The rescued “refugee child” in the photo (right) is wearing a shirt with an inscription “Istanbul 1453” – the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453.
Who equipped these young men with such clothes? The victory of Islamic Ottomans against Christian Byzantium with force of arms.
by Giulio Meotti
It is a question of a dominant mentality, not of a judiciary that now investigates and inspects nursing homes in northern Italy. It is a sort of social euthanasia, of “seniorcide,” of large-scale triage so it is considered wrong to ask to be put on a respirator for oneself if one is “old and sick.”
According to a Sunday Times reconstruction of a Boris Johnson government meeting in late March, Prime Minister’s advisor Dominic Cummings exposed the government’s plan before “BoJo” fell ill: “Herd immunity, protecting the economy and if that means that some retirees die, too bad” (Cummings later denied saying so). On the one hand there is an informal protocol, whereby the “elderly”, especially those with pathologies, are not treated but accompanied to death with sedatives in nursing homes, as if Covid-19 was a terminal disease for them.
On the other hand there are formal protocols. The latest was released by the Financial Times.
NHS, the British Health Service, assigned patients a sort of “score” to decide who is unfit for intensive care. Age, frailty and previous conditions. Patients with eight points in the three categories must not be hospitalized. A patient between 71 and 75 would have 4 points for age and 3 for the fragility index, bringing the score to 7. Any additional disease, such as dementia, heart disease, lung disease or high blood pressure, will add 1 or 2 points, thus excluding intensive care.
“The elderly are abandoned like lambs in the slaughterhouse”, said conservative Ros Altmann, former minister for pensions under David Cameron and member of the House of Lords. “I have never seen anything like this”. We are abandoning the elderly because we have decided that their lives are not worth as much as those of young people.https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html
Meanwhile, charitable organizations accuse the British government of not tracking deaths in retirement homes. “The official figures are wiping out the elderly as if they didn’t matter,” said Caroline Abrahams, director of the charity Age UK.
They are denied treatment, but also a place in victim statistics. As if not only had they lost the right to life, but as if they didn’t exist. In a document from the Karolinska university hospital in Sweden (the largest university hospital in Europe) disclosed by the newspaper Aftonbladet, it is specified who remains outside the intensive care unit: who is over 80, over 70 years old and with a significant disease and those with between 60 and 70 and at least two heart, lung and kidney diseases. The idea is simple: the “herd” will survive, but the “weakest” members of society must be “sacrificed”. The famous epidemiologist Marcello Ferrada de Noli who worked at the Karolinska in Stockholm said that Sweden is sacrificing the elderly.
In France, the decision to grant the use of the Rivotril drug at home and in rest homes – and no longer only in hospitals – triggered a debate. Used in palliative therapies for terminally ill patients, Rivotril is now also used outside because in hospitals they cannot cure everyone.
Risk of surreptitious euthanasia? “Have we decided to sacrifice the old?”, asks France Culture. It is not a matter of the judiciary, but of the prevailing mentality, explains Éric Ciotti in Le Figaro: “How can we let such a massacre affect our elderly? They were handed over to certain death, which is absolutely unacceptable in a democratic nation where one life should always be worth another, regardless of age. A society is judged by the way it takes care of its elders. It is a true indicator of civilization.”
Spain has also put it in writing, advising against treatments for those over 80 years of age and with previous pathologies. These are the recommendations of the Catalan Generalitat. Dutch doctors asked the elderly to think twice before asking for intensive care.
This is how we arrived at the data just released by the London School of Economics: half of all Covid-19 deaths in Europe occurred in nursing homes. They call it this, “geriatricide”. And we were very ready for all this.
Not even two months ago, Holland spoke of a pill with which the elderly could commit suicide and in Spain the procedure for passing the euthanasia law had already started. All frozen, for now, there are already enough coffins around. For years we have discussed “quality of life” and “compassion”. When the viral tragedy hit society, all we had to do was raise our hands. Charles Darwin called it “the survival of the fit.”
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The editor-in-chief of Germany’s largest paper Bild on Thursday launched a full-frontal attack on China’s communist president Xi Jinping for his regime’s failure to come clean about the coronavirus outbreak and the massive human rights violations carried out by the communist party.Julian Reichelt, the prominent editor-in-chief of the Bild, wrote to Jinpingthat “Your embassy in Berlin has addressed me in an open letter because we asked in our newspaper Bild whether China should pay for the massive economic damage the coronavirus is inflicting worldwide.”
He wrote that, “You [Jinping], your government and your scientists had to know long ago that coronavirus is highly infectious, but you left the world in the dark about it. Your top experts didn’t respond when Western researchers asked to know what was going on in Wuhan.You were too proud and too nationalistic to tell the truth, which you felt was a national disgrace.”Reichelt said “ You rule by surveillance. You wouldn’t be president without surveillance. You monitor everything, every citizen, but you refuse to monitor the diseased wet markets in your country.You shut down every newspaper and website that is critical of your rule, but not the stalls where bat soup is sold. You are not only monitoring your people, you are endangering them – and with them, the rest of the world.”He continued with his bill of particulars, noting that “surveillance is a denial of freedom. And a nation that is not free, is not creative. A nation that is not innovative, does not invent anything . This is why you have made your country the world champion in intellectual property theft.China enriches itself with the inventions of others, instead of inventing on its own. The reason China does not innovate and invent is that you don’t let the young people in your country think freely. China’s greatest export hit (that nobody wanted to have, but which has nevertheless gone around the world) is coronavirus.”The spokeswoman for China’s embassy, Tao Lil, published an open letter in German on the embassy’s website to Bild on Wednesday, stating “I followed your reporting on the corona pandemic in general and China’s alleged guilt in particular today. Apart from the fact that we consider it a pretty bad style to blame a country for a pandemic that is affecting the whole world and then to present an explicit account of alleged Chinese debts to Germany, the article ignores some essential ones facts.”She added that “We note that many countries now struggling with COVID-19 have had time to prepare for the cross-border spread of the pathogen after China reported its outbreak under IHR [World Health Organization] guidelines.”
The Bild editor-in-chief cited a Washington Post article that reported that “your laboratories in Wuhan have been researching corona viruses in bats, butwithout maintaining the highest safety standards. Why are your toxic laboratories not as secure as your prisons for political prisoners?Would you like to explain this to the grieving widows, daughters, sons, husbands, parents of Corona victims all over the world?”He conclude that “In your country, your people are whispering about you. Your power is crumbling. You have created an inscrutable, non-transparent China. Before Corona, China was known as a surveillance state. Now, China is known as a surveillance state that infected the world with a deadly disease.That is your political legacy.”
As it now turns out, the Islamist hate preacher Ahmad Armih, who unjustly collected Corona emergency aid of 18,000 euros, taught the Breitscheidplatz assassin Anis Amri and the IS terrorist and former rapper “Deso Dogg”. Born in 1973, the native Palestinian, who is preaching under the alias name of Ahmad Abul Baraa, came to Germany during the Lebanese civil war and has been doing Islamic missionary work throughout Germany for 17 years, as the tabloid “Bild” reports. In the As-Sahaba Mosque founded in 2010 in the corner of Torf-street and Sprengelstreet “Abul Baraa” radicalized and became an Imam. “In his sermons he repeatedly stirs up the fear of the revenge from Allah and the Prophet – which affects all those who do not strictly observe the regulations of the Koran,” the newspaper reports. Undeterred by the investigations of the public prosecutor’s office, which seized parts of the allegedly ripped-off Corona aid money during a house search this week, the Salafist continues to preach on the Internet and spread his fundamentalist, anti-constitutional views. Already in December 2018, Armih was the target of a raid at the As-Sahaba Mosque: At that time, 16,000 euros in cash and data material were seized; just as with the Corona money that had just been fraudulently obtained, there were also strong suspicions that the hate preacher could still be supporting IS terrorists in the Middle East war zones, according to the tabloid “Bild”.
Now it became public that among Armih’s audience were, among others, the rapper “Deso Dogg”, who later became an IS murderer in Syria, as well as the Breitscheidplatz terrorist Anis Amri. According to “Bild”, he also maintained close contacts with Reda Seyam, the Egyptian terrorist who is considered the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks in Bali in October 2002, which left 150 dead. The fact that the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution had him under surveillance in the face of such connections makes it all the more incomprehensible that the Berlin development bank IBB paid out unchecked Corona aid money to Armih, who was officially registered as a welfare recipient.
In Berlin, the Salafist scene is growing about twice as fast as in the rest of Germany: in 2019, the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution counted 1120 people here among the milieu of the toughest Islamists – according to its boss Michael Fischer, this was 100 persons more than in the previous year and corresponds to an increase of ten percent. “Bild” sums up: “Berlin may have a bigger Salafist problem than the republic as a whole”.
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It happens almost every day: For two weeks now, the Yvelines police have been the target of projectiles every evening as they pass through immigrant neighborhoods during the imposed curfew.
Interventions to secure a Covid-19 lockdown in the “sensitive” areas of Yvelines near Paris, are becoming more and more dangerous. In the night of Thursday to Friday, officers were again taken to task in Mantes-la-Jolie and in Trappes.
In Trappes, hostilities started at 5 pm le Parisien reported. The day before, it was at Les Mureaux that the police were attacked by residents.
The night from Friday to Saturday was not really quieter than the others for the police, again seeing projectiles lanced at them in several social housing estates of the department.
At Mureaux, around 6:50 pm, some fifteen people gathered on avenue Georges-Bizet stoning a police patrol.
Shortly before 10 pm in Mantes-la-Jolie , around thirty “youths” chased after the police. Arab and African youths set up a real ambush in rue du Docteur-Broussay against the officers. A group of about 80 rioters then gathered before tipping rubbish bins on the road.
At the end of the evening, the scenario was repeated on the side of Poissy where the police of the anti-crime brigade were also stoned.
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Two weeks ago, protests erupted outside of Camp Lindenstrasse – a migrant living facility in Bremen, Germany. Forty or so angry migrants took to the streets and called on government authorities to shut the facility down amid the coronavirus crisis.
One of the protesters can be heard yelling: “They only care about whites! The racism is too much” one of the angry
“These babies were born here! They are German babies!” another protester screams.
Roughly 500 inhabitants live at the facility.
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A controlled lab test has confirmed what most scientists expected. The coronavirus is quickly destroyed in the sun and that it doesn’t last long in high temperatures and high humidity.
The findings are a vital piece of information that will give political leaders further guidance on how far to go in restarting the economy.
A briefing on the preliminary results, marked for official use only and obtained by Yahoo News, offers hope that summertime may offer conditions less hospitable for the virus, though experts caution it will by no means eliminate, or even necessarily decrease, new cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The results, however, do add an important piece of knowledge that the White House’s science advisers have been seeking as they scramble to respond to the spreading pandemic.
The study found that the risk of “transmission from surfaces outdoors is lower during daylight” and under higher temperature and humidity conditions. “Sunlight destroys the virus quickly,” reads the briefing.
While that may provide some good news about the outlook for outdoor activities, the Department of Homeland Security briefing on the results cautions that enclosed areas with low humidity, such as airplane cabins, “may require additional care to minimize risk of transmission.”
It was expected that the virus wouldn’t do well in warmer, wetter climates and nations near the equator have shown a relatively slow spread.
“We are not saying that at higher temperatures, the virus will suddenly go away and everything would be fine and you are going out,” Qasim Bukhari, a computational scientist at MIT and a co-author of the analysis, told Yahoo News in an interview. “No, we are not saying it. We are just seeing that there is a temperature- and humidity-related dependency, but I think many people now have started to realize this.”
Bukhari said that since he and his colleagues published that analysis, the numbers on the coronavirus’s spread continue to support their contention. “They are doing a lot of tests now in India. Also, when you look at the numbers in Pakistan it’s the same. There are more than 5,000 cases in Pakistan right now,” he said. “But the increase is not as rapid as you see in other countries.”
The virus will survive the summer and phase two of the pandemic will begin in earnest next fall. What then? Do we shut down the economy again?
There will be calls for that but for practical economic reasons, it won’t happen. Once the economy starts revving up, masks and social distancing will become the new normal and perhaps frequent testing for the virus as well. There will be more death but hopefully, the lessons we’ve learned from the first round in the fight against the virus will serve us well in the future.
On last Thursday morning, an initially unknown person set fire to the attic of a homeless shelter on Rosa Luxemburg Street in Glauchau. Firefighters extinguished the fire. Fortunately, nobody was injured. However, the flames partially destroyed the wooden roof construction, making the house uninhabitable after the fire. Shortly afterwards, the suspect lit paper in the driver’s cab of a diesel locomotive at the nearby station, causing damage to the locomotive to an unknown extent. The 37-year-old locomotive driver extinguished the fire and was subsequently treated in hospital as an outpatient on suspicion of smoke intoxication. The man then set fire to paper again on an empty wagon. However, the fire extinguished by itself, so that no material damage was caused here. Shortly afterwards, police officers were able to find the suspect on the station premises and arrest him provisionally. On Thursday afternoon, the 34-year-old Tunisian was brought before a judge who issued an arrest warrant. The suspect was then taken to a prison.
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is facing increased scrutiny over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than two million people around the world and killed at least 150,000.
Adhanom, who goes by the name Tedros, is an Ethiopian microbiologist who, with the help of China, began a five-year term as head of the WHO in July 2017. He has been accused of misrepresenting the severity and spread of the coronavirus in an attempt to pander to China.
The historical record shows that Tedros, the first African and the first non-physician to lead the WHO, has a long history of covering up epidemics and human rights abuses in Ethiopia, where he served as the minister of health and minister of foreign affairs.
In May 2017, when Tedros emerged as the top candidate in a three-way race to lead the WHO, the New York Times reported accusations that Tedros covered up three cholera epidemics in Ethiopia when he was the country’s health minister between 2005 and 2012.
Tedros claimed that cholera outbreaks occurring in 2006, 2009 and 2011 were only “acute watery diarrhea” — an infectious disease known in the rest of the world as cholera. He said that the outbreaks were limited to remote areas of the country where laboratory testing was “difficult” and that international concerns were overblown. The epidemics eventually reached neighboring countries including Kenya, Somalia and Sudan. The New York Times explained:
“WHO officials have complained privately that Ethiopian officials are not telling the truth about these outbreaks. Testing for Vibrio cholerae bacteria, which cause cholera, is simple and takes less than two days.
“During earlier outbreaks, various news organizations, including The Guardian and The Washington Post, reported that unnamed Ethiopian officials were pressuring aid agencies to avoid using the word ‘cholera’ and not to report the number of people affected.
“But cholera bacteria were found in stool samples tested by outside experts. As soon as severe diarrhea began appearing in neighboring countries, the cause was identified as cholera.
“United Nations officials said more aid could have been delivered to Ethiopia had the truth been told.”
The director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, Lawrence O. Gostin, said that he called attention to Ethiopia’s long history of denying cholera outbreaks because he believed the WHO “might lose its legitimacy” if it is run by a representative of a country that itself covers up epidemics.
“Dr. Tedros is a compassionate and highly competent public health official,” Gostin told the New York Times. “But he had a duty to speak truth to power and to honestly identify and report verified cholera outbreaks over an extended period.”
Tedros dismissed the accusations against him by playing the race card. He said that criticism of him stemmed from a “typical colonial mind-set aimed at… discrediting a candidate from a developing country.”
The Guardian reported that the Ethiopian government has been reluctant to acknowledge the cholera outbreaks “for fear of damaging the economy.” The Washington Post explained that Ethiopian authorities have a propensity for refusing to call bad news by its real name:
“Acute watery diarrhea [AWD] is a potentially fatal condition caused by water infected with the Vibrio cholera bacterium. Everywhere else in the world it is simply called cholera.
“But not in Ethiopia, where international humanitarian organizations privately admit that they are only allowed to call it AWD and are not permitted to publish the number of people affected.
“The government is apparently concerned about the international impact if news of a significant cholera outbreak were to get out, even though the disease is not unusual in East Africa.
“This means that, hypothetically, when refugees from South Sudan with cholera flee across the border into Ethiopia, they suddenly have AWD instead.”
In a similar manner, when international aid groups in 2016 sounded alarm bells over the lack of rain, Ethiopian authorities, including Tedros, were divided over whether they should call it a drought. The Post reported:
“The narrative for Ethiopia in 2015 was a successful nation with double-digit growth, and the government did not want to bring back memories of the 1980s drought that killed hundreds of thousands and left the country forever associated with famine.
“‘We don’t use the f-word,’ explained an aid worker… referring to famine.”
Similar allegations of cover-up were reported while Tedros was Ethiopia’s foreign minister between 2012 and 2016. In October 2016, for instance, Tedros wrote in a blog post that he opposed efforts by Human Rights Watch to force Ethiopia to accept an international investigation into the way the government responded to anti-government protests.
The protests began in November 2015 due to public anger over the government’s heavy-handedness. They escalated in October 2016, when government security forces fired on a large crowd of festival-goers. The protests, which eventually spread across the country, left hundreds of people dead and tens of thousands detained.
Tedros’s cover-ups continued after he became the director general of the WHO. In September 2017, a group of American physicians, in an open letter addressed to Tedros, accused him of failing to investigate outbreaks of cholera in Sudan:
“The mandate of the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) could hardly be clearer; in the words of the Organization: ‘Our primary role is to direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations’ system. Our goal is to build a better, healthier future for people all over the world. Working through offices in more than 150 countries, WHO staff work side by side with governments and other partners to ensure the highest attainable level of health for all people.’
“And yet this impressive mandate is daily made a mockery of by WHO’s refusal to refer to the cholera epidemic raging in Sudan by name. Neither your organization nor the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs will refer explicitly to the fact that what you continue to call “Acute Watery Diarrhea” is in fact cholera, Vibrio cholera — a fact established by laboratory tests in Sudan….
“To be sure, the Khartoum regime has made clear that it will punish Sudanese journalists and health officials who dare to use the word ‘cholera,’ and no doubt threats have been issued to WHO, demanding that you be complicit in silence about this terrible disease. The regime’s motive is transparently a desire that the ‘reputation’ of Sudan not be compromised by associations the regime perceives would inhere in any accurate designation of a disease that is clearly out of control. But the effect of WHO’s silence is to ensure that Sudan has not received international medical resources necessary to combat cholera — preeminently massive supplies of re-hydration equipment; medical epidemiologists as well as specialists in treating cholera epidemics; and water/sanitation equipment and engineers.
“By yielding to the Khartoum’s regime’s threat, you are complicit in the failure to respond to a disease that currently threatens many hundreds of thousands of Sudanese civilians — and is currently active in twelve Sudanese states….
“Your silence about what is clearly a massive cholera epidemic in Sudan is reprehensible. Your failure to transport stool samples from victims in Sudan to Geneva for official confirmation of cholera makes you fully complicit in the terrible suffering and dying that continues to spread, out of control, with daily new reports confirming that this is indeed a cholera epidemic.
“The inevitable history that will be written of this epidemic will surely cast you in an unforgiving light.”
In October 2017, Tedros appointed the late Robert Mugabe, the authoritarian leader of Zimbabwe, as a UN Goodwill Ambassador. Tedros had praised Zimbabwe as “a country that places universal health coverage and health promotion at the center of its policies to provide health care to all.” After global outrage, Tedros rescinded the appointment.
Writing for the Sunday Times, Rebecca Myers wrote:
“Diplomats said [Mugabe’s] appointment was a political payoff from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus — the WHO’s first African director-general — to China, a long-time ally of Mugabe, and the 50 or so African states that helped to secure Tedros’s election earlier this year…
“Chinese diplomats had campaigned hard for the Ethiopian, using Beijing’s financial clout and opaque aid budget to build support for him among developing countries.”
Columnist Frida Ghitis, writing for The Washington Post added:
“The WHO director’s decision to honor the dictator is a misjudgment of breathtaking proportions. The stain it has left on the WHO will not be easily cleansed. We must find out what was behind it. If an investigation proves that giving this prestigious appointment to a brutal human rights violator was the result of corruption, Tedros must leave. In fact, Tedros’s tenure should already be regarded as probationary, and his judgment in question….
“Some speculate that Tedros’s decision to appoint Mugabe was a pay-off to China, which worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help Tedros defeat the United Kingdom candidate for the WHO job, David Nabarro. Tedros’s victory was also a victory for Beijing, whose leader Xi Jinping has made public his goal of flexing China’s muscle in the world.”
In July 2018, China Global Television Network (CGTN), a state-owned media outlet, reported that Tedros had met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing. It was Tedros’s second visit to China since he took over as the director general of WHO. CGTN stated:
“The Chinese state councilor [Wang Yi] went on to say that healthcare was an important part of global governance and China’s national development strategy. He said Beijing was willing to deepen cooperation with the WHO under a number of initiatives, such as their joint ‘Health Silk Road’ project, various China-Africa health development plans, as well as the organization’s five-year action plan for health, employment and inclusive economic growth.
“Dr. Tedros welcomed Wang’s comments, saying their enhanced cooperation would improve health standards in countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative.”
As Ethiopia’s foreign minister, Tedros, an executive member of the Marxist-Leninist Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), oversaw a massive expansion of China’s role in Ethiopia. China is Ethiopia’s biggest foreign investor, its largest trading partner and also its largest lender.
Writing for Politico, Simon Marks explained:
“Over the course of the last decade, Ethiopia has become increasingly dependent on Chinese investment.
“The Export-Import Bank of China put up $2.9 billion of the $3.4 billion railway project connecting Ethiopia to Djibouti, providing the landlocked country access to ports. Chinese funds were also instrumental in the construction of Ethiopia’s first six-lane highway — an $800 million project — the metro system, and several skyscrapers dotting Addis Ababa’s skyline.
“Beijing also accounts for nearly half of Ethiopia’s external debt and has lent at least $13.7 billion to Ethiopia between 2000 and 2018, data compiled by John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies shows.”
Ethiopia is now ensnared in a debt trap that leaves the country vulnerable to pressure from Beijing.
On April 15, U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced that he will withhold funding to the WHO while his administration reviews the group’s “mismanagement, cover-ups, and failures” related to the pandemic. The United States is the WHO’s largest donor, providing approximately $900 million for the two-year budget cycle of 2018 and 2019.
In a statement, the White House said that the WHO “has longstanding structural issues that must be addressed before the organization can be trusted again.” It added that the WHO was “vulnerable to misinformation and political influence” and that measures were needed to “counter China’s outsized influence on the organization.”
That same day, members of the U.S. Senate demanded that the WHO provide information, records and documents regarding the origins of the coronavirus as part of a larger investigation into the global response to the pandemic.
In a letter to Tedros, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson and other Republican Senators requested a sweeping list of materials regarding what they called “WHO’s failed and delayed response to the Coronavirus.”
Meanwhile, an online petition calling for Tedros’s immediate resignation nearedone million signatures. The petition, posted on the Change.org website, states: “We strongly think Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is not fit for his role as WHO Director General.”
Several media outlets have published timelines of Chinese efforts to conceal the extent of the coronavirus from the rest of the world (here, here, here and here). Following is an abbreviated timeline of Tedros’s complicity with China:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15901/world-health-organization-cover-ups
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