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Summary:
- Wisconsin confirms the first case of coronavirus, bringing US total to 12
- First babies born infected with coronavirus
- Hong Kong closes borders with mainland
- Doctors say death rate exaggerated by Wuhan fatalities
- 24,628 cases, 492 deaths
- President Xi says China ‘capable of suppressing the outbreak
- Cruise ship quarantined in Hong Kong
- WHO asks for more money as it ‘confirms’ China’s numbers
- 2 planeloads of Americans evacuated from Wuhan landed in California early Wednesday
- CDC says a total of 4 evacuations flights from Wuhan either have returned, or will return, to the US this week.
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Update (1415ET): It hasn’t even been two hours since the CDC affirmed that no new cases of the virus had been confirmed since the weekend, and Wisconsin Health Authorities have just confirmed the first case in their state – bringing the national total to 12.
BREAKING — Wisconsin Dept of Health confirms #Coronavirus in Wisconsin. Details coming in on conference call. @WISN12News
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Update (1330ET): Just the other day, a spokesperson for the government in Beijing blasted the US for spreading panic about the coronavirus outbreak. Now, another mouthpiece for the regime is hinting that the US should offer China some “leniency” on fulfilling its obligations under the ‘Phase 1’ trade deal, confirming the suspicions of some analysts who anticipated a problem after the White House said it still expected China to adhere to its commitments.
China is concentrating on battling coronavirus. The US government should be flexible on China-US phase one trade deal as a way to show goodwill to Chinese people working hard to contain the epidemic. I believe doing so will not harm President Trump’s image among American public.16612:27 PM – Feb 5, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy150 people are talking about this
So the virus is now threatening both the global growth and trade detente narratives. We suspect the market will start pricing in more rate cuts in the not too distant future.
Update (1300ET): The CDC held a ‘brief’ press briefing on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing effort to evacuate Americans from Wuhan, and to offer an update on the status of the outbreak in the US.
There have been no new confirmed cases in the US since the last update, the CDC said. 206 people have tested negative, and 76 more patients remain under observation. All of the confirmed US cases are recovering and are expected to survive.
The CDC added that two planes landed in California Wednesday (as we noted earlier), and two more tomorrow. The planes will land/landed at Travis Air Force Base in Sacramento, CA, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, CA, Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, TX Eppley Airfield in Omaha, NE.
Passengers will be screened upon landing and if there is reason to suspect they have been infected they will be quarantined for 14 days.
But with a larger outbreak expected, the CDC said it started shipping its coronavirus test kits to more than 100 public health labs nationwide. Each kit services 700-800 patient samples. After states validate the tests, which could take a few days, they’ll start reporting any new cases directly.
The mandatory quarantine orders – the first in 50 years – are the beginning of what could be a “long response,” according to the CDC’s Nancy Messonnier.
“This could be the beginning of what could be a long response,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier said.
She also described the threat as an “unprecedented” public health threat.
“While we recognize this is an unprecedented action, we are facing an unprecedented public health threat,” Messonnier said last week.
The four latest evacuation flights come after the first government-chartered flight from Wuhan landed at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California last week. The flight’s 195 passengers remain under quarantine at the base.
Travel to China from the U.S. is restricted, and U.S. residents in China are encouraged to leave as soon as possible, following CDC and Chinese authority prevention guidance.
If you’re looking for an easy primer on the virus and its history, the CDC recently tweeted this video.
Coronaviruses are named for the crown-like spikes on the surface of the viruses. Human coronaviruses were first identified in the mid-1960s. The 2019 novel coronavirus (#2019nCoV) is a new virus never before seen in people. To learn about 2019-nCoV, visit https://bit.ly/36oxxu7 2599:30 AM – Feb 5, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy248 people are talking about this
Around the world, the march of suspected cases continues on. Brazil just announced 11 suspected cases – what would be the first cases in South America, if confirmed. In Cali, the state with the most confirmed cases in the US, five health care workers at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose were exposed to the new coronavirus while treating a patient there, and have now been sent home and told to remain isolated until Feb. 11. Those workers sure are lucky they aren’t in China.
Update (1100ET): At this point, most people who have been paying attention probably understand that the coronavirus pandemic probably won’t be ‘contained’ within China
But in case you had not yet been disabused of that notion, we’d like to turn things over to the WHO, which has repeatedly defended China’s response and transparency. In what looks like an attempt to shore up confidence in the numbers being released by Beijing, the WHO has “confirmed” that more than 3,100 new cases of the virus were discovered in China over the last 24 hours.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a Wednesday afternoon news conference in Switzerland that the reported cases are “the most cases in a single day since the outbreak started.”
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Now that nCoV has been declared a global pandemic, the WHO said it needs more resources to fight it: So Dr. Tedros announced a response plan and is requesting additional funding to the tune of more than half a billion dollars.
“We are requesting $675 million (in) U.S. dollars to fund the plan for the next 3 months,” he said on a call with reporters, explaining that only $60 million of that will fund WHO operations while the rest will go toward supporting countries fighting to contain. “Our message to the international community is invested today or pay later.” The WHO has already tapped $9 million of funding from its contingency fund for emergencies, Tedros said.
Perhaps China wasn’t pleased with the WHO’s admission that the virus is a dangerous pandemic. They can’t simply turn to Beijing for money to clean up a global mess that China made?
In what might be a preview of a CDC presser expected early Wednesday afternoon, BBG reports that top American infectious disease experts now fully expect a major outbreak in the US.
“It is not a matter of if—it is a matter of when,” said Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security and a spokesman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. “There is not a doubt this is going to end up in most countries eventually.”
At this point, the best-case scenario is mitigation: preventing every country from turning into Wuhan.
“This is about mitigation at this point, and keeping the global spread as minimal as possible,” said Rebecca Katz, a professor and director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University.
Only 11 cases have been confirmed in the US so far, even as more Americans evacuated from Wuhan arrived in California early Wednesday.
Two planes carrying coronavirus evacuees landed at Travis Air Force Base in Solano County early Wednesday morning. The second plane arrived around 4:25 am, according to ABC News.
The second plane carrying remaining coronavirus evacuees departed from Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield for Southern California.
Both planes came from Wuhan, China filled with Americans evacuated from the country due to the growing outbreak.
One of these planes will refuel and fly to San Diego in Southern California to take some evacuees there.
In other news, millions of Africans were probably relieved to hear that five people in Botswana tested negative for the virus on Wednesday. But across the continent, African countries are rallying their “fragile” medical infrastructure to face the task of containing the virus. According to Reuters, isolation wards stand ready inside hospitals in Khartoum, labs in Senegal and Madagascar have stocked up on testing equipment and passengers arriving in the Gambia, Cameroon, and Guinea are being screened for fever and other symptoms.
The African CDCP has activated an emergency operation center to coordinate the response to the virus across more than 54 governments. They know early detection will be critical to preventing a full-blown outbreak.
John Nkengasong, Africa’s CDC director, told a briefing in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa this week that the activation of the emergency operation centre would create a single incident system to manage the outbreak across the continent.
The Africa CDC will also hold a training workshop in Senegal for 15 African countries on laboratory diagnosis, he said.
The continent has more than doubled the number of laboratories now equipped to diagnose the viral infection, this week adding facilities in Ghana, Madagascar and Nigeria and to established testing labs in South Africa and Sierra Leone.
“By the end of the week we expect that an additional 24 countries (in Africa) will receive the reagents needed to conduct the tests and will have the test running,” a spokeswoman for the WHO’s Africa Region told Reuters.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has barred its citizens from traveling to China, Burkina Faso has asked Chinese citizens to stay away for now, and Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda have all suspended flights to China. We’re surprised more of their neighbors haven’t followed suit.
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Two days ago, Chinese health authorities breathed a sigh of relief as a newborn tested negative for the hyper-contagious virus, which bears suspicious similarities to HIV.
Unfortunately, another newborn hasn’t been so lucky: media reports claimed the first case of mother-to-child transmission has been confirmed in Wuhan.
Picking up on reports in Chinese media, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday that the newborn baby of a coronavirus patient in Wuhan had been diagnosed with the deadly disease just 30 hours after birth, prompting doctors to reckon with the possibility that the virus could be routinely passed from pregnant mother to child, in addition to feces and aerosol transfer. The gender of the infected child, who was born on Sunday, has not been released. The baby’s condition is said to be ‘stable’ and it is being closely monitored.
“This reminds us to pay attention to a potential new transmission route of the coronavirus – vertical transmission from mothers to babies,” said Dr. Zeng Lingkong, a chief physician from the hospital’s Department of Neonatal Medicine.
The newborn is one of the two babies at Wuhan Children’s Hospital that have been found to carry the coronavirus. The other baby was infected by a wet nurse after being born healthy. In Wuhan, babies are being delivered by doctors in hazmat suits.
Funny thing is…
Funny that last week #zerohedge got banned over an HIV linked article and now 2 drug companies are offering their HIV drugs for help with the virus. https://twitter.com/megtirrell/status/1225031603963015168 …Meg Tirrell✔@megtirrellDarunavir is $JNJ HIV drug Prezista. Dr Paul Stoffels, J&J’s chief scientific officer, told us the company was investigating whether its HIV drugs could help against #2019nCoV. And we know $ABBV donated some of its HIV drugs. Arbidol is an anti-flu drug not approved in U.S. https://twitter.com/onlyyoontv/status/1225028539109392384 …3667:04 AM – Feb 5, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy115 people are talking about this
Meanwhile, after reporting dozens of new deaths late Tuesday evening in New York, total coronavirus cases remained at 24,628 Wednesday morning after a few new cases were reported around the world overnight. The global death toll remains at 492, according to SCMP.
Now that Wuhan has finished the first of two new coronavirus hospitals adding 1,000 beds, the city has started setting up three modular hospitals to provide another 3,800 beds for patients with mild symptoms of infection. A second hospital under construction is expected to be finished in the coming days.
As Beijing struggles to battle anti-Chinese sentiment around the world, Bloomberg reports that “Indonesia’s scariest market” has just taken bat soup off the menu.
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During an emergency meeting of China’s highest policy-setting body on Monday, President Xi reportedly called on all Communist Party officials to work together to fight the viral outbreak, which has grown into a serious threat to stability on the mainland. In addition to emphasizing the seriousness of the virus, Xi also threatened to punish any local officials caught slacking (hundreds have already been published as part of his scapegoating efforts).
But after eight days of radio silence outside of the state-controlled media reports, Xi appeared in public on Wednesday for the first time since the outbreak caught the world’s attention.
During an appearance alongside Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Beijing, Xi said China had imposed strict measures to contain the outbreak and promised to look after Cambodian students in Wuhan.
“China is confident and capable of containing the outbreak,” he said. He added that the Cambodian students stuck in Wuhan would be well taken care of by the Chinese government.
The president added that Chinese laws against eating wild animals (like…bats) must be fully enforced, along with all other strictures imposed to fight the virus (like all of those lockdowns requiring millions of terrified Chinese to stay inside).
“Currently we are at the critical moment of controlling the epidemic,” he said. “Offences jeopardising disease control, including resistance to control measures, violence towards medical staff, counterfeiting medical materials and the spreading of rumours must be severely curtailed.”
Despite Xi’s optimistic words, another Chinese official told state media that the situation in places like Wuhan is still “severe”, and that the city faces many “challenges and pressures.”
In other news, yet another cruise ship has been waylaid by the outbreak: After Japanese officials confirmed last night that nearly a dozen passengers aboard the “Diamond Princess”, a cruise ship presently being quarantined in Yokohama, had tested positive for the virus.
Now, Reuters reports that Hong Kong is testing more than 1,800 passengers and crew aboard a cruise ship for coronavirus after some crew members reported fevers and other suspicious symptoms. Authorities were not letting anyone leave the ship without explicit permission.
In the latest round of speculation about the virus’s fatality rate, doctors told Reuters that the fatality rate has been exaggerated because overwhelmed Wuhan is struggling with many more preventable deaths, along with underreporting of mild cases.
“In an outbreak your really have to interpret fatality rates with a very skeptical eye, because often it’s only the very severe cases that are coming to people’s attention,” said Amesh Adalja, an expert in pandemic preparedness at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore.
“It’s very hard to say those numbers represent anything like the true burden of infection” said Adalja, who estimates current fatality rates are likely below 1%.
That’s probably true, but still…one death in 23? The virus is clearly more of a threat to healthy people than Chinese authorities were initially willing to admit (remember when they said the virus only killed the elderly and those with serious co-occurring conditions?).
As people reflect on China’s extensive lockdowns forcing millions to remain inside Wuhan and other cities. In the central Chinese city, which has been on lockdown for more than a week, found a 43-year-old native of Wuhan who climbed up rusty pipes to the third-floor balcony of an apartment to gain entry into the home of a middle-aged couple – to feed 2 starving cats trapped inside 10 days. Locals have said they’re afraid to leave their houses for fear of being targeted by drones, or by police.
Reuters reports that many in Wuhan are taking drastic steps to feed starving pets.
BEIJING (Reuters) – A 43-year-old native of Wuhan, a central Chinese city ravaged by a virus outbreak, said he climbed up rusty pipes to the third-floor balcony of an apartment to gain entry into the home of a middle-aged couple – to feed 2 starving cats trapped inside 10 days.1266:30 PM – Feb 4, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy57 people are talking about this
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Reuters: He found the animals under a sofa, barely alive. Lao Mao rang up their owners, who broke down and cried on the video call at the sight of their pets.
Their owners had gone on what was originally a three-day trip to the north but had been unable to return.336:30 PM – Feb 4, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacySee Vincent Lee’s other Tweets
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Reuters: “The volunteers on our team, I included, have saved more than 1,000 pets since Jan. 25,” said Lao Mao, declining to disclose his real name because he did not want his family to know he was out and about in the city.566:31 PM – Feb 4, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy24 people are talking about this
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Reuters: Without intervention, the pests will starve to death. Many owners, either in quarantine or stranded in other provinces and countries, have sought help from animal lovers like Lao Mao on social media.
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Reuters: Many in Beijing and Shanghai also rushed to buy face masks for their dogs in their mistaken belief that pets could catch the virus.246:32 PM – Feb 4, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacySee Vincent Lee’s other Tweets
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Reuters: “I’m worried about my dog being hated by the neighborhood,” said Beijinger Wang Fengyun, who has a poodle.
“I haven’t found any pet masks, so I’ve made one myself with a paper cup.”156:32 PM – Feb 4, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacySee Vincent Lee’s other Tweets
In the latest sign of how the virus is impacting airlines, Cathay Pacific has asked employees to take unpaid leave. On Tuesday, the airline, which is partially owned by the Chinese government, said it plans to cut about 30% of capacity over the next two months, including about 90% of flights to mainland China.
Dozens of airlines have suspended some or all of their routes to China. Jefferies analysts warned clients in a note that Cathay would report a loss in the first half of 2020 thanks to the outbreak, though they expect performance to rebound strongly in the second half.
In the US, former FDA Director Dr. Scott Gottlieb reiterated on CNBC that an outbreak in the US is inevitable (indeed it’s already started).
“We are very likely to see outbreaks of this virus here in the United States,” says @ScottGottliebMD. “It’s likely there are cases here in the U.S. right now where people are spreading this at a low level–we haven’t detected it yet–who haven’t traveled to China.” #coronavirus667:34 AM – Feb 5, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy53 people are talking about this
After China accused the US of provoking unnecessary panic over the virus (why won’t everyone just listen to the WHO?), State TV published a report declaring racism to be “the most dangerous” aspect of the outbreak.
Racism is the most dangerous virus.
“When H1N1 virus broke out in the U.S. in 2009, no one called it “American virus’, When this coronavirus broke out in China, you call it ‘China virus'”, Chinese blogger calls for #coronavirus related racism and bullying to stop.1,1187:00 AM – Feb 5, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy705 people are talking about this
More severe than a fast-spreading virus that shares characteristics of the flu, pneumonia, and HIV?
In other virus news, earlier, Hong Kong acquiesced to striking health care workers and authorized the closure of all borders with China. Meanwhile, a WHO spokesperson said there are “no effective remedies” proven to treat coronavirus – this amid reports that AIDS meds and some flu meds had been found to be effective for some patients.
As rescue operations continue with Canada becoming the latest to dispatch a plane to evacuate citizens trapped in Wuhan, Canadian media reported that the plane sent for the evacuation is awaiting permission from Chinese authorities, mirroring delays that afflicted previous missions carried out by the British and others.
Finally, have you been dreading that inevitable conversation where you have to explain the coronavirus outbreak to your kids? Don’t worry – Time Magazine has got you covered.
4 Plagues Are Marching Across Asia Simultaneously: Coronavirus, African Swine Fever, H5N1 Bird Flu, & H1N1 Swine Flu
The watchman does not confuse truth with consensus. The Watchman does not confuse God’s word with the word of those who happen to hold power at present, or with the opinion of the majority. This is because powerholders and the majority can fall victim to a lying spirit-and this means a power that actually seizes the majority of experts, the political leadership, and the public…
Long before we ever heard of this new coronavirus, African Swine Fever was devastating pork farms from one end of China to the other. There is no vaccine for “pig ebola”, there is no cure, and once it hits a farm the only thing that can be done is to kill every single pig so that it won’t spread anywhere else. But even though draconian measures have been implemented, it has just kept spreading, and at this point “about two-thirds of China’s swine herd has been lost”…
Video of people fighting over pork at Chinese meat counters will likely become more common as the fallout from the African swine fever outbreak in China progresses.Brett Stuart, president of the market research and analysis firm Global AgriTrends, estimates that about two-thirds of China’s swine herd has been lost to the disease and contrary to official government reports of recovery, more pigs are dying every day as ASF continues to spread.
Prior to this crisis, approximately half of all the pigs in the entire world lived in China, and they would usually slaughter about 700 million a year. But now pork production has absolutely plummeted, and this is driving pork prices in China through the roof…
In China itself, pork prices are at an all-time high at just under $300 per hundredweight and the country outbids Japan, which is usually the top bidder. Food inflation is soaring and some Chinese people have been unable to buy pork in six months.
Unfortunately, this insidious disease has also been devastating farms in many other nations all over the planet. In particular, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Vietnam, and the Philippines have been hit particularly hard.
It has been estimated that one out of every four pigs in the entire world has already died, and this crisis is far from over.
Fortunately, African Swine Fever does not affect humans, but this new coronavirus seems perfectly suited to be transmitted from person to person. Johns Hopkins has put up a map that is continually updated, and according to the latest official numbers there are now 14,637 cases and the death toll has risen to 305. But by the time you read this article those numbers are likely to be even higher.
Of course many are extremely skeptical that the official numbers coming out of China are accurate, and this is something that I have written about repeatedly. There have been multiple reports that indicate that China has been falsely categorizing the deaths of many of the victims to keep the death toll down, and it is also suspicious that so many corpses are being taken “directly to the crematorium”…
Radio Free Asia (RFA) has tweeted a disturbing video on its Twitter account on Saturday morning detailing how those who died of coronavirus in Wuhan, the outbreak area in China, were loaded up on a bus and taken “directly to the crematorium.”
RFA said (in a translated tweet): “[Latest Situation of Wuhan Fifth Hospital] Some Wuhan citizens entered Wuhan Fifth Hospital on February 1st and found many patients who died of pneumonia. The corpses were packed directly to the crematorium. Paramedics are busy rescuing the dying patient.”
RFA’s video is in line with our report from Friday that said those who died of the deadly virus were hauled off to a crematorium in Wuhan by Chinese authorities.
At this point, we don’t know how bad this outbreak will ultimately become, but we do know that the very first death outside of China has now been confirmed…
The Philippine Department of Health said a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan was admitted on Jan. 25 after experiencing a fever, cough, and sore throat. He developed severe pneumonia, and in his last few days, “the patient was stable and showed signs of improvement, however, the condition of the patient deteriorated within his last 24 hours resulting in his demise.”
The man’s 38-year-old female companion, also from Wuhan, also tested positive for the virus and remains in hospital isolation in Manila.
Meanwhile, there has been a very alarming resurgence of the H5N1 bird flu in China.
According to the Daily Mail, more than 17,000 chickens have been culled in an effort to keep this new outbreak from spreading further…
China has reportedly seen an outbreak of a ‘highly pathogenic’ strain of H5N1 bird flu which has already killed 4,500 chickens.
The outbreak was initially reported at a farm in Shaoyang city in the southern province of Hunan, south of the epicentre of the Coronavirus in Wuhan.
According to the Reuters report, Chinese authorities have already culled 17,828 poultry in the wake of the outbreak.
Unlike African Swine Fever, humans can become infected by the H5N1 bird flu.
And according to the World Health Organization, the mortality rate for human cases is approximately 60 percent.
So let us hope that this current outbreak remains limited to chickens.
Alarmingly, the H5N1 bird flu has also popped up at a facility in India…
Authorities in an eastern Indian state will start culling chickens and destroying eggs from Tuesday to contain a bird flu virus of the H5N1 strain, a government statement said on Monday.
The samples collected from a poultry breeding and research farm of a veterinary college in Odisha state tested positive, the statement said.
We haven’t heard much about the H5N1 bird flu in recent years, but this is an extremely deadly disease, and so we will want to monitor these developments very carefully.
On top of everything else, the H1N1 swine flu is starting to spread once again. In fact, more than 100,000 people in Taiwan “sought medical treatment for flu-like symptoms at hospitals across the country over the past week” and there have been 13 confirmed deaths…
At a time when the world is panicking over a 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak, the H1N1 flu virus is actually posing a greater threat in Taiwan, claiming 13 lives in the country in just one week, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
At a weekly meeting Friday, CDC Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) said 116,705 people sought medical treatment for flu-like symptoms at hospitals across the country over the past week, including 61 more confirmed flu cases.
Not too long ago, the H1N1 swine flu caused mass panic all over the globe, and I personally knew someone that was killed by it.
So the truth is that all of these outbreaks are very concerning.
And never before have we seen so many alarming outbreaks occur simultaneously. Could it be possible that we have entered a period of time when mass pandemics are going to become “the new normal”?
Hopefully, none of these current outbreaks will end up killing millions of people all over the globe.
But we have been warned for a long time about how vulnerable we are, and the experts assure us that it is just a matter of time before a mass pandemic brings death to every corner of the planet.
You, Scribes, and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. “BeWarned”
Recently Brannon House, the leader of the Christian ministry Worldview Weekend had several seminars canceled at hotels in the upper Midwest. Mr. House’s ministry is designed to alert and inform Christians about the enemies of Christianity that are currently working over-time to undermine Christianity.
Here is a firsthand account of what the Islamists and the Marxists did to Mr. House and his organization. In a nutshell, Christ-hating groups organized to shut down Mr. Houses’ events at hotels that he had legally contracted with to hold his seminars. The hotels canceled his events and left his ministry holding the bag for nearly $20,000 in expenses he had hoped to recoup from offerings taken at the seminars.
NRB Study: Social Sites Censoring Christians
WASHINGTON — One of the biggest promises of the Internet was that it would have unfettered free speech for all.
However, a new study released Thursday revealed that Christians are one of the few groups being censored online.
The new media platforms of our world — Facebook, Google, Apple, and MySpace — all promise a world filled with much more free speech and democracy.
But the National Religious Broadcasters has warned these platforms could well be the new anti-religious censors of our day. Source
PragerU Files Appeal in Censorship Case Against YouTube
LOS ANGELES, California, April 26, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Conservative Commentator Dennis Prager’s educational video organization Prager University (PragerU) has announced it has filed an appeal of a prior ruling dismissing its lawsuit against YouTube and parent company Google for improperly restricting several of its videos.
On Monday, attorneys for PragerU filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, according to a Thursday press release. PragerU is being represented by the law firm of Browne George Ross LLP.
Last fall, Prager announced a lawsuit against YouTube for placing more than fifty of PragerU’s videos in “restricted mode,” meaning they were inaccessible from accounts that employed parental controls to shield children from violent, sexual, or otherwise inappropriate content. The restricted videos include a moral case against abortion and an overview of European abortion laws.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh threw out the suit last month, ruling that YouTube has absolute discretion to restrict content on its platform as a private entity, and that its stated justification for restricting the videos, that they were age-inappropriate for unspecified reasons, did not constitute false advertising.
“From the beginning of this process, we’ve been prepared to pursue our lawsuit against Google/YouTube as far, and for as long as it takes to secure every Americans’ right to freedom of speech and expression online,” PragerU CEO Marissa Streit declared in Thursday’s press release.
Lamenting that case law on the intersection of free speech and the internet was either “woefully inadequate or completely non-existent,” Streit expressed hope that PragerU’s lawsuit, as well as actions by other conservatives censored by major social media platforms, would help “establish the legal precedents necessary to protect this sacred right for generations of Americans to come.”
“The time is now for the courts to address this glaring hole in case law and to hold big tech accountable for trying to tell us what is acceptable to think, say, or watch,” she declared. “We are increasingly optimistic about the merits of our lawsuit and we look forward to arguing our case before the Ninth Circuit court of appeals.”
Streit also laid out the stakes of their fight in a statement to Breitbart News.
“We cannot allow companies like Google/YouTube to operate as authoritarian tyrants who control the flow of information in a time in history we call the information age,” she warned, otherwise the “information age will become a dark age” and the United States would “risk losing this uniquely American heritage, which is really the foundation of our democracy.”
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Editor, HNewsWire.com
The World leaders Are Having Trouble With The Truth, and The World Has been “Quarantined” Tribulation Is Here…
Demon Virus
Asked about the virus while traveling abroad last week, Trump said: “We have it totally under control”. In a separate Twitter posting, he offered reassurance but scant detail for his confidence. By Associated Press Updated On: 05:53 PST, Jan 31, 2020
WASHINGTON: Wuhan coronavirus: Donald Trump says deadly outbreak ‘very well under control’ as WHO declares the global emergency. President Donald Trump regaled a friendly New Jersey campaign crowd with his thoughts about impeachment, the economy, the border wall, local politics and much more.
But he was conspicuously quiet on January 28 about one big issue keeping much of the globe on pins and needles: the spread of a deadly new type of coronavirus. It has killed more than 170 people in China, sickened thousands more there and led to a handful of confirmed cases in the US, including the first US case of person-to-person transmission reported on by health officials. The State Department on January 30 advised all US citizens against traveling to China.
Trump, a self-described germaphobe, generally has discussed the virus in broad terms, but he offered some of his most extensive comments on the issue to date during an appearance on January 30 at a Michigan manufacturing plant. “Hopefully, it won’t be as bad as some people think it could be, but we’re working very closely with them (Chinese) and with a lot of other people and a lot of other countries, he said. “We think we have it very well under control.”
The Birth Pains Are Growing Stronger….
One of the signs of ruling class collapse is when they can no longer enforce the rules that maintain them as a ruling class. When the Romans started making exceptions to republican governance, it was a matter of time before someone simply decided the rules no longer applied to them. Perhaps the robot historians will consider Obama our Marius or Sulla. Maybe that person is in the near future. Either way, the rule of law is over and what comes next is the rule of men.
“Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.” as in Nancy Pelosi (D-San Fran-feces)
Our government has been overthrown. As evidenced by Trump’s capitulation on the border, his recent servitude to the GMO industry and his acquiescence to the warmongers, our President has been compromised. Our liberties are being eliminated one by one. Gun confiscation is next. The Constitution is gasping its last breaths. Our borders are destroyed and our culture has been turned upside down by every perversion known to man.
The watchman does not confuse truth with consensus. The Watchman does not confuse God’s word with the word of those who happen to hold power at present, or with the opinion of the majority. This is because powerholders and the majority can fall victim to a lying spirit-and this means a power that actually seizes the majority of experts, the political leadership, and the public.
Everything is right on schedule and, now, the time is come to remove one of the final obstacles standing in the way of a New World Order: The United States Constitution – even if, over the course of many decades, it has already been greatly diminished by the B.E.A.S.T. system; or, more specifically, Bullshit Emerging As Strategic Totalitarianism (B.E.A.S.T.).
They are tolerant of everything except dissenting values and opinions — meaning, of course, they are tolerant of nothing that matters, only themselves.”
Let Me Make This Abundantly Clear. (I Am Apolitical) While I Have a General Distaste for Electric Cars and Politicians No Matter the Party They Belong To, I Am Unashamedly Politically a Bible Believing Conservative Christian. I Have a Severe Distrust of Government. I Believe It Is the Most Inefficient and Ineffective Way to Accomplish Most Things. While I Strongly Disagree with Liberals/Progressives and Conservative on Most Political Issues, and While I Believe Liberals/Progressives and Most Politicians Are Misguided and Naive About What Big Government Will Eventually Result In, I Strive to Not Question Their Motives. At the Same Time, I Find Myself in Agreement with Conservative on Some Issues, and I Do Not Believe Electing Republicans Is the Answer to Everything. Sadly, the Main Difference Between Republicans and Democrats Is How Quickly They Want to Drive the Car Towards the Cliff. Put, I Do Not Believe the Government Is the Solution for Everything. I Do Not Place Any Faith, Trust, or Hope in Any Politicians to Fix What Is Wrong with the World. “Come Lord Jesus!” (Revelation 22:20) SRH…
The Watchman does not confuse truth with consensus. The watchman does not confuse God’s word with the word of those who happen to hold power at present, or with the opinion of the majority. This is because powerholders and the majority can fall victim to a lying spirit-and; this means a power that seizes the majority of experts, the political leadership, and the public.StevieRay Hansen
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