March 13, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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Burnthebarnageddon…
20 hours ago: The Fed just announced that it is purchasing more than 1.5 trillion dollars in assets to prop up the stock market and prevent losses. Why is the Fed spending its money this way?
Stocks continued their freefall on Thursday even after the Federal Reserve tried to console Wall Street with $1.5 trillion in funding to prop up financial markets.
The central bank said it would flood the markets with short-term funding “to address highly unusual disruptions” related to the coronavirus outbreak. The announcement helped pare back losses in the Dow Jones industrial average, which had fallen as low at 9.5 percent, but failed to quell the coronavirus-inspired panic.
Traders on Thursday complained that monetary policy alone cannot save the country from a pandemic that’s hurting a slew of industries from the airlines to Broadway as people cancel their travel plans and large gathering become taboo.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/12/fed-offers-1-5b-to-prop-up-markets-but-stocks-continue-freefall/
1Robbing Peter to let him and his starve
‘Unconscionable’: Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Trump Moves to Take Food Stamps From Over a Million People
Edit: The Trump administration made clear this week that it has no plans to scrap—or, at the very least, delay—a rule change that could strip federal food assistance from over a million people in the United States as the coronavirus spreads across the nation, heightening the need for measures to protect the most vulnerable from the economic fallout.
Sonny Perdue: vampire and all around scumbag.
Sonny Perdue, head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, told House lawmakers during an Appropriations Subcommittee hearing this week that the Trump administration considered pushing back implementation of the rule, set for April 1, but ultimately decided against it.
full article
2https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/13/unconscionable-amid-coronavirus-crisis-trump-moves-take-food-stamps-over-million
Bolsonaro’s communications aide tried your gas mask on for laughs, Mutt.
Edit: Matt Gaetz—GOP Lawmaker Who Opposed Paid Sick Leave and Mocked Coronavirus Warnings—Now Under Quarantine Using Paid Sick Leave
As a member of Congress, Gaetz earns $174,000 per year regardless of whether he comes to work—while millions of Americans must choose between working while ill or forgoing their paychecks.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/13/matt-gaetz-gop-lawmaker-who-opposed-paid-sick-leave-and-mocked-coronavirus-warnings
3G-day Mate! and Fair Dinkum!
Australian minister who met with Ivanka Trump and AG Barr has coronavirus
Edit: A senior Australian politician tested positive for the new coronavirus and entered hospital quarantine Friday, days after returning from Washington where he met Ivanka Trump and US Attorney General William Barr.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton was in the United States last week for a meeting with members of the FiveEyes intelligence alliance — Australia, the United States, Britain, Canada and New Zealand — that included Barr.
He also met with US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka on March 6, according to a photo posted by the Australian embassy in Washington, which shows the pair standing close together.
It is not yet known when Dutton contracted the virus.
“This morning I woke up with a temperature and sore throat,” said Dutton, an influential member of the government and a key architect of Australia’s controversial immigration laws.
“It is the policy of Queensland Health that anyone who tests positive is to be admitted into hospital and I have complied with their advice.”
Dutton said he feels “fine” but his diagnosis will raise concerns about whether other members of the cabinet and Prime Minister Scott Morrison may have been infected.
The prime minister’s office confirmed Friday that Dutton attended a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, but other participants would not be quarantined.
“Only people who had close contact with the minister in the preceding 24 hours before he became symptomatic need to self-isolate,” a spokesman said.
“That does not include the Prime Minister or any other members of the Cabinet.”
In contrast, New Zealand Internal Affairs Minister Tracey Martin — who also met Dutton in Washington — has self-isolated and will get tested for the virus on Saturday, local media reported.
Morrison will no longer attend a rugby match on Saturday night after earlier saying he would even as he announced a bar on gatherings of more than 500 people.
Dutton is among 184 people in Australia who have been confirmed as having COVID-19.
https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/coronavirus/australian-minister-who-met-with-ivanka-trump-has-coronavirus/ar-BB119lWF?li=BBqrVLO
4Correction: On Friday, meanwhile, a federal judge blocked a Trump administration attempt to force nearly 700,000 people off food stamps, a key public benefit for poor Americans.
In her ruling, district court judge Beryl Howell cited the coronavirus outbreak and said the attempted action was capricious, arbitrary and probably unlawful.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/trump-coronavirus-paid-sick-leave-unemployment-testing
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