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Marine vet turned congressman Duncan Hunter sentenced to 11 months in prison

SAN DIEGO — Former U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter has been sentenced to11 months in federal prison for conspiring with his wife to illegally use more than $150,000 of his campaign money for personal benefit.

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas J. Whelan handed down the sentence at a hearing for the California Republican from Alpine. Hunter pleaded guilty in December to a felony conspiracy charge, one of 60 counts in an August 2018 indictment that also named his wife and former campaign manager, Margaret.

Both Duncan, 43, and Margaret Hunter, 44, pleaded not guilty when they were arraigned, then changed their pleas last year in separate agreements with prosecutors.

Whelan ordered him to surrender by May 29.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/duncan-hunter-sentenced-prison

SpaceX launches Starlink mission from Florida

ORLANDO, Fla., March 18 (UPI) – SpaceX successfully launched its sixth Starlink satellite cluster from Florida at 8:16 a.m. Wednesday, using a first-stage booster for the fifth time.

The company had hoped to land the first-stage booster for the rocket on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean, but SpaceX said the booster failed to make the landing. SpaceX has been recovering boosters by flying them back to Earth since December 2015.

Wednesday's launch also used a recovered fairing, or half of the rocket's nosecone.

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2020/03/18/SpaceX-launches-Starlink-mission-from-Florida/1951584480986/?sl=10

Defying Beijing, Donald Trump doubles down on use of ‘Chinese virus’ label for Covid-19

The US president’s comments came as US-China ties sour, with both sides trading barbs over who was responsible for the pandemic

‘China tried to say at one point … that it was caused by American soldiers. That cannot happen … as long as I am president,’ Trump said

US President Donald Trump has continued to refer to Covid-19 as the “Chinese virus”, sparking Beijing’s ire. Photo: AFPUS President Donald Trump has continued to refer to Covid-19 as the “Chinese virus”, sparking Beijing’s ire. Photo: AFP

US President Donald Trump has continued to refer to Covid-19 as the “Chinese virus”, sparking Beijing’s ire. Photo: AFP

The US President Donald Trump on Wednesday doubled down on his recent use of the term “Chinese virus” to refer to Covid-19, saying he was simply referring to the virus’s place of origin and that it was not racist.

In a show of defiance against Chinese anger over the use of the term, the president used it within seconds of the start of the daily press conference of his Covid-19 task force, saying: “There’s some important developments in our war against the Chinese virus”.

“No, no it’s not racist at all … It comes from China,” Trump said when asked why he was using the term amid rising reports of racism against Americans of Chinese ethnicity.

“I have great love for all of the people from our country but, as you know, China tried to say at one point … that it was caused by American soldiers. That cannot happen. It’s not going to happen as long as I am president. It comes from China,” Trump said.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3075854/defying-beijing-donald-trump-doubles-down-use-chinese-virus

Spooky 41: How a gunship saved the day in Afghanistan

Last year, a gunship crew from an Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) squadron helped turned the tide in a fierce engagement against ISIS fighters in Afghanistan.

The nine-hour operation took place last April in Nangarhar Province. An AC-130U aircraft from the 4th Special Operations Squadron was proving overhead support to a Special Forces assault force that was going after an ISIS mountain redoubt.

Major Jeffrey Wright, a Special Tactics Officer with the 24th Special Operations Wing, said in an interview with DVIDs that “it would be inaccurate to describe this target as a village. Rather, this was a military installation literally dug into the side of the mountains, with a single path through which friendly forces could assault. The enemy consolidated their forces here in a warren of interconnected command and control nodes, operations centers, staging areas, and ‘on-base housing’ for ISIS-K leaders. This was no low-level commander and his men: this place was ‘ISIS-K’s Pentagon.’”

https://sofrep.com/news/spooky-41-how-a-gunship-saved-the-day-in-afghanistan/

Every time the price of oil gets to low..Interesting how something ALWAYS happens to prop up the price

Ansarallah forces bomb several Saudi oil facilities

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:10 P.M.) – The Ansarallah forces announced on Wednesday that their air force heavily targeted several Saudi economic facilities, including oil and gas fields.

The spokesman for the Ansarallah-aligned Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier Yahya Sare’a, stated at a press conference broadcast: “The Saudi enemy received painful strikes in response to its escalation on the ground and air in the battle to liberate Al-Jawf.”

“The Air Force conducted 54 operations, including 33 operations targeting several Saudi military and economic sites,” he continued.

“The operations of the air force managed to inflict heavy losses on the enemy in terms of equipment and lives in addition to economic losses as a result of targeting vital installations related to the oil and gas industry,” he would add.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/ansarallah-forces-bomb-several-saudi-oil-facilities/

WHO Needs to Be Held Responsible! US Coronavirus Numbers Including Asymtomatic Patients Shows Mortality Rate 0.2% to 0.8% and Not 3.4% as Reported by WHO

The controversial Ethiopian politician and Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, claimed in a press conference in early March that the fatality rate for the coronavirus was many multiples that of the fatality rate of the common flu.

This egregiously false premise has led to the greatest economic panic in world history.

The Director General of the WHO spoke on March 3, 2020 and shared this related to the coronavirus:

While many people globally have built up immunity to seasonal flu strains, COVID-19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity. That means more people are susceptible to infection, and some will suffer severe disease.

Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.

This statement led to the greatest panic in world history as the global elite media shared and repeated that the coronavirus was many, many times more deadly than the common flu.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/who-needs-to-be-held-responsible-us-coronavirus-numbers-including-asymtomatic-patients-shows-mortality-rate-0-2-to-0-8-and-not-3-4-as-reported-by-who/