With tens of thousands of migrants amassed on the Turkish-Greek border, Greece is now accusing its eastern neighbor of not only encouraging migrants from the Middle East to breach the border, but helping them to do so, according to a report from Magyar Nemzet. 

On Sunday, the Greek government published a night vision video showing a Turkish Hizir 4×4 tactical armored vehicle tearing down a portion of the Greek border fence last night, allowing illegal immigrants to invade Greece.

Turkey received the vehicles last year in a program with 75 percent European Union funding, which shows that the EU’s own equipment provided to Turkey is now being used to violate its own external. 

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says the EU-Turkey migration deal is dead. In an interview with CNN, he said Turkey has “decided to completely violate the agreement because of what happened in Syria”.

“What we’re dealing with is not really a migration or refugee problem,” Mitsotakis said in the CNN interview. “It’s a conscious attempt by Turkey to use migrants and refugees as geopolitical pawns to promote its own interest.”

Additionally, Mitsotakis also accused Turkey of spreading false news about the events at the border and pointed out that those who are crossing are not Syrians fleeing as a result of the violence in Idlib.

A report from Reuters offers strong evidence in support of Mitsotakis, which indicates that the vast majority of migrants at the Greek-Turkish borders are not from countries that are considered unsafe.

According to Reuters, Afghans and Pakistanis vastly outnumber Syrians who fled the country over its civil war, and migrants interviewed that the border even said that many migrants are actually seeking to enter Europe for economic reasons and pretending to be Syrian refugees to do it.

“It makes me angry when I meet people from Morocco, Pakistan and even Afghanistan,” 20-year-old Yehya Rais from Aleppo told Reuters. “If only two to three thousand Syrians were here, maybe Greece would open the border. They know we are genuine refugees.”

Mitsotakis defended Greece’s actions, saying that his country is merely defending its sovereign borders.

The Greek prime minister accused Turkey of encouraging people to cross to Greece illegally and said “Europe is not going to be blackmailed,” a fact Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will have to recognize.

Most Greeks support Greece’s tough border stance, with a poll indicating that 76 percent of Greekssupport the conservative government’s response to the border crisis, according to Prome Thema.

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Three inmates died during a riot that broke out over the coronavirus at a prison in Modena, Italy, on Sunday afternoon. In Pavia, Italy, two prison guards were taken hostage and beaten during a separate revolt at another prison.

Italian prisoners angered over visitation limits due to Italy’s new rules regarding the coronavirus — as well as fear of what is transpiring on the outside due to the virus, and the fear of possibly becoming infected — have resulted in prison riots, according to a report by La Repubblica.

The report added that three prisoners were left dead at Modena prison on Sunday afternoon, while two prison guards at a penitentiary in Pavia, Italy, were taken hostage and beaten by inmates during a very intense riot in which prisoners had stolen cell keys from guards and freed dozens of fellow inmates.

Protests also occurred at prisons in Salerno, Naples, Frosinone, Vercelli, Alessandria, Palermo, Bari, and Foggia.

In Modena, a cloud of thick black smoke could be seen rising from the prison, as inmates had ignited a fire in an attempt to escape, reports Il Resto del Carlino. Meanwhile, agents in riot gear were deployed while a police helicopter flew overhead.

Outside the Neapolitan prison of Poggioreale, relatives of the prisoners blocked traffic in protest, as they asked for pardon, amnesty, or house arrest for their inmates.

A video of the incident was tweeted out by Italian senator and former deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini on Sunday.

“Very serious situation,” said Salvini, who leads the right-populist League. “It is necessary to contain the escalation by giving emergency powers to the department commanders.”

Meanwhile, inmates inside the prison protested by barricading themselves as they called for measures to be taken to prevent their risk of becoming infected with the coronavirus. Two officers suffered minor injuries during the incident.

In a similar situation at a prison in Bari, a group of prisoners’ relatives reportedly protested the provisions being taken to deal with the coronavirus, which includes limitations on visits with prisoners, according to La Repubblica.

While the prisoners’ relatives — roughly 30 women — protested outside, inmates set fire to handkerchiefs that they waved between the bars of the windows.

As prison riots spring up throughout Italy, the nation has surpassed South Korea in confirmed coronavirus cases, making Italy the most heavily infected country in the world after China.

As of Sunday, the total confirmed cases of Chinese coronavirus have risen from 5,883 to 7,375, with the death toll surging 57 per cent in just 24 hours.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/09/three-italian-inmates-die-during-prison-riot-coronavirus-officers-hostage-beaten/

By Giulio Meotti

We are at this point, we have to decide who will live and who will die, who will be cured and who will not. The doctors of the Italian Society of Anaesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (Siaarti) have written in a document that, in the face of the current epidemic and in the event of further worsening, the sacrifice of dozens of people will be inevitable due to their age and fragility.

We read: “It may be necessary to set an age limit when entering the intensive care unit. It is not a question of making purely valuable choices, but of reserving resources that may be very scarce for those who are more likely to survive and secondly for those who may have more years of life saved, with a view to maximizing the benefits for the greatest number of people”.

Read these words again. Then read them again. And do it again. And you will understand the potential tragedy Italy is facing. Civilization is regressing.

Two days ago, the bulletin confirmed the most tragic event since the beginning of this national delirium due to coronavirus, because in one day, 1,247 people were infected, making a total of 5,883.

That’s 233 dead. Another 567 people are in intensive care, 1,843 in isolation.

But perhaps the most tragic fact is that Lombardy (the region with the best health care in Italy and now under quarantine) is saturated and will begin to send its sick to other regions. “In the absence of timely and adequate provisions by the Authorities we will be forced to face an event that we can only qualify as a catastrophic health disaster.” This is written by the Coordination of Intensive Therapies of Lombardy.

We have made unforgivable mistakes and one day we will be judged for them: not having checked for the virus and closed the gates as much as we could when it was possible, to find ourselves today in the situation other European countries are in, having turned “the worst epidemic of the century” (quoting Bibi Netanyahu) into a democratic and racist threat and more.

Italy whistled, hummed and smiled, instead of building a basis for public opinion that is then ready if and when the threat knocks on the door.

This epidemic has detonated all of Italy’s weaknesses, as if we were a soggy tree, as if everything that is “public” has failed and is now overwhelming the private economic fabric that has always kept us alive and functioning in the north.

In these hours, the families, this foundational institution of mankind, mistreated, ignored, denigrated and harassed by decades of malapolitics and leftist ideology, are explaining to their own, I to my children, my friends to their children, why they cannot go to school.

A country that observes its own decay. They’ve left us exposed. They didn’t protect us. The health care workers, doctors, paramedics are doing a decisive job and getting sick themselves in droves.

We’re in full physical decay, too. I can just hope and pray this will pass soon. Or hundreds of Italians will die and there will be no country to rebuild. 

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/25338

The German Left Party, which opposed last year’s anti-BDS Bundestag resolution, held a conference last week in the city of Kassel in which calls to shoot wealthy Germans and impose forced labor on them were discussed.A Left Party attendee named Sandra L.  explained what needed to be done post-revolution after “we have shot the one percent of the richest.”

The head of Left Party, Bernd Riexinger, responded that, “We don’t shoot them, we use them for useful work.” Forced labor was one of the  extermination methods used by the Nazis and their collaborators to murder European Jews during the Holocaust.Writing in the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel on Saturday, the columnist Harald Martenstein wrote that, “Almost at the same time as the shooting debate, eight left-wing politicians filed a criminal complaint against [Chancellor] Angela Merkel for ‘aiding and abetting the murder ’of the Iranian terrorist general Soleimani and that Germany had supported the murder. At least Israel haters don’t have to be afraid of the Left.”Riexinger chalked up his comment about forced labour to “irony.”The Left Party has played a role in boosting trade with Iran’s regime. The Jerusalem Post reported lasted year that the former trade union leader and Left Party MP Klaus Ernst took part in a September conference to circumvent US sanctions targeting Iran’s regime. The Anti-Defamation League said the Islamic Republic of Iran is the top state-sponsor of antisemitism and Holocaust denial.Last year, the Left Party opposed a Bundestag resolution declaring the BDS campaign targeting Israel as antisemitic. The Left Party also rejected banning the terrorist entity Hezbollah in Germany.

Critics view the German Left party, along with the British Labour Party on former Prime Minister candidate Jeremy Corbyn’s watch, as the two largest anti-Israel parties in Western Europe.The Post reported last month that Christine Buchholz, a Left Party Bundestag deputy, is on the advisory board of the pro-BDS German-Palestinian Society. Buchholz has defended Hezbollah and Hamas terrorism against Israel as a justified form of “resistance.”German Jews and NGOs urged all Bundestag MPs on the board of the the German-Palestinian Society (GPS) to resign.Green Party MP Omid Nouripour “of course, should resign,” the organization Munich Citizens against Antisemitism told the Post.The Free Democratic Party politician Olaf in der Beek, said he will resign from the pro-Palestinian group if it does not reject the BDS campaign. The GPS doubled-down on its support of BDS in a letter to FDP politicians.GPS joined the international BDS campaign against the Jewish state in 2015 and campaigned against the anti-BDS resolution initiated by Olaf in der Beek’s party.

https://www.jpost.com/International/Anti-Israel-party-in-Germany-discusses-shooting-rich-people-forced-labour-620288

Ten masked men attacked a shisha bar in Saarlouis last night. One man was attacking random people with a knife! A firearm was also fired. Only four of the ten perpetrators (all between 20-30 years old) could be arrested. Several injured people were taken to hospital for outpatient treatment.

Shisha bars are a hot spot for criminals all over Germany and are mainly frequented by the Turkish-Arab community.

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By Jonathon Moseley

Is Planet Earth warming, cooling, or staying the same?  I often challenge advocates for climate alarmism: what is the temperature of the planet today?  Or we can use any specific day in recent years for which data are available. We cannot know the temperature of the planet thousands or millions of years ago if we cannot even measure it today.

Yes, the question is one single temperature of the entire planet.  Not the temperature in Nome, Alaska or Dallas, Texas, or Sydney, Australia or in your home town.  One single temperature reading for the entire globe.  To put it that way immediately sounds strange.

But if we don’t have a single temperature reading for the entire planet for today, how can we say if the planet is getting warmer or cooler or not changing at all?  We cannot talk about the temperature in, say, Geneva or London or New York City only.  The question is whether the entire planet is getting warmer, not isolated cities.

Some of us have forgotten basic statistics. Some avoided it in school.  But most of us are vaguely familiar with the random sampling process used in public opinion surveys.  We see opinion polls in the news all the time.  If we want to know how the USA’s estimated 153 million registered voters are going to vote on Election Day, but we don’t want to actually ask all 153 million of them, we have to follow (not violate) strict statistical methodologies for taking samples that are smaller than the entire “universe” or total population.

So if we ask 1,000 people — the same 1,000 people every year — whom they are planning to vote for, the results will be meaningless hogwash.  To be statistically valid, the sample must be random.  Each time.  Not a random sample one time that is repeated year after year.  Each sample subset must be truly, honestly random.  No games.  No phony adjustments.  Every time.  (It might be interesting to follow a subset over time to investigate why people decide whom to vote for.  But that cannot be used to predict the entire population.)

We also know that when people actually vote, the survey predictions are almost always wrong.  For one thing, when we survey people, we are not measuring how they are going to vote.  We are sampling what they are telling us, which is not the same thing.

The Earth is 196.9 million square miles of surface area.  It is a sphere 24,901 miles in circumference.  The vast majority of the Earth is ocean, and in particular vast, mostly untraveled waters like the Pacific and Southern Atlantic and the Arctic Sea.  The Earth is just unimaginably, stupendously big.  Most of planet Earth never sees any human presence, much less a weather station.

Another fatal flaw in climate alarmism is the failure to understand that air moves.  Air is made of gases, which by definition are not fixed in place or shape, but flow freely.  Alarmists try to evoke the image of carbon dioxide as like a blanket.  But carbon dioxide is not nailed in place.  It is free to move.  When warmed, all gases move upward towards outer space.  Convection transports heat from the surface up to the thin air, where jet airplanes cruise.  Heat is radiated from there out into space.

Air masses travel horizontally across the Earth.  Remember the polar vortex?  Extremely cold air sitting over the Arctic Circle is sometimes dislodged by air currents and moved south into Canada or even the northern United States.  The weather gets extremely cold.

But the Earth did not change.  Very cold air simply moved from one place to another.  The Earth is still the same temperature.  The Arctic got warmer, while North America got colder.  The air moved.  But overall, the Earth did not change.

Probably all of us have experienced, as this author has watched, the temperature drop 10 to 20 degrees within hours as a strong cold front moves in.  Even in the Bahamas, I have watched the temperature drop from the 90s to the 70s in only three or four hours.  For some reason, cold fronts when arriving are typically more violent and abrupt than a return to warmer weather.

Because the air is in constant motion, even a truly random sample of Earth’s 196.9 million square miles of surface area would have to be taken on the same day at the same time of day.  Note that even in one location, the swing from daytime temperatures to overnight temperatures can be a 20- to 40-degree swing on the same day.

So why can’t we just measure certain cities and average their changes?  Because we are measuring weather, not climate.  Unless we measure the entire Earth we are just measuring air masses moving around, changing temperatures.

We are told scientists have adjusted for these concerns (in some mysterious magic way).  But actual rocket scientists accidentally crashed a lander into the planet Mars due to a mathematics mistake.  So forgive us if we would just like to look over their math.

The reader can find attempts to measure the Earth’s one single temperature.  For example, Carbon Brief’s “Explainer: How do scientists measure global temperature?” offers mental gymnastics.  The hand is quicker than the eye.  One with a science education, not indoctrinated, will blow a gasket at the house of cards.

To measure the Earth’s surface area of 196.9 million square miles, there are about 10,000 weather stations on the planet, plus about 2,000 ships, airplanes, and ocean buoys.  Remember: Those stations were designed to measure local weather, not the planet.

The alarmists explain: “The temperature at each land and ocean station is compared daily to what is ‘normal’ for that location and time, typically the long-term average over a 30-year period.”  But there is no normal.  Local anomalies are driven by weather patterns, such as El Niño and the Polar Vortex.  Many weather stations are at airports for good reason.  But aviation has changed over time from occasional propeller planes to jet airplanes every few minutes.  The expansion of cities causes the heat island effect to artificially raise temperatures at airports no longer out in the countryside.

So “[d]aily anomalies are averaged together over a whole month.  These are, in turn, used to work out temperature anomalies from season-to-season and year-to-year.”  This is nonsense.  Then: “After working out the annual temperature anomalies for each land or ocean station, the next job for scientists is to divide the earth up into grid boxes.”

NASA, they say, divides the world up into boxes of 2 degrees longitude by 2 degrees latitude.  That is a gigantic area — over 19,000 square miles — with enormous temperature variations within that box.  The other measurement schemes are 5 degrees by 5 degrees or over 119,000 square miles each.  There is vastly different weather occurring within each 119,000-square-mile box.  Again, there are only 12,000 weather stations, including part-time ones on mobile craft for the entire planet, unevenly focused too much on the “First World.”

From the time the thermometer was invented with a scientifically valid scale comparable from one thermometer to another around 1850, other than use as a novelty or hobbyist’s toy, and meticulous records started (every day, the same time of day), measurements were concentrated in Northwestern Europe and the Northeastern United States.  Gradually, decade by decade, driven largely by the rise of air strips in World War I, the locations, geographic diversity, quantity, and quality of weather stations changed over time.  So even the temperature records we have are not comparable across decades.

In short, you can claim to be able to measure the world’s temperature.  But if you want to really do it — good luck.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/what_is_earths_temperature_now_or_then.html

Despite the political fallout and social turmoil that 2015’s migrant crisis brought to Germany, key politicians from Chancellor Angela Merke’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) believe Germany should accept more migrants, with one potential CDU leader even praising Merkel’s 2015 open borders policy. Schleswig-Holstein CDU Prime Minister Daniel Gunther said Germany should accept underage migrants, telling a German broadcaster, “The situation in the border area between Turkey and Greece has worsened dramatically since the weekend. In the past, Schleswig-Holstein has declared its willingness to help people in need and to participate in quota solutions that the German government negotiates with its European partners. We should set an example here.” Armin Laschet, who is now in the running to become the next leader of the CDU, also answered a question about how he found Merkel’s handling of the refugee crisis in 2015. “I thought it was right. And Markus Söder and the CSU and Horst Seehofer now think so too,” he said in reply. Seehofer, Germay’s interior minister and a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the sister party of the CDU, said even before the current crisis at the Greek-Turkish border that Germany should start accepting one in four migrantswho journey to Europe, which cemented his credentials as a “refugee savior”, according to Euractiv. Seehofer was previously known for strong opposition to migration, with his changed position celebrated by Germany’s liberal media.
 Now, with the Greek-Turkish border crisis, Seehofer is delivering mixed signals, saying he supports Greece at the border but still wants to take in some refugees.
 “I said very clearly today in the group that the borders of Europe are not open to these refugees from Turkey and that also applies to our border,” said Seehofer on Tuesday last week. According to participants at a CDU meeting, he said, “We need to get this issue under control, otherwise we have 2015 plus.” At the same time, Seehofer publically said that the German government open to joining a “coalition of the willing” that would take in 5,000 minors from Greek migrant camps.

Other major CDU politicians have gone even further than calling for more migrants by actually defending Turksih President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for his decision to “open the door” to thousands of migrants. Norbert Röttgen, who, like Laschet, is preparing to run for as the next CDU leader, said that the behavior of Erdoğan is a “cry for help”. He went on to explain that Erdoğan’s actions should not be considered a provocation but instead a call to “provide additional money and additional help” to Turkey for the care of refugees. Others in the CDU take a different stance, with senior party member Friedrich Merz warning the migrants this week, “There is no point in coming to Germany. We cannot accept you here.” Merz is also thought to be in the running for CDU’s leadership position after nearly winning the spot in 2018.

The CDU’s executive director, Michael Grosse-Brömer, also criticized calls for Germany to admit 5,000 child refugees, saying, “If we admit 5,000, an additional 50,000 will make their way. Don’t raise false hopes!”

If the anti-immigration wing of the CDU further loses control of the party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is expected to pick up more voters if migration accelerates.

“The cynical blackmail by the Turkish leader Erdoğan confirms all our warnings. The German chancellor’s so-called Turkey deal is not only dead, it was a fatal political mistake right from the start… Erdoğan can now ruthlessly use migration as a weapon against the Europeans,” said Alexander Gauland, AfD’s party in parliament.

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By Monica Showalter

Less than a week after Denver city councilwoman Candi CdeBaca touted spreading coronavirus at Trump rallies to kill them all off, another leftist has stepped up to the plate, calling for the spread of coronavirus to kill off old people, who are statistically more likely to be climate skeptics.

According to Marc Morano’s Climate Depot, citing a Liberty Sentinel staff report:

In a column headlined “Coronavirus can trigger a new industrial revolution,” writer Ed Conway sounds positively ghoulish.

“Don’t take this the wrong way but if you were a young, hardline environmentalist looking for the ultimate weapon against climate change, you could hardly design anything better than coronavirus,” the sicko wrote.

“Unlike most other such diseases, it kills mostly the old who, let’s face it, are more likely to be climate sceptics,” he added.

Conway also touted the economy being on lock down, which he said would reduce the amount of “greenhouse gases” released into the atmosphere.
Of course, human emissions of CO2 make up just a fraction of 1 percent of all the “greenhouse gases” present naturally in the atmosphere.
Conway is an “Economics Editor” for Sky News, a British broadcaster owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., the owner of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. The parent company is a corporate member of the subversive globalist group known as the Council on Foreign Relations.

We haven’t seen any bloodthirstiness about spreading disease to the left, coming from the right. But now we have repeated instances of leftists openly lobbying for killing off their political rivals, in a bloodthirst unseen in American history. They seem to fantasize about it all the time.They’re thinking about literally trying to kill us.

What does this obnoxious threat pattern, unchecked as a virus itself, say about them?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/03/another_one_leftist_cheers_coronavirus_as_a_means_of_getting_rid_of_elderly_climate_skeptics.html