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President Trump has declared a national emergency over coronavirus, said he "doesn't take responsibility" for the lag in testing. On Friday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a deal on a coronavirus aid package that would ensure free testing and paid emergency leave. But what do these measures mean for daily life, and will they be enough to prevent coronavirus from overwhelming the health care system?
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Dismantle the #Inept, #Incompetent, #Brainless, #Psychopathic #FBI-#KGB, at long last, & create the new and capable, efficient #Domestic #IntelligenceService!!! FBI is the main problem this country is facing. They were subverted & were turned into the blindly destructive #Trojan.
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Dismantle the Inept, Incompetent, Brainless, Psychopathic FBI-KGB, at long last, and create the new and capable, efficient Domestic Intelligence Service!!! FBI is the main problem this country is facing. They were subverted and were turned into the blindly destructive Trojan horse for this country. Slowly but steadily and surely, they imploded America from within. Destroy them: erase them from the ground and the social-political practices and the culture of this country. They are the main source of the problems, pervasive stupidity and the deeply rooted evil in America!
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ALBANY – At least two New York state residents have died after being infected with the novel coronavirus, marking the state's first deaths related to the virus at the center of a global pandemic, state and local officials announced Saturday.
The deaths come as the coronavirus continues to spread throughout the Empire State, which had 524 confirmed cases as of Saturday morning, a number sure to rise as the state dramatically increases its testing capacity next week.
Both victims had underlying health conditions known to exacerbate the effects of the coronavirus disease, known as COVID-19, officials said.
The first, an 82-year-old New York City woman who died in a Brooklyn hospital, had been battling advanced emphysema,according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The illness is a respiratory condition that can cause shortness of breath.
The second, a 65-year-old resident of the Rockland County town of Suffern, had "significant health problems which were likely contributory to death," county Chief Medical Examiner Laura Carbone said in a statement.
The Suffern resident died Thursday, according to Carbone. His test results weren't known until Saturday.
The New York City woman was first admitted to the hospital March 3, said Cuomo, who has repeatedly stressed that people who are of advanced age or have underlying respiratory conditions take caution as the virus continues to spread.
"Is it accurate to say she passed away and she had the coronavirus? Yes," Cuomo told reporters Saturday. "It's also accurate to say she had the coronavirus and was 82 years old and had long been suffering with emphysema."
Coronavirus on the rise in New York
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases has continued its sharp rise in New York, increasing by 103 cases from Friday.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases has continued its sharp rise in New York, increasing by 103 cases from Friday.
Of the 524 total confirmed cases, 117 have resulted in hospitalization, according to Cuomo.
That number is expected to jump as the state dramatically increases its testing capacity, with a goal of testing 6,000 people a day as soon as next week.
Cuomo said the state is trying to slow the rate of infection in New York. On Thursday, he announced a ban on gatherings of 500 people or more and cut occupancy by half at many other businesses, including restaurants and bars.
Of particular concern to state officials is the availability of New York hospital beds. Of the state's 3,000 intensive care unit beds, about 80% are already occupied, he said.
"That's what this is all about," Cuomo said. "How can you reduce the rate of spread to a level that your hospital system can manage?"
On Saturday, the state prison system banned visitors at its facilities across the state through at least April 11, saying it is necessary to safeguard the health and safety of all incarcerated individuals, employees, as well as their families and communities.
Inmates will instead be allowed five free stamps, two free electronic messages and one free phone call per week for as long as the visitor suspension remains in place, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
The move drew immediate criticism from criminal-justice reform advocates, who said visits provide a " lifeline to incarcerated people and their families."
Seven advocacy groups, including VOCAL-NY and the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign, called on the state to make stamps, electronic messages and phone calls free for inmates.
"Banning visits must be an absolute last resort," the groups wrote in a joint statement. "Any visit ban should be routinely reevaluated and visiting should be reinstated as soon as public health and safety standards permit."
Also on Saturday, NewYork-Presbyterian — one of the top hospital systems in the country — announced it was postponing all elective procedures and surgeries beginning Monday. The move was out of an "abundance of caution," according to the hospital system.
"We believe that taking this step now is in the best interest of all, and will help us to further concentrate on the adequacy of our equipment and supplies during this challenging period," according to a statement issued by the system.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the deceased woman was one of the city's first confirmed cases of the coronavirus last week.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the deceased woman was one of the city's first confirmed cases of the coronavirus last week.
He thanked the staff of the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, where the woman was apparently treated.
Like Cuomo, de Blasio stressed that the elderly and those with underlying respiratory conditions are particularly suspect to COVID-19's effects.
"We've known from the outset that these people are the most at risk in this pandemic, and today's news is a sad confirmation of that reality," de Blasio said in a statement.
There have been at least 48 deaths in the U.S. related to the novel coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University & Medicine, which has been tracking coronavirus data around the globe.
At least 37 of those have been in Washington state, where the virus spread through a Seattle-area nursing home facility.
Meanwhile, a self-quarantine directive for congregants of the Young Israel synagogue in New Rochelle will expire Saturday.
Cuomo and state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said they will not extend the voluntary quarantine directive, which had applied to people who attended services or events at the popular synagogue the weekend of Feb. 22.
The synagogue is at the center of a major coronavirus cluster in New Rochelle after the virus was passed to a number of congregants at the crowded events that weekend.
Those who are subject to mandatory quarantine orders — including those infected by the virus — will still be required to stay in their homes for as long as their individual order remains in place.
The state and Northwell Health, a Long Island-based health care company, set up a drive-thru coronavirus testing site in New Rochelle on Friday, opening it by appointment only to Westchester residents.
Cuomo said Saturday the testing site accepted 150 cars on Friday and would expand its capacity because the testing was taking less than 15 minutes, the amount of time the state originally anticipated it would take.
The Democratic governor also said the state will expand the drive-thru testing model to Long Island, where dozens of new cases have been confirmed in recent days.
Also, Cuomo said the state would require insurers to waive co-pays for telemedicine visits, which are essentially video conferences with health care professionals.
By waiving co-pays, Cuomo said the state is hoping to discourage people with illnesses from potentially exposing others by visiting crowded doctors' offices or other health care facilities.
"If you do have a coronavirus we don't want you walking into an emergency room and possibly infecting other people and staff," he said. "If you don't have the coronavirus we don't want you going to an emergency room where other people may have the coronavirus."
Cuomo has continued to resist shutting down schools statewide as the outbreak spreads.
On Saturday, he repeated his argument that a statewide school closure could set off a chain of unintended consequences, including for students who rely on the school for free or reduced-price meals and parents — particularly health care workers — who rely on schools for child care.
As of Sunday afternoon, at least 12 counties across the state have canceled school beginning Monday, including Monroe, Oneida, Dutchess, Orange, Ulster, Broome and Tioga.
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Dismantle the Inept, Incompetent, Brainless, Psychopathic FBI-KGB, at long last, and create the new and capable, efficient Domestic Intelligence Service!!! FBI is the main problem this country is facing. They were subverted and were turned into the blindly destructive Trojan horse for this country. Slowly but steadily and surely, they imploded America from within. Destroy them: erase them from the ground and the social-political practices and the culture of this country. They are the main source of the problems, pervasive stupidity and the deeply rooted evil in America!
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“These conditions can limit underlying reserve and lead to worse outcomes when older people become severely ill, which taxes all organ systems,” said Dr. Annie Luetkemeyer, an infectious diseases specialist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
“For example, diabetes can make it harder to fight infection, and underlying heart or lung disease may make it more difficult for those organs to keep up with demands created by a serious Covid-19 infection,” she said, referring to the syndrome caused by the new coronavirus.
Dr. Daniel Winetsky, an infectious diseases fellow at Columbia University in New York, said his advice to his own parents, who live across the country in San Francisco, has shifted dramatically. A week ago, he said, he was reassuring them about their safety, even encouraging them to go ahead with a trip they were planning to the Florida Everglades with a small tour group.
Over the weekend, his fears about the pandemic rose, and by Tuesday not only was he telling them not to go, but he also was advising them to reduce to a minimum the number of people they came into contact with. Visits with grandchildren are verboten.
Dr. Winetsky told his mother, Carol, who is 73 and has asthma, to stop meeting with her biweekly knitting group. And he instructed his father, Hank, who has had two coronary stents, not to attend either of his two book group meetings.
His mother continues to go to the grocery store, while avoiding crowded places like Costco. With her son’s permission, she still goes to physical therapy for a back injury, but she is careful to make sure the therapist washes her hands and that the equipment gets wiped down with disinfectant.
Some experts are recommending that older adults at risk cancel nonessential doctor’s appointments, including wellness visits. Telemedicine sessions, if available, are often a reasonable substitute.
New York announces its first death linked to coronavirus.
New York reported its first death linked to coronavirus on Saturday, an 82-year-old woman who died in Brooklyn Friday night, according to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
The woman, who was not identified, had emphysema, an underlying medical condition, something the governor said contributed to her death, likening it to fatalities from seasonal influenza. The woman, one of the first to test positive for the coronavirus in the city, had been hospitalized on March 3, officials said.
She died Friday night at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn.
“If you are 82 years old and you have emphysema and you get the flu, you are in a grave position,” the governor said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio responded solemnly to the breaking news during a live interview on MSNBC Saturday morning.
“We’ve been very worried about her,” Mr. de Blasio said. “It’s tragic. We are going to lose some people.”
Mr. de Blasio also took the opportunity to criticize what he has deemed to be an inadequate response by President Trump to the outbreak. For weeks, city and state officials have been pleading with the Trump administration to speed up access to testing for the virus, he said.
“There are some, I am certain, that could had been saved if the testing were here from the beginning,” he said.
Mr. de Blasio, speaking to reporters Saturday afternoon, offered condolences to the woman’s family.
“We are seeing a sad, sad reality,” he said. “We are going into a full crisis footing.”
Fifty people have died from the disease nationwide, President Trump said Saturday.
Medical professionals plan for a surge in coronavirus cases.
New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation, operator of the largest municipal hospital system in the country, plans to cancel nonemergency surgeries. NYU Langone Medical Center’s Tisch Hospital turned a pediatric emergency room into an intensive care unit for adults. Northwell Health, which has a sprawling network of hospitals, is asking retired nurses to return to work.
But New York City’s hospitals, widely considered among the best in the world, may still be moving too slowly to get ready for a coronavirus outbreak that has already overwhelmed other countries and is now taking root in the New York region, according to many health care experts.
“We are not prepared to deal with a rapid and severe surge of patients — we’re just not,” said Dr. Christopher M. Tedeschi, a longtime emergency physician and assistant professor at the Columbia University Medical Center. “We’re sort of planning for what’s going on right now, and we’re trying to make up for lost time, but I’m not sure we’re planning for a month from now, or even two weeks from now.”
Officials emphasize that most coronavirus cases do not require hospitalization. Still, around the city and country, hospitals have begun adopting plans for a surge in patients. Read more about what New York City hospitals have planned here.
The number of confirmed cases in New York is now over 500.
As of Saturday morning, New York State had 524 confirmed coronavirus cases, Mr. Cuomo said.
The largest concentration of cases were in New York City, where officials offered conflicting numbers. The governor said 213 people in the city have tested positive, while the mayor said 183.
There were 172 confirmed cases in Westchester County, just north of New York City. On Long Island, there were 68 confirmed cases in Nassau County and 33 in Suffolk County.
Just over 20 percent of those cases are hospitalized, Mr. Cuomo said.
The new totals were announced as New Yorkers prepared for a drastic shift in their daily lives. Limits on public gatherings in the state took effect at 5 p.m. Friday.
Mr. Cuomo reiterated on Saturday that jumps in the number of cases were more a reflection of the state’s ability to test people than of the outbreak’s severity. However, he noted that he expected thousands of additional cases statewide as the virus continues to spread.
“The infection rate will be massive,” he said.
Mr. Cuomo said efforts in the city and state were still focused on tamping down the disease where they could. The state tested 700 people for the virus on Friday.
The governor expressed concerns about hospital capacity, particularly in intensive care. The state has approximately 3,000 I.C.U. beds, about 80 percent of which are already occupied, he said.
“That’s what this is all about,” the governor said. “How do you, can you, reduce the rate of spread to a level that your hospital system can manage?”
On Friday, the federal government said that it would allow the state’s health department to authorize local labs to perform coronavirus tests.
By next week, New York could be conducting 6,000 tests a day, Mr. Cuomo said on Friday. The state has opened a “drive through” testing facility in New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City that has been at the center of the epidemic in the state.
Hoboken, N.J., closes all gyms, movie theaters and day care centers.
Officials in Hoboken ordered the closure of all gyms, health clubs, day care centers and movie theaters starting on Saturday.
The order came a day after the city announced its first known positive case of coronavirus and declared a state of emergency. Hoboken’s mayor said on Friday that playgrounds, recreational facilities and fields would be closed through at least March 20, although the city’s parks will remain open.
Officials across New Jersey announced similar steps on Saturday. Within Bergen County, all movie theaters will close, and the American Dream mall in East Rutherford, N.J., will close starting Sunday.
As of Saturday afternoon, New Jersey reported 69 confirmed coronavirus cases. The state will set up a testing center at Bergen County Community College.
The Archdiocese of New York cancels public masses.
Officials with the New York archdiocese announced Saturday the cancellation of public mass services after consulting with medical experts.
A day earlier the archdiocese, one of the nation’s most influential, had urged Catholics to exercise “their prudential judgment” in deciding whether to attend.
“The policy evolved,” said Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman with the archdiocese. “Yesterday it was: mass is available, you don’t have to go. Today is: mass will not be available.”
Churchgoers will have the option to listen and watch weekly morning and Sunday mass services, to be recorded at an empty Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, via the archdiocese’s websites and radio partners, officials said.
Churches will remain open for private prayer, Mr. Zwilling added.
The halting of public mass follows the decision from Dutchess County public officials to prohibit gatherings of more than 20 people, which includes archdiocese churches, officials said.
Prisons will temporarily ban visitors.
New York State corrections officials announced on Saturday that they would suspend visitation for the prison system’s nearly 44,000 prisoners, effective until April 11, saying that its “greatest concern is the safety and well-being of our employees and individuals within our care.”
The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision would make “special arrangements” to help prisoners help stay in touch with loved ones, including one free phone call, two electronic messages, and five free stamps per week. Legal visits will not be impacted, the department said.
New Jersey has also suspended all personal visits to its state prisons, but will continue to allow legal visits.
Amtrak reduces service on East Coast trains.
Because of reduced demand, Amtrak announced that it will temporarily switch to a Saturday schedule on a daily basis for Northeast Corridor and Keystone Service trains. The change will begin March 16 and go through March 29.
Trains along the Northeast Corridor take passengers between Boston, New York, Washington, and Virginia.
The Keystone Service line travels from New York to Harrisburg, Pa., with a stop in Philadelphia.
City schools will stay open, mayor insists, even as attendance plummets.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Saturday that New York City’s public schools will continue to operate, despite pressure from teachers and parents to join other major school districts and shutter the system.
“I’m holding where we are right now,” Mr. de Blasio said during a news conference.
He said school closures could have myriad unintended consequences, including reducing the capacity of the health care system, which is staffed in part by public school parents.
The mayor also said he was particularly concerned about the potential for hundreds of thousands of teenagers being out of school indefinitely without adult supervision and little to do during the day.
Education officials said that teacher absenteeism had risen this week. Preliminary numbers indicated that nearly 4 percent of teachers were absent this week, roughly double the percentage during the same time period last year.
Some teachers have organized protests and are not planning on going to work on Monday, and the city’s teachers’ union has called upon its members to lobby the mayor to close schools.
The mayor said Saturday that essential city workers are across the city are continuing to come to work, and encouraged teachers to do the same. The vast majority of teachers, he said, “are showing up and doing their work.”
The mayor said that a student at I.S. 27 on Staten Island has a confirmed case of the virus, but was not in school while showing symptoms. The school will be cleaned this weekend and will be open as usual on Monday.
“We shut down the school system, we might not see it for the rest of the school year, we might not see the beginning of the new school year,” he said. “And that weighs heavily on me.”
On Friday, the City Council speaker, Corey Johnson, called on the city to temporarily close it schools. Read about the pressure to close New York’s public schools here.
The rich have a solution for coronavirus: Escape from New York.
The city was going into lockdown, or at least that’s what people were saying — probably by Friday morning. The rumor was false but that didn’t slow it down.
New York did not go on lockdown. But these rumors did inspire those who were not in a position to flee the city to instead panic shop.
Broad-scale emergencies never fail to reveal the fault lines in the American class system, and it was suddenly clear that well-off New Yorkers were going to go about the business of combating the coronavirus differently, with more than fortitude and Purell, because they had a powerful inoculant: secondary real estate.
Outside a prewar co-op on lower Fifth Avenue on Friday morning, well-dressed people were loading cats and canvas bags into their hatchbacks. “The building is empty,’’ one woman entering with her dog explained. “Everyone’s gone to the Hamptons.”
Read more about how the 1 percent made a panicked exodus to their second homes.
Shoppers clear store shelves as anxiety rises.
A day after New York officials declared a state of emergency, shoppers flooded stores and emptied shelves as they prepared for the unknown.
At a Target store at the Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, customers snatched up hand soap, lotion, detergent, vitamins and paper products. Cold and flu medicines were completely sold out.
Soon after the 9 a.m. opening at a Trader Joe’s in Hoboken, N.J., a line of nervous customers stretched along the block in the rain, waiting to pick through the mostly bare shelves inside. There was no chicken left, and no garbanzo beans, coffee or chips.
Once reserved for hurricanes and snowstorms, the frantic pursuit of groceries and household goods has grown more intense in the era of the coronavirus. More inside the panic-buying here.
Nicole Hong, Jesse McKinley, Edgar Sandoval, Eliza Shapiro and Tracey Tully contributed reporting.
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Technocrat scientists around the world are using CRISPR technology in top-secret labs to develop doomsday-type biological warfare weapons. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is such a center and the most likely source of the coronavirus outbreak.
TN does not endorse either GreatGameIndia or Dr. Francis Boyle, but the globalist censorship is notable and significant. For instance, the globalist publication, Foreign Policy, strongly refuted the “conspiracy theory” on January 29 with the headline, The Wuhan Virus Is Not a Lab-Made Bioweapon, and attacked GreatGameIndia and ZeroHedge in particular. ZeroHedge has been permanently banned from Twitter. ⁃ TN Editor
TN does not endorse either GreatGameIndia or Dr. Francis Boyle, but the globalist censorship is notable and significant. For instance, the globalist publication, Foreign Policy, strongly refuted the “conspiracy theory” on January 29 with the headline, The Wuhan Virus Is Not a Lab-Made Bioweapon, and attacked GreatGameIndia and ZeroHedge in particular. ZeroHedge has been permanently banned from Twitter. ⁃ TN Editor
In an explosive interview Dr. Francis Boyle, who drafted the Biological Weapons Act has given a detailed statement admitting that the 2019 Wuhan Coronavirus is an offensive Biological Warfare Weapon and that the World Health Organization (WHO) already knows about it.
Francis Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He drafted the U.S. domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention, known as the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, that was approved unanimously by both Houses of the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.
In an exclusive interview given to Geopolitics and Empire, Dr. Boyle discusses the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China and the Biosafety Level 4 laboratory (BSL-4) from which he believes the infectious disease escaped. He believes the virus is potentially lethal and an offensive biological warfare weapon or dual-use biowarfare weapons agent genetically modified with a gain of function properties, which is why the Chinese government originally tried to cover it up and is now taking drastic measures to contain it. The Wuhan BSL-4 lab is also a specially designated World Health Organization (WHO) research lab and Dr. Boyle contends that the WHO knows full well what is occurring.
Dr. Boyle also touches upon GreatGameIndia‘s exclusive report Coronavirus Bioweapon – where we reported in detail how Chinese Biowarfare agents working at the Canadian lab in Winnipeg were involved in the smuggling of Coronavirus to Wuhan’s lab from where it is believed to have been leaked.
Watch Dr. Francis Boyle’s interview with Geopolitics and Empire below:
Dr. Boyle’s position is in stark contrast to the mainstream media’s narrative of the virus being originated from the seafood market, which is increasingly being questioned by many experts.
Recently, American Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas also dismantled the mainstream media’s claim on Thursday that pinned the coronavirus outbreak on a market selling dead and live animals.
In a video accompanying his post, Cotton explained that the Wuhan wet market (which Cotton incorrectly referred to as a seafood market) has been shown by experts to not be the source of the deadly contagion.
Cotton referenced a Lancet study which showed that many of the first cases of the novel coronavirus, including patient zero, had no connection to the wet market — devastatingly undermining mainstream media’s claim.
“As one epidemiologist said: ‘That virus went into the seafood market before it came out of the seafood market.’ We still don’t know where it originated,” Cotton said.
“I would note that Wuhan also has China’s only bio-safety level four super laboratory that works with the world’s most deadly pathogens to include, yes, coronavirus.”
Such concerns have also been raised by J.R. Nyquist, the well-known author of the books “Origins of the Fourth World War” and “The Fool and His Enemy,” as well as co-author of “The New Tactics of Global War”. In his insightful article, he published secret speeches given to high-level Communist Party cadres by Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Chi Haotian explaining a long-range plan for ensuring a Chinese national renaissance – the catalyst for which would be China’s secret plan to weaponized viruses.
Nyquist gave three different data points for making his case in analyzing Coronavirus. He writes:
The third data point worth considering: the journal GreatGameIndia has published a piece titled “Coronavirus Bioweapon – How China Stole Coronavirus From Canada And Weaponized It.”
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Gangrenous and omnipresent in the south, the country's various criminal networks are as powerful as ever and are also developing in the wealthier, industrialised north, a major conference on the fight against organised crime was told.
"The mafia has not won, but it has not lost either," Justice Minister Andrea Orlando said in the keynote speech.
The two-day gathering, which concluded on Friday, was the culmination of a year of research and reflection involving more than 220 experts.
"For years we have had the most extensive anti-mafia legislation in place, we have been mounting operations non-stop for 25 years, how is it possible that the mafias can still be so powerful?" asked Franco Roberti, who was the national anti-mafia prosecutor until last week.
Thousands of mobsters are behind bars and more than €30 billion of ill-gotten assets have been seized in the last two decades.
Yet still the clan and family-based networks of 'Ndrangheta (based in Calabria in Italy's deep south), the Camorra (in and around Naples), Cosa Nostra (Sicily) and the lesser-known Sacra Corona Unita (Puglia), continue to flourish, at home and abroad.
"They accumulate money in incredible proportions, and this cash ends up in our economy, in companies, in activities that are often run by honest and respectable people," said Roberti's successor, Federico Cafiero De Raho.
"When they move their companies into a particular sector, they grab the whole market for themselves," he adds. "That is how it works in the centre and north of the country – in the south they are everywhere."
A report presented at the conference noted that Milan, economic capital of the industrial north, was now third in the ranking of areas by value of assets seized from the mafia, behind Palermo (capital of Sicily) and Naples.
"Within a few years, it is plausible to envisage Lombardy (the region including Milan) and Lazio (Rome and its surrounds) overtaking Calabria and Puglia and getting to the level of Naples and Sicily (in terms of mafia infiltration)," the report warns.
Drugs, from street dealing to international trafficking on a major scale, are at the core of all the Italian mafias' activities.
But their tentacles also stretch into supermarkets, restaurants and bars, construction, farming and all forms of food production, sport, people trafficking and refuse management.
A restaurant in Rome closed as part of an anti-mafia operation in March 2015. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP
"The persistence of the mafia is not an accident of history," noted the Justice Minister.
"It tells us something profound; it is a reflection of a social and political crisis."
"Mafia power fills a vacuum, it depends on the state withdrawing, on the weakness of civil society, on problems of integration. It slips into the fissures, taking advantage of the slightest weakness to get stronger.
"Our enemies are proactive, dynamic and multifaceted. They are capable of adapting to social and economic change."
One example is that contemporary mobsters order the killings of fewer people than the likes of Riina, the Sicilian godfather who died last week.
Aged 87, the "boss of all bosses" was serving 26 life sentences for some of the 150 murders he is thought to have ordered.
Corruption, Riina's successors have realised, is more efficient than the threat of violence.
"They've stopped using arms and explosives to do their talking but they've found more insidious methods,' said Pietro Grasso, a judge who presided over some of the biggest mafia trials and is now the president of the Senate.
The famous "pizzini", tiny scraps of paper used to transmit coded messages between made men, have been replaced by briefcases. Funds are now more likely to be stored in the form of Bitcoin than notes stuffed in milk churns.
"Cyberspace is so much a part of our daily life now but there is no system of regulation and control, and we are starting to see some very sophisticated forms of criminality take shape there," said Alessandro Pansa, a former chief of the national police.
"The Bitcoin mafia will replace the mafia we know, but it will always be the mafia."
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Wuhan, Hubei is a telling name, in English, Russian, and Juuri:
W - that's how they call me, implying and teasing, that I am a "Double Agent", which I am not at all, I am not anybody's agent, and not an "agent" at all.
U - you are
Han - khan, also hun=hoon in Juuri, for "blood"
Hub - "well", in Juuri
Bei - beat them up, in Russian
Interpretation: "Khan-hun, beat them well: criticize them strongly".
I think, they use me as the Interpreter, because I understand their messages, and they want these messages to be interpreted and conveyed.
Who are "THEY", I do not know exactly, but most likely the TOC, the Mob organizers and planners, and most likely their associates, possibly from the GRU. Those are the guys with the "great sense of humor", so to speak, for the lack of the more precise description. Their messages, in toto: action + the verbal components, speak for themselves.
I will let our Intelligence people to interpret all this for themselves, any way they wish.
M.N. | 1:47 PM 3/14/2020
Wuhan, Hubei is a telling name, in English, Russian, and Juuri:
W - that's how they call me, implying and teasing, that I am a "Double Agent", which I am not at all, I am not anybody's agent, and not an "agent" at all.
U - you are
Han - khan, also hun=hoon in Juuri, for "blood"
Hub - "well", in Juuri
Bei - beat them up, in Russian
Interpretation: "Khan-hun, beat them well: criticize them strongly".
I think, they use me as the Interpreter, because I understand their messages, and they want these messages to be interpreted and conveyed.
Who are "THEY", I do not know exactly, but most likely the TOC, the Mob organizers and planners, and most likely their associates, possibly from the GRU. Those are the guys with the "great sense of humor", so to speak, for the lack of the more precise description. Their messages, in toto: action + the verbal components, speak for themselves.
I will let our Intelligence people to interpret all this for themselves, any way they wish.
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Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said he believes a vaccine for COVID-19 — caused by a virus that could be “a once in a generation pathogen” — will take two years to become available for public use.
In his titled "The Eyes of Darkness", American writer Dean Koontz describes a "biological weapon" called Wuhan-400. A disturbing coincidence.
What if everything was written on the walls? Dean Koontz, master of horror and suspense, is the author of many bestsellers like "Demon Seed", "The House of Thunder" and "Intensity."
Several elements in his book "The Eyes of Darkness" are strangely similar to what is currently happening with the new Chinese coronavirus. And yet, the novel was written in... 1981.
"The Wuhan-400 is the perfect weapon"
In the second part of his work, Dean Koontz describes a lab-created biological weapon that is capable of wiping out mankind. Here's an excerpt:
"They call the stuff ‘Wuhan-400’ because it was developed at their RDNA labs outside the city of Wuhan, and it was the four-hundredth viable strain of man-made microorganisms created at that research center."
So, in the book, the "Wuhan-400" was created in a laboratory in Wuhan. A rather disturbing first element. He continues:
"Wuhan-400 is a perfect weapon. It afflicts only human beings. No other living creature can carry it. And like syphilis, Wuhan-400 can't survive outside a living human body for longer than a minute, which means it can't permanently contaminate objects or entire places."
Disturbing commonalities
A biological weapon in the form of a virus created in Wuhan, which is transmitted between human beings. This already sounds wildly familiar, but the similarities don't t stop there. The symptoms described in "Eyes of Darkness" strangely resemble those of COVID-19.
"He was also beginning to feel some of the early symptoms of Wuhan400. Dizziness. Mild nausea."
Like the coronavirus that is shaking the world today, "Wuhan-400" spreads fast and can wipe out a population.
"If I understand you, the Chinese could use Wuhan-400 to wipe out a city or a country, and then there wouldn't be any need for them to conduct a tricky and expensive decontamination before they moved in and took over the conquered territory."
"No one is supposed to survive"
Fiction strangely resembles reality. But in Dean Koontz's story, the virus has far more serious effects than those caused by the current epidemic in China.
"For one thing, you can become an infectious carrier only four hours after coming into contact with the virus. That's an incredibly short incubation period. Once infected, no one lives more than twenty-four hours. Most die in twelve. It's worse than the Ebola virus in Africa—infinitely worse. Wuhan-400's kill-rate is one hundred percent. No one is supposed to survive."
A catastrophic, chilling scenario. Fortunately, this shouldn't happen with the current coronavirus, which appears to be less dangerous. However, there are so many similarities between what the American writer described and what we're seeing in the news, it's uncanny.
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A malfunctioning app used by the Iowa Democratic Party caused a delay in the reporting of caucus results last week and fueled calls for a recanvassing. Because of the delay and after observing irregularities in the results once they did arrive, The Associated Press says it cannot declare a winner.
Though state and federal officials say there are no signs the system was hacked, Evanina said he was concerned disinformation spread by bots and social media - and accepted as truth by Americans - could dissuade voters from casting ballots and feed a narrative that the election process can't be trusted.
The U.S. is on alert for interference in the current presidential election. In 2016, Russia relied on a covert social media campaign to divide American public opinion on hot-button social issues and also hacked emails from Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign that were then released by WikiLeaks to help the successful campaign of Republican Donald Trump.
Asked how Russia might interfere in the 2020 election, Evanina said, "My concern is the unknown." He said the government had to be prepared for everything.
In focusing on foreign interference in elections, the strategy document touches on a sensitive subject for Trump. The president has been dismissive of intelligence agencies' findings that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and he was impeached by the House after multiple officials testified he pressured Ukraine, a critical foreign ally, to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
The Senate acquitted Trump last week.
Evanina said he had not encountered resistance from anyone in the White House in making election security a top priority.
The strategy document comes as U.S. officials warn about Russian influence campaigns aimed at shaping public opinion ahead of the 2020 election and about Chinese efforts to pilfer American technology for Beijing's economic gain.
The report was released just after the Justice Department announced charges against four members of the Chinese military, accusing them of stealing the personal information of roughly 145 million people by hacking into the Equifax credit reporting agency. That data is valuable for intelligence agencies looking to target Americans and exploit potential weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
"We have to be able to recognize that as a counterintelligence issue, not a cyber issue," Evanina said of the hack.
The strategy consists of five objectives, including protecting critical infrastructure like electrical grids, countering foreign hacking and intelligence operations, and safeguarding U.S. supply chains so foreign countries can't compromise them with malicious software or surveillance technology.
The goals identified by the counterintelligence center line up with what Trump administration officials have been publicly discussing in recent weeks.
FBI Director Chris Wray told lawmakers last week that though the FBI had not seen Russian efforts to target election infrastructure, foreign influence operations - reliant on bots, disinformation and fake online personas - have continued unabated since the 2016 presidential election.
To counter foreign influence campaigns, the report calls for strengthening government partnerships with social media and technology companies, and doing better at identifying and deterring those activities.
But the foreign influence singled out in the report goes beyond elections, encompassing the possible manipulation of ordinary citizens and policymakers.
Evanina said a particular concern was foreign government efforts aimed at molding the thinking of local elected representatives before they arrive on a national stage.
"If they look to influence a city councilman, a state representative, and they know that person is a shining star - well, where is that person 10 years from now?" Evanina asked. Possibly a president.
The U.S. government also needs to be focused on efforts to steal personal information and research from Americans, the document says.
Attorney General William Barr last week warned against what he said was China's ambition to dominate new, high-speed, wireless networks, citing both economic and national security concerns. He suggested the U.S. consider investing in Western telecommunications companies that compete against China's dominant players like Huawei and ZTE.
Over the weekend, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned the nation's governors to be wary of China, which he said was targeting individual states to expand political and economic influence.
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The more I read into the coronavirus, the more angry and confused it makes me. The fact we can hardly find figures of the age of death of many of the cases is clear, the media don't want us to know. I googles today the latest case in America, he was 70, another case was in India, that man was 76. Both in nursing homes and both already in poor health.
Now, I am not saying any death is good at any age, but it is clear many of the cases of death are older people, who are in nursing homes with bad health or have previous health problems. Just the same as if they had the flu, which kills 291,000 to 646,000 people worldwide each year.
Coronavirus deaths Worldwide since it starts in China in late December is 5,300. Of the 80,824 who caught the virus in China alone, 3,189 died and 65,569 have completely recovered. Of the 148,000 Worldwide who caught the virus, 72,500 have fully recovered, so around half have already gotten over the coronavirus.
Many people who have had the coronavirus mention it is no worse than a flu, and not even a bad flu. It seems if you are under 60 and in normal health, you won't have a problem, you might get the coronavirus, but it won't be any worse than getting influenza.
During the 2018-19 flu season, about 35 million people in the US contracted the flu and about 34,000 died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This flu season in 2020, an estimated 32 million people have gotten the flu, with 310,000 hospitalizations and 18,000 deaths.
Speaking to some friends in the industry, their business has dropped as much as 50% on sales. Obviously, the longer these shut-outs of travel or sporting events, the worse the economy will be.
So, if you are a motocross fan, under the age of 60 and in good health, get your ass to the opening round of the British motocross championship. The sports needs you. Obviously don't go, if you do have the flu and haven't been checked by your doctor.
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