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The virus does terrible damage to our lungs https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/coronavirus-x-rays-show-terrifying-21672219

From the article: Unlike during the 2008 financial crisis, the US is unlikely to be able to re-inflate the dollar, as it simply doesn’t “have enough bullets in their gun to reflate a larger bubble” and now is bound to “deal with a full aftermath of this coming crisis.” “In 2008 the dollar went up because everybody was buying it. This time, the dollar is going to tank, because everybody is selling it,” Peter Schiff told RT. “And this commodity bear market, including what’s happening in oil, is going to be very short-lived. Because once the dollar starts to collapse, all these prices are going to rise including the price of oil.” The US government might try to bail out its oil industry, since its collapse might trigger a chain reaction that could force Washington to rush and save other sectors of its economy as well. “I’m wondering if the US government is going to try and bail out the oil industry. I hope they don’t, but they may. They may bail out a lot of other industries too, like they bailed out the banks in 2008,” Schiff said. “But they may have to bail out the banks again – if you look at the banks today, all the banks that they claimed are too big to fail in 2008 are a lot bigger now, and I think they will all going to fail again.” https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/03/no_author/forget-the-oil-prices-the-whole-us-dollar-bubble-is-deflating/

Treasuries Yielding Next to Nothing Aren’t Hedge They Used to Be From the article: One question to ask is if nominal bonds still carry the same insurance value,” Goldman analysts Praveen Korapaty and Avisha Thakkar wrote in a note. “Unless central banks show a willingness to cut deeply into negative territory, we think the answer is no, at least for the larger bond markets like the U.S., euro area and Japan.” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/super-safe-treasuries-risky-wall-050602922.html

JFK was extremely knowledgeable about the subject of UFOs and the Alien Presence. The late Jim Marrs, Linda Mouton Howe and I believe this is why he was assassinated. He attempted an end-run around Majestic 12, which at that time was headed by Allen Dulles, in establishing closer relations to the Soviet Union to build a common bond between the two countries in dealing with the Alien Presence.The world is fast approaching public disclosure. .

Most Americans Will Likely Be Exposed to Coronavirus, Republicans Told https://www.thedailybeast.com/most-americans-will-likely-be-exposed-to-coronavirus-republicans-told NO CONTAINMENT

Trump judge hit with a brutal legal slap down after trying to block Democrats from Mueller grand jury docs\ https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-judge-hit-with-a-brutal-legal-slap-down-after-trying-to-block-democrats-from-mueller-grand-jury-docs/

Andrew: You posted the following inside my post which will falsely be interpreted that I said it: Do court rulings mean anything more? It's not like they are actually going to get to see it. If you reply to a member's post it should be done in the open space underneath the member's quote like I am doing now. That way it is clear that it is your statement and not the member's..

House Can See Mueller’s Secret Grand Jury Evidence, Appeals Court Rules The decision is a victory for Congress’s power to obtain information for an impeachment inquiry. The Trump administration is likely to appeal. By Charlie Savage The New YorkTimes March 10, 2020Updated 4:58 p.m. E WASHINGTON — The House has a right to see secret grand-jury evidence gathered in the Russia investigation, an appeals court ruled on Tuesday in a victory for Congress’s power to gather information for an impeachment inquiry. In a 2-to-1 decision, a panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a lower-court ruling that the House had a right to gain access to the information, which was gathered by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, using a grand jury and blacked out in the report on his investigation released last year. The Trump administration had appealed that ruling.

Joe: This is from John Hopkins Univ. and is the best overall survey of the virus that I am aware of: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Wow, they had to sign non-disclosure agreements and now want to be released from them so that they can put their Bloomberg campaign employment on their resumes as they seek new jobs. Bloomberg’s Job Security Promises Are Falling Through, Campaign Workers Say Former campaign workers for Michael R. Bloomberg’s presidential bid reacted angrily on Monday to news that they would not work through the November election, as expected. https://nyti.ms/2IxZztBloomberg’s Job Security Promises Are Falling Through, Campaign Workers Sayk

Peter Tertzakian: This crude war is about a lot more than oil prices and market share https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/peter-tertzakian-this-crude-war-is-about-a-lot-more-than-oil-prices-and-market-share?fbclid=IwAR1cDZ360sPCNHFeia_yjIrk-vc4dVKm_h4w-RK0XQtX0ozMbHJahMi4oqQ

Brutal Wall Street Journal op-ed blasts Trump for his ‘chaotic’ response to the coronavirus pandemic https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/brutal-wall-street-journal-op-ed-blasts-trump-for-his-chaotic-response-to-the-coronavirus-pandemic/

I have a gut feeling that as bad as the current crisis caused by the global virus is, there are two more different crises coming later this year that will cause even greater upheaval. I hope that I am wrong in feeling this.

Donald, Jr. has publicly challenged Hunter Biden to a debate about Hunter's actions in the Ukraine that netted him $50,000 a month. Hunter in response has many things to attack Jr. about, this being one that even a Trumpnut would understand.

Trump campaign chief’s firm has been making ‘payments out of public view’ to Donald Trump Jr’s girlfriend: report From the article: “Their presence makes for an odd dynamic between a campaign manager and a candidate’s family,” the Times reports. “During a campaign appearance last summer in Orlando, Ms. Guilfoyle confronted Mr. Parscale: Why were her checks always late? Two people who witnessed the encounter said a contrite Mr. Parscale promised that the problem would be sorted out promptly by his wife, Candice Parscale, who handles the books on many of his ventures.” https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-campaign-chiefs-firm-has-been-making-payments-out-of-public-view-to-donald-trump-jrs-girlfriend-report/

Could it be that neither Biden or Bernie will not be the Democratic nominee for president and Trump will not be the Republican nominee for president? Why? Because of their age. All are in their 70's and extremely susceptible to the virus. News reports say that Congress may adjourn for an indefinite period because so many of its members, especially in the Senate, are aged and could catch the virus if they stay in Washington and then bring it home to their constituents. Pelosi is considering the option. Could the nation's focus turn towards youthful and bright Mayor Pete as the Man of the Hour? President Pete has a certain ring to it as he talks like a president should talk.

Last July 28 I wrote about what would happen and is happening: Who in 1972 when Watergate broke could have foreseen that the scandal eventually would lead back to President Trump’s uncle John G.Trump, an eminent scientist at MIT in the 1940’s who was delegated by the government among other classified tasks with reading Tesla’s secret files after his death and investigating the UFO phenomenon and then into the next century to Donald Trump inside the White House in a titanic struggle for control of the universe? Only one person foresaw this: President Richard Nixon who 47 years ago predicted that next year, 2020, would be cataclysmic not only for America but for the whole planet and who 32 years ago predicted that Trump one day would be president. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/25917-watergate-trump’s-space-force-and-2020/#comments [Did you notice that Trump when he visited the Center for Disease Control on Friday started talking about his Uncle John Trump? He knows something.]

'A global recession is inevitable': Analysts warn of 'utter carnage' as oil crashes and global stocks tumble https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/global-recession-inevitable-analysts-comment-on-market-crash-2020-3-1028975432

From the article: Congressman Brooks: I was particularly concerned, Mr. Chairman, because I read in Miami papers, and several others, that there had been a plan developed, by that same agency, a contingency plan in the event of emergency, that would suspend the American constitution. And I was deeply concerned about it and wondered if that was an area in which he had worked. I believe that it was and I wanted to get his confirmation. https://apjjf.org/-Peter-Dale-Scott/3362/article.html

Trading halted on Wall Street https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trading-halted-on-wall-street-as-dow-jones-plummets-1800-points-within-minutes-amid-coronavirus-panic/

Will Ruha wrote on Facebook today: A Wall Street Journal analysis by Jean Eaglesham and Lisa Schwartz reveal that Trump’s massive debts and his businesses are scattered across Wall Street, Chinese, and Cypriot banks, and Russian oligarchs in a tangle of financial malfeasance, posing major problems for him once government investigators subpoena the records. No small amount of money in Trump properties, including Trump Tower, derived from Russian oligarchs after Trump’s 1987 KGB-arranged and monitored trip to Moscow. Reuters documented at least $98.4 million of Russian investments in Trump’s properties. In 2008, Trump jr. boasted that, “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot our assets.” In 2013, Eric Trump told a journalist, “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” A year later he boasted, to writer James Dodson, that the Trump Organization has access to $100 million in Russian funds. Among Trump’s Russian financiers have been billionaires Aras Agalarov, Alex Shnaider, and Dmitry Rybolovlev. Shnaider and his father-in-law worked closely with Leonid Veselovsky “the mastermind of KGB money laundering, and Rybololev was a major shareholder in the money-laundering Bank of Cyprus, whose chief shareholder is Trump’s Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, who has used offshore investments to own a stake in Navigator, a shipping company having major contracts with the Russian gas company Sibur, whose co-owners are tied to Vlad Putin and are under U.S. sanctions. Ross joins Michael Flynn, Rex Tillerson, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Carter Page, Felix Sater, Michael Cohen, Michael Caputo, Anthony Scaramucci, Scott Balber, and other Trump principals who also have major financial ties to Russian oligarchs and Putin officials. Trump was financially deep in loans from Wall Street banks and Russian oligarchs, when numerous Trump ventures in the late 1980s through ‘90s went bankrupt, most notably, his NY Plaza Hotel (purchased on a $425 million loan) his Trump Airlines (bought for $365 million), plus five casinos – Trump Atlanta, Taj Mahal, Plaza, Indiana Riverboat Casino, and Trump Mississippi, with losses exceeding $5 billion. As documented by investigative journalists like Luke Harding of The Guardian, all told, Trump failed at more than 50 business ventures, losing billions of dollars. In 1992, Fortune magazine noted his debt to lenders at $3.5 billion. Business Week’s detailed analysis cited $1.1 billion in debt. Looking at Trump’s IRS 1040 tax transcripts for 1985-1994, the NY Times reported published Trump losses of $1.17 billion. Its copy of Trump’s 1995 IRS filing showed declared losses of $915.7 million, making Trump, year-by-year, America’s single largest financial loser. Ergo, his erstwhile American lenders, recognizing his insolvency, refused to throw good money after bad. Wells Fargo held loan losses from Trump of $282 million, and another $950 million of debt paid to a Trump company co-owned property. MetLife Inc. was owed hugely. Ladder Capital: $364 million. Investors Saving Bank: $23 million. Trump also owed a half-billion-dollars to the Bank of China. Deeply in debt to these U.S., Chinese, and Russian lenders, Trump turned to Germany's biggest lender, Deutsche Bank. How much he borrowed is unclear, albeit $295 million is most cited. In 2008, Trump defaulted on his payment on a $640 million DB loan for his Chicago hotel. DB sued. Then, the bank threw good money after bad, doubling down on its $300 million loan, such that he paid them back by borrowing from a different division of the same bank. Why, the turnaround? During this period, Deutsche’s Moscow branch was carrying out a $10 billion money-laundering scheme to get Trump’s Russian oligarchs’ cash out of Russia into the West via offshore shell companies, involving money-laundering through Ross’s Bank of Cyprus. DB later paid a $630 million fine for this. Transacting it via DB’s Moscow office was Andrei Kostyn, son of Andrey Kostyn, head of the Russian State bank, VEB, tied to Russian intelligence and chaired by Putin. Working with Kostyn was American trader Tim Wiswell, head of DB’s Russian equities desk in Moscow. In 2011, Andrei Kostyn died in a suspicious snowmobile crash, and Wiswell, fired by DB, fled, on the lam. Deutsche’s New York office, a major beneficiary of the scheme, was making large loans to Trump. When Trump was elected, he was at least $330 million in debt to the bank. Additionally, DB gave a pre-election October 2016 $370 million loan to Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, having also made huge loans to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, and Kushner’s mother, Seryl Stadtmauer. Thus, Trump is suing DB to seek nondisclosure – as it can prove his insolvency, tax and loan fraud, inflated insurance claims, and other misdeeds. Worse was disclosure by a WSJ investigation that Trump’s businesses owed more than 150 different institutions loans in which Trump’s $1.5 billion in losses is his 30% share with investors holding 70%. A Washington Post investigation reported by Jonathan O’ Connell, David A. Fahrenhold, and Jack Gillum, shows that 2007-2016, Trump, the self-described “King of Debt,” secured $400 million to invest in new properties including 14 transactions paid for in full, allegedly without borrowing from banks, and then, when they began losing money, chiefly his golf courses, plowed hundreds millions more into trying to save them. During this period, in support of his Russian backers, Trump held the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013, sponsored by Agalarov, whose publicist Rob Goldstone, subsequently sent the now-infamous 2016 email to Don jr., of an offer to provide the Trump campaign with official documents and information incriminating to Hillary – which is what prompted meetings with Agalarov’s attorney, Natalia Veselnitskaya, and between Russian diplomat Sergey Kislyak, Michael Flynn, and Trump son-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner who also held meetings with Sergey Gorkov, head of the Russian state-owned bank Vnesheconombank, chaired by Putin. Hence, the “Russian collusion” investigation. Lending credence was Russia’s Alfa Bank servers looking up the address of a Trump server 2,000 times, matched in number by Spectrum Health, chaired by the husband of Trump aide and current Sec. of Education Betsy DeVos, evidencing a covert communications channel between Russian oligarchs and the Trump campaign. A dozen lawyers from the U.S. firm representing Alfa Bank now work for Trump. Trump is in financial trouble. It’s why in 2016, he was the first presidential nominee in 40 years to refuse to disclose his tax returns. Mother Jones magazine’s investigation exposed the fact that Trump, as of May, 2017 was on the hook for 16 loans worth at least $713 million, not including an estimated $2 billion in debt amassed by real estate partnerships that include Trump. One of those loans is a $950 million deal that was cobbled together by Goldman Sachs and the state-owned Bank of China. In 1990, L.A. Times reporter D.K Johnson broke the story that the self-professed multi-billionaire was broke, which Trump took exception to until he was forced to place into the public record that he was, in fact, $295 million in debt. That indebtedness has worsened. Investigative reporters including Josh Marshall assert that Trump remains deeply in debt.

Helpful Reminder: Trump's CDC Guy Thought AIDS Was 'God's Judgment' For Gay People Existing https://www.wonkette.com/helpful-reminder-trumps-cdc-guy-thought-aids-was-gods-judgment-for-gay-people-existing?xrs=RebelMouse_fb&fbclid=IwAR124TnELQLZll2DzpaK8Wwmri1PiDUNe_xB9EqsKVfAx0fX5-OnhNYseqE

Both Trump and Pence attended CPAC. How ironic is this? https://www.axios.com/cpac-attendee-coronavirus-ac732478-bf2d-403e-981f-81c9f8ef2dfd.html https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/cpac-attendees-mocked-online-and-urged-to-self-quarantine-after-coronavirus-exposure-stay-off-the-internet-too/

The Coronavirus Is Coming for Trump’s Presidency Will a nationalist president be undone by his underreaction to a foreign threat? By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist The New York Times March 7, 2020, From the article: But right now we are headed for a scenario of rising death rates and overwhelmed hospitals, shuttered schools and empty stadiums and cancellations everywhere. Combine this scenario’s inevitable economic consequences with the optics of the president’s blundering and solipsistic response, and the coronavirus seems very likely to doom Trump’s re-election effort, no matter where he casts the blame.

From The New York Times: Erik Prince Recruits Ex-Spies to Help Infiltrate Liberal Groups https://nyti.ms/39zJeAn