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The Magnitsky Act, formally known as the Russia and Moldova Jackson–Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, is a bipartisan bill passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in December 2012, intending to punish Russian officials responsible for the death of Russian tax accountant Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow prison in 2009 and also to grant permanent normal trade relations status to Russia.

The climate science denial machine created by the fossil fuel industry is now a major source of COVID-19 disinformation. Deniers have deployed many of the same tactics they have used to attack climate scientists and delay action to downplay the severity of the coronavirus outbreak and sow distrust in the response efforts of governments, scientists and the medical community — with deadly consequences that are now unfolding before our eyes. 

Others have used the threat of COVID-19 to argue against action to address climate change, which would leave us all more vulnerable to the wide array of future catastrophes that scientists say will result from additional degrees of warming.

In the following series, DeSmog presents the #COVIDenial evidence our team has gathered revealing the overlapping cast of characters who have long attacked climate science and are now spreading COVID misinformation, touting false cures, ginning up conspiracy theories and fomenting attacks on public health experts. We began tracking this overlap in March 2020, when Sharon Kelly wrote Meet the Climate Science Deniers Who Downplayed COVID-19 Risks.

Many of these groups, including Koch network-funded entities such as Americans for Prosperity and State Policy Network members have also attacked stay-at-home orders and orchestrated ‘Liberate’ movement protests nationwide, as Steve Horn wrote in COVID-19 'Liberate' Groups Are the Same Ones Pushing Climate Denial. And as DeSmog UK’s Zak Derler reported in Climate Science Deniers Use Coronavirus to Downplay Environmental Threats, notorious climate deniers around the world are even claiming that the novel coronavirus pandemic is a hoax, or that it’s an evil plot by “globalist elites” like Bill Gates and George Soros to alternately force vaccines or a “world population cull.” 

These are dangerous operatives at work spreading all manner of doubt and delusion to confuse the public, and their actions and words will forever cement them on the wrong side of history.

Explore the report materials below, and please contact DeSmog with any other examples of COVID denial you come across.

Read more: https://www.desmogblog.com/covideniers-anti-science-covid-19-denial-overlaps-climate-denial

Methinks that this article is a conspiracy against conspiracy theorists... Trying to lob in the Covid19 conspiracy theorists with the Climate denial conspiracy theorists is a bit wonky...

When removalist John Siaki witnessed a man hitting his wife he says it shocked him so much, he decided he needed to do something about it.

• John Siaki says in the past two months his business has moved about 10 women a week
• Academic Brian Sullivan says coronavirus restrictions have given abusers another control tactic
• Dr Sullivan said work on the prevention of domestic violence needed to double

"I felt powerless … as if he had hit me," he said.

"I walked out of that house feeling like I wasn't Superman or Batman or any other superhero." 

That was several years ago, when Mr Siaki was a contractor performing furniture deliveries. 

"Growing up in a Pacific Island community we are to respect all our ladies, regardless of how young or how old they are — there is a thing called respect in our culture," he said.

He said he went home that day and asked his wife what he should do about it.

"She said to me, 'You have a truck, so use it'."

Now, his truck and his team is put to use helping victims of domestic violence flee the abuse. 

He said his Ipswich-based removal company, Siaki and Sons, previously averaged about four domestic violence moving jobs a week.

But over the past two months, he said a strong rise in demand had pushed that figure to 10 moves a week.

"It has probably risen up by 60 per cent — that is bad, that is beyond bad," he said.

Mr Siaki said he believed the financial stress and isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic complicated the issue. 

Read more:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-05/queensland-coronavirus-domestic-violence-removalist/12194284

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