NYC & LA Mayors Order Bars, Nightlife, Gyms, & Restaurants To Shut Except For Delivery
March 15th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge:
Shortly after New York’s mayor de Blasio pulled the plug, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti has ordered the closing of all bars, nightclubs, gyms and entertainment venues from midnight March 16 until March 31.\
Restaurants will be limited to take-out and delivery
Grocery stores will remain open
Fed Lowers Interest Rate to Near-Zero, Stock Futures Go Limit Down Again
March 15th, 2020— I N T ? L W ? V ? ? (@inteldotwav) March 13, 2020
Via: Yahoo News:
Stock futures opened sharply lower Sunday evening, even after the Federal Reserve launched a massive monetary stimulus program — including cutting rates to effectively zero and unveiling plans for large-scale asset purchases.
Specifically, the Fed slashed benchmark interest rates rates by 75 basis points to a band of between 0% and 0.25%. Underscoring the growing fears of a worldwide recession, the surprise announcement came just days ahead of the Fed’s scheduled March monetary policy meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday — and less than two weeks after the Fed had also unexpectedly cut rates by 50 basis points to a range of 1.00-1.25%.
Many market participants had expected the Fed would vote to cut rates to a zero lower bound for the first time since the financial crisis, but anticipated it would happen at this week’s meeting. The Fed will no longer hold its previously scheduled meeting, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said during a press conference Sunday evening.
Hoboken: First U.S. City to Implement a Widespread Curfew Due to Coronavirus Fears, Will Also Limit Restaurants to Takeout and Delivery
March 15th, 2020Via: Insider:
The New Jersey city of Hoboken has become the first in the United States to implement a curfew amid the coronavirus outbreak sweeping the country.
Mayor Ravinder Bhalla announced the measure Saturday evening, and said the Office of Emergency Management will enforce a daily curfew from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m., where residents must remain in their homes unless there’s an emergency or they’re required to work at night.
Hoboken officials later clarified that dog-walking would also be allowed, and that the goal of the curfew was instead to prevent activities like house parties.
Bhalla also announced severe restrictions on restaurants and bars, with none being allowed to serve food within their premises.
In a series of tweets Saturday evening, Bhalla explained his rationale, saying “the time is now” to try to protect residents.
The EARN IT Act Is a Sneak Attack on Encryption
March 15th, 2020Via: Wired:
Though it seems wholly focused on reducing child exploitation, the EARN IT Act has definite implications for encryption. If it became law, companies might not be able to earn their liability exemption while offering end-to-end encrypted services. This would put them in the position of either having to accept liability, undermine the protection of end-to-end encryption by adding a backdoor for law enforcement access, or avoid end-to-end encryption altogether.
A Bank in Manhattan Is Cleaned Out of $100 Bills
March 15th, 2020Via: DNYUZ:
As the stock market was having its worst day in 30 years on Thursday, customers at a Bank of America branch in Midtown Manhattan, the financial heart of New York, were lining up to take cash out of their accounts — sometimes tens of thousands of dollars at a time.
So many people sought huge sums that the bank branch, at 52nd Street and Park Avenue, temporarily ran out of $100 bills to fulfill large withdrawals, according to three people familiar with the branch’s operations. The shortage hit after a rash of requests for as much as $50,000, said two people who witnessed the rush.
The problem was limited to large bills — the bank’s A.T.M.s stayed stocked and customers with routine transactions were still able to take out cash. By Friday morning, the bank had refilled its supply of big bills, two of the people said.
But the desire for cash persisted: A teller at a JPMorgan Chase branch across the street said on Friday that there had been a “nonstop” stream of customers stockpiling cash over the past two days.
Bill Halldin, a Bank of America spokesman, said the bank had enough cash available at its branches meet its clients’ needs. “We don’t keep large amounts of cash in big bills in the branches because it’s dangerous for our employees and there is low demand,” he said.
Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft’s Board of Directors
March 14th, 2020Never forget: Event 201
Via: BBC:
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from the company’s board to spend more time on philanthropic activities.
He says he wants to focus on global health and development, education and tackling climate change.
One of the world’s richest men, Mr Gates, 65, has also left the board of Warren Buffett’s massive holding company, Berkshire Hathaway.
“The Free Market”
March 14th, 2020Via: inteldotwav:
— I N T ? L W ? V ? ? (@inteldotwav) March 13, 2020
MIT Ph.D. in Biological Engineering: Coronavirus Fear Mongering Is Massive Fraud to Push Mandated Medicine
March 13th, 2020Update: Critical Questions for Dr. Shiva About His Attempts to Splinter the Health Freedom Movement
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Via: Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai:
As an MIT PhD in Biological Engineering who studies & does research nearly every day on the Immune System, the #coronavirus fear mongering by the Deep State will go down in history as one of the biggest fraud to manipulate economies, suppress dissent, & push MANDATED Medicine! https://t.co/Q5VeOqzWEp
— Dr.SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD. Inventor of Email (@va_shiva) March 9, 2020
Dr.SHIVA LIVE: Time for Truth on #CoronaVirus (re-posting with right title) https://t.co/8oI2GFnbo9
— Dr.SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD. Inventor of Email (@va_shiva) March 14, 2020
Coronavirus: Los Angeles Closes All Schools
March 13th, 2020Via: Deadline:
Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest school district in the country, is closing all schools effective Monday, March 16. The shutdown is for two weeks as district officials “evaluate the appropriate path forward”. The measure impacts more than 700,000 students. Teaching is expected to continue remotely.
The closure of Los Angeles’ public schools comes days after most private schools in the city shut doors over the coronavirus pandemic.
‘These next two weeks will be difficult, and we are not certain what lies ahead after that,” LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner admitted in his message to parents Friday morning, stressing that the school closure is the only reasonable option to help slow the spread of the virus.
Trump to Declare National Emergency
March 13th, 2020Via: Bloomberg:
President Donald Trump plans to declare a national emergency on Friday over the coronavirus outbreak, invoking the Stafford Act to open the door to more federal aid for states and municipalities, according to two people familiar with the matter.
