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New drone footage showing Florida beaches goers social distancing is causing much concern after other news outlets used older pictures that seemed to indicate crowded beaches. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reopened Florida beaches, a decision which incurred criticism from long-term shutdown proponents. The drone footage, found here, shows people keeping more than enough recommended social distance. However, not all news agencies handled the Florida beach reopenings from a similar perspective. Forbes, an American business magazine, utilized a social media feature image that showed beach goes nearly shoulder to shoulder.

Amid an escalating outbreak in the northern Chinese city of Harbin, provincial authorities announced on Friday that it would punish 18 officials working in the municipal government and three local hospitals. That same day, another northern region, Liaoning Province, reported one new domestic infection in the province, whom authorities said was infected while being treated at a Harbin hospital. This was the first reported case in the province since March 2. Local authorities did not report any new cases for over a month. The Epoch Times’ previous reporting, including interviews with locals and internal government documents, has shown that regional...

Christian conservatives say 'yes', secular leftists say 'no'DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - Half of Americans believe strongly the Bible should be the basis of U.S. law but younger leftists want God out of legislation. A new poll by Pew Research reveals 49% of Americans say Judeo-Christian morals, as laid out in the Bible, should have "a great deal" of influence or "some" influence in how U.S. laws should be made. Nearly two out of three U.S. Christians generally believe Sacred Scripture should influence laws. Among white, evangelical Protestants, the number goes up to almost 90%. The numbers among Catholics, however, are lower,...

So the government told Americans we had to shut down our churches house to protect people from the China Virus. Some states slapped fines on church members who refused to comply. Others were ordered to undergo mandatory quarantines. And several were subjected to surveillance by state police. Our government leaders told us not to worry because we could still worship online. But what are Christians supposed to do when Big Tech decides to shut down online church services and Bible studies? Ray Wright, a Sunday school teacher at Calvary Chapel East Anaheim, announced on Facebook that YouTube had removed his...

Pro-life Catholic scholars: Coronavirus is not the work of an angry ‘Mother Earth’ 'It is immensely sad that Pope Francis should have encouraged this worldview by speaking of the 'earth having a fit' or being angry,' the group has said. April 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family wishes to communicate that Catholics and all reasonable men and women must beware the infiltration of a pagan, earth-centered New-Age sentiment subtly making its way into certain levels of our culture. The present-day proponents of the primitive belief in an “Earth Goddess” have advanced their...

The Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin plans to file a class action lawsuit against China in the coming days over its alleged negligence in treating and containing the coronavirus, N12 reported on Sunday. The Israeli lawsuit, once filed, will join at least four on-going lawsuits submitted to US courts against Chinese authorities over the pandemic, according to Newsweek. Shurat HaDin usually focuses on terror groups, yet according to Aviel Letiner, husband of Shurat Hadin director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, just as states cannot commit acts of terror and claim immunity due to their being sovereign agents, China should not be able to avoid...

Myrrh-streaming icons are a relatively rare phenomenon in the life of the Church, by which God strengthens, comforts, and blesses His faithful. However, one village church in the Lipetsk Province of Russia, 290 miles south of Moscow, is home to nearly 20 myrrh-streaming sacred items. In the Church of the Archangel Michael in the village of Voron-Lozovka, 13 icons, two chalices, a Gospel book, and two crosses are all streaming Heavenly myrrh, reports donvesti.ru. With the cross began the revival of the church on May 25, 2019. At first, the rector, Fr. Diodore, would celebrate the services holding the...

Good movie the story of the Funk Brothers.... Good history of Detroit and Mottown music Some great music... Just saw it on Amazon Prime

Investigators have determined that an Emirates Airbus A380 descended far below the glideslope at Moscow Domodedovo after its crew entered a rapid descent, erroneously believing the jet was too high for the correct approach path. It descended to 504ft above ground – with a rate of descent of 1,600ft/min – while still some 7.4nm from the threshold of runway 14R, in darkness, before the crew executed a go-around. The A380 lost a further 109ft, dipping to just 395ft, before climbing away, the aircraft’s ground-proximity warning system having sounded ‘terrain’ and ‘pull up’ alerts. This instrument reading had been false, because...

The Archbishop of Canterbury has responded to criticism over a request for churches to stay closed during the coronavirus pandemic. Some vicars have challenged the guidance from the Archbishops and bishops of the Church of England to keep doors closed as the lockdown continues. Church of England churches were first told to suspend all public worship when the lockdown started last month, forcing services to go digital. This was then followed up by additional guidance telling churches to close their doors completely, including for private prayer and the livestreaming of services by pastors. Fr Marcus Walker, Rector at Great St...

The New York Times suggested Saturday that statements by Sean Hannity of Fox News helped encourage a Brooklyn bar owner to take a cruise regardless of the risk of coronavirus, which killed him. The headline of the article, as it appeared in the Sunday print edition, was: “‘Fake News’ and a Possibly Ill-Fated Trip.” (The online headline: “A Beloved Bar Owner Was Skeptical About the Virus. Then He Took a Cruise.”) The problem: the Times quoted a remark Hannity made eight days after the man left for the cruise. Later, the Times inserted that information as a comment from Fox...

‘No one has the right to deprive a sick or dying person of the spiritual assistance of a priest. It is an absolute and inalienable right.’April 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A top Vatican cardinal stated that the coronavirus, “a microscopic virus, has brought this world to its knees,” a world that was “drunk with self-satisfaction because it believed itself to be invulnerable.” According to Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, the present COVID-19 pandemic is a “parable” that should lead mankind to ponder its dependence on God, faulty priorities and help it discover the true values...

President Donald Trump said Saturday the biggest lesson of the coronavirus crisis was that the United States should not rely on China for their supply chains. “We’ve learned a lot about supply chains,” Trump said. “We’ve learned that it’s nice to make things in the U.S., I’ve been saying that for a long time.” The president discussed the issue during the White House press briefing, recalling he ran for president on the dangers of America’s dependence on bad trade deals and foreign countries while gutting our country’s industries. “If one thing comes out of this more than anything else is...

Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she was considering extending social distancing guidelines in response to Michigan residents who protested her stay-at-home restrictions on Wednesday. Whitmer called the protest in the state's capital “irresponsible" during a Thursday night interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. “We might have to actually think about extending stay-at-home orders, which is supposedly what they were protesting," Whitmer said.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) hit the cable networks on Sunday, running with two main talking points: the first being the blatant lie that President Donald Trump said the Wuhan coronavirus is a "hoax," the second being that the president didn't take the virus seriously from the get-go. During a Sunday morning interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, the journalist pressed the speaker on her own actions. Back in February, Pelosi encouraged residents in her San Francisco district to visit Chinatown because "everything is fine." "If the president underplayed the threat in the early days, Speaker Pelosi, didn't you as...

Pneumonia and Influenza (P&I) Mortality Surveillance Based on National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) mortality surveillance data available on April 16, 2020, 11.9% of the deaths occurring during the week ending April 11, 2020 (week 15) were due to P&I. This percentage is above the epidemic threshold of 7.0% for week 15.Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Surveillance from the National Center for Health Statistics Mortality Surveillance System Information for selected week and previous two weeks, national summary, all ages Week Number of Influenza Deaths Number of Pneumonia Deaths Total Deaths Percent Complete Selected Week (week 15) 206 3,081 27,688 58.2% Week...

...The core realization we face right now is that it is not possible to stop and start an economy; nor is it possible to distinguish between essential and nonessential. The commercial society is a web in which everyone and everything is connected with everyone and everything else. Business confidence has been shattered. It will be a long time before trust returns, to say nothing of confidence. We need an ironclad promise from our political leaders that this will not and cannot ever happen again. We won’t get that, so as a proxy we need public opinion to rage and for...

"Corcovado" (known in English as "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars") is a bossa nova song written by Antônio Carlos Jobim in 1960. An English lyric was later written by Gene Lees. The Portuguese title refers to the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro.Astrud Gilberto - Corcovado

The protests calling for the easing of California’s stay-at-home orders moved to San Clemente, where a group of demonstrators converged against the coronavirus safety rules. The crowd lined San Clemente’s business district, holdings signs that read “Open Our Beaches,” “Let Me Be Free,” “Freedom Is Essential” and “The Media Is the Virus.” Video of the event show some passing cars honking in support.

After recovering a chunk of the losses racked up during the worst of the coronavirus-induced selloff last month, the stock market finds itself at a crucial inflection point, writes Alan B Lancz. “The next 45 days may just become the most critical period in U.S. financial history,” he wrote in a newsletter published Wednesday. “While on average we may face a bear market every 10 years, this one is like no other,” he said. The contrarian money manager, who is a disciple of famed investor Sir John Templeton, said that the timing and execution of the reawakening of the U.S....