Federal judge gives churches major victory amid strict lockdown restrictions by Dem governor

If it's good enough for Home Depot, it's good enough for churches

A federal judge ruled Friday that all Kentucky churches will be allowed to hold in-person gatherings beginning this weekend so long as congregations abide by social distancing and other health guidelines from the CDC.

Tabernacle Baptist Church in Nicholasville, Kentucky, filed a lawsuit against Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, this week to allow for in-person worship services. The church's attorney said Beshear's order prohibiting in-person services violates the First Amendment.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove agreed — at least for now.

According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, Van Tatenhove granted a temporary restraining order that prevents Beshear from "enforcing the prohibition on mass gatherings with respect to any in-person religious service which adheres to applicable social distancing and hygiene guidelines."

In his court opinion, Van Tatenhove wrote:

Tabernacle Baptist Church wants to gather for corporate worship. They want to freely exercise their deeply held religious belief about what it means to be a faithful Christian. For them, it is "essential" that they do so. And they want to invoke the Constitution's protection on this point.

But the governor, by executive order, has put a stop to that. He can do that, but he must have a compelling reason for using his authority to limit a citizen's right to freely exercise something we value greatly—the right of every American to follow their conscience on matters related to religion. Despite an honest motive, it does not appear at this preliminary stage that reason exists.

The judge also cited how notoriously crowded grocery and hardware stores have been during the coronavirus pandemic. If social distancing is sufficient for those businesses, then it should also be sufficient for places of worship, he said.

"There is ample scientific evidence that COVID-19 is exceptionally contagious. But evidence that the risk of contagion is heightened in a religious setting any more than a secular one is lacking," Van Tatenhove wrote. "If social distancing is good enough for Home Depot and Kroger, it is good enough for in-person religious services which, unlike the foregoing, benefit from constitutional protection."

The ruling applies to all churches and places of worship in Kentucky, WKYT-TV reported.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/federal-judge-give-churches-major-victory-amid-strict-lockdown-restrictions-by-dem-governor

Rock’n’roll legend Little Richard, the man behind the 1950s hit ‘Tutti Frutti’ dies at 87

One of the founding fathers of rock’n’roll, songwriter and singer Little Richard, has died at the grand old age of 87. He inspired generations of musicians with his energy and drive to experiment with new genres.

Born Richard Wayne Penniman, he was a monumental figure on the stage scene, with gospel-infused hits such as ‘Tutti Frutti,’ ‘Good Golly Miss Molly,’ ‘Lucille’ and ‘Long Tall Sally’ propelling him to stardom.

Little Richard’s contribution to formulating what rock’n’roll should be won him a place at its Hall of Fame, along with other first-year inductees like Chuck Berry, Ray Charles and Elvis Presley. The artist sold more than 30 million records.

The promising musical career Little Richard seemed to have secured in the 1950s was cut short by his own choice when he gave up secular music and, eventually, became an ordained minister and gospel singer.

He returned to the stage in the 1960s, but didn’t achieve as big a commercial success. Yet his flamboyant stage persona served as an inspiration to many younger artists, from The Beatles and Bob Dylan to Prince and Elton John.

In his personal life, the artist battled with an increasingly destructive addiction to drugs before turning a new page and returning to the ministry in the late 1970s.

Little Richard’s passing was announced on Saturday by his son, Danny Penniman. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed.

https://www.rt.com/usa/488236-little-richard-dead-legend/

Now There’s Even More Evidence that Dirty Cops Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka Both Worked for the FBI and John Brennan’s CIA

It was all a major Deep State lie.

As we reported yesterday, Sidney Powell was on Hannity Friday night on FOX News after the breaking news that her client, General Michael Flynn, had his case dismissed by the DOJ earlier in the day. Powell shared:

This was a deliberate, malevolent, concerted effort to destroy an honest man and thereby get to the President of the United States to destroy him. There’s no doubt about it whatsoever. I would encourage people to read the actual documents themselves. The governments own reports, the agents own notes, they’re all attached as exhibits to the government’s filing today and our filings in the last 10 days or so. It’s important for people to see it for themselves, the actual evidence in the government’s own handwriting and documents….

Hannity asked what did Obama know and when did he know it, to which, Powell replied:

Probably Susan Rice and Peter Strzok, who was working for both Mr. Brennan in the CIA and the FBI on the quote ‘counterintelligence investigation’. We have to go back to at least August 15, of 2016 when Strzok and Page text each other about the insurance policy they discussed in McCabe’s office.

It’s the very next day, August 16, 2016, before the election when they opened the file on General Flynn.

The day after that they slipped an agent [believed to be Joe Pientka] into the Presidential briefing to spy on General Flynn.

Strzok

Now thanks to Powell, we know Strzok worked for the FBI and CIA. This allowed the Deep State actor to spy on individuals in the US and in other countries and to perform all the activities that went along with these entities.

We do know that Brennan was in Europe at the same time that Strzok and other members of the “Secret Society” met in England. We also know that Strzok and Page referred to another Brennan CIA operative, Eric Ciaramella, the suspected Ukrainian impeachment scam whistleblower, as Charlie.

We also know Strzok insisted on keeping special authorities for the Mueller investigation. Also, the Deep State intel community refused to confirm the existence of Ciaramella communications with Strzok, Page and McCabe.

Pientka

It’s suspected that Pientka was not only with the FBI but also with the CIA, which is why his name is rarely mentioned in reporting on his Deep State actions.

D. Manny put together a massive list of actions taken by Pientka during his time involved in the Trump – Russia hoax. In January we found Pientka had been transferred to the San Francisco area and was being protected by the FBI.

We also uncovered that Pientka was at a meeting at 3 PM on June 16, 2016, with Mark Louthan, a CIA detailee and Deputy Director of Security and Counterintelligence for the National Security Council together with two other agents Michael Kreizenbeck and Timothy Tarvin in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/now-even-evidence-dirty-cops-peter-strzok-joe-pientka-worked-fbi-john-brennans-cia/

Former PM Theresa May blames nationalism for Wuhan coronavirus pandemic

As people have sought to place the responsibility for the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, many culprits have been found. Some, including national leaders such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and US President Donald Trump, have pointed to mass immigration, which eased the virus’ spread, and globalisation, which has hampered the ability of many countries to produce needed medical supplies themselves. But the United Kingdom’s former Prime Minister, Theresa May, says it is in fact nationalism that is to blame.

In an editorial she published in The Times on Wednesday entitled “Nationalism is No Ally in This Battle without Borders,” May unequivocally pointed her finger at populist nationalism while praising international organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO).

“Against a backdrop of populist politics in many countries, the search for political solutions to economic and social challenges has become a competition of absolutes,” May wrote. “A polarised politics has taken hold. It views the world through a prism of winners and losers and sees compromise and co-operation as signs of weakness.”

May accused nationalists of undermining those international institutions which she alleges are best-equipped to handle the crisis, writing that the national governments’ uncertainty as to how to go about combating the virus is “exacerbating the shift towards nationalism and absolutism which is emasculating the institutions that served us well over decades.”

In contrast, May praised “great multilateral institutions” such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation, and the WHO. She didn’t bother to mention that the WHO has been found guilty of spreading Chinese government propaganda which downplayed the threat posed by the virus in the early stages of the outbreak, as previously reported by Voice of Europe.

May also said that the best way forward for the UK is, in fact, to forge a closer relationship with China. “The question should not be ‘whose side are you on’ but how can we work together to engage with China to ensure that it adopts higher standards on intellectual property, carbon emissions, human rights and regional security,” May wrote.

Mrs. May’s dislike for national independence and love for multinational organisations may explain why the primary legacy of her administration was to fail to deliver Brexit to the British people who had chosen to exercise it.

Other world leaders have taken a different view from May’s about the best way forward. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has denounced mass immigration for its role in spreading the virus to his country, as previously reported by Voice of Europe. And last month, President Trump cut off his country’s funding for the WHO for its role in spreading disinformation.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/05/former-pm-theresa-may-blames-nationalism-for-wuhan-coronavirus-pandemic/

Pakistani NGO linked to Turkey spreads fake news about Greek migrant camps

As part of Turkey’s ongoing efforts to undermine its European neighbor, it now seems to be taking the fight against Greece to social media. A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) based in Pakistan called “Million Smiles” has been spreading misinformation about the Greek migrant camps.

Million Smiles’ CEO and co-founder is Zeshan Afzal, a Pakistani citizen. The group’s Facebook page, which hasn’t been updated since 2017, claims that Million Smiles is engaged in “working for and promote [sic]upliftment of Spiritual, Physical, Psychological, Social, Cultural and Economical conditions of individuals and reviving Nature.”

Afzal and Million Smiles recently launched the hashtag “#GreeceMistreatingRefugees” on Twitter, which claims to call attention to alleged human rights abuses occurring in the Greek migrant camps in an obvious attempt to support Turkey’s interests. A report by Greek City Times, however, says that much of the information they spread is clearly fake news, as proven by the fact that photos disseminated by the group which are purported to have been taken in the Greek camps clearly display Turkish instead of Greek words (such as “POLİS” on police uniforms rather than the Greek “ΑΣΤΥΝΟΜΙΑ”).

Greek City Times also determined that one Twitter user whose account claimed he was working for Million Smiles posted photos to the hashtag which were in fact taken in 1996 in Cyprus, during an incident when a Greek civilian, Solomos Solomou, was shot dead by Turkish soldiers in the UN’s Buffer Zone. The account has since been deleted.

The majority of the tweets to the hashtag have come from Million Smiles’ own staff members rather than ordinary Twitter users. Many of them were deleted when Greek City Times launched its investigation.

Evidence that the NGO is working with Turkey is not limited to its propaganda, however. Million Smiles also operates a Turkish chapter, and Turkey’s ambassador to Pakistan, Mustafa Yurdakul, has voiced his support for it. The director of Million Smiles Turkey is Mian Waqar Badshah, who is the Chairman of the Pakistan-Turkey Friendship Association, an organisation supported by the Turkish embassy in Pakistan.

The name of the hashtag is actually an error in itself, considering that international refugee law states that one can only hold refugee status in the first safe country that he arrives in; as Turkey is such a safe country, those who attempt to cross into Greece are illegal migrants and not refugees.

Turkey has been ramping up its campaign against Greece this year. In addition to allowing and assisting tens of thousands of illegal migrants to cross its territory to attempt to break through the Greek border, the Turkish armed forces have also been regularly intimidating international border forces in Evros as well as the Greek military, including by firing weapons along the border, as previously reported by Voice of Europe.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/05/pakistani-ngo-linked-to-turkey-spreads-fake-news-about-greek-migrant-camps/

PA County Commissioner Slams Governor’s Orders: Stop Running State as a ‘Dictatorship’

Jeff Haste, Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County Board chairman, slammed Gov. Tom Wolf (D) in a letter on Friday for keeping a bulk of businesses closed, particularly in his county, and bluntly called on Wolf to “return our state to the people (as prescribed by our Constitution) and not run it as a dictatorship.”

Twenty-four counties — Bradford, Cameron, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Forest, Jefferson, Lawrence, Lycoming, McKean, Mercer, Montour, Northumberland, Potter, Snyder, Sullivan, Tioga, Union, Venango, and Warren — moved to the “yellow” phase of reopening on Friday. The “yellow” phase, while still restrictive, allows limited nonessential retail operations but keeps a restaurant’s dine-in services, as well as salons and fitness centers, closed.

While the state closed to “minimize the 54,238 positive cases, more than 1,793,200 Pennsylvanians have lost their jobs,” Haste wrote in the letter.

“This decision has ruined the livelihood of millions of hard-working Pennsylvanians in exchange for 0.4 percent of our population,” he continued.

He expressed “great sympathy for those who have lost loved ones to COVID-19” but added that he holds “great concern for the families that now have to struggle with financial concerns, mental health stress, addiction and more because of the shutdown.”

“Again, our governor has pitted groups of Pennsylvanians against one another,” he continued.

“For centuries, our people and businesses have shown they can adapt to changes to survive and prosper,” he said. “They cannot, however, do a thing when a dictator and an unelected secretary place them in lockdown.”

He continued:

I trust and have faith in the great people and businesses of Pennsylvania to operate in a manner that protects those of our population in harm’s way and allows our residents to go back to work, enjoy their communities, and have a quality of life. I, however, have no faith in Gov. Wolf and Secretary Levine’s ability to do the right thing,

“Open the state and return our Commonwealth to the people,” he added. “Enough is enough.”

Wolf on Friday said 13 additional counties will be able to move to the “yellow” phase of reopening next week, but Dauphin County was not included. Similarly, Pennsylvania’s Beaver County Commissioner Chairman Dan Camp ripped the governor on Friday for refusing to allow the county to move into the next phase of reopening alongside its neighboring counties.

“The governor’s double-talk means that Beaver County finds itself singled-out as the only Western Pennsylvania county in his administration’s red category, surrounded by a sea of yellow counties,” he said on Friday.

“Our business owners and residents cannot become prisoners of our county because of this unwarranted double-talk,” he continued, stating that the Board of Commissioners will “stand behind our District Attorney in his decision not to prosecute any case against a business that chooses to open following the mandated guidelines as laid out in the yellow phase of reopening PA.”

Wolf’s stay-at-home order, which extends to counties that remain in the “red” phase, has been extended to June 4.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/09/pa-county-commissioner-slams-governors-orders-stop-running-state-as-a-dictatorship/

Tucker Carlson: ‘Sociopath’ Adam Schiff ‘Unfit to Hold Office,’ ‘He Should Resign’

Friday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson called on Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to resign given how the saga regarding former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has unfolded, calling the California Democrat a “sociopath.”

The “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host also questioned the effectiveness of some Republicans in the Senate for not having done more to expose the “hoax.”

Transcript as follows:

CARLSON: A normal person would not behave that way, could not behave that way. Conscience would prevent it. Adam Schiff is a sociopath. He will do or say anything to achieve power. He is unfit to hold office. He should resign. And not just Adam Schiff, the entire apparatus of official Washington has been exposed by these transcripts, as well as by the documents just released in the Michael Flynn case, we went over last night.

In November of 2019, government Attorney Brandon Van Grack defended the F.B.I.’s decision to interrogate Flynn at the White House with no lawyer. Van Grack said this, quote, “The F.B.I. was engaged in a legitimate and significant investigation into whether individuals associated with the campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump were coordinating with the Russian government.” In that same filing, Van Grack wrote that Flynn’s phone call with the Russian ambassador, the now-famous Kislyak, was of central importance, quote, “It was imperative that the F.B.I. determine whether and why such communications with the Russian Ambassador had occurred?”

Both of those statements from Van Grack we now know conclusively are lies. In its filing this week, the D.O.J. revealed that in early January, the F.B.I. had already known that there was, quote, ” … no derogatory information, tying Michael Flynn to the Russian government.” Nor did they need to know whether Flynn had spoken with Ambassador Kislyak. They knew for a fact he had, because they were listening at the time. They had a word for word transcript of the call. In other words, Van Grack was lying in his filing.

Now, this is not only of importance to Donald Trump, the people who work for him or those who voted for Donald Trump. This is important to every American because things fall apart quickly when high-level officials do things like this for political reasons. Look around. Do you know anybody who trust the government anymore there’s a reason for that, and it’s not good? It’s things like this. And by the way, it is not just Democrats you should blame for the corrosion of our public life. The vast majority of the Russian collusion investigation, including the testimony you just heard, the clips we just played occurred during the first two years of this administration.

Who were in the government then? At the time, Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and every single committee by definition. They had the power to expose this hoax and to shut it down, but they did not. We can only speculate as to why they did not. Perhaps they were too cowardly to tell the truth, or maybe deep down, a lot of them agreed with the aims of all of this. Either way, it’ll be very interesting and we’re going to sit back and enjoy it., as Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell and Richard Burr and so many of the other useless Senate Republicans, the total phoneys who tell you they’re representing you but don’t, explain why they didn’t really do anything to stop the derailment of America while it was in progress.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/09/tucker-carlson-sociopath-adam-schiff-unfit-to-hold-office-he-should-resign/

Boris Govt Won’t Require Quarantines for Airport Arrivals Until June

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce that the United Kingdom will only begin imposing mandatory quarantine of airport arrivals in June, three months after the nation was placed under effective house arrest due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

The Prime Minister will announce on Sunday that those entering the country by air and sea will be required to self-quarantine for fourteen days, despite government sources claiming that the border restrictions would be put in place this month.

All arrivals will need to provide a digital form to immigration officials giving an address for where they intend to carry out the quarantine. Those found breaking the quarantine will face a fine of up to £1,000 as well as possible deportation.

“These measures will help protect the British public and reduce the transmission of the virus as we move into the next phase of our response,” a government source told The Times.

Boris Johnson is also expected to announce an easing of some lockdown restrictions, including the lifting of limits on daily exercise and the opening of garden centres, yet most restrictions will remain in place until June when the government is expected to begin a phased opening of schools. The government is planning to drop the coronavirus slogan “stay at home, save lives” as well.

Mr Johnson’s government has faced criticism for keeping the borders open to all countries throughout the pandemic, failing to perform even minimal health checks for those arriving at airports, and not requiring them to self-quarantine for any length of time.

Virtually all of Britain’s contemporaries, including Australia, Greece, New Zealand, and Singapore, implemented quarantines for airport arrivals long ago.

Public Health England (PHE) and members of the British government have claimed in the past that quarantines and health checks would have been ineffective in slowing the spread of the virus because of the rate at which it was spreading through the country. The fact that the government will finally begin introducing quarantines suggests that this was not the reality.

Since the national lockdown was introduced on March 23rd, an estimated 100,000 unchecked people have continued to pour into the country through the nation’s airports every week.

Home Office figures recently revealed that between January 1st and March 22nd of this year, just 273 of the estimated 18.1 million people that entered the country were placed under quarantine.

The United Kingdom has been one of the hardest-hit countries in the world by the Chinese coronavirus, with over 31,000 confirmed deaths. Modelling has suggested that the true number of people that have died is over 55,000, as the government does not count all coronavirus deaths.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/09/uk-wont-quarantine-airport-arrivals-until-early-june/

UK Education Office Argues Christians Should Limit Their Beliefs to Church

The United Kingdom’s Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) argued before the High Court that Christian groups should not allow their religious beliefs to influence their professional activities.

After an inspection and review in March 2019, Ofsted, a non-ministerial department of the British government, downgraded the Christian-run Cornerstone Adoption and Fostering Service from “good” to “requires improvement” because it only places children with married Evangelical Christian couples.

Challenged by Cornerstone before the High Court, Ofsted lawyer Sir James Eadie said that Ofsted “does not prevent Cornerstone and their carers manifesting their religious beliefs as they wish – outside the professional sphere,” adding that fostering “is essentially a secular act.”

An unpublished brief by Ofsted allegedly demanded that Cornerstone abandon its religious ethos.

In response, Cornerstone lawyer Mr Aidan O’Neill asked whether the regulator was claiming that “religious acts only happen in your place of worship and as soon as you come into the public square it cannot be categorised as a religious act.”

“They are failing in their duty of neutrality,” Mr O’Neill continued, “not appreciating that evangelical Christianity in particular, which founds itself on scripture passages, includes the injunction to feed the hungry, and carry out in practice what you believe.”

“So don’t say to me fostering is a secular act,” O’Neill said. “When carried out by Cornerstone it is the fulfilment of a religious duty.”

In failing in its duty as a state body to be neutral as regards the expression of religious belief, in relation to Cornerstone “Ofsted has acted unlawfully,” he argued.

O’Neill also told the Court that Ofsted had misapplied equality law and abused its regulatory function in issuing its report, suggesting that the regulator had “invented” discrimination by Cornerstone in order to fabricate a case against it.

“This is a hypothetical dispute in which there are no actual victims,” O’Neill said, since Ofsted has “not identified any individuals who face discrimination under Cornerstone’s work.”

“You cannot set up straw men and say ‘if they were to do this to them then this would be unlawful.’” He noted.

The Nationwide Association of Fostering Providers (NAFP) came out in support of Cornerstone. Following the hearing, NAFP chief executive Harvey Gallagher said he has “no reason to doubt Cornerstone NE’s ethical base. In fact, I have found the agency to be open-minded and accepting.”

“The contribution and commitment that I have seen them make to fostering (and adoption) is important and meets a particular need. If they were to be lost to the sector, this would be a real loss for children,” Gallagher said.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/09/uk-education-office-argues-christians-should-limit-their-beliefs-to-church/

The FBl manufactured as crime against a 3 Star General. If you think you are safe, you are delusional. Stand up now, or lose your freedom soon

CNN and MSNBC, globalist mouthpieces, refused to broadcast this.

https://youtu.be/Yb6FbVuwQ6M

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-fbl-manufactured-as-crime-against-a-3-star-general-if-you-think-you-are-safe-you-are-delusional-stand-up-now-or-lose-your-freedom-soon/

Venezuela’s opposition negotiated a $213 million deal with a US security company to invade the country and overthrow President Nicolas Maduro

Members of Venezuela’s opposition in October negotiated a $213 million deal with a small Florida security company to invade the country and overthrow President Nicolas Maduro, according to a document published by the Washington Post on Thursday.

Venezuelan authorities this week arrested more than a dozen people, including Americans who work for the company, Silvercorp USA, as part of a bungled incursion that has served as a public relations victory for Maduro’s struggling government.

The two captured Americans appeared on state television in Venezuela on Wednesday and Thursday, saying they had been tasked by Silvercorp with taking control of the airport in Caracas in order to fly out Maduro. Both will be tried in Venezuela’s civilian courts, Maduro said.

The document deals a blow to the credibility of opposition leader Juan Guaido, who has vehemently denied any links to Silvercorp or involvement in the attempt to remove Maduro by force.

Guaido, the president of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, argues that Maduro is usurping power after rigging a 2018 election. Guaido is recognized by dozens of countries as Venezuela’s rightful leader.

The plan described in the 42-page document offers minute tactical details ranging from which land mines to deploy and what riot gear to use, but offers no explanation of how a small group of commandos could overpower hundreds of thousands of security forces who remain loyal to the ruling Socialist Party.

On Thursday, state television aired a video with captured American Airan Berry, who said the objectives of the mission were to control specific targets such as intelligence service Sebin and military intelligence group DGCIM and to “get” Maduro.

Asked about the reported document and Berry’s television appearance, a U.S. State Department spokesman said: “There is a major disinformation campaign underway by the Maduro regime, making it difficult to separate facts from propaganda.”

Maduro in an interview on Thursday said informal channels of communication between Caracas and Washington had gone dead since the failed incursion.

“There have always been links, since May 3 they’ve been cut off,” Maduro said in the interview on the Telesur television network. “They’re mute. Total silence.”

http://www.stationgossip.com/2020/05/venezuelas-opposition-negotiated-213.html

H. R. 6666

To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to eligible entities to conduct diagnostic testing for COVID–19, and related activities such as contact tracing, through mobile health units and, as necessary, at individuals’ residences, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 1, 2020

Mr. Rush (for himself, Ms. Barragán, Ms. Bass, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Brown of Maryland, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Cárdenas, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Correa, Mr. Cuellar, Ms. DeGette, Mrs. Demings, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Hastings, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Higgins of New York, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Lynch, Ms. McCollum, Ms. Moore, Ms. Norton, Mr. Payne, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Rouda, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms. Sewell of Alabama, Mr. Sires, Mr. Soto, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Van Drew, Ms. Velázquez, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, and Mrs. Napolitano) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to eligible entities to conduct diagnostic testing for COVID–19, and related activities such as contact tracing, through mobile health units and, as necessary, at individuals’ residences, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “COVID–19 Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act”.

SEC. 2. COVID–19 testing and contact tracing using mobile health units.

(a) In general.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may award grants to eligible entities to conduct diagnostic testing for COVID–19, to trace and monitor the contacts of infected individuals, and to support the quarantine of such contacts, through—

(1) mobile health units; and

(2) as necessary, testing individuals and providing individuals with services related to testing and quarantine at their residences.

(b) Permissible uses of funds.—A grant recipient under this section may use the grant funds, in support of the activities described in subsection (a)—

(1) to hire, train, compensate, and pay the expenses of individuals; and

(2) to purchase personal protective equipment and other supplies.

(c) Priority.—In selecting grant recipients under this section, the Secretary shall give priority to—

(1) applicants proposing to conduct activities funded under this section in hot spots and medically underserved communities; and

(2) applicants that agree, in hiring individuals to carry out activities funded under this section, to hire residents of the area or community where the activities will primarily occur, with higher priority among applicants described in this paragraph given based on the percentage of individuals to be hired from such area or community.

(d) Distribution.—In selecting grant recipients under this section, the Secretary shall ensure that grants are distributed across urban and rural areas.

(e) Federal privacy requirements.—Nothing in this section shall be construed to supersede any Federal privacy or confidentiality requirement, including the regulations promulgated under section 264(c) of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–191; 110 Stat. 2033) and section 543 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290dd–2).

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6666/text?r=2&s=1

WARNING: Prolonged use of facemask produces hypoxia

Breathing over and over exhaled air turns into carbon dioxide, which is why we feel dizzy. This intoxicates the user and much more when he must move, carry out displacement actions. It causes discomfort, loss of reflexes and conscious thought. It generates great fatigue. In addition, oxygen deficiency causes glucose breakdown and endangered lactic acid rise.

Some people drive their car with the mask on, that is very dangerous, because, the stale air can make the driver lose consciousness. It is recommended to use it only if you have someone in front or very close, and it is important to remember to lift it every 10 minutes to continue feeling healthy. It is counterproductive for people who serve the public for 8 hours, as they are intoxicating themselves without knowing it. All lives are important.!” That prevention does not lead you to another problem … let’s use the mask knowingly.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/05/warning-prolonged-use-of-facemask-produces-hypoxia/

Unemployment Is Really 35.7%

HEADLINES: PANDEMIC-DEEPENED RECESSION HAS HAD ITS EMPLOYMENT COLLAPSE AND INITIAL GDP CONTRACTION – April 2020 U.3 Unemployment Rate Really Was 19.5% per Bureau of Labor Statistics, Where the Reported “Headline” 14.7% U.3. Reflected Survey and Classification Errors That Were Disclosed but Not Corrected, for a Second Month /

Headline 14.7% Was the Highest Unemployment Rate in the History of Series (Since 1948) /

April 2020 Payroll Plunge of 20.5 (-20.5) Million Was Worst in the History of the Series (Since 1939)

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/unemployment-is-really-35-7/

Maxime Bernier Asks: ‘Justin Trudeau, Why Are You Supporting Chinese Propaganda About Corona?’

There is a reasonably plausible hypothesis making the rounds that accounts for Canada’s strange distinction among the world’s leading democracies as the silent outlier, the one government that isn’t either demanding or providing a proper explanation about how it came to pass, exactly, that a virus outbreak that began in China managed to go on to kill more than 260,000 people around the world, among them more than 4,200 Canadians.

It’s that Justin Trudeau’s government is afraid.

Afraid of Beijing, which has already wreaked havoc with Canada’s agricultural exports and kidnapped Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor over the detention of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, and which may yet choose to hold to ransom the personal protective equipment supplies Canada’s front-line medical workers require as they risk their lives treating the country’s COVID-19 victims.

Beijing has already wreaked havoc with Canada’s agricultural exports and kidnapped Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor

Afraid of jeopardizing Trudeau’s vanity-project hopes for a non-voting seat on the United Nations Security Council by standing up to the World Health Organization, which has been conclusively shown to have collaborated with Beijing’s obfuscations and disinformation from the moment SARS-CoV-2 erupted in the city of Wuhan and the province of Hubei last December.

nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-on-china-covid-19-and-the-who-what-is-the-trudeau-government-afraid-of

PPC leader exposes Trudeau’s position as a NWO one. Draws attention to Justin’s love of ChiCom tyranny, which Justin wishes to replicate in Canada.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/maxime-bernier-asks-justin-trudeau-why-are-you-supporting-chinese-propaganda-about-corona/

American billionaire hedge-fund manager Julian Robertson took $800,000 in COVID-19 aid from New Zealand's government to pay the staff at his luxury resorts

A billionaire former hedge-fund manager took hundreds of thousands of dollars from New Zealand's government to pay the staff at the luxury resorts he owns there, data from New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development shows.

Julian Robertson's luxury resorts and golf courses received more than $1.2 million NZ ($800,000 USD) in aid to help them pay their staff as tourism came to a grinding halt amid the coronavirus pandemic. Like the Paycheck Protection Program in the United States, New Zealand's wage subsidies scheme has been criticized for giving funds to larger businesses that could survive without government aid.

An investigation by the Ministry of Social Development found that some recipients of the subsidies withheld the money from the unemployed workers for which it was destined, The Guardian reported. Robertson's properties have not been accused of misusing the funds.

A representative for Robertson did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment on the subsidies or how they will be used. A spokeswoman for Robertson told New Zealand news site Stuff.co.nz that Robertson's businesses had drawn (and continued to draw) from their cash reserves. "Our staff are an important asset, and the New Zealand Government's wage subsidy helps protect them," the spokeswoman told the outlet.

The properties that received funds include the Kauri Cliffs golf course and lodge where former President Barack Obama played during a visit to New Zealand in 2018. Rooms at that resort start at $1,730 NZ ($1,060 USD), according to its website. Three other properties owned by Robertson also benefited from the subsidies, covering 187 total employees, according to New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development database.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2020/05/american-billionaire-hedge-fund-manager.html

Elon Musk: Neuralink will do human brain implants ‘within a year;’ could eventually enable eventually enable symbiosis with AI!

Elon Musk says his Neuralink company will do human brain implants ‘within a year’ to help cure injuries – and the device could eventually enable symbiosis with AI

Elon Musk spoke on Joe Rogan’s podcast about his company Neuralink

Musk said the firm will have a brain implant ready ‘within a year’

The chip could fix brain injuries that result in aliments of the body

It would be inserted to the skull by a robot that connects electrodes to the brain

Musk also noted that it could become a full brain interface in just 25 years

www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8298575/Elon-Musk-says-Neuralink-company-human-brain-implants-year-cure-injuries.html

Speaking on Joe Rogan’s podcast, the billionaire said his company Neuralink will have a version of its brain implant ready ‘within a year.’

Musk explained that the process involves removing a chunk of the skull, robots then insert electrodes into the brain and the device into the hole, with only a small scar left behind.

Neuralink, which was founded in 2016, is designing tiny flexible ‘threads’ that are ten times thinner than a human hair with the goal of treating brain injuries and trauma.

The tech tycoon also revealed that the technology could develop into a full brain interface in just 25 years, which would enable ‘symbiosis’ between humans and AI

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/elon-musk-neuralink-will-do-human-brain-implants-within-a-year-could-eventually-enable-eventually-enable-symbiosis-with-ai/

Analysis of cellphone location data in high-security area of Wuhan virology lab that studied coronavirus in bats indicates it shutdown in October after a 'hazardous event'

Documents analyzing cellphone location data are said to show that a high-security laboratory studying coronavirus in Wuhan was shut down in October, according to a new report.

NBC News reported that US spy agencies are reviewing the document - a private analysis obtained by the news company's London-based verification unit - which claims that there was no cellphone activity in a high-security area of China's Wuhan Institute of Virology between October 7 and October 24, 2019.

The report, which was based on commercially-available cellphone location data - indicates that there might've been a 'hazardous event' in that area between October 6 and October 11.

The report does not provide direct evidence of a shutdown at the lab or any proof that the coronavirus originated from the lab.

Despite no conclusive proof existing, some - including Trump administration officials - believe that the Wuhan lab, which was conducting studies on coronavirus in bats, could be the source of COVID-19, virus that has caused the current pandemic.

The document suggests that if there was a shutdown in the lab's high-security area, it could be proof that the coronavirus might've accidentally emerged from the lab.

However, there has been no confirmation of a shutdown at the lab and intelligence analysts had previously been unable to confirm a similar theory, senior officials told NBC News.

Despite this, the document suggests that the coronavirus pandemic actually began 'earlier than initially reported' and 'supports the release of COVID-19 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.'

The document also appears to account for only a small number of cellphones that one would expect to be located in a facility that employs hundreds of people.

It's unclear who put together the document.

A US official who has looked at the document told NBC News that the report's data 'looks really weak to me and some of the conclusions don't make sense.'

US officials also said that US intelligence agencies had previously received other reports based on publicly-available cellphone and satellite data, also suggesting that there had been a shutdown at the lab.

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2020/05/analysis-of-cellphone-location-data-in.html