammunition, black powder and other explosive materials were found in the perpetrator’s apartment. The man had made the bombs himself and had stated that he had planned further attacks. He did not have any concrete targets, but his plans were directed against Turkish institutions. Investigators are currently investigating whether there are accomplices or confidants and where he got his weapons and materials from.Contrary to various speculations in the social media, no “foreigners get out” graffiti was sprayed on the façade of the grocery store before the fire, and hatred against citizens of Waldkraiburg with a migration background is quite rare.

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The BBC, the UK’s national broadcaster, has rejected calls from a pro-Israel group to ban a public health expert from its coverage of the coronavirus pandemic after several of his anti-Semitic tweets were discovered.

Prof. John Ashton — a medical doctor and one of the UK’s leading experts on health — was alleged to have compared Zionism with Nazism in material posted on social media between 2012 and 2018. One tweet posted in 2014 suggested it was “time for Jews to reflect” on the situation in Gaza.

As a result, the lobbying organization Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) called on the BBC to drop Ashton from its roster of experts.

The professor had appeared several times in a recent edition of the flagship news program “Panorama” that focused on the British government’s response to the pandemic.

For his part, Ashton has denied the accusations of anti-Semitism.

In a letter earlier this week to CFI, the BBC’s director of news and current affairs, Francesca Unsworth, pushed back against the demand to drop Ashworth because of his comments about Zionism.

“I understand that Professor Ashton was eminently well qualified to speak about this subject [the Covid-19 pandemic],” Unsworth wrote. “Professor Ashton did not, of course, make any comments of the kind that you describe in this program and I hope you understand that I would have grave doubts about the impact on freedom of speech, and the BBC’s ability to report freely and impartially, if we were to ban contributors from speaking on the subject of their acknowledged expertise because of the political views they have expressed, however abhorrent some members of the audience may find them.”

She added: “More broadly, we do not ban any contributors from our output as you would wish.”

Two of CFI’s leaders — Lord Eric Pickles and Lord Stuart Pollak — slammed Unsworth’s response.

“We are disappointed with the BBC’s response, which shows a lack of self-awareness,” they declared in a statement. “BBC news coverage has rightly sought to hold organizations accountable for their use of individuals who are in breach of the IHRA [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance] modern definition of anti-Semitism.”

Added the two peers: “It smacks of double standards that they do not see the relevance of applying the same discipline to themselves. The BBC always have a choice of experts, all we ask is that they choose a participant that does not send an ambiguous message.”

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Swiss Prof. Nils Kucher, angiologist at the University Hospital Zurich, explains why the Coronavirus was misjudged and criticized a decision by the German health authority, the Robert Koch Institute.

In no other German state were more Covid 19 deaths autopsied than in Hamburg. The forensic doctors of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) have submitted a study that is causing a sensation worldwide.

Accordingly, thrombosis and fatal pulmonary embolism occurred in more than half of Corona patient fatalities. Although the study only includes the first twelve post-mortem surveys, the surprising accumulation has also been confirmed in the 192 examined deaths, said Prof. Klaus Püschel, director at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the UKE, on Friday speaking to journalists.

The new findings should now also help with treatment. In the future, blood anticoagulants will probably be used more and more. Through more intensive preventive care, it can be ensured that “thromboses and embolisms do not develop,” said Püschel.

Seven of the twelve examined deaths had thrombosis, while four died directly from a pulmonary embolism. Before they died, there was no corresponding suspicion among those affected.

Germany weekly Spiegel however reported that the Robert-Koch Institute (RKI), which centralizes the data and regulates the procedures to be followed concerning the Covid-19 epidemic, first advised against autopsies.

A recommendation by the RKI dated March 24 stipulated that: “Internal forensic examination, autopsies or other measures producing aerosols should be avoided. If they are necessary, they should be kept to a minimum. ” On April 7, 2020, the two German associations of pathologists, the German Federation of Pathologists (BDP) and the German Pathology Society (DGP), sent a protest letter to the RKI.

Since then, the RKI has withdrawn its recommendation.

There have already been other indications that the novel Coronavirus could lead to thrombosis. In everyday clinical practice, it has already been seen that Covid-19 has led to thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in patients in an unusually large number of cases, said Prof. Stefan Kluge, Director of the Clinic for Intensive Care Medicine at the UKE.

“Sections of the deceased have now been confirmed. And it should be carefully considered whether patients can be treated primarily with a blood thinner,” said Kluge.

The study with the results of the autopsies was published in the prestigious American journal Annals of Internal Medicine. The study was reviewed by four independent experts before publication.

In reality only a minority of patients suffered from pneumonia, Alexandar Tzankov, director of the histology and autopsy department of the University Hospital of Basel, told the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The examination under the microscope revealed a “serious imbalance of the microcirculation of the lung”.

The Swiss team noted that inflammation was not limited to the lungs, but “actually concerned all of the endothelium of different organs”. Professor Frank Ruschitzka, director of the cardiology clinic at the University Hospital of Zurich, agreed that the disease should therefore be re-qualified and no longer focus on the pulmonary aspect.

Kucher has just launched an emergency study bringing together the five university hospitals in Switzerland, with the aim of checking whether anticoagulants can protect from these deadly clots.

For weeks already, reports have been issued regarding the effects on the body, many caused by clotting. “This is like a storm of blood clots,” Behnood Bikdeli, a fourth-year cardiology fellow at Columbia University in New York City told Nature.

Initially the focus was on ventilators and then on oxygen treatment to help patients with severe respiratory problems. But now hospitals are scrambling for more anticoagulant drugs and kidney dialysis machines.

Studies from the Netherlands and France suggest that clots appear in at least a third of critically ill patients. Jeffrey Laurence, a haematologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, also examined lung and skin samples from three patients and found that the capillaries were clogged with small clots.

“This is not what you’d expect to see in someone who just has a severe infection,” he says. “This is really very new.” Thus while patients often exhibit critically low blood-oxygen levels, mechanical ventilation is not the answer.

A large study in 166 UK hospitals carried out by a research consortium from Imperial College and Liverpool and Edinburgh universities showed that two-thirds of patients were admitted suffering from respiratory symptoms. But that proportion may be too high since it reflects the official case definition of Covid.

Tim Chico, a professor of cardiovascular medicine at Sheffield university, told the Financial Times: “The risk of blood clots with Covid-19 appears to be even greater than the increased risk of blood clots seen in other severe illnesses.”

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United We Dream, a George Soros-backed NGO, is demanding every illegal immigrant in the United States receive $1,200 in federal aid checks as a part of federal coronavirus aid, which could cost billions for American taxpayer if it were to be approved.

The NGO is making the demand in conjunction with a network of other pro-migration lobbying groups, such as the National Immigrant Justice Center, and the National Immigration Law Center. With estimates of the illegal alien population estimated between 11 to 22 million in the US, the migration groups are asking the federal government to issue checks for every illegal immigrant that has a Tax Identification Number (ITIN).

In an effort to aid struggling Americans, the US government has issued $1,200 checks for every American citizen with a social security number as well as “resident aliens”. The funds are meant to be help keep Americans afloat during the biggest American economic crisis since the Great Depression, including the estimated 22 million citizens who are now out of work.

United We Dream, which has received funding from Soros’s Open Society Foundation, believes that illegal residents should also have access to this aid. It is a part of a wide-range of open border activist pushing for more taxpayer funds for illegal immigrants.

Josue De Luna Navarro, who has worked for United We Dream and founded the NM Dream Team, a chapter of the United We Dream group, also took to Twitter to say that immigration and US citizenship should not determine whether someone has access to coronavirus funds.

These illegal immigrant advocate groups are using social media and their well-funded networks to call the public to push lawmakers to provide federal aid to illegal residents amid the crisis.

They have also started a petition that reads, “All people, regardless of immigration status, must be included in the stimulus. Cash payments must go to all taxpayers, including immigrants who pay using an ITIN… coronavirus testing and care must be free and accessible to all: Amend Emergency Medicaid to cover Covid-19 costs, so patients get care regardless of immigration status.”

The petition urges lawmakers to invalidate President Donald Trump’s “public charge” rule, which ensures that American taxpayers do not have to pay to permanently resettle legal immigrants who have relied on federal aid or welfare.

Soros is also a co-founder of the Democracy Alliance, which is recognized as the largest dark money network of donors for the left in the entire US. Within the group, each member vows to donate hundreds of thousands to groups the organization approves of. The United We Dream network is one of many organizations approved by the Democracy Alliance, along with a wide range of pro-migration and left-wing groups.

Soros is also known for his funding and cooperation with pro-migration groups and politicians across Europe, many of which have targeted Hungary’s conservative government and the country’s prime minister, Viktor Orban.

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A Moroccan citizen in Barcelona linked to ISIS was arrested in the district of Cuitat Vella, Barcelona, He had shown signs of radicalization and an affinity for the Islamic State for at least four years.

The police blocked traffic in the street where he resides, and agents searched the residence. According to the Civil Guard, that the radicalization of the individual was activated in a “highly noticeable and concerning manner”.

In addition, he was observed avoiding confinement [lockdown] in a habitual manner and without justification, in a possible search for targets.

According to the Civil Guard, the investigation, directed by Central Court of Investigation and the Public Prosecutor of the National Court, was carried out with the collaboration of the US FBI and General Directorate of Security of Morocco (DGST).

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A few days after China had announced it was sending medical supplies to Italy, Chinese state media aired pictures of Italians on balconies and streets applauding the Chinese national anthem. “In Rome, with the Chinese anthem playing, some Italians chanted ‘Grazie, Cina!’ on their balconies, & their neighbors applauded along”, wrote Zhao Lijian, the spokesman for China’s foreign ministry who shamefully and wrongly suggested that the U.S. military had brought the Covid-19 to Wuhan.

China presented itself in the role of the savior, willing to rush to the bedside of the sick patient Italy.

Now a Financial Times investigation reveals that those videos were manipulated as part of Beijing’s coronavirus propaganda. Hashtags #ThanksChina and #GoChina&Italy were further generated by bots. A report by the Carnegie Endowment called Italy “a target destination for China’s propaganda”.

An article called, “Why the Covid-19 epidemic is so politicized” and posted on the Chinese embassy website in Paris, said, “Some Westerners are beginning to lose confidence in liberal democracy” and “some [Western countries] have become psychologically weak”.

Antoine Bondaz, a researcher at France’s Foundation for Strategic Research, toldPolitico:

“China considers Europe the soft belly of the West. In their logic, there is the West, and in it the U.S. that will oppose China for structural and ideological reasons, and their European allies that need to be neutral in case of conflict between China and the U.S.”

According to Lt. Gen. (ret.) H.R. McMaster, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, in his new book Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World, Chinese leaders “believe they have a narrow window of strategic opportunity to strengthen their rule and revise the international order in their favor”.

There is now a huge risk that Italy is becoming “China’s Trojan horse into Europe“.

A leading French official, Pierre-Henri d’Argenson, wrote in Le Figaro that “Europe has now become the buffer zone for the confrontation between China and the United States”. Beijing chose Italy as its soft belly in Europe and is following its script.

In April 2019, the Italian government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte was the first G7 country to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” during a state visit by President Xi Jinping. According to an analysis by The Economist, the Chinese Belt and Road plan could surpass the Marshall Plan, by which the US revived Europe’s war ravaged economies.

Italy has a government coalition led by the Five Star Movement, an extremely pro-Chinese party, whose founder Beppe Grillo has been spotted frequently at the Chinese embassy in Rome. As the European Council on Foreign Relations reported, “in Italy business and political lobbies for China have been on the rise”. The former PM Matteo Renzi has visited Beijing for conferences.

Five years ago, China National Chemical Corp bought Pirelli, a 143-year-old Italian company, and the world’s fifth-largest tire maker. A study published by KPMG before the Pirelli deal revealed Chinese acquisitions in Italy have totaled 10 billion euros in five years (in a total of 13 billion euros investments). A third of foreign purchases in Italy are Chinese. The goal is to turn Italy into “Europe’s top destination for highly coveted investment from China”.

Now, China is trying to dominate southern Europe’s infrastructure. China was already granted a license to run Greece’s largest seaport, Athens’ Piraeus harbor, which Beijing plans to turn into Europe’s biggest commercial harbor. Then China started to project its expansion in Italy’s ports, where four major ports are also in line for Chinese investments. Zeno D’Agostino, the president of Trieste’s northern port, says that “China is opening because it feels strong”.

Italy’s political appeasement of China was on display during the fatal early days of the coronavirus crisis.

On January 21, Italy’s culture and tourism minister hosted a Chinese delegation for a concert at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia to inaugurate the year of Italy-China Culture and Tourism. Michele Geraci, Italy’s former undersecretary for development, was not sure that was his place. “Are we sure we want to do this?”, Geraci said looking at his colleagues. “Should we be here today?”. A few days later, in many Italian cities, such as Florence and Prato, where there is a Chinese manufacturing stronghold, mayors and local communities promoted the initiative, “hug a Chinese” to fight xenophobia and racism.

In Rome, Italy’s President, Sergio Mattarella, visited a school that has a high percentage of Chinese students to counter “discrimination” and Nicola Zingaretti, the leader of the Democratic Party, met the Chinese ambassador in Rome. Meanwhile, Italian televisions organized live tastings of Chinese products. That was Italy’s fatal initial mistake: fighting racism instead of the virus, which only a few days later would devastate the country.

China has been able to brainwash Italian public opinion. In a poll published April 17, 50% of Italians consider China a “friend” (just 17% of Italians think as much of the United States). And in the race for the global power to which Italy should be allied China is ahead of the US, 36% to 30%.

Italy’s foreign minister, Luigi Di Maio, welcomed a plane-load of Chinese medical supplies on March 12. “We will remember those who were close to us in this difficult period”, Di Maio said. It is not necessary, China will remind them.

Walter Ricciardi, an advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Italian government, tweeted: “Thanks China!”.

We know now that while the Chinese regime misled the world about the contagiousness of Covid-19, it stockpiled medical supplies. As the editor of the German BILD wrote in a letter to Chinese president Xi:

“I suppose you consider it a great ‘friendship’ when you now generously send masks around the world. This isn’t friendship, I would call it imperialism hidden behind a smile – a Trojan Horse”.

Not a single Italian minister or official blamed China for the cover up of the epidemic or causing witnesses to “disappear“.

“For the first time in many years, Western countries united behind the request to China for clarifications on how Covid-19 was born and then spread”, Paolo Mieli wrote in a front-page editorial for Italy’s largest newspaper, Il Corriere della Sera. Mieli mentioned the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, France and Germany.

“Who is missing? Italy, the only country in the Western world to have welcomed half a million masks sent to us (for a fee) from China with a truly excessive blaze”.

The world-renowned Italian textile industry was one of the major victims of a globalization expansion led by Chinese dishonest economic dumping. China is now reducing Italy to a setting to help spread and implement its propaganda and will to power. As Italian analyst Francesco Galietti wrote, Italy is going to become “the target of a Chinese ‘charm offensive’, a combination of hard cash and ‘soft power’, money and influence”. He notes as an example the People’s Bank of China:

“It has steadily amassed stakes above 2 percent (the disclosure threshold in Italy) in a slew of Italy’s largest shareholder-owned companies, including FCA (the Fiat Chrysler group), Telecom Italia, and Generali Group, Italy’s largest insurer”.

China has also invested in strategic Italian energy entities such as Eni and Eneland Italian oil services group Saipem.

This economic penetration will also have immense security consequences. During the first days of the Covid-19 epidemic, Italy, which is being lured by the promise of a $3 billion Huawei investment in its telecommunications system, announcedthat it has no plans to stop Chinese telecom firms playing a role in the country’s future 5G network. It is a project that US Attorney General William P. Barr defined a “monumental danger“.

“The geopolitical effects of the pandemic could be significant,” said NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. “Some allies (are) more vulnerable for situations where critical infrastructure can be sold out” in a Chinese “buying spree”. US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has also warned that China will exploit the virus “to further their own interests and try to sow division in the Alliance and in Europe”.

Italy is most vulnerable to this Chinese offensive. It is one of the most indebtedcountries in the world and has an economic growth close to zero. It is also one of Europe’s most unstable and fragile governments and had one of Europe’s highest coronavirus death tolls — an experience that an Italian nurse compared to a “world war“.

Italy is now Europe’s sick man. Due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis, the country will see a collapse of its GDP (-9.5%) and the explosion of its public debt which is set to 160% of gross domestic product — the highest since World War II. Beijing knows this and claims that “Italy has many economic problems, Europe is in crisis and the Belt and Road Initiative is the only major global investment plan”.

“The possibility that Europe will become a museum or a cultural amusement park for the nouveau riche of globalization is not completely out of the question”, saidthe late historian Walter Laqueur. Rome’s dramatic fall could mean Beijing’s equally dramatic rise. It is a huge warning for the West.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15999/italy-china-trojan-horse

Importing massive numbers of migrants from regions where primitive cultures prevail has brought the barbaric practice of female genital mutilation to Germany. 

Worldwide around 200 million of women have been the victims of this cruel practice. Among other ruthless and inhumane practices like breast ironing, genital mutilation is widely practiced in Africa and certain Middle Eastern countries. 

Between September 2018 and September 2019, the number of women treated for FGM increased considerably in Germany. In that period of time, genital mutilation was identified as the main diagnoses in 176 cases, according to information released by the Berlin Senate at the request of the AfD parliamentary group. In 2016, there were only 12 cases of FGM and in 2017 the number went down to six.

The Senate believes the increasing numbers are due to migration from African and some Arabic countries where  FGM is widely practiced, German newspaper Die Welt reports.

“Due to immigration from areas where genital mutilation practice is widespread, it is assumed that there is an increasing need for advice, education and medical care.”

To deal with the problem, a coordination office will be set up during the summer time to expand education, counseling services, and medical care for women who’ve suffered from FGM.

Berlin wants teachers and educators in touch with girls who are in danger of this practice to raise awareness of the importance of physical integrity of the girls within the immigrant communities.  

It is estimated that around 70,000 women who’ve been subjected to FGM currently live in Germany. Additionally, around 17,700 girls, mainly in large cities like Berlin, are currently in danger of having the barbarous procedure done to them, nearly twice as many as there were three years ago.

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With each passing day, as we learn more about coronavirus it’s less and less sure that we should have shut down so much. The mortality rates skew strongly toward older individuals with underlying conditions and presence in nursing homes. Hindsight isn’t quite 20/20, not with a virus we still do not understand well, but locking people inside and forbidding them to surf, skate and go for walks in the park may create vitamin D deficiencies and amp up the danger of COVID infection.

Led by Northwestern University, the research team conducted a statistical analysis of data from hospitals and clinics across China, France, Germany, Italy, Iran, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States.

The researchers noted that patients from countries with high COVID-19 mortality rates, such as Italy, Spain and the UK, had lower levels of vitamin D compared to patients in countries that were not as severely affected.

The researchers say this isn’t a call to start taking supplements if you don’t have a known deficiency. But locking people indoors, when there’s usually a brilliant source of vitamin D up in the sky outside, just seems ill-advised now.

Not only does vitamin D enhance our innate immune systems, it also prevents our immune systems from becoming dangerously overactive. This means that having healthy levels of vitamin D could protect patients against severe complications, including death, from COVID-19.

“Our analysis shows that it might be as high as cutting the mortality rate in half,” Backman said. “It will not prevent a patient from contracting the virus, but it may reduce complications and prevent death in those who are infected.”

Some research suggests that the virus doesn’t live long in warm weather, though that’s not a slam dunk just yet. And it’s very likely that UV light kills virii.

So go outside.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2020/05/09/vitamin-d-may-help-you-fight-coronavirus-n389531