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Deceased people are receiving $1,200 coronavirus stimulus payments from the federal government on Wednesday. A Twitter user posted about his deceased grandmother receiving a check. “Deceased people are receiving stimulus checks today,” he wrote on Wednesday. “My grandmother passed away in 2018 — and $1,200 was deposited in her bank account today.” The direct payments are based on individual or joint tax filings from 2018 for individuals and families who have not filed their 2019 tax returns. Social Security beneficiaries who did not file returns in those years also qualify for the payments. Just the News has reached out to...

House Democrats have introduced legislation that would expand the federal government’s coronavirus relief cash payments to $2,000 a month until the economy recovers. On Wednesday, Americans who qualify started getting one-time checks from the Treasury Department of up to $1,200 per adult depending on their incomes. But Democratic Reps. Tim Ryan (Ohio) and Ro Khanna (Calif.) introduced a bill on Tuesday that would expand the payments to $2,000 on a monthly basis until employment returns to pre-crisis levels. They argued that the expansion is necessary to keep up with the growing number of Americans facing layoffs, furloughs or pay cuts...

Let them eat cake. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) showed off her expensive kitchen appliances and massive gourmet ice cream collection during an appearance on a late night show as Americans stand in line at food banks. Pelosi slammed President Trump over his Coronavirus response on Monday’s episode of “The Late Show” with James Corden before showing off her 15 flavor ice cream collection. Pelosi, who is one of the wealthiest members of Congress, held Americans hostage by delaying the first Coronavirus stimulus package.

Another sudden and unexpected factor will transform this year’s elections. Many states, cities and counties are about to, suddenly, run out of money. Wages won’t be paid. Services won’t be delivered. Institutions will shut down abruptly. Many state colleges may fold. And yet most state and local political and administrative leaders just sit and watch. Voters will not be pleased. Millions of American workers filed for unemployment insurance during the past two weeks. That is a record and represents a collapse of our local economies. Across the country, in every state, county and city, businesses have been shut down, and...

Make sure your emergency kit is stocked with the items on the checklist below. Most of the items are inexpensive and easy to find, and any one of them could save your life. Headed to the store? Download a printable version to take with you. Once you take a look at the basic items, consider what unique needs your family might have, such as supplies for pets, or seniors. After an emergency, you may need to survive on your own for several days. Being prepared means having your own food, water and other supplies to last for at least 72...

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Missouri Senator Josh Hawley announced his intention to bring up the Justice for Victims of COVID-19 Act in the chamber on Tuesday. The legislation would hold China accountable for covering up the nature of the lethal global coronavirus disease, most significantly making the nation’s government liable to claims in the U.S. court system. The law would create “a private right of action against the Chinese government for any reckless action it took that caused the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, such as its decisions to withhold information and to gag doctors.”

One-time Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo has been named to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) top communications position, Caputo told Politico on Wednesday. “I am honored to serve the President to the best of my abilities in this time of crisis and, in so doing, the American people,” Caputo, who will join the department as assistant secretary of HHS for public affairs, told the publication. The hire comes as the White House has grown suspicious of HHS Secretary Alex Azar, believing him to have portrayed himself to the press as attempting in vain in January to sound...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ PLACING A TORPEDO A Marine places a Bangalore torpedo under concertina wire during a demolition training range in Southwest Asia, March 9, 2016. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Akeel Austin Canteen Mission Statement Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. SOARING ANGELS The Blue Angels, the Navy's flight demonstration squadron, perform a parade maneuver during the Naval Air Facility El Centro Airshow in El Centro, CA, March 12, 2016. The squadron, celebrating its...

Miami University in Ohio has announced that it will close its Chinese government-funded Confucius Institute in June. Amid increased concerns over Chinese money in American universities, Miami University's decision was particularly sudden, citing funding concerns. With the exception of senior staff, most of the Institute’s staffers are paid by the Chinese government, according to the Miami Student.

Newly declassified footnotes from a government report, first obtained by CBS News, show that despite multiple warnings about Russian targeting and the potential for disinformation, the FBI relied on the controversial Steele dossier to secure surveillance warrants for a Trump campaign aide before and after the 2016 election. Among the revelations, a 2017 U.S. intelligence community report indicated that two individuals "affiliated" with Russian intelligence knew of former British spy Christopher Steele's "election investigation" in early July 2016, three months before the FBI would begin citing the dossier. "..[A]n early June 2017 USIC (US Intelligence Community) report indicated that two...

The government of Taiwan published a letter, Fox News reported on Monday, sent to officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) in December warning of “atypical pneumonia” in China – evidence, Taipei says, that the WHO had reason to believe the Chinese coronavirus was contagious. On January 14, weeks after Taiwan’s health authorities sent the email, the WHO published a message on Twitter citing Communist Party officials claiming that the coronavirus was not transmissible among human beings. The virus has since been proven to be so contagious that most of the world’s nations have forced entire populations into lockdown, threatening...

Paris, France, Apr 14, 2020 / 11:01 pm (CNA).- For Fr. Pierre Amar, Notre-Dame de Paris has always been a masterpiece, “the very example of supreme beauty,” but now the Marian cathedral is also “a great burnt victim.” One year after the fire destroyed much of the cathedral’s roof and spire, the French priest shared what the cathedral of Paris has meant and continues to mean for Catholics in France as the country again faces a crisis. “Notre-Dame is a great lady of history. She has lived through centuries, eras, perils, and war. She has sustained the nation in its...

Chicago's Blase Cupich bashes Catholic contender for US SenateCHICAGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - Chicago's archbishop is sidelining prayer while bashing the piety of the Catholic challenger to so-called Catholic, pro-abortion politician Sen. Dick Durban (D-Ill.). Cardinal Blase Cupich brushed aside prayer when asked on Thursday about those like Republican Senate candidate Mark Curran, who are calling on the Catholic Church to safely dispense the sacraments amidst the pandemic scare. "Religion is not magic where we just say prayers and think things are going to change," said Cupich. "God gave us a brain and the gift of intelligence and we have to use...

Webb reviews the contract and talks the connections. Says that China did the studies. Contract 3.7 million to Wuhan for the for USAID (Program named PREDICT) to get the bats and do the bio work. This report puts Fauci in the middle of this. So when can we have a real reporter ask Dr Fauci to explain what his Project Predict was about and if it caused this outbreak? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK5WRNQOcGg

On Tuesday’s briefing, Prime Minister of Georgia, Giorgi Gakharia addressed the question that has been formulating these days with the Orthodox Easter coming up this Sunday, saying that “the churches will not be closed.” “I personally hope our citizens will show their wisdom. Why? Because enforcing the law and protecting public health is a direct obligation of the State, just like, for many of our respected believer citizens it is an existential issue to not close the Church and keep it functioning,” noted Gakharia. That being said, the Prime Minister still encouraged believers to stay home and not “force the...

An Ontario recycling company is reminding residents to use some discretion when getting rid of unwanted items after someone attempted to recycle a sword. The Bluewater Recycling Association in South Huron said in a Facebook post titled "Most Unwanted -- April Edition" that someone put a metal sword into a "blue box" recycling bin. The post said the sword "was found before going through our machinery or it could have caused expensive damage to our machines and serious health and safety issues for our employees." The association said the sword's former owner might have been better off turning the weapon...

Churches in Moscow and throughout the Moscow Province are to move to a “skeleton crew” regime for one week, according to a circular from His Eminence Metropolitan Dionysiy of Voskresensk, the First Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, issued on Saturday, April 11. From April 13 to 19, the feast of Holy Pascha, only clergy, choir members, altar servers, those responsible for livestreaming services, and guards are allowed on the territory of churches in the whole of the Moscow Province. Moscow has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic in recent weeks, Met. Dionysiy notes, and doctors...

To anyone who missed it. Microsoft released an ad featuring celebrity-cult 'artist' Marina Abramovic. They quickly regretted it. First they closed the comments. They then set the video to private. See here: Mircosoft Marina Abramovic Ad Here is the video with commentary: Microsoft Video of Satanist Marina Abramovic On Good Friday (5 mins)

SPRINGFIELD, Ill – Illinois is reporting 1,346 new cases over the last 24 hours and 80 additional deaths due to COVID-19. This brings the state totals to 24,593 cases and 948 deaths. Governor J.B. Pritzker focused much of his daily briefing on the financial impact of COVID-19 on the state. He said, “You don’t have to be an epidemiologist to see that the virus is going to hit our budget hard.” Illinois budget experts estimate that there will be a $2.7 billion shortfall of revenues for the rest of fiscal year 2020 and a $4.6 billion dollar shortfall for the...