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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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'The Government Is Here to Help'
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Nate Jackson  
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PA Turnpike Authority Reopens 
Closed Service Stations To Support Truckers
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Math is math. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to do the math, understand the logistics of the current extreme demand, recognize that fixed assets are limited, and realize if you shut down essential services for truckers the total supply-chain will suffer... On March 17th Pennsylvania officially shuttered all Turnpike service plazas in response to coronavirus concerns. However, the decision was ridiculously short-sighted as long-haul and regional Truckers depend on fuel stations, bathrooms and restaurants along the route. Thankfully PA officials realized their error and reopened the service stations yesterday. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has agreed to reopen all of service plazas that they shuttered earlier this week for Coronavirus. All 17 closed service plazas are set to reopen at 7 a.m. on Friday, March 20, according to a news release from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. Restroom facilities will be available to drivers 24 hours per day starting at 7 a.m. on Friday. Porta-potties will remain in place for use at the service plaza locations for another week. The service plazas will be offering limited food options for take-out only from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Friday. After Friday, food will be served from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. except at North Midway and Valley Forge locations which will offer food 24/7. Fuel and convenience stores will be available 24 hours a day...
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Claim they're going shopping: Border officials 
allow hundreds of Mexican vehicles 
to cross despite Trump ban
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by Anna Giaritelli
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Customs and Border Protection officials are defying the Trump administration’s directive to block all nonessential foreign travel into the United States from Mexico... allowing noncitizens claiming to be on shopping trips to continue entering, according to two officials involved in the implementation of the order. CBP employees in Arizona told the Washington Examiner Saturday they were instructed Friday night at the start of the executive order and again this morning not to turn around noncitizens who said they were coming in to shop, visit family, or for medical appointments. By Saturday morning, “hundreds” of vehicles that should have been blocked at the port of entry had been allowed through, two officials said. “We're letting them through. And that's pretty much the gist of it,” one official said. “Nobody's enforcing it. It was put up — the president put it out. The chief patrol put it out. And we're just not doing it.” “In plain English, it was a giant shit show," said a second official. "Nobody followed the directive, a plain and simple directive. You’re trying to keep the coronavirus from going north ... yet you just let it bleed through anyway, so you’re not doing the job you’re directed to. That’s what’s aggravating.” CBP’s Office of Field Operations officers who inspect vehicles at the border crossings were supposed to begin at 9 p.m. PT Friday turning away all noncitizens unless they had a permit to work in the U.S., are a legal permanent resident, or are a student. However, officers were told by supervisors not to do so, according to sources. Border Patrol agents familiar with operations at highway checkpoints located north of the ports of entry said employees at checkpoints were caught off guard late Friday when cars with Mexican license plates continued arriving since they should have been blocked at the border. Agents continued to see vehicles with plates from the Mexican state of Sonora, which runs up along the entirety of Arizona...
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Coronavirus Is the Chinese 
Government’s Curse Upon the World
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by David Harsanyi
{ dailysignal.com } ~ The World Health Organization and other sensitive souls have instructed us to stop referring to the new strain of the coronavirus as the “Wuhan” or “Chinese” flu because of the racist connotations... I’m disinclined to curb my speech to placate Chinese propagandists, and it seems to me the aversion to those terms is less about racism than about averting blame. But in the spirit of comity, and avoiding disparaging an entire nation, I’m happy to call it the ChiCom Flu moving forward. There are many traditional naming conventions that don’t really make that much sense. Somewhat weirdly, for example, we often name diseases after the people who “discover” them—Hodgkin’s disease after Thomas Hodgkin, Parkinson’s disease after James Parkinson, and so on. But naming viral diseases after places—Guinea worm, West Nile virus, Ebola, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, etc.—is probably just intuitive. Viruses “come” from someplace, after all, and thus people gravitate to those names. I doubt we came up with “Lyme disease” because of some deep enmity toward Connecticut.Anyway, “COVID-19” or “H1N1” don’t exactly roll off the tongue. The latter was, until very recently, widely referred to as the “Spanish flu,” a virus that killed around 675,000 Americans and tens of millions of others around the world in the early 1900s. “Spanish flu” has now retroactively fallen into disfavor as well. And to be fair, there is some historical evidence that the virus may actually have originated in China or France, so if we must call it the French flu moving forward, so be it. But while the Spanish have a good case to be annoyed, the Chinese government does not. As Jim Geraghty notes, the communist Chinese have been far more effective in stopping the spread of information about the coronavirus than in stopping the spread of the coronavirus itself. Today, for example, China expelled most American journalists from the country. Early on, the communists destroyed samples and suppressed vital information that could have helped mitigate the damage of this new strain of the coronavirus. The government also silenced doctors who warned about the disease...    https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/03/20/coronavirus-is-the-chinese-governments-curse-upon-the-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coronavirus-is-the-chinese-governments-curse-upon-the-world?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1dZeFpETTNObU0yT1ROaiIsInQiOiI0RlA2dzE2dXFlcU00ckMyOUlkaERxY2FscjlNY1wvd204SlBWY3YrYWo5WXNsUmk5RzFoWGQ4OHR2ZEVEOHkzSk1HNkxkRXcya25PQ0UxWmcxOTBCUU9EVWNxNlkrNXNWR3VOb3QycWp1RXp5Z0FreWVmVkV1eG5VQ2o2RUFMcDgifQ%3D%3D  
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The United States Needs Better Data 
Immediately Before We Make Stupid 
Decisions About Coronavirus
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By Eline van den Broek-Altenburg & Adam Atherly
{ thefederalist.com } ~ Only a week ago, President Trump announced a ban on European flights to reduce the spread of coronavirus. In the seven days that followed... the media have been reporting garden-variety statistics and decision-making based on infographics rather than reliable and nationally representative data. It is time for accurate, unbiased data to redo the math. So, what data has been reported in the past seven days and what do we know? Here’s a short overview: Number of reported/confirmed COVID-19 cases. Per city, state, country, region, and worldwide. Reported deaths from COVID-19. Per city, state, country, region, and worldwide. Number of countries reporting cases. Data from China on infection rates and deaths. Images of overwhelmed hospitals in northern Italy. The defining graphic of the COVID-19 pandemic, “Flatten the Curve.”The first three bullets can be summarized by the words “reported/confirmed.” In the last seven days, we’ve seen a snowball of news messages pop up reporting things like “200 new cases,” “total 1,900 cases,” and “two more die of coronavirus.” We also see popups like “State x could have 16 more infections than officially reported,” “Coronavirus death rate still uncertain as mild cases go unreported,” “Limited data on coronavirus may be skewing assumptions,” and “Country x may be underreporting coronavirus numbers.” Yet how does the number of cases compare to current influenza cases, for example? We don’t know. Are numbers adjusted for population to make comparisons easier and meaningful? The media simply reports new cases without context and warns the public to stay home to stop the spread of the virus. We do have data, to some extent, from China and Italy. Yet there are many questions about the accuracy of the data from China, particularly given the Chinese government’s initial denial of the illness. Yet data from China has been provided and was swiftly reported in academic journals...   https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/21/the-united-states-needs-better-data-immediately-before-we-make-stupid-decisions-about-coronavirus/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=5798569dc1-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-5798569dc1-83771801 

China is faking its recovery 
from the coronavirus outbreak
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by AARON COLEN
{ theblaze.com } ~ According to reports from the Chinese government, the worst of the coronavirus outbreak in the communist nation has passed... and even the hardest-hit regions have started returning to normal. Those reports are being disputed by local Chinese officials who say the government is using deceptive measures to create the appearance of normal business operations and productivity, according to the Chinese media outlet Caixin. Back to normal? For the first time since the coronavirus, known as COVID-19, was discovered, China has reported no new infections. For the past couple of days, the number of new reported deaths has been in the single digits. As a result, some of the businesses in China that were forced to shut down have begun reopening, and some travel restrictions have been lifted although that is creating some new issues, including a fear of imported COVID-19 cases. Not what it seems: Although the Chinese government, well-known for concealing or manipulating information, would obviously prefer the world seeing signs of strength and recovery, that might not be the case. Chinese whistleblowers tell Caixin they're working to create an appearance that things are back to normal when they're not: Beijing has spent much of the outbreak pushing districts to carry on business as usual, with some local governments subsidizing electricity costs and even installing mandatory productivity quotas. Zhejiang, a province east of the epicenter city of Wuhan, claimed as of Feb. 24 it had restored 98.6 percent of its pre-coronavirus work capacity. But civil servants tell Caixan that businesses are actually faking these numbers...  https://www.theblaze.com/news/china-may-be-faking-its-recovery-from-the-coronavirus-outbreak-report?utm_source=theblaze-dailyAM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__AM%202020-03-21&utm_term=TheBlaze%20Daily%20AM%20-%20last%20270%20days   

The Caper Of The Kleptomaniac Copping 
The Car’s Cases of Cottonelle
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by Jeff Dunetz
{ lidblog.com } ~ Eugene Police Department reports that it received an online report where the rear window of an SUV was completely shattered and the thief took all valuables... including two cases of 30-roll toilet paper and some valuable business and personal items. Eugene police say anytime vehicles are left for extended periods of time, thieves see it as an opportunity. Locking a car is not enough. In order to deter criminals from breaking in, it’s important to not leave anything inside the vehicle or keep items out of sight. I get that, but who would think one would have to hide the toilet paper from a kleptomaniac? It’s insane! Pot is legal for recreational use in Oregon, perhaps someone’s smoking a bit too much. “Theft from a vehicle is one of the most common crimes in our area,” the Eugene PD noted in its Facebook post about the early-morning TP theft. Are police blaming the victim? This is a serious crime. The caper of the kleptomaniac copping the car’s Cottonelle cases. And because of the caper of the kleptomaniac copping the Cottonelle cases one consumer won’t be able to clean the crap from his crack. Perhaps the Eugene PD can see if retired Colorado cop Kenda can catch the kleptomaniac copping the car’s Cottonelle cases. Folks this toilet paper craze is getting sick. It’s not like CoronaVirus causes diarrhea it’s a respiratory illness.  What are people like the Oregon crook doing? Eating toilet paper with some fava beans and a nice chianti? What a Crock...   https://lidblog.com/steal-toilet-paper/   
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The Government Is Here to Help'
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Nate Jackson  President Donald Trump made a couple of significant moves Wednesday for confronting the coronavirus pandemic. One was signing the second aid package passed by Congress. The other was taking a wartime posture. We’ll start with the latter.

“I view it as … [I’m] a wartime president,” Trump said. “I mean, that’s what we’re fighting.” He then elaborated, “Every generation of Americans has been called to make shared sacrifices for the good of the nation. In World War II, young people in their teenage years volunteered to fight. They wanted to fight so badly because they love our country. Workers refused to go home and slept on factory floors to keep assembly lines running. … The numbers of ships that they built during World War II, to this day … nothing like that has ever been equal. And now it’s our time. We must sacrifice together because we are all in this together and we’ll come through together. It’s the invisible enemy. That’s always the toughest enemy: the invisible enemy. But we’re going to defeat the invisible enemy. I think we’re going to do it even faster than we thought. And it will be a complete victory. It’ll be a total victory.”

One move Trump made along these lines was invoking the Korean War-era Defense Production Act. Fox News  summarizes, “The act ensures the private sector can ramp-up manufacturing and distribution of emergency medical supplies and equipment. The move gives the White House the authority to increase production of masks, ventilators and respirators, as well as expand hospital capacity to combat the coronavirus.”

The president has yet to give any indication that he will use the act to mandate anything, but Trump evidently wants it in his back pocket. GM and Tesla have each voluntarily offered their manufacturing capabilities for producing medical supplies if needed.

Back to the aid package, the Senate passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act by a vote of 90-8 Wednesday, and Trump signed it yesterday evening. NBC News reports, “The measure provides free coronavirus testing and ensures paid emergency leave for those who are infected or caring for a family member with the illness. The bill also provides additional Medicaid funding, food assistance and unemployment benefits.”

Congress will now turn its attention to “the big one” — a $1 trillion-plus spending bonanza that will almost certainly include multiple sizable payments to Americans, probably at a threshold income of around $100,000. It will also include aid for businesses most affected by “social distancing,” cancellations, and shutdowns. The hotel industry seeks $150 billion, and airlines want $50 billion. Another $300 billion may go toward financing loans for small businesses.

In any case, the economic shockwaves are being felt daily by American workers and their families. There’s no end in sight, so we should do what Americans always do: buckle down and fight.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/69344?mailing_id=4932&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4932&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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TheFrontPageCover
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loose lips liar-Joe Biden:
A 'Cenrist' Moves Further Left
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Texas’s Largest County Settles 
Lawsuit Over Noncitizens on Voter Rolls
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By Joe Schoffstall
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The largest county in Texas settled a lawsuit with a watchdog group after refusing to release records dealing with noncitizens on its voter rolls... A federal district court in Houston entered a settlement agreement this week between the Harris County voter registrar and the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF). The settlement calls for the county to turn over records on its cancellations of ineligible voters, copies of registration applications that have blank or negative responses to citizenship questions, and all registrar communications with law enforcement regarding ineligible registrants, among other records. Officials from Harris County, the most populous county in Texas, previously testified that "thousands" of noncitizens were discovered on its voter rolls every year. The settlement comes as the election watchdog group seeks to clean voter rolls in major cities ahead of the November elections. Democrats have pushed back against attempts to clean voter rolls, often calling them "purges." Individuals removed for ineligibility tend to belong to demographic groups that lean Democrat. Texas has in recent years become a target of national Democrats, who have poured millions into the Lone Star State in attempts to gain power. PILF initially sought access to Harris County's voter information in December 2017 under Section 8 of the National Voters Registration Act of 1993. The act allows individuals to look at records "concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters." PILF wanted information on registrants who were removed for being noncitizens but was refused access to the documents. The group sent a final notice in January 2018 warning the county it would face litigation if it continued to block PILF's inspection. County officials did not budge. PILF filed its lawsuit in March 2018. "For more than a decade, Harris County officials lobbied for or against state and federal election reforms citing the fact that noncitizens were becoming registered there," Logan Churchwell, communications director for PILF, told the Washington Free Beacon. "We know this is a problem around the country. Harris County records can provide the largest sampling of the reported problems in Texas and identify system flaws in need of attention." "Our elections cannot afford weaknesses," Churchwell said. "We must plug gaps that are impacting citizens and immigrants alike." The county defendants did not respond to a request for comment on the settlement...   https://freebeacon.com/courts/texass-largest-county-settles-lawsuit-over-noncitizens-on-voter-rolls/?utm_source=actengage&utm_campaign=FreedomMail&utm_medium=email   

European Union: The End?
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by Judith Bergman
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Since the outbreak of coronavirus in Italy, Italians have learned that other European Union member states do not always practice the beautiful words that they like to preach -- especially solidarity... Solidarity is supposedly a fundamental principle of the European Union. It is enshrined in the EU treaties and the EU refers to it as one of its goals. According to article 222 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, one of the two principal treaties of the European Union: "The Union and its Member States shall act jointly in a spirit of solidarity if a Member State is... the victim of a natural or man-made disaster. The Union shall mobilise all the instruments at its disposal... to assist a Member State in its territory, at the request of its political authorities, in the event of a natural or man-made disaster". The EU has invoked the solidarity principle when it comes to receiving migrants: During the 2015 migrant crisis, the EU assigned each EU country a fixed quota of migrants and refugees to accept. In 2017, the EU took  Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) over their refusal to take migrants. In late October 2019, the Advocate General, legal advisor to the Court, said that EU law must be followed and that the EU's principle of solidarity "necessarily sometimes implies accepting burden-sharing". The Court has yet to issue a ruling on the issue, but it usually follows the advice of the Advocate General. The EU even has a specific unit, the  Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC), which operates under the EU's Civil Protection Mechanism, which helps both EU and certain non-EU states with crisis management, in accordance with the solidarity principle. This is where Italy appealed for help at the beginning of its coronavirus crisis -- and received in return exactly nothing. "We asked for supplies of medical equipment, and the European Commission forwarded the appeal to the member states," Italy's permanent representative to the EU, Maurizio Massari, told Foreign Policy. "But it didn't work." In addition, Germany and France, leading EU member states, even  imposed bans or limitations on the export of facemasks and protective equipment. This drew mild criticism from European Union officials, such as Stella Kyriakides, the EU's Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, who had to remind member states, fruitlessly, that, "Solidarity is key."...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15774/european-union-the-end 

No deaths at Lennox Hill Hospital from 
the virus after using hydroxychloroquine
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By M. Dowling
{ independentsentinel.com } ~ Dr. William Grace from Lennox Hill Hospital told Laura Ingraham on her show last night that he has been prescribing Hydroxychloroquine to his patients with coronavirus... They have 100 patients and have had zero deaths after the use of Hydroxychloroquine. Hydroxychloroquine is the less toxic version of Chloroquine. Grace said that a big reason older people die from the coronavirus is that their lungs fill up with fluid as part of an immune response to the virus. Hydroxychloroquine works, Grace notes, in both inhibiting the immune response and inhibiting the replication of the virus. This is wonderful and hopeful news. The same thing is happening in other countries, including China, South Korea, and elsewhere.   https://www.independentsentinel.com/lennox-hill-has-no-deaths-from-the-virus-after-using-hydroxychloroquine/?utm_source=whatfinger  
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Ministry arrives in Italy, where 
death toll has topped China's
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by Michael F. Haverluck
{ onenewsnow.com } ~ As Italy passes China for the most deaths as a result of the coronavirus, Samaritan's Purse is beginning its humanitarian aid and Christian outreach... which includes various types of assistance, medical supplies, and the gospel message. Since China announced the coronavirus at the turn of the year, the global pandemic has claimed more than 10,000 lives worldwide and infected nearly a quarter million people – as of late Thursday – but just before Italy reported more deaths than China Thursday 3,405 vs. 3,248, the World Health Organization declared Europe the epicenter for the virus. With more than 33,000 active cases, Italy has more than double the number of the next highest nation Spain at more than 16,000 infections; and of those, a whopping 2,500 infected patients are in serious or critical condition throughout Italy. As a result, the growing threat is causing a supply and support shortage for those with the virus – but more help has been sent to the coastal nation nestled between the Adriatic and Tyrhennian seas. On Tuesday,  Samaritan's Purse sent a plane to Italy packed with 20 tons of medical equipment, complete with masks, tents, pharmaceutical medications, monitors, ventilators, medical equipment and supplies for volunteers, according to Faithwire. In addition, a 68-bed emergency field hospital – comprising eight intensive-care beds and 60 inpatient beds – is being flown in by the nonprofit organization from the United States on the plane to assist the Italians. Also, approximately 60 medical specialists are scheduled to touch down in an airport in northern Italy to provide 90 days of assistance to those infected with coronavirus...
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FBI Finds New scumbag/liar-Clinton Emails – Includes Classified Information and Discloses 
that scumbag/liar-Clinton Used Text Messages 
for Government Business
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by judicialwatch.org ~ Judicial Watch today released 37 pages of new scumbag/liar-Clinton emails recently found by the FBI that show former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton used her unsecure, non-government email to transmit classified information... The new emails also show scumbag/liar-Clinton used text messages for government business. The documents, produced to Judicial Watch after a review by the State Department, include 13 new scumbag/liar-Clinton emails. The State Department did not provide information about where the emails were found; why they were not previously produced; or if additional records are anticipated. Last month, a Justice Department attorney could not tell a federal court judge how and where the FBI discovered the new cache of scumbag/liar-Clinton emails. The State Department previously claimed it had produced all releasable scumbag/liar-Clinton emails, including emails recovered by the FBI that scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton tried to destroy or withhold. The State Department initially claimed all responsive emails had been produced in 2018, but then found more emails which were produced, for the first time, early last year. Then in November 2019, the State Department first disclosed to the court that the FBI had found this latest batch of emails.  The emails were produced thanks to Judicial Watch  Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for all of scumbag/liar-Clinton’s government emails sent or received on her secret server system (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687)): All emails sent and received by former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton in her official capacity as Secretary of State, as well as all emails by other State Department employees to Secretary scumbag/liar-Clinton regarding her non-“state.gov” email address. The new email cache includes an email dated January 23, 2012, former-British Prime Minister Tony Blair emails scumbag/liar-Clinton’s personal email containing that was redacted as classified...   https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-finds-new-clinton-emails-includes-classified-information-and-discloses-that-clinton-used-text-messages-for-government-business/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly+update&utm_term=members&utm_content=20200320235558   
Be Smart: How the Mainstream 
Media Sweep Their Mistakes Under the Rug
by freebeacon.com ~ The online news outlet Axios on Wednesday published a bombshell news story: commie-Bernie Sanders, reporter Alexi McCammond wrote, was suspending his presidential campaign... "It’s an end to the campaign of the leading progressive in the race—and the candidate who seemed to be the clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination less than a month ago," the report stated. The only problem: It wasn’t true. And this wasn’t a run-of-the mill error, but a miscue on arguably the most anticipated and inevitable political story in the country. What followed from Axios was not an explanation to its readers of how it got the story wrong, but an excuse for how it was mistakenly published Axios editor in chief Nicholas Johnston blamed process breakdown in a "fully remote" newsroom. Axios’s response was an exercise in obfuscation and blame shifting. A tweet broadcasting the original story was disappeared without explanation. Days after the publication of the mistaken report, the author had not addressed her mistake publicly on Twitter, where reporters routinely explain errors and corrections to their pieces. The same was true of the official Axios Twitter account, which broadcast only the corrected report. About that report: For hours after it was posted, it included no correction acknowledging the initial error. That correction lived on its own web page, buried on Axios’s website. Traditionally, news organizations append corrections either at the top of, or at the bottom of, news reports. Axios has done just that in the past, posting corrections to reports about Uber’s move to fire employees in the wake of a harassment investigation, for example, and again in regard to claims from a former adviser to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky about President Donald Trump’s demands, communicating with its readers transparently about the error and the update to the story. It is also what Axios did nearly four hours after posting its botched report—after Bloomberg News presidential politics reporter Gregory Korte posted a screenshot of the original piece, which ran under the headline "commie-Bernie Sanders Suspends Presidential Campaign," and a second Bloomberg News reporter Laura Litvan, apologized to her Twitter followers for creating confusion by tweeting the original report...
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loose lips liar-Joe Biden: A 'Cenrist' Moves Further Left
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It’s an indisputable fact that the Democratic Party has moved left in recent years. Now, the party is about to choose a standard bearer in the person of former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden, and what has become clear is that loose lips liar-Biden has not only shifted left with his party over the years, he has taken significant leftward steps in recent weeks.

Three examples.

First, for years, loose lips liar-Biden has defended the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s record on deportations against those on the left who criticized scumbag/liar-nObama as the “deporter in chief.” Then came last month’s Nevada caucuses. After ugly losses in Iowa and New Hampshire, loose lips liar-Biden was struggling for life in Nevada, and trying to appeal to the Hispanic voters who made up a substantial portion of state Democrats.

All of a sudden, loose lips liar-Biden backtracked on the scumbag/liar-nObama deportations he used to defend. “There were too many,” loose lips liar-Biden told Univision’s Jorge Ramos. “I saw the pain in the eyes of so many people who saw their families being deported. I know what it’s like to lose family members. It was painful.”

As the Nevada vote neared, loose lips liar-Biden promised that if he became president, he would not deport anyone — no one, under any circumstances — during his first 100 days in office. After that, loose lips liar-Biden said, he would deport only those who have committed felonies in the United States. loose lips liar-Biden repeated the pledge at his recent debate with Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders, his last remaining rival for the nomination.

A second example. Just before the debate, loose lips liar-Biden announced he was adopting some of commie-Sanders’ positions on free college for all. “Today, loose lips liar-Biden is adding to his agenda by adopting Sen. commie-Sanders’ proposal to make public colleges and universities tuition-free for all students whose family incomes are below $125,000,” the campaign said.

loose lips liar-Biden’s proposal was modeled on a bill commie-Sanders offered in 2017, and that was also part of commie-Sanders’ 2016 battle with scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. commie-Sanders has since moved on — he now proposes free tuition for everyone, regardless of income. Accordingly, commie-Sanders rejected loose lips liar-Biden’s move. “It’s great that loose lips liar-Joe Biden is now supporting a position that was in the Democratic platform four years ago,” commie-Sanders said in a statement released just before the debate. “Now we have to go much further.” Still, loose lips liar-Biden had moved unmistakably toward commie-Sanders.

A third example. Back in the 2000s, loose lips liar-Biden, then a senator, fought with Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren, then a Harvard professor, over the issue of bankruptcy. She wanted to make it less wearing on those who have to declare bankruptcy by, among other things, allowing them to include student debt in their bankruptcy filing. loose lips liar-Biden opposed the idea. Years later, dinky/liar-Warren made a similar plan part of her presidential campaign before dropping out after the Super Tuesday primaries earlier this month.

Now, with dinky/liar-Warren withholding her endorsement, loose lips liar-Biden is moving dinky/liar-Warren’s way. Before the debate, he announced that he “agrees firmly with Sen. dinky/liar-Warren that we need to fundamentally reshape our bankruptcy system.” Yet another leftward move.

Is loose lips liar-Biden undergoing some sort of late-in-life reassessment of his beliefs? Perhaps, but it appears more likely his shifts came for baldly political reasons. He needed Hispanic votes in Nevada. (By the way, even with his no-deportations pledge, he didn’t get them; commie-Sanders beat him 50% to 17% among Hispanic voters.) He needs commie-Sanders’ support, and his voters, when the Vermont senator finally gives up the race. He needs dinky/liar-Warren’s support, too.

So loose lips liar-Biden’s positions on three big issues — immigration, college education and bankruptcy — changed virtually overnight to fit the political requirements of the late stages of the 2020 Democratic primary. And all involved a move to the left. For months, loose lips liar-Biden dominated the so-called “centrist” or “moderate” lane of the Democratic race. But now there is no longer a Democratic race. Even as commentators touted his centrism, loose lips liar-Biden strategically moved left to consolidate the support he needed for the nomination.

Soon he will have to come up with the version of loose lips liar-Joe Biden who will run in the general election. At the moment, all politics, as all life in the United States, is consumed with coronavirus. But at some point, the virus will subside, and the campaign will re-emerge. President Trump will fiercely attack loose lips liar-Biden for moving left, leaving voters to decide whether loose lips liar-Biden really is the centrist he was made out to be.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/69300?mailing_id=4929&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4929&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Trump Goes Big
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Here Come the Bailouts
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by forliberty.news ~ Congress and the White House are already working on what would be the third fiscal response to the coronavirus epidemic. While the price tags for the first two efforts are still a moving target... but will easily exceed $100 billion, the third trip to the fiscal well could be a cool $1 trillion: The government’s economic stimulus is set to quickly balloon into trillion-dollar territory in the coming days, the largest rescue in modern American history, as major industries flood the Trump administration and Capitol Hill for aid while huge swaths of the economy stall from the coronavirus crisis. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will meet with Senate Republicans behind closed doors on Tuesday to present lawmakers with options for aid to airlines, hotels, casinos and small-to-medium-sized businesses. The White House was pushing for a package of more than $800 billion, POLITICO reported Monday, and on Tuesday the Treasury Department was preparing to unveil a package of $850 billion including more than $50 billion for the airline industry, $250 billion for small-business support and $500 billion for a payroll tax holiday. So tax holidays, corporate bailouts…if some of this seems a bit like the government’s response to the Great Recession, you wouldn’t be wrong. Back then, the bill was a comparatively paltry $787 billion…and self-styled fiscal conservatives railed against it all as a titanic waste of taxpayer money. Now, the political class can’t spend money fast enough: The Trump administration is pushing to send direct payments to Americans in the next two weeks as huge parts of the economy shut down. “Americans need cash now,” Mnuchin said. “And the president wants to get cash now. And I mean now in the next two weeks.“ He planned to discuss the move with lawmakers and announce details later Tuesday...  http://forliberty.news/2020/03/17/here-come-the-bailouts/   

Pence staffer tests positive for coronavirus, becoming first-known case of 
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By Alex Pappas 
{ foxnews.com } ~ A staff member in Vice President Mike Pence’s office has tested positive for coronavirus, a spokesperson for Pence announced Friday evening... making that individual the first publicly-known positive case of a White House staffer. “‪This evening we were notified that a member of the Office of the Vice President tested positive for the Coronavirus,” Katie Miller, Pence’s press secretary, said in a statement. “Neither President Trump nor Vice President Pence had close contact with the individual.” Pence’s office did not identify the individual or provide other information about the person or the job they hold. But the Pence spokeswoman said steps are being made to trace others the person has come in contact with. “Further contact tracing is being conducted in accordance with CDC guidelines,” Miller said. Pence was appointed by Trump to lead the White House’s coronavirus task force, which has been holding daily press briefings on the virus. In recent days, Trump has joined Pence and others on the task force for briefings. The outbreak has seen others in politics diagnosed with coronavirus: Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., on Wednesday became the first member of Congress to announce that he was infected. Not long after Diaz-Balart’s announcement, Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, announced that he, too, had tested positive. A week ago, Trump took a coronavirus test -- after exposure to infected individuals -- but said it came back negative. That test followed Trump’s interactions with the presidential delegation from Brazil at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, as well as his appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) earlier this month. People at both locations were later determined to have been infected. Earlier this week, the vice president said he had not been tested. "I have not been tested yet," Pence said Monday. "I’m in regular consultation with the White House physician, and he said I’ve not been exposed to anyone for any period of time that had the coronavirus, and that my wife and I have no symptoms." As of Friday evening, the United States had more than 18,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus resulting in 227 deaths.
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CDC chief corrects the media: CDC, Trump not 
to blame for delay in getting COVID-19 tests
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by Spencer Irvine  
{ aim.org } ~ The media has ripped the Trump administration for not having enough coronavirus tests for the American public... But on Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the delay is due to a “technical glitch” that slowed production of the tests, not the actions of the president or the CDC. Fauci, the director for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told radio host Hugh Hewitt that Trump and the CDC are not to blame for the test delays. Fauci said a “technical glitch” that delayed the production of usable tests in the United States. Fauci said it was an example of random error that could not have been avoided by any president. “It was a complicated series of multiple things that conflated that just, you know, went the wrong way,” Fauci said. “One of them was a technical glitch that slowed things down in the beginning. Nobody’s fault. There wasn’t any bad guys there. It just happened.” These outlets blamed Trump in their coverage: Wall Street Journal: “Trump Administration Confronts New Coronavirus Testing Woes”...Associated Press: “Trump scrambles to broaden coronavirus testing options”   The Hill: “Senators hit Trump health officials over coronavirus testing delays”.
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Iranian Regime’s Reckless Disregard 
Made the Coronavirus Outbreak Worse
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by James Phillips
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Iran, which faces one of the most widespread COVID-19 coronavirus outbreaks outside of China, is paying a heavy price for the mismanagement, dishonesty, and self-serving priorities of its Islamist clerical regime... Iran’s totalitarian rulers remain in denial about the scope and consequences of the pandemic, preferring to save face rather than save lives. The ayatollahs played down the danger of the outbreak and delayed taking decisive measures to slow the spread of the virus to project total control and invincibility, and to avoid damaging the regime’s political, ideological, and economic interests. The excavation of trenches for mass graves at the Behesht-e-Masoumeh complex in Qom, the epicenter of Iran’s virus outbreak, and images of coronavirus victims in black bags crowding the floors of an Iranian morgue are grim signs that the scale and impact of the coronavirus is far deadlier than the Iranian regime is reporting. Iranian officials initially downplayed the severity of the outbreak, losing critical time to contain the spread of the virus. The government announced the first two coronavirus-related deaths on Feb. 19, two days before parliamentary elections that hard-liners hoped would restore the tattered legitimacy of the oppressive, corrupt, and increasingly resented regime. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accused the country’s enemies of exaggerating the threat posed by the coronavirus shortly before the elections to discourage the turnout of voters, which he knew would be low due to the lack of popular support for the regime. In November, anti-government protests in Iran demonstrated the Iranian people’s dissatisfaction with the regime. Disaffection turned into outright anger against the regime after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards shot down a Ukrainian airliner in January, killing many Iranian passengers and refusing to take responsibility for three days. In a statement to the country on Feb. 25, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani refused to admit that the outbreak was quickly spiraling out of control, claiming that this was “one of the enemy’s plots to bring our country into closure by spreading panic.”...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/03/20/iranian-regimes-reckless-disregard-made-the-coronavirus-outbreak-worse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=iranian-regimes-reckless-disregard-made-the-coronavirus-outbreak-worse?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1dZeFpETTNObU0yT1ROaiIsInQiOiI0RlA2dzE2dXFlcU00ckMyOUlkaERxY2FscjlNY1wvd204SlBWY3YrYWo5WXNsUmk5RzFoWGQ4OHR2ZEVEOHkzSk1HNkxkRXcya25PQ0UxWmcxOTBCUU9EVWNxNlkrNXNWR3VOb3QycWp1RXp5Z0FreWVmVkV1eG5VQ2o2RUFMcDgifQ%3D%3D   
Gas Under $1? — It’s Possible
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by conservativesociety.org ~ Gas prices continue to fall as the country struggles to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus. While many Americans are grateful for lower gas prices... the opportunity to save at the gas pump could not have come at a worse time. According to the gas price site GasBuddy.com., the average price across the United States is currently at $2.19. Their analysts predict some gas stations even seeing price drops as low as 99 cents. AAA is currently reporting the national average of gas prices has declined to $2.17 with 19 states being under $2.00 per gallon. This is the lowest it’s been since December 2016. Coupled with the coronavirus pandemic, the oil wars between Russia and Saudi Arabia has caused a downward spiral in the financial markets, causing much concern in the US energy industry. The last time Saudi Arabia lowered the price of oil, it caused massive job losses in the energy sector. Earlier this year, Saudi Arabia announced it would raise production to over 10 billion barrels of oil per day after it was reported that OPEC’s deal with Russia collapsed...  https://www.conservativesociety.org/united-voice/gas-under-1-its-possible/?utm_source=AT&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AT-032020-pm  
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We Don’t Need Divisive Attacks 
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by Jeremy Dys
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Opening public meetings with prayer is such a long-standing American tradition that it is puzzling why some continue to seek the demise of the practice based on subjective claims that such prayers are “inappropriate and divisive.”... Consider these news reports just since Jan. 26: A newspaper in Venice, Florida, reported that the Venice City Council may end its practice of praying before public meetings, following a complaint by a group from Wisconsin. In Ohio, members of the New Carlisle City Council changed their premeeting prayers to a moment of silence to end an emerging controversy. In Las Vegas, the Clark County School District ended prayers entirely, again after a “watchdog” group complained. In Connersville, Indiana, the city council  reconsidered its policies after a local resident asked to present an invocation that is secular, rather than religious. Following their lead, county leaders reportedly are considering doing the same. The West Virginia House of Delegates now faces a complaint for the seconds long prayer opening its recent session—this only a few weeks after suggestions that the city of Wheeling, West Virginia, switch to a secular prayer. These attacks on the time-honored tradition of legislative invocations not only ignore history and tradition, but also the unequivocal language of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has twice in the last half-century upheld the longstanding, religiously expressive practice of legislative prayer...
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Trump Goes Big
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The Trump administration made it clear yesterday that it is going to propose a big economic stimulus package to boost the economy, which is being hammered by the coronavirus fallout. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is on Capitol Hill discussing the plan with Senate Republicans.

The White House is seeking approximately $850 billion in tax relief and loans to industries most affected by the economic shutdown. While President Trump prefers a payroll-tax “holiday,” the White House signaled it is open to direct cash payments to households ASAP.

Mnuchin told reporters, “We’re looking at sending checks to Americans immediately… [Laid off] Americans need cash now. And the president wants to get cash [out] now.” In addition, he said the administration would defer owed tax payments interest-free and penalty-free for 90 days. 

Here’s the most important thing: The Trump/Pence team worked through the night to develop this stimulus plan. It is committed to getting us through this crisis, and all options are on the table.

Combatting the Coronavirus

Monday the White House released new recommendations for combatting the Chinese coronavirus (COVID-19). Here’s what you need to know:

  • Follow the directions of your state and local authorities.

  • If you feel sick, stay home. Do not go to work. Contact your medical provider.

  • If your children are sick, keep them at home. Contact your medical provider.

  • If someone in your household has tested positive for the coronavirus, keep the entire household at home.

  • If you are an older American, stay home and away from other people.

  • If you are a person with a serious underlying health condition — such as a significant heart or lung problem — stay home and away from other people.

In addition, the White House is also urging Americans to:

  • Work from home whenever possible.

  • Avoid gatherings of more than 10 people.

  • Avoid bars, restaurants and food courts. Use delivery, pickup and drive-thru options when possible.

  • Avoid discretionary travel.

  • Avoid unnecessary visits to nursing homes and retirement centers.

These guidelines build on the CDC’s recommendations to fight the spread of the virus, and everyone can do their part. Everyone should avoid touching their face, continue washing their hands regularly for at least 20 seconds, and wipe down surfaces — tables, countertops, keyboards, etc. — in the home often.

Even those who are young and healthy are at risk. But most importantly, your activities can increase the risk of spreading the coronavirus to others who are in more danger from it, specifically those over 70 and people with serious preexisting medical problems.

Yesterday, the White House also announced new “telemedicine” options for Medicare recipients, as well as reforms to burdensome HIPAA laws and regulations. And it’s worth repeating that under Trump’s leadership a vaccine for COVID-19 has been approved in record time.

Left-Wing Hate

It would be nice if in a time of crisis we could all come together for the good of the country. Sadly, that’s not happening. 

Many on the left are exploiting this crisis, desperately hoping they can use it to take down Trump. They are lying to you and contributing to the fear and panic that has gripped the country. 

Here are some examples of what I am referring to:

  • Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi tried to hijack an emergency spending bill to subsidize abortions. Only the left can see a piece of time-sensitive and life-saving legislation as an opportunity to kill more unborn babies. Thankfully, the provision was dropped.

  • During a conference call with governors, the president encouraged them to try getting respirators and ventilators themselves because it could be quicker while adding that the federal government would support them however it can. But The New York Times only reported the first part of Trump’s remarks, and that’s the part that went viral. (Pun intended.) Dozens of news outlets ran misleading headlines suggesting that Trump had essentially abandoned the states.

  • Some so-called “progressives” are hoping Trump and his conservative supporters get sick and die.

  • Some leftists like anti-Second Amendment activist David Hogg and Rep. Rashida Tlaib mocked  Christians for praying during this crisis.

  • They have pushed political correctness and thrown around accusations of racism.

  • They falsely accused the president of dismantling  the White House office of pandemic preparedness.

  • They lied and claimed he gutted the budgets of vital health agencies.

  • They falsely accused the president of calling the virus a hoax.

I could go on, but you get the point.

Looking Ahead

Since many leftists are obsessed with politicizing this virus, let’s examine how it could play out in the weeks and months ahead. While the stock-market crash and economic uncertainty are not good news, the president still has a strong hand to play. For example:

  • We saw how Trump grew the economy during the first three years of his administration. Compare that to the eight years of malaise under scumbag/liar-nObama/loose lips liar-Biden. Who wants to go back to that?!

  • Trump can say that he championed border security because we had no idea who was coming into the country and whether they were sick or not. But the left fought him tooth and nail every step of the way. Now Canada, Germany, and several South American countries are sealing their borders.

  • Trump can say that he has led the charge against our dependency on communist China, while liberals like Joe Biden were bowing to Beijing. On this point, I am pleased to report that the White House is considering additional steps to secure our vital medical supply chains.

And speaking of loose lips liar-Joe Biden, here’s another headline proving that he’s no moderate:  "loose lips liar-Biden Says He’ll Adopt Plans From commie-Sanders, dinky/liar-Warren.“   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/69302?mailing_id=4929&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4929&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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What's Not Happening
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by Tom McLaughlin
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What Conservatives Think of 
Senate’s Coronavirus Aid Package
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by Rachel del Guidice
{ dailysignal.com } ~ The Senate’s new coronavirus aid package is a mixed bag, according to a new report from The Heritage Foundation... “Any action that Congress takes should be targeted, temporary, and linked directly to the coronavirus epidemic in order to address the source of the economic shock while limiting any political abuse that can develop in a moment of crisis,” states the report’s summary. “Unfortunately, the Senate’s coronavirus bill, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, misses this mark by including special benefits to specific industries that will exceed $200 billion.” The Heritage Foundation’s report is titled “The Senate’s Coronavirus Bill: Bailouts, Missed Opportunities, and Positive Reforms. ”The Senate’s aid package, which was released by Republicans Thursday and could be voted on as soon as this weekend, would cost up to $1 trillion. It would give monetary relief to airlines and other industries impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as send checks to many Americans. Among other provisions, couples who make up to $150,000 a year would get checks for $2,400 in the mail and individuals earning up to $75,000 would get checks for $1,200, The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas reported. Individuals who make over $99,000 a year and couples making over $198,000 would not receive any federal assistance under the current legislation. The Heritage report, authored by eight researchers focusing on health care and economics, states: Broad-based relief is not a well-targeted prescription for this crisis. … Government supports should be targeted toward keeping people employed and supporting those who do lose their jobs due to the coronavirus crisis. “Liquidity is the key to rescuing the nation from the worst potential economic impact of the coronavirus,” Schatz said. “If the airlines can’t fly, they can’t pay bills. If individuals can’t pay rent or buy food, they need help from the government. This does not mean that fiscal responsibility should be completely abandoned. The funds must be used as intended for only as long as necessary.”...     https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/03/20/what-conservatives-think-of-senates-coronavirus-aid-package/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-conservatives-think-of-senates-coronavirus-aid-package&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkRZMFl6ZzJOVE5rWkRrMiIsInQiOiIrK2d6TDNGcnM5TDJRRG1FNlVqU1hPVTF2cm5HU0NycHlyOXZLM3dCVm43QUJcL2JoUDdnb1lMV1F5UlFWMmZIa0Q3YUpVb200TjQybW1rZ0VCeDdvckpBS1ZUNUVUcDBLR2VFRk1TVW5hbGNRMU5wV0xoY2lkWkdQY3VZMDcwcUIifQ%3D%3D 
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Studies Claim Malaria Drug Chloroquine 
Effective Against Coronavirus
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by JAMES DELINGPOLE
{ breitbart.com } ~ Sure this Coronavirus pandemic is a misery but I’m much more optimistic than most at the moment. Here’s one of the reasons: there’s an effective treatment already and it’s available and cheap, according to studies... Chloroquine phosphate, an old-fashioned anti-malarial drug, has shown strong results against COVID-19 infections in South Korea and China. As Anthony Watts notes here there have been at least three studies demonstrating its efficacy against the Coronavirus. Here is one, by James M Todaro and Gregory J Rigano, in association with Stanford University School of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences Researchers. According to the summary: Recent guidelines from South Korea and China report that chloroquine is an effective antiviral therapeutic treatment against Coronavirus Disease 2019. Use of chloroquine tablets is showing favorable outcomes in humans infected with Coronavirus including faster time to recovery and shorter hospital stay. US CDC research shows that chloroquine also has strong potential as a prophylactic preventative measure against coronavirus in the lab, while we wait for a vaccine to be developed. Chloroquine is an inexpensive, globally available drug that has been in widespread human use since 1945 against malaria, autoimmune and various other conditions. It concludes: Chloroquine can both prevent and treat malaria. Chloroquine can both prevent and treat coronavirus in primate cells. According to South Korean and China human treatment guidelines, chloroquine is effective in treating COVID-19. Given chloroquine’s human safety profile and existence, it can be implemented today in the U.S., Europe and the rest of the world. Medical doctors may be reluctant to prescribe chloroquine to treat COVID-19 since it is not FDA approved for this use. The United States of America and other countries should immediately authorize and indemnify medical doctors for prescribing chloroquine to treat COVID-19. We must explore whether chloroquine can safely serve as a preventative measure prior to infection of COVID-19 to stop further spread of this highly contagious virus...
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Israeli Pharma Giant Teva Donates Millions 
of Doses of Potential Coronavirus 
Drug to US Hospitals
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by algemeiner.com ~ Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva on Friday announced that it would donate millions of tablets containing a possible coronavirus cure to hospitals across the US... A statement from the company said that more than 6 million doses of hydroxychloroquine sulfate — touted as a potential remedy for coronavirus sufferers — would be distributed through its wholesalers. “We are committed to helping to supply as many tablets as possible as demand for this treatment accelerates at no cost,” Brendan O’Grady — Teva Executive Vice President, North America Commercial — stated. “Immediately upon learning of the potential benefit of hyroxychloroquine, Teva began to assess supply and to urgently acquire additional ingredients to make more product while arranging for all of what we had to be distributed immediately.” Hydroxychloroquine is an arthritis medicine that also can be used to prevent malaria. It is available in the US by prescription only. It is marketed under the brand name Plaquenil and it is also sold as a generic medicine. Teva’s statement emphasized that while hydroxychloroquine was “not currently approved for use in the treatment of COVID-19, it is currently under investigation for efficacy against the coronavirus and has been requested by US government officials to be made available for use immediately.” Teva added that it was “also reviewing supply of both hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine globally to determine whether there are additional supply and access opportunities for patients.” At his White House press conference on Thursday, President Donald Trump hailed hydroxychloroquine as a potential “game-changer” as the US battles the spread of the virus. Medical professionals were less sanguine, however. Asked about the president’s comments during an interview with CNN later on Thursday, Dr. Anthony Fauci — director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — responded, “There’s no magic drug out there right now.” Fauci added: “That doesn’t mean that we’re not going to do everything we can to make things that have even a hint of efficacy more readily available.”
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Mutual Agreement – U.S. Closes Mexico and 
Canada Border Blocking Non-Essential Travel
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Earlier today President Trump announced the closing of the southern border (Mexico) and northern border (Canada) to non essential travel... Entry/Exit for trade and business travel will continue to operate with additional screening. President Trump is taking action at our northern and southern borders to prevent further spread of the coronavirus in the United States. ♦ The United States has reached mutual agreements with Canada and Mexico to restrict non-essential travel across our northern and southern borders. ♦ The United States will expeditiously return aliens who cross between ports of entry or are otherwise not allowed to enter the country, as the facilities in which these aliens would normally be held cannot support quarantine for the time needed to assess potential cases...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/20/mutual-agreement-u-s-closes-mexico-and-canada-border-blocking-non-essential-travel/ 

An Important Message From 
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has an important message about the U.S. food sector. With shortages in the retail food deliver sector the last part is key…. “don’t take more than you would normally use in a week or two.”... The aspect that most models are missing, is the pressure on the supply-chain will not soon end. The restaurant sector ‘food away from home’ appears to be operating at far less than half capacity perhaps as low as 25% due to coronavirus restrictions. As long as those food consumers remain shifted into the retail supply chain food at home, there are going to be long-term shortages due to capacity constraints and distribution limits.To gain an idea of the scale of the challenge here’s some big picture analytics. There are approximately 50,000 retail outlets for grocery sales nationwide with about 250 large scale distribution centers warehouses regionally placed. If you take an average across all grocers, a conservative estimate for one product category, hot dogs, each retail store would need roughly 20 cases for a resupply all brands. That’s one million cases of hot dogs across all retail outlets. 50,000 stores at 20 cases each. However, the distribution centers would also need 1 million cases, for a replenishment average of 2.5 to 3 days later.  Additionally, within 7 days from the original delivery date another 1 million cases would have to arrive from the manufacturers to resupply the distribution centers...
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Stores Set up Senior Shopping Hours
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by headlinewealth.com ~ As senior citizens deal with anxiety about the coronavirus, grocery store chains and other retailers have come up with a way to ease their fears... shopping times reserved exclusively for them. Target, Whole Foods, Walmart and Dollar General, as well as supermarkets in Europe, began dedicating early morning shopping times for older customers this week. The theory is that allowing seniors to shop among smaller crowds could reduce their chances of acquiring the virus and give them first crack at buying hand sanitizer and other products that have been hard to find because of panic shopping. The idea seems to have worked well in smaller shops but backfired in some larger stores, where big crowds made “social distancing” difficult. Better yet, Petri said, would be for seniors to get groceries delivered to their homes.  https://headlinewealth.com/stores-set-up-senior-shopping-hours/  
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What's Not Happening
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~It’s been a while, but I haven’t seen any gunfights in the streets of Maine or New Hampshire the past few years and I live very near the border between the two. That’s what progressives predicted would occur if gun laws loosened and people didn’t have to get permits to carry concealed guns. I haven’t seen any newspaper articles or television reports about increased gun violence either after each state passed legislation eliminating concealed carry permits. It’s been three years in New Hampshire and more than four years in Maine, so were the progressives wrong when they predicted both states would turn into the wild, wild west?
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Police chiefs in both states were also against the new laws claiming their officers would at risk. What do they say now? Nothing. Vermont never required concealed carry permits and it’s always been one of the safest states in the country. That fact was ignored by progressive gun control advocates when they argued against New Hampshire and Maine revisions of concealed carry permits to copy Vermont.  
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Many people in the three northern New England states still leave their doors unlocked and crime rates remain very low. Is that because guns here are as common as unlocked doors? That’s probably a factor but not the only one. Most people own guns here and know how to use them. That’s a deterrent, certainly, but they also know who their neighbors are. There’s a much stronger sense of community. People here tend to look out for each other and are wary of strangers and unfamiliar vehicles in their neighborhoods.  
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Most rural towns in northern New England don’t have police departments either. They rely on county sheriff’s deputies and the state police. Because of logistics and geography, response times for those larger law enforcement agencies are slower than police departments are in New York City or Boston. Rural people know this so they’re not only more prepared to defend themselves, they’re more willing to do so as well. They’re much less likely to cower in the face of criminal aggression of any sort.  
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There’s been no let-up in gun crimes for either state since gun laws were relaxed, but the perpetrators usually had prior felony convictions, so carrying a gun remained illegal for them. That didn’t stop them, of course, but then it never did. If you look around and see where most gun crimes are committed, you’ll quickly learn that they’re places with strict gun control laws like Chicago and New York. Gun laws on those places have only been obeyed by the law-abiding. Criminals have historically ignored them.  
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Although commie-Bernie Sanders has always been a doctrinaire lefty on nearly every issue since he was elected Mayor of Burlington, Vermont almost forty years ago, his position on gun control didn’t fit the mold. Is that because he knew he would never have been elected to state-wide office there if he favored gun restrictions? His army of supporters would likely argue that commie-Bernie has always been guided by principle over political expediency, but is that changing?  
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According to an article by Russell Berman in the February 27 issue of The Atlantic:

The senator from Vermont’s hallmark has been his consistency as an unbending progressive over four decades in elected office. Yet if commie-Sanders has embodied left-wing purity more than any of the other potential Democratic nominees, gun policy is one area where his record has been far from pristine in the eyes of progressives… But it’s telling that on gun control, he has gone further this time around to repudiate his past positions and align himself with the Democratic Party’s mainstream opinion. “The world has changed, and my views have changed,” he said at the February debate in New Hampshire.
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Was commie-Bernie sincere about his gun control views forty years ago? Is he caving in to political expediency here in 2020? He really wants to be president, but what if he loses to Biden or Trump? Can he be reelected senator in Vermont now that he’s become a gun control advocate? We may never know because he’s not up again until 2024 and by then he’ll be eighty-two years old. Maybe he’ll retire. Maybe he’ll change his position again.

While Democrats consider abortion their most important issue, gun control seems to have become the next most important. Maine and New Hampshire have been voting Democrat the past few cycles, and Vermont has been solidly “blue” for even longer. Maine and New Hampshire, however, are moving the other way on gun control. While Vermont has become even more leftist, there’s no indication they’ll tighten up on guns.
 
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Coming Soon: Viral Government Checks
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Coronavirus Exposes How 
West Coast Progressives Failed the Homeless
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by Christopher Rufo
{ dailysignal.com } ~ The coronavirus has changed almost every facet of American life. It has disrupted work routines, sent children home from school, and stress-tested the global supply chain... Medical researchers have warned for weeks that the new coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, is particularly dangerous to seniors and those with underlying health conditions. But in West Coast cities such as Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, public authorities are quickly discovering another potential tinderbox for infection: homeless encampments.  This has caused significant political discomfort. Three weeks ago, when Seattle radio host Jason Rantz warned about the potential for an outbreak within homeless encampments, progressive activists slammed him as a “fascist” hoping to set up concentration camps for the most vulnerable. However, within days, the progressive narrative collapsed—the homeless are, in fact, uniquely vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. As The New York Times put it: The homeless are more susceptible to contracting the disease … because of the cramped quarters in shelters, the sharing of utensils and the lack of hand-washing stations on the streets. Once infected the chronically homeless are more likely to get much sicker or die because of underlying medical conditions. In San Francisco, public authorities are testing 30 homeless individuals who are hospitalized with symptoms of the coronavirus. If this population tests positive for the disease, the homeless would represent nearly half of all total confirmed cases countywide...   https://www.dailysignal.com/wp-content/uploads/Tenderlointents2.jpg 

Breakthrough French Study: ‘100%’
Of Coronavirus Patients Cured
With Our Treatment
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by thepoliticalinsider.com ~ Gregory Rigano, an advisor to the Stanford University School of Medicine, claimed on Wednesday that a French researcher who is well respected in his field had tested a hopeful cure for coronavirus... “Full peer-reviewed study has been released by Didier Raoult MD, PhD. After 6 days 100% of patients treated with HCQ + Azithromycin were virologically cured,” Rigano tweeted. Rigano followed up with an appearance on Fox News Wednesday, where he said, “And I’m here to report that as of this morning, about 5:00 this morning, a well-controlled peer-reviewed study carried out by the most eminent infectious disease specialist in the world—Didier Raoult, MD, PhD—out of the south of France, in which he enrolled 40 patients, again, a well-controlled peer review study, that showed a 100 percent cure rate against coronavirus.” “The study was released this morning on my Twitter account, @Riganoesq as well as our most recent website, @covidtrial.io” Rigano continued. “The study was recently accepted to the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents by Elsevier.” “In fact to be able to cure a virus was said to be mathematically impossible, and the first company that did it was a small biotech called Pharmacet that was acquired by Gilead Sciences in a cure for hepatitis C. What we’re here to announce is a second cure to a virus of all time,” Rigano added. In addition to this promising news, The Daily Wire reported Monday that an Australian team had announced they believe to have found a cure for coronavirus...
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Tom Cotton Debuts Plan to Take Pharma 
Production Back From China
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) introduced legislation Thursday to repatriate pharmaceutical manufacturing from China to America... aiming to reduce a dependency that could seriously limit the U.S. coronavirus response. The bill, which Cotton introduced with Rep. Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.), aims to severely curtail the volume of Chinese active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from the U.S. medical drug supply. The PRC currently produces most of the world's APIs—the "active ingredients" in commonly used drugs—leaving the United States and other nations critically dependent on it for medicines. Cotton's is just the latest proposal to onshore pharmaceutical supply chains, including a similar one from Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and rumblings from the White House about a "buy American" executive order. Prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, many are beginning to see the cost-savings from Chinese-made pharmaceuticals as not worth the risk of undersupply during another pandemic, or during a potential conflict with America's main geostrategic rival.  "China unleashed this plague on the world, and China has to be held accountable," said Cotton during a Fox News interview  Wednesday evening. "It's too grave a threat to let our health rest on Chinese drugs." The Cotton bill would directly target Chinese API producers, requiring the FDA to track the point of origin for APIs and drugs made outside of the United States, as well as requiring drug companies to list the country of origin for APIs on their products. It would also prohibit all federal entities—including the Departments of Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, and Defense—from purchasing drugs that use APIs made in China. The bill also aims to bolster domestic pharmaceutical production capacity. It would allow domestic manufacturers to immediately expense the costs of expanding production capacity, giving such businesses a major write-off on their taxes. If successful, that provision could help U.S.-based manufacturers compete with lower-cost Chinese ones, keeping drug prices low even as production moves back to the United States...
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What Happened to the Israeli Left?
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by Caroline Glick
{ cms.frontpagemag.com } ~ MK Ofer Shelah from the Blue and White party is the architect of his party’s current efforts to form a government with the support of Joint Arab List... If Shelah succeeds, he will have formed a radical, post-Zionist minority government entirely dependent on 15 Arab lawmakers, who reject Israel’s right to exist, just to stay afloat. As Shelah blazed forward in his efforts, political philosopher Yoram Hazony recalled an earlier bid by Shelah to force the public to accept post-Zionist positions hostile to the very right of the Jewish people to self-determination. In February 2001, the Yitzhak Rabin Center convened a meeting of Israel’s elites from across the political spectrum to compose a document that would set out the Jewish goals of the State of Israel. The meetings led to the drafting of the Kinneret Charter, which in later years served as the basis for the 2018 Basic Law: Israel, the Nation-State of the Jewish People. The Rabin Center was spurred to action by three dramatic events. First in July 2000, PLO chief Yassir Arafat rejected Ehud Barak’s offer of statehood and peace at the Camp David summit, effectively ending the Oslo peace process. In September, Arafat ordered his terror forces to initiate a campaign of terror against Israel the likes of which hadn’t been seen since the 1930s. And in October 2000, the Arab Israeli community joined the Palestinian onslaught. In two weeks of violent riots, Arab Israelis throughout the country assaulted their Jewish neighbors and countrymen and called for the destruction of the state. The third event – the Arab Israeli riots – shook Israeli society to its core because it called into question the very survival of the state as a coherent political unit. As a well-known journalist, Shelah was invited to participate in the inaugural meeting. Hazony recalled that the politician now pushing the hardest to form a government reliant the Joint Arab List which rejects the legitimacy of the Jewish state, stood up and announced that he refused to participate in a Jewish-only forum and demanded that Arab Israelis be invited to participate. Prof. Ruth Gavison, perhaps the most influential intellectual on the Left at the time, responded that Jews have a right to convene to discuss their future just as Arabs do. Most of the participants, including some on the far left, like former Education Minister Prof. Yuli Tamir from Peace Now, agreed with Gavison...
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5 Senators Accused of 
“Coronavirus” Insider Trading
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by starpolitical.com ~ According to stock sales disclosures by Senators after a closed door briefing on January 24 about the Coronavirus threat, the following senators sold stocks... Senator Richard Burr Senator Kelly Loefner, Senator Dianne Fein-stein, Senator Ron Johnson, Senator Jim Inhofe. Ryan Fournier: “The media is quick to call out GOP Senators when they sold stocks based on privy information, But they forgot to call out Senator Fein-stein, who sold anywhere from $1 million to $5 million in stock after a closed-door Coronavirus briefing.”  Jamie Dupree Dug up the sales chart saying in regards to Fein-stein, “Here’s a sale about the same time by Sen. Dianne Fein-stein D-CA. In terms of price, Allogene Therapeutics was around $22/share for that sale. It’s now $20.29/share. With commie-Ocasio-Cortez front and center attacking GOP senators involved, some are asking if she will publicly condemn Fein-stein’s actions.  https://starpolitical.com/report-senator-diane-feinstein-accused-of-trading-stock-prior-to-global-pandemic/   
Great News – Kevin Hassett Returning to 
White House To Assist With COVID-19 
Economic Response
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Former White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett is returning to the administration as a senior economic advisor to President Trump during the COVID-19 response... Kevin Hassett is very sharp and a happy warrior by disposition. Hassett was excellent as CEA Chair and no doubt his rejoining the economic team with an advisory position to President Trump will bring a great voice back to the crew.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/20/great-news-kevin-hassett-returning-to-white-house-to-assist-with-covid-19-economic-response/ 
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Coming Soon: Viral Government Checks
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Nate Jackson  As coronavirus ravishes the American economy, the Trump administration and Senate Republicans are working on a third aid package that may top $1 trillion. The Senate is likely to first pass the  House’s $100 billion aid package, which itself followed the initial $8.3 billion emergency measure earlier this month. Wisdom of the “stimulus” specifics aside, the pressure to “do something” is clearly irresistible.

“We need to directly help American workers and families face this uncertain period, and particularly we’re examining policy tools to put money directly and quickly into the hands of American families,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “We also need to move swiftly and boldly in a major way to help American small businesses survive this disruption and thrive on the other side of it. In particular, we are preparing bold steps to ensure that Main Street can access liquidity and credit during this extraordinary time.”

At the forefront of the package is likely to be an immediate check of at least $1,000 for every adult American (under whatever income level is agreed upon), perhaps followed by a second check in a couple of months. The amount represents about a week’s pay for the typical American worker, but Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says the amount “may be a little bit bigger than what’s in the press.”

President Donald Trump initially favored a payroll-tax cut, but that would take months to be realized by workers who keep their jobs. He now says, “We want to do something that gets money to them as quickly as possible.”

That will indeed be popular with the millions of Americans who are losing money in real time due to the economic shutdown, which is meant to “flatten the curve” of the viral spread. Perhaps the government checks will even restore the confidence that fuels the stock market.

Still, we’ve tried direct income redistribution twice before and it’s generally ineffective at stimulating the economy. The difference is the previous two times were tax “rebates.” This would just be a direct payment financed by deficit spending. With a national debt of $23.5 trillion and a projected deficit of $1 trillion before spending another  trillion, however, the U.S. can’t afford this ineffectual “stimulus.”

Then again, with a national debt of $23.5 trillion, what’s another $1 trillion among friends?

The real problem is that Democrats are seeding an expectation of Universal Basic Income. “GOP & Democrats are both coming to the same conclusion: Universal Basic Income is going to have to play a role in helping Americans weather this crisis,” declared commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new face of Democrat economics. Democrats have wanted UBI for years, and they’re not going to let this crisis go to waste. Tulsi Gabbard says she doesn’t want the checks to stop “until COVID-19 no longer presents a public health emergency.” How many trillions of dollars would that end up being? 

Compassion for the American workers and their families suffering through what is bound to be a major economic slowdown, if not a recession, is one thing. Bankrupting the country to implement socialism is another.   

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/69315?mailing_id=4929&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4929&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

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The Virus, the Media, and the Economy
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Trump administration moves tax 
filing day to July 15, Mnuchin says
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By Megan Henney
{ foxbusiness.com } ~ The U.S. is extending the deadline for filing taxes from April 15 to July 15, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a tweet on Friday...The decision gives Americans three months longer than they typically would to file their taxes. as the coronavirus pandemic forces large swaths of the economy to shutdown. "At @realDonaldTrump’s direction, we are moving Tax Day from April 15 to July 15," Mnuchin tweeted. "All taxpayers and businesses will have this additional time to file and make payments without interest or penalties."Earlier this week, the Internal Revenue Service said individuals could defer payments of up to $1 million until July 15, but had left the April 15 filing deadline in place. In a second tweet, Mnuchin urged all taxpayers who may receive a tax refund this year "to file now to get your money." The move comes amid Senate Republicans' $1 trillion stimulus package released on Thursday, which would send $1,200 to taxpayers who earn less than $99,000 a year, provide loans for small businesses and large tax cuts for big corporations.
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CNO Message to the Fleet on Coronavirus
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by news.usni.org ~ Shipmates, it’s the 19th of March, 2020, and a lot has changed in the past week. The impacts of the coronavirus are changing daily life for all of us... Our focus right now is three-fold. We must protect our people, we must maintain mission readiness, and finally, we have to support the whole-of-government effort. That is why we have enacted additional policies designed to combat the spread of the coronavirus. We have done a number of things to include moving to shift work, reducing our manning, and increasing our telework. We have closed D.O.D. schools and many M.W.R. facilities as well as curtailed some child and youth programs. We have postponed our E-4 advancement exam, suspended the spring physical readiness test, and postponed drill weekends for reserves until May 11. We’ve also suspended recruit graduation ceremonies until further notice. Additionally, we will pause administrative and statutory promotion boards for the time being. Many things remain open too, including our commissaries, exchanges, military treatment facilities as well as the Military Health System Nurse Advice Line and our My Navy Career Center – available 24/7 to answer your questions. We are also preparing our two 1000-bed hospital ships, the Mercy and Comfort, to get underway to relieve pressure on civilian health providers who are focused on treating folks with the coronavirus. Operationally, to keep our ships, aircraft and submarines ready, commanders are empowered to take the necessary precautions, so they can effectively carry out their missions and meet the critical needs of our Sailors. While 30 percent of our fleet today is underway – including four carrier strike groups and four amphibious ready groups – we must, to the greatest extent possible, practice social distancing as well as good hygiene and cleanliness aboard our ships, in our offices, and in our homes...
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Palestinian Leaders Use 
Coronavirus to Attack Israel
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by Khaled Abu Toameh
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ What is the connection between US President Donald Trump's recently unveiled plan for Middle East peace and the coronavirus?... Palestinian leaders seem to believe that there is a connection between the peace plan, also known as the Deal of the Century, and the coronavirus pandemic. According to these leaders, Israel is taking advantage of the health crisis to implement the Trump plan and build new housing units for Jews in the West Bank. They are referring to Israel's intention to build a new road between the E1 area and Jerusalem, and 3,500 apartments in Ma'aleh Adumim, east of Jerusalem. First, the building program in the area has been on the agenda for more than 20 years. All Israeli governments since Yitzhak Rabin's second tenure as prime minister in the 1990s have supported it. Second, the recent Israeli announcement was made in the last week of February, before the outbreak of the coronavirus in Israel and the West Bank. In fact, the announcement came on the eve of the March 3 election and was more likely a pledge from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's electoral campaign. On March 18, the PLO Executive Committee, whose members held a meeting in Ramallah, said that it "rejects the Israeli occupation government's exploitation of the coronavirus to pursue its policy of settlement construction and colonial expansion." The committee, consisting of veteran PLO leaders and loyalists of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, claimed that the Israeli government and Jewish settlers were exploiting the outbreak of the virus to "destroy trees, attack houses and vehicles, and pave new roads for the use of settlers in the West Bank in order to implement the ominous so-called Deal of the Century."...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15773/palestinian-leaders-coronavirus-israel   
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announces 
statewide coronavirus 'stay at home' order
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By Louis Casiano 
{ foxnews.com } ~ California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday evening announced he's enacting a "statewide order" for its nearly 40 million residents to "stay at home,"... a wide-reaching measure for the most populous state in the country as the coronavirus spreads. The order took effect midnight on Friday morning. It prohibits gatherings outside and requires nonessential businesses to close in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. “We need to bend the curve in the state of California,” Newsom said during a news conference. “There’s a social contract here. People, I think, recognize the need to do more. They will adjust and adapt as they have.”He added, “This is a moment we need to make tough decisions. This is a moment where we need some straight talk and we need to tell people the truth.” Public events have been canceled and bars, dine-in restaurants, gyms and clubs will be closed. Essential services such as grocery stores, pharmacies and banks will stay open. Newsom's office projected the virus will infect more than half of Californias within two months, according to a letter he sent to President Trump on Wednesday where he said the state has been disproportionality impacted. "In some parts of our state, our case rate is doubling every four days," he wrote Trump. Newsom's order came just after Los Angeles County officials announced a near-lockdown of the county, affecting 10 million residents who were urged to stay home except in cases when they need to go outside for essential needs...
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Dems Reject Gun Violence Bill 
as Shootings Surge in Baltimore
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By Collin Anderson
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Maryland Democrats rejected a bill aimed at combating gun violence as Baltimore mayor Jack Young publicly begged residents to stop shooting each other... so hospitals could be used to treat coronavirus patients. Young, a Democrat, pleaded with residents on Wednesday not to "clog up our hospitals and beds with people who are being shot senselessly." But on the same day, his partymates in the state legislature voted down a bill pushed by Republican governor Larry Hogan that would strengthen penalties for violent criminals. Hogan’s Violent Firearms Offenders Act would make the theft of a firearm a felony and increase penalties for those who repeatedly carry illegal guns or use a gun while drug dealing. The bill passed the state Senate on March 10 following a contentious back-and-forth between lawmakers. Democrats successfully removed the legislation's mandatory minimum sentencing increase, arguing it would punish violent criminals too severely. Following the removal of mandatory minimums and the bill's subsequent passage, state Senate president and Baltimore Democrat Bill Ferguson lauded the legislation's bipartisan nature, saying it included "the legislature's priorities and some of the governor's priorities." Speaker of the House Adrienne Jones did not respond to a request for comment on why the bill was rejected.  Following the Wednesday vote, the Maryland legislature adjourned due to the coronavirus crisis. House Minority Leader Nic Kipke called the failure to pass Hogan's bill "one of the disappointments" of the legislative session. "We still haven't addressed the issue of crime in the state," Kipke said. "It's one of the disappointments for me this session." Democrat state senator Will Smith Jr., who led the charge to remove the bill's mandatory minimums, also expressed discontent. "I don't think anyone has walked out of here thinking that we've done enough," he said...  https://freebeacon.com/issues/dems-reject-gun-violence-bill-as-shootings-surge-in-baltimore/?utm_source=actengage&utm_campaign=FreedomMail&utm_medium=email   
Nikki Haley Resigns Boeing Board
 In Advance of Likely Bail-Out
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ If rino-Mitt Romney and scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton had a child, it would be Nikki Haley. Ms. Haley and her paid staff of political wind-testers, are constantly scanning the horizon for optics and issues that might upend her aspirations to the presidency... Today she quits the board of Boeing after the likelihood of a government bailout starts to rise….Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley stepped down from Boeing’s board of directors after less than a year because she opposes government aid to help the aircraft manufacturer weather the coronavirus crisis, the company said Thursday. Boeing earlier this week said it is seeking $60 billion in government aid for itself and its massive supply chain because of the virus. The manufacturer’s suppliers include United Technologies, General Electric, Spirit Aerosystems and dozens of others. The administration hasn’t yet said what Boeing, a top U.S. military contractor could receive. President Donald Trump this week threw his support behind the manufacturer, saying: “We have to protect Boeing.”...
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The Virus, the Media, and the Economy
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A friend tweeted from Ireland (in time for St. Patrick’s Day), blaming President Trump for the major decline in the value of stocks. This same friend credited Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s economic policies when the Dow Jones Industrial Averages approached 30,000.

This — and more — is part of our political, economic and medical divide with mixed messages coming from supposed professionals, amateurs and people who don’t know what they are talking about.

According to Dictionary.com, “panic” is “a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.”

Is this panic over the coronavirus that has caused the closing of Broadway shows, sports arenas, church services and many schools with or without cause? Is it justified, or not?

We’ll soon know, but as of Monday, 69 people had died from the disease in the U.S., 27 of them at a senior facility in Seattle, Washington.

Here’s a piece of news that has been buried by major media. An Associated Press headline read, “Most coronavirus patients recover, still anxiety, fear loom.” Gee, I wonder why fear and anxiety are looming? Could the major media, which love promoting fear when it comes to hurricanes, also be promoting fear while mostly ignoring those who recover from the virus?

Last Friday CBS reported on the number of people infected, but waited until the last sentence to say this: “The vast majority of cases are mild, and almost half of those infected have recovered.”

A banner headline in red on The Drudge Report said, “150 million Americans could get infected.” This while medical “experts” tell us how to avoid infection with regular handwashing, avoiding people who appear sick, not gathering with large crowds, etc.

Presidential candidates loose lips liar-Joe Biden and commie-Bernie Sanders aren’t helping to lower anxiety. loose lips liar-Biden delivered a speech last week in Delaware with fewer than his usual rhetorical stumbles. As The Hill reports, loose lips liar-Biden proposed “…making testing free and widely available” and establishing “10 mobile sites and drive-thru facilities per state, in addition to greater transparency from the White House…” commie-Sanders, on the other hand, “has used the outbreak as an opportunity to push his progressive agenda, specifically his ‘Medicare for All’ proposal.” Sanders says his plan would ensure free vaccines and treatment to those infected. The Trump administration has outlined similar actions.

Are we being subjected to doublespeak when on the one hand we are told the coronavirus is nothing to be afraid of, if we take precautions, and on the other we are told to run for the hills? Is this a biblical plague or a manageable ailment? Are we facing the judgment of God, or will this, too, pass like the flu, or a cold, or other ailments from which most of us recover?

If the weather is difficult to accurately predict, why would anyone think forecasts related to a virus might be accurate and trustworthy?

I am no prophet, but just as other challenges have confronted America, we will recover from this one. The stock market will revive (it was up nearly 2,000 points last Friday) because the economy remains strong. Schools that are closed will reopen. Broadway lights will go back on. Sports contests with fans in the seats will resume. Church doors will reopen. Normalcy will return.

Last Friday at the White House, Doug McMillon, the CEO of Walmart, announced that parking lots at some of his stores will be used for drive-in coronavirus testing. And Variety reports that Verily, the life sciences division of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, “is in the ‘early stages of development’ with a test slated to roll out initially in the San Francisco Bay Area. … At some point, Verily said, it may expand the tool more widely.”

CEOs from Target, Walgreen’s and CVS were among those also pledging cooperation. Now if only the politicians would stop fighting each other and instead unify to fight the virus.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/69257?mailing_id=4927&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4927&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Friday / Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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More Regulation Yields Worse Products
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Thomas Gallatin  
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Friday News Executive Summary
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Jordan Candler  Coronavirus Updates
  • 9/11-STYLE PREPARATIONS: Trump eyes grounding jets, halting stock trading, and ordering shelter in place (Washington Examiner)

  • MOST POPULOUS AND LARGEST ECONOMIC STATE SHUT DOWN: California issues “stay at home” order (NPR)

  • TRAVEL ALERT: State Department warns Americans against all overseas travel (AP)

  • “NOT OUR TRADITIONAL MEDICAL MISSION”:  Navy readies 1,000-bed hospital ships and Defense Health Agency prepares for civilian support role (Washington Examiner)

  • FOR THE RECORD: The coronavirus is killing far more men than women (The Washington Post)

  • GOOD NEWS: Trump clears way to use malaria drug against COVID-19 (The Daily Signal)

  • AMERICAN SPIRIT: Historic $1.3 billion — and growing — raised to fight virus (Washington Examiner)

Government, Politics, & Economy

  • HISTORIC PACKAGE: Senate Leader Mitch McConnell releases Phase 3 coronavirus stimulus proposal (Axios)

  • GOOD IDEA: Sen. Tom Cotton debuts plan to take pharmaceutical production back from China (The Washington Free Beacon)

  • NOT A GOOD LOOK: Senators Dianne Fein-stein, Richard Burr, Kelly Loeffler, and James Inhofe sold off stocks before coronavirus crash (Fox News)

  • ECONOMIC TSUNAMI: Coronavirus layoffs surge across America, overwhelming unemployment offices (Politico)

Closing Arguments

    • POLICY: Flattening the curve of a recession (City Journal)

    • POLICY: California needs to suspend its ban on gig work (The Federalist)

    • HUMOR: Thousands of formerly endangered white rhinos flood city streets mere days after humans quarantined indoors (The Onion)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/69373?mailing_id=4934&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4934&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
    
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CHLOROQUINE COMING SOON IN LIMITED USE
BY SCOTT JOHNSON
{ powerlineblog.com } ~ President Trump presided at today’s White House task force briefing to announce regulatory relief for the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to treat the Wuhan virus... This was the briefing’s headline news, though many of the questions went off in other directions. President Trump expressed enthusiasm about the possibilities presented by these drugs specifically, an enthusiasm which he emphasized several times. Indeed, he circled back to express it toward the conclusion of the briefing. Despite the restraint with which he expressed himself, I believe he is as excited about the prospects for relief as we are. We are talking about drugs already approved for other uses, drugs whose risks and side effects are therefore well known.  The president had FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn in attendance with him to discuss the therapies whose use the FDA is expediting. As I understood Hahn’s remarks, the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine is to be limited at present to compassionate use situations while clinical data are compiled. He stated that these already approved anti-malarial and anti-arthritis drugs would be “made available almost immediately by prescription.” He also discussed the expedited use of other therapeutics that are “close to approval.” Given the urgency of the situation, the vagueness and limitations of the anticipated use of these drugs as I heard Hahn’s remarks was frustrating.  Reading or listening between the lines of Trump’s remarks, I also heard Trump saying he hopes to ease the current federal guidelines that have resulted in shutdowns at the end of the current two-week period. Whether that hope is reasonable under the circumstances is another question. I should like to think it is.  https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/03/cholorquine-coming-soon-in-limited-use.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line29  
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Explains 
U.S. Financial Response to Economic Impact 
from Chinese Coronavirus
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called-in to Maria Bartiromo earlier today to discuss the overall financial approach of the Trump administration to the COVID-19 impacts... Mnuchin has been working closely with House and Senate political leadership to structure the financial flow needed for particular sectors and workers inside the Main St economy. The target date for legislation directing the financial relief is early next week. The underlying economy is strong. The treasury response is targeted to those who need short-term relief. Short-term economic indicators are no longer valid.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/19/treasury-secretary-steven-mnuchin-explains-u-s-financial-response-to-economic-impact-from-chinese-coronavirus/  
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Specific Retail Food Shortages Will Not 
Soon Improve, But the Overall Food 
Supply Chain is Very Strong
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com  } ~ We are entering into phase-3 of the supply-chain distribution shortages within the retail food sector. Phase-1 was immediate impact. Phase-2 was the spread to the warehouse and distribution... Phase-3 impacts are further upstream, processing & suppliers. The current shelf-stock shortages are not soon to reconcile; however, the shortages are still in the regional phase.  Meaning there is a big difference in the availability of products depending on the type of distribution network, and the specific retailers, in your area. The ‘spider-spread effect’ happens when large metropolitan chains, serving large urban and megalopolis areas 1 million+ residents in 50 mile radius, reach a critical shortage in their supply network; and those residents then drive distances to locate their needs. This is going on now across the country as regional supply chains try to keep up with demand.  Most consumers are not aware food consumption in the U.S. is now a 50/50 proposition. Approximately 50% of all food was consumed “outside the home” or food away from home, and 50% of all food consumed was food “inside the home” grocery shoppers...
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scumbag-Schumer slammed for rejecting
GOP’s idea of $1,000 checks to Americans
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by Richard Cowan  
{ reuters.com } ~ U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer on Wednesday warned of an economic recession as the coronavirus spreads through the country... and called for a broader cash payment than Trump’s push for $1,000 checks. “The coronavirus is slowing our economy to a near standstill and we are almost certainly anticipating a recession,” scumbag-Schumer said in a speech on the Senate floor. He added that expanded unemployment benefits would be a more effective way of helping workers than a $1,000 check from Washington. This story corrects headline, first paragraph to show scumbag-Schumer called plan insufficient.  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-schumer-idUSKBN2152P9  
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Former scumbag/liar-nObamacare Official 
Spreads Panic on MSNBC Demands All 
Masks Sent to New York City
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ As you watch this, you start to realize the national panic hasn’t yet really sunk in. However, think carefully about the instability of Mr. Slavitt and how he expresses it... Former scumbag/liar-nObamacare official Andy Slavitt appears on MSNBC in a state of panic to demand that all medical masks and equipment throughout the nation be sent to New York City; while accusing other states, including Texas, of “hoarding” critical healthcare supplies. Former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate recognizes that participating in any discussion with this level of emotional panic is not going to be helpful, he walks off set. Panicked NYC resident and visibly unstable former ACA official Andy Slavitt, is talking about medical equipment when he demands all masks and supplies be redirected to New York with a sense of urgency. However, imagine *if* the shortage *was* food. Prepare yourselves and your family accordingly.
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Overwhelmed by Growing Coronavirus Death 
Toll, Iranian Leaders Lash Out at US, EU
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by algemeiner.com ~ As Iran experienced its worst death toll from the coronavirus pandemic this week, panicking Tehran regime officials sought to blame the United States and the European Union for the crisis... In an interview with the Spanish newspaper La Razon, Hassan Qashqavi — the Islamic Republic’s ambassador in Madrid — railed against the “cruel and inhumane” sanctions imposed by the US following its 2018 decision to leave the nuclear deal with Iran that was agreed with the previous scumbag/liar-nObama administration. The 147 coronavirus deaths in Iran on Wednesday marked the highest daily toll in the country so far. Nearly 1,200 Iranians in total are reported to have died — although the regime’s lack of transparency and increasing reliance on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to enforce “social distancing” protocols likely means the number is higher. The European Union also came in for heavy criticism from Iranian leaders for abiding by the US sanctions. “The Europeans who claim to be advocates of human rights should be ashamed of their behavior at a time when Iran is grappling with the fast-spreading-virus,” Ali Baqeri Kani — head of the Iranian Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights — declared on Thursday. There is a growing opinion among Iran analysts that the coronavirus presents an unprecedented challenge to the Islamic regime that came to power in 1979, especially as it had already been weakened by the renewal of international sanctions and the US assassination of one of its top military commanders, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in January. “The regime is not ready for this challenge,” Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror — a former Israeli national security adviser — told a conference call organized by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) on Thursday...   https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/03/19/overwhelmed-by-growing-coronavirus-death-toll-iranian-leaders-lash-out-at-us-eu/?utm_content=news1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/   
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More Regulation Yields Worse Products
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Thomas Gallatin  What happened to the gas can? In a recent interview with American Institute researcher Jeffrey Tucker, journalist Sharyl Attkisson explores the topic of how government regulation has made things that used to work well now fail to meet muster. After relaying his experience with changes to the gas can and how poorly it pours out its contents, Tucker noted that government regulations are to blame. But it’s not only the gas can that has been regulated into a state worse than before; it’s a litany of devices and appliances that have been made worse by the government.

“These are the sorts of things that affect the quality of our life on a daily basis,” Tucker observes. “Does your ice maker actually make ice? Does your iron work? And this is all because of these regulations. Isn’t it strange how much regulations sort of secretly control all the things we use in our life? We don’t even know it. And they’ll never roll it back, so they never face any real pressure. So there’s no way to revert it. Whereas normally, in private enterprise, if you design something that doesn’t quite work right, people stop buying it and that’s the end, so there’s a mechanism that corrects for errors. But when government’s doing it, they don’t seem to have any way to fix it.”

Tucker’s discovery is not limited to a few inconsequential items. In fact, it’s the all-too-common experience of every American. While he grants that these bureaucrats’ regulations may be well intentioned, he argues, “The problem is that the bureaucrats have inordinate power and if they make a mistake, there’s really nothing that can be done about it. We ended up having to spend the rest of our lives working around them and I don’t think that’s a good way to live. We used to have gasoline cans that worked well. And then we created this innovation that just didn’t work nearly as well.”

In this light, we should be crying foul when politicians like New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio call for the federal government to take over private enterprise, as he did recently over coronavirus fears. “People can get tested according to a priority structure, and it’s not enough testing. It’s just as simple as that,” de Blasio argued after he called on the fed to take control of U.S. businesses in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. He continued, “Here’s the reality. This is a war-like situation. We’re in a war-time scenario with a ‘Mar-a-Lago attitude’ being used by the federal government, right? … This is a case for a nationalization, literally a nationalization, of crucial factories and industries that could produce the medical supplies to prepare this country for what we need.”

Calling for a fascist takeover of America’s private industry is a textbook recipe for ushering in tyranny. And “helping people” is always how tyrants justify their demand for greater power. Somehow, it never works out the way they claim.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/69269?mailing_id=4927&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4927&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body 

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Tighten Up on Student Loans
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by Tom McLaughlin
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McConnell's coronavirus stimulus plan would 
provide payments of $1,200 per person, 
$2,400 for couples
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By Gregg Re 
{ foxnews.com } ~ Saying lawmakers "need to take bold and swift action as soon as possible," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday... introduced legislation to provide as much as $1,200 per person and $2,400 per couple in the U.S. amid the coronavirus outbreak and skyrocketing jobless claims. The draft legislation, obtained by Fox News, would provide minimum payments of $600, and aid would be phased down at adjusted gross income thresholds of $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 per couple. Additionally, there would be $500 payments for each child. The rebate amount is slated to be reduced by $5 for each $100 a taxpayer’s income exceeds the legislation's threshold. The amount is therefore reduced to zero for single taxpayers with incomes exceeding $99,000 and $198,000 for joint filers. The IRS will determine income based on U.S. citizen taxpayers' 2018 tax returns. McConnell's proposal aligns with the Trump administration's push to swiftly send checks to American households. The legislation additionally contains numerous provisions geared at helping small businesses, including a delay of payment for employer payroll taxes, a delay of estimated tax payments for corporations, and modifications for net operating losses. McConnell's plan would provide $208 billion in loans and loan guarantees to distressed sectors of the economy, including $50 billion for commercial airlines and $8 billion for air cargo carriers, and $150 billion for other eligible businesses, but those loans would have to be paid back. It's an opening salvo in fast-track talks with Democrats as President Trump urges Congress to “go big” to respond as Americans reel from the crisis. McConnell, R-Ky., speaking on the Senate floor, said he wanted key Republicans to meet with Democrats on the relief bill, known as S.3548, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Phase III)...
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Netanyahu: Israelis face fines for 
breaking state of emergency orders
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By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN & ANNA AHRONHEIM
{ jpost.com } ~ The Health Ministry guidelines to fight the spread of coronavirus will no longer be recommendations or requests.... Rather, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday night that the government will sign existing restrictions into legally enforceable orders, as he declared a national state of emergency. Going forward, for the next seven days, whoever breaks these orders will be subject to fines. "There has not been anything like this since the establishment of the state," the prime minister said. "There has actually been no such thing like this in the last 100 years." “It is not going to be easy; I am asking for your cooperation.” In general, the new orders include that Israelis are not allowed to leave their homes unless "absolutely necessary." Visiting parks, beaches, pools, libraries and museums is prohibited, as are all social interactions. Work that can be done from home should be. Currently all “essential” services will remain open, including supermarkets, pharmacies and most medical services. In addition, while Israelis are encouraged to work from home, employees who need to travel to work will be able to do so. The announcement came on the backdrop of the largest spike in the number of infected Israelis: 677, according to the Health Ministry. At press time Wednesday, 433 Israelis had been diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 - an increase of 244 patients in one day. It is estimated that the number of people infected with the virus will rise significantly in the wake of the increase in the number of tests that are being conducted. Government hearings in recent days have revealed a significant gap between the Health and Finance ministries. The Health Ministry has been demanding increased restrictions but the Finance Ministry said that it fears further restrictions would cause a serious blow to the economy. A full lockdown would only be implemented if the public fails to comply with the guidelines presented by the Health Ministry or if the rate of infection across the country sharply rises...   https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/529-Israelis-have-been-diagnosed-with-coronavirus-Health-Ministry-621536?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Netanyahu%3A+Israelis+face+fines+for+breaking+state+of+emergency+orders&utm_campaign=March+19+night   

liar-Nancy Pelosi Shoots Down Proposal 
To Give Americans Direct Financial Relief
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by wethepeopledaily.com ~ Today Speaker Of The House liar-Nancy Pelosi shot down a proposal that would have put money directly into the hands of the American people to help deal with fallout from the Coronavirus... As noted by CommonDreams.org, Progressives erupted with frustration and anger Wednesday over days of reporting that House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi would not consider cash payments for Americans without means-testing despite the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that has ground the U.S. economy almost to a standstill.  President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have taken the opportunity to outflank liar-Pelosi and House Democrats on the payments, leading to anger from the left. “I truly don’t know how to describe how maddening it is that Republicans and Trump officials are to the left of Congressional Dem leadership on this issue,” tweeted activist Jordan Uhl. Another Wrote: “liar-Nancy Pelosi is against the Trump proposal of sending out checks to Americans. I am against socialism, but we are experiencing a national crisis and Americans are in trouble financially. I fully support Trump’s proposal. liar-Nancy Pelosi is wrong dead wrong.   https://wethepeopledaily.com/2020/03/19/nancy-pelosi-shoots-down-proposal-to-give-americans-direct-financial-relief/   

FDA has approved testing of coronavirus 'cure'
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by wnd.com ~ President Trump announced Thursday the FDA has approved the testing of a drug used to treat malaria called chloroquine as a possible COVID-19 treatment...  At the daily coronavirus task force press conference in the White House, Trump said chloroquine has shown "very, very encouraging results" in treating the disease caused by the coronavirus. "I have directed the FDA to eliminate rules and bureaucracy so work can proceed rapidly, quickly and fast," Trump said. "We have to remove every barrier." A researcher who studied the impact of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, a less toxic form of chloroquine, says hydroxychloroquine could also act as a coronavirus preventative. Trump told reporters that if chloroquine and other possible treatments work "your numbers are going to come down very rapidly," referring to the number of coronavirus cases. "It could totally depress any timeline we are talking about, if it works," he said. The latest figures for the global pandemic are 236,926 cases, 9,834 deaths and 86,675 recoveries. The president emphasized that chloroquine been on the market for years, "so we know it's something that can be taken safely." He said some coronavirus patients will be treated with the drug within days. "If we can be even partially right" about the drug's impact, he said, "this whole subject becomes a much more pleasant subject." Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia have said they made the virus "disappear" using chloroquine and the HIV-suppressing combination lopinavair/ritonavir. And a study by Stanford researchers found chloroquine tablets are showing favorable outcomes, "including faster time to recovery and shorter hospital stay." The study cited research by the Centers for Disease Control showing that chloroquine also has strong potential as a preventative measure against coronavirus in the lab while a vaccine is being developed...
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OPM chief abruptly resigns
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By BRETT SAMUELS & ZACK BUDRYK
{ thehill.com } ~ The head of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) abruptly resigned Tuesday... leaving a void atop a sprawling agency that oversees the federal workforce. "OPM has received the resignation of OPM Director Dale Cabaniss and OPM Deputy Director Michael Rigas is Acting Director, Office of Personnel Management," an OPM spokesperson confirmed in a statement. Cabaniss's departure was unexpected, according to sources familiar with the matter, and was believed to be related to internal conflicts. She chafed at treatment by John McEntee, the 29-year-old head of the office, as well as Paul Dans, OPM’s White House liaison, Politico reported. McEntee rejoined the White House last month and has set about stocking the administration with officials loyal to President Trump and his agenda. Politico reported that the White House's decision to hire a third college senior  to a sensitive post also contributed to the tensions that preceded Cabaniss's resignation. OPM is an independent agency tasked with overseeing millions of federal workers. The office handles human resources matters and oversees the civil service hiring processes. "If these reports are true, then the Trump administration's mismanagement and political appointees have once again brought chaos to the federal workforce," Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), chairman of the House Government Operations subcommittee, said in a statement. "At the very moment we need OPM to operate smoothly and efficiently, including expanding telework for all eligible workers and contractors, we are instead faced with uncertainty that threatens to paralyze this agency," he added...   https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/488129-opm-chief-abruptly-resigns-report   

Smoking: Time to Break Up?
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by Lawrence Kadish
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ I have been very good friends with cigars for most of my adult life. It's time we broke up. Prior to the arrival of the COVID-19 public health crisis, I was always aware that smoking was not in my best interest or that of my family and friends... But the unique taste and aroma of a good cigar was my definition of well-earned success after a long, hard day of playing the cards of high stakes business. The constant drone of public service health warnings were meant for the other guys -- those who smoked cigarettes. Ironically, their habit began to fall out of public favor until a new generation took up with gusto the equally dangerous habit of vaping. Cigars, on the other hand, were meant to accompany fine brandy and good company. It turned out to be a dangerous fiction. No more. Cigars, and their cousins, it turns out, are pathways for COVID-19. They serve as a potential accelerant for an ambulance trip to a hospital's I.C.U. Doctors are being told there are a number of specific factors that can lead to COVID-19 taking lives. As of their last grim survey, they have found that underlying issues for nearly half of those who have died include existing lung disease, suppressed immune systems, age, or smoking, according to a private briefing on COVID-19 to emergency room physicians during an online conference. Dr. Stanton A. Glantz, a PhD and Director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California San Francisco, is far more direct in his warning. In an online essay, he asserts that "among Chinese patients diagnosed with COVID-19 associated pneumonia, the odds of disease progression including to death were 14 times higher among people with a history of smoking compared to those who did not smoke. This was the strongest risk factor among those examined." Dr. Glantz makes no apologies that his professional mission is to get people to stop smoking and vaping. But whether you agree with his data and methodology or not, the stark truth is, unlike the stealth-like assassin, cancer, COVID-19 is a career criminal that will strike quickly at any vulnerability to take its victim down...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15770/smoking-coronavirus   

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Tighten Up on Student Loans
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by Tom McLaughlin
{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~  Shortly before Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren dropped out, a man confronted her about forgiving $1 trillion+ in student debt. “My daughter is getting out of school,” he said. I saved all my money. She doesn't have any student loans. Am I going to get any money back?”

“Of course not," dinky/liar-Warren said.

“So you're going to pay for people who didn't save any money, and those of us who did the right thing get screwed?” he said.
 
As The Washington Free Beacon reported it: “dinky/liar-Warren told the man her policy would not disadvantage him, but he described how he and his daughter sacrificed to avoid going into debt, while others spent money on cars and vacations. ‘My buddy had fun, bought a car, went on vacations. I saved my money," he said. "He made more than I did. But I worked a double shift, worked extra—my daughter worked since she was 10. So, you're laughing.’”

“No, I'm not,” dinky/liar-Warren said.

“Yeah, that's exactly what you're doing," he said. “We did the right thing, and we get screwed.”
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I could identify with that guy and so could millions of other Americans — and not just fathers. Anyone who has struggled for years, decades even, to pay off student loans would be pissed at being forced to pay off other people’s student loans through higher taxes.  
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While I wasn’t among them, there are people who know exactly what they want to do after graduating from high school and they follow that career path for the rest of their lives. A week before classes started in September I enrolled in a community college that September but had no idea about what to major in, so I dubbed around liberal arts courses for a couple of years. State-subsidized tuition was very reasonable and I could pay all my expenses with a part-time job during school and working full-time over vacations and summers. Classes were easy and I did the minimum. With no particular goal other than maintaining a student deferment (the draft was still on), I dropped out after Nixon reduced American involvement in Vietnam enough that getting drafted became unlikely.  
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After working various jobs for a couple of years I decided to become a teacher, so it was back to school for a couple of more years while continuing to work full-time. After obtaining a teaching position, I attended graduate school and paid for that myself as well by working additional jobs during summers. I never took out any loans and never got help from parents either. As a husband and father, I took out loans to help my children to go to college and they took out loans as well. Then my wife decided to go back to school and she took out loans. It took years to pay them all off.  
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As an undergrad I rushed off after class to work the 2nd shift while many of my fellow students went partying. Some of them had prosperous parents. Others had taken out loans. I graduated with no debt, lots of work experience, and time-management skills. Too many of my fellow students just prolonged their adolescence four more years, and not a few took six or more years to finish because they partied so much. Should their student debts be forgiven? Certainly not.  
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Unless they’re in STEM majors, today’s students are indoctrinated by leftist instructors, graduate with negative views of capitalism, and are more likely to vote for socialist candidates according to polls cited by salon.com. They’re taught to believe old white guys like me are enemies of everyone else and responsible for virtually all of the world’s historical ills — especially any suffered by women and minorities. Some still work their way through as I did, but most do not. They’ve become over-reliant on government assistance in the form of grants and loans. Should their student debt be forgiven? Certainly not.
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They’ve also come to view college as a “right” just like “free” medical care. They think a lot of things should be free because they haven’t learned that nothing is free. They believe Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren when they claim that all we have to do is raise taxes on “the rich” and on “Wall Street” and it will all be paid for. They’re not taught that “the rich” are not only paying their “fair share”; they’re paying the vast majority of all income taxes collected each year. Neither do they learn that 50% of Americans aren’t paying any at all. Not only do they pay nothing, they actually get checks in the form of Earned Income Tax Credits.  
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Colleges charge more and more for teaching less and less to students who think themselves entitled. Grants and loans should be tied to performance by students in majors that guarantee employment after graduation. Those in majors like Art History, Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, and other dubious subjects should pay their own way.  
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New York Times Admits 1619 Error
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Lewis Morris  
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Studies find potentially effective medicine 
for coronavirus treatment and prevention 
that's readily available  
by AARON COLEN
{ theblaze.com } ~ Three separate medical studies have found a potentially effective treatment for the coronavirus that could also be useful in preventing infections in some cases... The coronavirus, known as COVID-19, is viewed as a particularly potent threat because there is currently no medical treatment and no preventative vaccine, so any hope of slowing down the spread and death rate could be significant. What's the treatment? Multiple studies showed that the use of chloroquine to treat the coronavirus can lead to faster recovery and shorter hospital stays for patients. Chloroquine is normally used as an anti-malarial drug, used for the prevention and/or treatment of malaria. It's available in the United States by prescription, and can be safely taken by men and women of all ages, including pregnant women. Doctors in China and South Korea have observed that the coronavirus patients treated with chloroquine show reduced fever and better lung CT images, and so far research has not found any negative effects of the treatment.From a study done in consultation with Stanford University School of Medicine, UAB School of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences: According to South Korean and China human treatment guidelines, chloroquine is effective in treating COVID-19. Given chloroquine's human safety profile and existence, it can be implemented today in the U.S., Europe and the rest of the world. Medical doctors may be reluctant to prescribe chloroquine to treat COVID-19 since it is not FDA approved for this use. The United States of America and other countries should immediately authorize and indemnify medical doctors for prescribing chloroquine to treat COVID-19. We must explore whether chloroquine can safely serve as a preventative measure prior to infection of COVID-19 to stop further spread of this highly contagious virus.   https://www.theblaze.com/news/studies-find-potentially-effective-medicine-for-coronavirus-treatment-and-prevention-thats-readily-available?utm_source=theblaze-dailyAM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__AM%202020-03-19&utm_term=TheBlaze%20Daily%20AM%20-%20last%20270%20days 

S.F. Bay Area Imposes “Shelter in Place” Order; 
NY Governor Nixes NYC Mayor’s 
Plan to Do the Same
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{ thenewamerican.com } ~ Residents in six San Francisco Bay Area counties will be prohibited from leaving their homes for the next three weeks under a new shelter-in-place order aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus... The restrictions, which allow for some exceptions, have taken place in San Francisco, Marin, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties, as well as the city of Berkeley. “Because of the risk of the rapid spread of the virus, and the need to protect all members of the community and the Bay Area region, especially including our members most vulnerable to the virus and also health care providers,” the order states, “this Order requires all individuals anywhere in San Francisco to shelter in place — that is, stay at home — except for certain essential activities and work to provide essential business and government services or perform essential public infrastructure construction, including housing.”  USA Today reported that the restrictions will remain in effect for the next three weeks, during which people in these counties will be restricted from all “non-essential travel “by “foot, bicycle, scooter, automobile, or public transit” outside their homes. Under the order, most businesses will be forced to close until April 7. “I know today's order is a radical step. It has to be. We need to act now, all of us, to protect the public health,” Fox News quoted said Dr. Grant Colfax, director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health. The website of the Santa Clara County Public Health Department explained details of the “shelter in place” order. It stated that the order “limits activity, travel and business functions to only the most essential needs.”...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/35171-s-f-bay-area-counties-impose-shelter-in-place-order-ny-gov-nixes-nyc-mayor-s-plan-to-do-the-same?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_12_2_2019_15_37_COPY_01)&mc_cid=046f1ad0b3&mc_eid=8ab66f2b22   
Say ‘Yes!’ to a Pre-Paid Tax Refund
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by Paul Kupiec
{ insidesources.com } ~ For the present pandemic-induced economic crisis, the Federal Reserve is not enough... While the Federal Reserve can under “unusual and exigent circumstances” create emergency lending programs to help corporations unable to secure adequate credit accommodations from other banking institutions, this Fed power is not directly helpful if you are a cash-short citizen. The federal government in the form of the U.S. Treasury is the only institution capable of stepping in to help, and it can do it quickly and without blowing a hole in the federal budget if it takes a new, creative approach for using federal income tax refunds. There are soon to be thousands of workers in the restaurant, airline, hotel, sports venue and other hospitality industries who are furloughed for weeks if not longer. When these people stop spending, jobs losses will quickly mount in other industries. For most people, no work means no paycheck. With no paycheck, a payroll tax reduction will not put a single penny in your pocket. New federal government mandates that require employers to provide employees with new additional paid sick leave may appeal to you unless you are an employer already suffering from the crisis and these new expenses make your situation even worse. Employers did not cause the Covid-19 crisis. Congress could vote to send a check for thousands of dollars to millions of taxpayers as some have suggested, but this would add a substantial amount to the federal debt when the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio is nearing levels not seen since World War II. It is in everyone’s interest to take the measures necessary to stop the spread on the coronavirus, and everyone should share the costs necessary to ensure this happens. One way to quickly alleviate the economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis without increasing the budget deficit is to send all tax-filing households a pre-paid tax refund immediately. The pre-paid refund should be identical for every tax-filing household. The magnitude can be fine-tuned, but for arguments sake, call it $5,000 — an amount roughly equal to twice the average tax refund in 2018...
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Pass an Emergency EITC Instead 
of Sending Cash to All Households
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By Angela Rachidi
{ realclearpolicy.com } ~ Congress is considering sending cash to all American households to help them handle the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic... But this will disproportionately benefit high and fixed-income households at the expense of low-income workers who remain the most economically vulnerable. Fortunately, there is a simple and efficient way for Congress to distribute aid to these workers and limit the long-term consequences of the current crisis: Pass an emergency earned income tax credit (EITC) that can be distributed to low-income households within weeks. First created in 1975, the EITC today it is one of the largest income support programs for low-income working families. The amount of the EITC benefit is equal to a percentage of annual earnings and given to families in a lump-sum cash payment around tax time. It is determined by the number of children living in the household. Working households with incomes up to $50,000 per year can be eligible to receive this benefit. In 2019, the average EITC was $2,476 per qualifying household. An emergency EITC supplement is a simple way to help low-income families overcome the immediate economic challenges presented by the COVID-19 response. Low-income workers likely cannot telework and many will face uncompensated work disruptions due to decreased consumer demand or caretaking responsibilities. An EITC supplement will offer them the needed flexibility to care for children during school closures or to attend medical appointments for loved ones who might be sick without worrying about lost pay. It will also supplement their earnings if they are needed for fewer hours in the restaurants, retail stores, and home health businesses they work for. The unemployment insurance and paid leave provisions currently being considered by Congress will address some of the needs of low-income workers, but gaps remain in coverage and duration of benefits. The UI provisions only address the needs of workers who lose their job, and the paid leave benefits only offer support to those who are sick or caring for a child or ill family member. An emergency EITC will fill the gaps left by current proposals and offer security to low-income families, without the cost implications of sending cash to everyone...
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American Michael White held in Iran 
since 2018 released on medical furlough
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By Stephen Sorace 
{ foxnews.com } ~ An American man who has been detained by Iran since 2018 and is serving a 13-year sentence was released on medical furlough Thursday... Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced. Michael White's release on humanitarian grounds was conditioned upon him staying in Iran. He is now in the custody of the Swiss embassy where he will undergo a medical evaluation. "The United States will continue to work for Michael’s full release as well as the release of all wrongfully detained Americans in Iran," Pompeo said in a statement. White, the first American known to be detained in Iran since President Trump took office, is accused of insulting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and posting a photo on his social media. White’s family has said he traveled to Iran to visit his girlfriend — the two met online — and was arbitrarily detained. He previously served in the Navy for 13 years.   https://www.foxnews.com/world/american-michael-white-held-in-iran-since-2018-released-on-medical-furlough  
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American detained in Lebanon 
released after 6 months
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By Jacqui Heinrich, Ben Evansky & Travis Fedschun 
{ foxnews.com } ~ A New Hampshire man who beaten and tortured after being detained during a family vacation in Lebanon six months ago was finally released from prison on Thursday... Amer Fakhoury, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was arrested in his native Lebanon during a family trip in September. Fakhoury, who formerly fought in the South Lebanon Army during Israel’s occupation of the country, was taken into custody after a Hezbollah-backed newspaper accused him of torturing Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorists in the ‘80s and ‘90s, a charge which his family and attorney deny and he was never previously been accused of. Fakhoury’s release comes after Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas proposed bipartisan sanctions against senior Lebanese officials  involved in his unlawful detention and the State Department pushed for his release. In a statement announcing his release, Shaheen said that anytime a U.S. citizen is wrongfully detained by a foreign government, "we must use every tool at our disposal to free them." "I’m very glad that Amer is finally coming home and will be reunited with his family," Shaheen said. "No family should have to go through what the Fakhoury family has gone through. His health is in critical condition and now it is vitally important that he receives proper treatment to get on the road to recovery."...   https://www.foxnews.com/us/american-detained-in-lebanon-released-after-6-months  
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New York Times Admits 1619 Error
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Lewis Morris  Reading a meaningful editorial correction from The New York Times seems a bit like seeing Halley’s Comet; it happens once in a lifetime. Yet, last week, the stalwart Leftmedia rag stepped up and admitted it may have gone too far regarding the premise of its controversial 1619 Project.

You may recall our earlier reporting on this destructive rewriting of American history. The 1619 Project was an attempt to recast the American Revolution and the founding of our nation as based on the desire to protect and perpetuate the institution of slavery. It was written mostly by leftist journalists, with a few (anti-)American historians sprinkled in for good measure.

After it was released in August 2019 to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first arrival of slaves in the New World, the 1619 Project was torn apart by legitimate historians for its complete lack of factual reporting and its blatantly agenda-driven view of American history. But respected scholars like Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists James McPherson and Gordon Wood, who were not even consulted on this project, didn’t make a dent with the “righteous” New York Times.

In true leftist fashion, the Times doubled down, insisting that this was a new attempt at historical understanding — that history was not fixed. Comrade Lenin would be proud.

The major issue of concern was that the 1619 Project had bigger plans that included pushing this dreck into our public schools to indoctrinate our children into believing that America was founded on, and still believes in, slavery. Thousands of schools across the country have accepted the 1619 Project as real history, teaching an entire generation of Americans that their country is racist.

The good news is that the continued pushback against the 1619 Project has made an impact, however small. The New York Times issued a correction of the leading article of this farce, written by Nikole Hannah-Jones. Her screed assumed that “all” of the American colonists were drawn to the revolution to protect slavery. The Times now says that only “some” of the colonists were motivated by it.

Not exactly a mea culpa or a complete retraction, but that will never happen. The Times has too much invested in this multimedia project to give up now. But this is an incremental fight. And the truth has just recorded a victory.

This correction demonstrates that the revisionists know their work is complete manure meant to feed an agenda that denigrates the United States. If they admit the premise of their so-called project is not genuine, then what else within that project can still be trusted to be true?  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/69270?mailing_id=4927&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4927&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Homebound? Now What?
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Nate Jackson  
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Thursday News Executive Summary
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Jordan Candler  Coronavirus Updates
  • ROUND 2 of 3: President Trump signs coronavirus aid package with paid sick leave, free testing; $1 trillion stimulus package in the works (The Hill)

  • MEDICAL SUPPLIES AT THE READY: Trump invokes Defense Production Act to buoy the manufacturing of medical supplies (The Hill)

  • COVID-19 BESIEGES CAPITOL HILL: Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Ben McAdams are first lawmakers to announce testing positive for coronavirus (Fox News)

  • PRECAUTIONARY STEP: New York Stock Exchange will temporarily close trading floors after two positive coronavirus tests (National Review)

  • NO JOKE: Baltimore mayor begs residents to stop shooting each other so hospital beds can be used for coronavirus patients (CBS Baltimore)

  • ENDANGERING THE GREATEST GENERATION:  “If I get corona, I get corona”: Miami spring breakers say virus hasn’t stopped them from partying (Washington Post)

  • CDC ANALYSIS: Eighty percent of U.S. coronavirus deaths are people 65 and older (The Hill)

  • DESPITE A LOWER RISK OF DYING: Younger adults make up big portion of coronavirus hospitalizations in U.S. (The New York Times)

  • COMMUNIST MALFEASANCE: Outbreak could have been reduced by 95% if China acted sooner (The Daily Wire)

Business & Economy

  • NOSEDIVE CONTINUES: Dow below 20,000 as stock plunge threatens Trump-era gains (Fox Business)

  • HITTING THE BRAKES: Most automakers shut North American plants (AP)

  • SILVER LININGS: Gas prices could hit 99 cents in some states due to coronavirus and supplies (Fox News)

Other Notables

  • ONLY A MATTER OF TIME: commie-Bernie Sanders deactivates 2020 campaign Facebook ads (Axios)

  • ROCKET-ATTACK RETALIATION: U.S. imposes new sanctions on Iran, seeks release of Americans (National Review)

Closing Arguments

    • POLICY: Plastic bag bans aren’t helping us fight against coronavirus (Washington Examiner)

    • POLICY: Amid pandemic, be jealous of your liberties — and also don’t be stupid (Washington Examiner)

    • HUMOR: In abundance of caution, local teen cancels cleaning her room for one month amid outbreak (Genesius Times)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/69343?mailing_id=4932&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4932&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
   
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Trump signs 2nd coronavirus response 
bill hours after Senate passage
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By Marisa Schultz 
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump on Wednesday signed the second  coronavirus relief bill into law that provides paid sick leave, unemployment help and free testing to Americans... the White House announced. The Senate passed the legislation in a 90-8 vote earlier Wednesday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had criticized the legislation negotiated by House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as having "real shortcomings", but urged his members to "gag and vote for it anyway" to show  bipartisan cooperation during the global pandemic. "This is a time for urgent bipartisan action, and in this case, I do not believe we should let perfection be the enemy of something that will help even a subset of workers," McConnell said Wednesday morning in announcing he'd vote for the House legislation. Two senators were absent – Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., and Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla. — because of self-quarantining after exposure to people who tested positive for coronavirus. The eight senators voting no were all Republicans: Sens. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Mike Lee of Utah, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Tim Scott of South Carolina.Critics said the mandate on small businesses to provide paid sick leave to workers was too much of a hardship when businesses are short on cash and can't wait for a federal tax credit reimbursement. “Small businesses in my state are closed,” Lankford said after the vote. “…Many small businesses are really struggling with how they're going to pay for this when they have no income coming in right now. They are hearing the promise of a federal reimbursement coming to them, but they don't know when that's coming and they're literally teetering on the edge right now. And they're saying: 'Please don't do something that pushes us over the edge.'” The legislation provides 14 days of paid sick days to workers affected by the coronavirus, ensures free testing to everyone, including the uninsured, and expands food aid and boosts unemployment dollars to states...   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-passes-houses-coronavirus-response-bill-sends-to-trump  
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Gasoline hits 99 cents at 
Kentucky station, sells out
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By Gary Gastelu
{ foxnews.com } ~ The price of a gallon of gasoline has hit 99 cents at a station in Kentucky...  GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan was tipped off by users of the GasBuddy app that the Spur 7 BP in on state route 25 in London had dropped below a buck. Don't head there looking for a deal right now, though, because an employee at the station told Fox News Autos that the price was already 99 cents on Wednesday and that they're currently sold out of fuel and didn't know when the pumps would be open again. Commenters on Gas Buddy say the station is known for its low prices and is often very busy. De Haan earlier this week predicted that the nationwide average, currently $2.20, could soon drop to $1.49 and that 99 cents would be a reality at some locations. A combination of increased supply in Saudi Arabia and Russia with falling demand from efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus are driving the trend. But Kentucky, where the statewide average is $1.90, isn’t the only state with a station selling fuel for a rock bottom price. Oklahoma, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kansas all have at least one station with a price under $1.30.
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What’s the story with coronavirus testing?
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By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN  
{ jpost.com } ~  Testing for coronavirus is a data gathering tool and not a means to treat the disease, Magen David Adom medical director Refael Strugo stressed on Wednesday... the day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed the public that he planned to dramatically increase coronavirus screenings. For most of the last month, Israel has tested around 750 people per day. In recent days, that number has increased to a little more than 1,000 and even 2,000, according to Health Ministry Director General Moshe Bar Siman Tov.  During a briefing on Tuesday, Netanyahu committed to increasing the number of tests to between 3,000 and 5,000 per day, which he claimed would be the highest number of tests taken per day / per capita by any country.  South Korea tests around 15,000 people per day and has a population around five times larger than Israel’s. The prime minister’s comments came only minutes after Defense Minister Naftali Bennett told the public in an interview on Channel 13 that his aim was to test 30,000 people per day, and minutes before the Health Ministry’s head of public health Sigal Sadetsky explained that whereas screening is important data gathering, isolation is what will control the spread of the coronavirus. “Sadetsky said that the way you stop the spread of the disease is isolation,” Strugo told The Jerusalem Post. “The number of tests you do can give you an idea of how much the disease has spread throughout the community and can tell you if we are reaching the peak, reaching the plateau, starting to get to the point of crisis.” He said it will also help identify hot spots of the disease...   https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Whats-the-story-with-coronavirus-testing-621485?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Israel+and+Iran+agree%3A+The+struggle+against+coronavirus+is+a+war+effort&utm_campaign=March+18+night   

Reuters Stealth-Edits Debunked Story
Claiming Trump Sought ‘Monopoly’
on COVID-19 Vaccine
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by DAVID NG
{ breitbart.com } ~ A report from a German newspaper claiming that President Donald Trump wanted to secure exclusive American access to a coronavirus vaccine has proven to be false... but only after the story was repeated and spread by mainstream media outlets including Reuters, The Guardian, and Business Insider. Reuters later stealth-edited its story to incorporate official statements denying the original newspaper report. But a New York Times journalist had already shared the Reuters article before it was altered. An MSNBC producer also shared the story. The German newspaper Welt am Sonntag published a story Sunday claiming that White House officials had offered about $1 billion to the German biopharmaceutical firm CureVac to move to the U.S. and to make a coronavirus vaccine for the U.S. only. The company has indicated that it hopes to have a vaccine by June or July. The newspaper cited an anonymous source in the German government claiming to “confirm” that President Trump wanted the vaccine “only for the United States,” then covered reactions from German politicians, who declared “no country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine,” according to the summary from reporters Paul Carrel and Andreas Rinke. But the story quickly fell apart. CureVac issued a statement on Twitter denying that it received an offer from the U.S. government. “CureVac rejects all allegations from press,” the firm said...   https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/03/16/reuters-stealth-edits-debunked-story-claiming-trump-sought-monopoly-on-covid-19-vaccine/ 

Rating agencies and bookies paint 
darkening picture for Trump
by Rob Crilly
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The spiraling economic and social consequences of the novel  coronavirus pandemic have put a major dent in President Trump’s chance of reelection... according to bookmakers and forecasters. Trump has staked much of his campaign on a booming economy and a soaring stock market. But White House officials are bracing for bad economic news as airlines cancel flights, restaurants and bars close, and millions of people work from home. Dire stock market numbers suggest Trump is in danger of losing the 2020 election, according to Moody’s Analytics, a Wall Street research firm that runs a forecasting model. Last month, it predicted that the president would secure 351 Electoral College votes to his Democratic challenger’s 187. But since then, plunging markets have turned the tables against Trump, who is now forecast to lose the key battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, leaving him with 259 votes to 279 for a Democrat, according to the model. Moody’s Analytics economist Bernard Yaros said: “Until now, Trump is generally favored to win because until now, the economy was doing well, was steady at least, and his approval rating rose after impeachment. But things have changed.” The two key factors in the model are Trump’s approval rating and the strength of the S&P 500 stock index. At 47%, his Gallup rating is in relatively healthy territory, but the drop in the S&P 500 from more than 3,400 to 2,454 points is a problem, said Yaros...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rating-agencies-and-bookies-paint-darkening-picture-for-trump   

Democrats Still Won’t Approve Trump’s 
Payroll Tax Cut, Despite Coronavirus Spread
by rightwingamericans.com ~ For all the talk from the Democrats about how the president isn’t doing enough to stop the coronavirus outbreak causing major disruptions to the economy... they don’t seem all that willing to help him pass measures that would help American businesses and workers. President Trump recently announced his proposal of eliminating payroll tax until the end of the year, giving workers and businesses financial relief while the coronavirus impacts the economy. It is part of a wider stimulus package being developed by the White House to help ease the burden on businesses, but the Democrats just won’t pass it. If you want to get money into the hands of people quickly & efficiently, let them have the full money that they earned, APPROVE A PAYROLL TAX CUT until the end of the year, December 31. Then you are doing something that is really meaningful. Only that will make a big difference! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2020. “If you want to get money into the hands of people quickly & efficiently, let them have the full money that they earned, APPROVE A PAYROLL TAX CUT until the end of the year, December 31,” the president tweeted on Friday. The president even used a recent Oval Office address to the nation to call on the Democrats to pass the proposal but to no avail. Trump criticized the Chair of the Federal Reserve, Jay Powell, as well as the Democrats. In another Friday tweet, he said, “The Federal Reserve must FINALLY lower the Fed Rate to something comparable to their competitor Central Banks.”...   https://rightwingamericans.com/2020/03/17/democrats-still-wont-approve-trumps-payroll-tax-cut-despite-coronavirus-spread/ 
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Homebound? Now What?
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Nate Jackson  So, thanks to coronavirus, you’re stuck at home, trying to work while also managing kids who are out of school. What do you do?

To help everyone stay calm and sane, as well as simply to offer some good perspective amidst the craziness, here are a few things to consider doing.

Perhaps most importantly, check up on friends and family. Use social media for good. Maybe even use that portable computer you’re holding to call loved ones (radical, we know). Make sure that neighbors have what they need. Offer help when you can, especially for seniors who may not be able to venture out to the store for needed supplies. During a period of “social distancing,” we humans are still geared to need community (yes, even you introverts). If you or someone you know is alone, pay special attention to them.

Go outside. Well, as long as it’s not pouring down rain, as it is this morning at our remote headquarters. Cabin fever is real and everyone needs some fresh air — especially kids. Eventually the skies will clear up, right?

Read books. Been too busy with kids’ sports or other public obligations to pick up that book you started on January 1? Settle back down and read it.

Further your education. There are all sorts of online learning opportunities that you can use to continue learning. Teach your kids basic life skills — like deep cleaning. Never stop learning or sharing knowledge.

If all else fails, there’s always Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, etc. With theaters around the country shutting down, NBCUniversal just announced it will release its current theatrical features on demand at home. Other studios, including Disney, will follow suit.

Here’s one you probably didn’t think of, courtesy of Ben Shapiro: “Buy a gift card. Small businesses are getting crushed right now. Many have been shut by local governments, and even the ones that haven’t are being destroyed by Americans following protocol and staying away from crowds. This means that if you have disposable income, you should seriously consider buying a gift card from a local business and using it later — or shopping online from them. It’s essentially an advance for businesses that could certainly use the hand right now.”

As a final and more personal note, if you’re like the staff here in our humble shop, life is incredibly busy even outside our hectic deadlines. Our jobs and deadlines don’t change even if we are working remotely. But as other parts of life slow down, we’re taking time to give thanks to our Creator for the blessings we may have been too busy to notice. We hope you’ll do the same and that you’ll fill the time wisely.  

~The Patriot Post

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Debating a COVID-19 Aid Package
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Thomas Gallatin   
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U.S. Auto Industry Shuts Down 
Amid Coronavirus Struggle
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ This is a big sector hit to the U.S. economy. All of the major U.S. auto manufacturers have agreed to shut down all production facilities, through March 30th... in the latest thunder-shock to the economy. Ford Motor Co., General Motors and Fiat-Chrysler will close their plants due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Ford said in a statement Wednesday that its U.S., Canadian and Mexican manufacturing facilities will be halted after Thursday evening’s shifts through March 30 to “thoroughly clean and sanitize the company’s plants.” “UAW and Ford leaders will work together in the coming weeks on plant restart plans as well as exploring additional protocols and procedures for helping prevent the spread of the virus,” reads the statement from Ford. General Motors also released a statement explaining the shutdown will be until at least March 30. “GM and the UAW have always put the health and safety of the people entering GM plants first, and we have agreed to a systematic, orderly suspension of production to aid in fighting COVID-19/coronavirus,” said GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/18/u-s-auto-industry-shuts-down-amid-coronavirus-struggle/  
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The Media Disconnect – White House Press 
Pool Focused on Political Correctness While 
Million of Americans Suffer Economic Impacts
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The entire nation is being impacted by a multitude of consequences from coronavirus; millions of Americans concerned about lost work, lost wages and possibly lost jobs... the largest economy in the world at a near standstill; trillions of wealth lost and rippling economic consequences yet to be properly quantified;…. and yet the White House press pool is worried about calling COVID-19 the “Chinese coronavirus”? Amid all of the seemingly unending and insufferable nonsense from American journalists, this is, yet again, reaching an all time high of stupidity.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/18/the-media-disconnect-white-house-press-pool-focused-on-political-correctness-while-million-of-americans-suffer-economic-impacts/
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Netanyahu rival Gantz chosen 
to form new Israeli government
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By JOSEF FEDERMAN
{ apnews.com } ~ Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz will be given the first opportunity to form a new government after an inconclusive national election this month, the country’s president said Sunday... raising questions about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future. The decision by President Reuven Rivlin was announced by his office after he consulted with leaders of all of the parties elected to parliament. He will formally designate Gantz with the task on Monday and give him a month to cobble together a governing coalition. The political wrangling comes at a sensitive time. Netanyahu has been leading the country as it confronts a growing coronavirus threat, with over 200 cases diagnosed and the number quickly rising. Netanyahu also faces serious legal troubles as he prepares to go on trial to face corruption charges. Netanyahu’s Likud emerged as the largest party in the March 2 election, Israel’s third in under a year. But with his smaller religious and nationalist allies, he received the support of only 58 lawmakers during Sunday’s consultations, leaving his right-wing bloc three seats short of the required majority in parliament. Gantz’s Blue and White received the support of parties representing 61 seats, a slim majority. However, those parties are also divided, and it is not clear whether Gantz will succeed in putting together a coalition. One lawmaker refused to endorse either side. Given the likelihood of continued deadlock, Rivlin late Sunday summoned both Netanyahu and Gantz to an emergency meeting, where the men pledged to explore a unity government.In a joint statement, both parties thanked Rivlin and said their leaders “agreed for the respective negotiation teams to meet soon.” Rivlin had earlier called for a power-sharing unity government to lead the country through its many crises. Israel has gone through three inconclusive elections in the past year, leaving it with a caretaker government as it confronts a host of challenges, including the coronavirus battle. If the two rivals cannot reach a unity deal, the country could find itself in a fourth consecutive election campaign. “Anyone who has watched the news in recent days understands that this is a time of trial, and that these are not regular consultations,” Rivlin said earlier Sunday. “We must now deal with forming a government as soon as possible ... at this complex time...  https://apnews.com/63f367ec108720d910b436d2ff1e45c7 

Trump announces he is invoking Defense 
Production Act to fight coronavirus
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By Adam Shaw
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump on Wednesday announced that he is invoking the Defense Production Act as part of the administration’s efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic... "It can do a lot of good things if we need it," he said at a White House press conference. "We'll have it all completed, signing it in just a little while." The act ensures the private sector can ramp-up manufacturing and distribution of emergency medical supplies and equipment. The move gives the White House the authority to increase production of masks, ventilators and respirators, as well as expand hospital capacity to combat the coronavirus. He made the announcement at a press conference along members of the coronavirus pandemic task force. The U.S. has largely shuttered many aspects of daily life in order to stem the rapid onset of the virus, echoing efforts across the globe. As of Wednesday morning, there were 6,519 cases and 114 deaths in the United States. On Wednesday, Trump also announced that the Housing Department is suspending all foreclosures and evictions until the end of April. Earlier in the day he had announced that the U.S. and Canada had agreed to temporarily close their shared border to non-essential traffic. Vice President Mike Pence, who is leading the taskforce, announced that Health and Human Services are suspending a regulation that prevents medical professionals from practicing medicine across state lines. He also called on the nation to postpone all elective medical procedures. Asking if he saw the nation on a wartime footing he said he did and described himself as "essentally a wartime president."...  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-announces-he-is-invoking-defense-production-act-to-fight-coronavirus  
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Trump announces US, Canada closing border to 
'non-essential traffic' amid coronavirus fears
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By Adam Shaw
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump on Wednesday announced that the U.S. and Canada are temporarily closing their shared border to non-essential traffic as part of the effort to tackle the coronavirus pandemic... "We will be, by mutual consent, temporarily closing our Northern Border with Canada to non-essential traffic," Trump tweeted. "Trade will not be affected. Details to follow!" As of Wednesday morning, there were 6,519 cases and 114 deaths in the United States. Canada, meanwhile, has recorded 598 cases of coronavirus and has so far had eight fatalities nationwide. The move comes as countries across the globe shut down their borders in order to combat the virus that has brought daily life to a standstill. Trump on Saturday added the U.K. and Ireland to a 30-day European travel ban, while Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday previously had closed Canada's borders to all foreign nationals except U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Trudeau said the exemption for Americans at the time was due to “the level of integration of our two economies." Canada relies on the U.S. for 75 percent of its exports. Much of Canada’s food supply comes from or via the U.S., and 98 percent of its oil exports go to the U.S. About 18 percent of American exports go to Canada. Trudeau is currently in self-quarantine after his wife Sophie tested positive for the virus. Future plans for the southern U.S. border remain in development. Fox News learned Tuesday that the Department of Homeland Security is considering a plan that would turn away asylum seekers and anyone who has crossed the  southern border illegally. The idea is currently being developed by DHS staff, but there is still more work to do before it's presented to Trump for a final decision. “President Trump is 100 percent committed to protecting the American people from coronavirus and all options are in the table," a DHS spokesperson told Fox News.
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Turkish Government Responsible for Torture, Arbitrary Killings, and Disappearances
by Aykan Erdemir & Philip Kowalski
{ fdd.org } ~ In its annual human rights report, released on March 11, the State Department documents egregious violations by the Turkish government, including arbitrary killings, suspicious deaths of persons in custody, forced disappearances, and torture... Along with similar findings in last year’s report, the latest assessment shows that systematic violations of human rights continue with impunity under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish Foreign Ministry dismissed  the new report, which covers the 2019 calendar year, as a “politically motivated” product of “unfounded accusations based on ambiguous sources.” Ankara similarly dismissed  the findings of last year’s report as “unfounded allegations, dubious information and biased interpretations.” The abuses committed under Erdogan highlight the enormous gulf between Turkey’s constitutional provisions for the protection of human rights and the grim reality on the ground. Although Article 17 of the Turkish Constitution  bans torture, the State Department found that in May 2019 alone, as many as 100 persons – including former members of the Turkish Foreign Ministry – were tortured or otherwise mistreated while in police custody. According to the  testimonies of victims interviewed by the Ankara Bar Association, “authorities blindfolded them and made them kneel, dragged them across a room, hit them on the head and body with a baton, and threatened that unless they ‘talked,’ batons would be inserted into their rectums.” The report also shows that the backsliding in Turkey’s democracy and human rights continues to affect Kurdish citizens disproportionally. Since the abortive 2016 coup that led Erdogan to declare a state of emergency, at least 4,920 members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have been imprisoned on baseless charges related to terrorism and political speech, including former HDP co-chair and former presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas, seven lawmakers, and 48 mayors. Ankara lifted the state of emergency in 2018, but Ankara continues to persecute pro-Kurdish politicians. As of December 2019, the Interior Ministry has suspended 28 HDP mayors in Kurdish-majority provinces, replacing them with government-appointed “trustees.” The Turkish government’s reliance on arbitrary detention, show trials, and pretrial detention as a form of summary punishment continues to draw criticism at home and abroad. Since 2016, the Turkish government has detained 540,000 persons suspected of involvement in the coup, with 30,000 convicted and 70,000 currently awaiting trial. These politicized detentions and prosecutions constitute a de facto purge of Erdogan’s political opponents, both real and imagined. In response to growing criticism of this breakdown in the rule of law and due process, the Turkish government introduced a Judicial Reform Strategy last May and passed judicial reform legislation in October. The International Commission of Jurists declared  the measures to be insufficient, warning that “any judicial reform will be meaningless if implemented in the context of a judiciary which has been taken control of by the executive,” alluding to Erdogan’s iron grip on Turkey’s courts. During remarks previewing the State Department’s new report, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo named China, Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela as among the worst violators but chose not to highlight Turkey’s abuses. This represents a missed opportunity to raise awareness about how a NATO member state’s persistent abuses are undermining the shared values on which the alliance rests. Washington should condemn Ankara for its egregious human rights violations and start issuing Global Magnitsky sanctions against the architects and perpetrators of arbitrary killings, forced disappearances, or systematic torture in Turkey.
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Debating a COVID-19 Aid Package
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Thomas Gallatin  As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, it has become evident that the virus holds the most danger for the elderly and those with underlying health conditions. In light of this, President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 task force yesterday called on Millennials in particular, those least likely to suffer significant negative health effects from the virus, to do their part in helping to stop its spreading. Speaking at a press conference, White House coronavirus task-force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx called Millennials the “core group that will stop the virus.” She added, “They are the group that communicates successfully independent of picking up a phone. They intuitively know how to contact each [other] without being in a large social gatherings.”

Millennials are the largest generation and the ones most likely to be out and about. Thus, Birx asserted, they are the ones most likely to spread COVID-19. Birx then admonished them: “We’re protecting the Greatest Generation right now, and the children of the Greatest Generation. And [Millennials] need to communicate with each other.”

Also on Monday, Trump released a set of new guidelines for Americans to follow titled “15 Days to Slow the Spread.” The guidelines encourage avoiding gatherings larger than 10 people, as well as staying away from “eating or drinking in restaurants, bars and food courts,” opting instead for “drive through, pickup and delivery options.” Trump noted, “If everyone makes … these critical changes and sacrifices now, we will rally together as one nation and we will defeat the virus.”

Sen. rino-Mitt Romney (R-UT) called for the government to give every American adult $1,000 in an effort to mitigate the growing financial squeeze brought about by the pandemic. He’s the first Republican to propose something akin to former Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s “Universal Basic Income.” If the goal is to ensure Americans have more money during the COVID-19 crisis, however, a better idea would be enacting what Trump has called for — a temporary payroll-tax cut. That’s not great either, but there are no good options before us.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer on Monday proposed a $750 billion plan that “would boost hospital capacity, expand unemployment insurance, increase Medicaid funding, provide aid to small businesses, and grant immediate forbearance on federal loan payments,” as reported by National Review. “We will need big, bold, urgent federal action to deal with this crisis,” scumbag-Schumer argued. The White House, meanwhile, pitched an $850 billion “stimulus” package.

Unfortunately, it’s almost always the case that politicians use crisis to expand the government’s role in everyone’s lives. Still, Washington politicos aren’t wrong about COVID-19 exacting a serious economic toll across the country. Especially hard hit have been restaurant workers, as Americans have heeded warnings and stayed home. We won’t know for months what the real economic cost will be.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/69282?mailing_id=4927&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4927&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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U.S. Retaliates After Iran Picks a Fight
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Thomas Gallatin   
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loose lips liar-Joe Biden, 
the Manchurian Virus Candidate
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By Selwyn Duke
{ americanthinker.com } ~ If one didn’t know better, he could think that China unleashed the Wuhan virus upon the world purposely to get their man, loose lips liar-Joe Biden, elected president. Jumblin’ loose lips liar-Joe is their man, too... It’s not just that the disease will assuredly cause economic distress as people’s lives and commerce are disrupted; it’s not just that no matter what President Trump does, the EneMedia will portray his response to the disease as lacking. Never mind that Barack scumbag/liar-Obama apparently spread disease throughout our nation by shipping sick illegal-alien minors throughout the country. Enterovirus D68, anyone? It’s also that the Wuhan virus has now become a handy excuse to limit debates and Jumblin loose lips liar-Joe’s personal appearances. Health is the concern, you see Biden’s mental health, that is. Heck, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) even suggested that his party “shut” down the rest of the primaries and debates. The idea is to coronate Jumblin’ before his brain completely shuts down. But don’t think it’s a stretch to say that, lucid or senile, loose lips liar-Biden is for certain the Manchurian virus candidate. There’s a reason why Forbes wrote last summer that “loose lips liar-Joe Biden Is The Only Man Who Can Save China In 2020” and why the “announcement of his campaign alone was enough to encourage Beijing suddenly to take a harder line on trade negotiations with the Trump administration,” as Senator Tom Cotton recently wrote at National Review. It’s that unlike “many other Democrats, he takes its side, reliably,” writes Cotton. Certain other Democrats take China’s side only unreliably. For example, as senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the ‘90s, loose lips liar-Biden made sure China got most-favored-nation trade status and World Trade Organization membership the latter in 2001. “Wherever a brake might have been applied — by placing human-rights or labor conditions on most-favored-nation status, for example — loose lips liar-Biden voted the measures down and lobbied other senators for Beijing,” Cotton informs. “Unfortunately, China and loose lips liar-Biden got their way, and American workers are still suffering from it.” While we should have withered Beijing on the vine instead of creating a monster thanks, Richard Nixon, loose lips liar-Biden compounded earlier mistakes and continued feeding the dragon. In fact, even as China’s fascist regime yes — with its market reforms, it’s as “communist” as commie-Bernie is capitalist grew in power and Xi Jinping strengthened his dictatorial hold, loose lips liar-Biden continued lobbying for increased trade and more intimate ties. Just consider that while standing next to Xi in 2012, loose lips liar-Biden rationalized that competition from China was good for us. Yet millions “of American jobs were disappearing as he spoke,” Cotton reminds us, “and the militarization of the South China Sea was just around the corner.” What’s for sure is that, call it “competition” or collusion, the relationship was very good for the loose lips liar-Biden family. Oh, and if you’re guessing that there’s a Hunter in this story, go to the head of the class...
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Pharma as Partner, Not Punching Bag
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by DAVID SHAYWITZ
{ /thebulwark.com  } ~ After listening to politicians—particularly those on the left—relentlessly vilify biopharmaceuticals companies, it was a welcome contrast to see President Trump at the White House last week recognizing the private sector as a critical... invaluable partner in our national efforts to combat COVID-19. I’ve long championed  the essential role of industry in driving promising, but preliminary, science into transformational medicines. Writing over a decade ago with the late Dr. Tom Stossel, we called out the coterie of reliably reflexive critics we termed the pharmascolds—a group whose numbers, and influence, have dramatically expanded in the ensuing years. Today, most correct-thinking academics—not to mention nearly every politician from the dink/liar-Warren-ish side of the spectrum—dutifully critique the biopharmaceutical industry as greedy and craven. This is happening even as more and more of the most talented faculty members decamp for the private sector sometimes startups, other times, established companies. Why? Because they want to participate more directly in the pragmatic implementation of exciting science. In addition to my own career in and around biopharma R&D, I’ve recently been afforded an unusually personal look into the role of industry in the COVID-19 pandemic. My wife, also a physician-scientist, is a senior executive at Gilead and has been working relentlessly to evaluate whether  remdesivir, an anti-viral therapy the company originally developed for Ebola—it wasn’t especially effective—might prove more useful against the novel coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. While anecdotal data, as widely reported, may be encouraging, robust clinical trials are required, and my wife and her colleagues are working literally day and night in order to deliver a clear answer. While Gilead’s medicine may be closest to the clinical applicability, they are hardly alone: Companies across the industry are racing to develop and evaluate potential treatments, often as part of consortia with academics, which is a win-win proposition. Meanwhile, other companies are working on potential vaccines: The innovative biotech Moderna seems to be out in front, reportedly using a proprietary artificial intelligence-based approach to select the part of the virus that will most effectively goose our immune system. The first subject in the first Moderna clinical trial was just dosed on Monday...  http://thebulwark.com/pharma-as-partner-not-punching-bag-2/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpBME9EQTRaRE0zWlRsaCIsInQiOiI4V3NESVgrRnFHbnlzTlBRM3J0cjJ3R3ZteWt6VG5lb09GTTFZOVJHNlhZdVRMQ0JXMDE3ZHdvRzhvQ1E1eEtQSXJEVEtWa2k3bDRoU1wvUHNNY1hkVGFHWk51TEFtdno0ems5d3dVV1JGM2tuS2pQNjNOMnJ3ZkVkazFHY05aNCsifQ%3D%3D  
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Coronavirus Comes for Europe
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by Guy Millière
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Italy's healthcare system is in a state of almost total collapse. As of today, 31,506 people in Italy have been infected with the coronavirus; of which 2,503 people have died. The numbers continue to grow... Hospitals are overwhelmed. Doctors have to choose which sick person to save and which sick person not to save. The country has almost completely shut down. Many businesses are running in slow motion or have stopped. Prisoners are staging uprisings. Millions of people have been ordered to stay home and are allowed out only briefly to buy food. Most shops are shut. All public gatherings are prohibited, even funerals. Big cities look like ghost towns. No other Western country has been so severely affected by the pandemic as Italy. Why? First, Italy has an aging population. The median age of Italians is 47.3 years; one in four Italians is over 65. In addition, the country's birth rate is extremely low: 1.29 children per woman. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy was a dying country. Sadly, the virus has accelerated the process. Second, the authorities and medical personnel apparently underestimated the danger. Although the Italian government had suspended flights for days from China and Hong Kong from January 31, Italian doctors were saying that the illness was just a "bad flu". On March 9, an epidemiologist, Silvia Stringhini, wrote: "The media are reassuring, the politicians are reassuring, while there's little to be reassured of". Third, the Italian health system is in appallingly bad condition. There are not enough intensive care units and, as everywhere, the possibility of a major crisis simply was not anticipated. In Italy there are 2.62 acute-care hospital beds per 1,000 residents by comparison, the number in Germany is 6.06 per 1,000 residents. The Italian health system is entirely run by the government. A public health care service SSN, Servizio Sanitario Nazionale pays the doctors directly, limits their number, and sets the maximum number of patients they can treat per year (1,500). Government-run healthcare always ends up being about the government trying to cut its costs rather than to help its citizens. Private clinics do exist, but represent only a small part of the care offered the public system represents 77% of total health-care spending. The only country in Europe where the figure is higher is the United Kingdom, where the figure is 79%. Public hospitals must manage shortages, and when an exceptional situation occurs, rationing  care leads to horrific choices. A recent report by Siaarti (Società Italiana di Anestesia Analgesia Rianimazione e Terapia Intensiva) bureaucratically offers "ethical recommendations for admission and intensive treatment in exceptional conditions of imbalance" and speaks of "consensual criteria of distributive justice" to justify not  treating certain patients and leaving them to die...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15752/coronavirus-comes-for-europe 

Pentagon Preparing Navy Hospital Ships Mercy, Comfort for Coronavirus Response
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By Sam LaGrone
{ news.usni.org } ~ The Pentagon is starting the process of activating Navy hospital ships USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) and USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) as part of the Defense Department’s domestic response to the spreading COVID-19 virus... USNI News has learned. “We’ve already given orders to the Navy… to lean forward in terms of getting them ready to deploy,” Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told reporters on Tuesday. The ships will now begin the several days-long process of bringing aboard medical staff and equipment ahead of deploying along the East and West coasts, a defense official confirmed to USNI News on Tuesday afternoon. Two sources told USNI News that the idea was for the ships to provide relief for coastal hospital systems, with the ships taking on non-COVID-19 cases and allowing the hospitals to focus on the most critical patients suffering from the virus. The Pentagon also has extensive equipment for erecting field hospitals in addition to the hospital ships, but those facilities are optimized for trauma cases, with several beds close together, and not for infectious patients. “So one of the ways you could use field hospitals, hospital ships or things in between is to take the pressure off of civilian hospitals when it comes to trauma cases, to open up civilian hospital rooms for infectious diseases,” Esper said. On Monday, Joint Staff surgeon Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul Friedrichs gave more details on how the ships could support civilian hospitals. “If, for example, a community has a large outbreak and there’s a need for emergency room support or trauma support, a hospital ship is perfectly designed to do that,” Friedrichs told Politico on Monday. “It’s hard to get the hospital ship to St. Louis, but along the coasts, it is an option to use.”...  https://news.usni.org/2020/03/17/pentagon-preparing-navy-hospital-ships-mercy-comfort-for-coronavirus-response?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=05e9c47c74-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-05e9c47c74-231491269&mc_cid=05e9c47c74&mc_eid=3999f18767   

The Prisoner Dilemma in the Age of Coronavirus
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by Alan M. Dershowitz
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The US has more prisoners than any Western democracy. Because of our overly long sentences — even for non-violent first offenders — many are old and infirm... We also have many presumptively innocent defendants in jail awaiting trial, and many others awaiting appeal. It is inevitable that there will be outbreaks of coronavirus in prisons and jails, as, in the past, there have been outbreaks of other contagious illnesses such as Legionnaires disease. Other institutions of confinement, such as nursing homes, have also experienced quickly spreading contagions. Once an outbreak occurs, the options will be limited. It is unlikely that contagious inmates would be released; they would probably be quarantined in the prison, which may mean solitary confinement. Nor will there be sufficient medical staff and equipment to treat them. In the event of an outbreak, guards and other staff are likely to refuse to come to work, thus raising the risk of violence among prisoners. The time to act, in order to prevent these bad outcomes, is before there are outbreaks. A prison sentence, or the denial of bail, are not supposed to be sentences of death or disease. Steps should be taken now to reduce the risks not only to prisoners but to those who come in contact with them in prison or upon release. Among these preventive steps should be the following: allowing elderly non-violent prisoners who are near the end of their sentences to be sent home; those who still have considerable time to serve should be temporarily furloughed to home confinement, subject to increased punishment if they violate the strict conditions of the furlough; pre-trial and pre-appeal defendants should be allowed to remain at home unless they pose a threat of violence; imprisonment of sentenced non-violent defendants should be deferred from month to month as we monitor the spread of the virus; summonses should replace arrests in most non-violent cases; fines and other non-custodial punishments should be more widely imposed as long as custody poses life threatening risks; other creative amelioratives should be considered. It is generally not a good idea to emulate the actions of Iran, but it is interesting to note that the repressive Islamic regime has reportedly released approximately 80,000 prisoners most of whom probably should never have been imprisoned in the first place. Not known for their compassion, the mullahs probably made this decision as a public heath measure calculated to slow down the spread of the coronavirus, which has plagued Iran...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15753/coronavirus-prisoners 

Can America's Public Health 
Elite Survive the 'Boomer Flu'?
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By Alan Koczela
{ americanthinker.com } ~ We depend on experts for advice. We always have. This is understandable given our inability to effectively process and disseminate all the information that bombards us... Our minds are not supercomputers with software that sift and rank information in nanoseconds. We cannot psychically communicate our discoveries with the rest of the hive. Instead, we develop a system of experts that focus their efforts on different topics and tell us what they learn through various institutions, such as the media, the church, or the office water cooler. But what happens when our experts fail? The public health community’s response to COVID-19, aka the “Boomer Flu,” provides a cautionary example. Many have noted COVID’s terrible effectiveness in killing the elderly and infirm. However, what are the responses of our public policy experts? Quarantines, testing, and other proscriptions of minimal effectiveness and mass inconvenience. For example, the focus on testing is farcical. Granted, testing information is useful, particularly in developing programs for the next pandemic. However, what’s the benefit from testing for treatment of the pandemic? If I have a cold, my doctor tells me to self-quarantine. If I have the flu, my doctor tells me to self-quarantine. If I have any contagious disease, my doctor tells me to self-quarantine. Whether I have a confirmed or suspected case of the Boomer Flu, my doctor will tell me to self-quarantine. Healthcare professionals can still record information about suspected COVID-19 cases. When tests become available, the suspected cases can return for testing or someone could visit the suspect and conduct the tests. The focus on testing is a waste of time, and wasted time is something we can’t afford. Another example is our method of quarantining. In the U.S., a volunteer self-quarantine (“VSQ”) appears the method of choice. Yet, a VSQ is largely ineffective. Imagine a low-income parent who must work. Sick or not, this person will work. And, what type of jobs do these parents typically have? My guesses are janitors, warehouse workers, cashiers, or any low-paying job that involves close contact with the public. Financially distressed people with jobs serving the public suggest VSQs are a recipe for disaster. Yet, VSQs remain a cornerstone of our response.  The above examples indicate the public health elite are largely clueless on what to do. Instead of instituting helpful policies, they’ve opted for the ol’ roust ‘em strategy. This strategy was once popular with law enforcement. For example, there’s an uptick in crime, so the police installed roadblocks, roust the poor and implemented responses that created the impression that the police were doing something. Of course, these policies looked good on TV, caused mass inconvenience, and were minimally effective. Our public-health experts have adopted such a response to COVID-19: lots of doctors on TV suggesting ineffective policies and often shifted the blame or the public’s attention to nonsensical issues, like the lack of testing supplies. The blame shifting and misdirection are designed to hide the public heath elite’s incompetence in developing strategies that make a difference. I know it is easy to complain. Any fool can quickly list the problems of the world. So, let this non-credentialed, occasionally employed deadbeat from Baltimore provide some suggestions. These proposals are based on the World Health Organization’s website, as well as the Italian experience. The reports indicate that COVID-19 deaths are primarily confined to those over 60 or people with underlying medical conditions. My modest proposals include: (1) Seal nursing homes, hospices, retirement communities and intensive care units (“ICUs”) by limiting access. Like the British, install field hospitals nearby. The field hospitals would only accept COVID-19 cases. Apart from freeing up hospital beds, this allows medical professionals to treat only those most at risk. In addition, create disinfecting areas for staff, where sterilized uniforms are provided. Also, ban everyone not a resident or staff, including families of the sick. Outside vendors would wear sterilized gear to limit exposing residents to COVID-19. Beyond the sealed area, the facility could create a non-contact visiting area with windowed partitions, and end-of-life rooms where families could say their last goodbye to loved ones...
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U.S. Retaliates After Iran Picks a Fight
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Thomas Gallatin  The U.S. military launched an airstrike against five Iranian-backed militia sites in northern Iraq late last week, killing an estimated three to four dozen militia members. The strike was in response to a rocket attack against U.S. and coalition forces earlier in the week that killed three soldiers, including two Americans and one British, and wounded over a dozen more. Following the U.S. strike Defense Secretary Mark Esper stated, “The United States will not tolerate attacks against our people, our interests, or our allies. As we have demonstrated in recent months, we will take any action necessary to protect our forces in Iraq and the region.” He also noted, “You don’t get to shoot at our bases and kill and wound Americans and get away with it.”

It appears clear that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not backed off his proxy-war efforts against the U.S. in Iraq and Syria even after the U.S. took out his top terrorist, Gen. Qasem Soleimani. In fact, he seems to be escalating matters.

As Tom Rogan at Washington Examiner notes, “Iran’s escalation also takes another form. Iran is now more resolute in expanding its nuclear program. Again, Iran knows that doing so risks Israeli or U.S. military action. But Khamenei has evidently decided to roll the dice in a last-ditch effort to blackmail America into sanctions relief. The supreme leader’s escalation-reflex is likely exacerbated in an Iranian interest point of view by the Saudi decision this week to boost its oil export scale and send oil prices plummeting. U.S. sanctions have annihilated Iran’s oil economy, so what little Tehran is still able to export is critical to the regime’s finances.”

To top it off, Iran is struggling with the coronavirus outbreak. It’s the typical mindset of tyrannical regimes: The people don’t matter, only the leader’s agenda.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/69232?mailing_id=4925&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4925&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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loose lips liar-Biden Won't
Bring Decency or Unity
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Harold Hutchison  
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White House Trade/Manufacturing Adviser
Peter Navarro Discusses COVID-19
Supply Chain Initiatives
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ White House trade adviser Peter Navarro outlines some of the ongoing supply chain initiatives to meet ongoing demands of the corovirus effort. Navarro highlights the cooperation between US government and private enterprise.
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What’s In the House Spending Plan
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by rightwing.org ~ Partisan problems appeared in the House of Representatives last Thursday, as lawmakers haggled over the latest and most ambitious anti-coronavirus bill making its way through the legislature... Democrats, led by House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), introduced an emergency bill last Wednesday in response to the coronavirus outbreak. While there’s bipartisan support for more help to the American people and the US economy, the administration says Dems are grabbing an opportunity to push spending items they’ve had on their wish list for a long time. The Dems proposed bill was mostly centered on a huge expansion of welfare spending and government handouts. liar-Pelosi proposed an ambitious and expensive program of paid sick leave. The baseline would be a law requiring all employers to give up to seven days of paid leave, plus an extra 14 days when a public health emergency has been declared – like now. The government would cover the cost of this for businesses with under 50 employees. Their part of the bill also proposed a new federal paid leave program under the Social Security Administration (SSA). This would pay out to anyone who had to take 14 or more days off work because of COVID-19. It covers up to two-thirds of monthly earnings with a maximum of $4,000 for three months. Republicans are against this as it will take too long to implement and take valuable resources from the SSA. What both agree on is that more money would go to food banks, meal delivery programs and extending food stamps to a lot more families.  The proposed bill would also provide free coronavirus testing to everyone, even if they’re not insured. Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers would be forced to pay for the tests. In addition, Republicans wanted to bring in measures that will let people help themselves and give the economy a boost. A key goal was to cut payroll taxes to zero, giving both workers and businesses more money to spend.  President Trump appealed Thursday night for bipartisan support to get a combined version of the bill through, even with some of its imperfections. In the end, that’s just what he got. The bill passed easily on Friday with 363 representatives in favor and 40 voting against it. The final bill is a compromise, no payroll tax cut and no SSA program in sight. However, what is left is a plan to offer free COVID-19 testing, expand Medicare and food stamp programs and mandate companies to offer paid sick days and family leave for anyone affected by the coronavirus. Companies with over 500 employees would be exempt from this requirement. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Tuesday that the bill would likely pass in the Senate “as-is,” knowing that more spending bills are coming before this crisis is over. It seems the Dems are finally acting like the adults by working together with their fellow GOP legislators to put the American people first.  https://www.rightwing.org/whats-in-the-house-spending-plan/?utm_source=rw-aw-cf&utm_placement=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_content=RWnewsletter   

McConnell Tells Republicans to ‘Gag and 
Vote’ for House Coronavirus Bill  
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by americanactionnews.com ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is prepared to end the impasse on Capitol Hill. However, his solution leaves much to be desired for many congressional Republicans... “A number of my members think there were considerable shortcomings in the House bill. My counsel to them it is to gag and vote for it anyway,” McConnell said Tuesday after lunching with his fellow Republicans. The Senate will take up the House bill beginning Tuesday and then move immediately to crafting bigger legislation to stimulate the economy that will need 60 votes to pass the upper chamber. McConnell said the Senate won’t recess until another bill is passed. “We’re going to move here in warp speed for the Senate, which almost never does anything quickly,” McConnell said. McConnell reiterated that the Senate is committed to helping all 320 million Americans get through this pandemic as easily as possible.  https://americanactionnews.com/politics/mcconnell-tells-republicans-to-gag-and-vote-for-house-coronavirus-bill/   

Spain coronavirus deaths double overnight 
as daily life in Europe grinds to halt
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By Robert Gearty
{ foxnews.com } ~ Spain’s health officials reported Sunday the country’s death toll from the coronavirus took a dramatic jump in just one day--more than doubling from 136 a day before to 288... The alarming news came as daily life increasingly grounds to a halt across Europe and beyond, amid efforts to combat the spread of the fast-moving virus. Spain’s Health Ministry said there have been 7,753 infections, up from 5,700 on Saturday, with around half of them concentrated in the capital of Madrid. Virus deaths surged in Spain a day after the government declared a state of emergency and took extraordinary measures to limit movement to commuting to work and necessary errands. The Spanish government has also closed restaurants, bars, most retail shops, and reduced public transport. In Austria, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced plans to limit people’s movements nationwide, shortly after the country’s Tyrol province followed Italy and Spain in barring residents from leaving their homes except for essential errands or work. With new infections dwindling in Asia, Europe has become the main front line of the fight against COVID-19. The virus has infected 152,000 people and killed more than 5,700. Kurz ordered Austrians to leave their homes “only alone or with the people who live in their apartment.” Austria has 800 infections. Italy, the worst-hit European country with more than 21,000 infections and 1,400 deaths, ratcheted its nearly week-old lockdown even tighter. The transport ministry banned passengers from taking ferries to the island of Sardinia and banned overnight train trips — which many in the north had been taking to reach homes and families in the south. Overwhelmed hospitals struggled to cope with the sick. “It’s not a wave. It’s a tsunami,” said Dr. Roberto Rona, in charge of intensive care at the Monza hospital...
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Israelis not allowed to leave their homes 
unless ‘absolutely necessary’
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By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN & EYTAN HALON
{ jpost.com } ~ The government rolled out a new set of restrictions on the Israeli population Tuesday as the number of coronavirus patients increased to 337 at press time... and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised there would be a dramatic increase in the number of sick people detected, tests taken and hospital equipment available to serve the infected. “We started today using the digital technology that detects those who come in contact with coronavirus patients,” Netanyahu said in a press briefing. “We will send these people into isolation. These will be large numbers. Isolation is not a recommendation - it is mandatory, and we will enforce it without compromise." He likewise committed to “dramatically” increasing the number of people tested for coronavirus to the largest number per capita in the world. Netanyahu said that he expects between 3,000 and 5,000 tests to be taken per day, comparing Israel to South Korea. That country tests around 15,000 people per day and has a population around five times larger than Israel’s. The prime minister also noted that hospitals are upgrading to be able to handle more sick patients, including that the country has purchased 1,000 additional ventilators to treat those who fall victim to the virus, which can lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome or pneumonia. “I am happy to report that, as of now, not a single Israeli has died,” Netanyahu said, “but sadly this will not be the situation going forward. "I ask for discipline and responsibility,” he continued. “All of these steps will not help if there is no discipline and responsibility on your part. I can sadly say that there are many of you that still don’t understand the level of danger we are facing. This is not children’s play. This is a matter of life or death. “Love is keeping your distance,” he concluded. The bottom line of these new restrictions: Israelis are not allowed to leave their homes unless "absolutely necessary." "Do not leave your home," said Health Ministry director general Moshe Bar Siman Tov in a video message to the public. "Only go to work... or to purchase essential items, such as groceries, medicine or the like." Visiting parks, beaches, pools, libraries and museums is now prohibited as are all social interactions, which the ministry said should be conducted on the phone or by other digital means. Group sports and workout classes are also all cancelled effective immediately...
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Fever-stricken reporter barred from 
White House coronavirus briefing
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by Daniel Chaitin
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ A journalist was denied entry into the White House Coronavirus Task Force news briefing Saturday after developing a fever... Reporters had their body temperatures taken by staff at the White House as a precaution against the coronavirus. One person was tested three times by the White House Medical Unit over a 15-minute period, and each time, the result registered above the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guideline of what constitutes a fever, 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to Katie Miller, who is a press secretary to Vice President Mike Pence. Fever is one of the symptoms of the coronavirus. NBC News's Kelly O'Donnell said in a tweet that the journalist who was turned away appeared to be from China Global Television Network. The checks began on Saturday. "Out of an abundance of caution, temperature checks are now being performed on any individuals who are in close contact with the president and vice president," White House spokesman Judd Deere said.   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fever-stricken-reporter-barred-from-white-house-coronavirus-briefing   

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loose lips liar-Biden Won't Bring Decency or Unity
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Harold Hutchison  One of the things loose lips liar-Joe Biden is running on is a return to “decency.” For many Americans seemingly exhausted by the state of constant political fighting (or nonviolent civil war, if you believe Dennis Prager), it seems to be nice to get back to a place of decency and national unity. There is just one problem.

loose lips liar-Joe Biden is not the man who can bring unity. That’s largely because, when it comes to decency, he is very deficient. The media might tell you one thing, but there is plenty of evidence that loosew lips liar-Biden’s lack of decency not only exists but will make unity impossible.

For one thing, the deep divisions on multiple issues that drive the present state of contentious disunity have existed for a long time and have been growing toxic for a long time.

For instance, take gun control.

The fact is, far too many of the solutions proposed by the Democrats running for president involved punishing millions of law-abiding Americans for crimes and acts of madness they did not commit. Parkland, Sandy Hook, Aurora, Sutherland Springs, Las Vegas — all were cited as the justification for massive infringements on the Second Amendment.

On their own, and in conjunction with pro-Second Amendment groups like the National Rifle Association, millions of Patriots objected to that injustice. They made those objections stick through successful grassroots action. Yet that grassroots action against injustice (writing lawmakers, educating their fellow Americans, and even working to defeat anti-Second Amendment officials through the electoral process) has been labeled  “domestic terrorism” by none other than New York’s attorney general.

socialist-Beto O'Rourke once promised, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15.” loose lips liar-Joe Biden just hired socialist-Beto’s campaign manager as his own, and he plans to hire socialist-Beto as his “gun-control czar.”

It’s kind of hard to unify a country after stuff like that. It becomes doubly hard when, after that rhetoric, abusive investigations are launched with the intent of silencing certain voices. But yeah, media pundits, tell us again how it’s Second Amendment supporters who are the problem.

loose lips liar-Biden is no stranger to vilification of opponents. There is, of course, the moment he falsely claimed rino-Mitt Romney would put African Americans “back in chains.” It was a vicious slander — saying slavery would come back. But at the time, it looked as if rino-Romney had a chance to beat Barack scumbag/liar-nObama — and he did come within a few hundred thousand votes of flipping that election into an Electoral College win like Donald Trump pulled off four years later.

loose lips liar-Biden also was proud of the grotesque defeat of Robert Bork’s Supreme Court nomination in 1987 and sought to use it to launch his 1988 presidential campaign. Bork’s reputation over a long career of public service? Small price to pay for loose lips liar-Biden’s ambition. Karma struck when loose lips liar-Biden was caught plagiarizing speeches the next year, but that karma didn’t put Bork on the Supreme Court. Nor did that karma halt the vitriolic path we are on today. loose lips liar-Biden’s horrific treatment of Bork became the template for how Democrats treat Republican judicial nominees. Ask Brett Kavanaugh.

But the lack of decency also extends to inaction. Remember when John Lewis smeared rino-John McCain as a racist in 2008? loose lips liar-Biden was silent … and even seemed like he had discarded the friendship. While maybe that smear wasn’t decisive, loose lips liar-Biden said nothing — and even today proclaims his friendship with rino-McCain as he runs for president for the third time.

We’ll leave it to you to judge if his treatment of riho-McCain is that of a true friend. But the actions and inactions in politics probably aren’t the most relevant or dispositive when it comes to loose lips liar-Biden’s lack of decency. Let’s look at how he mistreated someone who was utterly powerless to resist him: Curtis C. Dunn.

In 1972, loose lips liar-Biden’s first wife and daughter were killed in an accident involving a tractor trailer. Anyone who has lost a family member to such an accident can comprehend the pain involved. But loose lips liar-Biden proceeded to falsely paint Dunn as a drunk driver. He reportedly apologized, but what kind of person — in a position of power and influence, no less — would unleash such a dishonest smear in the first place?

And all of this is to say nothing about loose lips liar-Biden’s angry outbursts against voters on the campaign trail. Among other episodes, he’s called a woman a “lying, dog-faced pony soldier” (whatever that means) and nearly picked a fistfight with a guy over banning the “AR-14.”

If America is to somehow bridge the Red-Blue divide that seems likely to tear it apart, it will need leaders who are, when it comes down to it, decent people. loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s actions over the years show he is lacking in that department — and he’s getting worse. To think he can bring about unity with a proven lack of decency is blind partisan foolishness.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/69265?mailing_id=4927&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4927&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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It's as Easy as ABC (Anybody But China)
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Wednesday News Executive Summary
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Jordan Candler  Above the Fold

  • “GAG AND VOTE FOR IT ANYWAY”: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Senate will pass House coronavirus bill without changes (The Hill)

  • “WE’RE GOING BIG”: President Trump wants checks sent to Americans within next two weeks (The Daily Wire)

  • WORSE THAN 2008? Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warns virus could yield 20% jobless rate without action (Bloomberg)

  • TAX PAYMENTS POSTPONED: Treasury and IRS to delay tax payment deadline by 90 days (CNBC)

Government & Politics

  • BLOWOUT: loose lips liar-Joe Biden crushes commie-Bernie Sanders in primary sweep of Florida, Illinois, and Arizona (Fox News)

  • 2020 VISION: Trump officially secures Republican nomination (The Daily Wire)

National Security

  • CANNOT RISK AN OUTBREAK: U.S. to send back all asylum seekers at southern border (National Review)

  • RULE OF LAW: Border chief won’t hand over criminal illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities (Washington Examiner)

Culture & Heartland

  • AVERAGE OF DAILY ARRESTS DROPS BY 240:  Los Angeles releases more than 600 inmates, slashes arrests to “combat coronavirus” (The Daily Wire)

  • FOLLOWING SUIT: Philadelphia police stop some arrests to manage jail crowding during coronavirus pandemic (Washington Examiner)

Closing Arguments

    • POLICY: How coronavirus could change healthcare for the better (Washington Examiner)

    • POLICY: Governance in crisis: A guide to what the states can and can’t do about coronavirus (Washington Examiner)

    • HUMOR: Economic crisis averted as Mike Bloomberg vows to give $1 million to every American (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/69312?mailing_id=4929&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4929&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
    
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President Trump White House 
Coronavirus Task Force Briefing 
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump, Vice-President Pence and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin lead the daily coronavirus briefing on COVID-19 mitigation efforts from the White House.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/17/president-trump-white-house-coronavirus-task-force-briefing-video/
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First Batch of Coronavirus Vaccines 
Sent for Human Testing
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by Mikaela Mathews
{ christianheadlines.com } ~ Biotech company Moderna, based out of Massachusetts, has shipped its first batches of the COVID-19 vaccine for testing to the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases... According to Fox News, the vaccine will be tested on a group of 45 young, healthy human volunteers at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. Volunteers cannot be infected from the shots, and the purpose of the trial is to ensure that no worrisome side effects emerge. The company originally believed it would start testing in April, but recent discoveries made from Chinese scientists encouraged a faster turn-around time. “The speed with which we have produced these candidates builds very much on the investment in understanding how to develop vaccines for other coronaviruses,” said Richard Hatchett, CEO of a Norwegian-based company developing a COVID-19 vaccine. Scientists in China shared the virus’s genome sequence, which is called SARS-CoV-2, which has enabled other countries to continue the development of a vaccine. Though “prototype” pathogens had been researched in previous years, the work was shelved after SARS and MERS epidemics were contained. According to The  Guardian, “SARS-CoV-2 shares between 80% and 90% of its genetic material with the virus that caused SARS—hence its name.” Despite this speed, releasing a vaccine to the public will still take some time. The president has promised to release a vaccine by November, but the CDC has advised that safe testing and development requires upwards of 18 months. “Getting a vaccine that’s proven to be safe and effective in humans takes one at best about a third of the way to what’s needed for a global immunization program,” said global health expert Jonathan Quick. “Virus biology and vaccines technology could be the limiting factors, but politics and economics are far more likely to be the barrier to immunization.” Testing for a vaccine typically goes through three groups of people: first, a few healthy volunteers; second, several hundred people; and, third, several thousands of people to ensure that the vaccine is effective.   https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/mikaela-matthews/first-batch-of-coronavirus-vaccines-sent-for-human-testing.html?utm_source=ChristianHeadlines%20Daily&utm_campaign=Christian%20Headlines%20Daily%20-%20ChristianHeadlines.com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=3142055&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=518909562%20   

Doctor with 4 Degrees from MIT Warns 'Deep 
State' Using Coronavirus Fear-Mongering 
To Suppress Dissent
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By Carmine Sabia 
{ westernjournal.com } ~ A decorated scientist with four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believes the coronavirus pandemic is being used by the “Deep State” for its own purposes... Shiva Ayyadurai said on Twitter that “fear-mongering” over the outbreak is being used to push an agenda. “As an MIT PhD in Biological Engineering who studies & does research nearly every day on the Immune System, the #coronavirus fear mongering by the Deep State will go down in history as one of the biggest fraud to manipulate economies, suppress dissent, & push MANDATED Medicine!” he said. It is important to note that Ayyadurai did not say the disease is man-made or a hoax. You should follow the guidelines from doctors, federal, state and local governments and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But what Ayyadurai did say is that some in the government are using the pandemic to frighten people into obedience. Think about what has transpired in less than a week’s time. We have handed control of nearly everything in our lives to the government. In many places, they are telling us when we can leave our homes and when we must return to them. They have decided what events or religious services we can attend, how many people are allowed to be there and which businesses are allowed to stay open. In the process, the global economy has crashed with the assistance of the media stirring everyone into a mass panic...  https://www.westernjournal.com/doctor-4-degrees-mit-warns-deep-state-using-coronavirus-fear-mongering-suppress-dissent/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune  
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Research team has isolated the COVID-19 virus
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by sunnybrook.ca ~ A team of researchers from Sunnybrook, McMaster University and the University of Toronto has isolated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)... the agent responsible for the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. Thanks to nimble collaboration, the team was able to culture the virus from two clinical specimens in a Level 3 containment facility. “We need key tools to develop solutions to this pandemic. While the immediate response is crucial, longer-term solutions come from essential research into this novel virus,” said Dr. Samira Mubareka, microbiologist and infectious diseases physician at Sunnybrook. The isolated virus will help researchers in Canada and across the world develop better diagnostic testing, treatments and vaccines, and gain a better understanding of SARS-CoV-2 biology, evolution and clinical shedding. “Researchers from these world-class institutions came together in a grassroots way to successfully isolate the virus in just a few short weeks,” said Dr. Rob Kozak, clinical microbiologist at Sunnybrook. “It demonstrates the amazing things that can happen when we collaborate.” Dr. Arinjay Banerjee, NSERC post-doctoral fellow at McMaster University, said he knows the collaboration won’t stop there. “Now that we have isolated the SARS-CoV-2 virus, we can share this with other researchers and continue this teamwork,” he said. “The more viruses that are made available in this way, the more we can learn, collaborate and share.” Congratulations to the researchers from these three Canadian institutions: Dr. Samira Mubareka and Dr. Rob Kozak of Sunnybrook and University of Toronto; Dr. Arinjay Banerjee and Dr. Karen Mossman of McMaster University. With gratitude to the CL3 team and Biosafety Officers.   https://sunnybrook.ca/research/media/item.asp?c=2&i=2069&f=covid-19-isolated-2020  
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So Now What?
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by WILLIAM MURCHISON
{ spectator.org } ~  This virus thing has gotten crazy. San Francisco … closed down due to the coronavirus’ spread?! A whole American city on hold? And other localities set for like privations?... loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s and commie-Bernie Sanders’ contemporaries may remember as I do, being one of them a Gregory Peck/Ava Gardner movie from 1959: On the Beach. Following a nuclear war, an unharmed American sub ventures to San Francisco for a look. There is only stillness; no one is in sight. No one. It gives one the willies to contemplate the shutdowns that government officials, here and abroad, are implementing or contemplating: so extended, so complete as to invite ridicule. Few seem to regard them as ridiculous. That, too, gives one the willies. We are entering an age nobody imagined just weeks ago. We do not know what lies at the end of the tunnel when the light is switched back on. There is little good in predictions. I suspect, even so, we are in for a massive mental reorientation as a nation, as a people. You don’t go through things like the shutdown of normal daily life without rethinking basic premises. Reorientation could be good for us, or it could be bad. I prefer, on the whole, half-full to half-empty glassware. How might we end up better? Rising above the hatred and hostility, the malice and power-grabbing, of the past half-century — I could go for that if it happened. Modifying the conditions responsible for that hatred and hostility — that would be good, too. Downsizing our politics and putting life in better perspective. It would make of America a different, perhaps a better, place. The presidential candidates, in their Sunday night debate, lacked anything useful to say about the sickness and the already unfolding national shutdown: likely because, as politicians generally do, they were looking at the short run and the bottom line. We have had enough it seems to me of short-running and bottom-lining. We need to think on what we’re about as a people, and on the legitimate uses of liberty. It would be a change, all right. It might even make easier the healing of life when COVID-19 is gone. The human condition — including the human medical condition — is tied up in the eternal questions, how shall I live, and how should I strive to die? No act of Congress or Supreme Court decision is likely to answer such questions...  https:// https://spectator.org/so-now-what/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=33d2e92e08-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_17_02_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-33d2e92e08-104608113  /so-now-what/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=33d2e92e08-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_17_02_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-33d2e92e08-104608113   

Philip Haney's Death Not a Suicide
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by Lloyd Billingsley
{ cms.frontpagemag.com } ~ Former Department of Homeland Security Whistleblower Philip Haney was found dead in Amador County, California, last month... Early reports said the death was due to a self-inflicted gunshot, but Haney’s friends in Congress say that isn’t so, with the support from a February 24 Coroner’s Investigation Update by the Amador sheriff’s office. As that report explains “there was misinformation immediately being put out that we have determined Mr. Haney’s death to be a suicide. This is not the case.” Mr. Haney was “located in a park and ride open area immediately adjacent to State Highway 16 near State Highway 124. Highway 16 is a busy state highway and used as a main travel route to and from Sacramento. The location is less than three miles from where he was living,” in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento. As  Michelle Mears noted in the California Globe, Haney’s relatives and friends did not believe he had killed himself. According to Kerry Picket in the Washington Examiner, Haney was “recently in contact with top officials about returning to work for the DHS.” As Haney explained in The Hill on May 5, 2016, the Department of Homeland Security ordered him “to delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS).” Haney described the campaign in See Something Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad. The Amador County Sheriff is cooperating with the FBI to analyze “documents, phone records and a lap top that were recovered from the scene and Mr. Haney’s RV.” The sheriff has also obtained “the firearm located at the scene” but has not revealed the type of weapon. A forensic autopsy has been scheduled and as Cheryl Chumley reported in the Washington Times, Haney’s friends in Congress are weighing in...   https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/03/philip-haneys-death-not-suicide-lloyd-billingsley   
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It's as Easy as ABC (Anybody But China)
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Arnold Ahlert  In 1942, America began the Manhattan Project. It was driven by the fear that Nazi scientists were developing an atomic bomb and that Adolf Hitler was prepared to use it. Today, America needs a new Manhattan Project to respond to the reality that China — an enemy every bit as determined to rule the world as the Nazis were — controls the supply of 80% to 90% of U.S. antibiotics. And for those Americans who think the word “enemy” is too strong, the Chinese Communist Party’s media mouthpiece has boasted about that nation’s ability to impose pharmaceutical export controls that would push America into “the mighty sea of coronavirus.”

That media mouthpiece is a state-run agency known as Xinhua. It is now casting China as heroic for containing the virus as long as it did. “We should say righteously that the U.S. owes China an apology, the world owes China a thank you,” an editorial stated. That would be the same China that blatantly lied about when the outbreak began, ignored offers of outside help for weeks, and arrested whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang, forcing him to sign a letter saying he spread “untrue speech” about the danger. Li subsequently succumbed to the virus.

In America, succumbing to communist thugs, to the point where loyalty and patriotism have been completely supplanted by the globalist agenda, has now reached catastrophic levels. It’s a catastrophe enabled by a self-anointed “New World Order” elitist class that no longer hides its contempt for ordinary Americans who’ve seen their cities and towns decimated by outsourcing leading to despair, homelessness, massive drug abuse, and now a communicable disease that threatens our entire way of life — even as they are told globalism is a “net benefit” for the nation.

Net benefit? Ordinary Americans were supposed to be mollified by cheap consumer goods, while elitists amassed historically unprecedented levels of wealth. Moreover, those same elitists lectured us about how the nationalist agenda of the Trump administration was akin to Nazism, and that any hesitation to embrace globalism was xenophobic. Even now, despite this being the second virus originating in China (SARs emerged in 2003), our own media insists that referring to COVID-19 as “Wuhan virus,” the “Wuhan coronavirus,” or the “Chinese coronavirus” is racist.

In the midst of a pandemic, it doesn’t get more intellectually or morally bankrupt than that. The hypocrisy is astounding: Many of the same media sources now browbeating Americans for their racism initially used precisely the same terms to describe the virus.

So what changed? Politics.

A media ostensibly concerned with the well-being of Americans is more concerned with undermining a Trump administration that has proved largely antithetical to the globalist agenda. An administration that facilitated the creation of millions of new jobs supposedly impossible to create, because the “new normal” of low expectations  professed by the scumbag/liar-nObama administration was said to be an immutable reality.

And above all else, an administration that finally challenged the odious assertion by both parties that accommodating a totalitarian nation would eventually “democratize” it.

It was all a lie. “Fact is, choosing to invest in China versus the United States is not a simple dollars-and-cents, bottom-line calculation,” explains columnist Curtis Ellis. “Certain ‘externalities’ enter into the equation. Externalities such as national security. Externalities such as the continued existence of the United States. Externalities such as the continued existence of freedom of thought, freedom of religion, and individual liberty in this world. By now it should be crystal clear to anyone but the willfully blind that the communist party ruling China holds and promotes values antithetical to our own.”

Willfully blind? Willfully greedy, stupid, and corrupt is more like it. To the point where the massive theft of intellectual property, the “editing” of Hollywood entertainment, and the coerced silence of NBA players — to name only a handful of examples — is willfully granted in exchange for access to a billion Chinese consumers.

And now, as many people are discovering for the first time, drug companies and their supply chains are an integral part of the sellout. One that has left us as vulnerable as any outright war or terrorist attack could. “I have no doubt,” retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told Fox News, “that they would consider weaponizing their dominance of the pharmaceuticals market if they felt that that would give them an advantage over us strategically.”

The president is attempting to do something about it. On Friday, he declared a national emergency, fast-tracking testing for the virus, enlisting Walmart, Walgreens, Target, CVS, and others to facilitate the process. He is also  expected to announce an executive order that will tighten “Buy American” laws that would require federal agencies to purchase American-made pharmaceuticals and medical equipment.

That may be a heavy lift. The last plant in the United States to manufacture the key ingredients for crucial antibiotics like penicillin was Bristol-Myers Squibb, which closed its factory in East Syracuse, New York, in 2004. Even then, American politicians knew of the possible consequences of outsourcing critical drug-supply chains. But even then, as now, national security — because this is all about national security — took a back seat to bottom-line considerations.

“The coronavirus outbreak has been a wake-up call that we must combat America’s supply-chain vulnerabilities and dependence on China in critical sectors of our economy,” stated Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in response to Trump’s forthcoming order.

Our entire nation has been turned upside down in a way that may prove as deleterious as 9/11 — if not more so — and that’s what eoff for worldwide “interconnectedness”) — is finally seen for what it truly is: a mortal threat to our constitutional republic.

America will never be completely isolationist. However, going forward it might be useful to embrace a new trade and supply-chain strategy. One as easy as ABC:

Anybody But China.   

Utterly preposterous. Moreover, like so many others in his party, as well as their media lapdogs, the idea that politics “stops at the water’s edge” in times of crisis is officially dead.  ~The Patriot Post

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Arnold Ahlert  
.Wednesday News Executive Summary

Jordan Candler  Above the Fold
“GAG AND VOTE FOR IT ANYWAY”: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Senate will pass House coronavirus bill without changes (The Hill)“WE’RE GOING BIG”: President Trump wants checks sent to Americans within next two weeks (The Daily Wire)WORSE THAN 2008? Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warns virus could yield 20% jobless rate without action (Bloomberg)TAX PAYMENTS POSTPONED: Treasury and IRS to delay tax payment deadline by 90 days (CNBC)Government & PoliticsBLOWOUT: loose lips liar-Joe Biden crushes commie-Bernie Sanders in primary sweep of Florida, Illinois, and Arizona (Fox News)2020 VISION: Trump officially secures Republican nomination (The Daily Wire)National SecurityCANNOT RISK AN OUTBREAK: U.S. to send back all asylum seekers at southern border (National Review)RULE OF LAW: Border chief won’t hand over criminal illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities (Washington Examiner)Culture & HeartlandAVERAGE OF DAILY ARRESTS DROPS BY 240:  Los Angeles releases more than 600 inmates, slashes arrests to “combat coronavirus” (The Daily Wire)FOLLOWING SUIT: Philadelphia police stop some arrests to manage jail crowding during coronavirus pandemic (Washington Examiner)Closing ArgumentsPOLICY: How coronavirus could change healthcare for the better (Washington Examiner)POLICY: Governance in crisis: A guide to what the states can and can’t do about coronavirus (Washington Examiner)HUMOR: Economic crisis averted as Mike Bloomberg vows to give $1 million to every American (The Babylon Bee)  ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/69312?mailing_id=4929&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4929&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body ;   .President Trump White House Coronavirus Task Force Briefing 
by sundance{theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump, Vice-President Pence and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin lead the daily coronavirus briefing on COVID-19 mitigation efforts from the White House.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/17/president-trump-white-house-coronavirus-task-force-briefing-video/VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5jdgafH7eM&feature=emb_title.First Batch of Coronavirus Vaccines Sent for Human Testing
by Mikaela Mathews{christianheadlines.com } ~ Biotech company Moderna, based out of Massachusetts, has shipped its first batches of the COVID-19 vaccine for testing to the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases... According to Fox News, the vaccine will be tested on a group of 45 young, healthy human volunteers at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. Volunteers cannot be infected from the shots, and the purpose of the trial is to ensure that no worrisome side effects emerge. The company originally believed it would start testing in April, but recent discoveries made from Chinese scientists encouraged a faster turn-around time. “The speed with which we have produced these candidates builds very much on the investment in understanding how to develop vaccines for other coronaviruses,” said Richard Hatchett, CEO of a Norwegian-based company developing a COVID-19 vaccine. Scientists in China shared the virus’s genome sequence, which is called SARS-CoV-2, which has enabled other countries to continue the development of a vaccine. Though “prototype” pathogens had been researched in previous years, the work was shelved after SARS and MERS epidemics were contained. According to The  Guardian, “SARS-CoV-2 shares between 80% and 90% of its genetic material with the virus that caused SARS—hence its name.” Despite this speed, releasing a vaccine to the public will still take some time. The president has promised to release a vaccine by November, but the CDC has advised that safe testing and development requires upwards of 18 months. “Getting a vaccine that’s proven to be safe and effective in humans takes one at best about a third of the way to what’s needed for a global immunization program,” said global health expert Jonathan Quick. “Virus biology and vaccines technology could be the limiting factors, but politics and economics are far more likely to be the barrier to immunization.” Testing for a vaccine typically goes through three groups of people: first, a few healthy volunteers; second, several hundred people; and, third, several thousands of people to ensure that the vaccine is effective.  https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/mikaela-matthews/first-batch-of-coronavirus-vaccines-sent-for-human-testing.html?utm_source=ChristianHeadlines%20Daily&utm_campaign=Christian%20Headlines%20Daily%20-%20ChristianHeadlines.com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=3142055&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=518909562%20 ;  . 
Doctor with 4 Degrees from MIT Warns 'Deep State' Using Coronavirus Fear-Mongering To Suppress Dissent
By Carmine Sabia {westernjournal.com } ~ A decorated scientist with four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believes the coronavirus pandemic is being used by the “Deep State” for its own purposes... Shiva Ayyadurai said on Twitter that “fear-mongering” over the outbreak is being used to push an agenda. “As an MIT PhD in Biological Engineering who studies & does research nearly every day on the Immune System, the #coronavirus fear mongering by the Deep State will go down in history as one of the biggest fraud to manipulate economies, suppress dissent, & push MANDATED Medicine!” he said. It is important to note that Ayyadurai did not say the disease is man-made or a hoax. You should follow the guidelines from doctors, federal, state and local governments and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But what Ayyadurai did say is that some in the government are using the pandemic to frighten people into obedience. Think about what has transpired in less than a week’s time. We have handed control of nearly everything in our lives to the government. In many places, they are telling us when we can leave our homes and when we must return to them. They have decided what events or religious services we can attend, how many people are allowed to be there and which businesses are allowed to stay open. In the process, the global economy has crashed with the assistance of the media stirring everyone into a mass panic...
https://www.westernjournal.com/doctor-4-degrees-mit-warns-deep-state-using-coronavirus-fear-mongering-suppress-dissent/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune  .Research team has isolated the COVID-19 virus
by sunnybrook.ca ~ A team of researchers from Sunnybrook, McMaster University and the University of Toronto has isolated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)... the agent responsible for the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. Thanks to nimble collaboration, the team was able to culture the virus from two clinical specimens in a Level 3 containment facility. “We need key tools to develop solutions to this pandemic. While the immediate response is crucial, longer-term solutions come from essential research into this novel virus,” said Dr. Samira Mubareka, microbiologist and infectious diseases physician at Sunnybrook. The isolated virus will help researchers in Canada and across the world develop better diagnostic testing, treatments and vaccines, and gain a better understanding of SARS-CoV-2 biology, evolution and clinical shedding. “Researchers from these world-class institutions came together in a grassroots way to successfully isolate the virus in just a few short weeks,” said Dr. Rob Kozak, clinical microbiologist at Sunnybrook. “It demonstrates the amazing things that can happen when we collaborate.” Dr. Arinjay Banerjee, NSERC post-doctoral fellow at McMaster University, said he knows the collaboration won’t stop there. “Now that we have isolated the SARS-CoV-2 virus, we can share this with other researchers and continue this teamwork,” he said. “The more viruses that are made available in this way, the more we can learn, collaborate and share.” Congratulations to the researchers from these three Canadian institutions: Dr. Samira Mubareka and Dr. Rob Kozak of Sunnybrook and University of Toronto; Dr. Arinjay Banerjee and Dr. Karen Mossman of McMaster University. With gratitude to the CL3 team and Biosafety Officers.  https://sunnybrook.ca/research/media/item.asp?c=2&i=2069&f=covid-19-isolated-2020  ;
VIDEO:  https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6141138603001/#sp=show-clips.So Now What?
by WILLIAM MURCHISON{spectator.org } ~  This virus thing has gotten crazy. San Francisco … closed down due to the coronavirus’ spread?! A whole American city on hold? And other localities set for like privations?... loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s and commie-Bernie Sanders’ contemporaries may remember as I do, being one of them a Gregory Peck/Ava Gardner movie from 1959: On the Beach. Following a nuclear war, an unharmed American sub ventures to San Francisco for a look. There is only stillness; no one is in sight. No one. It gives one the willies to contemplate the shutdowns that government officials, here and abroad, are implementing or contemplating: so extended, so complete as to invite ridicule. Few seem to regard them as ridiculous. That, too, gives one the willies. We are entering an age nobody imagined just weeks ago. We do not know what lies at the end of the tunnel when the light is switched back on. There is little good in predictions. I suspect, even so, we are in for a massive mental reorientation as a nation, as a people. You don’t go through things like the shutdown of normal daily life without rethinking basic premises. Reorientation could be good for us, or it could be bad. I prefer, on the whole, half-full to half-empty glassware. How might we end up better? Rising above the hatred and hostility, the malice and power-grabbing, of the past half-century — I could go for that if it happened. Modifying the conditions responsible for that hatred and hostility — that would be good, too. Downsizing our politics and putting life in better perspective. It would make of America a different, perhaps a better, place. The presidential candidates, in their Sunday night debate, lacked anything useful to say about the sickness and the already unfolding national shutdown: likely because, as politicians generally do, they were looking at the short run and the bottom line. We have had enough it seems to me of short-running and bottom-lining. We need to think on what we’re about as a people, and on the legitimate uses of liberty. It would be a change, all right. It might even make easier the healing of life when COVID-19 is gone. The human condition — including the human medical condition — is tied up in the eternal questions, how shall I live, and how should I strive to die? No act of Congress or Supreme Court decision is likely to answer such questions...  https://https://spectator.org/so-now-what/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=33d2e92e08-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_17_02_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-33d2e92e08-104608113 ; /so-now-what/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=33d2e92e08-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_17_02_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-33d2e92e08-104608113   . 
Philip Haney's Death Not a Suicide
by Lloyd Billingsley{cms.frontpagemag.com } ~ Former Department of Homeland Security Whistleblower Philip Haney was found dead in Amador County, California, last month... Early reports said the death was due to a self-inflicted gunshot, but Haney’s friends in Congress say that isn’t so, with the support from a February 24 Coroner’s Investigation Update by the Amador sheriff’s office. As that report explains “there was misinformation immediately being put out that we have determined Mr. Haney’s death to be a suicide. This is not the case.” Mr. Haney was “located in a park and ride open area immediately adjacent to State Highway 16 near State Highway 124. Highway 16 is a busy state highway and used as a main travel route to and from Sacramento. The location is less than three miles from where he was living,” in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento. As  Michelle Mears noted in the California Globe, Haney’s relatives and friends did not believe he had killed himself. According to Kerry Picket in the Washington Examiner, Haney was “recently in contact with top officials about returning to work for the DHS.” As Haney explained in The Hill on May 5, 2016, the Department of Homeland Security ordered him “to delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS).” Haney described the campaign in See Something Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad. The Amador County Sheriff is cooperating with the FBI to analyze “documents, phone records and a lap top that were recovered from the scene and Mr. Haney’s RV.” The sheriff has also obtained “the firearm located at the scene” but has not revealed the type of weapon. A forensic autopsy has been scheduled and as Cheryl Chumley reported in the Washington Times, Haney’s friends in Congress are weighing in...  https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/03/philip-haneys-death-not-suicide-lloyd-billingsley ;  . 
.It's as Easy as ABC (Anybody But China)

Arnold Ahlert  In 1942, America began the Manhattan Project. It was driven by the fear that Nazi scientists were developing an atomic bomb and that Adolf Hitler was prepared to use it. Today, America needs a new Manhattan Project to respond to the reality that China — an enemy every bit as determined to rule the world as the Nazis were — controls the supply of 80% to 90% of U.S. antibiotics. And for those Americans who think the word “enemy” is too strong, the Chinese Communist Party’s media mouthpiece has boasted about that nation’s ability to impose pharmaceutical export controls that would push America into “the mighty sea of coronavirus.”
That media mouthpiece is a state-run agency known as Xinhua. It is now casting China as heroic for containing the virus as long as it did. “We should say righteously that the U.S. owes China an apology, the world owes China a thank you,” an editorial stated. That would be the same China that blatantly lied about when the outbreak began, ignored offers of outside help for weeks, and arrested whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang, forcing him to sign a letter saying he spread “untrue speech” about the danger. Li subsequently succumbed to the virus.In America, succumbing to communist thugs, to the point where loyalty and patriotism have been completely supplanted by the globalist agenda, has now reached catastrophic levels. It’s a catastrophe enabled by a self-anointed “New World Order” elitist class that no longer hides its contempt for ordinary Americans who’ve seen their cities and towns decimated by outsourcing leading to despair, homelessness, massive drug abuse, and now a communicable disease that threatens our entire way of life — even as they are told globalism is a “net benefit” for the nation.Net benefit? Ordinary Americans were supposed to be mollified by cheap consumer goods, while elitists amassed historically unprecedented levels of wealth. Moreover, those same elitists lectured us about how the nationalist agenda of the Trump administration was akin to Nazism, and that any hesitation to embrace globalism was xenophobic. Even now, despite this being the second virus originating in China (SARs emerged in 2003), our own media insists that referring to COVID-19 as “Wuhan virus,” the “Wuhan coronavirus,” or the “Chinese coronavirus” is racist.In the midst of a pandemic, it doesn’t get more intellectually or morally bankrupt than that. The hypocrisy is astounding: Many of the same media sources now browbeating Americans for their racism initially used precisely the same terms to describe the virus.So what changed? Politics.A media ostensibly concerned with the well-being of Americans is more concerned with undermining a Trump administration that has proved largely antithetical to the globalist agenda. An administration that facilitated the creation of millions of new jobs supposedly impossible to create, because the “new normal” of low expectations  professed by the scumbag/liar-nObama administration was said to be an immutable reality.And above all else, an administration that finally challenged the odious assertion by both parties that accommodating a totalitarian nation would eventually “democratize” it.It was all a lie. “Fact is, choosing to invest in China versus the United States is not a simple dollars-and-cents, bottom-line calculation,” explains columnist Curtis Ellis. “Certain ‘externalities’ enter into the equation. Externalities such as national security. Externalities such as the continued existence of the United States. Externalities such as the continued existence of freedom of thought, freedom of religion, and individual liberty in this world. By now it should be crystal clear to anyone but the willfully blind that the communist party ruling China holds and promotes values antithetical to our own.”Willfully blind? Willfully greedy, stupid, and corrupt is more like it. To the point where the massive theft of intellectual property, the “editing” of Hollywood entertainment, and the coerced silence of NBA players — to name only a handful of examples — is willfully granted in exchange for access to a billion Chinese consumers.And now, as many people are discovering for the first time, drug companies and their supply chains are an integral part of the sellout. One that has left us as vulnerable as any outright war or terrorist attack could. “I have no doubt,” retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told Fox News, “that they would consider weaponizing their dominance of the pharmaceuticals market if they felt that that would give them an advantage over us strategically.”The president is attempting to do something about it. On Friday, he declared a national emergency, fast-tracking testing for the virus, enlisting Walmart, Walgreens, Target, CVS, and others to facilitate the process. He is also  expected to announce an executive order that will tighten “Buy American” laws that would require federal agencies to purchase American-made pharmaceuticals and medical equipment.That may be a heavy lift. The last plant in the United States to manufacture the key ingredients for crucial antibiotics like penicillin was Bristol-Myers Squibb, which closed its factory in East Syracuse, New York, in 2004. Even then, American politicians knew of the possible consequences of outsourcing critical drug-supply chains. But even then, as now, national security — because this is all about national security — took a back seat to bottom-line considerations.“The coronavirus outbreak has been a wake-up call that we must combat America’s supply-chain vulnerabilities and dependence on China in critical sectors of our economy,” stated Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in response to Trump’s forthcoming order.Our entire nation has been turned upside down in a way that may prove as deleterious as 9/11 — if not more so — and that’s what eoff for worldwide “interconnectedness”) — is finally seen for what it truly is: a mortal threat to our constitutional republic.America will never be completely isolationist. However, going forward it might be useful to embrace a new trade and supply-chain strategy. One as easy as ABC:Anybody But China.   Utterly preposterous. Moreover, like so many others in his party, as well as their media lapdogs, the idea that politics “stops at the water’s edge” in times of crisis is officially dead.  ~The Patriot Posthttps://patriotpost.us/articles/69249?mailing_id=4925&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4925&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Wednesday News Executive Summary
Jordan Candler  Above the Fold

  • “GAG AND VOTE FOR IT ANYWAY”: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Senate will pass House coronavirus bill without changes (The Hill)

  • “WE’RE GOING BIG”: President Trump wants checks sent to Americans within next two weeks (The Daily Wire)

  • WORSE THAN 2008? Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warns virus could yield 20% jobless rate without action (Bloomberg)

  • TAX PAYMENTS POSTPONED: Treasury and IRS to delay tax payment deadline by 90 days (CNBC)

Government & Politics

  • BLOWOUT: loose lips liar-Joe Biden crushes commie-Bernie Sanders in primary sweep of Florida, Illinois, and Arizona (Fox News)

  • 2020 VISION: Trump officially secures Republican nomination (The Daily Wire)

National Security

  • CANNOT RISK AN OUTBREAK: U.S. to send back all asylum seekers at southern border (National Review)

  • RULE OF LAW: Border chief won’t hand over criminal illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities (Washington Examiner)

Culture & Heartland

  • AVERAGE OF DAILY ARRESTS DROPS BY 240:  Los Angeles releases more than 600 inmates, slashes arrests to “combat coronavirus” (The Daily Wire)

  • FOLLOWING SUIT: Philadelphia police stop some arrests to manage jail crowding during coronavirus pandemic (Washington Examiner)

Closing Arguments

    • POLICY: How coronavirus could change healthcare for the better (Washington Examiner)

    • POLICY: Governance in crisis: A guide to what the states can and can’t do about coronavirus (Washington Examiner)

    • HUMOR: Economic crisis averted as Mike Bloomberg vows to give $1 million to every American (The Babylon Bee)  

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President Trump White House 
Coronavirus Task Force Briefing 
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump, Vice-President Pence and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin lead the daily coronavirus briefing on COVID-19 mitigation efforts from the White House.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/17/president-trump-white-house-coronavirus-task-force-briefing-video/
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First Batch of Coronavirus Vaccines 
Sent for Human Testing
by Mikaela Mathews
{ christianheadlines.com } ~ Biotech company Moderna, based out of Massachusetts, has shipped its first batches of the COVID-19 vaccine for testing to the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases... According to Fox News, the vaccine will be tested on a group of 45 young, healthy human volunteers at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. Volunteers cannot be infected from the shots, and the purpose of the trial is to ensure that no worrisome side effects emerge. The company originally believed it would start testing in April, but recent discoveries made from Chinese scientists encouraged a faster turn-around time. “The speed with which we have produced these candidates builds very much on the investment in understanding how to develop vaccines for other coronaviruses,” said Richard Hatchett, CEO of a Norwegian-based company developing a COVID-19 vaccine. Scientists in China shared the virus’s genome sequence, which is called SARS-CoV-2, which has enabled other countries to continue the development of a vaccine. Though “prototype” pathogens had been researched in previous years, the work was shelved after SARS and MERS epidemics were contained. According to The  Guardian, “SARS-CoV-2 shares between 80% and 90% of its genetic material with the virus that caused SARS—hence its name.” Despite this speed, releasing a vaccine to the public will still take some time. The president has promised to release a vaccine by November, but the CDC has advised that safe testing and development requires upwards of 18 months. “Getting a vaccine that’s proven to be safe and effective in humans takes one at best about a third of the way to what’s needed for a global immunization program,” said global health expert Jonathan Quick. “Virus biology and vaccines technology could be the limiting factors, but politics and economics are far more likely to be the barrier to immunization.” Testing for a vaccine typically goes through three groups of people: first, a few healthy volunteers; second, several hundred people; and, third, several thousands of people to ensure that the vaccine is effective.   https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/mikaela-matthews/first-batch-of-coronavirus-vaccines-sent-for-human-testing.html?utm_source=ChristianHeadlines%20Daily&utm_campaign=Christian%20Headlines%20Daily%20-%20ChristianHeadlines.com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=3142055&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=518909562%20   

Doctor with 4 Degrees from MIT Warns 'Deep 
State' Using Coronavirus Fear-Mongering 
To Suppress Dissent
By Carmine Sabia 
{ westernjournal.com } ~ A decorated scientist with four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believes the coronavirus pandemic is being used by the “Deep State” for its own purposes... Shiva Ayyadurai said on Twitter that “fear-mongering” over the outbreak is being used to push an agenda. “As an MIT PhD in Biological Engineering who studies & does research nearly every day on the Immune System, the #coronavirus fear mongering by the Deep State will go down in history as one of the biggest fraud to manipulate economies, suppress dissent, & push MANDATED Medicine!” he said. It is important to note that Ayyadurai did not say the disease is man-made or a hoax. You should follow the guidelines from doctors, federal, state and local governments and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But what Ayyadurai did say is that some in the government are using the pandemic to frighten people into obedience. Think about what has transpired in less than a week’s time. We have handed control of nearly everything in our lives to the government. In many places, they are telling us when we can leave our homes and when we must return to them. They have decided what events or religious services we can attend, how many people are allowed to be there and which businesses are allowed to stay open. In the process, the global economy has crashed with the assistance of the media stirring everyone into a mass panic...
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Research team has isolated the COVID-19 virus
by sunnybrook.ca ~ A team of researchers from Sunnybrook, McMaster University and the University of Toronto has isolated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)... the agent responsible for the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. Thanks to nimble collaboration, the team was able to culture the virus from two clinical specimens in a Level 3 containment facility. “We need key tools to develop solutions to this pandemic. While the immediate response is crucial, longer-term solutions come from essential research into this novel virus,” said Dr. Samira Mubareka, microbiologist and infectious diseases physician at Sunnybrook. The isolated virus will help researchers in Canada and across the world develop better diagnostic testing, treatments and vaccines, and gain a better understanding of SARS-CoV-2 biology, evolution and clinical shedding. “Researchers from these world-class institutions came together in a grassroots way to successfully isolate the virus in just a few short weeks,” said Dr. Rob Kozak, clinical microbiologist at Sunnybrook. “It demonstrates the amazing things that can happen when we collaborate.” Dr. Arinjay Banerjee, NSERC post-doctoral fellow at McMaster University, said he knows the collaboration won’t stop there. “Now that we have isolated the SARS-CoV-2 virus, we can share this with other researchers and continue this teamwork,” he said. “The more viruses that are made available in this way, the more we can learn, collaborate and share.” Congratulations to the researchers from these three Canadian institutions: Dr. Samira Mubareka and Dr. Rob Kozak of Sunnybrook and University of Toronto; Dr. Arinjay Banerjee and Dr. Karen Mossman of McMaster University. With gratitude to the CL3 team and Biosafety Officers.   https://sunnybrook.ca/research/media/item.asp?c=2&i=2069&f=covid-19-isolated-2020  
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So Now What?
by WILLIAM MURCHISON
{ spectator.org } ~  This virus thing has gotten crazy. San Francisco … closed down due to the coronavirus’ spread?! A whole American city on hold? And other localities set for like privations?... loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s and commie-Bernie Sanders’ contemporaries may remember as I do, being one of them a Gregory Peck/Ava Gardner movie from 1959: On the Beach. Following a nuclear war, an unharmed American sub ventures to San Francisco for a look. There is only stillness; no one is in sight. No one. It gives one the willies to contemplate the shutdowns that government officials, here and abroad, are implementing or contemplating: so extended, so complete as to invite ridicule. Few seem to regard them as ridiculous. That, too, gives one the willies. We are entering an age nobody imagined just weeks ago. We do not know what lies at the end of the tunnel when the light is switched back on. There is little good in predictions. I suspect, even so, we are in for a massive mental reorientation as a nation, as a people. You don’t go through things like the shutdown of normal daily life without rethinking basic premises. Reorientation could be good for us, or it could be bad. I prefer, on the whole, half-full to half-empty glassware. How might we end up better? Rising above the hatred and hostility, the malice and power-grabbing, of the past half-century — I could go for that if it happened. Modifying the conditions responsible for that hatred and hostility — that would be good, too. Downsizing our politics and putting life in better perspective. It would make of America a different, perhaps a better, place. The presidential candidates, in their Sunday night debate, lacked anything useful to say about the sickness and the already unfolding national shutdown: likely because, as politicians generally do, they were looking at the short run and the bottom line. We have had enough it seems to me of short-running and bottom-lining. We need to think on what we’re about as a people, and on the legitimate uses of liberty. It would be a change, all right. It might even make easier the healing of life when COVID-19 is gone. The human condition — including the human medical condition — is tied up in the eternal questions, how shall I live, and how should I strive to die? No act of Congress or Supreme Court decision is likely to answer such questions...  https:// https://spectator.org/so-now-what/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=33d2e92e08-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_17_02_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-33d2e92e08-104608113  /so-now-what/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=33d2e92e08-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_17_02_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-33d2e92e08-104608113   

Philip Haney's Death Not a Suicide
by Lloyd Billingsley
{ cms.frontpagemag.com } ~ Former Department of Homeland Security Whistleblower Philip Haney was found dead in Amador County, California, last month... Early reports said the death was due to a self-inflicted gunshot, but Haney’s friends in Congress say that isn’t so, with the support from a February 24 Coroner’s Investigation Update by the Amador sheriff’s office. As that report explains “there was misinformation immediately being put out that we have determined Mr. Haney’s death to be a suicide. This is not the case.” Mr. Haney was “located in a park and ride open area immediately adjacent to State Highway 16 near State Highway 124. Highway 16 is a busy state highway and used as a main travel route to and from Sacramento. The location is less than three miles from where he was living,” in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento. As  Michelle Mears noted in the California Globe, Haney’s relatives and friends did not believe he had killed himself. According to Kerry Picket in the Washington Examiner, Haney was “recently in contact with top officials about returning to work for the DHS.” As Haney explained in The Hill on May 5, 2016, the Department of Homeland Security ordered him “to delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS).” Haney described the campaign in See Something Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad. The Amador County Sheriff is cooperating with the FBI to analyze “documents, phone records and a lap top that were recovered from the scene and Mr. Haney’s RV.” The sheriff has also obtained “the firearm located at the scene” but has not revealed the type of weapon. A forensic autopsy has been scheduled and as Cheryl Chumley reported in the Washington Times, Haney’s friends in Congress are weighing in...   https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/03/philip-haneys-death-not-suicide-lloyd-billingsley   
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It's as Easy as ABC (Anybody But China)
Arnold Ahlert  In 1942, America began the Manhattan Project. It was driven by the fear that Nazi scientists were developing an atomic bomb and that Adolf Hitler was prepared to use it. Today, America needs a new Manhattan Project to respond to the reality that China — an enemy every bit as determined to rule the world as the Nazis were — controls the supply of 80% to 90% of U.S. antibiotics. And for those Americans who think the word “enemy” is too strong, the Chinese Communist Party’s media mouthpiece has boasted about that nation’s ability to impose pharmaceutical export controls that would push America into “the mighty sea of coronavirus.”

That media mouthpiece is a state-run agency known as Xinhua. It is now casting China as heroic for containing the virus as long as it did. “We should say righteously that the U.S. owes China an apology, the world owes China a thank you,” an editorial stated. That would be the same China that blatantly lied about when the outbreak began, ignored offers of outside help for weeks, and arrested whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang, forcing him to sign a letter saying he spread “untrue speech” about the danger. Li subsequently succumbed to the virus.

In America, succumbing to communist thugs, to the point where loyalty and patriotism have been completely supplanted by the globalist agenda, has now reached catastrophic levels. It’s a catastrophe enabled by a self-anointed “New World Order” elitist class that no longer hides its contempt for ordinary Americans who’ve seen their cities and towns decimated by outsourcing leading to despair, homelessness, massive drug abuse, and now a communicable disease that threatens our entire way of life — even as they are told globalism is a “net benefit” for the nation.

Net benefit? Ordinary Americans were supposed to be mollified by cheap consumer goods, while elitists amassed historically unprecedented levels of wealth. Moreover, those same elitists lectured us about how the nationalist agenda of the Trump administration was akin to Nazism, and that any hesitation to embrace globalism was xenophobic. Even now, despite this being the second virus originating in China (SARs emerged in 2003), our own media insists that referring to COVID-19 as “Wuhan virus,” the “Wuhan coronavirus,” or the “Chinese coronavirus” is racist.

In the midst of a pandemic, it doesn’t get more intellectually or morally bankrupt than that. The hypocrisy is astounding: Many of the same media sources now browbeating Americans for their racism initially used precisely the same terms to describe the virus.

So what changed? Politics.

A media ostensibly concerned with the well-being of Americans is more concerned with undermining a Trump administration that has proved largely antithetical to the globalist agenda. An administration that facilitated the creation of millions of new jobs supposedly impossible to create, because the “new normal” of low expectations  professed by the scumbag/liar-nObama administration was said to be an immutable reality.

And above all else, an administration that finally challenged the odious assertion by both parties that accommodating a totalitarian nation would eventually “democratize” it.

It was all a lie. “Fact is, choosing to invest in China versus the United States is not a simple dollars-and-cents, bottom-line calculation,” explains columnist Curtis Ellis. “Certain ‘externalities’ enter into the equation. Externalities such as national security. Externalities such as the continued existence of the United States. Externalities such as the continued existence of freedom of thought, freedom of religion, and individual liberty in this world. By now it should be crystal clear to anyone but the willfully blind that the communist party ruling China holds and promotes values antithetical to our own.”

Willfully blind? Willfully greedy, stupid, and corrupt is more like it. To the point where the massive theft of intellectual property, the “editing” of Hollywood entertainment, and the coerced silence of NBA players — to name only a handful of examples — is willfully granted in exchange for access to a billion Chinese consumers.

And now, as many people are discovering for the first time, drug companies and their supply chains are an integral part of the sellout. One that has left us as vulnerable as any outright war or terrorist attack could. “I have no doubt,” retired Brig. Gen. John Adams told Fox News, “that they would consider weaponizing their domina

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Trump Declares National Emergency,
Dems Engage in Political Profiteering
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Thomas Gallatin  
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First Covid-19 Vaccine Code-Named 
MRNA-1273 Shot Given
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by Denise Simon 
{ founderscode.com } ~ At a news conference, President Donald Trump praised how quickly the research had progressed. Fauci noted that 65 days have passed since Chinese scientists shared the virus’ genetic sequence... He said he believed that was a record for developing a vaccine to test. This vaccine candidate, code-named mRNA-1273, was developed by the NIH and Massachusetts-based biotechnology company Moderna Inc. There’s no chance participants could get infected because the shots do not contain the coronavirus itself. It’s not the only potential vaccine in the pipeline. Dozens of research groups around the world are racing to create a vaccine against COVID-19. Another candidate, made by Inovio Pharmaceuticals, is expected to begin its own safety study next month in the U.S., China and South Korea. The Seattle experiment got underway days after the World Health Organization declared the new virus outbreak a pandemic because of its rapid global spread, which has infected more than 169,000 people and killed more than 6,500. AP reporter(s) witnessed the first human trial on Monday. Other medical procedures are underway in hundreds of forms to combat the Covid-19 outbreak. A very old drug developed by a scientist in 1934 for Bayer discovered chloroquine for malaria. It was widely used during World War ll and has been extensively used for SARS with excellent results. Its history goes back to Peru South America, where the indigenous people extracted the bark of the Cinchona trees and used the extract Chinchona officinalis to fight chills and fever in the seventeenth century. In 1633 this herbal medicine was introduced in Europe, where it was given the same use and also began to be used against malaria. We report on chloroquine, a 4-amino-quinoline, as an effective inhibitor of the replication of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in vitro. Chloroquine is a clinically approved drug effective against malaria. It was reported a few weeks ago that officials in China were not cooperating with other nations at the outset of Covid-19. That is only partially true. The U.S. has collaborated with scientists and medical experts in China since SARS and continues to do so with very positive results. Data from the drug’s studies showed ‘certain curative effect’ with ‘fairly good efficacy’. According to Sun, patients treated with chloroquine demonstrated a better drop in fever, improvement of lung CT images, and required a shorter time to recover compared to parallel groups. The percentage of patients with negative viral nucleic acid tests was also higher with the anti-malarial drug. Chloroquine has so far showed no obvious serious adverse reactions in the more than 100 participants in the trials. The China National Center for Biotechnology Development head Zhang Xinmin said that chloroquine is one of the three drugs that have a promising profile against the new coronavirus, reported China Daily. The remaining two drugs are anti-flu medicine favipiravir and Gilead’s investigational anti-viral candidate remdesivir.  Favipiravir is currently in a 70-patient trial in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, while remdesivir is under evaluation at more than ten medical institutions in Wuhan. In trials conducted in China, chloroquine appears to be useful for coronavirus disease 2019. Another form is Hydroxychloroquine.  Hydroxychloroquine is also presecribed for HIV, arthritis as well as advanced malaria and strains of coronavirus. It is a disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug DMARD. It regulates the activity of the immune system, which may be overactive in some conditions. A small 40 cents, that is $.40 a dose to make and is generally sold for $5.00 per dose.
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The President’s Job is to Protect Us
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By Christopher Chantrill
{ americanthinker.com } ~ One of my Maxims is that “the only warrant for government power is existential peril.” The problem is that most of the time there isn’t any existential peril, and so, if you are interested in power, you have to make it up... Thus, the Commies are coming, the Nazis are coming, the world is going to end -- because pollution or climate or plastic -- unless we act now. But occasionally a real existential peril comes along, like right now with the Wuhan Flu -- yeah, call me a racist, why dontcha -- and so the president gets up and acts like the protector of his people and declares a state of emergency. But some idiots are arguing about whether he acted too soon or too late. Our Democratic operatives with bylines decided it was racist to suspend air travel from China until they decided that using the wrong name for the virus was xenophobic. The technocratic cognoscenti in Europe in their wisdom reckoned that the best thing was to do nothing and let the epidemic take its course until it died out once the European population acquired “herd immunity.” But Boris Johnson in the UK suddenly did what the Brits call a “U-turn” on this. That’s because the job of the British prime minister is to protect the Brits from existential threats, human or viral. I suspect that when the Leader of the Nation is busily protecting the people from an existential threat it is not a good idea to be arguing about whether he acted too soon or too late. Because we herd animals will protect the leader that is acting to protect us. Indeed, it is usually not a good idea to criticize the sainted leader even after the emergency is over. Just try doing a bit of revisionism on Winston Churchill and FDR and see where it gets you. Right now, people are afraid of the Wuhan Peril, and we want to be protected. Our leaders and opinion makers are learning this the hard way because they were all carefully taught that the thing to hate and to fear was racism, sexism, toxic masculinity. Oh, and Third-World poverty. So it’s not surprising that our betters have suddenly decided that today’s problem is the xenophobia of people that call it the Wu Flu instead of COVID-19...
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First dose to be delivered Monday in clinical 
trial for potential COVID-19 vaccine
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by fox5dc.com ~ A clinical trial evaluating a vaccine designed to protect against the new coronavirus will begin Monday, according to a government official...  The first participant in the trial will receive the experimental vaccine on Monday, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the trial has not been publicly announced yet. The National Institutes of Health is funding the trial, which is taking place at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, the official said. Public health officials say it will take a year to 18 months to fully validate any potential vaccine. Testing will begin with 45 young, healthy volunteers with different doses of shots co-developed by NIH and Moderna Inc. There’s no chance participants could get infected from the shots, because they don’t contain the virus itself. The goal is purely to check that the vaccines show no worrisome side effects, setting the stage for larger tests. Dozens of research groups around the world are racing to create a vaccine as COVID-19 cases continue to grow. Importantly, they’re pursuing different types of vaccines — shots developed from new technologies that not only are faster to produce than traditional inoculations but might prove more potent. Some researchers even aim for temporary vaccines, such as shots that might guard people’s health a month or two at a time while longer-lasting protection is developed...   https://www.fox5dc.com/news/first-dose-to-be-delivered-monday-in-clinical-trial-for-potential-covid-19-vaccine   

loose lips liar-Joe Biden Lies About 
Coronavirus Testing To Make Trump Look Bad
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By Margot Cleveland
{ thefederalist.com } ~ At Sunday night’s debate, Democratic presidential contender loose lips liar-Joe Biden blatantly lied to the American public about the Trump administration’s handling of coronavirus testing in a pathetic attempt... to push the false narrative that a lack of testing has endangered Americans. “The World Health Organization offered the testing kits that they had available and to give it to us now,” loose lips liar-Biden proclaimed.” “We refused it. We didn’t want to buy them,” the Democratic front-runner claimed. loose lips liar-Biden’s claim was false on many fronts and had previously been debunked on at least two occasions. First, during a March 7, 2020 press briefing, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn made clear that there were no World Health Organization (WHO) “testing kits.” Hahn told reporters: “We’ve seen reports about a WHO test, and that WHO is distributing a diagnostic test to countries. And I want to be really clear about this: We’ve been in constant contact with WHO. The WHO does not have its own test that it is distributing globally. It has only posted on its website protocols from some test developers, including our own CDC.” During the question and answer period that followed, a reporter inquired whether the WHO actually developed a test. “So they don’t actually” develop tests, that is not “their expertise,” Hahn responded. Instead, as Hahn explained, the WHO “acts as an information exchange,” and “so if there’s information available regarding a test that’s put on their webpage so that others can, you know, look at that for technical assistance.” Azar then further corrected the press’s misunderstanding of the WHO rumor. A German lab, the FDA head explained, had “developed a recipe protocol for a lab-developed test and the WHO took that and put that out.” “That’s what’s often been called—misleadingly—the WHO test,” Azar said, adding that “they also got the CDC recipe and also put that out.”...   https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/17/joe-biden-lies-about-coronavirus-testing-to-make-trump-look-bad/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=d3573ba730-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-d3573ba730-83771801 

Here’s How Congress Can Help 
Defeat The Wuhan Virus
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By Chip Roy
{ thefederalist.com  } ~ Early Saturday morning, I voted against the liar-Pelosi-Mnuchin Wuhan virus legislation my colleagues and I had no time to debate, amend, or even read... In a time when we need to come together and do things the right way, we passed badly flawed legislation without doing our due diligence to ensure our solution does more harm than good. Where to start? The bill purports to help people by putting a massive mandate on small and medium-sized businesses while perpetuating the K-Street Corporate welfare cronyism Americans are sick of – exempting businesses over 500. Worse yet, the mandate was to be paid later through tax credits, and the tax credits would not even cover it all. This was a terrible mistake, and the Senate or the House, in its “technical corrections,” it is hurrying to the floor to clean up its mess ought to correct it. Small business owners have reached out to me to ask what we can do to help stop this so they won’t be hurt. In short, it does no good to mandate “paid leave” from a job that doesn’t exist because the business went under. To solve that problem, I suggest – and would have on Friday, had we had the chance to speak, let alone put forth amendments – offering very expansive and immediate small business loans, and other measures to keep businesses afloat through the negative impacts of government calls to stay home. Due to the action and recommendation of government leaders of all levels, we are facing massive slowdown for restaurants, retail, the arts, travel, hotels, and more. It is fully and wholly unsustainable for most. Therefore, we have a duty to find ways to inject capital and help them stay afloat – and tie any temporary sick leave requirement to the choice of the business to take the loan rather than through the force of penalty. We should get busy using tax relief. Be it with deferring tax filing or quarterly payments or otherwise to provide immediate relief. For the unfortunate folks who, starting this week, are likely getting laid off due directly to government action, particularly in the service industry, we are going to have to find ways besides taxes to provide additional relief. It’s not clear the Unemployment Insurance relief in the House bill will sufficiently or effectively deal with the magnitude of the impact on service industry workers...
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Western media parroting Chinese 
Communist Party propaganda
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by Becket Adams
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ China is engaged in a wide-scale propaganda effort to convince the world that it is not responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic... portraying itself with carefully distributed disinformation as being the most proactive, intelligent, and responsible of the world superpowers. And many in America's free press are happy to help China gaslight the entire world. “China Bought the West Time. The West Squandered It,” reads the headline to an opinion article published Friday by the New York Times. Earlier, on Thursday, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow hosted reporter Donald McNeil, who explained that China has had “enormous success in beating down its epidemic” because of its advancements in healthcare technology, testing, and mandatory quarantines. Maddow thanked McNeil at the end of the segment for explaining so convincingly the “distance between” what China has done to fight COVID-19 and “what we’re preparing for.” Later, on social media, the Maddow show shared a clip of the segment with the headline “How coronavirus testing works in a country that takes the problem seriously.” Elsewhere this week, the Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum asked on social media, “China has reacted to the outbreak of coronavirus in Italy by sending aid. The U.S. has reacted by suspending flights. Who is the superpower?” Let’s get the facts straight. COVID-19 has spread to more than 120 countries, claiming more than 5,000 lives, precisely because of the Chinese government’s arrogance and incompetence. Chinese authorities knew about the virus in December of last year when it first appeared in the city of Wuhan. Instead of taking cautious measures and sharing what they knew about the disease with the rest of the world, China’s government engaged in a massive cover-up, hoping that maybe it would all just go away...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/western-media-parroting-chinese-communist-party-propaganda   

The United States is still too reliant on oil
by Varsha Koduvayur
{ fdd.org } ~ Oil prices have been cratering in the wake of Saudi Arabia’s decision to ramp up production and offer customers a discount for its crude... A decade ago, that would have been welcome news for the United States. But now, as the US oil industry grows — transforming the United States into one of the top exporters — the crash in prices threatens to cause as much pain as relief. This underscores an important dynamic: The United States continues to remain too reliant on oil. Saudi Arabia’s decision to open its taps comes after talks with OPEC and non-OPEC producers, led by Russia, collapsed last week. Prices had already been sliding dangerously as coronavirus fears battered global demand for oil. Then Saudi Arabia escalated things when it slashed the price of its exports by $6 to $8 per barrel and announced it will also increase production by 2.5 million barrels per day by April 1. Brent crude, the international benchmark oil price, fell by more than 9% last week to $45.27 a barrel when OPEC and non-OPEC members failed to agree on a deal. And the day after Saudi Arabia announced its price war, US crude prices toppled to $31.13 per barrel, notching its worst one-day loss since 1991.While the global decline in oil prices will certainly cause pain for both Saudi Arabia and Russia, its impact on US oil producers, especially many of the smaller shale producers, could be especially severe. Even major companies like Chevron and Exxon saw their stocks fall, while Occidental Petroleum — which took on significant debt to acquire a different US producer in 2019 — announced a major cut to its dividend. The Trump administration is surely sympathetic to the plight of US shale producers suffering from decisions made in Saudi Arabia and Russia — both of whom would like nothing better than to see their US competitors go under. President Trump has made promoting America’s new-found energy independence a major priority, and his vitriol against  OPEC is well-known. It wouldn’t be surprising if the White House sought federal aid for shale companies buffeted by the price fallout. While such a move would be welcome amongst hurting shale producers and the tens of thousands of people that the industry employs, it would be a stopgap measure, at best. The shale revolution has been good for America, but it has only reduced — not ended — our reliance on foreign producers. As Riyadh and Moscow just demonstrated, authoritarian regimes overseas still have the capability to wield the oil weapon against the United States, albeit with low prices now instead of high prices. If the United States really wants to attain energy independence, becoming a net exporter of oil isn’t enough. What America needs is a comprehensive vision for energy security, one that goes beyond fossil fuel independence...
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Trump Declares National Emergency, Dems Engage in Political Profiteering
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Thomas Gallatin  “I am officially declaring a national emergency,” President Donald Trump said on Friday as he works to address the growing coronavirus pandemic. “The action that I am taking will open up access to $50 billion in our shared fight against this disease.” Trump noted that the primary goal is to slow the spread of the virus and that “no resources will be spared, nothing whatsoever.”

The markets surged upon the news, gaining 9% Friday. However, as we go to press this morning, stocks have plunged again, erasing Friday’s gains. Until the pandemic is under control, market volatility looks to be the new normal.

In the meantime, Trump’s emergency declaration frees up billions in financial assistance for states and local authorities, while the administration furthers COVID-19 testing via a combination of public and private cooperation. As The Wall Street Journal reports, “Roche, the drug company, has developed a test that received rapid FDA approval. Google is developing a website that Americans will be able to consult to see if their symptoms seem to require testing. If they do, then they will be able to drive to retailers like Walmart and Walgreens that are making their parking lots available for drive-through tests that involve a nasal swab. The samples will then be shipped to Quest and LabCorp, private labs that will assay the results and deliver them back to patients in 24 hours if all goes as planned.”

Also over the weekend, with a 363-40 vote, the House passed its rushed emergency COVID-19 bailout bill. Unfortunately, the legislation once again demonstrated just what craven political profiteers Democrats are. Never let a crisis go to waste. This was typified by Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to sneak in $1 billion in abortion-related funding, a move that had even Leftmedia pundit Joy Reid asking, “What does that have to do with COVID-19?”

Eventually, the abortion-funding loophole was stripped from the bill, but the legislation needs to have a lot more removed. Ironically, the bill will end up hurting small businesses, the very businesses that will likely be in most need of financial assistance, not added expenses. For example, Erick Erickson notes, “In addition to using this COVID-19 situation to spend money on things that are absolutely not related to it, House Democrats are insisting on [mandatory] paid leave. But the Democrats are exempting businesses with more than 500 employees. That puts the massive burden on small businesses that do not have the capacity to [afford mandatory paid leave].” An amendment now exempts businesses with fewer than 50 employees.

In short, the legislation is the usual swamp concoction of needed emergency funding combined with Big Government welfare expansions. The bill now heads to the Senate, where we hope majority Republicans will pump the brakes on the Democrats’ political profiteering. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set a measured tone, stating, “Senators will need to carefully review the version just passed by the House. But I believe the vast majority of Senators in both parties will agree we should act swiftly to secure relief for American workers, families, and small businesses.”   ~The Patriot Post

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The Social Distancing and Quarantine Quagmire
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Mark Alexander  
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FCC's Carr Hits scumbag/liar-Schiff 
for Secret Subpoenas
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by newsmax.com ~ FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr is seeking answers from House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff about his use of secret subpoenas to obtain cellphone records of Rudy Giuliani... House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes and journalist John Solomon during President Donald Trump’s impeachment hearing. Last Thursday, Carr sent Schiff a five-page letter demanding answers about the unusual subpoena activity. “Chairman scumbag/liar-Schiff has been collecting Americans’ private call records through a secret & partisan process. He even published some of them in the Impeachment Report,” Carr tweeted last week along with a copy of his letter. “These sensitive records are protected by federal law. His conduct raises serious concerns & I’ve asked for answers. By proceeding in secret, scumbag/liar-Schiff deprived Americans — from private citizens to his political opponents to a journalist — of their legal right to go to court and seek to maintain the confidentiality of their sensitive call records. “As a country, are we comfortable with one political party in Congress having the unilateral & unchecked power to secretly obtain & publicize the confidential call records of any private citizen, journalist, or government official? Chairman scumbag/liar-Schiff has been doing exactly that.” scumbag/liar-Schiff published Nunes’ phone records in the committee’s sweeping impeachment report, indicating that Nunes had multiple communications with key figures in the inquiry: Giuliani, and Giuliani’s Soviet-born associate Lev Parnas, who has been indicted on campaign finance charges. The records also show Giuliani was in communication with Solomon, a conservative opinion columnist. scumbag/liar-Schiff “didn’t notify his targets, and Republican committee members were barred from telling the public what they knew,” Strassel wrote. “Worse, he deceived one of his targets...   https://www.newsmax.com/us/schiff/2020/03/16/id/958608/?oRef=vuukle   

Pompeo Conveyed ‘Strong U.S. Objections’ 
to Beijing Over COVID-19 Accusations
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By Humeyra Pamuk
{ freebeacon.com } ~ A war of words between China and the United States showed no signs of let up on Monday, with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a phone call with a top Chinese diplomat... expressing "strong U.S. objections" over what Washington sees as Beijing’s efforts to shift blame for the spread of the coronavirus. Ties between the world’s top two economies, already complicated due to issues including trade, intellectual property rights as well as press freedoms, have further been tested by the outbreak of coronavirus, which causes the sometimes fatal, highly contagious respiratory illness COVID-19. "Secretary Pompeo conveyed strong U.S. objections to PRC efforts to shift blame for COVID-19 to the United States," Morgan Ortagus, State Department spokeswoman said in a statement about Pompeo’s call with Yang Jiechi, director of the Office of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China.  "The Secretary stressed that this is not the time to spread disinformation and outlandish rumors, but rather a time for all nations to come together to fight this common threat," Ortagus said. The United States on Friday summoned the Chinese ambassador to protest against comments by Beijing suggesting the U.S. military might have brought the coronavirus to Wuhan. David Stilwell, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, delivered a very "stern representation" to China’s ambassador Cui Tiankai.  Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday that in the phone call Yang told Pompeo that attempts to smear China’s efforts to control the coronavirus "will not succeed" and that actions that harmed China’s interests would be retaliated against. The coronavirus, which emerged in China late last year, has spread around the world, upended many countries’ daily lives, pummeled financial markets, brought flights to a standstill, shut down schools and forced the postponement of almost all gatherings including sports and arts events. Globally over 174,100 have been infected and nearly 6,700 have died. U.S. death toll reached 71, with more than 4,100 people having tested positive for the disease...   https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/pompeo-conveyed-strong-u-s-objections-to-beijing-over-covid-19-accusations/?utm_source=actengage&utm_campaign=FreedomMail&utm_medium=email   

Kudlow Explains $800 Billion in Options for 
Direct Financial Infusion to Middle Class
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ National Economic Council (NEC) Director Larry Kudlow held an impromptu press conference to describe what sectors of the U.S. economy may need direct financial assistance to bridge revenue gaps... from mandated government policy. The stock market is not the U.S. economy. Calling this type of financial assistance a “bailout” is not a fair term considering the financial impact was created by government instruction. Government orders to shut down restaurants creates a financial loss for restaurants who also have bills and payroll obligations to meet. These types of affected businesses will need immediate assistance. Airlines, hotels, resorts, private parks, gyms, restaurants and various entertainment companies /industries may also need a direct infusion of cash or deferred tax payment to compensate for financial losses. Again, these businesses have been impacted by government ordering their closure. Depending on the size of the business, the need for gap funds may be urgent.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/16/kudlow-explains-800-billion-in-options-for-direct-financial-infusion-to-middle-class/  
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COVID-19 blasts the Chinese economy
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by Derek Scissors
{ aei.org } ~ How serious is the COVID-19 outbreak? It turned China honest. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) described January-February economic activity as nothing less than a depression... A short depression to be sure — March and April will be better. And they will be presented by the NBS as better than they actually are. But China did the world a service by being realistic today. The NBS was more willing to be candid than economists Reuters polled less than two weeks ago. As a group, they predicted GDP would grow 3.5 percent in the first quarter. Just slightly off. Industrial output fell 13.5 percent through February. The services index fell 13 percent. So much for the good news. Exports dropped 16 percent, retail sales 20.5 percent, fixed asset investment 24.5 percent. Most shocking, the NBS admitted one measure of unemployment topped six percent. In a post here at the end of February, I guessed GDP would contract 2.4 percent. That was too cautious. March will be stronger, but not nearly enough to achieve only a 2.4-percent contraction. Yet the policy response has been muted. When the global financial crisis hit, bank lending jumped more than 30 percent. In January-February, it rose 12 percent. One reason for this is a much larger loan base — China is heavily leveraged and can’t react as thoughtlessly as in 2009. Another is simply that it’s hard to seek or offer new credit with people confined to their homes. But Beijing also knows this will pass, soon. There has been debate over whether a very sharp, V-shaped recovery is wishful thinking. With many producers and consumers entirely shut down in February, even partial reopening is V-shaped. It won’t be business as usual in a month, but April will continue the upward trend from the second half of March. Over the course of the second quarter, international partners will become the main economic problem. As with China, it would have been helpful if the US and others were not setting extremely low policy interest rates and/or running huge fiscal deficits before COVID-19 hit, since the impact of doing so is now smaller. Still, any stimulus is limited in this situation. GDP measures economic activity and COVID-caused restrictions are designed to curb or halt activity. If such restrictions spread across the globe to protect public health, everyone else’s GDP will plunge as well. This will feed back to slow China after its spring burst. Thankfully, GDP remains overrated as a measure of prosperity. The Communist Party was stunningly honest about the awful numbers because the blow to prosperity was only short-term. January and February ensure true GDP growth will be negative the first half of the year but, by June, the economy will be far better than now for ordinary people. Warning: editorializing ahead. The productivity of American workers will return by this summer. The depth of our financial system is unchanged. Our land provides abundant food and energy. China’s economy will rally soon, and then our economy will rally more strongly than that.   https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/covid-19-blasts-the-chinese-economy/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkdWaE9UTXpZakpsT0RjdyIsInQiOiJnYlQxOWtYXC9EUzh6dFllODJORytlTDN4c0xNNXYxeUdFU05ZY3Z0YW5yb3NMamxrU3FHUVZyUGtmNm9LSkxudkpZZlBOXC9qR2lTeSticytDendGRXErXC9JcGNyUlJiR1pqUjhnaVwvb3dLcW9oNnFHU2NlZUN3QmFTeTVXVW5hUUsifQ%3D%3D   
The plan for the internal destruction 
of the U.S.A. was way too easy
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{ renewamerica.com } ~ The reality that the Republic of the United States of America is under assault and that we are a gnat's eyelash away from losing our country – and much of the rest of the world... to the Communist Luciferian Left comes as no surprise to many of us. If there was still any doubt that the purpose of our adversaries is that takeover, one need only look at their latest effort to create fear and mayhem over a "new" disease that appears to cause far fewer deaths than the more well-known and experienced flu. However, the Leftists' current campaign to tout this recent strain of Coronavirus one of many which we've experienced as the 'common cold' for hundreds of years has pushed populations of humans off the rails and into the cold unforgiving arms of insanity. Both men and women are fighting each other over "provisions" in stores. The latest manufactured world-hysteria has caused people to buy and hoard toilet paper, napkins, other paper goods and bottled water in such vast quantities that the manufacturers of said product have been unable to keep up with the demand. Markets are being gutted of foodstuffs in a panic mode that I've never seen before. People are physically fighting inside stores over packages of the aforementioned "white gold" TP, while others are simply stealing the product from others' shopping carts and then running away with their ill-gotten prizes...
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China's Real Disease: Not Coronavirus
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by Gordon G. Chang
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Last July, five American analysts who have been consistently wrong told us "China is not an enemy." Actually, this time they were technically right. China's communism is not an enemy. It is the enemy... After the coronavirus pandemic subsides, Americans should not forget Beijing's malicious campaign against their country. For more than a month, the central government's foreign ministry and the Communist Party's Global Times have been trying to tar the Trump administration. The campaign culminated in a series of tweets from rising Beijing star Zhao Lijian, foreign ministry spokesman and deputy director general of the ministry's Information Department. On March 12, in a tweet, he accused U.S. officials of being "immoral." Hours before, he had tweeted that "patient zero" was in the U.S. and suggested that the U.S. Army had "brought the epidemic to Wuhan" -- intimating that America was conducting germ warfare. Also that day, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, Zhao's boss, twisted testimony of Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to try to show that the coronavirus outbreak had started in America. President Donald J. Trump, in his Rose Garden press conference the next day, March 13, downplayed the overtly hostile messages. He first noted his conversations with Chinese ruler Xi Jinping and then said, referring to Chinese leaders, "they know where it came from." Actually, it is worse if Chinese officials in fact knew where the coronavirus originated. In this case, these officials, by going out of their way to blame the U.S., were demonstrating once again the inherent hostility of their system to America...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15745/coronavirus-china-communism   
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The Social Distancing and Quarantine Quagmire
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Mark Alexander  I have spent more time on conference calls in the last week than in any week since the 9/11 Islamist attack on our nation. Most of those conversations have been on the grim side of the balance sheet. But let me reiterate, what causes me most heartburn right now is the impact the “viral fear pandemic” and the economic realities of trying to mitigate the actual threat is having on working men and women and their families.

That being said, there has been a lot of social-media misinformation about a “Stafford Act” presidential declaration of a “national quarantine” for most “nonessential” workers nationwide. Allow me to dispel that rumor, and to clarify the purpose of the current quarantines and “social distancing” measures — the motives of which are to prevent overwhelming our medical-response capabilities.

On Friday, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency as authorized by the Stafford Act, an important measure supporting the government and private-sector response to the COVID-19 epidemic in the U.S. This was a major step to reducing government regulatory and bureaucratic barriers to response and recovery, and it provides significant economic assurances for state and local governments and businesses nationwide. That was an important measure, and while there are no “good options” for dealing with this epidemic, some options are better than others, and the administration continues to implement those options.

For context, as I have written previously, the notion of containing the WuFlu epidemic is absurd. It was nationwide by February. And, to be clear, infectious-disease deaths associated with COVID-19 could far exceed the 2017-18 flu season, when the CDC estimated the U.S. flu death toll was 80,000.

About that “presidential quarantine”? There is NO proposed presidential declaration of a national quarantine, much less any Stafford Act or constitutional authority for such. Quarantines have obviously and necessarily been in the range of discussions for the last three weeks — and have been part of the pandemic table-top planning exercises for three decades. Because of misinformation circulated on social media – most likely disseminated by Chinese or Russian directorates of disinformation, in recent days some people have declared they have a “friend of a friend” who has a direct line to the White House or Pentagon. Nonsense.

The National Security Council released a statement refuting the misinformation yesterday: “There is no national lockdown. The CDC has and will continue to post the latest guidance on #COVID19 #coronavirus.”

For the record, such a “national quarantine” would be exponentially more economically devastating than the current state- and local-mandated measures, and the Trump national-security team is, appropriately, more leaving decisions about what to shutter and where, to state and local governments. The administration is rightly concerned that any centralized “one size fits all” approach would not be effective.

To that end, five states took additional measures over the weekend to close restaurants and bars — and that is how these decisions should be made. But it should be noted that state quarantine declarations could significantly impede commutes between states.

Accelerating the “national quarantine” rumor was a revised CDC guidance with more restrictive recommendations for group gatherings. But what most set of the misinformation bomb were remarks by the highly respected director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who also serves as the administration’s spokesman for the epidemic response.

According to Dr. Fauci: “I think Americans should be prepared that they are going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing. We feel that with rather stringent mitigation and containment, without necessarily complete lockdown, we would be able to prevent ourselves from getting to where, unfortunately, Italy is now. … With regard to domestic travel bans, we always talk about it, consider everything. But I can tell you that has not been seriously considered, doing travel bans in the country. … I don’t see that right now or in the immediate future. Everybody has got to get involved in distancing themselves socially. … Everything is on the table. Right now, myself personally, I wouldn’t go to a restaurant. I just wouldn’t because I don’t want to be in a crowded place.”

Dr. Fauci had earlier said, “I would like to see a dramatic diminution of personal interaction. … Whatever it takes to do that, that’s what I would like to see. … The virus is not a mathematical formula. There are going to be people who are young who are going to wind up getting seriously ill. So, protect yourself.”

He noted, “For most people, the coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. … The vast majority of people recover. People with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three weeks to six weeks to recover.”

Regarding the notion that the recommendations are overkill or overreacting, he added, “If you think you’re in line with the outbreak, you’re already three weeks behind. So you’ve got to be almost overreacting a bit to keep up with it. … People need to understand that things will get worse before they get better. … What we’re trying to do is to make sure they don’t get to the worst-case scenario.”

Dr. Fauci is an academician/physician and government-agency head — which is to say his views, while very informed from the medical perspective, are not tempered by other realities, like the economic implications for American workers and their families.

To better understand the motives behind “self-quarantines” and “social distancing,” these measures serve primarily two objectives.

First, the measures are NOT to “contain” the virus. It is assumed that about half of Americans will contract the coronavirus variant causing COVID-19 illness, and a fraction of those will require significant medical attention. Fauci’s reference to what has happened in Italy is a reference to the spike of those requiring medical attention, which overwhelmed Italy’s domestic medical capabilities.

Thus, the objective of increasing individual isolation here is to “flatten the infection curve” in order to retard the exponential rate of spread — how fast we get it — and thus not reduce the infections but spread the demand on our ability to provide medical attention over a longer period of time.

To be clear, the isolation measures being taken by citizens at higher risk — those over age 60 and those with medical conditions that make recovery more difficult — will prevent infections. But again, the coronavirus variant causing COVID-19 illness will remain in circulation nationwide for a long time, especially if it is not slowed by warmer weather as is often the case with seasonal flu epidemics. Wide distribution of effective vaccines is still at least 8-10 months out, if not longer.

The second motive behind increasing individual isolation is equally important. Retarding the rate of infectious spread allows more time to develop and ramp up medical-treatment protocols.

The key question about “hunkering down” is, for how long? Are we going to flatten the infectious-spread curve so long that we flatline the economy?

Here is what I can tell you for sure. Donald Trump has more business experience than any president in a century. As I noted above, while there are no “good options” for dealing with this epidemic, some options are better than others, and this president and his administration understand that as well as any president in my lifetime.

Moving forward, as Trump declared last week, “Everybody has to be vigilant and has to be careful. But be calm.” I would add for those who are in judicious contact with others, maintain an infectious and confident smile, and pass it along!

(Visit our updated COVID-19 contagion preparedness and response resource page, “WuFlu and You,” and see our related pages.)  

~The Patriot Post

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Getting Serious About U.S. Nuclear Power
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Thomas Gallatin  
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DOJ Drops Rosenstein and Mueller’s Nonsense 
Case Against Russian Company Concord LLC
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Almost everyone who researched the substance behind Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller’s heavily promoted Russian indictments knew the underlying claims were centered on the thinnest of evidence... few Facebook memes were used to accuse Russian company Concord LLC of violating FARA and FEC election laws. In July,2018, Robert Mueller asked a federal judge in Washington for an order that would protect the handover of voluminous evidence to lawyers for Concord Management and Consulting LLC, one of three companies and 13 Russian nationals charged in a February 2018 indictment. They are accused of producing propaganda, posing as U.S. activists and posting political content on social media as so-called trolls to encourage strife in the U.S. Indeed, to an incurious media, a Russian catering company posting Facebook memes might sound like a good justification for a vast Russian election interference prosecution; however, when Concord & the accused Russians show up in court and request to see the evidence against them, well, the prosecutors might just have a problem. It’s that problem that dogged the Mueller prosecution since 2018. Today, predictably and finally, the DOJ dropped the nonsense case...
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San Francisco Initiates Forced Quarantine of
all Residents, All Hours, Effective Midnight
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ San Francisco has skipped the interim mitigation efforts and has announced a forced quarantine of all residents inside their homes 24-hours-a-day for the next three weeks... A totalitarian dream. All residents must remain confined inside their homes or residences and no-one will be permitted outside except for emergency services or monitored visits to the grocery stores. The order remains in effect until April 7, 2020, and may be extended. [….] Mayor London Breed announced what she calls a “defining moment” in U.S. response to the pandemic. Beginning at 12 AM, all residents within the city can only leave home for doctor’s appointments or runs to the grocery store. It’s the strictest new policy enacted in the nation, and matches the current rules in Italy … which has been the 2nd hardest-hit country in the world. The Mayor says the rule will remain in effect for at least the next 3 weeks. In addition, to the city shut down, 6 Bay Area counties are telling residents to “shelter in place.” That means … unless your work falls under the list of “essential businesses,” you’ve been ordered to stay home.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/16/it-begins-san-francisco-initiates-forced-quarantine-of-all-residents-all-hours-effective-midnight/ 

Judge Cites Coronavirus as Reason for
Blocking Trump Admin Food Stamp
Work Requirements
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by KATHERINE RODRIGUEZ
{ breitbart.com } ~ An scumbag/liar-nObama-appointed federal judge blocked a Trump administration rule that would have tightened work requirements for food stamps... citing the coronavirus pandemic as the reason she made her decision. D.C. District Court Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell granted a preliminary injunction blocking the recent Trump administration rule on food stamps, which the USDA estimates would have reduced federal spending by $7.9 billion over five years and gradually weaned 755,000 people off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the government program in charge of food stamps.“Especially now, as a global pandemic poses widespread health risks, guaranteeing that government officials at both the federal and state levels have flexibility to address the nutritional needs of residents and ensure their well-being through programs like SNAP, is essential,” Howell wrote in her ruling, according to HuffPost. A 14-state coalition, two major cities, and the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia have all sued the Trump administration over its rule to stop states from providing food stamps to long-term unemployed residents. Under the “able-bodied” provision in the rule, Americans who are not caring for a dependent younger than six years old would only be eligible for food stamps if they are employed or enrolled in a workforce training program. “The waivers that the Rule curtails are critical to ensuring access to food for low-income people who live in areas with limited employment opportunities,” read the complaint filed by the 14 states and New York City and Washington, DC. “If implemented, the Rule will have a drastic impact on Plaintiffs and their residents by depriving between 688,000 and 850,000 vulnerable Americans of much-needed nutritional assistance.”...  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/14/judge-cites-coronavirus-as-reason-for-blocking-trump-admin-food-stamp-work-requirements/ 

Trump: US Economy ‘May Be’ 
Headed For Recession
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by CHUCK ROSS
President Donald Trump on Monday said the United States “may be” headed for a recession as the economy slows to a crawl amid the coronavirus epidemic... “Is the U.S. economy heading into a recession?” a reporter asked Trump at a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House. “Well, it may be,” Trump said, adding: “We’re not thinking in terms of recession. We’re thinking in terms of the virus.”  Economists have increasingly predicted a global recession. Goldman Sachs issued a forecast  Sunday that the U.S. economy will shrink by 5% in the second quarter. Trump predicted a robust recovery later in 2020. “I think there’s a tremendous pent up demand, both in terms of the stock market and in terms of the economy,” he said. “Once this goes away, once this goes through and we’re done with it, I think we’re going to see a tremendous surge.”
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The Struggle for Israel’s Jewish Soul
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By Prof. Efraim Karsh & Maj. Gen. Gershon Hacohen
{ besacenter.org } ~ The possibility of an Israeli minority government that relies on the Joint Arab List underscores the clear and present danger of accommodating political parties and movements that reject the existence of the Jewish state... and propagate Israel’s transformation into a Palestinian Arab Muslim state. From its outset, the Zionist movement was committed to full civil and religious equality of the non-Jewish minority in the future Jewish state as stipulated in the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the League of Nations mandate. According to a draft constitution of the prospective Jewish state, prepared by Ze’ev Jabotinsky in 1934, Arabs and Jews were to share all rights and duties including military and civil service; Hebrew and Arabic were to enjoy the same legal standing; and “in every cabinet where the prime minister is a Jew, the vice-premiership shall be offered to an Arab and vice versa.” Echoing this vision, about a decade later David Ben-Gurion avowed that “one should not even contemplate a Jewish state that lacks full and absolute equality, political, civil, and national, for all of its residents and citizens…. In a Jewish state, an Arab could be elected prime minister or president, if suitable for the post.” Manifested inter alia by Israel’s Proclamation of Independence May 14, 1948, which granted “complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex” and urged the nascent state’s Arab citizens “to participate in the upbuilding of the state on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions,” this ultraliberal and inclusive outlook was predicated on the assumption—underpinning the essence of all nation-states—of its citizens’ acceptance of its legitimacy and their abidance by its laws, rules, and regulations. In the case of the Arab-Jewish conflict this meant acquiescence of Israel’s Arab citizens to their minority status in Israel; that is, in the national home of the Jewish people as postulated by the 1922 mandate of the League of Nations—the UN’s predecessor as representative of the will of the international community—which tasked Britain with facilitating the establishment of this national home. In Ben-Gurion’s words: “A Jewish state does not only mean Jewish majority in that state—it also concerns the state’s purpose: it will be a state not only of and for its citizens, but a state whose mission is to ingather the exiles and to concentrate and ensconce them in the homeland.” By way of attaining this goal, Israel passed the Law of Return, which grants Jews, wherever they are, the right to citizenship should they choose to make Israel their home, as well as specific legislation aimed at safeguarding Israel’s Jewish character, notably Basic Law: The Knesset (Article 7A). It stipulated that...  https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israel-jewish-soul/?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=b5237c9f77-MEF_Karsh_2020_03_16_10_43&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-b5237c9f77-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-b5237c9f77-33703665&mc_cid=b5237c9f77&mc_eid=f33b9e6c12   
Billionaire scumbag-George Soros 
Funding Prosecutorial Takeover
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By David A. Keene
{ americanactionnews.com } ~ Billionaire “progressive” scumbag-George Soros has been spending millions of dollars around the nation to elect state and local prosecutors... as part of an on-going campaign to radically transform law enforcement in the United States and weaponize the law to use it against those who won’t go along with the progressive agenda. He’s enjoyed some success at the county level in Virginia, in Chicago and at the state level in Missouri, New York and California. scumbag-Soros backed prosecutors often refuse to enforce existing drug and immigration laws as well as other criminal laws they view as “unfair” or “discriminatory.” The infamous Jesse Smollet case in Chicago has proved an embarrassment to scumbag-Soros-backed Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx – because she wanted to let Smollett off with hardly a slap on the wrist. New York Attorney General Letitia James, elected with scumbag-Soros’s backing has been leading a jihad against the National Rifle Association – which she promised during her campaign to “take down” if elected. These and other cases should serve as a warning to voters: allowing such candidates into office is dangerous both to the rule-of-law and to those who dare disagree with the “progressive” agenda. Another scumbag-Soros backed candidate, St. Louis, Missouri’s chief prosecutor Kimberly Gardner elected in 2016 investigated and forced Republican Governor Eric Greitens out of office on what, it turns out, were fabricated charges. Her abuse of the prosecutorial powers she was allowed to exercise as the result of her electoral victory has been perhaps the most serious to date and illustrates to what lengths scumbag-Soros’s acolytes will go to destroy their enemies. Gardner had won an indictment of the Governor for felony invasion of privacy. Greitens allegedly took pictures of his semi-naked girlfriend without her permission – and threatened to release them if she ever talked about their affair. Greitens had admitted to the affair, but denied the charges. It turned out that Gardner’s hand-picked investigators she had fired the career investigators working for her office when she came in had reached out to the girlfriend and insisted though she didn’t think he had ever taken such pictures that they had them. It turned out that there were no pictures or if there were the prosecution didn’t have them or any other proof that what they alleged had even taken place. The charges and the publicity, however, forced the Governor to resign two years into his four year term, effectively reversing the wishes of Missouri voters and destroying his political career. Last year Gardner was forced to withdraw the indictment and since then her “investigator” has been indicted for his conduct. Gardner herself hasn’t yet been indicted, but the evidence suggests strongly that she directed the whole fraudulent case and then lied about her role under oath. She denies everything, of course, and alleges that the charges against her are being made simply because she is Black and is being targeted by Republican “political operatives.”...
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Getting Serious About U.S. Nuclear Power
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Thomas Gallatin  While concern over climate change has spurred popular demand for more “clean” energy sources such as wind and solar, it has also provided an opportunity to highlight a technology with benefits yet to be fully appreciated — nuclear power. Demonized by ecofascists, nuclear power remains the cleanest, most efficient, and consistent means of meeting the growing power needs of the nation. Currently, nuclear power supplies 20% of America’s energy needs, but that percentage could easily be increased, benefiting both the environment and Americans’ power costs.

Unfortunately, leftist politicians like commie-Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren, and commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have called for not only limiting nuclear power but eliminating it. Thankfully, this extremist position does not appear to be winning the day. In fact, under President Donald Trump’s leadership, America’s nuclear industry is getting a much-needed boost. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is now working to accelerate the development of advanced nuclear reactors.

Furthermore, as Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) writes  at National Review, “In December of 2019, the NRC approved an early site permit for the Tennessee Valley Authority to build a small modular reactor at the Clinch River Site, in my district in Tennessee. In 2018, Congress passed and the president signed the Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act, which eliminated financial and technological barriers that stood in the way of American nuclear innovation.”

Both China and Russia have been aggressively working to usurp American leadership on developing nuclear technology. Allowing either nation to become the world leader in nuclear technology would be a disaster for not just the U.S. but the world. Notwithstanding the Sanders-Warren-AOC trio, an encouraging development is growing bipartisan support in Congress for the U.S. to refocus efforts on maintaining our world leadership in nuclear development.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/69133?mailing_id=4915&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4915&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Demo Debate: Two Senile Old Men
Argue About Coronavirus
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Nate Jackson  
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Tuesday Top News Executive Summary
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Jordan Candler  Coronavirus
  • “15 DAYS TO SLOW THE SPREAD”: Trump rolls out tougher guidelines for Americans to follow over the next few weeks (The Daily Wire)

  • NOT A SPENDING STIMULUS: Trump administration to propose $850 billion tax-relief-focused stimulus (The Hill)

  • DISINFORMATION: Chinese bots flood Twitter to spread anti-Trump conspiracy theories (The National Pulse)

  • BIRDS OF A FEATHER: NBC News spreads Chinese Communist propaganda amid coronavirus outbreak (Washington Examiner)

  • REDEMPTION: Tennessee brothers who stockpiled nearly 18,000 bottles of hand sanitizer donate stash (Fox News)

Government, Politics, & Economy

  • LEGAL CHALLENGE DENIED: Ohio Supreme Court allows delay to primary election (The Columbus Dispatch)

  • EXTRAORDINARY HEALTH-RELATED DELAY:  Supreme Court postpones March oral arguments (Fox News)

  • “DELIVERY PROMISES ARE LONGER THAN USUAL”: Amazon to hire 100,000 more workers and give raises to current staff to deal with coronavirus demands (CNBC)

  • POLITICS BY OTHER MEANS: International Criminal Court prepares legal war on the U.S. (Washington Examiner)

Closing Arguments

    • POLICY: rino-Mitt Romney’s foolish stimulus proposal (Washington Examiner)

    • POLICY: Coronavirus shows why America must get resources from our own backyard, not China (Issues & Insights)

    • POLICY: COVID-19 response shows that federalism is working (National Review)

    • HUMOR: loose lips liar-Joe Biden: “My running mate will be a woman whether he knows it or not” (Genesius Times)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/69281?mailing_id=4927&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4927&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
    
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‘It Makes Me Very Happy’: Trump Praises Fed 
As Interest Rates Are Slashed To Near Zero
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by ANDREW KERR
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to near zero on Sunday as part of a series of measures... intended to combat the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The central bank cut rates to 0% to 0.25%, the central bank announced in a statement. The Fed will also purchase $700 billion worth of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities through quantitative easing, a measure previously used during the Great Recession to get money flowing back into the markets, The Washington Post reported.  President Donald Trump, who on Friday  criticized the Fed for not lowering interest rates in line with other nations’ central banks, hailed the bank’s move during a press conference Sunday.  “It makes me very happy,” Trump said. “I want to congratulate the Federal Reserve. For starters, they’ve lowered the Fed rate from what it was, which was 1% to 1.25%, and it’s been lowered down to 0% to 0.25%.” “That’s a big difference. It’s quite a bit,” Trump said. “It’s really great for our country.” The Fed said in a statement Sunday it was prepared to “use its full range of tools” to support the economy amid the coronavirus-induced economic slump. “The coronavirus outbreak has harmed communities and disrupted economic activity in many countries, including the United States. Global financial conditions have also been significantly affected,” the Fed said. The Fed said the reduced interest rates are expected to stay in place until the central bank is “confident that the economy has weathered recent events and is on track to achieve its maximum employment and price stability goals.”
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Trump Wins Another Democrat Debate – loose 
lips liar-Biden And commie-Sanders Go Surreal
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by thepoliticalinsider.com ~ Sunday night’s virus-inspired Democrat debate, in a sexist manner excluding a woman still in the race, between loose lips liar-Joe Biden and commie-Bernie Sanders had no seeming theme even though the CNN types hosting it tried to give it one... Instead, both codgers just sounded like two guys in a barbershop arguing over ancient baseball stats. loose lips liar-Joe Biden took swings at commie-Sanders and missed, a lot. But he did land a couple. commie-Sanders went after loose lips liar-Biden and hit home more than loose lips liar-Biden did. However, their zeal to outtalk the other led them to strange places. The best being when, in a discussion of Communist China, loose lips liar-Biden comes off as Joe McCarthy and also denies that China is a rapacious capitalist state. Thus also denying the last forty years of Chinese history. commie-Sanders, the socialist, has to correct him and in doing so lauds the very same kind of Chinese capitalist record he claims to abhor here. That kind of logic was par for the night. Other highlights.  loose lips liar-Biden- loose lips liar-Joe was on spin cycle the entire night, to the point he oddly asked for action over and over again on matters that the White House is already engaging in. The unreality of his confused requests didn’t seem to faze him. He touted his hatred for tax cuts, mistakenly said undocumented “alien” instead of the PC mandated “person”, slyly got in a shot at commie-Bernie’s “underlying health conditions”, wussed out on a Super PAC question, and endorsed the socialist next to him for president in case he himself loses. loose lips liar-Biden supported “sanctuary” cities, promised a female veep, and seemed to desire American coronavirus deaths to make Trump look bad. He also tried to imply that commie-Sanders is owned by the gun manufacturers. commie-Sanders- Came out slugging and constantly hit loose lips liar-Biden over votes on trade, the Defense of Marriage Act, and the Iraq War. He wants government money spent for psychologists for those “traumatized” by this virus Why not the same for all flu victims? Uh huh, got the better of loose lips liar-Biden on the Super PAC question, claimed loose lips liar-Biden wanted to cut social security and programs for veterans, and implied loose lips liar-Biden is for illegal immigrant “slavery.” commie-Bernie and loose lips liar-Biden both, though refusing to say it, strongly favor open borders...
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Cyberattack hits Department of Health 
and Human Services, report says
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By James Rogers
{ foxnews.com } ~ With the U.S. battling to contain the coronavirus outbreak, a cyberattack hit the Department of Health and Human Services on Saturday, Bloomberg reports... Citing three people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported that the attack aimed to slow down the department’s computers, but did not have any meaningful impact. On Sunday night, the National Security Council tweeted that text message rumors of a national quarantine are fake. “There is no national lockdown. @CDCgov has and will continue to post the latest guidance on #COVID19,” it tweeted. Citing the people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports that the tweet was related to the hack and the release of misinformation. Fox News has reached out to the Department of Health and Human Services with a request for comment on this story.  https://www.foxnews.com/tech/cyberattack-hits-department-of-health-and-human-services-report-says  
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House coronavirus relief bill faces 
challenges in GOP-controlled Senate
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by Tom Tillison
{ bizpacreview.com } ~ The Democrat-run House of Representatives approved a massive coronavirus bill hammered out by Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin... The measure passed  363-40 and received the blessing of President Donald Trump, who took to Twitter to thank those involved, but the U.S. Senate will now take up the legislation and Fox News is reporting that approval in the upper chamber is no sure thing. Trump tweeted: “Good teamwork between Republicans & Democrats as the House passes the big CoronaVirus Relief Bill. People really pulled together. Nice to see!” “We thought it would be important to show the American people, assure the American people, that we are willing and able to work together to get a job done for them,” liar-Pelosi said. “So we thank our Republicans — those who will be supporting the bill. We appreciate the president joining us with his tweet.” liar-Pelosi came under fire for trying to sneak federal funding for abortion into the bill in a provision that would skirt the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal tax dollars to pay for abortions.  Do not underestimate the challenge the Senate  could face passing this bill,” a senior Republican source told Fox News. The course is reportedly much harder than just having the Senate take up the House bill and pass it, as Fox News’ Chad Pergram reported that “there are some technical problems in the drafting of the coronavirus legislation that  requires the House to pass the bill again – perhaps with a skeleton staff – later this week.” And this is where it could get hairy. With “social distancing” being the thing amid the coronavirus, getting all the players in the same room to pass the bill proved to be a challenge, as much of the effort took place in phone calls between liar-Pelosi and Mnuchin.  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement after the House passed the legislation that senators “will need to carefully review” the proposal, according to CNBC. “But I believe the vast majority of Senators in both parties will agree we should act swiftly to secure relief for American workers, families, and small businesses,” he said...   https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/03/16/house-coronavirus-relief-bill-faces-challenges-in-gop-controlled-senate-897812?utm_campaign=bizpac&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get+Response&utm_term=EMAIL   

Foreign Aid Should Go to Those in Need, 
Not Ruling Elites
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by Patrick Tyrrell & Anthony B. Kim
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Wealthy elites pocket more than 7.5% of financial aid coming into their economically struggling countries, according to new research from the World Bank... To reach these disturbing findings, researchers measured the increase in deposits into offshore bank accounts in countries known for high levels of bank secrecy by people in countries receiving disbursements of foreign aid. They discovered that roughly 7.5% of foreign aid from the World Bank to poor countries is diverted from the intended beneficiaries into offshore bank accounts of wealthy elites and corrupt government officials. The siphoning of foreign aid into offshore bank accounts was found to increase as the ratio of aid to gross domestic product in recipient countries grew, rising to as much as 15% for the most aid-dependent countries. Since the World Bank report includes only foreign aid that winds up in offshore bank accounts, it can be considered the lower boundary on the amount of foreign aid that ends up lining the pockets of corrupt officials or elites in aid-dependent countries. The total does not include aid diverted locally to buy real estate or sports cars, for example. The Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Economic Freedom measures corruption in 180 countries around the world. Government Integrity is one of 12 subcategories that are averaged to find economic freedom scores for each country in the index. Corruption levels are highest in countries receiving large amounts of foreign aid. The World Bank’s research is a wake-up call to the U.S. and other providers of foreign aid. They need to do much more to assure the money reaches those who truly need it, not those who already enjoy wealth and privilege.   https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/03/09/foreign-aid-should-go-to-those-in-need-not-ruling-elites/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=foreign-aid-should-go-to-those-in-need-not-ruling-elites&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXpGbU1XVmxNbUZpTlRKbSIsInQiOiJCdFFMaG4yYnhyNXhPTHJoVUlrTWZnSVwvUCttT3ZIdkhHOEJWNVNSRXpUVTdnanJtbnRiK293bWx3UlNKcVJxQmVabFBEdnF4MVZZaVN4Qmhyd1puaDhnaExEV0xQclZwazBZVlFiQXk4bGZFZDFTaFJiM3E4M25HOXNtT0JlUk0ifQ%3D%3D   
Brothers Hoard 18,000 Hand Sanitizers to 
Make Profit, Forced to Give it Away for Free
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By Kristine Javier  
{ thepatriothill.com } ~ While the rest of the country deals with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, two brothers from Tennessee Matt and Noah Colvin used the outbreak to capitalize on the growing concern over health and sanitation by hoarding 18,000 bottles of hand sanitizer... The two brothers decided to hoard thousands of bottles after the news broke out of over the first case of COVID-19 death. Noah and Matt then decided to take a 1,300-mile trip rounding up local stores between Tennessee and Kentucky to gather boxes upon boxes of hand sanitizer and antibacterial wipes. They sold the sanitizer between $8 to as much as $70 per bottle on Amazon. That’s more than double the product’s original price. While the two expected to make a huge profit out of it, their whole racketing scheme fell apart when they were caught by Tennessee prosecutors after a crackdown on online price gouging. Despite the hate they have received online, both Matt and Noah innocently claimed that they did not have any idea that the stocks were running out. The brothers said that they have been buying and selling “hot products” on Amazon for nearly ten years, and believed that no matter how many boxes they might purchase, the stocks would always be “replenished.” In a statement from the New York Times, Matt said, “It was never my intention to keep necessary medical supplies out of the hands of people who needed them. They added that “That’s not who I am as a person. And all I’ve been told for the last 48 hours is how much of that person I am.” In fact, Noah even has the audacity to say that they did it as a form of “public service.” While the two refused to disclose the exact amount that they had from the scheme, they both admitted that they were able to make “substantial” money out of it...
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Demo Debate: Two Senile Old Men Argue About Coronavirus
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Nate Jackson  Two at-risk septuagenarians greeted each other with an awkward elbow bump on the Democrat debate stage Sunday night. Few Americans were paying attention as loose lips liar-Joe Biden and comjie-Bernie Sanders squared off in the first debate since the field has narrowed to just two. These two, at that.

loose lips liar-Biden and commie-Sanders primarily debated — what else? — coronavirus. Both men coughed a bit too much, reminding Americans just how old and vulnerable they are during a time of crisis. And neither had command of the basics. As The Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Stiles noted, “Both candidates experienced difficulties while attempting to discuss the coronavirus (Wuhan) pandemic in relation to previous outbreaks. loose lips liar-Biden touted his role in the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s response to ‘the N1H1 [incomprehensible] as well as what happened in Africa.’ He meant the H1N1 virus and Ebola, which commie-Sanders repeatedly cited instead of the coronavirus. ‘I’ve got Ebola in my head right now!’ he said, after finally catching his mistake.”

The two traded barbs over Medicare for All, which is commie-Bernie’s “solution” for everything. “You have a single-payer system in Italy,” loose lips liar-Biden observed of a nation hit particularly hard by coronavirus. “It doesn’t work there. [The coronavirus] has nothing to do with Medicare for All. That would not solve the problem.” When commie-Sanders predictably fought back, loose lips liar-Biden said he didn’t “want to get into a back and forth in terms of our politics” … which is kind of the point of a debate.

One thing loose lips liar-Biden did do, however, was make a play for commie-Sanders’s voters when the inevitable day comes that commie-Bernie has to admit defeat. loose lips liar-Biden did this by tacking to the extreme left on various policies. “The first 100 days of my administration,” he said, “no one will be deported at all.” On energy, he declared, “No more subsidies for the fossil-fuel industry, no more drilling on federal lands, no more drilling including offshore, no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill. Period. Ends.” loose lips liar-Biden also insisted, “We should be talking about things like I’ve been talking about for years: high-speed rail, taking millions of automobiles off the road.”

“loose lips liar-Biden 2020: No oil, no cars.”

Seems like a winning message for the “moderate” in the race.

As for commie-Sanders, he again reiterated his support for all the great things authoritarian regimes in Cuba and China have done to for their citizens. “China is undoubtedly an authoritarian society. But will anybody, will any economist, deny that extreme poverty in China today is much less than what it was 40 or 50 years ago? That’s a fact.” And his response to loose lips liar-Biden’s radical climate agenda was, “All well and good, but nowhere near enough.” Good grief.

Even so, back to coronavirus, loose lips liar-Biden offered what is essentially the bottom-line assessment of why he’s virtually certain to prevail over Sanders: “People are looking for results, not a revolution.” The problem is that loose lips liar-Biden seems ready to bring revolution, too, just packaged a little more neatly.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/69253?mailing_id=4925&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4925&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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