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As the impact of the Corona Virus (Covid-19) continues to grow, nowhere in Europe has been more affected than Italy, and in particular northern Italy. With a complete lockdown announced by the Italian Government, everyday life for Italians has ground to a halt as the rise in cases of Wuhan-Flu continues. This has raised the question of why Italy has suffered more than other countries to date? AltNewsMedia has a theory as to what may lie behind this. Many Italians in Northern Italy have sold their leather goods and textiles companies to China. Italy then allowed 100,000 Chinese workers from...

udicial Watch announced today that lawyers for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills have asked the Court of Appeals to overturn a U.S. District court order granting Judicial Watch’s request for their depositions about Clinton’s emails and Benghazi attack records. Lawyers for Clinton and Mills filed a “Petition for Writ of Mandamus” earlier today.The Clinton request comes in Judicial Watch’s lawsuit that seeks records concerning “talking points or updates on the Benghazi attack” (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)). Judicial Watch famously uncovered in 2014 that the “talking points” that provided the basis for...

Two things are necessary to analyze information: (1) perspective; and (2) recognizing source bias. These tools have never been more useful than now, in a time of coronavirus. We are not the first to suggest that Democrats in and out of the media are exploiting coronavirus for political benefit. Having failed to take President Trump down with the Russia hoax and the faux impeachment, they’re grabbing on to coronavirus, with none more openly virulent than MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, a grinning jack-o-lantern of doom. Here’s some perspective: On March 13, 2020, when President Trump declared a national emergency and mobilized the...

On Friday, due to mounting fears about COVID-19, our university announced that it was suspending all on-site classes until April 1. A nursing student who is one of my teaching assistants in a chemistry lab commented that the fear radiated by the students was palpable. “Their freshman year experience was being taken away and many of them expressed they had a loved one who was particularly at risk.” The south Florida campus where I teach stretches over many acres. It is a lush, sub-tropical paradise of green spaces, palm trees and variegated shrubs in an explosion of colors. Our easternmost...

Colorado boasts of being the ideal winter playground, with its world-class ski slopes, and the Rocky Mountains provide plenty of outdoor activities in the summertime as well. Nevertheless, only about half of the employees of the Bureau of Land Management have agreed to move to Colorado as the agency moves from the nation's capital. The news site Government Executive reports 173 workers at the agency received letters reassigning them to Grand Junction, Colorado, or other state offices. But only 80 have accepted. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said the agency already is hiring replacements. The BLM decided to move to Colorado...

Breitbart News15 Mar 20201,838 Travelers returning to the U.S. have been greeted with hourslong waits for required medical screenings at airports As weary travelers returned to the U.S. amid coronavirus-related travel restrictions, they were greeted with packed, hourslong waits for required medical screenings at airports.Posts on social media indicated passengers at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airports waited upwards of four hours in winding lines, eliciting criticism from elected Illinois officials.

Social media exploded early Saturday morning when porn star Sara Jay began trending on Twitter after fans of the adult film star noticed former President Barack Obama was one of her 1.1 million followers. While many initially joked that Jay was trending because men no longer have sports to occupy their time, tweets soon began to discuss family man Obama and why his profile was linked to the XXX account, prompting some hilarious responses from the public. “Idk bout y’all, but seeing Sara Jay trending made me feel even more connected to @BarackObama. My man,” wrote one observer while another...

Dr. Antony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, urged Americans to shut down more aggressively as the coronavirus spreads. On MSNBC’s “Meet the Press” Mr. Fauci endorsed a 14-day “national shutdown” to help slow down the virus. He explained that he has brought it up with the administration, which is generally open to his ideas. “I think Americans should be prepared that they are going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing,” he said. On ABC’s “This Week” the doctor explained that lockdowns helped China and South Korea...

Vice President Mike Pence, who heads the nation’s coronavirus response task force, told reporters Saturday that the emergency relief plan backed by President Donald Trump and passed by the House early Saturday will protect the most vulnerable American workers during the outbreak. “You need not be concerned if you’re an hourly wage earner in America,” Pence said at a March 14 press conference. “You need not be concerned about staying home. If you’re sick, stay home. You’re not going to miss a paycheck.”Pence said the bill, called “Families First Coronavirus Response Act” (pdf), contains a range of measures to shield...

oel B. Pollak15 Mar 20203,2792:31 A new poll by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News finds that approval of President Donald Trump remains unchanged since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, though only 48% have confidence in him to manage it. The Journal reported Sunday morning: The survey of 900 registered voters found little sign that a crisis with potential to define the 2020 election has altered the political standing of President Trump. Some 51% disapprove of how he is handling the virus outbreak, while 45% approve. That is nearly identical to his overall job-approval rating, which is essentially unchanged from...

Just wondering if there are any Hams out there and what are you listening to?

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic poses two threats: public health and economic. ... As I write: All schools are closed in all of Italy.All churches are closed (including St. Peter's Basilica).All weddings and funerals are postponed.All restaurants are closed.In fact, all stores except grocery stores and pharmacies are closed.People are urged to work from home unless they work in special designated factories The streets are almost empty. These steps are not an overreaction. The coronavirus is out of control of in Northern Italy. As of 6 p.m. local/1 p.m. EST on March 10, there were 15,113 total cases in Italy, with...

John Knox prayed, “Give me Scotland or I die!” George Whitefield prayed, “Give me souls, or take my soul!” Today, millions of Americans Christians need to pray, “God, revive us or we die!” And there is no hyperbole in that prayer. Without a national awakening, America as we know it is doomed. In 1944, Rev. Peter Marshall declared, “Surely the time has come, because the hour is late, when we must decide. And the choice before us is plain — Yahweh or Baal. Christ or chaos. Conviction or compromise. Discipline or disintegration.” That was 1944, 9 years before the first...

Ren Zhiqiang, known as “The Cannon,” in the past has been one of the most prominent critics of Xi. Saturday morning his friends reported him missing, according to the Times. “We’re very worried about him,” Wang Ying, a retired entrepreneur and friend of Mr. Ren’s told the Times. “I will continue to look for him.”

I've been away from California since before Christmas. I moved to our house in Idaho, which we bought two years ago, to work on improvement projects and got back to California a week and a half ago. I got up early today (Sunday) and decided to go have breakfast at my favorite coffee shop in Los Altos, CA (San Francisco Peninsula area not far from San Jose). I got there just before 8 and was the only customer for a while. Julie, the owner, was telling me how her business is really taking a hit. I finished breakfast about 8:40...

Posted on March 14, 2020March 14, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope Just A Little Talk With Jesus Makes it Right – A homily for the Third Sunday of Lent As we examine the Gospel for this weekend’s Mass we do well to understand that is about human desires and how the Lord reaches us through them. Prior to examining the text in detail, let’s consider a few things: What it is that really makes you happy? We desire so many things: food, water, shelter, clothing, and creature comforts. We long for affection, peace, and a sense of belonging. Sometimes...

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London’s leafy streets and gardens have long been prized for their beauty — and more recently their ability to counteract carbon emissions and improve air quality. But the value of urban trees can also be measured with money. A new report from Britain’s Office of National Statistics estimates tree cover saved the capital more than 5 billion pounds ($6.56 billion) from 2014 to 2018 through air cooling alone. Additionally, by keeping summer temperatures bearable for workers, trees prevented productivity losses of almost 11 billion pounds. The estimates underline just how vital the role trees play is in making cities comfortable...

co-anchor Dan Harris turned to ABC’s Dr. Jennifer Ashton and asked: “Let’s start with the COVID-19 test that the President took. It's negative. Is he out of the woods?” According to Ashton, the testing might not have been enough. “Well, here’s the difficult thing about testing, right now we don't totally know how this virus behaves in terms of the asymptomatic period, in terms of can people develop symptoms after a certain time,” she said.

California Rep. Devin Nunes said the media and liberals are “putting the country into a panic” by hyping the coronavirus outbreak. “What the media and the Left are doing here is they’re putting the country into a panic, and look, it’s for no reason,” the Republican congressman told Fox News host Jesse Watters on his Saturday evening program. “I’m not saying that this isn’t a serious health concern. We need to take it serious.” Nunes said the elderly, especially those with preexisting health conditions, need to take extra precautions with the outbreak, but the “main issue is for us in...