The US Coast Guard has warned cruise ships stuck at sea that they could be “sequestered” indefinitely during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, and must be equipped to take care of ill passengers on board until permitted to dock. The new directive released on March 29 was signed by Coast Guard Rear Admiral Eric Jones, whose district includes Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Puerto Rico. The measure […]
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In an ill-timed blooper, immediately mocked as a Freudian slip, the head of FEMA standing alongside US President Donald Trump at a coronavirus war room press briefing, has promised a crackdown on Americans’ health and safety. “The Federal Government continues to take aggressive action and proactive steps to address the Covid-19 threat… …as we attack the health and safety, or protect the health and safety of […]
Following Italy’s declaration of martial law, and with some US states like California coming very close to it amid rumors the White House has plans to mobilize the military on a federal level, the National Guard Bureau chief is hitting back against discussions to activate the guard. National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Joseph Lengyel told reporters at a Pentagon press briefing on Thursday that federalizing the National […]
Concern over the presence of military vehicles in residential areas of Maryland has apparently prompted the state’s national guard to tweet out a reminder that it is there to help fight Covid-19 – not to impose martial law. The Maryland National Guard (MDNG) reassured all state residents on Saturday that, contrary to any nefarious rumors that may have been spreading, the force has been deployed to […]
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, If ever there was evidence that the media is overreacting and causing unnecessary mass panic amongst the public, it can be seen in Georgia. The state’s governor has called in 2,000 national guard troops to “assist” with 99 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The complete loss of freedom and the decimation of the economy are the real problems here, not the […]
The global coronavirus outbreak has hit a new milestone: It surpassed 120,000 cases overnight. For anybody who’s still bothering to keep track, that’s 15x the number of cases from the SARS outbreak, which continued for nearly a year before it finally petered out. In the US, the coronavirus outbreak has reached a grim new milestone. Thanks to the administration’s scramble to bring dozens of private and […]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered the state National Guard to New Rochelle, a town in the affluent Westchester County, to enforce a two-week COVID-19 coronavirus quarantine. The troops will help clean and deliver food in the designated “containment area” in a one-mile (1.6 km) radius around the area where the contagion appears to have originated, until the lockdown is lifted on March 25. “It […]
A British man has been imprisoned in Egypt after being accused of sexual assault after he patted a male airport security guard on the back. Tony Camoccio, 51, was on his way home from the Red Sea resort of Hurghada when he was patted down by a security officer. After he was finished he then patted the security officer on the back, which is when the […]
The Trump administration plans to take more than $1 billion from the National Guard and use it to fund border security, including new fencing, according to two Congressional sources briefed on the matter. In total, the Pentagon aims to move $3.8 billion from their annual budget to border security spending, one of the sources said. Of that, about $1.3 billion will come from the National Guard […]