Archive for March, 2020
“If Getting Us Into $6 Trillion More Debt Doesn’t Matter, Then Why Not $350 Trillion?”
March 28th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: …out of the $2 trillion, only $290 billion is meant for direct payments to families, which as a reminder was the whole point of the bill. … If getting us into $6 trillion more debt doesn’t matter, then why are we not getting $350 trillion more in debt so that we can give […]
SpaceX Competitor OneWeb Goes Bankrupt
March 28th, 2020Via: BBC: OneWeb, the high-profile London-based satellite start-up, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US. The firm, which has been building a network to deliver broadband across the globe, blamed the Covid-19 crisis for its inability to secure new investment. OneWeb issued a statement saying it was laying off most of its staff while […]
SpaceX Has Won a Big NASA Contract to Fly Cargo to the Moon
March 28th, 2020Via: Ars Technica: Last summer, NASA put out a call for companies who would be willing to deliver cargo to a proposed station in orbit around the Moon, called the Lunar Gateway. On Friday, NASA announced that the first award under this “Gateway Logistics” contract would go to SpaceX. The company has proposed using its […]
Current Estimates About Covid-19 Fatality Rate Orders of Magnitude Too High
March 27th, 2020Via: Stanford: Stanford Health Policy’s Eran Bendavid and Jay Bhattacharya write in this Wall Street Journal editorial that current estimates about the COVID-19 fatality rate may be too high by orders of magnitude. “If it’s true that the novel coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines, then the extraordinary measures being carried out […]
Gordon Brown Calls for Global Government to Tackle Coronavirus
March 27th, 2020Tell me another one. Via: Guardian: Gordon Brown has urged world leaders to create a temporary form of global government to tackle the twin medical and economic crises caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The former Labour prime minister, who was at the centre of the international efforts to tackle the impact of the near-meltdown of […]
Prof Who Predicted 500K UK Deaths Now Says Under 20K Will Die, Peak In Two Weeks
March 27th, 2020This is the yellowcake uranium moment of the Covid-19 op. Via: Zero Hedge: Imperial College London’s Neil Ferguson – who originally estimated 500,000 deaths in the UK due to Coronavirus, now says that the virus will peak in just two or three weeks, and that UK deaths from the disease are now unlikely to exceed […]
Covid-19: ‘Patient Zero’ at Wuhan Seafood Market Identified
March 27th, 2020This is the Satam al Suqami passport moment of the Covid-19 op. Via: New Zealand Herald: The first person from the Wuhan market – where the coronavirus pandemic is believed to have started – to test positive for the virus was a woman selling live shrimps, according to a document leaked to media. The 57-year-old […]
New York Hospitals Treating Coronavirus Patients with Vitamin C
March 26th, 2020I’m genuinely shocked that they are admitting to using IV Vitamin C. Meanwhile, in New Zealand: Via: New York Post: Seriously sick coronavirus patients in New York state’s largest hospital system are being given massive doses of vitamin C — based on promising reports that it’s helped people in hard-hit China, The Post has learned. […]
U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS: 3.283 MILLION
March 26th, 2020It’s as if the U.S. had been hit with a nuke, minus the mushroom cloud, over what amounts to a scam. See: 12 Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic Whatever this is, it makes 9/11 look like Tiddlywinks. Via: Yahoo Finance: The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy, and data released Thursday morning […]
Coronavirus Could Infect Privacy And Civil Liberties Forever
March 26th, 2020Via: Forbes: From a technological perspective, the coronavirus pandemic is one massive testbed for surveillance capitalism. More specifically, it’s a testbed for new, much more large-scale forms of surveillance. Already, governments in Italy, Germany, Austria, China, South Korea and Taiwan have begun analysing smartphone data so as to determine to what extent populations are really […]
