Since the birth of the European Union, there has been an intense debate about the possibility of creating a two-track Europe, divided between the Mediterranean nations and those of Northern Europe.

Supporters of this solution argue that the differences between these two parts of Europe are irreconcilable, in terms of their lifestyle, in the way society is conceived, and especially in the mentality of citizens. The possibility of division first appeared in Greece during the 2008 crisis, and it now seems to be intensifying with the coronavirus emergency.

Today, the dividing line between north and south has hardened, and is defined by opposing views on how to tackle the spread of the virus.

On one side, the Latin countries of Europe ask to use the so-called “Eurobonds” or “Coronabonds,” a financial instrument with a common European debt linked to the resources that are strictly necessary to face this health emergency. Italy and Spain do not ask to share their ordinary public debt with Germany and the other northern European nations; they only seek to share the resources they need to bear the costs to fight Coronavirus. On the other side, German politicians and the media accuse the south of seeking to finance the crisis response with German money. France stands halfway between these two blocs, even though in practice Macron’s point of view seems to be closer to the southern European countries’ position ... Continue reading >>>

Coronavirus testing in Tanzania

The idea of immunity passports is gaining in popularity among Western governments. But they are fraught with problems, from their implementation to their functionality. Above all, they’re a grave threat to fundamental freedoms.

Ordinary passports may not be much good to many of us for a while, with little possibility of foreign travel. But what if you needed a passport to leave your house and go about your daily life? In a world dominated by coronavirus, immunity passports are increasingly being talked about as a possible path out of lockdown. But what exactly would this path entail?

The basic premise of an immunity passport is to hasten the reopening of society by allowing those who are immune to Covid-19 to move freely, leaving only those who are not immune subject to restrictions. The passport itself might be a paper certificate, such as those that Chile has been issuing, although, in Europe and America, it would more likely appear on your smartphone as an app, code or as digital certification.

The rich are shelling out up to $6mn for ‘pandemic passports’ to flee Covid-19's aftershocks while everyone else is left to suffer The rich are shelling out up to $6mn for ‘pandemic passports’ to flee Covid-19's aftershocks while everyone else is left to suffer

This has been the solution adopted in China. All Chinese people have had to register for a QR code that downloads an app. The app uses a traffic-light system that sorts people into red, yellow or green groups based on their health status and Covid-19 risk level – although how this is determined is not transparent.

Users have to input a range of personal information, including the purpose of their visit to new locations. To stop them circumventing the app, they need to use its QR code to enter certain public buildings and transport. Other East Asian nations, including Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea, have adopted similar systems.

It is doubtful whether this level of surveillance could happen soon in the West – mainly because our governments are incapable of this scale of organization. Outsourcing surveillance to a private corporation, however, might solve that problem. The British government has been consulting technology company Onfido, which specialises in facial biometrics, about immunity passports, which it says may be “possible in months.”

And in the US, Google and Apple have announced that they are teaming up to develop contact-tracing technology based on Bluetooth, which will “help countries around the world slow the spread.” But amid all the excitement, few have stopped to question what good exactly immunity passports are supposed to do ... Continue reading >>>

As our readers know, we've been sceptical about the whole COVID - 19 pandemic from the start, nothing in the official narrative made sense from the dodgy origins of the virus, allegedly in bats sold for fod in a Chinese market, to the conflicting figures for infection and deaths, the possible cures that might work NOW rather than the world having to stay in lockdown intil Bill Gates and his gang of crooks, liars and mad scientists came up with a vaccine that would enable the wannabe Galatic Emperor to inject a chip into all of us, and of course the cures.

How the lefties and progressives mocked and sneered when President Trump, incautiously thinking out loud, wondered if it was possible to disinfect the body from the inside they way we disinfect our hands by washing with soap and water, alcohol wipes and such. He' is telling people to drink bleach, the brainwashed idiots sneered. He was doing no such thing, and yes it is possible to internally disinfect the body, in fact we do it every time we get a penicillin shot or a course of tablets, swallow a spoonful of pink medicine or take some chemical that shifts the Ph balance of our body higher.

And now we learn there is such a substance, known to be effective against other forms of Coronavirus, and Trump's Coronavirus Pandemic Czar has know about it since 2005 but has continued to push Bill Gates' vaccine solution that is years away even if it actually works properly. And let's face it, none of the PC Operating Systems sold by Gates' company have been fit for purpose, so there's no reason to think his vaccines would be any better.

Fauci knew about HCQ in 2005 -- nobody needed to die

Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose “expert” advice to President Trump has resulted in the complete shutdown of the greatest economic engine in world history, has known since 2005 that chloroquine is an effective inhibitor of coronaviruses.

How did he know this? Because of research done by the National Institutes of Health, of which he is the director. In connection with the SARS outbreak - caused by a coronavirus dubbed SARS- CoV - the NIH researched chloroquine and concluded that it was effective at stopping the SARS coronavirus in its tracks. The COVID-19 bug is likewise a coronavirus, labeled SARS-CoV-2. While not exactly the same virus as SARS-CoV-1, it is genetically related to it, and shares 79% of its genome, as the name SARS-CoV-2 implies. They both use the same host cell receptor, which is what viruses use to gain entry to the cell and infect the victim.

The Virology Journal - the official publication of Dr. Fauci’s National Institutes of Health - published what is now a blockbuster article on August 22, 2005, under the heading - get ready for this - “Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread.” (Emphasis mine throughout.) Write the researchers, “We report...that chloroquine has strong antiviral effects on SARS-CoV infection of primate cells. These inhibitory effects are observed when the cells are treated with the drug either before or after exposure to the virus, suggesting both prophylactic and therapeutic advantage.”

This means, of course, that Dr. Fauci (pictured at right) has known for 15 years that chloroquine and it’s even milder derivative hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) will not only treat a current case of coronavirus (“therapeutic”) but prevent future cases ... Continue reading >>>

A LEAKED intelligence dossier from the Western 'Five Eyes' intelligence alliance has fuelled more criticism against China's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, and condemned the "duplicity" and "secrecy" surrounding the virus' origin in Wuhan.

'The number of deaths from coronavirus could reach 100,000 in the UK by the end of this year if a gradual lockdown is implemented just to shield the elderly, Professor Neil Ferguson warned yesterday.

The Imperial College epidemiologist said it was impossible to send the young and healthy back to work while keeping the vulnerable in lockdown without seeing a huge increase in deaths.

The academic - whose previous death toll predictions prompted the PM to lock Britain down - warned that no country has successfully shielded those most at risk from the virus while allowing the least vulnerable to continue as normal.

Professor Ferguson said some degree of social isolation will continue to be required until a vaccine to the killer bug is released, which Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab today said was unlikely to happen until 2021 ... See Ferguson's video for Unherd >>>

Discontented members of the Five Star Movement (M5S) have threatened to pull the plug on the leftist coalition government over their resort to the use of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).

The M5S members have opposed the prospective deal reached by European Union (EU) member states to aid Italy amid the Chinese coronavirus outbreak, which has done massive damage to Italy.

M5S Senator Mario Michele Giarrusso announced his opposition to using the ESM, an EU bailout fund that provides assistance in the form of loans, with EU finance ministers reaching a deal this week to make €240 billion available to combat coronavirus.

“I am saying this clearly: if the government has said yes to the ESM, this majority will no longer have my vote,” Giarrusso said.

He added that he expected other M5S representatives to vote with him or the entire movement could face “a radical re-foundation”, Il Giornale reports.

“If Conte does not keep his word, the M5S will have to pull the plug on this government. Without ifs and without buts!” Giarrusso said. Continue reading >>>

Europe unglues

Authored by Steven Guinness,

It is no revelation that central banks are actively engaged in both the research and piloting of central bank digital currencies. But the mechanics of how they are conducting their programmes is not as widely recognised. This is largely because the information is buried within the pages of mundane reports, speeches and discussion papers. A few headlines might be glossed over in the financial press, but the technical aspects are usually not considered.

In January 2019 the Bank for International Settlements published a paper called, ‘Proceeding with caution – a survey on central bank digital currency‘. I briefly covered the survey in an article published back in September last year. Back then the BIS reported that a majority of banks were engaged in active research on CBDC’s, but none were yet in a position to launch a digital variant of physical money.

The BIS followed this survey up in January 2020 with some new research – ‘Impending arrival – a sequel to the survey on central bank digital currency‘.

We learn that the 70% of central banks that were researching CBDC’s has now risen to 80%, with many of them reliant on ‘research conducted by international organisations (in particular the BIS and the IMF) or regional networks‘. The BIS’s Innovation Hub initiative, established in the summer of 2019, has been key in coordinating the advancement of CBDC’s projects worldwide. This is one of the reasons why banks are operating in step with one another ... Continue reading >>>

People have accused us of being anti - technology, afraid of progress and of envying Bill Gates' wealth and influence, that we are trying to prevent billionaires from helping save the world and other similarly ridiculous allegations. We can only repeat we stand by what we have said, it is all backed up with solid evidence and if people choose to dismiss our factual evidence as 'fake news' they are entitled to their opinion. but perhaps they might change their opinion after reading this:

Bill Gates' Vaccine Crime Record

COVID-19: Killer of Black, Brown and Poor of US and Haiti

Politicians have learned, from Obama’s speechwriters, that when they state a problem accurately while not promising to do anything about it, they leave everyone in the room convinced they’ve said they will address the problem. But nothing ever gets done: not by the overtly xenophobic and racist political party that courts far-right elements at home and abroad, and not by the metrosexual party that says all the right things but embraces the same xenophobic and racist policies on the quiet. Continue reading >>>

Coronavirus lockdown: Cure worse than the disease?

Coronavirus in India (Picture: Deccan Times)

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Boris Johnson's Stand-In Backs Up Trump On China: "We'll Have To Ask Some Hard Questions"

by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge

href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/boris-johnsons-stand-backs-trump-china-well-have-ask-some-hard-questions">Every Buzzfeed-reading lib who immediately dismissed reports about the real provenance of SARS-CoV-2 as just another White House smoke bomb should take note: UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, the man who is Britain's de jure leader while Boris Johnson convalesces, just backed Trump up.

Raab replied to a reporter that the UK and the rest of the global community will need to "ask hard questions about how it came about and how it couldn't have been stopped earlier."

Here is a timely reminder of the scores of fake news outlets that dismissed questions as ‘baseless conspiracy theories’.

by Steve Watson, Summit News,16 April, 2020

Now that numerous virology experts are on record as saying it cannot be dismissed, and multiple government and intelligence sources have confirmed that investigations are underway into the possibility that the coronavirus leaked from an unsafe Wuhan bio-lab and China lied about the true scale of the outbreak, here is a timely reminder of the scores of fake news outlets that for weeks and months dismissed both notions as a ‘baseless conspiracy theories’ .

Remember, these sources (this is only a small selection of what is out there), to a varying degree in their dismissals, effectively bolstered Chinese state media and government insistences that questions over the safety of the lab were ‘dangerous’ ... Continue reading >>>

Lockdown: UK Economy Could Shrink 35% This Quarter, World Facing New Great Depression

We'll be posting the usual off - mainstream news updates later but the priority today is our need for something to make us smile.

Most of us are confused about the rules we're supposed to follow during lockdown, and no one more so that the thick, blundering plod who seem to think they should be arresting people for buying non essential stuff like food, roughing up people who are sitting in their gardens, or kicking fron doors down and busting up illicit social gatherings of one person sitting alone in his house.

So here, courtesy of my Texan friend Vic Damico, is a concise summary of the rules, which makes what you can and can't do clear as mud (slightly edited for UK readers.)

The Lockdown Rules:

1. Basically, you can't leave the house for any reason, but if you have to leave for some reasons, then you can.

2. Masks are useless, but maybe you have to wear one, it can save your life but it is useless, but maybe it is mandatory as well.

3. Shops are closed, except for those that are open. which cannot accept cash. Also you cannot use your debit / credit card with your pin because PIN numbers spread the vaccine so if you are one of those smart arses who disabled their contactless feature to stop government agencies and Silicon Valley tech billionaires tracking you, you're fucked.

4. You should not go to hospitals unless you have to go there. Same applies to doctors, you should only go there in case of emergency, provided you are not too sick.

5. This virus is deadly but still not too scary, except that if we don't follow the rules it will actually lead to a global disaster.

6. Gloves won't help, but they can still help.

7. Everyone needs to stay HOME, but it's important to GO OUT but if you go out you might be arrested but you might be arrested at home for hosting a social gathering while alone.

8. There is no shortage of groceries in the supermarket, but there are many things missing when you go there in the evening, but not in the morning. Sometimes.

9. The virus has no effect on children except for those it affects.

10. Animals are not affected, but there is still a cat that tested positive in Belgium in February when no one had been tested, plus a few tigers here and there…

11. You will have many symptoms when you are sick, but you can also get sick without symptoms, have symptoms without being sick, or be contagious without having symptoms.

12. In order not to get sick, you have to eat well and exercise, but eat whatever you have on hand and it's better not to go out, well, but no…

13. It's better to get some fresh air, but you get looked at very wrong when you get some fresh air, and most importantly, you don't go to parks or walk. But don’t sit down, except that you can do that now if you are old, but not for too long or if you are pregnant but also old or male).

14. You can't go to retirement homes, but you have to take care of the elderly and bring food and medication.

15. If you are sick, you can't go out, but you can go to the pharmacy.

16. You can get restaurant food delivered to the house, which may have been prepared by people who didn't wear masks or gloves. But you have to have your groceries decontaminated outside for 3 hours. Pizza too.

17. Every disturbing article or scaremongering interview must start with " I don't want to trigger panic, but…"

18. You can't see your older mother or grandmother, but you can take a taxi and meet an older taxi driver.

19. You can walk around with a friend but not with your family if they don't live under the same roof.

20. You are safe if you maintain the appropriate social distance, but you can’t go out with friends or strangers at the safe social distance.

21. The virus remains active on different surfaces for two hours, no, four, no, six, no, we didn't say hours, maybe days? But it takes a damp environment. Oh no, not necessarily.

22. The virus stays in the air - well no, or yes, maybe, especially in a closed room, in one hour a sick person can infect ten, so if it falls, all our children were already infected at school before it was closed. But remember, if you stay at the recommended social distance, however in certain circumstances you should maintain a greater distance, which, studies show, the virus can sometimes travel, maybe.

23. We count the number of deaths but we don't know how many people are infected as we have only tested so far those who were "almost dead" to find out if that's what they will die of but for everyone who dies, death will be recorded as coronavirus related because nobody wants to trigger panoc but you have to be scared enough to follow the rules.

24. We have no treatment, except that there may be one that apparently is not dangerous unless you take too much (which is the case with ALL medications).

25. We should stay locked up until the virus disappears or until Bill Gates has implanted a microchip in your body developed a vaccine, but it will only disappear if we achieve collective immunity, so when it circulates again we will have to stay locked up in out homes forever and Bill Gates' microchip will report us to the authorities if we don't

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#FireFauci Should Be The Rallying Cry For A Generation

Police State: British Cops Call For the Right to Invade Private Homes to Bust up Gatherings

Kurt Zindulka for Breitbart Europe

15 Apr 2020

British police are calling for expanded powers to enforce the coronavirus lockdown rules, including the authority to forcefully enter private residences suspected of hosting forbidden gatherings.

Under the current law, the police only have the right to enter a private residence with a warrant, or with the permission of its occupant, or in active pursuit of a suspected criminal, or to investigate a disturbance, or if they hear cries for help. However, the Police Federation of England and Wales is seeking draconian unprecedented powers from the government to allow them to enter citizens’ homes without a warrant to stop suspected house parties during the coronavirus pandemic. “We have asked they consider giving us powers around private gatherings or gatherings in a private dwelling. We have no right to enter a property and say: stop having a party,” a police federation source told The Telegraph. “Some officers are having to work round it using other legislation that wasn’t designed for it,” the source added. Law enforcement offices across the country have been flooded with reports of house parties from neighbours, with Greater Manchester Police disclosing that they received 494 reports from residents of suspected parties during the first week of the national lockdown.

A British police force has set up a website for the public to inform on people suspected of breaking the national lockdown rules. https://t.co/5IhfjNPtzd

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) March 30, 2020

Home Secretary Priti Patel is expected to block the request for warrantless searches of households. Ms Patel has called on police to refrain from adopting a “heavy-handed” approach to enforcing the lockdown ... Continue reading >>> Death Of Democracy

Coronavirus deaths: Are The Authorities Deceiving Us? Didn't I tell you in my headline a couple of days ago this crisis is getting political? Here's another aspect of how our liberties are being cancelled

COVID-19 and the War on Cash: What Is Behind the Push for a Cashless Society?

John Whitehead, 15 April 2020

Cash may well become a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. As these COVID-19 lockdowns drag out, more and more individuals and businesses are going cashless (for convenience and in a so-called effort to avoid spreading coronavirus germs), engaging in online commerce or using digital forms of currency (bank cards, digital wallets, etc.). As a result, physical cash is no longer king. Yet there are other, more devious, reasons for this re-engineering of society away from physical cash: a cashless society—easily monitored, controlled, manipulated, weaponized and locked down—would play right into the hands of the government (and its corporate partners). To this end, the government and its corporate partners-in-crime have been waging a subtle war on cash for some time now. What is this war on cash? ... Continue reading >>>

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Pandemic? What pandemic? UK Hospital Beds Four Times Emptier Than Usual

Paul Joseph Watson for Summit News, 15 April 2020 Despite the coronavirus outbreak, NHS hospital beds in the UK are four times emptier than normal and a newly built hospital in the north-east of England may now never be used. “Tens of thousands of NHS hospital beds remain unoccupied amid the coronavirus crisis — about four times the normal number — due to huge ongoing efforts to free up space, and a slowdown in admissions from other causes,” reports HSJ. Continue reading >>>

Don’t trust Apple or Google with coronavirus data, says German app developer

UK Spy Agencies Predict More Assertive China Post-Coronavirus

NO-LOCKDOWN Sweden records just SEVENTEEN new deaths 'from coronavirus' as new infections plummet to only 466 cases

Journalist Gets Knock From Old Bill After He Reported Mosques Flouting Lockdown Law

It has taken rather longer than we expected, but the ruling left wing coalition in Italy is on the brink of collapse after members of the Eurosceptic centre - left Five Star Movement threatened to withdraw support from the government coalition led by Guiseppe Conte of Europhile group The Democratic Party. It was always expected that the Italian leftist coalition would collapse as soon as EU fanatic and federralist Conte tried to implement measures seen as involving the surrender of more national sovereignty to Brussels. Conte's proposal involves accepting loans from the European Union via the European Central Bank (ECB) to finance the massive welfare and business support costs Italy will face due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic. Matteo Salvini, leader of the Eurosceptic, anti - open borders party, Lega (League) is strongly opposed to the aid package.

Five Star Movement, (M5S) members are opposed to Prime Minister Conte’s proposal to accept funds from the EU’s European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The proposal, which was negotiated by the Finance Ministers of EU member states would set up a fund of 240 billion euros to be available as loans available to member states, according to a report in Il Giornale, one of Italy's leading newspapers. Conte previously promised that he would never accept a loan from the ESM, however.

If Five Star, (M5S,) or just a few of their representatives were to withdraw from the ruling coalition, it would destroy the coalitions wafer thin majority in the Italian parliament and force new elections which would amost certainly return Salvini’s Lega to government, as it currently leads by a country mile in opinion polls. Lega was previously the majority partner in a Eurosceptic coalition with M5S and was set gain an overall majority when that coalition collapsed because M5S favoured a softer line on imigration, but the EU blocked elections and cobbled together the current left wing coalition, the main prtners of which have little in common politically or philosophically.

Senator Mario Michele Giarrusso of M5S made his opposition to Conte's plan quite plain when he said he expected other party representatives to join him in opposing the bill, which could lead M5S splitting into pro - coalition and anti EU factions. “If Conte does not keep his word, the M5S will have to pull the plug on this government,” Giarrusso said on Friday.

M5S’s leader Vito Crimi, assured Giarrusso that both he and Conte prefer the idea of having the EU issue so-called “Corona bonds,” which would share the coronavirus debt burden among all EU member states, rather than activating the ESM. The idea of such bonds is being resisted by financially solvent member states such as Germany and the Netherlands.

Salvini also expressed opposition to the proposed loans, claiming that ordinary Italians would not benefit from the money, another Il Giornale story claims. Salvini's party is aligned with Forza Italia, the party led by Senator and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on this issue, as both have said that they would reject the ESM proposal. Should an M5s schism lead to elections the far right group brothers of Italy are also expected to gain ground. Salvini warned last month that unless a minimum of 100 billion euros are distributed to suport the poor and people suffering financial hardship because of the pandemic, it could lead to a revolutionary situation in Italy.

Austria, Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands are expected to be joined by France in rejecting the corona bonds proposal, however, and without their support it is impossible that the the ESM can be avoided, according to Voice of Europe.

Chilling Documentary Maps Out Likely Origin Of COVID-19

“We’ve pretty much heard every rumor under the sun. We’ve heard every theory, every crazy rumor, we’ve heard all these different narratives,” said Joshua Philipp, award-winning investigative reporter and host of the show “Crossroads.”

Coronavirus Fact-Check #3: “Covid19 is 20x DEADLIER than the flu!”

from Off Guardia, 11 April 2020 One of the buzz-stats doing the rounds says this novel virus is far more dangerous than influenza, does the science hold up?

Covid is nothing like the flu, it’s 20 times more dangerous!”

the bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby ensuring that the sample obtained is not representative

UK will have to live with some restrictions until coronavirus vaccine is developed, say officials

Don’t be evil, just OBEY: After Covid-19 tech giants will have even more control over what you see & what you think

Picture: © RT

Cambridge police patrol the aisles at Tesco supermarket

Chilling Documentary Maps Out Likely Origin Of COVID-19

“We’ve pretty much heard every rumor under the sun. We’ve heard every theory, every crazy rumor, we’ve heard all these different narratives,” said Joshua Philipp, award-winning investigative reporter and host of the show “Crossroads.”

Coronavirus Fact-Check #3: “Covid19 is 20x DEADLIER than the flu!”

from Off Guardia, 11 April 2020 One of the buzz-stats doing the rounds says this novel virus is far more dangerous than influenza, does the science hold up?

Covid is nothing like the flu, it’s 20 times more dangerous!”

the bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby ensuring that the sample obtained is not representative

UK will have to live with some restrictions until coronavirus vaccine is developed, say officials

Don’t be evil, just OBEY: After Covid-19 tech giants will have even more control over what you see & what you think

Picture: © RT

Cambridge police patrol the aisles at Tesco supermarket

Chilling Documentary Maps Out Likely Origin Of COVID-19

“We’ve pretty much heard every rumor under the sun. We’ve heard every theory, every crazy rumor, we’ve heard all these different narratives,” said Joshua Philipp, award-winning investigative reporter and host of the show “Crossroads.”

Coronavirus Fact-Check #3: “Covid19 is 20x DEADLIER than the flu!”

from Off Guardia, 11 April 2020 One of the buzz-stats doing the rounds says this novel virus is far more dangerous than influenza, does the science hold up?

Covid is nothing like the flu, it’s 20 times more dangerous!”

the bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby ensuring that the sample obtained is not representative

UK will have to live with some restrictions until coronavirus vaccine is developed, say officials

Don’t be evil, just OBEY: After Covid-19 tech giants will have even more control over what you see & what you think

Picture: © RT

Cambridge police patrol the aisles at Tesco supermarket

EU bullies: Italy forced to surrender in secret meeting over coronavirus economy crisis

Why Central Planning By Medical Experts Will Lead To Disaster

British vets refute coronavirus-related rumors as pet owners swamp pet advice site

Standing on the Precipice of Martial Law

In my recent paper Why Assume There Will Be a 2020 Election?, I took the opportunity of today’s multifaceted crisis in order to revisit an important Wall Street-funded coup d’état effort of 1933-34.

After a hectic couple of weeks asking the hard questions and delving into the dodgy statistics and agenda driven policies that make up the responses of government in the liberal democracies, we're having a quiet weekend. Nobody is Boggart Blog is flouting the recommendations on self isolating and social distancing of course (well not much,) and we hope for all our readers that both your physical and mental health are holding up during this period of house arrest. Here are some more items of news you will not find in mainstream media.

Marie Dinou: Woman arrested and fined under coronavirus laws for committing no crime

by Anorak | 4th, April 2020 When police approached Marie Dinou, 41, and asked her why she was at Newcastle Central Station “loitering between platforms” she didn’t want to speak with them. They wanted her name, address and reasons for travel. She was not obliged to tell them anything. But the police do not listen. They tell. So they arrested her and carted her off to the station.

Charged with an offence under the Coronavirus Act 2020, meant to deal with “potentially infectious persons”, a non-infected Marie Dinou was summoned to appear at North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court. She refused to leave her cell, where she’d been held for 48 hours. A district judge thought it legal, fair and proper to fine Dinou £660 and order her to pay a £66 victim surcharge and £85 in costs. “Defendant refuses to identify herself, sent back to cells and proved in absence,” runs the ruling ... Continue reading >>>

In The New Dystopia

Authored by Sill Solomon via Counterpunch.org,

It is difficult to neatly encapsulate the shift that has occurred in our collective perception and experience over the last several weeks. That all semblance of ‘certainty’ and ‘normalcy’ has disappeared seems no longer the main feature—what stands out is the psychological shift underway, proceeding on the collective and individual levels. What will this mean, how will it continue to evolve? Every conversation I have now touches on the coronavirus or those things that surround it. Everything I read online is related to it. ‘Social distancing’, ‘flattening the curve’—these phrases have become ubiquitous, standardized.

The situation is increasingly and rapidly revealing a number of uncomfortable but long obvious truths about our reality, perhaps none more so than the extent to which so much we take for granted is based on inertia, faith, and on a most rickety apparatus. A humming economy, the wide availability of consumer goods, school, transport, work—all melt away in the face of the virus ... Continue reading >>>

The Shadow War Playing Out Behind The COVID-19 Crisis

Authored by Gregory Copley via OilPrice.com,

The rush to what is essentially a new wartime footing began consciously and urgently in the first quarter of 2020 between some of the most powerful geopolitical players of the modern era: the United States of America, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and the United Kingdom.

It was not about the “battle” to cope with the COVID-19 (coronavirus) epidemic, or the global fear pandemic which it engendered, but those contagions broke the cycle of globalism and the belief in the indissoluble nature of interdependence. It allowed what was already emerging as a fundamental move toward a new, bipolar global competition to come out into the open.

By the end of March 2020, the global framework had changed sufficiently to become — behind the headlines about COVID-19 — about which system and ideology would triumph in the decades after the watershed. That meant a race by each of the major antagonists to determine how quickly national productivity could be resumed.

Even so, the failure of most major societies, including the PRC, to prepare for health pandemics, natural disasters, and associated contagions of fear was a significant function of the transformed realities of the “globalist”-dominated political structures over the earlier lessons of national self-reliance. Continue reading >>>

Medical Tyranny And The Cashless Society

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,

Back in 2014 during the Ebola scare in the US I published an article warning about how a global pandemic could be used by the elites as cover for the implementation of an economic collapse as well as martial law measures in western nations. My immediate concern was the way in which a viral outbreak could be engineered or exploited as a rationale for a level of social control that the public would never accept under normal circumstances.

And this could be ANY viral outbreak, not just Ebola. The point is the creation of an “invisible enemy” that the populace cannot quantify and defend itself against without constant government oversight... Continue reading >>>

Molecular Biologist Says COVID-19 Could Have Leaked From Wuhan Biolab

Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,

A molecular biologist proclaimed Thursday that the Chinese coronavirus could have originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and been leaked, leading to it’s horrific spread around the globe.

Richard H. Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told The Daily Caller that he believes it is a distinct possibility that an accident in the laboratory in China could have caused the outbreak.

Professor Ebright said that “A denial is not a refutation,” referring to China’s top virologist Shi Zhengli, who works at the lab in Wuhan, and has repeatedly denied that it was the source of the pandemic.

Zhengli, known as ‘bat-woman’, because she works with bat-borne viruses, has said that the coronavirus spread is “nature punishing the human race for keeping uncivilized living habits.” Continue reading >>>

"I Found The Source Of COVID-19..."

"After living and working in China for over 10 years and speaking fluent Chinese, you get to know a society pretty well... and let me tell you this - if you're applauding or admiring the political leadership of China, you're all deluded beyond belief."

That is how "laowhy86" begins this succinct video exploring the 'facts' - not conspiracies - behind the source of the coronavirus that is ravaging the earth.

"After living and working in China for over 10 years and speaking fluent Chinese, you get to know a society pretty well... and let me tell you this - if you're applauding or admiring the political leadership of China, you're all deluded beyond belief."

Furthermore, he notes, the Chinese government layers are "broken and fragile" and so it didn't surprise him when he was able to follow breadcrumbs - as begun by our inquisition about the roles that certain individuals played in Wuhan - to discover the "very suspicious" fact that the Wuhan Bio lab had a job opening from November 18, 2019, asking for scientists to come and research the relationship between the coronavirus and bats.

However, after ZeroHedge was permanently suspended from Twitter for daring to suggest anything but the official narrative handed down, laowhy86 notes that another job opening appeared on December 24th (remember this is before any news broke of the virus publicly), which basically says 'we've discovered a new and terrible virus and would like to recruit people to come deal with it'... Continue reading >>>

EU Collapse Inevitable As European Economy Craters,

S&P futures have erased much of yesterday's late day ramp alongside European stocks with investors awaiting data on non-farm payrolls and business activity to assess the extent of the economic hit from the coronavirus pandemic which has now infected more than a million people around the world. Bond yields dropped and the dollar surged as attempts to ease liquidity strains appear to be failing again as traders hunkered down ahead of March payrolls data that are expected to decline for the first time since 2010. And while the NFP will be bad, it is already old news in light of the last two initial jobless claims which showed 10 million layoffs in just the past two weeks.Continue reading >>>

Could The COVID-19 Response Be More Deadly Than The Virus?

Authored by Kevin Ryan via Off-Guardian.org,

The economic, social and public health consequences of these measures could claim millions of victims...

The initial, alarming estimates of deaths from the virus COVID-19 were that as many as 2.2 million people would die in the United States. This number is comparable to the annual US death rate of around 3 million. Fortunately, correction of some simple errors in overestimation has begun to dramatically reduce the virus mortality claims.

The most recent estimate from “the leading US authority on the COVID-19 pandemic” suggests that the US may see between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths from COVID-19, with the final tally likely to be somewhere in the middle.” This means that we are expecting around 150,000 US deaths caused by the virus, if the latest estimates hold up.

How does that compare to the effects of the measures taken in response? By all accounts, the impact of the response will be great, far-reaching, and long-lasting. Continue reading >>>

German Infectologist Decimates COVID-19 Doomsday Cult In Open Letter To Merkel

Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, released a now-viral video in which he calmly explained why nationwide lockdowns are “collective suicide”.

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Now he has written an open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel and it is fantastic...

Via Anti-Empire.com,

A medical expert with integrity asks the German Chancellor five devastating questions about her mindless coronavirus lockdown... Continue reading

You Are Being Tracked... More Than Ever Before

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,

The United States government has rolled out incredibly totalitarian measures that amount to human rights violations in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Unfortunately, long after this pandemic is a distance memory, the authoritarian controls will still be in place.

Local governments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have received the anonymized data about people in areas of “geographic interest,” with the aim being to create a portal of geolocation information for 500 cities across the country. The development follows reports of other countries using cellphone data to monitor citizens and see if they are complying with curbs on movement, and elimination of income in order to defeat the viral outbreak

European mobile carriers have reportedly been sharing data with health authorities in Italy, Germany, and Austria, while at the same time respecting Europe’s privacy laws. Earlier this month, Israel passed emergency measures that allow security agencies to track the smartphone data of people with suspected COVID-19 and find others they may have come into contact with ... Continue reading >>>

"One Of The Worst Coverups In Human History": MSM Attention Turns To Chinese Biolab Near COVID-19 Ground Zero

In late January we asked whether a prolific Chinese scientist who was experimenting with bat coronavirus at a level-4 biolab in Wuhan China was responsible for the current outbreak of a virus which is 96% genetically identical - and which saw an explosion in cases at a wet market located just down the street.

For suggesting this, we were kicked off Twitter and had the pleasure of several articles written by MSM hacks regarding our 'conspiracy theory' - none of which addressed the plethora of hard evidence linked in the post. These are the same people, mind you, who pushed the outlandish and evidence-free Trump-Russia conspiracy theory for years.

Whether or not the virus was engineered (scientists swear it wasn't) - it shouldn't take Perry Mason to conclude that a virulent coronavirus outbreak which started near a biolab that was experimenting with -- coronavirus -- bears scrutiny. Could a lab worker have accidentally infected themselves - then gone shopping for meat at the market over several days, during the long, asymptomatic incubation period?

In February, researchers Botao Xial and Lei Xiao published a quickly-retracted paper titled "The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus" - which speculated that the virus came from the Wuhan biolab.

Now, mainstream outlets are catching on - or at least have become brave enough to similarly connect the dots.

Earlier this week, Fox News' Tucker Carlson suggested that COVID-19 may have originated in a lab.

Tucker Carlson is currently citing a report that he openly admits he can't confirm is true to question if coronavirus was made in a lab pic.twitter.com/CTxrJtw0Sh

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) April 1, 2020

And now, the Washington Times is out with a report titled "Chinese researchers isolated deadly bat coronaviruses near Wuhan animal market."

Chinese government researchers isolated more than 2,000 new viruses, including deadly bat coronaviruses, and carried out scientific work on them just three miles from a wild animal market identified as the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Several Chinese state media outlets in recent months touted the virus research and lionized in particular a key researcher in Wuhan, Tian Junhua, as a leader in bat virus work.

The coronavirus strain now infecting hundreds of thousands of people globally mutated from bats believed to have infected animals and people at a wild animal market in Wuhan. The exact origin of the virus, however, remains a mystery. -Washington Times

Meanwhile, a video from December funded by the Chinese government shows Tian collecting samples from captured bats and storing them in vials.

"I am not a doctor, but I work to cure and save people," said Tian, adding "I am not a soldier, but I work to safeguard an invisible national defense line."

The mainstream theory behind the virus is that it crossed over to humans after first infecting an intermediary species - such as a pangolin.

Read the rest of the report here.