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The audible flush happened Wednesday while Roman Martinez, an attorney for the American Association of Political Consultants, was speaking. Martinez did not miss a beat as a toilet flushed in the background

Honeywell International Inc. Phoenix, Arizona2:27 P.M. MSTPRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, thank you very much. We very much appreciate this time, and I’m with some very good friends. We’ve been friends for a long time. And we’re working together very closely.I’m honored to be with you today to discuss the unprecedented actions my administration has taken to support our treasured Native American communities. Together, we’re fighting for everybody, but we’re fighting this horrible coronavirus. It’s a tough opponent, but we’re winning and we’re starting to see our country come back. It’s been a very exciting few days. We’re starting to see...

Honeywell International Inc. Phoenix, Arizona 2:32 P.M. MSTTHE PRESIDENT:  Well, thank you very much, everybody.  It’s a great company, and it’s an honor to be with you.  And we traveled with Darius.  He’s a great chief executive.  He is a — he’s a great businessman.  Done a tremendous job with your company.But I’m thrilled to be here in the fantastic state of Arizona — I love Arizona — with the incredible — (applause) — true.  I had some good moments here, especially on Election Day.  It was a good moment, right?But they’re incredible patriotic and hardworking men and women...

The American Indian and Alaska Native people have endured generations of injustice. They experience domestic violence, homicide, sexual assault, and abuse far more frequently than other groups. These horrific acts, committed predominantly against women and girls, are egregious and unconscionable. During Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives Awareness Day, we reaffirm our commitment to ending the disturbing violence against these Americans and to honoring those whose lives have been shattered and lost. Resiliency, collaboration, and resourcefulness are all necessary to eradicate the heartbreaking incidents of missing persons and fatal violence experienced by American Indian and Alaska Native communities...

Most new Covid-19 hospitalizations in New York state are from people who were staying home and not venturing much outside, a “shocking” finding, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. The preliminary data was from 100 New York hospitals involving about 1,000 patients, Cuomo said at his daily briefing. It shows that 66% of new admissions were from people who had largely been sheltering at home. The next highest source of admissions was from nursing homes, 18%.

COMBATING CORONAVIRUS IN NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES: President Donald J. Trump is supporting Native American communities impacted by the coronavirus. President Trump is working to make sure Native American communities have the support they need to combat the coronavirus.The President signed the CARES Act into law, providing $8 billion to address coronavirus preparedness, response, and recovery for American Indians and Alaska Natives. The initial allocation of this funding, totaling nearly $5 billion, will be one of the largest programmatic investments in Indian Country in our Nation’s history. The Administration has also allocated over $1 billion through the Indian Health Service...

Professor Neil Ferguson – whose dire coronavirus predictions prompted worldwide lockdown measures still in place – broke his own advice on the need for strict social distancing to hook up with his married lover, according to the Telegraph.On at least two occasions, Antonia Staats, 38, travelled across London from her home in the south of the capital to spend time with the Government scientist, nicknamed Professor Lockdown.The 51-year-old had only just finished a two-week spell self-isolating after testing positive for coronavirus.Prof Ferguson told the Telegraph: “I accept I made an error of judgment and took the wrong course of action. I have therefore...

WASHINGTON - As Europe and the U.S. loosen their lockdowns against the coronavirus, health experts are expressing growing dread over what they say is an all-but-certain second wave of deaths and infections that could force governments to clamp back down in a drawn-out, two-steps-forward-one-step-back process. “We’re risking a backslide that will be intolerable,” said Dr. Ian Lipkin of Columbia University’s Center for Infection and Immunity. Around the world, German authorities began drawing up plans in case of a resurgence of the virus. Experts in Italy urged intensified efforts to identify new victims and trace their contacts. And France, which hasn’t...

It’s a common refrain: We have bubble-wrapped the world. Americans in particular are obsessed with “safety.” The simplest way to get any law passed in America, be it a zoning law or a sweeping reform of the intelligence community, is to invoke a simple sentence: “A kid might get hurt.” Almost no one is opposed to reasonable efforts at making the world a safer place. But the operating word here is “reasonable.” Banning lawn darts, for example, rather than just telling people that they can be dangerous when used by unsupervised children, is a perfect example of a craving for...

South Lawn 10:21 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. So, I’m leaving for Arizona. We’re going to be at the Honeywell plant, which is doing great work for us. And it’ll be, I think, a great day. I love Arizona. Go ahead, please. Q What happened in Venezuela, sir? Apparently a couple of Americans were detained. THE PRESIDENT: I just got information. Nothing to do with our government, but I just got information on that. Q What happened? THE PRESIDENT: Well, we’ll find out. We just heard about it. But whatever it is, we’ll let you know. But it has...

ZURICH/GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday that countries emerging from restrictions to halt the new coronavirus must proceed “extremely carefully” or risk a rapid rise in new cases. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said countries needed to ensure they had adequate measures to control the spread of the COVID-19 respiratory disease like tracking systems and quarantine provision. “The risk of returning to lockdown remains very real if countries do not manage the transition extremely carefully and in a phased approach,” he said at a virtual briefing in Geneva. WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove supported his concerns about...

I send my warmest greetings to all who are celebrating Cinco de Mayo. Today’s celebration is usually filled with joyous gatherings of families and friends rejoicing in a unique part of Mexico’s rich history. Although this year’s celebration may not include the usual festivities and parades, the holiday’s underlying story of perseverance and resilience is as relevant as ever. On this day 158 years ago, the Mexican army mounted a monumental defense of freedom, defeating imperialist French forces in the Battle of Puebla. The battle reminds us that great challenges and hardships can be overcome by unwavering resolve and a...

On National Teacher Day, we recognize the countless men and women who dedicate their lives to instilling character, integrity, and knowledge in the hearts and minds of our Nation’s students.The classroom is a unique place for each student, providing them a sanctuary to learn and grow.  The past months, however, have tested our traditional educational models, as the coronavirus outbreak has required our Nation’s teachers to adapt and provide instruction to their students through increasingly innovative means.  America’s teachers have risen to the challenge by developing and implementing imaginative, creative, and resourceful strategies to bring their classrooms and lesson...

A Black Hole Relic from the Big Bang –“May Exist in Our Solar System” Posted on May 4, 2020 in Science  A bowling-ball sized primordial black hole, a relic of the Big Bang, may exist in our Solar system that could be detected according to theoretical physicist Edward Witten, at the Institute for Advanced Study, who has been compared to Issac Newton and Einstein.In a paper posted September, 2019 to arXiv, physicists James Unwin, University of Illinois at Chicago and Jakub Scholtz at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom, showed that the likelihood of our Sun capturing a...

New White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany holds her second press briefing since taking the job. Here is the link. https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/

The full reopening of the film and TV industry probably won’t be possible until a vaccine is developed to combat the coronavirus and testing and tracing of the virus’ spread are in place, according to David White, national executive director of SAG-AFTRA. White shared that view during a media conference call today with the top leaders of the industry’s unions and guilds, including representatives of the DGA, IATSE, Actors’ Equity and the WGA East. “As a general matter, it’s worth noting that a vaccine is right now maybe not a consensus but overwhelmingly viewed as the time when everything can...

Below is a link to a story on Snopes from 2017, laying out what a fraudulent group this is. Unfortunately, anyone that wants to believe Farci walks on water, uses snopes to discredit Dr. Mikovits. There is no information in the search engines BUT snopes that disses her. We need the right weapons to fight this fight and it's being deleted faster than we can find it. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4730092/Snopes-brink-founder-accused-fraud-lying.html?fbclid=IwAR1-BLbDSLbo7i6nTSGr4JITAQMgHtCxmOdsO3TnHurEAA1qoXWgzHVbwyc

On February 16, a Sunday, a 61-year-old woman with a fever entered the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in Daegu, South Korea. She touched her finger to a digital scanner. She passed through a pair of glass doors and proceeded downstairs, to the prayer hall, where she sat with approximately 1,000 other worshippers in a large windowless room. Hours later, she exited the building and left behind a trail of pathogens that would lead to thousands of infections, triggering one of the largest coronavirus outbreaks in the world.

...According to data released by the NHS, being overweight raises the chances of dying in hospital from the illness by 40 per cent. Having a body mass index of between 30 and 34 makes a person almost twice as likely to be admitted to ICU as someone with a BMI under 30. For those with a BMI of 35 or more, the likelihood is nearly four times higher...As the UK has the highest proportion of seriously overweight people in Europe, this is of grave concern. Yesterday, an NHS report said 67 per cent of men and 60 per cent of...

Facebook on Wednesday announced the first 20 members of its Oversight Board, an independent body that can overturn the company’s own content moderation decisions. The oversight board will govern appeals from Facebook and Instagram users and questions from Facebook itself, although it admitted it will have to pick and choose which content moderation cases to take due to the sheer volume of them.  The board will receive cases through a content management system that is linked to Facebook’s own platforms. They will then discuss the case as a group before issuing a final decision on whether the content should be allowed to stay...