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News Burst 3-4 April 2020 – Live Feed ~ April 4, 2020


  • The Pentagon has relieved Navy Capt. Brett Crozier, the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, from command of the aircraft carrier after he allegedly leaked a copy of a scathing letter he wrote to top brass requesting that all but the bare minimum (he said 10% ) of the sailors on his boat be let off to prevent a brutal outbreak of China Virus. Reports about the sailors, the first aboard a ship on active duty to test positive for COVID-19, first emerged last week, and the situation has become a growing hot potato as the White House and Pentagon have resisted allowing the sailors to disembark.
  • There have been recent rumors in the gold market about the availability of physical gold. Some social media personalities and news agencies have claimed that there is a shortage of physical gold on the market. However, it is not so much about a shortage of gold, but rather a sudden demand for gold in places where it cannot be quickly supplied in the desired form. These availability problems are largely due to what is called real world problems. Logistics and production processes play an important role in the journey of the gold from the mine or warehouse to the end-user. It is reasonable to assume that once the worst peak of the panic caused by the coronavirus subsides, factories open, air traffic normalizes, and the gold market will return to normal.
  • The US agriculture giant Monsanto and the German chemical giant BASF were aware for years that their plan to introduce a new agricultural seed and chemical system would probably lead to damage on many US farms. Risks were downplayed even while they planned how to profit off farmers who would buy Monsanto’s new seeds just to avoid damage. The documents, some of which date back more than a decade, also reveal how Monsanto opposed some third-party product testing in order to curtail the generation of data that might have worried regulators. And in some of the internal emails, employees appear to joke about sharing “voodoo science” and hoping to stay “out of jail”. The new crop system developed by Monsanto and BASF was designed to address the fact that millions of acres of US farmland have become overrun with weeds resistant to Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weedkillers, best known as Roundup. The collaboration between the two companies was built around a different herbicide called dicamba. In the Roundup system, farmers could spray glyphosate herbicides such as Roundup over the top of certain crops that Monsanto genetically engineered to survive being sprayed with the pesticide. The new system promoted by Monsanto and BASF similarly provides farmers with genetically engineered dicamba-tolerant soybeans and cotton that can be sprayed directly with dicamba. The weeds in the fields die but the crops do not. Dicamba has been in use since the 1960s but traditionally was used sparingly, and not on growing crops, because it has a track record of volatilizing – moving far from where it is sprayed – particularly in warm growing months. As it moves it can damage or kill the plants it drifts across.
  • [Europe as we know is dead today] The EU Commission chief apologized to Italy for the bloc’s sloppy coronavirus response, pledging €100 billion to help the hard-hit nation. But the help might never arrive, as mutualizing debt is opposed by EU fat cats. “Today Europe is mobilizing alongside Italy. Unfortunately, this has not always been the case,” Ursula von der Leyen said in a letter published by Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper on Thursday. [United Nation and WHO puppets next]
  • [Soulless] Police have arrested a man in Wallonia, Belgium for dressing up as a nurse and spitting at supermarket staff while telling them he was infected with the Wuhan Virus, police patrol arrived on site and had to put a mouth mask on the detainee because he was not cooperating. He is set to appear before a criminal court on 25 May as his file will be put through an accelerated procedure, risking two years in prison and a fine €1,600. The man’s arrest comes after national criminal authorities made spitting or pretending to have the coronavirus a crime punishable by up to 3 years of jail time and a fine of over €2,000. In contexts where spitting involved food, offenders risked up to five years in prison and a fine that could climb up to €16,000. The changes come after reports emerged that people were using spit or the coronavirus against police in the light of the current pandemic.
  • [Cabal full swing] Sir George Buckley, the former boss of Post-It notes manufacturer 3M and one of the most prominent British executives in the US, is to become a senior adviser to Rothschild bank. The appointment, which will be announced this week, is considered not to pose a conflict to the Yorkshireman’s role on the advisory board of Deutsche Bank. “I’m on the board of advisers to Deutsche Bank and I’m going to the same thing for Rothschild America,” Mr Buckley said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. “I’m going to be an adviser. It’ll be whatever they want me to do.” “I’ve dealt with Rothschilds over the years and have found them to be a wonderfully honourable bank. They’re a great testimony to advisers in Britain. I think of them almost as a dating service or a marriage broker, but in a positive way, advising companies when a marriage might work and when it might not.” Sir George, who retired from 3M in June, sits on the boards of Pepsico, Stanley Black & Decker and grain trading and processing company Archer Daniels Midland as well as Japan’s Hitachi. He chairs Arle Capital Partners, the private equity house bought out of the former Candover Investments, and its oil services firm Expro International. He also advises the business schools at Southampton and Huddersfield universities. [Follow the wives]
  • A molecular biologist proclaimed Thursday that the Chinese coronavirus could have originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and been leaked, leading to it’s horrific spread around the globe. Richard H. Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told The Daily Caller that he believes it is a distinct possibility that an accident in the laboratory in China could have caused the outbreak. Professor Ebright said that “A denial is not a refutation,” referring to China’s top virologist Shi Zhengli, who works at the lab in Wuhan, and has repeatedly denied that it was the source of the pandemic. Zhengli, known as ‘bat-woman’, because she works with bat-borne viruses, has said that the coronavirus spread is “nature punishing the human race for keeping uncivilized living habits.” To clarify, Professor Ebright categorically does not believe that the virus is an engineered bioweapon, due to the scientific evidence showing otherwise. However, the notion that the strain of coronavirus that has spread around the world, and since mutated, came from the Wuhan lab is a real possibility in Ebright’s opinion.
  • An explosion of a titanic star spotted by NASA’s satellite in January 2019, has produced some odd effects that scientists have not been able to properly address. Mysteriously low levels of polarisation that have occurred from the gamma-ray burst (GRB) of a giant star in a 4.5-billion-light-years-away galaxy, designated as GRB 190114C, have been puzzling astronomers for some time now.According to the scientists, the blast from the explosion formed a “forward shock”, which is never polarised. However, another resulting effect of “reverse shock” should still carry some traces of the magnetic field ejected from the black hole, to which the massive star’s iron core collapses into. It still remains unexplained then why did magnetic field dissipate so “catastrophically” in case of GRB 190114C, and also why did it produce such unusually high energetic emissions.
  • The U.S. Justice Department and Health and Human Services are giving New York and New Jersey nearly 200,000 N95 respirator masks and medical supplies that the agencies confiscated from individuals who were discovered hoarding the supplies. The FBI discovered the medical materials last week as part of an operation by the Justice Department’s COVID-19 Hoarding and Price Gouging Task Force. The DOJ then alerted HHS of the situation. Per the Defense Production Act, HHS ordered the supplies to immediately be turned over to the government. In addition to 192,000 N95 respirator masks, the FBI found 598,000 medical gloves and 130,000 surgical masks, along with N100 masks, procedure masks, surgical gowns, disinfectant towels, particulate filters, hand sanitizer, and disinfectant spray. HHS Secretary Alex Azar maintains that “cracking down on the hoarding of vital supplies allows us to distribute this material to the heroic healthcare workers on the frontlines who are most in need.” “Thanks to the quick work of the White House, the Department of Justice, and HHS, the seized resources were distributed in days to the doctors, nurses and first responders who need them,” Azar added.
  • The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) fears that the new coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic will impact the accuracy of weather predictions around the world. “Entire parts of the observing system, such as satellite components and many terrestrial networks, are partially or fully automated,” the organisation said in a press release on Wednesday. “They should therefore continue to operate without significant degradation for several weeks, or even longer in some cases. However, if the pandemic lasts longer than a few weeks, the lack of repair, maintenance and supply work, as well as the lack of redeployments, will become an increasing concern.”
  • [Soft Disclosure] Mars has turned up tantalizing evidence that there could be life. Researchers found dense concentrations of microbial cells in cracks of ancient crust deep below the seabed. A team led by Yohei Suzuki, an associate professor of earth and planetary science at the University of Tokyo, believes the finding points to possible primitive life on the Red planet. The team’s findings were published April 2 in Communications Biology, an online science journal. Researchers said the density of microbes found deep below the seabed was comparable to that in the human intestine. The presence of plentiful microbial life in basalt rocks formed in ancient times in ocean depths, where energy sources such as light and hot water – key ingredients to sustain life are scarce–stunned the researchers.
  • Russia is ready to interact with the United States on the oil market rebalancing, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. “I would like to stress, Russia considers necessary to pool efforts,” the head of state said. “We are ready to agreements with partners within the framework of the given mechanism – OPEC+ and are ready to interact with the United States of America on this issue,” Putin said.
  • Passengers of the Zaandam cruise ship are ready to disembark at the Port Everglades Cruiseport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The vessel finally docked at the port on 2 April, after being stranded at sea for over two weeks as several Latin American countries denied it entry because of a coronavirus outbreak on board. Four passengers have died and more than 200 guests and crew members on the ship have flu-like symptoms; eight of them have tested positive for COVID-19. The vessel owner, Holland America, said all guests will be screened and cleared for entry by US Customs and Border Protection upon arrival.

Sun Activity

A minor stream of solar wind is heading toward Earth. Estimated time of arrival: April 4-5. Geomagnetic unrest and Arctic auroras are possible when the gaseous material arrives.

Active Weather

Tropical Cyclone Harold (Category 1) w/v 45/60↑ kts 987 hPa↓ Position: Solomon Sea Moving Southeast toward Vanuatu at 11 kts, Intensifying.

Strongest EQ in Europe M4.2 South Italy
Strongest EQ in North America M3.3 Idaho
Strongest EQ on the Planet M4.8 Chile
Deepest EQ M4.3 436 km India News Burst 3-4 April 2020

News Burst 1 April 2020 – Live Feed ~ April 2, 2020


News Burst 1 April 2020

  • The backlash comes after the president called COVID-19 a “minor flu” and visited public places, shaking hands with people and encouraging them to keep living normally, despite the pandemic. Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Marco Aurélio Mello forwarded a request for the removal of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to the Attorney General’s Office (Prosecutor General of the Republic, or PGR) on Monday. The request, filed by opposition federal deputy Reginaldo Lopes, accuses the head of state of neglecting the coronavirus threat to the country and creating extreme danger for Brazilians. If the PGR accepts the charges, the case will proceed to the Chamber of Deputies, who will then have to vote on the issue.
  • Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working in Laredo, Texas, discovered nearly $37 million worth of meth in a commercial shipment of tomatoes from Mexico. CBP officers assigned to the Colombia-Solidarity Bridge — an international bridge that crosses over the Rio Grande river and connects Laredo, Texas to the Mexican town of Colombia, Nuevo León — on Wednesday encountered a 2007 Freightliner tractor. Upon a canine and imaging system inspection, a massive discovery was made. Included in the shipment of tomatoes was 654 packages containing about 1,847 pounds of methamphetamine — a load that carries a street value of $36,957,914, according to CBP.
  • The captain of the US aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt has called on Navy leadership for stronger measures to save the lives of his sailors and stop the spread of the coronavirus aboard the ship. The four-page letter, the contents of which were confirmed by US officials to Reuters, described a bleak situation on board the nuclear-powered, 5,000-person carrier as more and more sailors test positive for the virus. Captain Brett Crozier, the ship’s commanding officer, wrote that the carrier lacked enough quarantine and isolation facilities and warned the current strategy would slow but fail to eradicate the virus. In the Mar 30 letter, he called for “decisive action” and removing over 4,000 sailors from the ship and isolating them. “We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset – our sailors,” Crozier wrote.
  • The tallest waterfall in Ecuador, the San Rafael Waterfall, has now “disappeared.” In satellite images, one can see how the cascade that used to bring in tens of thousands of visitors each year is no longer flowing. the waterfall stopped flowing on Feb. 2 due to a massive sinkhole that appeared in the Coca River just a few meters before the falls. Because of it, instead of flowing through the San Rafael Waterfall, the water now flows in three separate, less steep courses a few meters behind it. A possibility is that sinkhole may have something to do with the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant, which is one of the largest in the country and is just 20 kilometers upstream from the San Rafael waterfall. Although the Coca Codo Sinclair plant is not exactly located in the river, its diversion reservoir system has sand traps that remove river sediment. According to experts, losing river sediments could increase its “erosive capacity.” As it happens, the Coca Codo Sinclair plant was only inaugurated in 2016. VIDEO
  • Chinese manufacturers of coronavirus test kits and related medical supplies have been told they can no longer export their products unless they also have the relevant licences to sell their products in the domestic market. The move comes after China was hit with a number of complaints from buyers in Europe about the quality and accuracy of tests kits and other products. The new rule applies to all companies seeking to export test kits, face masks, protective clothing, ventilators and infrared thermometers, according to a joint statement issued on Tuesday by the Ministry of Commerce, General Administration of Customs and the National Medical Products Administration. Previously, Chinese exporters were required only to have CE “certification” [printout] to indicate their goods conformed to the health and safety standards required for sale within the European Economic Area.
  • An exclusive report by Radio Farda puts the number of those who have been hospitalized with coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms in Iran at over 70,000 people, will over the official figure of positive cases. The report which sums up the figures released by local officials and the Health Ministry in Tehran as well as media reports says 70,108 patients with clinical symptoms of COVID-19 have been hospitalized in Iran’s 31 provinces.
  • Venus will glide right through the Pleiades star cluster, an amazing conjunction that happens only once every 8 years. At closest approach on April 3rd, Venus will be inside the star cluster. Viewed through binoculars, it will look as if a supernova (Venus) has gone off among the Seven Sisters. To find the conjunction, all you have to do is step outside after sunset and look west. Enjoy the show! IMG LINK 
  • Henan province in central China has taken the drastic measure of putting a mid-sized county in total lockdown as authorities try to fend off a second coronavirus wave in the midst of a push to revive the economy. Curfew-like measures came into effect on Tuesday in Jia county, near the city of Pingdingshan, with the area’s roughly 600,000 residents told to stay home, according to a notice on the country’s official microblog account. Special approval was required for all movement outside the home, it said.
  • [Reminder 2016] The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments. Qatari officials pledged the money in 2011 to mark the 65th birthday of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton’s husband, and sought to meet the former U.S. president in person the following year to present him the check, according to an email from a foundation official to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta. The email, among thousands hacked from Podesta’s account, was published in 2016 by WikiLeaks. Clinton signed an ethics agreement governing her family’s globe-straddling foundation in order to become secretary of state in 2009. The agreement was designed to increase transparency to avoid appearances that U.S. foreign policy could be swayed by wealthy donors.
  • Far-left billionaire George Soros is putting millions of dollars into an attack ad campaign against President Trump over his handling of the coronavirus outbreak, as reported by the Washington Free Beacon. The ads come from Priorities USA Action, the largest pro-Democrat super PAC in America, which will spend $6 million this week alone on such ads, targeting the key swing states of Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Priorities USA had previously received over $3 million from Soros’s Democracy PAC as recently as February 21st. Priorities USA said that its overall plan is to spend at least $150 million in the general election campaign against President Trump in Rust Belt states, which are the states that will ultimately decide the election. Another group that will engage in such attacks is the American Bridge PAC, founded by far-left operative David Brock. American Bridge has vowed to spend at least $50 million attacking Trump in the Midwest. Brock is affiliated with the Democracy Alliance, another organization that is funded and cofounded by Soros. Lastly, Soros has also most recently funded a project called the Heartland Fund, which intends to target Midwestern and Rust Belt voters in the election. For this effort, Soros teamed up with failed congressional candidate Scott Wallace, who lost his bid for Pennsylvania’s 1st congressional district in 2018.
  • Malaysian authorities seized about six tons of pangolin scales and smashed a smuggling syndicate, officials said Wednesday, as the country clamps down on rampant wildlife trafficking. Its body parts fetch a high price on the black market as they are commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine, although scientists say they have no therapeutic value. The haul was found Tuesday at a port outside the capital Kuala Lumpur, hidden inside a container along with a shipment of cashew nuts.
  • A senior official in Serbia’s government died from the coronavirus on Wednesday, a health official said, the second death of a public figure from the disease in the Balkan country. Branislav Blazic, 63, a state secretary with the Ministry for Environmental Protection, died only days after being hospitalized with symptoms of the coronavirus infection, said Daria Kisic Tepavcevic, the deputy director of the Institute for Public Health.

Sun Activity

Earth is exiting a stream of solar wind that sparked bright auroras around the Arctic Circle on March 30th and 31st. Some of the lights even dipped into the USA as far south as Michigan. The next stream of solar wind is due on April 4th.

Strongest EQ in Europe M3.5 Iceland
Strongest EQ in North America M4.1 Idaho
Strongest EQ on the Planet M5.2 Qumong, China
Deepest EQ M4.3 436 km Araban Sea West Indian Coast News Burst 1 April 2020

News Burst 31 March 2020 – Live Feed ~ March 31, 2020


News Burst 31 March 2020

  • Twitter has deleted two tweets from Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday in which he challenged the need for social distancing and urged citizens to keep the country going. In one tweet, Bolsonaro posted a video in which he mixed with supporters on the streets of Brasilia – which Twitter says contradicted public health information from official sources and could put people at greater risk of transmitting the coronavirus. Twitter has also deleted a tweet by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani in which he quoted conservative influencer Charlie Kirk – who claimed that hydroxychloroquine “in at least three international tests was found 100% effective in treating the coronavirus.” Brazil is reporting ‘exactly’ 400 new cases every day.
  • On the back of the recent seismic uptick observed across the Kamchatka region –including the Kuril Islands’ M7.5– comes the violent eruption of Shiveluch; Russia’s largest and most active volcano. The powerful explosion occurred on March 25, with the Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT) recording an ash plume reaching a maximum estimated altitude of 49,200 ft (15 km), and drifting in a NW direction.The volcano’s lava dome, at an elevation of 8,200 ft (2.5 km), remains “in a very active state”.
  • President Donald Trump slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on ‘Fox and Friends,’ suggesting the federal government could take over her “slum” district San Francisco, as the two locked horns on the coronavirus pandemic response. “Look, she’s a sick puppy in my opinion,” the president said when asked about Pelosi criticizing his response to the coronavirus outbreak. “She really is. She’s got a lot of problems.” Trump continued his fuming against Pelosi later when he slammed her for “playing the impeachment game” and being controlled by “the radical left,” including freshman New York Congresswoman and Green New Deal author Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
  • Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre has closed its doors to the public for the first time since the Black Death ravaged the city in 1349. The custodians of one of the holiest buildings in Christianity were forced to lock the highly carved wooden doors after the Israeli government shut down places of worship in a bid to contain the spread of the Covid-19 illness.
  • Despite Tom Cruise’s desire to produce an authentic representation of military flight in “Top Gun: Maverick,” the US Navy quickly halted the American actor’s dreams by denying him the ability to fly a $70 million F/A-18 Super Hornet.
  • Russia has sent a plane with medical equipment to the United States amid the pandemic of COVID-19, US President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday. “I have to say, we’ve had great relationships with a lot of countries. China sent us some stuff,” he told reporters during a briefing at the White House. “Russia sent us a very, very large plane load of things. Medical equipment. Very nice.”
  • Authorities in Wuhan are unlikely to disclose the overall number of deaths until now in the central Chinese city despite renewed concerns about underreporting of fatalities from the coronavirus pandemic. An official at Wuhan’s Civil Affairs Bureau said on Monday that the numbers would be released in the second week of June as scheduled, and that there is no plan to alter the date. The comment came after reports that funeral homes in Wuhan have ordered thousands more urns than the official death tally of coronavirus patients in the city.
  • Saudi Arabia will finance treatment for anyone infected with the coronavirus in the country, the health minister said on Monday, while the agriculture ministry took steps to boost wheat and livestock supplies amid global fears of a food shortage.
  • Construction is complete on one of the biggest breakwaters in Japan, a massive seawall built alongside coastal areas here to prevent flooding in the event of a tsunami. The breakwater is up to 15 meters tall and stretches 17.5 kilometers in length. It is expected to withstand a massive tsunami caused by a Nankai Trough earthquake and dramatically reduce flooding.
  • The latest safety measure of the Nagoya-based expressway operator can be found in bathroom stalls at the Ebina Service Area rest stop on the Tomei Expressway in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture. When the user sits on the toilet and presses a button on the LCD screen installed on a wall, their fatigue level will be shown about one minute later. “Fatigue can lead to careless driving. We thought about ways to let drivers know, ‘You must be tired,’” said Koji Yamamoto of NEXCO Central’s Yokohama Maintenance/Customer Service Center.

Sun Activity

A new sunspot is emerging in the sun’s northern hemisphere, right here. Its magnetic polarity identifies it as a member of new Solar Cycle 25. If the sunspot lasts long enough to receive an official designation, it will become the 4th numbered new-cycle sunspot this year, a sign that Solar Cycle 25, while still weak, is gaining steam.

Strongest EQ in Europe M4.4 Azores-Cape St. Vincent Ridge
Strongest EQ in North America M2.8 California
Strongest EQ on the Planet M5.3 Taiwan
Deepest EQ M4.2 290 km Northern Mariana Islands News Burst 31 March 2020

News Burst 29 March 2020 – Live Feed ~ March 29, 2020


News Burst 29 March 2020

  • Over 600 movie theaters across China were given the green light to reopen their doors over the past week, but Beijing’s Film Bureau put out a notice late Friday ordering all theaters to go back into shutdown. No official explanation for the sudden reversal was provided. Industry insiders instantly began speculating that the government was worried about a potential second wave of coronavirus infections.
  • The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts informed members of the National Symphony Orchestra that they would no longer be paid just hours after President Trump signed a $25 million taxpayer bailout for the cultural center, according to an email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Nearly 100 musicians will no longer receive paychecks after April 3, according to an email from the orchestra’s Covid-19 Advisory Committee. The email went out to members on Friday evening, shortly after President Trump signed the $2 trillion CARES Act, a stimulus package intended to provide relief to people left unemployed by the coronavirus pandemic. Congress included $25 million in taxpayer funding for the Kennedy Center, a provision that raised eyebrows from both Democrats and Republicans, but ultimately won support from President Trump. The bailout was designed to “cover operating expenses required to ensure the continuity of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and its affiliates, including for employee compensation and benefits, grants, contracts, payments for rent or utilities, fees for artists or performers,” according to the law’s text. The arts organization decided that the relief did not extend to members of the National Symphony Orchestra, its house orchestra.
  • Residents in Riyadh, KSA reported multiple blasts followed by sirens in the northern districts of the capital. At least two rockets were intercepted in the sky above the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, local media reported. According to the Al-Arabiya broadcaster, citing sources, alongside the two rockets intercepted above the Saudi capital, another was intercepted over the southern city of Jazan. The first explosions in Riyadh were reported around 11:20 p.m. by residents of the capital’s northern districts, according to Al-Arabiya.
  • The Russian oil company’s operations in Venezuela, where it was extracting the heaviest mix of crude in the world, have been complicated since Washington initiated a campaign to oust democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro. The US namely introduced sanctions on companies working in the Venezuelan oil sector. Russia’s Rosneft oil company has announced that it is selling 100% of its rights in all Venezuelan oil projects to a company owned solely by the Russian government. Rosneft will receive 9.6% of its shares, currently held by the government, in exchange for these rights. The sale means that Rosneft will cease all of its operations in the Latin American country.
  • Thousands of ash urns have been delivered to a funeral home in the virus epicenter Wuhan in recent days, as relatives start picking up the remains of loved ones, further calling into question the true scale of the outbreak in China. At one of those facilities, the Hankou Funeral Home, trucks delivered about 2,500 urns on both Wednesday and Thursday, Chinese financial magazine Caixin reported. Officially, Chinese authorities have reported over 2,000 deaths in Wuhan, where the virus first emerged. This is 1 of 7 funeral homes in Wuhan.
  • On Thursday, Brazil’s lower house approved an emergency salary of BRL 600 (USD 120) for informal workers and disabled people. That’s three times the amount the government had proposed a week ago. Lawmakers also passed a BRL 1,200 monthly payment for single-parent households, catering to a demand from the Women’s Caucus in Congress. The bill, which now heads to the Senate, establishes that a maximum of two people in a single household may receive the benefit. In its current terms, the project should cost the government BRL 43 billion in three months.
  • Authorities at Machu Picchu yesterday closed the Inca Trail network temporarily, following mud and rock slides caused by heavy rainfall at different sections of the trail within the historic sanctuary. Two days ago, a landslide trapped three people working with a travel agency near the Pacaymayo Alto camp area. One of the workers died, the others sustained injuries. Seasonal rains will continue through to March.
  • The legendary Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow has announced it will broadcast its best classic performances online for free in response to new restrictions to slow the spread of coronavirus. The Bolshoi’s announcement came after the Moscow mayor on Thursday ordered the closure of all non-essential services and encouraged residents to stay home. The ballet and opera house said it will show six of its most popular productions on its YouTube channel beginning Friday with the Swan Lake ballet. LINK 
  • Amid the Wuhan Virus crisis, millions of Moroccan merchants and small store owners are living in a state of uncertainty, anxiously awaiting the government’s solution to their imminent financial challenges. In the handicraft sector, an industry that employs about 2.3 million Moroccans and contributes to 7% of Morocco’s GDP, the situation is alarming. While cash is the norm in commercial transactions across the country, traditional craftsmen and workers in the handicraft sector employ a different method of transaction: Commercial papers. Commercial papers are an unsecured promissory note with a maturity period that could vary between six months and a year, it continues to circulate, from supplier to artisan, from artisan to merchant, until they reach maturity and transform into cash. However, workers in the handicraft sector fear that commercial papers will lose their value during the crisis.

Sun Activity

A minor stream of solar wind is approaching Earth. Estimated time of arrival: March 30-31. Flowing from a southern hole in the sun’s atmosphere, the incoming stream could spark springtime auroras around the Arctic Circle.

Strongest EQ in Europe M3.7 Azores Islands
Strongest EQ in North America M3.5 Alaska
Strongest EQ on the Planet M5.9 Vanuatu
Deepest EQ M5.3 597 km Pendolo, Indonesia News Burst 29 March 2020

News Burst 28 March 2020 – Live Feed ~ March 28, 2020


News Burst 28 March 2020

  • Questions are swirling after a $98 million private jet owned by a Saudi billionaire landed in locked-down Christchurch “after dark” last night. As travel bans see virtually all global air traffic grounded, a high-end private jet owned by a Saudi billionaire last night landed in Christchurch. The plane, a $98 million Gulfstream owned by Saudi-based Rashid Engineering, took off from Georgia in the United States, stopping over at Honolulu, before landing last night at Christchurch Airport at 8.11pm local time. The plane’s apparent owner – Nasser Al Rashid – is reported to be a billionaire with close ties to the ruling royal family in Saudi Arabia, the New Zealand Herald reported. Christchurch airport communications manager Yvonne Densem said she was aware of the flight and said it was managed appropriately.
  • Turkish authorities on Friday morning evacuated several hundreds of migrants and refugees who had been camping for a month at the border with Greece after the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced it would not be stopping anymore those who wanted to travel to the EU. According to Anadolu, the migrants agreed to be taken to a hosting facility in the border province of Edirne, where they will be quarantined to prevent the risk of contagion from coronavirus. After the period of isolation, the migrants will be invited to move to the Turkish provinces that are willing to host them. Over the past few days, several dozens of people had autonomously left the border area after a possible new agreement between Turkey and the EU had stalled, travelling to Istanbul and other cities on their own, without assistance nor preventive measures.
  • A former Venezuelan general has surrendered to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) just a day after being indicted by US federal prosecutors and having a $10 million reward posted for his capture. On Friday, Clíver Antonio Alcalá Cordones, a former major general of the Venezuelan Army, surrendered to Colombia’s National Intelligence Directorate in Bogota and is now in the custody of the US DEA. Alcalá left his position in Venezuela’s armed forces in 2013. US federal prosecutors alleged he had been “a leader and manager of the Cartel of the Suns,” a supposed drug smuggling ring inside the Venezuelan government the US government has claimed makes leading Venezuelan officials “narco-terrorists.” Alongside 13 other Venezuelans, Alcalá was indicted in the Southern District Court of New York on Thursday on narco-terrorism charges and the State Department placed a $10 million bounty on his head.
  • From 18 to 27 October 2019, Wuhan held the 7th edition of the Military World Games with 10,000 athlestes from 140 countries. Italy: A form of “strange pneumonia” appeared in Italy “between mid October and the first half of November 2019.”
  • Netflix app downloads have exploded across Europe over the last several weeks as “Netflix and quarantine” has been all the rage during countrywide lockdowns in Italy, France, Spain, and the UK. Netflix had to reduce traffic to its European networks by 25% for 30 days to preserve internet functionality as streaming traffic surged among tens of millions of people in quarantine. “If we end up in a situation where worldwide, 850m children start to receive lessons virtually for an extended period of time, then networks might want to start prioritizing video traffic over gaming traffic,” said Matthew Howett, principal analyst at Assembly.
  • On Wednesday, the Peruvian government issued a statement warning residents to stop killing bats after authorities were forced to intervene when roughly half a thousand of the flying mammals came under attack by gangs of peasants hoping to exterminate what they believed were carriers of the disease. Roughly 300 of the creatures were killed in the arson attacks that took place in a small village after mobs attacked the caves where the bat communities dwelled.
  • Executive Order by President Trump: The selected reserve and certain members of the individual ready reserve of the armed forces to active duty. To help with the Covid-19 coronavirus emergency, US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order authorizing the call-up of up to a million reserve military personnel in the army, navy, air force and coast guard.
  • Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has waved off the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, insisting that life goes on. He suggested the death toll in his own country has been overstated for political purposes. “I’m sorry, some people will die, they will die, that’s life,” Bolsonaro said in an televised interview on Friday. “You can’t stop a car factory because of traffic deaths.”
  • Facts Are Facts on the Fed. The Citizens allow the bank to print $500 billion in currency (cash). The bank pays for printing costs, ink, and paper. The Citizens do not charge the bank any interest for use of the $500 billion in printed currency. The bank uses the $500 billion cash to buy a $500 billion government bond which pays the bankers interest. The bank keeps some of the bonds and sells, for a fee (10%), some of the bonds to the public. The bank can buy back the bonds from the public simply by printing more money. The bankers can create inflation and depressions by manipulating the amount of currency in circulation. The FED operates exactly like this today. It also prints money (through the U.S. Treasury) and uses this printed money to buy loans from other banks. This money has created our inflation. We give the bank cash interest-free, then they charge us interest on our own currency.
  • In the 1930s, a back door was installed in the Fed, so the elites could easily and secretly steal money from it. What is the back door? It is the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF), which is attached to the New Yorkj branch of the Fed. On paper, the ESF was to maintain the value of the dollar, and to that end, was authorized to requisition money in virtually any amount from the Fed, and not have to account for where the money went. And guess what – the ESF is under the direct control of the Secretary of the Treasury (currently Mnuchin). In the past, this has been used to funnel untold billions to the world banking elites. But now, the Treasury is taking the money. No previous president dared to do this, because they were all members of The Club, or at least under The Club’s thumb. But Trump is not a part of The Club, which has be vigorously opposing him since he announced his candidacy. And now Trump has taken their cash cow, and is letting the Treasury milk it. And there is little the Fed can do about it.

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