Walz extends 30 day "state of emergency".

Star Tribune: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz loosens pandemic stay-at-home restrictions.

Gov. Tim Walz said Wednesday that he will allow stores to reopen and let Minnesotans leave the house more*, while leaving in place for now restrictions for bars, restaurants, theaters, hair salons and other businesses with in-person services.

The announcement, delivered in a livestreamed address to Minnesotans Wednesday evening, means many small businesses and retailers can open their doors to customers on Monday, as long as they have a plan to keep employees and customers safe with social distancing.

“The stay-at-home order is expiring and the dials are turning, but that doesn’t mean we are carefree and can return to the way things were,” Walz said. “It means we have to stay safe, take care, care for our own health and care for our neighbor.”
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Walz also extended for another 30 days a peacetime state of emergency that was set to expire Wednesday. The emergency powers have enabled him to take sweeping executive action such as the stay-at-home order and closing down schools, bars and restaurants.

* Why, I didn't know that I was required to check with Herr Walz on the number of times I'm allowed to leave the house. I guess I've been breaking quarantine. Meh.

Small businesses, especially in rural and small town Minnesota will continue dying. Walz doesn't care. They're nothing but rocks and cows to him.

Day by day, week by week - just watch - the progression that things will "get a little bit better enough" as we approach the date for the holy grail of Liberal Greed and Politics, The Minnesota State Fair. And Walz grandstanding, declaring how "happy and pleased he is" that the fair isn't canceled due to Covid-19.

But wait, Walz is concerned about all social distancing, isn't he? If Walz is so concerned over the re-opening of schools and businesses as we approach the end of summer/post-Labor Day holiday, why is he so reticent in canceling the Minnesota State Fair right now?

The Ramsey County Fair for 2020 is canceled. It receives a much smaller attendance than the State Fair. But so far, Herr Walz hans't canceled it. Is he willing to accept the responsibility of risking lives to the China Coronavirus by allowing the state fair to occur? What if by canceling the state fair Walz saved just one life? Isnt it worth it, Timmy, to save just one life?

Here's a short clip of Walz's livestream earlier today:

Tim Walz and related content.
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Tim Walz expected to extend Minnesota Stay Home Order for another 30 days. The state fair? It will be held as usual.

FOX News 21: Walz to Provide Update on Minnesota’s Stay Home Order Tonight.

[Minnesota DEM] Gov. Tim Walz announced Wednesday morning that he will give an update to Minnesotan’s about the state’s response to COVID-19 during a live address at 6:00 p.m.

Walz is expected to extend his peacetime state of emergency order until June 12.

The governor has used his emergency powers to order Minnesotans to stay home, and to close bars, restaurants, schools, and non-essential businesses since the end of March.
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Republican House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, of Crown, said it’s time to let those powers expire.

Walz is determined to bankrupt the state. Not the state government, mind you, but every one and every business that isn't a government entity.

It's quite interesting and telling that Timmy Walzolini has not yet decided to cancel the Minnesota State Fair. Why wouldn't he, you may ask. Well, there's simply far too much money (greed) and politics involved in the state fair.

This year the state fair is scheduled for August 27 to September 7. At THIS LINK you will find updates on the progress of the state fair. Huh, funny that as of this publishing nothing has been updated since March 16. Other functions and access to the state fairgrounds and its facilities are restricted. But not a word yet on the state fair being canceled.

Who wants to make a friendly wager with me that the state fair will be held? It will be. The DEMS have too much invested in it for it to be canceled. It's a cash cow for the DEMS and all their little goose-stepping Eichmanns.

Consider the following statement from state fair general manager Jerry Hammer, (who's been at the job since the late 1970's) from the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Gov. Tim Walz calls Minnesota State Fair a 'tough lift' this year given the crowds.

Fair General Manager Jerry Hammer said in an interview that for now the annual event is on track to open Aug. 27 and run through Labor Day as scheduled.

“We have a duty to present the fair and will continue to do so until it’s absolutely clear we can’t,” Hammer said. (A "DUTY"? SINCE WHEN IS A STATE FAIR CONSIDERED AN "ESSENTIAL BUSINESS"? - Drake)

A decision to cancel the fair won’t be made until it must be, he said. But he added the call would be made well before Aug. 1, though he couldn’t say whether a decision would come in May, June or July.

Hammer was firm, however, in saying that there will either be a full-on State Fair or none at all. No one is going to be scanning temperatures along with tickets at the gates, he said.

“We’re a big celebration,” Hammer said. “If the health of the people is where you need to take these extraordinary precautions, then maybe you shouldn’t be doing the event.”

From the same Star Tribune link above:

Gov. Tim Walz called holding the Minnesota State Fair during the coronavirus pandemic a “tough lift,” heightening concerns that the end-of-summer tradition will be canceled for only the sixth time in history.

“I wouldn’t make a definitive call, but I also don’t want to give any false hope on this. I think it will be difficult to see a State Fair operating,” Walz said in response to a question at his daily briefing Thursday.

The governor, who acknowledges he loves the fair, added that one of the greatest parts of the Great Minnesota Get-Together is being “elbow to elbow” in the crowds.

“I don’t know how you social distance in there,” he said.

Places of worship are closed, any public gathering is limited to ten people...and in a little over three months the state fair will be held as usual?

If the state fair is held, it will be all the evidence anyone needs in knowing that these lockdowns and "shelter in place" measures were nothing but a hoax; an attempt to kill businesses, kill the economy, stoke fear and panic, and promote the Liberal narrative of Big and Intrusive government.

Close small businesses. Close places of worship. Make people suffer and feel pain. Oh - - - but let the state fair proceed. It's all politics and greed...for those with political clout and the deranged Liberals that run this state.
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John Scott Moretti charged with child sex abuse. He headed security detail for John Kerry as Secretary of State.

The Jeff Bezos Peoples' Republic (WaPo Archived): Former top State Department official arrested on child molestation charges.

J. Scott Moretti, who oversaw diplomatic security training, charged on allegations from 2011 to 2013.

A former deputy assistant secretary of the State Department, who oversaw diplomatic security training until 2018 and previously headed Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s security detail, was arrested Tuesday in Prince William County and charged with molesting a child between 2011 and 2013.

J. Scott Moretti, 58, was the deputy assistant secretary of state for training for the Diplomatic Security Service from 2015 to July 2018, according to his archived State Department biography and his LinkedIn page. He joined the Diplomatic Security Service in 1986 and served in Afghanistan and Iraq while rising up the ranks to deputy assistant secretary of state in 2015.

Prince William County police said they received a complaint in September from a woman who told them she had been sexually assaulted at a residence in the Manassas area sometime between November 2011 and November 2013, when she was between 10 and 11 years old. The woman told police the incidents had happened on more than one occasion. Sgt. Jonathan Perok, a Prince William police spokesman, said the complainant was not a family member of Moretti’s.

The Prince William police special victims unit investigated and then obtained arrest warrants Tuesday for Moretti, who lives in the Manassas area. The warrants charge Moretti with indecent liberties with a minor and forcible sodomy. The Virginia State Police arrested him Tuesday, and he was ordered held without bond. It could not be determined whether a lawyer has been hired or appointed to represent him.

During the period of the alleged assaults, Moretti was stationed in Washington through July 2012 as director of the Office of Mobile Security Deployments, according to his State Department biography. The office is the on-call response force used by the State Department to counter threats against U.S. interests and personnel overseas. He then spent five months in Iraq as the deputy regional security officer for protective operations at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. From January 2013 to April 2015, he headed Kerry’s protective detail.

Moretti’s LinkedIn page indicates he retired in July 2018 from the State Department and provides no further employment history.

U.S.Department of State (via Archive): John Scott Moretti Biography.

Special Agent Scott Moretti was named Deputy Assistant Secretary and Assistant Director of Training for the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security on July 29, 2015.

Under his direction are the Office of Antiterrorism Assistance, the Office of Training and Performance Standards, and the Office of Mobile Security Deployments. The Training Directorate trains Diplomatic Security special agents throughout their careers, prepares U.S. Government personnel to serve at U.S. diplomatic posts in critical- and high-threat countries, administers antiterrorism training to foreign police, and deploys its own agents for training and special protective missions to primarily high-threat overseas posts.

As head of the Training Directorate, Mr. Moretti directs antiterrorism assistance training and delivery of related equipment to security and law-enforcement personnel in partner nations with the goal of deterring and countering terrorism. He is responsible for the formulation and implementation of training programs and policies that promote the professional development of DS personnel.
Mr. Moretti also oversees specialized security training at U.S. diplomatic facilities abroad, as well as the deployment of security-support personnel to overseas U.S. diplomatic posts during periods of high threat, crisis, or natural disasters.

Prior to his current assignment, he was the special agent in charge of Diplomatic Security’s Washington Field Office. From January 2013 to April 2015, he served as the special agent in charge of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s protective detail. Before heading the Secretary’s protective detail, Mr. Moretti was deputy regional security officer for protective operations at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, where he led a team of 600 security professionals that provided protection to U.S. Embassy staff.

From May 2010 through July 2012, he was director for the Office of Mobile Security Deployments (MSD), the on-call response force used by the Department of State to counter threats against official U.S. interests and personnel overseas and to provide specialized security training at U.S. diplomatic posts abroad.

During his first tour in Iraq, Mr. Moretti served as the deputy regional security officer for embassy operations. In this capacity he was responsible for all procedural, technical, and physical security programs at the Embassy. From August 2005 to July 2006, he served as regional security officer at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.

Mr. Moretti holds the rank of Counselor in the Senior Foreign Service and is a recipient of several Department of State honors and awards including the Superior Honor Award and Meritorious Honor Award.

He is a graduate of the National War College, class of 2007. He also attended Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies.

He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1983-1986 and was an infantry officer assigned to the First Battalion, Eighth Marines at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

The WaPo story is dated May 7. It's not really amazing how little news is out there on this story. Do your own search and see how little you'll find.

DEMS and their complicit MSM covering up a scandalous pedophile. Oh...alleged pedophile.

If Moretti had worked for a Republican, you'd be reading this news everywhere, including sky-writing over the entire USA.
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Fauci: "You'll still be homeschooling your kids this fall."

Best Life: You'll Still Be Homeschooling Your Kids This Fall, Dr. Fauci Says.

During a Senate Committee hearing, Fauci said schools reopening in the fall is "a bridge too far."

Anthony Fauci, MD, revealed Tuesday morning that a return to school in the fall "would be a bit of a bridge too far," during a Senate Committee hearing. News of likely continued homeschooling for the next school year will probably be met with groans and frustration by harried parents struggling to balance working from home and also managing remote learning and having their children home 100 percent of the time.

Which Fauci should we listen to?

 Maybe a lot of former teachers should "Learn To Code".

MN Gov Walz holds hostage small businesses in his rule of tyranny.

H/T: Odyssues.

KARE 11 News:  Minn. Senate passes bill to reopen businesses

ST PAUL, Minn. — In what was a largely symbolic move the Minnesota Senate's Republican majority Monday pushed through a bill that would let all Minnesota businesses reopen in spite of any emergency orders from Gov. Tim Walz.

Business owners would be expected to comply with CDC and Minnesota Dept. of Health guidelines on social distancing, masks and other infection control practices.

Under the Senate's legislation, those plans wouldn't have to be reviewed by the government and the state would be barred from stripping business and professional licenses from those businesses.

The DFL-controlled House isn't expected to pass a similar bill, but the debate once again allowed Republicans in the legislature to assert a position that distinct from the governor's measured response.

"The ma and pa shops that are on main street in many of our small towns in my district and throughout Minnesota, they’ve been continuing to call and ask and say we know we can operate safely," Sen. Andrew Mathews, a Republican from Princeton, told colleagues.

"I had a business owner who reached out, contacted me, and he laid out what his safety plan would be, he had already come up with it."
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"I think if the governor’s using that science the small businesses, the small boxes, ought to be able to use that same science that has currently allowed for the big box stores," Sen. Mary Kiffmeyer, a Big Lake Republican asserted.

A Soft Coup of Timmy Mussolini's draconian Tyranny? I'm all for it.

Timmy Mussolini

KSTP: Walz faces another lawsuit asking to end 'unconstitutional shutdown orders' for small businesses, churches.

Upper Midwest Law Center, a Minnesota-based public interest law firm, has filed a lawsuit on behalf of multiple Minnesota churches and small business owners to strike down Gov. Tim Walz's 'stay at home' emergency executive orders as "unconstitutional under the First, Fifth and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution," a lawsuit states.

The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. To see a copy of the complaint, click here.

By posing other and different constitutional questions to a federal court, this lawsuit differs from a separate suit filed recently in the state appeals court by the Free Minnesota Small Business Coalition.

The following are named plaintiffs in the case:

    Northland Baptist Church of St. Paul, and Pastor John Bruski,
    Living Word Christian Center,
    Glow In One Mini Golf LLC in Blaine, and its owner and operator, Aaron Kessler,
    Myron's Cards and Gifts, Inc., and its owner and operator Larry Evenson,
    Andrew Hulse and Gay Bunch-Halse, owners and operators of 18 | 8 Fine Men's Salons in Maple Grove and Wayzata.

"Governor Walz's scheme of selecting economic winners and losers by wholly shutting down some businesses while allowing others to remain open violates the Plaintiff businesses' 14th Amendment due process and equal protection rights," stated Doug Seaton, Esq., President of the Upper Midwest Law Center. "Governor Walz's actions also constitute a taking under the Fifth Amendment, and his prohibition on worshippers gathering violates churches' and individuals' First Amendment rights. The Constitution requires that the Governor respect the individual rights of all citizens at all times, narrowly tailor any restrictions, and apply the same rules to all. It is clear that his continuing lockdown executive orders fail these constitutional requirements."

Musk defies orders to reopen Tesla.

BBC: Elon Musk defies orders to reopen Tesla.

Tesla has reopened its only US electric car plant in California, despite local orders against manufacturing.

On Monday, the company's chief executive Elon Musk tweeted that production had restarted and he would be "on the line with everyone else".

US states and local governments are trying to determine the best way to open up after lockdown.

Mr Musk previously vowed to move the firm's headquarters out of California if the plant was not allowed to reopen.
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On Saturday, Elon Musk said that Tesla had filed a lawsuit against the county asking a court to remove the order that prevents the carmaker from resuming production.

Rather than wait for a ruling, Mr Musk announced on Twitter on Monday that the plant would reopen.
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The local police department said that it was aware of the situation, but that it would act at the discretion of county health officials.

The Alameda County Public Health Department said on Monday it was "actively communicating" with Tesla about reopening plans and that it was taking the same approach it had taken with other business that had violated lockdown orders.

In an email seen by Reuters, Tesla also reportedly told workers the decision to reopen was in line with California guidelines.

Mr Musk wrote on Twitter that Tesla had been "singled out", saying that other US carmakers were allowed to restart production.

Biden: VP Pick is like a Pinup calendar contest.

Bretibart: Joe Biden Likens Running Mate Process to Pinup Calendar Competition.

In “private encounters,” Joe Biden likened a vice presidential nominee selection process to browsing monthly morsels in a pinup calendar.

The New York Times reported:
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Biden has likened running-mate evaluation to deciding among calendar models, with three broad categories (and outdated honorifics): Contenders can be a “Mr. August” (a shot of momentum in the summer), a “Mr. October” (a reliable and effective campaigner for the fall) or a “Mr. January” (a governing partner, politics notwithstanding).
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Biden used the “Mr.” title before he had declared he would nominate a woman as his running mate.

The story comes as Biden continues to defend himself against allegations that he sexually assaulted then-staffer Tara Reade in 1993.

Don't worry, Joe - choosing a VP running mate is something he'll never have to decide, he won't be the candidate. If by some miracle he is, his VP running mate will be chosen for him, he'll have no say, no input.

Justin Trudeau’s Assault Weapons Ban Includes Bolt Action Rifles.

Breitbart: Justin Trudeau’s ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban Includes Numerous Bolt Action Rifles.

An close examination of Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s ban of 1,500 “assault weapons” reveals the list of prohibited firearms includes a number of bolt action rifles.

Bolt action rifles have been go-to rifles for the hunters and the sport community for over a century and do not have a self-loading action–a semiautomatic action–but are fed a new round only when the hunter or sportsman manually pulls back a bolt to reload.

The bolt action platform is wildly popular for the large rounds like the .50 caliber, which can used for extreme long range shooting.

Democrats in the U.S. government have unsuccessfully sought bans on .50 caliber rifles in past decades, including them in “assault weapons” ban legislation following high profile, mass public attacks. The problem is .50 calibers rifles are extremely large and bulky, and are not conducive to be being carried into a location for the purpose of an attack, therefore the bans fizzle.

But Trudeau included .50 caliber bolt action rifles in his ban of 1,500 “assault weapons.”
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In addition to banning a number of long range, bolt action rifles, Trudeau’s ban also bans .22 caliber rifles that are built on the AR-15 platform. Two such guns are the Smith & Wesson M&P 15-22 and Mitchell Arms Car 15/22, both banned under Trudeau’s announcement.

On May 6, 2020, the Post reported the gun ban as “incoherent,” noting it bans some guns for having certain characteristics and actions while passing over other guns that have the same characteristics and actions.

Is this a trick Trudeau is playing, trying to lure America's Second Amendment-hating Liberals into moving to Canada? Well-played, Justin.

Cali DEM Lorena Gonzalaz is a fat Elitist cunt.

This started with DEM California Assemblycunt Lorena Gonzalez, tweeting, "Fuck Elon Musk", responding to his considering moving his companies from Cali to Texas or Nevada.

Here's her Twitter thread:

The thread is a good read, containing tweets from people who don't necessarily like Elon Musk, but are appalled at Gonzalaz's tweet because they understand his companies provide jobs and benefits to thousands in California.

I like and respect Elon. Not so much for Tesla or EVs, but for his thoughtful objective analysis in the inherent dangers posed to all individuals as the speed of technology (and it's uses; AI, surveillance, tracing, etc) continues to outpace us ethically, morally and legally.

But Gonzalaz's contempt and elitism extends beyond her Tweet to Elon Musk. Gonzalez displays her hostility and boorishness to small business owners, belittling and mocking them.

KUSI News: Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez makes fun of female business owner who is against AB 5. Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez got into yet another Twitter feud with a Californian who disagrees with her policies. (Info on AB 5).

Assemblywoman Gonzalez started a Twitter thread saying why she believes the “system is rigged against the working poor and middle class workers.” Gonzalez wrote that she is tired of corporate America, billionaires, and income inequality before going into more detail about why “we are going to have to fight like hell coming out of this to change things. We have no choice.”

Twitter user, @TiffaniCFO, responded by pointing out that Assemblywoman Gonzalez is the system writing, “You are the reason people are out of work and school and options. That’s the truth. I’m so tired of your laws. I’m tired of bought politicians. We will fight like hell to change things. You have given us no other choice.”

Gonzalez, the author of the gig-worker bill AB 5, does not support a suspension or repeal of her bill after major backlash from putting people out of work. Instead, Gonzalez continues to double down on her support for AB 5, even recently telling those who have lost their jobs due to AB 5 to file for unemployment.

Independent Contractors were quick to point out that they wouldn’t need unemployment insurance if it wasn’t for her legislation.

    You are the system. You are the reason people are out of work and school and options. That’s the truth. I’m so tired of your laws. I’m tired of bought politicians. We will fight like hell to change things. You have given us no other choice.

    — Tiffani (@TiffaniCFO) April 14, 2020

Gonzalez then replied to @TiffaniCFO in a demeaning manner writing, “Ok, ‘Tiffani CFO.’ Ok.”

This tweet was met with another reply from @TiffaniCFO saying, “Yes, I am a CFO and a small business owner. I employ 26 W2 employees, fully cover their healthcare benefits, and sign their paychecks. Your draconian laws have kicked my kids out of school, made it impossible for ICs to survive, and legalized ballot harvesting. NOT OK.”

    Yes, I am a CFO and a small business owner. I employ 26 W2 employees, fully cover their healthcare benefits, and sign their paychecks. Your draconian laws have kicked my kids out of school, made it impossible for ICs to survive, and legalized ballot harvesting. NOT OK.

    — Tiffani (@TiffaniCFO) April 14, 2020

KUSI News posted the exchange to their Twitter account and it quickly was shared by a variety of people saying this type of response from the Assemblywoman isn’t unusual. Reply to the tweet below to share your opinion on the exchange.

    Assemblywoman @LorenaSGonzalez gets called out for saying the system is rigged and responds by making fun of the woman who replied to her pic.twitter.com/kchTB559kJ

    — KUSI News (@KUSINews) April 14, 2020

 Black is no longer slimming for you, Toots.

It's despicable behavior on the part of Gonzalez. An especially hideous display of Liberal Elitism of disdain and contempt for some of the hardest working people in the country; small business owners.

Gonzalez should profusely apologize to Tiffani, and Elon. But she won't. She'll dig her heels in deeper. Because she's an Elitist Liberal cunt.

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If you stick with the Gonzalez Twitter Thread long enough, you'll eventually run across a Tweet from Twatapotamus @ Dumb FAT Tony Posnanski @ Twitter replying to @ Joey Saladino (replying to Gonzalaz):

 

FAT TONY ... still showing off on Twitter his versatile and robust knowledge of the English language. FAT TONY...he's such a literary master. His Twitter feed is recommended reading. It's a riot. A Diary of The Cognitive Failure of a Liberal suffering from Stage 4 TDS.
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Man hands Melinda Gates whores for the WHO, NWO and the globalists. Calls WHO "good and robust".

Manlinda Gates, Man hands.

Yahoo: Melinda Gates says Trump Administration's COVID response is 'costing lives'.

Melinda Gates has a strong take when it comes to the Trump Administration’s response to the coronavirus crisis.

“We are lacking leadership at the federal level in the United States, and it's highly distressing and disappointing,” the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation told me in a recent interview. “To have to have 50 state grown solutions is inefficient. It makes no sense. And it's costing people their lives.”
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“If we had a good testing and tracing system like Germany has, we would have started to reopen slowly more places in the economy,” she said. “People wouldn't be struggling so much to put a meal on their table. The lack of action is really causing harm and hurt unnecessarily in this country. And I'm incredibly disappointed to see that.”
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[When] asked why her husband Tweeted his unhappiness with President Trump when he announced he would freeze support for the World Health Organization.

“Bill and I both came out strongly,” she said. “We know the World Health Organization, it's not perfect. But we have worked with them for over 20 years. When you're in a crisis, and you know a partner is good and robust, you stand up for what's right, and you stand up for your partners.”

"We know the World Health Organization, it's not perfect." Words that can only be spoken by an Elite Liberal globalist whore.

The WHO is a "partner [that] is good and robust"? The WHO is "good and robust"? How convenient for her selective memory that China asked WHO to suppress the CHINA VIRUS outbreak:

Taiwan News: China asked WHO to cover up Coronavirus outbreak.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping asked World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to suppress news about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the German intelligence agency BND found, according to a report by German magazine Der Spiegel.

During a conversation on Jan. 21, Xi reportedly asked Tedros not to announce that the virus could be transmitted between humans and to delay any declaration of a coronavirus pandemic.

It took until the end of January before the WHO declared that the coronavirus outbreak needed to receive international attention. Because of China’s delay, the world wasted four to six weeks it could have used to better counter the spread of the virus, the BND concluded.

Germany's Robert Koch Institute also said that China failed to reveal all the relevant information at the outset of the epidemic, leading it to turn to the BND for advice, CNA cited a report in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung as saying.

In response to the reports by German media, Chinese diplomats said the opposite was true, arguing that the communist country’s handling of the virus had bought time that was then wasted by other governments.

 
The Famous People: Melinda Gates biography.

She is on the board of directors of the Washington Post company and is an active participant in the Bilderberg Group conferences for fostering dialogue between Europe and North America.
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In 2013, she launched a partnership with Hillary Clinton to gather and supply data for the Clinton Foundation on the progress of women and the girl child around the world since the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.

Oh gee, a Bilderberg "participant" and a partnership with the Clinton Foundation. How conveniently diabolical.

How many deaths of children in India is Bill Gates responsible for with his experiments in vaccines? Who cares about children in India, right? They're expendable. Now it's time to move on with a Gates vaccine for Americans and the rest of the world.

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"They Live"; The Coronavirus Edition. (Video)

Via You Tube aplanetruth 4u.

Clip from the film "They Live".

Happy Mother's Day!

To ALL Moms!

Greece: Santorini trials social distancing with plexiglass screens and beach chairs.

The Express: Greece: Santorini trials social distancing beach chairs with hopes tourism will follow.

Greek island Santorini is trialling new social distancing measures for beachgoers, with the introduction of new plexiglass screens surrounding sun loungers and beach chairs. Will these measures mean Britons can soon visit?

Greek island Santorini has implemented new social distancing measures on some of its beaches, despite concerns from locals. The new additions see beach chairs and sun loungers encased within a plexiglass screen.

It is hoped that these screens will be a helpful precaution against the spread of COVID-19 once the island welcomes back tourists, which could be from as early as July.

However, while the theory behind them is positive, there are some locals who are not happy about the new beach features.

Charlie Chahine, who owns a beach bar on the island, says he does not like them.

“We hope these constructions you see are not going to be the future for beaches. We don’t want this, but if this is necessary, and if this is what people’s safety depends on, such a construction or any such construction - we (just) want to work, we want to get going,” he said.

The new look for beaches (legit pic, see story). Because no virus can outwit plexiglass...

Image: al-Reuters

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Sydney police shocking arrest of mom protesting lockdown as young son watches in horror. "Why is she under arrest? She's not done anything wrong?"

Vvia @ Twitter Avi Yemini:

News.Com AU Coronavirus Australia: Dramatic arrest of a mother protesting in Sydney shocks bystanders.

Two clips shared to Facebook depict the woman speaking with police officers near Parliament of New South Wales in Sydney's CBD at around 3.50pm on Saturday, then being dragged into a police van as her screaming son is torn from her arms.

Wearing a yellow sign that read: “If you don't know your rights, you don't have any. Magna Carta,” the woman was protesting with around 40 people against the coronavirus lockdown, as part of the “Exercising My Rights” group.

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“You guys should be here holding the signs with us, defending us. I don't consent to what you're doing,” she said, as a female officer asked for her name.

“We’re doing nothing wrong … We’re not acting in aggression … Am I under arrest?,” she responded.

“No, I’m just trying to speak to you … I am asking for your name because I do believe you are committing an offence,” the officer explained.
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Moments later in a second clip, the altercation took a turn for the worst as police are seen dragging the woman by her arms as her son wails and passers-by object.
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A group of protesters walked along Macquarie Street on Saturday to “exercise their rights” during the global health crisis.

According to the “Exercising My Rights” Facebook page and website, the protests are about the negative consequences of lockdown.

“These lockdowns have stripped us of our basic liberties in an unprecedented way,” the website reads.

“People have lost their jobs, their businesses destroyed, and who knows how many lives will be lost from the consequences of these extreme social-distancing laws.

“But … the laws in NSW, Australia, do allow me to go out and get some exercise. So, that’s what I’m going to do.["]
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“The child was removed from the woman’s hold and she was taken to Surry Hills Police Station, where her identity was established, and she was issued an infringement notice for fail to comply with noticed direction in relation to COVID-19. (Oh, the "infringement" or citation couldn't have been done on site, no...no...we need a performance of Covid-19 Enforcement Theater. - DD)

“The child was placed in the care of a relative and the Department of Family and Community Services were notified.”

Little Richard, dead; age 87.

"Good Golly, Miss Molly" from Little Richard by Little Richard.

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BBC: Little Richard : Rock 'n' roll pioneer dies.

Pioneering rock 'n' roll singer Little Richard has died at the age of 87, the musician's family has confirmed.

Little Richard's hits included Good Golly Miss Molly, which made the UK charts in 1958. The Beatles, Elton John and Elvis all cited him an influence.

The singer, born in Georgia as Richard Wayne Penniman, was among the first group inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.
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If there had been no Little Richard, a key part of DNA would have been missing from acts like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, David Bowie and Jimi Hendrix - all of whom idolised him.

With the likes of Chuck Berry and Elvis, he was one of the handful of US acts who concocted the primordial soup of blues, R&B and gospel that led to the evolution of rock 'n' roll in the 60s.
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His father was a preacher who also ran a nightclub, and his mother was a devout Baptist.

"I was born in the slums. My daddy sold whiskey, bootleg whiskey," he told Rolling Stone in 1970.

The singer left home in his teens after disagreements with his father - who initially didn't support his music.

"My daddy wanted seven boys, and I had spoiled it, because I was gay," the showman later said.

Though openly homosexual for many years, Richard also had relationships with women. He married Ernestine Harvin, a fellow Evangelical, and later adopted a son.

His commitment to depravity extended to drugs, boozing and sex parties - to which he would take his Bible.

Richard's complex attitude to his sexuality meant he was never embraced as a gay icon. Later in life he became a born-again Christian and renounced homosexuality, framing it as a temporary choice he had made.

The Rolling Stones, who opened shows for him, spoke reverently of his on-stage prowess. "Little Richard drove the whole house into a complete frenzy," Mick Jagger once said. "There is no single phrase to describe his hold on the audience."
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"I've always thought that rock 'n' roll brought the races together," [Richard] once told an interviewer. "Although I was black, the fans didn't care. I used to feel good about that."

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Great interview with him on You Tube: Little Richard, "Real man won't wear no dress. God does not accept that."

Attack of the puppies! Oh noooooooooooooooo...

Via You Tube: Master Ceng.

1 in 4 Americans says they would refuse COVID-19 vaccine, poll says

WFTS ABC Tampa Bay: 1 in 4 Americans says they would refuse COVID-19 vaccine.

[According to a new ABC News/Ipsos released Friday]...Those Americans who are opposed to getting a vaccine, experts say, often fall into one of two categories. But, unlike most things in American politics and concerning the coronavirus outbreak, those groups are not partisan in nature, with about equal proportions of Democrats and Republicans saying they were likely to get the vaccine.

"There's always been an anti-vaccine group of individuals that are going to refuse vaccines no matter what," said Dr. Carlos del Rio, an infectious disease expert, and a professor of medicine, epidemiology and global health at Emory University. "The question is, how do they impact other people."

Not that I put faith in polls...just taking note of the Covid-19  anti-Vax crowd. Add me as skeptical and declining it as well. Would you get vaccinated for Covid-19?
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San Francisco delivers alcohol, tobacco and teh pot to quarantined addicts.

Omaha.com (AP): San Francisco gets alcohol, tobacco for addicts in hotels.

San Francisco is using private donations to deliver alcohol, tobacco and medical marijuana to a few dozen people dealing with addiction as they isolate or quarantine in city-leased hotel rooms during the pandemic, officials confirmed Wednesday.

There are about 270 people, mostly homeless, staying in hotel rooms to recover from COVID-19 or to wait out possible exposure to the virus. Nearly a dozen people have received alcohol and more than two dozen have received tobacco, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

City officials said that private donations pay for the items, and that helping manage nicotine, opioid and alcohol cravings ensures that recovering people don't go out and possibly infect others.

Dr. Grant Colfax, San Francisco's public health director, said the harm-reduction approach is widespread and based on decades of sound public health policy.

"...decades of sound public health policy." Okay, then.

Washington Times: Nancy Pelosi; Let them eat ice cream.

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Andrew Cuomo: Out-of-state crisis volunteers will pay taxes.

Forbes: Andrew Cuomo Confirms New York Will Tax Out-Of-State Volunteer Health Workers.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) made news this week when he confirmed that the Empire State plans to send an income tax bill to out-of-state health care workers who came to New York City to help treat coronavirus patients. Governor Cuomo’s remarks, in which he referred to the prospect of not taxing out-of-state volunteer health workers as a “subsidy,” indicate that he would reconsider this approach only if the federal government sends more money to New York.

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Friday Morning Music Video

"Joan Crawford" from Fire of Unknown Origin by BÖC.

RFK Jr.'s Instagram of Bill Gates: "I'm here to save you."

RFK, Jr. Instagram link.

Children's Heath Defense (by RFK, Jr.): Gates’ Globalist Vaccine Agenda: A Win-Win for Pharma and Mandatory Vaccination.

Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global vaccination ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control of global health policy.

Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems to be fueled by a conviction to save the world with technology.
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...Gates appears confident that the Covid-19 crisis will now give him the opportunity to force his dictatorial vaccine programs on all American children – and adults.

Thursday's Friday Morning Music Video

Of live performances that I found, the audio quality on all of them was terrible. So this video is tunes only. Right-click on and open some links in a new tab or window, from the side-bars and find something to read while the song plays.

" WPOD" from The Tubes by The Tubes.

Dr. Bing Liu murdered over 'long-running love triangle feud'.

Daily Mail: Coronavirus researcher, 37, on the verge of releasing 'significant findings' was shot and killed in a murder-suicide by software engineer over a 'long-running love triangle feud'.

A married coronavirus researcher who died in an apparent-murder suicide may have been involved in a long-term love triangle with his alleged killer, police say.

Dr Bing Liu, 37, was found dead with gunshot wounds to the head, neck and torso at his home in the suburb of Ross Township on Saturday afternoon.

Ross Township police said another man, identified as 46-year-old software engineer Hao Gu, entered Liu's home through an unlocked door and opened fire before going back to his car parked 100 yards away and turning the gun on himself.

On Wednesday investigators revealed that they believe the attack was motivated by a 'lengthy dispute regarding an intimate partner'.

The investigators did not offer any additional details about how Liu and Gu knew each other, nor did they say who they believe the 'intimate partner' is.

Police said neither of the men were US citizens, so their findings are being forwarded to federal authorities. 

They also reiterated that there is 'zero evidence' to suggest that the killing had anything to do with the coronavirus research Liu was doing with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
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'Bing was on the verge of making very significant findings toward understanding the cellular mechanisms that underlie SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19] infection and the cellular basis of the following complications,' the statement read.
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Liu is survived by his wife and parents, who still live in China.

Gov. Cuomo welcomes Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation as public school overlords.

Yeah...Gates is the guy to solve defects in the educational system. He he has the "blueprint". 

The public school system can learn much from college dropout Bill Gates, who stole the DOS operating system (originally CP/M), whose vaccine killed thousands in India and whose entire lifetime of MS Win OS contained vulnerabilities inviting hacking, screen freeze, crashing and, of course, "turning it off and on again" to restore its functionality...sometimes...maybe, if the planets were all in the required alignment and high tide was at just the right amplitude.

Read through NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo thread @ NYGovCuomo:

Look, Gates is no Aristotle or Jonas Salk. He never will be. Not even close. Whatever he says on any issue, at best, can be interpreted as a casual observation and quickly dismissed; certainly nothing ever seriously considered and practiced in health, medicine and education.

Kansas City Missouri reverses demand for list of churchgoers, but the fight isn't over.

FOX4 KC: Quinton Lucas DUI and mugshot

Wiki: Quinton Lucas

Liberty Counsel: Kansas City Repeals Name Gathering Order.

Liberty Counsel broke the story after being contacted by concerned pastors. The story went viral quickly and now, as a result of the public outcry over this unconstitutional provision, Kansas City reversed the Fourth Amended Order and issued a Fifth Amended Order on May 4. Under the new order released yesterday, the recording of names and contact information is no longer mandatory. The Fifth Amended Order encourages religious groups to record names and contact information, but it is now voluntary. (Here comes KC's "we pay snitches" program. - DD)
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The amended order now states: “Attendees are not required, however, to provide their names or contact information at any religious gathering.” The recording of names and contact information was also removed from the other “non-essential” operations. However, the Fifth Amended Order still imposes the 10/10/10 rule and no more than 50-person limit on outside religious gatherings, the latter of which is not imposed on any secular gathering.
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["]Due to the overwhelming public outcry, the Kansas City Mayor reversed course and removed this unconstitutional provision. That is the good news. The bad news which Kansas City must still remedy is the continued unconstitutional treatment of churches and houses of worship compared to other secular gatherings," [said] Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver.

Churchgoers required to register with Kansas City, Missouri government. (May 2, 2020)

Dr. Bing Liu, Chinese coronavirus researcher, 37, at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is killed in murder-suicide while on verge of 'significant findings'.

Daily Mail: Mystery as Chinese coronavirus researcher, 37, at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is killed in murder-suicide while on verge of 'significant findings'.

A well-respected University of Pittsburgh Medical Center researcher was said to have been on the verge of 'very significant findings' related to the coronavirus when police say he was killed in an apparent murder-suicide.

Dr Bing Liu, 37, was alone at his home in the 200 block of Elm Court in Ross Township on Saturday afternoon when another man - identified as 46-year-old Hao Gu - allegedly entered the residence through an unlocked door and opened fire.

Liu was struck by bullets in the head, neck and torso, and died of his injuries.

His wife was not home at the time of the homicide, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. The couple do not have children. 

Police said Gu then returned to his car parked 100 yards away at Charlemagne Circle and turned the gun on himself.

According to police, Liu and Gu knew each other prior to the murder-suicide, but they would not elaborate on the nature of their relationship, or speculate about a motive.

Nothing was reported missing from Liu's home, and police said there is no danger to the public, reported KDKA.

Liu was a research assistant professor in UPMC's Computational and Systems Biology Department, according to a statement released by his employer announcing his untimely death.

'Bing was on the verge of making very significant findings toward understanding the cellular mechanisms that underlie SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19] infection and the cellular basis of the following complications,' the statement read. 'We will make an effort to complete what he started in an effort to pay homage to his scientific excellence.'

We need more details on Hao Gu, and we need them fast.

Does the timing and manner of Dr. Liu's murder, and the suicide of his killer, seem suspicious, or is it just me? Gu enters the home through an unlocked door and kills Liu. This doesn't appear random or coincidental.
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Daily Mail Archived.

Churchgoers required to register with Kansas City, Missouri government.

 

FOX4 KC: Quinton Lucas mugshot - arrested for DUI in Douglas County.

FOX4 KC Archived

Wiki: Quinton Lucas

Liberty Counsel: Churchgoers Must Register With the Government in Kansas City.

Kansas City, Missouri, officials are now requiring every church to submit a list of members and attendees along with their names, addresses and telephone numbers to city officials for tracking and surveillance purposes.

I am running out of adjectives to describe how completely insane the tyrannical abuses launched by state governors and local officials against pastors and churches are becoming. It is as if these leaders never bothered to so much as glance at the Constitution they swore to uphold and defend. They seem to be governing from some make-believe, dystopian viewpoint.

Yesterday, we received a desperate call from a Kansas City, Missouri, church whose local government is reaching new and terrifying heights in destroying our constitutional freedom. The Kansas City government is now DEMANDING that churches turn over membership lists, along with the names, telephone numbers and physical addresses of anyone who enters a church! This order also applies to all businesses.

The new order states that by recording names and contact information, the health department will be able “to more quickly trace, test, and isolate individuals who may have been exposed to COVID-19.” Anyone who does not provide this information should be refused entrance!

The Germans did this very thing to Jews – collecting the names and locations of all known synagogue attendees - in the early days of the Nazi regime.
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These attacks on our churches cannot stand.
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[Signed]
In Christ,

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman

Please read the full story at the Liberty Counsel link.

Where is the normally loud "separation of Church and State" crowd in all of this? Surely there must be...3 or...4 of them who attend places of worship. This should not only offend them, but scare them.

Have mosques and other places of worship received the same "request" from the Kansas City Politburo? Have leaders of other denominations spoken up in defense of, advocating on behalf of, and aligning themselves with, Liberty Counsel?

This is my opinion, and only my opinion: In instances like those described in the Liberty Counsel letter, the best - and only - response to any government agency requesting this type of information is: "We have turned these matters over to our attorneys and they will be in contact with you." The end.

Read more at Meto Voice News.

Twitter condones violence as long as it's an effigy.

Apparently Twitter is just fine with violent content, as long as it's an effigy. 

I've reported Fat Bastard Michael Moore's violent Tweet to Twitter three times and I haven't even received their automated "Thank you for reporting this" response. So much for Twatter's "policies". 

I'm thinking of joining Twitter. I'd plan on Tweeting nothing other than video clips of violence being done to effigies of Twitter CEO Soy Boy Jack Dorsey and the Fat Bastard Michael Moore.

 The Fat Bastard ...Red is such a slimming color.

Leaked ‘Five Eyes’ dossier on alleged Chinese coronavirus coverup consistent with US findings.

FOX News (right click on link and open in new window): Leaked ‘Five Eyes’ dossier on alleged Chinese coronavirus coverup consistent with US findings, officials say.

A research dossier compiled by the so-called “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance, that reportedly concludes China intentionally hid or destroyed evidence of the coronavirus pandemic, is consistent with U.S. findings about the origins of the outbreak so far, senior U.S. officials told Fox News on Saturday.

The 15-page document from the intelligence agencies of the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, was obtained by Australia's Saturday Telegraph newspaper and finds that China's secrecy amounted to an “assault on international transparency."
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While U.S. intelligence is not confirming the existence of the 15-page document, a senior official told Fox that reports of the document aligns with U.S. intelligence that China knew the spread between humans earlier than it said, that it knew it was a novel coronavirus earlier than it said and that it was spread wider than they reported to the international community in the first weeks of the outbreak.

But there are some exceptions. In particular, Australia believes the virus originated in a wet market, as the Chinese have claimed. However,  the U.S. intelligence community has not yet determined this and is still leaning away from that theory.
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The source told Fox that the reports show "how duplicitous the Chinese have been" in regard to information about the origins and spread of the virus and that "the impact of their secrecy has really shaken our allies."

“Everyone is furious with the Chinese,” the source said,

The new “Five Eyes” dossier finds that China began censoring news of the virus on search engines and social media beginning Dec. 31, deleting terms including “SARS variation," “Wuhan Seafood market” and “Wuhan Unknown Pneumonia.”

Three days later, on Jan. 3, China’s National Health Commission ordered virus samples to be either moved to designated testing facilities or destroyed, while simultaneously issuing a "no-publication order" related to the disease.
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The dossier also concludes that Chinese authorities denied that the virus could be spread between humans until Jan. 20, "despite evidence of human-human transmission from early December."

The file is similarly critical about the World Health Organization (WHO), stating that it toed the Chinese line about human-to-human transmission despite the fact that "officials in Taiwan raised concerns as early as December 31, as did experts in Hong Kong on January 4.”

How long before Bill Gates takes center stage at another symposium shilling for China, telling us what a fine job they did at the beginning of this outbreak?

Bill Gates: "China missed some things."

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Adam Carolla nails the absurdity on California Lockdown from Tucker Carlson April 30, 2020.

Carolla nails it. His humor is so dry...I love it.

Friday Morning Music Video

"Roll on Down The Highway" from Not Fragile by BTO.