Recent Appearances...

Warning: Undefined array key "rbname" in /data/rantburg.com/www/rantburg/pgrecentorg.php on line 14
Hello !
Recent Appearances...

Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Putin: Gaza is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe in the full sense of the word

2025-05-11

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Gaza Strip is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe in the full sense of the word, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on May 10.

Tell Hamas to open their overstuffed warehouses full of stolen humanitarian supplies. That’ll take care of the problem.

At a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Kremlin, the head of the Russian state stated that Moscow is concerned about the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone, is monitoring its development and is providing assistance to the Palestinian people.

"We are following with concern and empathy the tragic events in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone, which have claimed the lives of more than 51,000 people.

So the Hamas official claims. No way of knowing if it’s true, but repeated analysis shows they definitely lie about how many of that number are fighters versus civilians.

Tensions are also growing on the West Bank. The Gaza Strip is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe in the full sense of the word," Putin said.

The President also noted that the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone continues to deteriorate, and a sustainable settlement of the conflict is only possible on the basis of the two-state principle. Putin suggested that Abbas discuss possible additional steps by Russia that would contribute to de-escalation of the conflict.

Abbas, in turn, thanked Putin for his political support for Palestine and the supply of humanitarian aid. He stressed that he is categorically against US President Donald Trump's idea of resettling Palestinians from Gaza as a "way" to resolve the conflict.

They’re in no way related to the Arab population in the West Bank, so he doesn’t care that they have minimal food, no power, clean water, or sanitation, and no roofs over their heads. Though to be fair, only the food and roofs are new — the problems with power, water, and sanitation go back for years.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, Putin previously noted that peace in the Middle East cannot be restored as long as historical injustice against Palestine persists.

The President pointed out that the key condition for peace in the region is the implementation of the two-state formula (Israeli and Palestinian), previously approved by the UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions.

But rejected by Israel so long as the PLO or Hamas are the counterparties, so the UN’s opinion simply does not matter. Come back in a generation or two, and we’ll see if their attitude has improved.

The President also stated that Russia will do everything possible to resolve the grave and long-standing Middle East crisis.

That’s nice.

Earlier in May, Gaza Health Ministry Director General Munir al-Barash noted that the critical food shortage and lack of access to clean drinking water among residents of the sector allowed the UN to officially recognize the enclave as a famine zone.

Link

Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Huckabee Reveals Whats on the Table for the Paleostinians, And the UN Is Going to Lose Its Ever-Loving Mind

2024-11-15

[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Israel could have America's backing to annex the West Bank under a Trump administration, according to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who President-elect Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
has named to be his ambassador to Israel.

After his selection was announced, Huckabee spoke to Israel's Army Radio about his nomination, according to the Times of Israel.

During the interview, he was asked if the West Bank — land formerly claimed by Jordan that Israel won during the 1967 Six-Day War — could be annexed by Israel.

''Well, of course,'' Huckabee said. ''I won't make the policy. I will carry out the policy of the president.''

Exactly so, Mr. Ambassador.

Citing Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and his action to move America's embassy to Israel there, Huckabee noted no other president had been as helpful as Trump ''in securing an understanding of the illusory sovereignty of Israel.''

''No one has done more than President Trump, and I fully expect that will continue,'' Huckabee said.

Staking out a negotiating position that shows Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas just how serious his situation is — unlike the current administration, which daily for four years has demonstrated the opposite.

Huckabee would not rule out a role for Israel in rebuilding whatever emerges from the ruins of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
after the war against Hamas
Hamas

..always the voice of sweet reason...
ends.

''Well, I haven't had time to process that,'' he said. ''I don't want to make any comments about policy because those won't be mine to make.''

President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
has opposed annexing the West Bank and has endorsed the creation of a Paleostinian state at some future date.

Huckabee said, he was ''a frequent visitor to Judea and Samaria,'' using the Biblical term for the West Bank.

''I also very much believe that the people of Israel deserve a secure and safe country, and anything I can do that will help accommodate, that is going to be a great privilege for me,'' he said.

Link

International-UN-NGOs

Palestinian president urges UN to stop Gaza war

2024-09-27

[GEO.TV] Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged the UN General Assembly on Thursday to stop the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas, saying Israel had almost entirely destroyed Gaza and it was no longer fit for life.
But perfect for Paleostinians. After all, they keep supporting Fatah, then Hamas
"This madness cannot continue. The entire world is responsible for what is happening to our people," he told the 193-member General Assembly.
As far as I can recall, the UN has never stopped any war, anywhere.

Link

Israel-Palestine-Jordan

US intelligence helped the IDF free four hostages but floating pier not involved, IDF sez no other hostages harmed

2024-06-09

See here for main after action report.

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Before the IDF special operation in the Nuseirat area, the United States provided Israel with intelligence information about hostages being held in the Gaza Strip, The New York Times reported on June 8.

“A U.S. hostage rescue team stationed in Israel assisted the Israeli military in its efforts to rescue the four hostages by providing intelligence and other logistical support,” the article wrote.

The authors noted that groups of specialists from the United States and Great Britain are located on Israeli territory during the military conflict and help the intelligence of the Jewish state in collecting and analyzing information about the hostages, as well as about high-ranking representatives of the Palestinian Hamas movement.

According to one Israeli official, the US and Britain can help with intelligence from the air and cyberspace, since Israel cannot do this on its own.

As Regnum reported, on June 8, the official representative of the militant wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, the Izzeddin al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Ubaydah, informed about the death of several hostages held in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli operation in the refugee camp in Nuseirat. After that, the release of those held "will create a danger for the remaining" hostages and will have a negative impact on their conditions and lives, he added.

On the same day, the Israeli army announced the release of four hostages who had been held by Hamas since October 7, 2023. The operation was carried out in the central part of the Gaza Strip. All those released were taken to a medical facility in the suburbs of Tel Aviv. Among them is 27-year-old citizen of Russia and Israel Andrei Kozlov.

The US House of Representatives on April 20 passed a bill to allocate $95 billion in military aid to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine. According to the document, the Jewish state will receive $26 billion from the United States, including about 9.1 billion for humanitarian needs. The US decision to provide new military aid to Israel is aggression against the Palestinians, said Nabil Abu Rudeina, spokeswoman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

US military: Gaza aid pier was not used in IDF hostage rescue operation

”Ewwww! We wouldn’t pollute our beautiful Hamas pier with Jooooo cooties!”

[IsraelTimes] The United States Central Command says that its humanitarian aid pier in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
was not used in the Israeli operation that successfully rescued four hostages yesterday morning.

"The humanitarian pier facility, including its equipment, personnel, and assets were not used in the operation to rescue hostages today in Gaza. An area south of the facility was used by the Israelis to safely return the hostages to Israel," CENTCOM says in a statement on X.

"Any such claim to the contrary is false. The temporary pier on the coast of Gaza was put in place for one purpose only, to help move additional, urgently needed lifesaving assistance into Gaza."

The statement comes as the US resumed aid deliveries via the temporary pier yesterday, after the structure suffered storm damage and underwent repairs in a nearby port.

"Today at approximately 10:30 am (Gaza time) US Central Command (USCENTCOM) began delivery of humanitarian assistance ashore in Gaza. Today, a total of approximately 492 metric tons (~1.1 million pounds) of much needed humanitarian assistance was delivered to the people of Gaza," CENTCOM writes in a separate post on X.

The pier was repaired in the Israeli port of Ashdod before being brought back to the Gaza coast and reestablished on Friday.

‘Blatant lie’: IDF dismisses Hamas claim that other hostages were killed in today’s rescue
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli army front man denies a claim by Hamas front man Abu Obaida that some Israeli hostages were killed during the IDF’s rescue operation of four hostages late this morning.

"It’s a blatant lie," Israeli military spokesperson Peter Lerner told CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...

WAPO - U.S. intelligence aided Israeli hostage rescue

Link

Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Blinken meets Palestinian leader in West Bank, stepping up Mideast diplomacy as Gaza war escalates

2023-11-05

[AP] RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought his frenetic Mideast diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his latest bid to ease civilian suffering in the Gaza Strip and begin to sketch out a post-conflict scenario for the territory.

Blinken traveled to Ramallah for his previously unannounced visit in an armored motorcade and under tight security just hours after Israeli warplanes struck a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens, health officials said. Despite the secrecy and the State Department refusing to confirm the trip until after Blinken had physically left the West Bank, protests erupted against his visit and U.S. support for Israel as word of his arrival leaked.

Aside from pleasantries, neither man spoke as they greeted each other in front of cameras and the meeting ended without any public comment. It was not immediately clear if the lack of words indicated the meeting had gone poorly.

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Blinken reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to the delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance and resumption of essential services in Gaza and made clear that Palestinians must not be forcibly displaced.

Link

International-UN-NGOs

Russia and the UAE requested a UN Security Council meeting in connection with the attack on a hospital in Gaza

2023-10-18

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

See more on the explosion here.

[Regnum] The Russian Federation and the United Arab Emirates, in connection with the attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip, requested a meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on October 18.

“Russia and the UAE have requested an urgent open meeting of the UN Security Council on the morning of October 18 in connection with the attack on a hospital in Gaza,” Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, wrote on October 17 in his Telegram channel.

What does the UN Security Council care about a self own when an Islamic Jihad rocket exploded in the Gaza hospital weapons cache?

As Regnum reported, earlier on Tuesday, the Al Jazeera television channel, citing a representative of the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip, reported that a rocket attack was carried out on the Al-Ahli Al-Maadani hospital, which was allegedly backed by the Israel Defense Forces. At least 500 people died as a result of the tragedy.

So says Hamas, anyway. The real number is probably something very different, but as they’re all under the rubble now, likely only far future archeologists will know.

The Israel Defense Forces, in turn, began an investigation into the incident. According to preliminary information from the Israeli side, an explosion in a hospital in the Gaza Strip is associated with a failed Hamas rocket launch. The i24 TV channel reported this on October 17.

See?

On the evening of October 17, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of mourning for the victims of the hospital attack. The head of state ordered the flags to be lowered “as a sign of mourning for the victims of Israeli aggression.”

Will their families all get the martyrdom payoff, too? This war is getting really expensive for the Palestinian Authority.

Link

Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Lebanon warns Palestinian president that troops may intervene if clashes continue in refugee camp

2023-08-04

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas can’t even control the West Bank. What could he possibly do to get the idiots to behave in another country?

[NY Post] Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister called the Palestinian president Thursday to demand an end to the volatile situation in the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, warning that Lebanese troops may intervene to stop the fighting that has left dozens dead and wounded.

Najib Mikati’s call with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas came after days of sporadic clashes between Palestinian factions in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near the southern port city of Sidon.

Mikati called the fighting a "flagrant violation of Lebanese sovereignty" and said it was unacceptable for the warring Palestinian groups to "terrorize the Lebanese, especially the people of the south who have embraced the Palestinians for many years," according to a statement released by his office.

His call came as cautious calm returned to the camp and surrounding area Thursday after a night of renewed clashes.

Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, which is home to about 50,000 people, has been rocked since Sunday by fierce battles between Abbas’ Fatah party and Islamist groups Jund al-Sham and Shabab al-Muslim.

Link

Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Settlers rampage in West Bank villages after Israelis killed

2023-02-27

[Jpost] Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian villages in the northern occupied West Bank, after two settlers were shot dead by a Palestinian gunman.

One Palestinian man was killed and more than 100 others were injured in the overnight violence near Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry said. Dozens of cars and houses were also burnt, according to a local official.

It followed the killings of the two Israelis - brothers from a nearby settlement - along a highway. The two men were driving through Hawara when a Palestinian man rammed their car and then shot them both several times.

The Israeli military said it was continuing to search for the Palestinian who shot Hillel Yaniv, 22, and Yagel Yaniv, 20, and that it had moved in hundreds of extra troops.

Earlier on Sunday, Israeli and Palestinian officials had pledged to de-escalate tensions at a summit in Jordan.

Videos posted hours after the summit ended showed a large crowd of Israeli settlers entering the village of Hawara, about 4 miles (6km) south of Nablus, lighting fires and throwing stones.

A Palestinian official who monitors settlements in the Nablus region, Ghassan Daghlas, told Palestinian Wafa news agency that 30 houses were damaged by stones or burned down in Hawara, and that 15 vehicles were torched. Settlers also set a barn and three vehicles on fire in nearby Burin, as well as a house and a water tank in Asira al-Qabaliyya, he said.

The Palestinian health ministry said 37-year-old Sameh Aqtash died after being shot in the stomach during an attack by settlers in Zaatara. iiMr Aqtash's brother, Abdul Moneim, said they had been standing outside a blacksmith's when they were attacked by settlers.

"They left the area and then came back with the occupation [Israeli] army," he told AFP news agency. "The army shot my brother, not the settlers."

However, the Israeli military said Mr Aqtash was not shot by an Israeli soldier.

This part of the West Bank falls under full Israeli control, and Palestinians criticised Israeli security forces for failing to protect them. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he held the Israeli government fully responsible for what he called "the terrorist acts carried out by Israeli settlers, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces".

Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appealed for calm and urged settlers to allow the Israeli military and security forces to focus on finding the gunman who killed the two Israelis.

"I ask that when blood is boiling and the spirit is hot, don't take the law into your hands," he said in a video statement.

Settlers had called for a march to Hawara in order to "seek revenge" for the deadly attack on the brothers, who lived in the settlement of Har Bracha, which is 1.2 miles south of Nablus.

No Palestinian militant group has so far claimed they were behind the attack, but the gunman was reportedly wearing a shirt bearing the insignia of the Nablus-based Lions' Den.

Link

Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israeli troops kill four Hamas members in West Bank raids: military

2021-09-26

[NYPost] RAMALLAH — Israeli troops killed at least four Hamas militants in gun battles during raids on Sunday against one of the group’s cells in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli military spokesman said.

Israeli officials have long voiced concern that Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, intends to gain strength in the West Bank and challenge its rival there, the Western-backed Palestinian Authority (PA), heightening security risks for Israel.

The incidents in the early hours of Sunday marked the most serious confrontations between Israel and Hamas in the West Bank in months and threatened to raise tensions in the territory and along the Israeli border with Gaza.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Fatah party lost control of Gaza to Hamas in internal fighting in 2007, accused Israel in a statement of "field executions against our people."

Hamas called on Palestinians in the West Bank "to escalate resistance against the occupier in all areas" in the wake of the raids. A Hamas spokesman said all the men were members of the group, which Israel and the West regard as a terrorist organization.

An Israeli military spokesperson said troops carried out five raids in the West Bank "in order to stop a Hamas terrorist organization cell from operating" and launching attacks.

"Three Hamas terrorists were killed in crossfire in the village of Biddu, southeast of Ramallah" in the central West Bank, the spokesperson said. "During the attempted arrest of a wanted suspect in the village of Burqin, a shootout evolved. One terrorist was killed."

Four others were arrested, the spokesperson said.

The Palestinian health ministry said four Palestinians had been killed in two shootouts in the central and northern West Bank.

En route to New York, where he addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said the operation was aimed against Hamas men "about to carry out terrorist attacks."

He said the Israeli forces had "engaged the enemy, and we back them completely."

Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza in a 1967 war. It withdrew troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

The PA, which seeks a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, exercises limited self-rule in the territory under interim peace deals with Israel

Link

Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accuses Israel of destroying the two-state solution with actions he says could lead Palestinians to demand equal rights within one binational state

2021-09-26

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accuses Israel of destroying the two-state solution with actions he says could lead Palestinians to demand equal rights within one binational state comprising Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza.https://t.co/JQqDRWTwiK pic.twitter.com/zQLVtsn9zv
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) September 25, 2021

Link

Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Abbas: Palestinian peace accords void if Israel annexes West Bank

2020-04-23

[JPost] Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in remarks aired on Wednesday that his administration would regard agreements with Israel and the United States "completely cancelled" if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank.

"We have informed the relevant international parties, including the American and the Israeli governments, that we will not stand hand-cuffed if Israel announces the annexation of any part of our land," Abbas said on Palestine TV.

Link

-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Coronavirus global crisis

2020-03-06

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] WHO chief said many countries were not committed enough to deal with virus
Comes as nearly 100,000 have been infected globally, including 3,305 deaths
Meanwhile EU said it may need to draft in medical students and retired medics
COVID-19 is forcing closures and cancellation of many events around the world

Top US health official: Coronavirus mortality rate 1 percent or less
[IsraelTimes] A top US health official says the overall mortality rate for the novel coronavirus was estimated at one percent or less, lower than previously thought, basing the new figure on a high number of unreported cases.

It came after US President Donald Trump was criticized for saying he believed the World Health Organization’s reported death rate of 3.4 percent to be “false,” based on a “hunch.”

Trump was invoking the fact that the WHO figure is based on reported cases only, and as such the true lethality of the disease may only be understood better over time — a point on which health experts agree.

“The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1 percent and one percent,” Admiral Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary of health says at a news briefing.

“That’s lower than you heard probably in many reports, why is this? Number one is because many people don’t get sick and don’t get tested — this reflects the overseas experience — so probably for every case, there are at least two or three cases that are not in that denominator.

“It certainly could be higher than normal flu, it probably is, but it’s not likely in the range of two to three percent.”

The seasonal flu mortality rate is 0.1 to 0.15 percent, says Giroir.

Trump Admin. Reverses Obama-Era Regulation Blocking Coronavirus Testing

[AMGREATNESS] The Trump Administration has rolled back an Obama FDA rule that required "state-run laboratories to only run medical tests pre-approved by the F.D.A."

"The B.O. regime made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing, and we undid that decision a few days ago so that the testing can take place at a much more accurate and rapid fashion," Trump stated. "That was a decision we disagreed with. I don’t think we would have made it, but for some reason it was made. But we’ve undone that decision."

Keep calm, wash your hands and don’t panic. People are freaking out that they can’t get tested for the virus, but does it matter if you aren’t showing life threatening symptoms in this time of crisis? If you go to the ER, and you aren’t sick you will be when you leave because that is where the sick people are. If you do have the virus but aren’t dangerously sick, they are going to send you home to self-quarantine, you won’t be admitted because hospitals are saving space for really sick people like the elderly and immuno-compromised.

The Trump deranged are acting like the people working at the CDC are inbred, Jesus morons Trump put in the agency when he was elected. NO. The CDC are career employees, they are the same people who worked there under Obama, W and probably Clinton. THE SAME PEOPLE. Why did Obama get the white glove treatment on Ebola but now Trump is personally responsible for the jacked up agency response? Because Trump. There’s only so much a centralized government can do during a nationwide epidemic. Give the resources to the states, remove the roadblocks of federal regulations and let the states and localities handle it the best they can. Local is always better than the fedgov.

I just returned from a medical emergency, cross country trip where I spent 5 hours on an airplane each way. [Random story: On my return to the swamp, I sat in the row behind Donna Brazile who had hand sanitizer and wiped down her seat and was very polite.] I’ll have to make the same trip in a few weeks, I have hand sanitizer and travel sized Lysol. It’s just life, don’t freak out, stay away from sick people and wash your hands. Stop hoarding water, go buy a filtration system like a Brita or a Berkey (I have one) because the water supply will probably not be compromised. The panic is always worse than the actual crisis.

Saudi Arabia empties Makkah's Grand Mosque for 'sterilisation'

Follow our live updates on #coronavirus here: https://t.co/vY4fVgAjuk
— Dawn.com (@dawn_com) March 5, 2020

Total coronavirus cases in UK rise to 115

Follow our live updates on #coronavirus here: https://t.co/vY4fVgAjuk
— Dawn.com (@dawn_com) March 5, 2020

South Africa confirms first coronavirus case

Follow our live updates on #coronavirus here: https://t.co/vY4fVgAjuk
— Dawn.com (@dawn_com) March 5, 2020

Pakistan's sixth coronavirus case emerges in Karachi

Follow our live updates on #coronavirus here: https://t.co/vY4fVgAjuk
— Dawn.com (@dawn_com) March 5, 2020

#Greece reports 21 new coronavirus cases

Follow our live updates on #coronavirus here: https://t.co/vY4fVgAjuk
— Dawn.com (@dawn_com) March 5, 2020

India reports 30 cases, all international passengers to be screened

Follow our live updates on #coronavirus here: https://t.co/vY4fVgAjuk
— Dawn.com (@dawn_com) March 5, 2020

Germany reports 109 new confirmed cases

Follow our live updates on #coronavirus here: https://t.co/vY4fVgAjuk
— Dawn.com (@dawn_com) March 5, 2020

Televangelist Jim Bakker warned to stop peddling unproven coronavirus cures
[SEATTLETIMES] The Rev. Jim Bakker, a televangelist and salesman, has long promoted "Silver Solution" ‐ a scientifically dubious medication made from the precious metal ‐ to cure all sorts of ailments.

On Feb. 12, as the novel coronavirus was making worldwide headlines, a clip on Bakker’s TV show included on-screen text saying people "seeking a cure for coronavirus" should buy tubes of Silver Solution from Bakker’s website.

Calling herself "extremely concerned" about the clip from the show, Lisa Landau, the chief of the attorney general’s health care bureau, sternly told Bakker that there is no known medical treatment for the coronavirus disease, which has sickened patients around the world, including in New York.

Landau said any future claims promoting Silver Solution as a cure would violate laws against false advertising.

#Breaking: #China announces #coronavirus death toll rises to 3014#BaghdadPost #Coronvirus #CoronaAlert #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/fKgT23m8yu
— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) March 5, 2020

#Hungary has confirmed its first cases of the #coronavirus, both of them #Iranian students in the country, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said#BaghdadPost https://t.co/qUN1BZiO2n
— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) March 5, 2020

The northwestern province of Gansu in #China confirms 11 new #coronavirus patients, all of whom entered China on commercial flights from #Iran, according to state media.https://t.co/hJ3KTXWTjL
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) March 6, 2020

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declares a 30-day state of emergency after #coronavirus cases were reported in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.https://t.co/yU16wCicLw
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) March 5, 2020

#HongKong authorities confirm that a pet dog belonging to a #coronavirus patient has tested positive for the virus, likely marking the first case of human-to-animal transmission, the South China Morning Post reports. https://t.co/FT2rXuXvea
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) March 5, 2020

And courtesy of DarthVader:

2 presumptive cases of COVID-19, coronavirus, in Colorado

[KKTV] Gov. Jared Polis announced Thursday afternoon that he learned of the first "presumptive" positive case of COVID-19, coronavirus, case in Colorado.

"The case had known exposure to the virus through close contact with a person with COVID-19 outside of Colorado," the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment wrote in a release.

During a news conference, the governor announced he had learned of a second presumptive case, not tied to the first. Very few details on the second case were made available last time this article was updated.

According to a release sent out by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the first presumptive case is tied to an out-of-state visitor in his thirties. He was visiting Summit County and is now in isolation in the Denver metro area.

"We are hopeful that the patient will have a swift recovery," said Jill Hunsaker Ryan, executive director, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. "Like other states, we expected to begin seeing cases in Colorado and that is why we have been preparing for the past couple of months, in conjunction with local public health agencies and healthcare partners. Our goals are to protect the public from the disease, get people the care they need, and minimize disruption to daily lives."
Work is already getting ready for disruptions and my conference was cancelled.
Stores are already out of sanitizers and disinfectant, masks and some long term food.
Got my supplies and can hunker down to avoid the idiot panic that comes with this.

Coronavirus Patient Zero in Italy Was Pakistani Migrant Who Refused to Self-Isolate After Testing Positive For The Virus
[SummitNews] He continued to work at restaurant and deliver Chinese food. Authorities were alerted to the situation and the military intervened to return the man to his home.

The migrant now faces up to 3 months in jail for failing to self-isolate under article 650 of the Italian penal code.

Italy has recorded a total of more than 3,000 cases of the coronavirus and 148 people have died. The country was the primary source of the virus spreading to numerous other European countries.

Link

Warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$T in /data/rantburg.com/www/rantburg/pgrecentorg.php on line 132
-12 More