National Guard Deploys In Baltimore As City Enforces Restrictive Curfew: Live Updates

Summary:

NYC Mayor de Blasio says "we are now the epicenter of the crisis."

Staffer for VP Pence test positive; White House says "no close contact"

China reports no local infections for 2nd day in a row

Global case total passes 250k

Hong Kong reports largest daily jump in cases on record as travelers revive outbreak

NY rolls out restrictive new measures

NY case total tops 7k

Italy says Army will help enforce lockdown, effectively declaring martial law; might extend lockdown through early May

Spain death toll cracks 1,000

Italy reports another 627 deaths

National Guard spotted in Baltimore as 2nd death recorded in Baltimore County

Confirmed cases in US pass 14k

Drive thru testing site in NJ's Bergen County has a line that's over 1,000+ cars long

Switzerland bars all gatherings of more than 5 people

Greenwich cases spike as Darien shutters COVID-19 testing clinic

Trump says no plans for national lockdown

Germany to pass 'shadow' budget on Monday

EU suspends budget rules

Bavaria becomes first German state to impose 'lockdown'

Johnson says UK can defeat virus in 12 weeks if 'we work together'

Treasury now moving back both filing & payment deadlines for 2019

Novartis will donate up to 130 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to support global response

NBC News employee succumbs to virus

Dr. Fauci says social distancing should continue for several weeks

MTA confirms it has 23 sick workers

US, Mexico agree to shut southern border

China makes first purchase under 'Phase 1' trade deal

Altria chairman & CEO tests positive

Military confirms 35 American troops infected in Europe

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Update (2145ET): Earlier this week, the Military Times confirmed that some 2,000 national guard soldiers had been called up across 23 states, with more on the way.

In Baltimore, military vehicles were spotted on the street.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hong-kong-reports-largest-surge-infections-yet-experts-warn-were-edge-all-out-war

At least someone’s doing well: Goldman Sachs gives CEO 20% raise as it forecasts crash for America

Even as the US stock market continued its free-fall due to the coronavirus pandemic, the top banker at Goldman Sachs got a pay raise to $2 million a year, $7.65 million cash bonus, plus stock options worth $17.85 million.

David Solomon “led our development of the firm’s three-year business plan and a clear long-term strategy that leverages our foundational advantages, enhances the firm’s long-term mindset and instills a culture of innovation,” Goldman said in a federal filing disclosing the compensation.

His compensation package is the biggest for a Goldman Sachs CEO since Lloyd Blankfein took home $41 million in 2007, right before the mortgage collapse. It was was reported on Friday, after the US stock markets closed on yet another abysmal week, amid the economic downturn brought on by the fear of Covid-19.

Dow Jones Industrial Average closed on Friday at 19,173.98 – down 913.21 points, or 4.55 percent. S&P 500 was down 4.34 percent, and NASDAQ had dropped 3.79 percent. All three indices have collapsed since their peak in mid-February – NASDAQ losing almost 30 percent, S&P down 32 percent, and Dow tumbling 35.1 percent from its February 12 peak – wiping out all the gains since the beginning of the Trump presidency.

https://www.rt.com/business/483690-goldman-sachs-ceo-raise/

Communist China Thanks Hillary Clinton For Her Support After She Accuses Trump of Using “Racist Rhetoric” For Saying “Chinese Virus”

Communist China thanked China puppet Hillary Clinton for her support after she accused President Trump of turning to “racist rhetoric” because he used the phrase “China Coronavirus.”

Hillary Clinton fired off a tweet earlier this week accusing Trump of using “racist rhetoric” because he dared call a virus outbreak from China… the Chinese Coronavirus.

HILLARY CLINTON: The president is turning to racist rhetoric to distract from his failures to take the coronavirus seriously early on, make tests widely available, and adequately prepare the country for a period of crisis.

Don’t fall for it. Don’t let your friends and family fall for it.

The president is turning to racist rhetoric to distract from his failures to take the coronavirus seriously early on, make tests widely available, and adequately prepare the country for a period of crisis.

Don't fall for it. Don't let your friends and family fall for it.

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 18, 2020

And the Communist Chinese loved it.

“Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday critiqued President Donald Trump’s recent usage of “Chinese Virus” to refer to the #COVID19 as “racist rhetoric,” which is an attempt to eclipse his poor response in curbing the virus outbreak,” China News tweeted over China puppet Hillary Clinton.

The Chinese Ambassador to South Africa piled on, “It’s true. Justice always speak loudly.”

Congressman Paul Gosar (R-AZ) blasted Crooked China puppet Hillary.

Communist China literally thanking Hillary Clinton for her support… pic.twitter.com/NUOxi17wSt

— Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) March 21, 2020

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/communist-china-thanks-hillary-clinton-for-her-support-after-she-accuses-trump-of-using-racist-rhetoric-for-saying-chinese-virus/

Japan Lodges Protest to North Korea Over Launch of 2 Ballistic Missiles

Japan lodged a diplomatic protest to North Korea on Saturday over the latter's missile tests, Japanese media reported.

Earlier in the day, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported about the launch of two ballistic missiles from the North Korean province of North Pyongan toward the Sea of Japan. The missiles did not reach the Japanese exclusive economic zone.

The projectiles flew 410 kilometres, reaching a 50-kilometre height, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.

According to the NHK broadcaster, the protest was voiced over the fact that the missiles had been launched in violation of resolutions of the UN Security Council.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered his cabinet to gather information about the North Korean tests, check the security of vessels and aircraft as well as to prepare for any emergency.

Saturday's North Korean tests have become the third in a row after those conducted on 2 and 9 March - the first launches to occur in 2020.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has said Pyongyang would not implement the ban on nuclear testing until the United States offered some concessions in the nuclear negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang that have stalled for some time already.

https://sputniknews.com/asia/202003211078652657-japan-lodges-protest-to-north-korea-over-launch-of-2-ballistic-missiles–reports/

Illinois goes on coronavirus lockdown days after holding ‘fine & safe’ Democratic primaries

Having insisted on holding Democratic presidential primaries just days earlier, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has now placed the state on "shelter-in-place" regime over the Covid-19 pandemic, following California and New York.

The measure will go into effect on Saturday evening, March 21. All non-essential businesses – not including hospitals, doctors’ offices and grocery stores – are to be closed indefinitely, Pritzker announced after consulting with experts.

To avoid the loss of tens of thousands of lives we must order an immediate shelter-in-place.

Pritzker admitted the state does not have “the resources, the capacity, or the desire to police every individual’s behavior,” so the enforcement of the order will come down to “Illinoisans to be good members of their communities and good citizens,” he told the Chicago Tribune.

The statewide measure follows the order of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to close down the city, declaring that “now is not the time for half measures” but also that this is “not a lockdown, or martial law.”

Just three days prior, however, the state refused to cancel, postpone or enable mail-in voting in the Democrat presidential primary.

“I feel good about the decision to have the election go on tomorrow,” Pritzker had said Monday afternoon.

We do believe it’s safe. We’ve certainly consulted experts, and we think that the election will go on just fine.

With many poll workers not showing up due to fears of contagion and numerous polling places closed, the voting involved large crowds clustering together for many hours – conditions ideal for spreading the coronavirus.

The primary was overwhelmingly carried by establishment favorite Joe Biden (924,771 votes, 59 percent), whereupon Pritzker and the experts appear to have suddenly changed their minds.

As of Friday, Illinois had 585 registered Covid-19 cases, with five fatalities.

https://www.rt.com/usa/483685-illinois-coronavirus-shelter-primaries/

Confirmed: Fed Bailed Out Hedge Funds Facing Basis Trade Disaster

Back in December, when the world was still confused about what exactly happened before (and after) the September repocalypse - which has since exploded thousand-fold resulting in the Fed now doing daily $1 Trillion repo operations - we said that in addition to the implicit bailout of JPM (which we described here first, and subsequently others), by restarting its repo operations the Fed was also bailing out dozens of hedge funds engaging in highly levered trades involving a relative value compression trade in the Treasury cash/swap basis… almost identical to what LTCM was doing ahead of its 1998 bailout, which is also why we titled the article "The Fed Was Suddenly Facing Multiple LTCMs."

In a nutshell, the article explained why and how the return of the Fed's repo ops was nothing more than the Fed preemptively bailing out all those hedge funds that would have imploded had basis trades gone haywire. Below is a key excerpt from that post:

One increasingly popular hedge fund strategy involves buying US Treasuries while selling equivalent derivatives contracts, such as interest rate futures, and pocketing the arb, or difference in price between the two. While on its own this trade is not very profitable, given the close relationship in price between the two sides of the trade. But as LTCM knows too well, that's what leverage is for. Lots and lots and lots of leverage.

We also said that "hedge funds such as Millennium, Citadel and Point 72 are not only active in the repo market, they are also the most heavily leveraged multi-strat funds in the world, taking something like $20-$30 billion in net AUM and levering it up to $200 billion. They achieve said leverage using repo."

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/confirmed-fed-bailed-out-hedge-funds-facing-basis-trade-disaster

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“From your doctor admirer” – FLASHBACK: Dr. Fauci Offers Glowing Praise for Crooked Hillary Clinton in Leaked Wikileaks Email

Dr. Anthony Fauci cheered New York and California governors for crashing their economies today due to the threat of the coronavirus.

Between the two states that have seen 70 deaths from the virus so far.

Dr. Fauci also downplayed the three international studies using chloroquine and Z-Pac combination to fight the coronavirus. The French study showed a 100% success rate with patients in 6 days.

Maybe it should come as no surprise then that Dr. Fauci offered glowing praise for Crooked Hillary in a leaked January 26, 2016 email.

The letter from Dr. Fauci to Hillary Clinton in January 2016 included “from your doctor admirer.”

Here is an email from Dr. Fauci offering glowing praise for Hillary Clinton. Tell me this guy isn't a plant. pic.twitter.com/Vc1lOJIQj2

— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) March 20, 2020

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/from-your-doctor-admirer-flashback-dr-fauci-offer-glowing-praise-for-crooked-hillary-clinton-in-leaked-wikileaks-email/

Fauci Scrambles To Hide A Laugh At Trump Press Conference, Breaks His Own Cardinal Rule Instead

Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared to have some serious difficulty keeping a straight face during President Donald Trump’s press conference Friday.

As President Trump mentioned Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, he threw in a joke about the “Deep State Department.” Fauci, clearly amused and struggling to keep from laughing, broke his own rule with regard to coronavirus safety and touched his face.

When one reporter said that she had a question for Trump and another for Dr. Fauci, the president held her off and instead suggested that questions go to Pompeo first so that he could get back to work.

“One thing. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is extremely busy, so if you have any questions for him right now, could you do that? You know what I’d like to do? I’d like him to go back to the State Department. Or as I call it, the Deep State Department,” Trump turned to Pompeo then, adding, “You don’t mind.”

https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/20/fauci-hide-laugh-trump-touches-face/

HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE

What we think we get WE GET!

But if they (Cabal) can keep you distracted and thinking of other things they can shape

everyone's reality away from what really matters.

The Cabal has used hidden knowledge to shape their EVIL plans.

Using their MSM to project their desired reality into the minds of the public

They have been able to use our collective power to create their world, this is why they use

think tanks and secret societies to shape reality for the masses. Wars, famine and disaster

to keep you in fear, one crisis after another.

Corona Virus is the next installment to drive panic, anxiety and primal fear, once

triggered these emotions over power rational thought in the sedated mind. You

become vulnerable and open to suggestion and herd mentality when in this state.

Eager to hand over your rights to the very people creating the crisis in the hope they

will somehow make you safe. RATIONAL THOUGHT IS LOST.

The issues they create exist in your mind planted there over the airways, whether it be

social media TV radio what ever flavor. We ignore the reality we see in real life choosing

to believe the information fed to us.

It is time to wake up and start using your own discernment.

We are the faithful servants of the most high here to guide humanity through their ascension from

a world ruled by darkness, greed, centralized control and PURE EVIL into the world of love, light

and righteousness.

It is time for each individual to make a personal connection with the most high, do it privately

ask for forgiveness first and then seek good things for those you care about. Pray for each

other. Doing so you join the body of Christ and together we will all be successful. This is the way the

life and the truth.

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