Mayor Garcetti Suspends All Farmer’s Markets in Los Angeles After 44 Coronavirus Deaths Confirmed in City

Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday announced he is suspending all farmer’s markets in Los Angeles after 44 deaths were confirmed in the city.

All farmer’s markets in place must submit new plans to the city to re-open.

It appears the ‘see something, say something’ campaign is finally working because Garcetti made the decision to suspend farmer’s markets after pictures of a crowded market in Brentwood went viral.

#BREAKING @MayorOfLA @ericgarcetti says he’s suspending all farmer’s markets in Los Angeles.

Those in place now must submit new plans to the city to re-open.

Over the weekend, Brentwood’s farmers market went viral after pictures showed it crowded.

— Elex Michaelson (@Elex_Michaelson) March 31, 2020

Mayor Eric Garcetti already announced that the city will be shutting off water and power to any non-essential businesses that defied orders and stayed open during the Coronavirus crisis.

During his press briefing last week Garcetti announced that the Department of Water and Power will be shutting off services for the businesses that don’t comply with the “safer at home” ordinance.

The Los Angeles Mayor also warned of mass deaths, condemned Trump’s “false hope” of the country reopening soon and said his city will be on lockdown until at least May, maybe even longer.

There are currently 2,474 confirmed cases of Coronavirus and 44 deaths in Los Angeles, a city of 4 million people, yet the Mayor is virtually shutting every business down.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/mayor-garcetti-suspends-all-farmers-markets-in-los-angeles-after-44-coronavirus-deaths-confirmed-in-city/

Peter Schweizer: Sens. Burr, Feinstein, Loeffler Dumped Stock Before Coronavirus Market Collapse

Sens. Richard Burr (R-NC), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) sold millions of dollars of stock ahead of the coronavirus-related market collapse, said Peter Schweizer, senior contributor to Breitbart News and author of Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite.

On Episode 15 of the Drill Down, Schweizer warns how members of Congress can use confidential information not available to the public, received through private briefings, to enrich themselves and their families.

Schweizer said, “According to their financial disclosures, Republican Senators Richard Burr and Kelly Loeffler, along with Democrat Diane Feinstein, all sold large amounts of stock in advance of the stock market collapse. Many of these transactions occurred shortly after Congress was briefed behind closed doors by U.S. officials on the potential impact the coronavirus could have on the country.”

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an investigation of Burr’s sale of upwards of $1.72 million in stock, according to a CNN report.

Unlike Burr, who admitted to selling stock himself ahead of the stock market dives, Feinstein’s and Loeffler’s stock sales were executed by their husbands. Schweizer said:

Senator Kelly Loeffler, who is married to the Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, also sits on the Senate Health committee. On January 24th, the same day that Senate Committee received a briefing about the spread of the global pandemic, Loeffler and her husband began selling stock. They eventually unloaded 3 million worth of shares in 27 separate transactions. Two days after the Senate received a classified briefing on the coronavirus, Loeffler’s husband Jeffrey Sprecher sold $3.5 million dollars worth of his own company’s stock.

Senator Diane Feinstein’s financial disclosures expose a similar trend. Within weeks of receiving a private Senate briefing, Feinstein’s husband unloaded between one and five million dollars worth of stock.

Even U.S. House members got in on the action, with California Representative Susan Davis selling airline and cruise industry stock in advance of the stock market collapse.

Despite suggesting their assets are managed in blind trusts, both Feinstein and Loeffler do not place their assets in blind trusts.

Schweizer has repeatedly recommended mandatory use of blind trusts for the assets of members of Congress and other elected officials to combat insider trading based on confidential information not available to the public.

“There are still dozens of U.S. Senators who have yet to disclose any trades they might have made in the same time period,” added Schweizer.

Schweizer reflected on his 2011 book, Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of us to Prison, and subsequent passage of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, known as the STOCK Act.

“[Throw Them All Out] exposed the alarming patterns by which members of Congress’s stock portfolios were outperforming the nation’s top hedge funds.,” Schweizer concluded. “Sadly, the recent activities of Congress show that, even in times of the most unimaginable crisis, our nation’s health still takes a backseat to Washington’s wealth.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/30/peter-schweizer-sens-burr-feinstein-loeffler-dumped-stock-before-coronavirus-market-collapse/

"A Multitrillion Dollar Helicopter Credit Drop": How The Fed Turned $454 Billion Into $4.5 Trillion

Last Friday, to bipartisan cheers - and one sole, rational dissenter who was promptly silenced after asking "if $6 trillion is fine, why not $350 trillion" - Trump signed into law a $2.2 trillion corporate, hedge fund and bank bailout fiscal spending package, which quickly became the main topic of the current new cycle. What was not at all discussed, purposefully so due to the complexity of the underlying math, is that in parallel to the Treasury's 2 trillion package, the Fed received a green light to lend up to $4.5 trillion in new credit (which is where Kudlow's misconstrued "$6 trillion stimulus" comment came from).

And as usually happens with matters Fed related, the fact that the Fed received permission from the Treasury to "stimulate" by more than twice the full amount of the CARES act, flew right over America's head. Which, if to be expected, is lamentable, because by giving the Fed a green light to inject money at will, the US government officially launched helicopter money.

Or rather, "helicopter credit" as Wrightson ICAP chief economist Lou Crandall put it, and as Bloomberg further refined it, "a Multitrillion Dollar Helicopter Credit Drop."

So how do we get to $4.5 trillion? Here's how it happened.

The roles of the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve are different in a bailout. The Treasury Department is part of the Executive Branch. It receives its funding from taxpayers. It is accountable to Congress and to the President. It just received $454 billion in the CARES Act. The Federal Reserve, in contrast, is a private, bank-owned agency which pretends to operate on behalf of the people but in reality makes sure the financial system and the commercial banks that dominate are viable and profitable (if they aren't they are bailed out).

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/how-turn-454-billion-45-trillion-visualizing-feds-multi-trillion-dollar-helicopter-credit

Ohio: Kids Abused After Child "Protection" Services Puts them In Home With Sex Abuse Suspects

Another day, another episode of incompetence from our lovely overlords at a government bureau. This time, child welfare officials in Dayton, Ohio, placed children in a home of not one, but two sexual abuse suspects that were under police investigation. Not surprisingly, those children later reported that they were also abused.

Dayton Daily News reports:

Montgomery County Children Services placed a 4-year-old girl into a home with two known sex assault suspects, a Dayton police report says, and kept the child in the home after the girl and her 5-year-old brother said she was sexually abused there.

The report obtained by the Dayton Daily News says Dayton police launched their investigation when school staff alerted officers of the potential sexual abuse. Dayton police say the investigation is ongoing, though the allegations extend back to 2018.

In the sex abuse case, Dayton police officers found Children Services removed the sister and brother in November 2017 to get them out of a household where their mother was the victim of domestic violence. Children Services placed the children with their grandfather, who had twice been charged with rape but not convicted, although he was convicted of domestic violence and a suspect in two other sexual assault cases.

Already living in the home was a teenager placed there by Children Services because the teen sexually assaulted a 5-year-old family member in another county, the report says.

The 4-year-old first told her mother that her grandfather was abusing her during a visitation in July 2018, shortly before the mother was to regain custody. The mother told the caseworker about the allegation, according to the police report, but the caseworker allegedly didn’t follow orders to schedule a forensic examination, left the girl in the home with the grandfather and then continued court-mandated visitations between the grandfather and the children after the mother got the kids back.

In response to questions from the Dayton Daily News, Montgomery County Children Services officials said they conducted an internal review of the case but would not release the outcome of that review or comment on the case, saying agency records are confidential under state law.

Personnel records obtained by the Dayton Daily News show she received a Letter of Instruction in April 2019 for not adhering to the agency’s mandated reporting policy in July 2018. She remains employed at the agency.

The letter of instruction says that if an agency employee is notified that a child is a victim or at risk of being a victim of abuse or neglect by a parent, guardian or custodian, the employee must immediately contact the agency’s intake screening unit. It says they must then immediately fax over a report and notify a supervisor.

No records of any other Children Services employee being disciplined for how this case was handled were given to the Dayton Daily News in response to a public records request.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/ohio-kids-abused-after-child-protection-services-puts-them-in-home-with-sex-abuse-suspects/

Netherlands Recalls 600,000 Defective Masks Sent from China

The Dutch government has recalled 600,000 medical masks imported from China to fight the Chinese virus after the masks were revealed to have defective filters.

The Netherlands ordered 1.3 million masks from the communist nation to protect medical staff and patients from the deadly virus that emerged from China. The masks, which arrived on March 21st, were soon discovered to have faulty membranes, thus rendering them useless in preventing the spread of coronavirus.

The masks had already been shipped to hospitals throughout the country, but it has not been reported whether or not medical staff had already begun using the faulty Chinese masks.

“When they were delivered to our hospital, I immediately rejected those masks,” a hospital worker told the Dutch broadcaster NOS.

“If those masks do not close properly, the virus particles can simply pass. We do not use them. That is unsafe for our people,” the person added.

The government said that the masks had been shipped with the correct EU certification, meaning that the masks should have conformed to European health standards. However, an inspection revealed that the masks were defective.

“They do not fit well on the face or have membranes that do not function properly, the very fine filters that have to stop virus particles,” a spokesman for the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) told De Telegraaf.

The small European nation has already recorded 640 deaths related to coronavirus, with 9,819 confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The Netherlands is just the latest European country to fall prey to defective medical equipment from China.

Spain, which only trails Italy in the number of recorded coronavirus deaths in Europe, received thousands of EU certified coronavirus tests that were revealed to be faulty. The tests were shown to have just a 30 per cent accuracy rate in identifying COVID-19 in patients.

The Spanish government has so far sent the communist nation €432 million ($471.4 million/£386.3 million) in exchange for medical equipment to fight the Chinese virus.

In the Czech Republic, as much as 80 per cent of the 300,000 rapid test kits imported from China have been found to be defective. The test kits, which are reported to have cost the Czech government €1.83 million, show false-positive and false-negative results when testing patients, according to Prague Morning.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been accused of trying to profiteer from the coronavirus crisis that was caused by its own malevolent actions, including online censorship and the arrest of doctors in Wuhan who tried to warn of the coming pandemic.

On Friday, Breitbart News reported that Chinese companies are using the crisis to turn major profits, with one face mask supplier saying the pandemic has given companies a licence to “print money”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/30/netherlands-recalls-600000-defective-masks-sent-china/