From the Trenches World Report

New York Post – by Adam Schrader

Hospital workers battling the coronavirus in Washington State have been making face masks out of office supplies — as stashes of the vital protective equipment are just “days away” from depletion, according to a report.

Infectious disease experts at Providence St. Joseph Health designed face-shield prototypes out of marine-grade vinyl, industrial tape, foam and elastic, Bloomberg reported.  Continue reading “Hospital staff crafts masks from office supplies during coronavirus shortage”

New York Post – by Vincent Barone

President Trump on Wednesday night signed a coronavirus aid package passed by Congress providing free testing and two weeks’ paid sick leave for full-time workers who fall ill.

The bipartisan, multibillion-dollar relief bill was approved by the House late Sunday and passed in the Senate earlier Wednesday after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin brokered the deal last week. Continue reading “President Trump signs coronavirus relief package passed by Congress”

The Great Recession

You can only be so dead, and that’s just “plain dead.” But there is also Feddy Krueger dead. The kind of dead that keeps on happening like a demonic death that won’t stay dead. It is in that nightmarish Elm St. light that I’m going to review the Federal Reserve’s death.

It’s happened via face-plant failures over past month that I’m going to lay out to show how savagely the Fed is dying a perpetual-motion death.  Continue reading “How Dead is the Fed?”

Breitbart – by Ann Coulter

Here’s a thought: While self-quarantining with their families in multimillion-dollar Manhattan co-ops, Wall Street wives ought to have a chat with their Master of the Universe husbands about China, globalism and political correctness. Those are the vectors of their robber-baron wealth.

Thanks to “globalism” — i.e., cheap goods from China — we’ve gotten many wondrous things, for example: Continue reading “Ann Coulter: Cheap TVs, Expensive Flu”

Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON — A federal government plan to combat the coronavirus warned policymakers last week that a pandemic “will last 18 months or longer” and could include “multiple waves,” resulting in widespread shortages that would strain consumers and the nation’s health care system.

The 100-page plan, dated Friday, the same day President Donald Trump declared a national emergency, laid out a grim prognosis for the spread of the virus and outlined a response that would activate agencies across the government and potentially employ special presidential powers to mobilize the private sector.  Continue reading “U.S. Virus Plan Anticipates 18-Month Pandemic and Widespread Shortages”

Video Rebel’s Blog

The following Four Points, if properly understood and acted upon, will save millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of people overseas from starving to death.

Fact One: The Only way out of a Depression is through Debt Cancellation. Continue reading “Either Learn What Money Is Or Accept Mass Starvation As Your Nation’s Future.”

KLTV

Continue reading “City of Canton cancels First Monday Trade Days for first time in 170 year history”

NBC News

The Treasury Department will ask Congress for $500 billion in direct payouts for taxpayers as part of a $1 trillion stimulus package to combat the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a proposal obtained by NBC News.

The two rounds of direct payments to taxpayers, each totaling $250 billion, would be sent on April 6 and on May 18, according to the proposal. They would be tiered payments, with the amounts based on income level and family size, the proposal says. Both payments would be for the same amount.  Continue reading “Americans would get two checks under Treasury Department proposal”

Off Guardian – by Catte Black

The only certainty about the ‘novel’ virus is that a great deal of nonsense is being talked about it by people who really ought to know better, and a great deal of opportunism is being displayed.

From Netanyahu grabbing the chance to postpone his corruption trial to Hollywood starlets claiming they have ‘tested positive’ (surely not a sad and cynical attempt to up their profile), this bandwagon is seething and teeming with those trying to seize their moment of fame or get rich or stay out of jail or just join in the mayhem  Continue reading “Panic Pandemic – Why are people who should know better buying the Covid19 hype?”

Summit News – by Paul Joseph Watson

62 per cent of Americans believe that the media has exaggerated the threat of coronavirus, according to a new Pew Research poll.

The results of the survey found that 63 per cent of Americans believe the CDC and public health officials have got the risk of COID-19 about right, with just 21 per cent believing they have exaggerated the risks.  Continue reading “Pew Poll: 62 Per Cent of Americans Believe Media Has Exaggerated Coronavirus Risk”

Yahoo News

Lithium is one of the foundational elements of our modern world, and a billionaire-backed startup is trying to dig it up from beneath the dead Salton Sea. Could this new company finally beat the odds in California’s “graveyard for lithium extraction”?

That’s how founder David Snydacker characterizes the Imperial Valley, directly east of San Diego along the very southern edge of California. Snydacker’s group Lilac Solutions just received $20 million in funding from a venture capital firm specializing in energy, with marquee investors Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, and Bill Gates. Continue reading “Why Bill Gates and Mike Bloomberg Want to Dig Up Lithium from This Dead Sea”

Breitbart – by John Binder

Ford, General Motors (GM), and Fiat Chrysler announced plans on Wednesday to close all factories in the United States to protect workers from possible coronavirus infection.

Ford executives said their U.S. plants will shut down from March 19 to March 30 while GM executives said their U.S. plants would close at least through March 30.  said it will begin a “systematic orderly suspension” of production through at least March 30. Continue reading “Coronavirus: Ford, GM, Fiat Chrysler Shutting Down U.S. Factories”

The Hill – by Jordain Carney

The Senate passed the House’s coronavirus aid package on Wednesday, sending it to President Trump, who is expected to sign it.

Senators voted 90-8 on the bill that passed the House in a middle-of-the-night Saturday vote but needed dozens of pages of corrections and changes, which cleared the chamber on Monday. Continue reading “Senate passes House’s coronavirus aid bill, sending it to Trump”

Breitbart – by John Hayward

Chinese state media on Tuesday rather unsubtly decided this would be a good time to chat with a panel of “experts” about the possibility of using an electromagnetic pulse weapon (EMP) against American ships that enter portions of the South China Sea illegally claimed by Beijing.

The timing suggests it was a bit of saber-rattling by a Communist Party nervous about its power and prestige after the Wuhan virus disaster, but some degree of escalation in the South China Sea has long been a concern for the U.S. Navy and ships from across the free world. Continue reading “China Threatens EMP Attack in South China Sea”