Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, your finances, and your prosperity… and on occasion, poetic justice. Street Gangs enforce lockdowns in Brazil Last week we highlighted how Brazil’s president claimed Brazilians don’t get sick. Unfortunately for President Bolsonaro, his driver […]
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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has demanded minority-focused “reparations” for coronavirus, insisting “inequality is a comorbidity” exacerbating the deaths – after calling for shutdowns that impoverished millions. The New York Democrat called for coronavirus relief to be “drafted with a lens of reparations,” insisting that deaths from the virus were “disproportionately spiking in Black [and] Brown communities” in a tweet on Friday. Blaming “the chronic toll of redlining, […]
White House chief economic advisor Larry Kudlow spoke with Fox Business’ Stuart Varney today about how bad the economy is going to be for Americans in the short-term as the US response to the coronavirus continues. Varney started off by saying, “You can’t sugarcoat this thing, you can’t. The economy looks absolutely awful. Would you tell us honestly from your perspective how bad is it?” Kudlow […]
(Natural News) A quick dip in the ocean is hard to beat on a hot day, but a new study shows that ocean bacteria can colonize your skin surprisingly fast – and some types of it can be quite dangerous. Researchers say that just 10 minutes of swimming in the ocean is enough to see your skin covered in bacteria. In a study, people who weren’t […]
A monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev, who commanded the forces that liberated Prague from the Nazis in 1945, has been removed and mocked for ‘not having a mask’ by one local official, in what Russia has condemned as an insult. Konev is one of the most celebrated Red Army generals, who commanded the 1st Ukrainian Front (army group) that liberated the Auschwitz death camp in […]
At Friday’s White House coronavirus task force briefing, President Donald Trump shared the new CDC recommendation that Americans should wear non-medical face coverings to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. “The CDC is advising the use of non-medical cloth face covering as an additional voluntary public health measure,” Trump said. “So it’s voluntary. You don’t have to do it. They suggest for it a period […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images Mayor Bill de Blasio rejected WNYC host Brian Lehrer’s claim that the U.S. knew “weeks and months ago that asymptomatic people can spread this disease,” and instead suggested this fact was only discovered “in the last 48 hours.” “The city’s position used to be that healthy people don’t need masks because they’re not very effective at preventing the virus from coming in, […]
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The UN human rights office on Friday described as “alarming” the situation in all the prisons in Syria, especially the overcrowded central ones and also makeshift detention facilities, saying the risk of mass coronavirus infections is exceptionally high. The Syrian regime and armed groups were urged “to take urgent action – following the example of other countries – to release sufficient numbers” of detainees, said Rupert […]
Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, History will probably record that America’s Baby Boom generation threw one helluva party; Gen X was left with the sorry task of cleanup crew; and the Millennials ended up squatting in the repossessed haunted party-house when it was all over. On behalf of the Boomers, let me try to explain and apologize. We came along at the end of […]
The White House coronavirus task force is holding another press briefing today at 5:00 p.m. ET. President Donald Trump started off yesterday’s briefing by encouraging Americans to stay home for the next 30 days in order to flatten the curve and save lives, adding that they have made “a lot of progress” on a vaccine. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin later claimed Americans can “call any FDIC […]
Senator John Kennedy (R- LA) tried to calm fears of a depression on Fox News today, telling Neil Cavuto he doesn’t think we’re “all gonna die” or end up “eating cat food” in the desert. Cavuto asked Kennedy about the unemployment rate likely getting much worse in the short-term, asking, “With talk of a recession, some say a depression, are you worried this isn’t going to […]
(Natural News) Tucker Carlson exposed during a powerful monologue last night how the World Health Organization helped China cover-up the severity of coronavirus and how the U.S. media turned a blind eye. (Article by Paul Joseph Watson republished from Summit.news) The Fox News host noted how World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom “got his job with Chinese support after he covered up cholera outbreaks in his […]
You can always count on the government to take advantage of a crisis, legitimate or manufactured. This coronavirus pandemic is no exception. Not only are the federal and state governments unraveling the constitutional fabric of the nation with lockdown mandates that are sending the economy into a tailspin and wreaking havoc with our liberties, but they are also rendering the citizenry fully dependent on the government […]
One motorist from Russia’s Far East got the scare of his life as a highway bridge literally collapsed right in front of him. The shocking moment the road swallowed up his Toyota Prius was captured on a dashcam. The short video filmed on Thursday and now making the rounds on social media, shows a truck driving across the bridge, which begins to collapse as the Prius […]
A Washington state group has become the first in the nation to sue Fox News over its coronavirus coverage, asking a state court to keep the cable network from airing false information about the pandemic. The 10-page complaint — filed Thursday in King County — also names as defendants Fox News Corp., owner Rupert Murdoch, AT&T TV, and COMCAST. It seeks an injunction to prohibit the conservative-leaning outlet […]
A supermarket in Philadelphia has taken sanitizing to a whole new level, dunking shopping carts into three large containers of cleaning solutions to give customers the peace of mind they won’t contract COVID-19. KYW Newsradio reports that Rittenhouse Market, located on 1733 Spruce St, Philadelphia, has erected a wild contraption outside of the store, that hoists a shopping cart and dunks it into three large vats of cleaning […]
(Natural News) Across the country, nursing homes have been in lockdown for weeks under federal orders to protect their elderly residents from the coronavirus. However, a wave of deadly outbreaks in these nursing homes nearly every day suggests these measures, such as a ban on visits and daily health screenings, either came too late or weren’t rigorous enough. Outbreaks in states such as Maryland, Ohio, Tennessee […]
At a moment the Trump administration debates the merits of urging citizens nation-wide to don protective face masks when they go outside or to super markets, a small Texas border town has gone so far as to legally mandate it, and has authorized police to strictly enforce the new measure. The city council of Laredo, Texas — in south Texas on the Rio Grande border with Mexico — earlier this week passed a motion […]
Turkey’s femicide rate has decreased by 22% in the first quarter of the year compared to last year, the country’s Interior Ministry announced on Friday. According to the statement, 64 women were murdered over the past three months, while in January-March 2019, 82 had been killed. The ministry said this decrease was the result of its struggle against violence towards women and domestic violence, conducting research and instituting preventative measures against perpetrators […]
With Covid-19 infections climbing, Washington has diverted shipments of vital protective masks from its allies in Germany and Canada to the US. A Berlin senator described the move as “modern piracy.” As confirmed coronavirus cases passed 250,000 in the US this week, the White House pressured safety gear manufacturer 3M to step up imports of protective masks from its Chinese factories. Trump publicly promised on Thursday […]
Business 20:00 GMT 03.04.2020(updated 20:13 GMT 03.04.2020) Get short URL The New York Stock Exchange on Friday closed out its first week of volatile trading for the fiscal year’s second quarter, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average index posting losses of more than 300 points following the release of an alarming US jobs report. At closing, the Dow was down by 360.91 points, as the S&P […]
(Natural News) A record-shattering 6.6 million jobless claims were filed last week, according to the Department of Labor’s (DOL) weekly jobless claims report. This is more than double the number reported in the previous week, which itself also broke records. The week before, the DOL already reported a then record-setting 3.2 million jobless claims for the week, thanks to the global coronavirus pandemic. Combined with this week’s report, […]
The story of the week is fourfold: Helicopter money begins… and the sovereign risk of the USA soars Oil has best week ever on hopes of supply cut. Stocks sink as any rebalance flow support evaporated. Lockdown effects are starting to be seen in labor and survey data ‘Helicopter Ben’ unleashed hell… Source: Bloomberg As the trillions in bailout booty starts to get handed out to […]
MedPage Today COVID-19 Update: Spread Via Breath; Trump Tests Negative (Again); Patriots Plane to the Rescue by Kristen Monaco, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Spreading the virus could be just as simple as breathing, new research suggests. (CNN) Unofficial U.S. case count at 8:00 a.m. EDT Friday: 245,573, with 6,058 deaths — the first about tripled and the second more than quadrupled […]