Archive for May, 2020
U.S. Grocery Costs Jump Most in 46 Years, Led by Rising Prices for Meat and Eggs
May 13th, 2020Via: CNBC: Prices Americans paid for eggs, meat, cereal and milk shot higher in April as people flocked to grocery stores to stock up on food amid government lockdowns designed to slow the spread of Covid-19. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that prices U.S. consumers paid for groceries jumped 2.6% in April, the largest one-month […]
L.A. County Could Keep Stay-at-Home Orders in Place for Three More Months
May 13th, 2020Via: LA Times: Los Angeles County’s stay-at-home orders will “with all certainty” be extended for the next three months, county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer acknowledged during a Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday. Ferrer later added that even if the orders remain in place through the summer, restrictions will be “gradually relaxed” under a five-step […]
Deployment of Military Inside Mexico to Continue
May 12th, 2020Via: Reuters: Mexico’s president has ordered the armed forces to tackle security on the streets for another four years, extending a policy he had previously criticized as the government struggles to curb runaway violence. In a notice published in the Official Gazette, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ordered that the Armed Forces (FA) participate “in […]
90,000 Cruise Workers Stranded on Ships for Two Months
May 12th, 2020Via: Bloomberg: Carrick and Harrison are among the more than 90,000 cruise workers in U.S. waters stranded on ships two months after the coronavirus pandemic began forcing cruise lines to halt operations and repatriate crew. While companies work through a thicket of shifting rules on returning workers to their home countries, recent deaths of crew […]
What It’s Like to Believe Everything the Media Tells You
May 12th, 2020Via: AwakenWithJP:
“Several Vaccines Will Likely Be Needed To Combat The Coronavirus”
May 12th, 2020haha Tell me another one. Via: Bloomberg: Several vaccines will likely be needed to combat the coronavirus and immunize groups of people in America and abroad, U.S. National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins said in an interview.
Musk Reopening California Tesla Factory, Going Against Government Lockdown Orders
May 11th, 2020Update: Alameda County Folds, Allows “Minimum Operation” After Elon Musk Defies Coronavirus Order And Dares Authorities To Arrest Him — Via: Reuters: Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk on Monday said production was resuming at the automaker’s sole U.S. vehicle factory, in California, defying an order to stay closed and saying if anyone had to […]
World Health Organization – Global Preparedness Monitoring Board: Annual Report on Global Preparedness for Health Emergencies, A World at Risk
May 10th, 2020This was published in September 2019, a month before Event 201 was held. Via: World Health Organization (PDF): Progress indicator(s) by September 2020 … The United Nations (including WHO) conducts at least two system-wide training and simulation exercises, including one for covering the deliberate release of a lethal respiratory pathogen.
X-37B Space Plane’s Microwave Power Beam Experiment
May 10th, 2020Via: The Drive: The X-37B’s upcoming mission is known as both Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6) and U.S. Space Force-7 (USSF-7). It will carry out missions that will assess the effects of cosmic radiation and other “space effects” on plant seeds and various material samples. According to a Space Force press release, which went out on […]
Tesla Sues California County in Virus Factory Closure fight, Threatens to Leave
May 10th, 2020Via: Reuters: Tesla Inc sued local authorities in California on Saturday as the electric carmaker pushed to re-open its factory there and Chief Executive Elon Musk threatened to move Tesla’s headquarters and future programs from the state to Texas or Nevada.
