"Project Kennedy": JPMorgan Tells Thousands Of Workers To Work From Home

America's largest bank is going on lockdown.

According to Bloomberg, JPMorgan is asking thousands of US-based employees to work from home in test of "virus contingency plan" for closing domestic offices should the coronavirus spread. As part of the test, managers have requested that about 10% of staff across its consumer bank work remotely as part of the plan’s resiliency testing, which has been code-named “Project Kennedy" (it wasn't clear why JPM picked that name for the project). And since JPMorgan’s consumer bank has 127,137 employees, the most of any of the firm’s divisions, that means that over 12,000 workers will be working from home for the foreseeable future.

As the coronavirus spreads, banks around the world have been scrambling ensure they can keep their businesses running and avoid a worst-case scenario by restricting travel, splitting up teams and traders amid different locations, and quarantining staff. As Bloomberg notes, some are also "dusting off regulatory plans for keeping “critical operations” open through a potential pandemic, some of which describe things like how far apart traders should sit from each other, or how many can work remotely."

The key test for JPM's will assess its telecommuting policy on a sampling of employees across businesses to ensure kinks are worked out before the plan needs to be rolled out more broadly in the event of a pandemic, one of the people said.

In other words, JPMorgan thinks it's just a matter of time before it gets… worse.

It wasnt exactly clear how JPM's client-facing bank tellers will do their job by teleconference. While technology has made it possible for more professionals to do their jobs remotely, working from home generally isn’t an option for branch workers like tellers and bankers who deal directly with customers. JPMorgan had 4,976 branches around the country as of the end of December that are filled with thousands of employees who have to show up to work for business to run.

JPMorgan’s leaders have been double-checking contingency plans to be sure the firm can continue to serve customers in the event of widespread disruptions. The moves are part of broader resiliency planning at the bank. The firm last week followed the lead of major US corporations in restrictring non-essential international travel for all employees and has been urging workers to test their remote-access capabilities. JPMorgan has also been testing systems at backup trading sites over the past few days in case workers need to be moved off of the main trading floors in New York and London.

There is a silver lining: with hand sanitizer sold out virtually everywhere, the bank is providing that precious commodity - extra hand sanitizer - to customer-facing branch workers and taking extra steps to sanitize offices, branches and equipment, including elevator call buttons and door handles, according to a memo from Co-President Gordon Smith to consumer bank staff on Friday.

And just to nip any potentially viral problems at the bud, JPMorgan has been encouraging consumers to access bank services and products through digital channels instead of walking into branches when they can.

"This can make their life easier all the time," Smith wrote.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/project-kennedy-jpmorgan-tells-thousands-workers-work-home

MSM FEAR PORN funny how the BBC gets leaks from Iran

BBC Publishes Leaked Iran Footage Showing Bagged Bodies Of Covid-19 Victims Piling Up

More shocking leaked footage published by the BBC shows bodies piling up at a local morgue in Qom, said to be victims of the country's spiraling coronavirus outbreak. Located 140km to the south of Tehran, Qom is believed ground zero for Iran's epidemic, and crucially is a popular place of Shia religious pilgrimage.

Mideast-based correspondent Joyce Karam comments of the newly published video: "If these are confirmed to be from Corona as videos claim, death toll is higher than the government claims (officially at 77)."

As of Tuesday Iranian health officials announced 2,336 coronavirus cases and 77 dead, including 23 parliament members confirmed for the virus, which is roughly 10% of Iran's legislature.

All of this strongly suggests much bigger numbers of infected nationwide, after multiple reports alleged the Islamic Republic is hiding its true numbers, or at least refusing to test.

Further leaked video published in the series Tuesday by BBC Persian shows health workers in full Hazmat gear burying victims believed infected by Covid-19.

Ayatollah Khamenei and others among Tehran's top leadership have claimed Iran's handling of the epidemic has been timely and transparent.

But on Tuesday the supreme leader ordered the armed forces to assist Health Ministry in combating the spread.

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/bbc-publishes-leaked-iran-footage-bagged-bodies-covid-19-victims-piling

NEOCON JEFFERY

=US Will Provide Turkey Ammunition For Idlib, Says Top Envoy==

A top US official announced Tuesday that America is willing to supply Turkey with ammunition amid its ongoing battle to push back the Syrian-Russian military offensive in Idlib province.

"The U.S. is willing to provide ammunition to Turkey for its operation in Idlib, northwestern Syria, U.S. special envoy for Syria James Jeffrey said Tuesday," Turkey's Daily Sabah reports.

The Syrian and Turkish armies have in recent days entered a dangerous heightened state of open war. No less than three Syrian jets have been downed in recent days, and over dozen Turkish drones have reportedly been shot down in the past week.

This after last week a likely Russian airstrike killed 33 Turkish troops, which Turkey blamed on Syrian forces, apparently not wanting a confrontation with the more formidable Russians, including the potential for disrupting deepening economic and defense ties with Moscow (such as Russia's S-400 systems transfer).

Turkey previously requested Patriot missiles from Washington to protect against Russian and Syrian air power, however. While the White House has remained cool on giving Ankara outright military support in Idlib, some within the US administration are said to be strongly considering the Patriot request.

On Tuesday the Daily Sabah reports further that "U.S. Ambassador to Turkey David Satterfield also said the U.S. is considering the Turkish request for air defense systems."

Turkish state media now reports 55 of its soldiers have been killed in Idlib over the past weeks, though also claiming a dubiously high number of 2,557 soldiers killed on the Syrian Army side.

Ankara has lately urged greater NATO support as well; however, the collective defense Article 5 doesn't apply in this case, given Turkey has suffered no attacks on its own soil, instead it's engaged in operations on foreign soil.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-willing-provide-turkey-ammunition-idlib-says-top-envoy

Jews Demand that Bible Be Censored Because It Portrays Them As They Really Are

The European Jewish Congress announced that it is recommending new editions of the Bible be published with warnings about which passages are “antisemitic”:

Jewish leaders are calling for new editions of the Bible and Koran to carry warning messages which highlight anti-Semitic passages in the holy texts.

The recommendations have been made in a new document called ‘An End to Antisemitism! A Catalogue of Policies to Combat Antisemitism’.

It was produced following an international conference organised by the European Jewish Congress, at which academics gathered to discuss how prejudice and discrimination can be tackled.

Ariel Muzicant, Vice-President of the European Jewish Congress, and co-author of the new document holds it up, showing the title ‘An End to Antisemitism! A Catalogue of Policies to Combat Antisemitism’

Among the policies mentioned in the document was the idea of warning messages in holy texts, a topic discussed in a chapter entitled ‘recommendations regarding Religious Groups and Institutions’.

The document reads: ‘Translations of the New Testament, the Qur’an and other Christian or Muslim literatures need marginal glosses, and introductions that emphasize continuity with Jewish heritage of both Christianity and Islam and warn readers about antisemitic passages in them…

There are several themes in the New Testament that have come under fire for their use as justification for anti-Semitic attitudes.

These include the blame of Jews for the death of Jesus and the seemingly stubborn nature of the Jewish people and their disloyalty to God…

The Archbishop of Canterbury (((Justin Welby))) has previously spoken of how religious texts can be exploited or misinterpreted to promote discriminatory attitudes…

‘The fact that anti-Semitism has infected the body of the Church is something of which we as Christians must be deeply repentant. We live with the consequences of our history of denial and complicity.’

The document, which was produced by academics including Dina Porat and Lawrence H. Schiffman, also calls on all antisemitic texts and passages in the heritage of Christianity and Islam ‘to be identified and rejected‘.

Other recommendations include religious leaders and thinkers ‘publicly denouncing as unholy writ’ canonical or quasi-canonical writings of religious anti-Semites…

It reads: ‘God’s revelation is thus marred by human fallibility. Beginning with the New Testament, divine revelation expresses itself in Christian holy texts that also express a form of hatred.

‘The manifestations of this hatred resulted in a tradition of antisemitism that gave moral legitimacy to crimes against the Jewish people, the epitome of which is the Shoah.’

https://christiansfortruth.com/jews-demand-that-bible-be-censored-because-it-portrays-them-as-they-really-are/

Measure to recognize CNN, Washington Post as ‘fake news’ advances in TN legislature

https://governmentslaves.news/2020/03/03/measure-to-recognize-cnn-washington-post-as-fake-news-advances-in-tn-legislature/

Musician uses algorithm to generate every possible melody to prevent copyright lawsuits

A musician and lawyer has used an algorithm to generate every possible melody in an attempt to end music copyright lawsuit claims.

Working with programmer Noah Rubin, Damien Riehl built software capable of generating 300,000 melodies each second, creating a catalogue of 68 billion 8-note melodies.

The melodies were then copyrighted and released into the public domain in the hope of stifling litigious musicians.

Citing famous examples of music copyright infringement lawsuits, Mr Riehl said his motivation was to demonstrate that the number of possible melodies is finite and therefore liable to patterns being repeated unintentionally.

This was the case when George Harrison was sued for allegedly stealing the melody of My Sweet Lord from He's So Fine by the Chiffons, according to Mr Riehl. The litigation lasted for nearly three decades, during which the former Beatle was found guilty of "subconscious plagiarism" by a US judge.

More recently, singer Sam Smith was forced to settle a copyright dispute with Tom Petty over the apparent likeness between his Grammy-winning song Stay With Me and Petty's hit I Won't Back Down.

Smith claimed he had never heard Petty's song, nor the three-note descending melody in the chorus that he was accused of stealing. The UK musician's representative at the time said the likeness was "a complete coincidence" but an out-of-court settlement saw Petty credited as co-writers of the track.

The melodies created by the algorithm were stored in MIDI form onto a small hard drive, which now contains "every melody that's ever existed and ever can exist".

"The copyright system is broken and it needs updating. Under copyright law, numbers are facts, and under copyright law, facts either have thin copyright, almost no copyright, or no copyright at all" Mr Riehl said in a recent TedX Talk explaining the project.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/music-copyright-algorithm-lawsuit-damien-riehl-a9364536.html

There is some crazy sh*t happening in France…. and nobody is reporting on it.

Globalists installed Macron as head of France, it’s OK… only the people suffer. But it seems as though the people have had enough.

Want to know the real conspiracy? The obvious control of the media. There was MUCH more coverage of J-lo spinning on a stripper pole at the Super Bowl than this…

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/there-is-some-crazy-sht-happening-in-france-and-nobody-is-reporting-on-it/

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Also cures HIV and Hepatitis alphabet

Mum jailed over 'depraved' abuse of young daughter at sex parties

A Perth mother has been jailed for horrific crimes involving bringing her eight-year-old daughter to group sex parties.

The girl, now 13, watched from another room as her 41-year-old mother was handed a 28-year jail sentence for what the judge called her "depraved and perverted" crimes – the longest sentence in WA history.

The woman's former partner, and the young girl's stepfather, was jailed for 26 years for crimes against his two biological daughters, who are now adults.

The Perth court heard the mother's biological daughter was abused, drugged and forced to watch pornography and film graphic sex acts.

The crimes began when she was just four.

Her younger brother was also abused from the age of three.

Prosecutors said the crimes never would have been exposed if not for the discovery of a camera memory card containing the footage, at a Nedlands apartment.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/perth-woman-jailed-sex-crimes-involving-daughter-group-parties/389b6cb9-1f9a-4918-ae3a-5140b24621fd