The gradual but accelerating “quarantining” of the world into its constituent parts to halt the spread of the Coronavirus just took a major step moments ago, when the FT reported that European countries plan a ban on entry to the 26-state Schengen passport free travel zone in the most radical response yet to the continent’s […]
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Self-Isolates After Wife Shows Coronavirus Symptoms…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is self-isolating at his home after his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau returned from London and exhibited “mild flu-like symptoms.” “She immediately sought medical advice, and is being tested for the COVID-19 virus,” CTV News reported. “She is self-isolating at home awaiting test results, and her symptoms have since subsided.” Prime […]
Italian Medical Chief Dies from Coronavirus…
Italy’s medical community is mourning the death of the head of the medical association in the northern Italian region of Varese, Italy’s state-run ANSA reported Wednesday. Roberto Stella, president of the Medical Guild of Varese, died Tuesday night in Como, where the 67-year-old was hospitalized for respiratory failure due to coronavirus, the agency reported In […]
Inside the Red Zone: An Interview from Italy During Covid-19 Lockdown…
Since COVID-19 appeared in the news, I have paid even more attention to some of the preparedness forums and social media groups that I am part of. People have a lot of questions about preparedness and I have been making an effort to help them figure things out whenever possible. In one group I saw […]
Merkel Expects 60-70 Percent of Germans To Be Infected with Coronavirus…
Parliament falls silent as German Chancellor drops shocking number. Angela Merkel says she expects around 60-70 per cent of Germans will be infected with the coronavirus, which equates to about 53 million people. Reportedly, the German Parliament fell completely silent when Merkel stated the number News outlet Bild reported the German Chancellor’s comments, which echoed […]
Italy Reports 196 New Deaths From Coronavirus in 24 Hours…
Italian health officials on Wednesday reported 196 deaths from the COVID-19 coronavirus in the past 24 hours, representing a 30 percent increase over the previous day. Confirmed cases rose more than 20 percent to 12,462, making Italy the worst-affected country in the world outside of mainland China. Italy’s emergency manager, Angelo Borrelli, announced the new […]
China Covered Up Outbreak of New Coronavirus, US National Security Adviser Says…
Chinese officials covered up the initial outbreak of the new coronavirus, costing the world some two months in response time, U.S. national security advisor Robert O’Brien said, in some of the strongest remarks against the regime in Bejing about the spread of the virus. In response to Chinese officials’ recent claims that the virus didn’t […]
UK’s Health Minister Nadine Dorries Tests Positive for COVID-19…
Health minister Nadine Dorries has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating. She is the first MP in the UK to be diagnosed with COVID-19, as the virus spread further on Tuesday. A sixth person in the country has died and the total number of confirmed cases is 382 – up by 54 in the […]
Corrupt Elites Siphon Aid Money Intended for World’s Poorest…
A new study has found that as much as a sixth of foreign aid intended for the world’s poorest countries has flowed into bank accounts in tax havens owned by elites. The report from the World Bank, opens with the simple question: “Do elites capture foreign aid?” The overriding conclusion of the 46-page report says […]
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Russian Parliament Adjourns After Proposal to Allow Putin to Run Again in 2024 Presidential Elections…
Proceedings in Russia’s State Duma have been temporarily suspended and President Vladimir Putin is set to make an address this afternoon. It comes after a suggestion that Presidential term limits could be re-set. The idea was floated by Valentina Tereshkova, an MP from the ruling ‘United Russia’ party, who is also famous for being the […]
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Depart After Their Final Engagement as Senior Royals…
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry signalled their last hurrah as senior members of the Royal Family with a wave as the couple drove away from a rainy Westminster Abbey. Today’s Commonwealth Service was their final official engagement before their exit from The Firm – dubbed Megxit. From March 31, the monarch’s grandson and American former […]
ITALY QUARANTINES ENTIRE COUNTRY…
Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced that starting Tuesday, the entire country will be placed under lockdown to combat the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus—an expansion of a lockdown that was previously limited to the virus-hit north. The restrictions will include banning all public gatherings while preventing movement other than for work and emergencies, he […]
Saudi Arabia’s Powerful Crown Prince Orders Arrests of Senior Royal Family Members…
Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has detained three senior members of the kingdom’s royal family, clearing away once-formidable rivals to the throne, people familiar with the matter have said. The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times reported that Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, King Salman’s younger brother, and Prince Mohammed […]
Putin and Erdogan Sign Agreement on Idlib, Ceasefire Begins at 00:01 March 6th…
On March 5th, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Moscow to discuss the situation in Idlib, Syria – 🇷🇺🇹🇷 President #Putin received President @RTErdogan at the Kremlin. The two leaders are discussing possible solutions to the #SyrianCrisis taking into consideration the aggravation of the situation in the #Idlib de-escalation […]
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Liberman May Recommend Gantz for Prime Minister, Will Support Bill to Disqualify Netanyahu…
Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party is expected to recommend to President Reuven Rivlin that Blue and White leader Benny Gantz be tasked with forming a government, according to Hebrew media reports Thursday neither confirmed nor denied by the party. With Liberman’s backing, Gantz could receive more recommendations than Netanyahu, complicating Rivlin’s choice of who to […]
The Skripal/Salisbury Poisonings Two Years On: A Riddle, Wrapped in a Cover Up, Inside a Hoax…
I’ve said some stupid things in my time, but up there with the best of them was a comment I uttered to my wife on the morning of Tuesday 6th March 2018. The previous night the news had broken that an ex-spy by the name of Sergei Skripal had apparently been one of two people […]
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What the Vatican’s Secret Archives Are About to Reveal by David I. Kertzer…
Today, after decades of controversy over Pope Pius XII’s failure to condemn the mass murder of Europe’s Jews during the Second World War, the Vatican archives covering his papacy are at last open to researchers. Pius XII—born Eugenio Pacelli—is reviled by some for his failure to speak out against the Holocaust. He is venerated by […]
Moscow’s Difficult Decision on Idlib…
As Recip Tayyip Erdogan prosecutes his latest military intrusion southward into Syria, all the old mythologies about the Turkish president and the 9-year-old Syrian conflict are rehearsed once again, hopelessly threadbare as they are. The problem now is not the fog of war. The problem is the war of fog. Let us be clear from […]
Counting of Final Votes in Israeli Election Set to Begin; Likud Lead over Blue and White Shrinks…
The Central Elections Committee was set to begin counting the final ballots, as it announced late Tuesday that almost all of the votes cast in the elections had been tallied, with the Likud-led right wing bloc down to 58 seats, still short of a majority. The committee said votes from 10,552 polling places across the […]
A Wake-Up Call: The Idlib Crisis and Its Effects Look Set Only to Worsen…
The death of at least 33 Turkish soldiers and wounding of 60 more in Syria’s Idlib on Thursday night was a game-changing development. According to informed sources, the troops were operating in a two-story frontline command headquarters when it was attacked from the air, at night, with precision munitions, including 1.5-ton “demolition bombs” — all […]