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Coronavirus cases pass 500,000 in France, restaurant owners in Marseille protest closures

Dine and die? Government give more financial support to restaurants and support health over profit!

The number of coronavirus cases in France has passed 500,000, authorities said on Friday after recording a near-record daily jump in infections. Meanwhile, hundreds of restaurant and bar owners in the virus-hit city of Marseille took to the streets to protest a government order to close their businesses to stop the alarming spread of Covid-19.

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Orthodox Anti-Maskers Crash NYC COVID Outreach, Scream Racial Epithets – Gothamist

Source: Orthodox Anti-Maskers Crash NYC COVID Outreach, Scream Racial Epithets – Gothamist

An event in Brooklyn aimed at raising awareness about the alarming cluster of COVID cases in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods was cut short on Friday, after a pair of anti-mask activists hurled personal insults at health officials and shouted racial epithets.

Orthodox radio host Heshy Tischler stormed the podium and accused Dr. Ted Long, the head of the city’s Test & Trace program, of lying about the increase in infections. “Your violent Nazi storm troopers are coming in here to violate us,” he shouted. “That’s all you’re here for!”

As that was happening, a second man confronted Dr. Mitchell Katz, the leader of the city’s public hospital system. “Get the fuck out of here,” he said. “Go to your fucking nice house some place.” When a mayoral staffer approached the man with a surgical mask, he rejected it. “I don’t want a mask. It’s my freedom.”

Go to East New York,” the man, who sources identified as Borough Park resident Heshy Brach, continued. “I’ll bring you some n—-rs, I’ll throw you some rocks. You want antifa here?”

Nearly half of all Israelis lie during epidemiological inquiries – report

Approximately 45% of all Israeli who tested positive for coronavirus reported during their epidemiological inquiries that they had no contact whatsoever with other people. 460681
Approximately 45% of all Israeli who tested positive for coronavirus reported during their epidemiological inquiries that they had no contact whatsoever with other people.

Pro-Trump activists plan violence in Portland protests: chat logs – Insider

Source: Pro-Trump activists plan violence in Portland protests: chat logs – Insider

  • Leaked chat logs show that Pro-Trump activists have been organizing violence ahead of Portland protests, the Guardian reported.
  • The activists are acquiring weapons and ammunition, and discussed attacking Portland’s mayor, the logs show.
  • One poster who urged activists to break local weapons laws wrote: “This won’t be a simple fist fight. People will get shot, stabbed and beat.”

Former intelligence agency director Robert Cardillo speaks out against ‘erratic’ Trump

“Suffice to say that the person you see presiding over COVID-19 press conferences is the same one in the privacy of his office. He has little patience for facts or data that do not comport with his personal world view. Thus, the conversations are erratic and less than fully thoughtful.”

Cardillo said that unlike other presidents he has served under, Trump puts more weight on “the word of dictators like [Russian President] Vladimir Putin” than the U.S. intelligence community.

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Robert Cardillo, former deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and ex-director of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, spoke out against President Trump on Friday in …

N.Y.C. Threatens Orthodox Jewish Areas on Virus, but Trump’s Impact Is Seen – The New York Times

Officials this week released statistics showing that the positivity rate in some Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods had grown to anywhere from 3 percent to 6 percent, significantly more than the city’s overall rate of between 1 percent and 2 percent. Officials are especially worried about the positivity rates in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park, Midwood and Gravesend, which they have referred to as the “Ocean Parkway Cluster.”

Here’s More Proof Donald Trump Is a Big Weenie With An Incredibly Fragile Ego, In Case You Need It

Last year, the Finnish investigative journalist Jessikka Aro, who seems very cool and smart, was slated to receive the State Department’s International Women of Courage Award for her coverage of Russian troll farms. But then, as Foreign Policy first reported at the time, the State Department then took the award back after officials very belatedly found social media posts she had made that were critical of Donald Trump. Naturally, they then covered their asses by proclaiming that Aro was “incorrectly notified” that she was to receive the award. As a department spokesperson told reporters, “This was an error. This was a mistake.”

But now, even the State Department’s own internal watchdog has verified the news reports that Aro’s award was rescinded because she was too critical of Trump. umjeypukjmwlevxskyjq.jpg

Last year, the Finnish investigative journalist Jessikka Aro, who seems very cool and smart, was slated to receive the State Department’s International Women of Courage Award for her coverage of Russian troll farms. But then, as Foreign Policy first reported at the time, the State Department then took the award back…

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