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Patrick Rooney, Founder of Old School™ (Natural Health / Success / Freedom) comments on The White House Coronavirus (COVID-19) Task Force press conference Thursday, April 23rd, 2020. During the conference, Vice President Pence introduced William Bryan, Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary for Science and Technology, who gave a presentation detailing the amazing effect of heat, humidity, and particularly sunlight (U.V. light) in quickly degrading the coronavirus. Incredibly, the White House press was generally hostile to the report, with the conference marred by an obnoxious CNN reporter who refused to stop her line of questioning of President Trump. The spectacle was...

The agency on April 24 issued “show cause orders” to China Telecom Americas, China Unicom Americas, Pacific Networks Corp, and its wholly-owned subsidiary ComNet (USA) LLC, directing them to explain why the FCC shouldn’t start the process of revoking their authorizations to operate in the country. ...the order reflects “deep concern” among federal agencies about “these companies’ vulnerability to the exploitation, influence, and control of the Chinese Communist Party, given that they are subsidiaries of Chinese state-owned entities,” Pai said. “No matter their cries to the contrary, these firms are beholden to the Chinese Communist Party, and their operation in...

Sahan Journal brings you reliable and authentic news about our newest Minnesotans For the first time in the history of Minnesota, the adhan was broadcast Thursday evening over an outdoor speaker placed over the rooftop of Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque in Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis. The call to prayer will be broadcast five times a day throughout the month of Ramadan, which began Thursday evening. “This is a historic moment tonight for us to be celebrating the first call to prayer, adhan, in a major city in the United States,” said Sheikh Abdisalam Adam, board chairman of Islamic Civic Society of...

In a recent discovery, it was found out that certain face masks listed on Amazon which claimed to be "based in USA" were actually manufactured in Wuhan, China itself! The whole point of people buying face masks is to stop the infection of the Coronavirus or Covid-19 itself and now that it has surfaced that some of these face masks come from the very source of the virus, it is a given that people will now draw away from purchasing these masks.

China is looking to take advantage of the coronavirus crisis and gobble up distressed companies that are vital to our national defense while they are economically vulnerable and looking for capital,” Green said in an April 22 statement.. Green said he will introduce the SOS ACT (Secure Our Systems Against China’s Tactics), which would set aside $10 billion from the CARES Act, the virus-related relief package, “to incentivize America’s investors to invest their capital in vulnerable companies that are critical to our national security,”..Green said the bill wouldn’t require new funding but would reallocate existing funding in the rescue package....

The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, his estranged wife Rita Hayworth and Everett Sloane. It is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King. Although The Lady from Shanghai initially received mixed reviews, it has grown in stature over the years, and many critics have praised its set designs and camerawork."The Lady From Shanghai" Funhouse mirrors 1947

Usama bin Laden wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama so that the "totally unprepared" Joe Biden would take over as president and plunge the United States "into a crisis," according to documents seized from bin Laden's Pakistan compound when he was killed in May 2011. The secretive documents, first reported in 2012 by The Washington Post, outlined a plan to take out Obama and top U.S. military commander David Petraeus as they traveled by plane. “The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [Vice President] Biden take over...

Sedalia knife shop owner Hal Van Herke on Tuesday posted a Declaration of Business Independence on Facebook saying he would reopen CastleGate Knife and Tool Tuesday in defiance of Governor Polis’ stay-at-home order. Van Herke’s declaration says in part: “WHEREAS: Small businesses have carried the burden of this effort more heavily than special interests, large corporations and major banks who once again received preferential treatment and largess from the Federal Government at the further cost of small business tax payers, and WHEREAS: Non-essential Government, Academic, and Corporate staff continue to remain unconscionably fully paid at the same time that Small...

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., had some harsh words for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., after the latter suggested that state governments should be able to declare bankruptcy during the coronavirus pandemic. ".@senatemajldr McConnell’s dismissive remark that States devastated by Coronavirus should go bankrupt rather than get the federal assistance they need and deserve is shameful and indefensible," King tweeted Wednesday. "To say that it is 'free money' to provide funds for [...] cops, firefighters and healthcare workers makes McConnell the Marie Antoinette of the Senate," he added.

Priest-blogger on sex-abuse cover-up resists bishop’s order to leave parishes 'I want it to be clear that I want to be an obedient priest. All I want to do is do my duty as a priest.' MARTINSVILLE, Virginia, April 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A priest whose bishop removed him from his pastoral duties at two rural parishes ostensibly due to blog entries critical of the Church’s handling of the clergy sex scandal has insisted on remaining at his post until established Church law has run its course.     After Archbishop Viganò published his testimony about Pope-Francis covering-up for sex-abuser McCarrick in...

Emails Suggest Obama FBI Knew McCain Leaked Trump Dossier Mexican Hospital Overrun by COVID-19 Closes Near Busy U.S. Crossing Court Orders Maryland to Release Complete Voter Registration Records Our Campaign for Clean Elections Emails Suggest Obama FBI Knew McCain Leaked Trump Dossier We are getting more insight into the thinking of the corrupt FBI officials involved in the plot against Donald Trump – in particular what they knew and when they knew about the smear/leak operation using the shady “dossier.” Our new understanding comes from 138 pages of emails between former FBI official Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney...

Pennsylvania has corrected its coronavirus data multiple times over the past week to account for irregularities, according to new reports. Earlier this week, Pennsylvania started to include “probable deaths” in its fatalities. As a result, the total number of coronavirus deaths grew by 276, then 360, in successive nights, almost doubling the number of deaths in the state in two days. The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) subsequently removed 200 deaths from its count after facing mounting questions about the accuracy of the count. Health Secretary Rachel Levine spoke to the Philadelphia Inquirer about the initial decision to include probable...

President Trump plans to pare back his coronavirus press conferences, according to four sources familiar with the internal deliberations. He may stop appearing daily and make shorter appearances when he does, the sources said — a practice that may have started with Friday's unusually short briefing. Why this matters: Trump's daily press conferences — televised to a largely homebound population — have dominated the public discourse about the coronavirus.Behind the scenes: A number of Trump's most trusted advisers — both inside and outside the White House — have urged him to stop doing marathon televised briefings. They've told him he's overexposed and...

Orange County and the Inland Empire went from having half of normal rainfall at the end of February to 90% or more today, he said. That ignited a bloom. Sure, the bloom isn’t as dramatic as it was last year, when a rare superbloom lit up social media and drove hundreds of thousands to travel to Riverside County, where Lake Elsinore’s Walker Canyon offered miles of rolling hills painted brilliant orange. But 2020 went from being a disappointment to an above-average wildflower year, said Naomi Fraga, director of conservation programs at the 86-acre California Botanic Garden in Claremont.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago City Council approved Mayor Lori Lightfoot's request for emergency powers during a virtual meeting Friday. Mayor Lightfoot asked for emergency powers to make decisions about COVID-19-related spending at their discretion without council approval. Aldermen passed her request 29-21 Friday. The measure only needed a majority, 26 votes, to pass. The council first took up the mayor's request on Wednesday during a virtual session that turned heated. A small group of aldermen objected to giving Lightfoot such sweeping authority and they pushed any decision to Friday. "I think it is important that we work in collaboration...

Seven officers appeared at Lee’s home and arrested the 81-year-old for participating in an unauthorized protest last year that 1.7 million people attended. More than a dozen other democracy activists were detained the same day. The arrests buttressed a week of coordinated actions by Beijing that experts say have redefined the status of Hong Kong. The effect was to demolish the “one country, two systems” framework that prohibits Beijing’s involvement in local affairs and is supposed to afford the financial center a high level of autonomy. With the world distracted by the novel coronavirus pandemic, China has carried out a...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Friday two protests happened at the State House where demonstrators showed their support for reopening South Carolina’s economy. At noon, a group called Drive to Thrive asked the community to join in on a mobile protest against the ongoing closures of some non-essential businesses in our state. Their goal was to fill the streets of Columbia with at least 50,000 vehicles. Demonstrators were encouraged to stay inside their cars, and show an audible display of solidarity by honking their car horns for a full 60 seconds at 12:30 p.m. They’re also asking participants to support local...

Turkey claims it is striking “terrorists,” but locals are concerned airstrikes come amid increased instability, ISIS resurgence and target vulnerably minorities Turkish drones and warplanes flew into Iraq airspace and bombed near a refugee camp near Makhmour on Wednesday, killing and wounding several people. Iraq’s top security cell for media reporting that its air defense monitored a Turkish violation of Iraqi airspace and that at least two women “residents of the camp were victims of the bombardment.” Iraqi media reported in the evening of April 15 that the death toll at the refugee camp had risen to three. It is...

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside of the Wisconsin state Capitol Friday asking the state to lift its stay-at-home order aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus in the latest of protests that have swept the country, with especially large rallies in Minnesota, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The Wisconsin rally Friday drew fewer demonstrators than the Minnesota, Michigan and Pennsylvania rallies, but had enough protesters to cover the steps of the Capitol with people who were not social distancing or wearing masks. The protesters were advocating against a stay-at-home order issued by Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, which he last week extended...

McKinsey & Company, a corporate consulting service with a long history of working closely with the communist regime in China, is advising the New York state government response to the coronavirus crisis, per public reports and confirmation from the governor’s office. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, has regularly name-checked the corporate consulting company at his press conferences detailing his state’s handling of the pandemic. New York, including Cuomo himself, is actually using McKinsey data to compile modeling on the spread—infection rate—as well as the mortality rate of the virus in the state. Slides from Cuomo’s press conferences discussing...