Made in China is treason to your country. It’s also stupid.

Buying low end electronics that will die in a short time is one thing. Buying ventilators from the scam factory is less of a good idea.

 Senior British doctors have warned that 250 ventilators the United Kingdom bought from China risk causing “significant patient harm, including death,” if they are used in hospitals, according to a letter seen by NBC News.

The doctors said the machines had a problematic oxygen supply, could not be cleaned properly, had an unfamiliar design and a confusing instruction manual, and were built for use in ambulances, not hospitals.

Made in China was the tipoff. 

After spreading a virus that may ultimately kill millions around the world, the Communists have been cashing in, in a big way by selling garbage PPE and ventilators to their victims. The UK appears to have been the hardest hit, buying worthless tests, PPE, and now ventilators from the scam factory.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/05/made-china-ventilators-can-kill-doctors-warn-daniel-greenfield/

5000 people demonstrate for fundamental rights in Stuttgart

“We are the people”

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The fallout from an alleged anti-Israel scandal embroiling Germany’s foreign ministry widened this week with B’nai B’rith International blasting a diplomat for defending an academic who promotes the BDS movement, spreads antisemitism, and trivializes the Holocaust.The Jerusalem Post has exclusively obtained the letter B’nai B’rith sent to German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.

“On behalf of B’nai B’rith International’s more than 100,000 members and supporters in over 40 countries, we write to express our deep dismay at recent tweets by Andreas Görgen, the Ministry’s director for culture and communication. Mr. Görgen has posted multiple times on his official twitter feed in defense of Achille Mbembe, a Holocaust-minimizer and denier of Israel’s right to exist,“ the organization wrote.BDS is an abbreviation for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement targeting the Jewish state. The German Bundestag classified BDS last year as an antisemitic campaign.B’nai B’rith added that “Mbembe has signed an abhorrent BDS petition against scholars from Ben Gurion Univeristy. He has called for the ‘global isolation’ of the Jewish state and has compared apartheid to the Holocaust. Görgen’s pro-Mbembe tweets, meanwhile, include the posting of an article accusing Mbembe’s detractors of conducting a ‘witch hunt’ against him.”The Jewish organization said it “is alarmed that a senior Foreign Ministry official would use his official twitter feed to defend the bigoted pronouncements of a demagogue who engages in the sort of malicious behavior encapsulated in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism, such as the denial of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination. We would expect the Ministry to forcefully denounce Mbembe, rather than defend him.”B’nai B’rith continued “we call on you [Maas] to condemn both the bigotry of Mr. Mbembe and the tweets of Mr. Görgen in Mbembe’s defense. We hope that your Ministry will set an important example in this instance by demonstrating zero-tolerance for antisemitism.”

Maas declined to comment to numerous Post press queries.A spokesperson for the ministry told the Post last week when asked aboutthe topic that ”We ask for your understanding that we won’t comment on the issue mentioned.” The international human rights organization Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Rabbi Abraham Cooper told the Post on Tuesday that the NGO is considering including the senior-level German diplomat  Görgen on its top 10 list of worst outbreaks of antisemitism and anti-Israelism for 2020 due to his support of antisemitic positions.Rabbi Cooper, the associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center, said that “Andreas Görgen would be a candidate, especially because of his rank and the timing his tweets and statement, which were made leading up to Yom Hashoah [Holocaust Remembrance Day].”“It is past due for the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who said he went into politics because of Auschwitz, to start showing in real terms and real life his commitment to fight antisemitism, especially when it rears its head in his Foreign Ministry,” said Cooper.“I am worried sick that for the second year in row we have consider naming a top echelon official of the German government in the top 10. We need the German Government to act swiftly against antisemitism expressed from within its own diplomats and gatekeepers.”Last year, the Simon Wiesenthal included Germany’s ambassador to the UN, Christoph Heusgen, on its top ten list for equating Israel with the terrorist entity Hamas at the UN and voting repeatedly against the Jewish state.Last year, the director of the German Foreign Ministry’s representation for the Palestinian territories, Christian Clages, was revealed to have liked scores of antisemitic tweets while using his government Twitter feed. Clages retained his job. The German paper Bild broke the story about Clages.The Foreign Ministry disciplined Clages for liking neo-Nazi and KKK tweets. Görgen has refused to answer numerous Post media queries.

https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Antisemitism/Bnai-Brith-Intl-slams-German-diplomat-for-defending-pro-BDS-academic-626627

Sweden’s Covid-19 mortality rate is among the 10 highest in the world, at 240 per million population and steadily rising. According to US President Trump, Sweden is “paying heavily” for its decision not to enforce a lock-down.

Sweden has not imposed strict restrictions on its citizens and allowed many businesses, including restaurants and hair salons, and schools to remain open unlike many of its Nordic neighbours.

Sweden’s death rate per 1 million population is significantly higher than Finland, 37, Denmark, 76, and Norway, 38, according to Worldometers, which has been tracking the number of worldwide cases.

“Despite reports to the contrary, Sweden is paying heavily for its decision not to lockdown. As of today, 2462 people have died there, a much higher number than the neighboring countries of Norway (207), Finland (206) or Denmark (443),” the president tweeted on Thursday.

He added: “The United States made the correct decision!” It is not clear why, however, since in New York state 19 nursing homes have reported 20 or more deaths linked to SARS-CoV-2, raising the prospect of hundreds of unattributed deaths in a state where almost 24 000 people have died from the disease alone.

In Scandinavia, Finland declared a state of emergency on March 16 and shut down all schools, restaurants and bars on April 1, while Denmark announced the first round of closures on March 11.

When a group of 22 Swedish scientists published an open letter warning that the country needed drastic measures, the substance of their arguments was ridiculed. Instead critics argued that the data used for the Covid-19 death rate made Sweden look worse than other “cautious” estimates.

One Swedish columnist, Peter Kadhammar, even appeared to believe that information about the pandemic was simply some kind of silly cheerleading public relations exercise. “The Swedes are at least as cool as the British,” he argued. Prime Minister Boris Johnson had only “strived to be an English eccentric” with his failed policy of herd immunity.

“No country cultivates its peculiarities as much the United Kingdom. No country is so proud of its features,” Kadhammar added, suggesting that Sweden follow this ill-fated example. Britain now has Europe’s second-highest Coronavirus death toll.

The fact also remains that Sweden now has six times more deaths per capita than neighbouring Norway or Finland.

Italian newspaper La Repubblica warned too that Swedish doctors would have no choice but to deny respirators to patients over the age of 80, and even those as young as 60 with underlying health conditions. This is sadly now a fact.

Despite Sweden’s paltry record, the World Health Organization has praised Sweden as a “model” for fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

Dr. Mike Ryan, the WHO’s top emergencies expert, said there are “lessons to be learned” from the Scandinavian nation, which has largely relied on citizens to self-regulate. “I think there’s a perception out that Sweden has not put in control measures and just has allowed the disease to spread,” Ryan told reporters. “Nothing can be further from the truth.”

Former chief epidemiologist Johan Giesecke, advisor to the Swedish Government, happens to be an advisor to the director general of the WHO. He hired Anders Tegnell who is currently directing Swedish strategy and is also the first Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

In an interview with The Post, Giesecke said the correct policy was to protect the old and the frail only. He called Covid-19 a “mild disease” and similar to the flu, and it was the novelty of the disease that scared people. It is the reality of the disease that has been scaring people however.

According to Giesecke, the British Imperial College paper arguing for lockdowns was “not very good” and he had never seen an unpublished paper with so much policy impact. The paper was very much too pessimistic, he added.

He later admitted however that the failure to protect the elderly in nursing homes was because “asylum seekers” and “refugees” on the staff were people who “may not always be understanding the information”.

This outrage has been met with silence in Sweden where the health of elderly people has been put at risk for the sake of immigrants.

Giesecke has claimed that the actual fatality rate of Covid-19 is the region of 0,1 percent. But currently the crude case fatality rates are around 6 percent globally.

Fresh serological data could certainly alter the fatality rate among people who have been infected, but as infectious disease experts point out, even a seemingly low rate can translate into a massive death toll if the virus spreads through a major portion of the population.

“I think it is the worst pandemic since 1918,” Cecile Viboud, an epidemiologist at the National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center told the Washington Post. That pandemic claimed an estimated 675 000 lives in the United States.

The New York state rate is 0,5 percent — which is one death per 200 infections. It is a staggering figure, “way more than a usual flu season and I would think way more than the ’57 or 1968 [influenza] pandemic death toll, too,” Viboud said.

The United States alone could potentially count 1 million deaths at this infection rate if half the population became infected.

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The German government, after years of equivocating, has announced what amounts to a partial ban on the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah — Arabic for “The Party of Allah” — in Germany.

The so-called ban — supported by the center-right Christian Democrats and the center-left Social Democrats, the two parties that make up Germany’s ruling coalition, and also by the classical liberal Free Democrats — has been hailed as “important,” “significant,” and “long overdue.”

The ban is in fact a compromise measure between German lawmakers who want to take a harder line against Iran and those who do not. As a result, the ban falls far short of a complete prohibition on Hezbollah and appears aimed at providing the German government with political cover that allows Germany to claim that it has banned the group even if it has not.

On April 30, the German government’s Federal Gazette (Bundesanzeiger) reported that Hezbollah was subject to an activity ban (Betätigungsverbot), but not an organizational ban (Organisationsverbot) — an important legal distinction because the activity ban is weaker than the organizational ban.

The two-page document, which carefully avoids referring to Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, prohibits the group’s logo to be displayed “in public, in meetings or in writings.” In addition, any assets that Hezbollah may have in Germany are to be confiscated.

The ban does not call for Hezbollah mosques or cultural centers to be closed, nor does it require that members of the group be deported. The ban also does not prohibit Hezbollah operatives from travelling to Germany.

After the so-called ban was made public, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer ordered police to carry out raids on four mosques and cultural centers linked to Hezbollah: Berlin’s al-Irschad mosque, two cultural centers in Bremen and Münster, and a Lebanese community group in Dortmund.

Hezbollah, however, is believed to have more than 30 mosques and cultural centers in Germany, where the group is estimated to have upwards of 1,000 operatives, according to German intelligence assessments. It was not immediately clear why German police did not raid all of the mosques and cultural centers linked to Hezbollah.

In any event, the German government effectively gave Hezbollah at least four months to move its assets and operatives out of Germany. The newspaper Die Weltexplained:

“It is still unclear what concrete effects the raids will have…. Berlin SPD politician Tom Schreiber suspects that Hezbollah was prepared for the searches. ‘I assume that an attempt was made to relocate assets and take people out of the country,’ Schreiber told Welt. ‘The question is, what exactly has the ban produced: what assets have been secured, what procedures have been initiated, what further information has been gained about the Hezbollah scene in Germany?'”

On December 19, 2019, the German Parliament, known as the Bundestag, approved a three-page resolution — “Effective Action against Hezbollah” (“Wirksames Vorgehen gegen die Hisbollah”) — that called on the German government to ban the activities of Hezbollah on German territory.

According to the Bundestag, a complete ban of Hezbollah is impossible because the group’s structures in Germany are “not currently ascertainable.” The Bundestag’s statement in the original German states:

“Hezbollah-related association structures, which could justify an organizational ban, are not currently ascertainable.” (“Der Hisbollah zuzurechnende Vereinsstrukturen, die ein vereinsrechtliches Organisationsverbot begründen könnten, seien derzeit jedoch nicht feststellbar.”)

The Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Thorsten Frei, stated:

“Hezbollah-related association structures, which could justify an organizational ban (vereinsrechtliches Organisationsverbot), are not ascertainable, despite efforts by the federal government since 2008. An organizational ban is therefore not an option due to the lack of a verifiable domestic organizational structure. However, we are free to pursue an activity ban (Betätigungsverbot) that we have also applied to other terrorist organizations that lack a demonstrable domestic organizational structure.”

It is utterly implausible that Germany, one of the wealthiest and most technologically advanced countries in Europe, is unable to ascertain the organizational structure of Hezbollah within its own borders. More plausible is that Germany wants to project a public appearance of cracking down on Hezbollah while maintaining direct access to its leadership.

The idea to ban Hezbollah in its entirety originated with Germany’s conservative party, Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD), the third-largest party in the German parliament. The AfD has not been pleased with the partial ban. Addressing the German parliament on December 19, when the Bundestag called on the German government partially to ban Hezbollah, the deputy chairwoman of the AfD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, Beatrix von Storch, explained:

“Six months ago, the AfD presented a resolution in the Bundestag to ban Hezbollah, a resolution which you vehemently rejected and which, since then, you have blocked in caucus. Now, six months later, you are collectively rushing through the door that we have politically opened. If this would happen with more AfD proposals, Germany would be in a much better place….

“Nevertheless, your resolution has two central weaknesses. The first weakness is that you are asking for only an activity ban (Betätigungsverbot). We want a specific organizational ban (Organisationsverbot). According to the Crime Fighting Law (Verbrechensbekämpfungsgesetz) of 1994, the activity ban is the weaker legal means when compared to an organizational ban. There is no reason in the world why you would fight a terrorist organization with the weaker means and not the stronger. You are making a loud bark, but you are not biting.

“The second fundamental weakness of your resolution is your justification for using the weaker means. You write, and I quote, ‘Hezbollah-related association structures, which could justify an organizational ban (vereinsrechtliches Organisationsverbot), are not ascertainable.’ That is objectively false, as confirmed by the 2017 and 2018 annual reports of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, BfV). The 2018 report states, and I quote, ‘In Germany, Hezbollah followers maintain organizational and ideological cohesion, among other things, in local mosque associations, which are primarily financed by donations.’ Do you even read your own intelligence reports? In case it is too long for you to read, it is located on page 214. Just check it!

“If you do not want to touch Hezbollah’s mosque associations, then this resolution is pure symbolism politics (Symbolpolitik), and symbolism politics cannot continue. What is needed is the complete ban of Hezbollah. Hezbollah’s propaganda and terror financing in Germany must be stopped. The mosque associations that exist must be disbanded, and most importantly, Hezbollah supporters must be deported. This, by the way, is also demanded by the Bundestag’s Anti-Semitism Resolution, which expressly calls for the deportation of supporters of anti-Semitism. If this does not apply to supporters of Hezbollah, which wants to send Jews to the gas chambers, and wants to destroy Israel, then to whom could it apply?”

On April 30, after the German government announced its half-measure against Hezbollah, von Storch said:

“Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has finally pushed through a ban on Hezbollah in Germany, which the Alternative for Germany (AfD) faction has been demanding for a very long time but was blocked in the Bundestag. The AfD welcomes Seehofer’s measures against the Hezbollah terrorist organization, although they are not sufficiently extensive. The AfD continues to demand that the Islamic terrorist organization be completely banned from organizing and we regret that our request in the Bundestag has been rejected. There is no place for Israel haters in Germany.”

The AfD’s Chairman in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag, Petr Bystron, added:

“This step was long overdue. The Federal Government has finally given in to pressure from the AfD parliamentary group. Hezbollah was allowed to do mischief in Germany for far too long: the Al-Quds March in Berlin demanded the destruction of Israel, speakers were allowed to spread their anti-Semitic agitation in Berlin and Hamburg.

“Now further steps must follow: Taxpayer support of anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) organizations close to the SPD, the Greens and the Left, must end, as well as the taxpayer’s funding of the Hezbollah government in Lebanon and the Islamic terrorist regime in Tehran. We will now pay particular attention to the infiltration of German universities and public broadcasting by sympathizers of these terrorist organizations. The ‘ban on activity’ was only the first step. The fight goes on.”

On April 30, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas tweeted:

“Hezbollah denies Israel’s right to exist, threatens violence and terror, and continues massively to upgrade its missile arsenal. In Germany we have to exhaust the rule of law to tackle Hezbollah’s criminal and terrorist activities.”

Maas, however, is one of Europe’s top supporters of Iran, which shares Hezbollah’s visceral hatred of Israel. On March 31, Maas proudly announced that European countries, led by Germany, had circumvented U.S. sanctions on Tehran.

The AfD’s concerns about Germany’s half-measures regarding Hezbollah are justified. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), for instance, has been subject to an “activity ban” in Germany since 1993. Despite the ban, the PKK remains very active in Germany. The group had more than 14,500 members in Germany in 2020, according to German intelligence.

German security expert Stefan Schubert wrote that Germany’s partial ban on Hezbollah reflects a lack of political will to crack down on the group. He also predicted that the ban will likely have only a very small impact on Hezbollah’s activities in Germany:

“Today’s completely late action by the federal government is primarily a symbolic gesture. If the government were really serious about annihilating Hezbollah in Germany, it should have established a special commission and provided the security authorities with financial and human resources to identify and dismantle the group nationwide.”

The most immediate focus of the ban appears aimed at ending the annual anti-Israel Quds Day (Jerusalem Day) rally, originally scheduled to be held in Berlin on May 22, the last Friday of Ramadan. The annual rallies, held in cities around the world, are often attended by Hezbollah operatives and sympathizers waving the yellow Hezbollah flag and shouting anti-Israel slogans. After the German government announced its ban on Hezbollah, the organizers of this year’s rally in Berlin decided to cancel the event.

Worldwide, Britain, Canada, Israel, the Netherlands, the United States, the 22-member Arab League, the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council as well as Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Paraguay have banned Hezbollah in its entirety.

The European Union, however, has resisted pressure to outlaw all of Hezbollah. European officials, who make an artificial distinction between Hezbollah’s military and political wing, regularly claim that a total ban might destabilize Lebanon’s political system, which is now dominated by the terrorist group. Others are worried that a complete ban of Hezbollah could hinder political and diplomatic efforts to salvage the now-defunct 2015 nuclear accord with Iran.

The European Union reluctantly banned Hezbollah’s “military wing” in July 2013, after the group was implicated in the July 2012 bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Burgas, Bulgaria. Five Israelis were killed in the attack.

Hezbollah officials, however, have repeatedly affirmed that the group operates as a single organization with a unified system of command and control. In a July 2013 interview with the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, conducted immediately after the EU announced its partial ban on Hezbollah, the group’s spokesman, Ibrahim Mussawi, said:

“Hezbollah is a single large organization, we have no wings that are separate from one another. What’s being said in Brussels doesn’t exist for us.”

Hezbollah’s deputy secretary general, Naim Qassem, repeated that the group is structurally unified:

“We don’t have a military wing and a political one; we don’t have Hezbollah on one hand and the resistance party on the other…. Every element of Hezbollah, from commanders to members as well as our various capabilities, is in the service of the resistance, and we have nothing but the resistance as a priority.”

Qassem, in an interview with the Lebanese newspaper Al-Mustaqbal, said:

“Hezbollah has one single leadership, and its name is the Decision-Making Shura Council. It manages the political activity, the jihad activity, the cultural and the social activities. Hezbollah’s Secretary General is the head of the Shura Council and also the head of the Jihad Council, and this means that we have one leadership, with one administration.”

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15964/germany-hezbollah-partial-ban

A woman who was sexually abused by Pakistani grooming gang members is now receiving racist abuse from “far-left groups” for speaking out online.

Speaking under the pseudonym “Ella”, the woman revealed that she was called “a white s**g, a white c***, a white whore, a white b***h and a f****** gori which is their name for a white person” by her abusers, who raped her more than 100 times in Yorkshire, Northern England.

“We need to understand racially and religiously aggravated crime if we are going to prevent it and protect people from it and if we are going to prosecute correctly for it,” she told YorkshireLive.

“Prevention, protection and prosecution — all of them are being hindered because we are neglecting to properly address the religious and racist aspects of grooming gang crimes.

“It’s telling them that it’s OK to hate white people.”

Police, prosecutors, and judges have indeed actively resisted treating grooming gang crimes — perpetrated overwhelmingly by Muslim, usually South Asian origin men, against non-Muslim, usually white working-class girls — as racist, and have even backed handing harsher punishments to people who have abused Asian girls and explained that the “shame” they experience makes victimising them more serious than victimising white girls.

Ella’s attempts to highlight the racial and religious aspects of her abuse saw her receive “a lot of abuse from far-left extremists, and radical feminist academics,” however.

“[They] go online and they try to resist anyone they consider to be a Nazi, racist, fascist or white supremacist,” she explained.

“They don’t care about anti-white racism, because they appear to believe that it doesn’t exist.”

One of the tweets Ella received referred to a “white virus” and described its “carriers” as “hideously selfish, hideously inferior and hideously white”, adding that “the malice and ugliness of these ‘people’” should not be underestimated.

On reporting the tweet, however, she was shocked to be told by the social media giant that it did “not breach any of Twitter’s community guidelines.”

“Twitter is creating an environment where hatred towards whites is ‘normalised’, and this leads to even more anti-Western attacks, like the ones against me and hundreds of other girls in Rotherham,” she said.

“It’s telling them that it’s OK to hate white people, and that’s fundamentally wrong.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/02/white-grooming-gang-victim-racially-abused-far-left-groups-online/