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The Virus, the Media, and the Economy
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Trump administration moves tax 
filing day to July 15, Mnuchin says
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By Megan Henney
{ foxbusiness.com } ~ The U.S. is extending the deadline for filing taxes from April 15 to July 15, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a tweet on Friday...The decision gives Americans three months longer than they typically would to file their taxes. as the coronavirus pandemic forces large swaths of the economy to shutdown. "At @realDonaldTrump’s direction, we are moving Tax Day from April 15 to July 15," Mnuchin tweeted. "All taxpayers and businesses will have this additional time to file and make payments without interest or penalties."Earlier this week, the Internal Revenue Service said individuals could defer payments of up to $1 million until July 15, but had left the April 15 filing deadline in place. In a second tweet, Mnuchin urged all taxpayers who may receive a tax refund this year "to file now to get your money." The move comes amid Senate Republicans' $1 trillion stimulus package released on Thursday, which would send $1,200 to taxpayers who earn less than $99,000 a year, provide loans for small businesses and large tax cuts for big corporations.
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CNO Message to the Fleet on Coronavirus
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by news.usni.org ~ Shipmates, it’s the 19th of March, 2020, and a lot has changed in the past week. The impacts of the coronavirus are changing daily life for all of us... Our focus right now is three-fold. We must protect our people, we must maintain mission readiness, and finally, we have to support the whole-of-government effort. That is why we have enacted additional policies designed to combat the spread of the coronavirus. We have done a number of things to include moving to shift work, reducing our manning, and increasing our telework. We have closed D.O.D. schools and many M.W.R. facilities as well as curtailed some child and youth programs. We have postponed our E-4 advancement exam, suspended the spring physical readiness test, and postponed drill weekends for reserves until May 11. We’ve also suspended recruit graduation ceremonies until further notice. Additionally, we will pause administrative and statutory promotion boards for the time being. Many things remain open too, including our commissaries, exchanges, military treatment facilities as well as the Military Health System Nurse Advice Line and our My Navy Career Center – available 24/7 to answer your questions. We are also preparing our two 1000-bed hospital ships, the Mercy and Comfort, to get underway to relieve pressure on civilian health providers who are focused on treating folks with the coronavirus. Operationally, to keep our ships, aircraft and submarines ready, commanders are empowered to take the necessary precautions, so they can effectively carry out their missions and meet the critical needs of our Sailors. While 30 percent of our fleet today is underway – including four carrier strike groups and four amphibious ready groups – we must, to the greatest extent possible, practice social distancing as well as good hygiene and cleanliness aboard our ships, in our offices, and in our homes...
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Palestinian Leaders Use 
Coronavirus to Attack Israel
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by Khaled Abu Toameh
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ What is the connection between US President Donald Trump's recently unveiled plan for Middle East peace and the coronavirus?... Palestinian leaders seem to believe that there is a connection between the peace plan, also known as the Deal of the Century, and the coronavirus pandemic. According to these leaders, Israel is taking advantage of the health crisis to implement the Trump plan and build new housing units for Jews in the West Bank. They are referring to Israel's intention to build a new road between the E1 area and Jerusalem, and 3,500 apartments in Ma'aleh Adumim, east of Jerusalem. First, the building program in the area has been on the agenda for more than 20 years. All Israeli governments since Yitzhak Rabin's second tenure as prime minister in the 1990s have supported it. Second, the recent Israeli announcement was made in the last week of February, before the outbreak of the coronavirus in Israel and the West Bank. In fact, the announcement came on the eve of the March 3 election and was more likely a pledge from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's electoral campaign. On March 18, the PLO Executive Committee, whose members held a meeting in Ramallah, said that it "rejects the Israeli occupation government's exploitation of the coronavirus to pursue its policy of settlement construction and colonial expansion." The committee, consisting of veteran PLO leaders and loyalists of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, claimed that the Israeli government and Jewish settlers were exploiting the outbreak of the virus to "destroy trees, attack houses and vehicles, and pave new roads for the use of settlers in the West Bank in order to implement the ominous so-called Deal of the Century."...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15773/palestinian-leaders-coronavirus-israel   
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announces 
statewide coronavirus 'stay at home' order
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By Louis Casiano 
{ foxnews.com } ~ California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday evening announced he's enacting a "statewide order" for its nearly 40 million residents to "stay at home,"... a wide-reaching measure for the most populous state in the country as the coronavirus spreads. The order took effect midnight on Friday morning. It prohibits gatherings outside and requires nonessential businesses to close in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. “We need to bend the curve in the state of California,” Newsom said during a news conference. “There’s a social contract here. People, I think, recognize the need to do more. They will adjust and adapt as they have.”He added, “This is a moment we need to make tough decisions. This is a moment where we need some straight talk and we need to tell people the truth.” Public events have been canceled and bars, dine-in restaurants, gyms and clubs will be closed. Essential services such as grocery stores, pharmacies and banks will stay open. Newsom's office projected the virus will infect more than half of Californias within two months, according to a letter he sent to President Trump on Wednesday where he said the state has been disproportionality impacted. "In some parts of our state, our case rate is doubling every four days," he wrote Trump. Newsom's order came just after Los Angeles County officials announced a near-lockdown of the county, affecting 10 million residents who were urged to stay home except in cases when they need to go outside for essential needs...
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Dems Reject Gun Violence Bill 
as Shootings Surge in Baltimore
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By Collin Anderson
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Maryland Democrats rejected a bill aimed at combating gun violence as Baltimore mayor Jack Young publicly begged residents to stop shooting each other... so hospitals could be used to treat coronavirus patients. Young, a Democrat, pleaded with residents on Wednesday not to "clog up our hospitals and beds with people who are being shot senselessly." But on the same day, his partymates in the state legislature voted down a bill pushed by Republican governor Larry Hogan that would strengthen penalties for violent criminals. Hogan’s Violent Firearms Offenders Act would make the theft of a firearm a felony and increase penalties for those who repeatedly carry illegal guns or use a gun while drug dealing. The bill passed the state Senate on March 10 following a contentious back-and-forth between lawmakers. Democrats successfully removed the legislation's mandatory minimum sentencing increase, arguing it would punish violent criminals too severely. Following the removal of mandatory minimums and the bill's subsequent passage, state Senate president and Baltimore Democrat Bill Ferguson lauded the legislation's bipartisan nature, saying it included "the legislature's priorities and some of the governor's priorities." Speaker of the House Adrienne Jones did not respond to a request for comment on why the bill was rejected.  Following the Wednesday vote, the Maryland legislature adjourned due to the coronavirus crisis. House Minority Leader Nic Kipke called the failure to pass Hogan's bill "one of the disappointments" of the legislative session. "We still haven't addressed the issue of crime in the state," Kipke said. "It's one of the disappointments for me this session." Democrat state senator Will Smith Jr., who led the charge to remove the bill's mandatory minimums, also expressed discontent. "I don't think anyone has walked out of here thinking that we've done enough," he said...  https://freebeacon.com/issues/dems-reject-gun-violence-bill-as-shootings-surge-in-baltimore/?utm_source=actengage&utm_campaign=FreedomMail&utm_medium=email   
Nikki Haley Resigns Boeing Board
 In Advance of Likely Bail-Out
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ If rino-Mitt Romney and scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton had a child, it would be Nikki Haley. Ms. Haley and her paid staff of political wind-testers, are constantly scanning the horizon for optics and issues that might upend her aspirations to the presidency... Today she quits the board of Boeing after the likelihood of a government bailout starts to rise….Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley stepped down from Boeing’s board of directors after less than a year because she opposes government aid to help the aircraft manufacturer weather the coronavirus crisis, the company said Thursday. Boeing earlier this week said it is seeking $60 billion in government aid for itself and its massive supply chain because of the virus. The manufacturer’s suppliers include United Technologies, General Electric, Spirit Aerosystems and dozens of others. The administration hasn’t yet said what Boeing, a top U.S. military contractor could receive. President Donald Trump this week threw his support behind the manufacturer, saying: “We have to protect Boeing.”...
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The Virus, the Media, and the Economy
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A friend tweeted from Ireland (in time for St. Patrick’s Day), blaming President Trump for the major decline in the value of stocks. This same friend credited Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s economic policies when the Dow Jones Industrial Averages approached 30,000.

This — and more — is part of our political, economic and medical divide with mixed messages coming from supposed professionals, amateurs and people who don’t know what they are talking about.

According to Dictionary.com, “panic” is “a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.”

Is this panic over the coronavirus that has caused the closing of Broadway shows, sports arenas, church services and many schools with or without cause? Is it justified, or not?

We’ll soon know, but as of Monday, 69 people had died from the disease in the U.S., 27 of them at a senior facility in Seattle, Washington.

Here’s a piece of news that has been buried by major media. An Associated Press headline read, “Most coronavirus patients recover, still anxiety, fear loom.” Gee, I wonder why fear and anxiety are looming? Could the major media, which love promoting fear when it comes to hurricanes, also be promoting fear while mostly ignoring those who recover from the virus?

Last Friday CBS reported on the number of people infected, but waited until the last sentence to say this: “The vast majority of cases are mild, and almost half of those infected have recovered.”

A banner headline in red on The Drudge Report said, “150 million Americans could get infected.” This while medical “experts” tell us how to avoid infection with regular handwashing, avoiding people who appear sick, not gathering with large crowds, etc.

Presidential candidates loose lips liar-Joe Biden and commie-Bernie Sanders aren’t helping to lower anxiety. loose lips liar-Biden delivered a speech last week in Delaware with fewer than his usual rhetorical stumbles. As The Hill reports, loose lips liar-Biden proposed “…making testing free and widely available” and establishing “10 mobile sites and drive-thru facilities per state, in addition to greater transparency from the White House…” commie-Sanders, on the other hand, “has used the outbreak as an opportunity to push his progressive agenda, specifically his ‘Medicare for All’ proposal.” Sanders says his plan would ensure free vaccines and treatment to those infected. The Trump administration has outlined similar actions.

Are we being subjected to doublespeak when on the one hand we are told the coronavirus is nothing to be afraid of, if we take precautions, and on the other we are told to run for the hills? Is this a biblical plague or a manageable ailment? Are we facing the judgment of God, or will this, too, pass like the flu, or a cold, or other ailments from which most of us recover?

If the weather is difficult to accurately predict, why would anyone think forecasts related to a virus might be accurate and trustworthy?

I am no prophet, but just as other challenges have confronted America, we will recover from this one. The stock market will revive (it was up nearly 2,000 points last Friday) because the economy remains strong. Schools that are closed will reopen. Broadway lights will go back on. Sports contests with fans in the seats will resume. Church doors will reopen. Normalcy will return.

Last Friday at the White House, Doug McMillon, the CEO of Walmart, announced that parking lots at some of his stores will be used for drive-in coronavirus testing. And Variety reports that Verily, the life sciences division of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, “is in the ‘early stages of development’ with a test slated to roll out initially in the San Francisco Bay Area. … At some point, Verily said, it may expand the tool more widely.”

CEOs from Target, Walgreen’s and CVS were among those also pledging cooperation. Now if only the politicians would stop fighting each other and instead unify to fight the virus.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/69257?mailing_id=4927&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4927&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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