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UPDATE: All 90 Catholic schools close in SF, Marin and San Mateo counties after a student tested positive for the #coronavirus.https://t.co/weguv17ojS
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) March 10, 2020
Investment Watch Continue reading “90 Schools to Close in San Francisco”
After increases its repo bailout facility twice this week already (from $100billion to $150billion to $175billion per day) and added some longer-term facilities, The New York Fed just went full-retard, with $1 trillion of liquidity in 3-month repo.
For some context of how that compares to what they have been doing… Continue reading “Bazooka Fired: Fed To Conduct $1 Trillion Repo Over 2 Days, Expands “Not QE” To QE4″
Breitbart – by Victoria Friedman
The European Commission has said that the European Union “disapproves” of President Donald Trump’s decision to protect his citizens from further foreign exposure to coronavirus by banning entry from most of the bloc’s countries without having consulted with Brussels, first.
President Trump announced the 30-day ban on Wednesday which will go into effect on Friday. The ban is limited to mainland Europe, specifically the countries in the visa-free travel area known as the Schengen Zone, like France, Germany, and Sweden. Continue reading “‘The EU Disapproves’: Brussels Angry Trump Acted on Coronavirus Without Their Permission”
California gun sales are surging as Asian Americans arm up to defend themselves, should they be targeted by people angry over the existence of the Corona virus.
CBS LA reports that gun stores in San Gabriel Valley are seeing gun sales skyrocket. Stores such as Arcadia Firearm & Safety are seeing “10 times” as many customers as usual, and store owner David Liu says it is because of fears caused by the Corona virus. Continue reading “CA Gun Sales Surge for Asian Americans Fearing Attacks over Corona Virus”
Amid growing public anxiety over the novel coronavirus, President Donald Trump announced an extraordinary ban on some travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days and called for a series of stimulus measures to blunt the economic side effects of the virus. Continue reading “Trump announces travel from Europe to be restricted amid coronavirus threat”
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Gun rights supporters are suing Connecticut officials over part of a 2013 state gun control law passed after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, saying it unconstitutionally bans people from loading more than 10 rounds of ammunition into their firearms.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court cites the Second Amendment right to bear arms and the ability of people to better defend themselves with more bullets in their guns. Continue reading “Suit filed over Sandy Hook-inspired law limiting gun rounds”
The bear roared today, ripping the ears off everyone, as the Dow and Russel 2000 both landed more than 20% below their last peak. Their 19-session rampage landed a record as the, steepest, fastest downhill bear run in the history of the US stock market.
The market’s waterfall run over the cliffs now looks like El Capitan. Continue reading “FuBEAR! Stocks Crash into Bear Market Faster than 1929!”
The NBA has suspended its season “until further notice” after a Utah Jazz player tested positive Wednesday for the coronavirus, a move that came only hours after the majority of the league’s owners were leaning toward playing games without fans in arenas.
Now there will be no games at all, at least for the time being. A person with knowledge of the situation said the Jazz player who tested positive was center Rudy Gobert. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because neither the league nor the team confirmed the presumptive positive test. Continue reading “NBA Suspends Season After Player Tests Positive for Coronavirus”
Scammers are knocking on people’s doors and claiming to be part of the official response to the coronavirus, police in New Jersey have warned.
The people could then try and take advantage of anxiety around the spread of the disease to sell products at inflated price or otherwise try and scam anyone in the house, authorities warned. Continue reading “Coronavirus: Sinister people are knocking on doors claiming to be part of official disease response, police warn”
Health officials are still working to slow the spread of novel coronavirus in Oregon and Washington. One strategy they’re using is quarantine.
We’ve been hearing that word tossed around quite a bit regionally, largely in the context of health care workers who have come in contact with the infection. But it’s touching us all and officials are recommending that households prepare for the possibility of quarantine by stocking up on supplies. Continue reading “Quarantine On The Table In Oregon: What You Need To Know”
We have just received word that Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have tested positive for the coronavirus. Both have been down in Australia for the pre-production of Baz Luhrmann’s untitled Elvis Presley film from Warner Bros. The two-time Oscar winner Hanks is set to play Presley’s longtime manager Colonel Tom Parker in the project. Continue reading “Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson Test Positive For Coronavirus As Outbreak Hits ‘Elvis Presley’ Film”
The December 27, 2019, Science News DK article,1 “Vaccines — An Unresolved Story in Many Ways,” touches on one of the crucial talking points of vaccine safety and informed consent advocates, which is the intentional cover-up of real-world vaccine injuries and deaths.
While the vaccine industry and most public health organizations insist vaccines are universally safe and effective and that the science on this “is settled,” much of the actual data tells a very different story. Continue reading “Six of 10 Vaccines Studied Increase Mortality”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified, an unusual step that has restricted information and hampered the U.S. government’s response to the contagion, according to four Trump administration officials.
The officials said that dozens of classified discussions about such topics as the scope of infections, quarantines and travel restrictions have been held since mid-January in a high-security meeting room at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), a key player in the fight against the coronavirus. Continue reading “White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations – sources”
The World Health Organization has declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global “pandemic.”
During a media briefing Wednesday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the WHO, said there are now more than 118,000 cases of COVID-19 in 114 countries, with 4,291 deaths. Continue reading “WHO declares coronavirus global ‘pandemic’”
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart is launching an emergency leave policy for its 1.4 million hourly U.S. workers that includes allowing its employees to not be penalized for taking time off if they feel uncomfortable working because of fear of the spreading new virus.
The nation’s largest private employer also said Tuesday that hourly workers who work in a store, club, office or distribution center will receive up to two weeks pay if they’re required to quarantine by the government or by the retailer. Workers who have a confirmed case of the new virus will also receive two weeks of pay. If they are not able to return to work after that time, additional pay may be provided for up to 26 weeks for both full-time and part-time hourly workers. Continue reading “Walmart sets emergency leave policy for 1.4M hourly workers”
New York (CNN Business)Dick’s Sporting Goods will stop selling guns at 440 additional stores this year, escalating the company’s methodical elimination of firearms from its stores.
The move follows a series of decisions at Dick’s to scale back gun sales. A few days after the Parkland, Florida, school shooting in February 2018, the company announced it would stop selling semi-automatic weapons like the one used in the event. Continue reading “Dick’s Sporting Goods will stop selling guns at 440 more stores”
If you had one shot, one opportunity to help someone, would you capture it or would you let them die of thirst?
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s spaghetti… Continue reading “Detroit Figures Out How to Charge Poor People for the Right to Not Die From Coronavirus”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Starting in 1969 and running through 2003, a sickening and bizarre sexual experiment was carried out by government officials and a pedophile scientist that deliberately placed troubled children in the care of pedophiles to see if it had “positive consequences.” Victims from this utterly horrifying practice have filed a lawsuit which is getting media coverage this month, exposing the grotesque details of this taxpayer-funded pedophilia experiment. Continue reading “Lawsuit Reveals Govt Experiment that Gave Kids to Pedophiles to See if Sex Abuse Could Help Them”
A stimulus package bill meant to boost the economy amid coronavirus fears will be introduced on the floor of the House Wednesday but seems unlikely to include a temporary halt to the payroll tax that the Trump administration has been touting.
The bill, which lawmakers have been furiously working on for days, comes as the U.S. economy and global markets have faced severe instability since the global outbreak of the coronavirus. Continue reading “House to move on coronavirus-related stimulus package, but Hoyer says payroll tax cut a nonstarter”
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison on Wednesday for sexually assaulting two women.
The sentence follows a landmark verdict on February 24, after a jury found that Weinstein raped aspiring actress Jessica Mann at a DoubleTree hotel in 2013 when she was 27-years-old, and forced oral sex on former production assistant Mimi Haleyi, now 42, at his apartment in 2006. Continue reading “Harvey Weinstein Gets 23 Years In Prison For Sex Crimes”