Year: 2020

Yahoo News

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 Great Recession

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!”

NBC Boston

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”

Yahoo News

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”

OPB – by Jes Burns

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”

Deadline

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”

Mercola

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”

Yahoo News

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”

Fox News

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’”

ABC News St. Louis

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”

CNN

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”

The Root – by Michael Harriot

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”

Fox News

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”