April, 2020

“Hong Kong is China’s Hong Kong,”

The technology behind these Counter Communications Systems, as they’re called, has already existed for years, Interesting Engineering reports, but the devices were only delivered to the military last month. With them, the U.S. can now disable enemy satellites from the ground.

The state randomly tested 3,000 people at grocery stores and shopping locations across 19 counties in 40 localities to see if they had the antibodies to fight the coronavirus, indicating they have had the virus and recovered from it. With more than 19.4 million people residents, the preliminary results indicate that at least 2.7 million New Yorkers have been infected with Covid-19.

The workers who have filed initial jobless claims in the last five weeks account for about 16 percent of the American workforce. If they formed their own state, it would be the nation’s third-largest by population with more people than New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania combined.

In short - get tracked, don't trust hydroxychloroquine, and take the shot.

Brennan team included low-quality intelligence that failed to meet intelligence community standards to support the political claim that Russian officials wanted Trump to win, House Intelligence Committee staff revealed...

Across the country, hospitals shut down 'non-essential' procedures in preparation for a surge of coronavirus patients that never appeared.

"We’re operating under the environment that we are going to open up parts of the economy and we’re looking forward to - by the time we get later in the summer - having most of the economy, if not all of the economy, open,” Mnuchin said.

The deal for the Del Mar property is one of the largest in the area, according to The Wall Street Journal.

And as we noted previously, what is most disturbing is that in the last five weeks, far more Americans have filed for unemployment than jobs gained during the last decade since the end of the Great Recession... (22.13 million gained in a decade, 26.46 million lost in 5 weeks)... But, hey, there's good news... well optimistic headlines as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he anticipates most of the economy will restart by the end of August.

More than 20 former Amazon employees said they had collected and accessed individual sellers' information to figure out which products they should make under its private labels, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. One Amazon employee said it was "standard operating procedure" for workers to pull non-public data that could give the company insight on how to price items and which ones would give them the highest earning potential.

"Because I care about accuracy I want to make clear that what I intended to say, and actually said on air, was that my reporting for the week ending last Friday ('this week') had uncovered activities consistent with ... building criminal cases that could lead to a small number of indictments. I did not intend to, and didn’t actually, say indictments were coming this week. Only prosecutors know such timing and I have no indication indictments are coming this week," he tweeted. "My reporting indicates there is clear evidence that criminal cases are being built that could lead to future indictments or plea deals. Will keep on reporting what I know."

Fireworks thrown at police, vehicles set on fire.

🔥🇫🇷 Fourth night of riots in the Parisian suburbs of Villeneuve La Garenne. There have also been incidents elsewhere in the banlieue de #Paris. #France #disturbed #Incidents #COVID19 #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/8xchFzMDxy

— Pepe Mujica - Palabras y sentires 🎗 (@PalabrasdePepe) April 22, 2020

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— Youssraa 🦁 (@youssramstr) April 22, 2020

With the conversion of the Javits Convention Center into a temporary hospital, the Comfort didn't get many patients. As of Tuesday, it had treated just 179 people. "It did give us comfort, but we don't need it anymore, so if they need to deploy that somewhere else, they should take it," Cuomo said Tuesday...