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>>8426163 UK to put all citizens over 70 into isolation for MONTHS as coronavirus spreads across the country

>>8426177 Midtown Manhattan Bank Runs Out Of $100 Bills Amid Corona Panic

>>8426179, >>8426412, >>8426436, >>8426449 FEAR PORN

>>8426190 Netanyahu takes test for coronavirus despite lack of ANY symptoms amid trial delay uproar

>>8426188, >>8426223 Assemblywoman Weinstein 'doing fine' as she recovers from coronavirus (Is that a dude?)

>>8426292 Media Matters Brags About Efforts to Get FOX Business Network’s Trish Regan Taken Off the Air for Defending President Trump

>>8426315 Devin Nunes Suggests Going Out To Restaurants — Health Experts Advise The Opposite

>>8426322 Cop Shoots FBI Agent Who Was Arresting Him for Conspiracy Against the Constitution

>>8426344 Nike Says It Will Close Its Stores Around the World Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic

>>8426353 Greece Erects Massive Concrete Blocks On Border To Halt Migrant Wave From Turkey

>>8426405 Romanian lawmakers reinstate PM Orban amid coronavirus fears

>>8426490 US Customs and Border Patrol Agents Intercept Package Filled With Fake Coronavirus Testing Kits

>>8426505 UN Angry After Hundreds of Europe-bound Migrants Stopped at Sea, Returned to Libya

>>8426542 21 Smugglers Arrested with 2 Tons of Marijuana and 64 Gallons of Cannabis Oil, Say Feds

>>8426606 Leftist Michigan Governor Flirts with Invoking “Martial Law” using Virus as Excuse to Power Grab

>>8426607 World Bank Launches First-Ever Pandemic Bonds to Support $500 Million Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility 2017 to mature 2020

>>8426614 Putin formally signs off on constitutional changes that allow him to extend power

>>8426664 Santiago falls into chaos | Protesters demand president’s resignation

>>8426710 Alex Jones' ex-wife files for emergency custody of their kids because she fears they're in 'danger' after the Infowars boss' DWI bust

>>8426727 Israeli Scientists Claim It’s ‘Pure Luck’ They Were Already Working On A COVID-19 Vaccine Prior To The Outbreak

>>8426784 Rivlin to task Gantz with forming government after he receives 61 endorsements

>>8426817 French court officially recognizes Bitcoin as money

>>8426839 '7th Heaven' child actor Lorenzo Brino dies in car accident at 21: 'I'll love you forever'

Fucking CLOWN Baker leaving all this behind

We fight and we PRAY!

GOD WINS

Coronavirus: Israel halts commercial activity

Israel decided Saturday to halt almost all commercial activity due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, Anadolu Agency reports.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the new measures to combat COVID-19 at a news conference.

He said the government decided to close cafes, restaurants, hotels, shopping malls and entertainment venues.

Supermarkets, pharmacies, banks and gas stations would remain open and public transportation system will continue as usual.

Meanwhile, health officials said the number of confirmed cases in the country rose to 193.

After emerging in Wuhan, China last December, the virus known as COVID-19, has spread to at least 123 countries and territories.

The global death toll from the virus has surpassed 5,300 with more than 142,000 cases confirmed worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.

A vast majority of those who become infected recover from the illness.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200315-coronavirus-israel-halts-commercial-activity/

UAE, Saudi central banks roll out $40 billion stimulus for virus-hit economies

March 15, 2020 at 1:04 pm

The central banks of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, the two largest Arab economies, on Saturday announced stimulus plans worth a combined $40 billion to ease the impact of the coronavirus outbreak in their respective countries, Reuters reports.

The UAE regulator plans to support banks and businesses in the country, where the outbreak is affecting major economic sectors such as tourism and transport, with a 100 billion dirham ($27 billion) economic plan, it said on Saturday.

In a separate statement, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority said it had prepared a 50 billion riyal ($13.32 billion) package to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) cope with the economic impacts of coronavirus.

The disease has so far infected 85 people in the UAE and 105 in Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi funding aims to grant SMEs six-month deferrals on bank payments, concessional financing and exemptions from the costs of a loan guarantee programme, SAMA said.

Concerts, sporting events and industry conferences have been cancelled or postponed in the past few weeks in the UAE to contain the spreading of the new coronavirus.

In Dubai, the Middle East’s trade, finance, tourism and transportation hub, some businesses have started to feel the pain from the global travel slowdown caused by the outbreak.

Saudi Arabia, which has already suspended the Umrah pilgrimage and locked down its eastern Qatif region where many infections are located, plans to halt all international flights for two weeks from Sunday.

The UAE central bank said it will provide 50 billion dirhams through collateralised loans at zero cost to all banks operating in the UAE while an additional 50 billion dirhams will be freed up from lenders’ capital buffers.

“The CBUAE is allowing banks to free-up their regulatory capital buffers to boost lending capacity and support the UAE economy,” it said in a statement.

It said the scheme offers banks relief for up to six months from the payments of principal and interest on outstanding loans for affected private sector companies and retail customers.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200315-uae-saudi-central-banks-roll-out-40-billion-stimulus-for-virus-hit-economies/

President Trump ‘STRONGLY’ Considering General Flynn Pardon, Tees Off on FBI

We all know that the FBI has been caught lying multiple times during the fake Russian hoax. It’s abundantly clear at this point.

Even Special Counsel Robert Mueller found zero evidence of the Trump Administration or campaign working with Russians.

Now it came out on Sunday that the FBI has literally lost all of the General Flynn files, how convenient, right?

The President agrees with me.

“So now it is reported that, after destroying his life & the life of his wonderful family (and many others also), the FBI, working in conjunction with the Justice Department, has “lost” the records of General Michael Flynn. How convenient. I am strongly considering a Full Pardon!”

https://thedcpatriot.com/president-trump-strongly-considering-general-flynn-pardon-tees-off-on-fbi/

Government okays using phones to track coronavirus carriers

Minister promises use of anti-terror technology will not turn Israel into a dystopian state, despite worries of over-reach amid health crisis

Government hashing out privacy-safety balance for Shin Bet phone tracking

The Prime Minister’s Office says the government is working to strike a balance between allowing the Shin Bet security service to track the phones of carriers of the coronavirus and limiting privacy violations.

Earlier in the evening, the government approved a controversial measure to allow the Shin Bet to use cellular data to retrace the steps of those infected with the virus in order to find people who were in contact with them and instruct them to go into quarantine.

This proposal, which has raised a number of privacy and civil liberties concerns, still requires final approval by the Knesset’s subcommittee on clandestine services.

“The prime minister did not accept the original version of the decision and requested many more restrictions in order to limit the scope of the information, the amount of people with access to it and to ensure that this information is not used for any purpose besides the fight against the corona pandemic,” the PMO says.

The government says this power will end 30 days after it is granted by the Knesset subcommittee.

Government officials stress that this effort is meant to save lives.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-march-15-2020/

Russia suspends trains to and from Ukraine, Moldova over coronavirus

Russia earlier suspended trains to and from the French city of Nice and Germany’s capital of Berlin, as well as through coaches to and from the Czech capital of Prague

MOSCOW, March 15. /TASS/. Russia will suspend trains to and from Ukraine and Moldova on March 17 due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Federal Passenger Company - a Russian Railways subsidiary - said in a statement on Sunday.

"As Ukraine and Moldova have announced decisions to suspend train traffic on March 17 in order to prevent the spread the novel coronavirus infection, passenger trains and through coaches will be suspended until further notice," the statement reads.

The company added that restrictions would also apply to trains to and from Latvia. In particular, trains between Moscow and the Latvian capital of Riga would be suspended on March 15 and trains between St. Petersburg and Riga on March 16.

Russia earlier suspended trains to and from the French city of Nice and Germany’s capital of Berlin, as well as through coaches to and from the Czech capital of Prague.

Coronavirus pandemic

In late December 2019, Chinese authorities notified the World Health Organization (WHO) about the outbreak of a previously unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, central China. Since then, cases of the novel coronavirus - named COVID-19 by the WHO - have been reported in more than 120 countries, including Russia. Most cases outside of China have been recorded in South Korea, Iran and Italy.

On March 11, the WHO declared the outbreak a global pandemic. As of now, more than 150,000 people have been infected around the world and about 5,400 have died of it. Russia has so far identified 59 coronavirus cases.

https://tass.com/economy/1130363

Churches, Don't Let the Government Trample on Your Rights in the Name of Fighting Coronavirus

As President Donald Trump declared a national emergency over the coronavirus, state and local governments have leaped into action, prohibiting large gatherings and in some cases even mobilizing the National Guard to combat the spread of the virus. Yet even in this time of crisis, Americans still have constitutional rights — and some governments have arguably already trampled on those rights.

In order to equip churches in this trying and confusing time, the religious freedom law firm First Liberty released an essential guidance document.

"Unlike other, voluntary restrictions self-imposed by organizations such as the NCAA or the NBA, state-mandated restrictions carry the power of law, violating them may lead to legal consequences," the guidance notes.

First Liberty presents three important pieces of advice.

First, churches and other religious institutions "should continue to serve their local communities." The guidance encourages churches to persist in "acts of mercy, providing shelter, or simply being a source of encouragement and peace in times of crisis," carrying on a proud tradition of religious contributions to American life. Before worrying about asserting their rights, churches "should continue to be a source of strength through service to their local community, especially as their communities may be particularly burdened during this pandemic."

Second, the guidance notes that "evenly applied restrictions may be permissible. The government may not substantially burden the free exercise of religion unless it has a compelling reason for doing so, and even then it must use the least burdensome approach that achieves that compelling interest. Temporary action to reduce the spread of a global pandemic is almost certainly a compelling reason, so long as the government is not treating religious institutions unfairly compared with how it treats other comparable gatherings."

The government may not engage in religious discrimination by requiring that each religious service has no more than 250 persons, for example, but failing to prohibit the same for secular gatherings.

Finally, the First Liberty guidance notes that "extraordinary state action to limit the peaceful gathering of American citizens must be temporary. Permanent restrictions on the peaceful assembly of American citizens—and especially those gathered to exercise their religion— violate the U.S. Constitution and are not permissible."

The government may use extraordinary measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but those measures must be applied equally and they must be temporary. Churches should be on the lookout to make sure that their rights are not infringed.

However, churches and other religious institutions cannot be more focused on their rights than on their central calling. Churches best prove their value to society by serving others and by preaching the gospel. Indeed, the coronavirus should remind churches that the ancient Roman plagues in the 160s and 250s A.D. proved central to the rise of Christianity — because Christians, unlike their pagan neighbors, cared for the sick and dying, exposing themselves to the disease but also keeping people alive and forming closer social bonds. The important work of following Jesus' example of charity — not asserting legal rights — enabled the church to grow by leaps and bounds.

https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/churches-dont-let-the-government-trample-on-your-rights-in-the-name-of-fighting-coronavirus/