2,000 Massachusetts National Guardsmen activated in coronavirus response

The Massachusetts National Guard will deploy up to 2,000 members to help with the state’s coronavirus response as the statewide nurses union called on Gov. Charlie Baker for military help Thursday and Boston hospitals prepare for a surge of patients.

“Activating the National Guard will help support our Administration’s efforts to keep residents safe and secure during the COVID-19 outbreak,” Baker said in a statement. “The expertise of the Massachusetts National Guard will benefit our communities with logistical support and other assistance as we continue to respond to this crisis.”

Effective Thursday, the guard will help with equipment, logistics and warehousing, the Baker administration said.

National Guard spokesman Donald Veitch could not confirm which units will be utilized, but said the Massachusetts National Guard has four medical units. He said not all 2,000 members will be deployed at once.

Earlier Thursday, the Massachusetts Nurses Association wrote to Baker asking for supplies, widespread cancellation of elective surgeries and National Guard members to be stationed at hospitals to enforce restricted visitation.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/03/2000-massachusetts-national-guardsmen-activated-in-coronavirus-response/

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President Trump Waives Interest On Federal Student Loans: “Good news for the students”

President Trump’s administration is waiving interest on federal student loans for a period of at least 60 days, with President Trump saying that this is “good news for the students.”

The president made the announcement during the coronavirus taskforce press conference at the White House today:

https://100percentfedup.com/president-trump-waives-interest-on-federal-student-loans-good-news-for-the-students/

STUNNING!… Via the CDC… As of Friday There Are 100 TIMES AS MANY Flu Deaths in US this Season than Coronavirus Deaths

CDC headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia, photo via CDC

PERSPECTIVE:

** The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic killed 675,000 out of US population of 103,268,000 or about — 1 in 200

** The 2020 Coronavirus has killed 218 (so far) out of a population of 333,546,000 or less than — 1 in a million

And the numbers last week estimated there were 22,000 flu deaths this year.

PERSPECTIVE:

** The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic killed 675,000 out of US population of 103,268,000 or about — 1 in 200

** The 2020 Coronavirus has killed 218 (so far) out of a population of 333,546,000 or less than — 1 in a million

And there were 22,000 flu deaths this year.

— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) March 20, 2020

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/stunning-via-the-cdc-as-of-friday-there-are-100-times-as-many-flu-deaths-in-us-this-season-than-coronavirus-deaths/

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Point taken and Understood…Only posted because roughly 3 1/2 years of lies about Trump and they had to broadcast halfway decent news for once…U know that had to hurt em…KEKEK

Photos: Retired F-117 Stealth Fighter Spotted Over California’s ‘Star Wars Canyon’

One of the US Air Force’s retired F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft was recently photographed over the famous “Star Wars Canyon” in Death Valley, California.

An eagle-eyed photographer named Toshihiko Shimizu spotted the elusive, jet-black aircraft on Wednesday and snapped a couple of shots for his Instagram page.

Shimizu described the encounter in an interview with The Aviationist:

"I was at the east end of Star Wars Canyon. At 9:36 a.m., I found a black shadow in the sky of the west side of the canyon. After I looked in my camera, I found it's F-117. It came from the south, then turned right and headed to north. 5 minutes later, it came back from south again, and flew the same course. [At] 10:27, it came back again from south. It seemed to fly the same course. After that, it didn't come back again."

While the Air Force retired the F-117 Nighthawk some years ago, a handful continue to fly in the American Southwest, where the Pentagon uses them for radar profiling tests to hone its mastery of stealth technology, Sputnik reported. The plane’s unique, angular shape, which made it hard to handle in the sky and earned it the nickname “Wobblin’ Goblin,” is still occasionally spotted against the brown hillsides of the Nevada and California deserts.

https://sputniknews.com/military/202003201078649214-photos-retired-f-117-stealth-fighter-spotted-over-californias-star-wars-canyon/

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The US invaded Iraq 17 years ago today

On March 19, 2003 the U.S.-led coalition began the air war over Iraq. The following day — March 20, 2003 — U.S. forces began the ground war in Iraq.

The U.S. coalition launched “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” with the primary goal of overthrowing the Iraqi government under the regime of Saddam Hussein. The invasion followed calls from the U.S. and U.K. for the Hussein regime to surrender a suspected stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, according to a BBC timeline of the war in Iraq.

On Feb. 25, 2003 the U.S. and U.K. submitted a joint resolution to the U.N. stating Hussein’s regime had ignored calls to disarm. On March 17, then-President George W. Bush called on Saddam to leave Iraq and on March 18, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair won enough backing from the House of Commons to support the U.K. going to war in Iraq.

The initial “shock and awe” bombing effort on March 19 preceded the ground attack and formal invasion of Iraq on March 20.

The U.S. Marine Corps recognized the historical anniversary on Twitter, highlighting the work of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit to secure oil fields in southern Iraq, as well as efforts by the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force to capture the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah and the Tallil Airfield.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/03/the-us-invaded-iraq-17-years-ago-today/

House Dems Push For Renewable Energy Tax Credits As Coronavirus Stimulus

As predictable as the sun coming up in the East, open calls have already emerged for stimulus money to be spent on Green New Deal initiatives and alternative energy. This malinvestment will not help recovery.

During the 2008 financial crisis, President Barack Obama snuck in massive stimulus spending for Smart Grid rollout that now ubiquitously controls energy distribution and consumption. Today, it is renewable energy that is in focus. Can you see that both are directly focused on ENERGY and the control thereof? ⁃ TN Editor

As lawmakers continue to hammer out legislation to address the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, House Democrats are looking to insert renewable energy tax credit provisions into a larger stimulus package aimed at stabilizing the economy.

The House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition co-chairs said in a joint statement to Morning Consult that they have an eye toward addressing “both the economic slowdown we are facing as a result of COVID-19 and the ongoing climate crisis” with these measures.

“Our members pushed for these credits in the [2019] end-of-year funding package and will continue to fight for them in this round of economic stimulus,” said Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) and Doris Matsui (D-Calif.).

https://www.technocracy.news/house-dems-push-for-renewable-energy-tax-credits-as-coronavirus-stimulus/

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US government threatens families of Int’l Criminal Court staff if they try Americans for war crimes

The International Criminal Court approved an investigation into US war crimes in Afghanistan. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded by threatening to punish family members of ICC staff.

By Ben Norton

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has threatened the family members of International Criminal Court staff, vowing that Washington will take punitive action against them if the court tries American soldiers for war crimes.

Pompeo also announced an intensification of unilateral US sanctions on Iran and Syria, which are illegal under international law, and which are undermining the countries’ attempts to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/20/us-threatens-families-international-criminal-court/

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A closer look at Obama’s “$90 billion for green jobs

Obama’s stimulus package was a ginormous clean energy bill, says Michael Grunwald

The Obama Era has been a disorienting experience for those of us attached to empirical reality. Press and popular narratives that have grown up around Obama and the legislation he’s signed bear only a tenuous relationship to facts.

Nowhere has the vertiginous disconnect been more in evidence than around the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, known colloquially as “the stimulus bill.” Hashed out during the transition and passed almost immediately after Obama was inaugurated, it served as an early test of the GOP strategy of total opposition and real-time mythmaking. Republicans understand that Americans are suspicious of government spending in the abstract but supportive of most specific spending programs, so they aggressively pushed the line that the stimulus was a gigantic bucket of government pork, doled out to politically connected cronies, spent on silly and wasteful projects, failing in its stated goals. “The failed stimulus” became one of those annoying but successful right-wing verbal tics. The media mostly went along.

https://grist.org/politics/obamas-stimulus-package-was-a-ginormous-clean-energy-bill-says-michael-grunwald/