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So much winning under the Trump's administration, as oil prices crashed negatively, thus affecting the markets

Stocks tank as oil falls below zero for first time ever.

U.S. equity markets tumbled on Monday as oil saw a historic hammering with prices turning negative for the first time in history.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/us-stocks-april-20-2020

Beautiful environment you are living in

Mark Meadows (Chief of Staff for Trump) cries in meetings & is scared of Trump's mood swings

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8231597/Trumps-new-chief-staff-Mark-Meadows-cried-meetings-overwhelmed.html

Trump's new chief of staff Mark Meadows has 'cried in meetings and is overwhelmed by a permanent culture that revolves around the president's moods'
- Former congressman, Mark Meadows who became President Trump's chief of staff has apparently been 'overwhelmed' in his new post
- The role, which is supposed to act as a buffer between White House staff and the Oval Office, is different under Trump and varies according to president's moods
- Meadows is said to have cried on at least two occasions since starting the role
- One of those incidents reportedly involved Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, however a person close to him denied the claim
- One source claims that Trump will not have liked hearing of Meadows in tears as the president sees such displays of emotion as a weakness

President Donald Trump's chief of staff is said to be 'overwhelmed' by his new role in the White House, which has reportedly seen him cry in meetings on at least two occasions since he took up the job at the end of March.

Meadows, 60, the conservative former congressman from North Carolina, is the fourth person to take on the job in the president's three years in office. Administration officials told the New York Times that in the less than three weeks he's been in the job, Meadows has been 'overhwhelmed at times by a permanent culture at the White House that revolves around the president's moods' and 'his need for a sense of control'.

And the tensions may got the better of him at times, according to leaks from inside the White House, as reported by The Times.

On two occasions, Meadows is said to have cried during meetings where staffing changes were discussed. In one of those meetings, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner was present, according to the New York Times. However, a person close to Kushner told the Times that he denied it took place.
'He's a strong willed individual who is known to get prickly when his viewpoint doesn't prevail,' a person who worked closely with Meadows told ABC News.

Army Decides a Pandemic Is a Good Time to Give GOP Donors $569 Million to ‘Build the Wall’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/army-decides-a-coronavirus-pandemic-is-a-good-time-to-give-gop-donors-dollar569-million-to-build-the-wall

In the middle of a pandemic that has killed 27,000 Americans and counting, the Army this week gave a politically connected Montana firm half a billion dollars—not to manufacture ventilators or protective gear to fight the novel coronavirus, but to build 17 miles of President Trump’s southern border wall.

On Tuesday, the Army Corps of Engineers announced it awarded BFBC, an affiliate of Barnard Construction, $569 million in contract modifications for building “17.17 miles” of the wall in two California locations, El Centro and San Diego. That works out to over $33 million per mile—steeply above the $20 million-per-mile average that the Trump administration is already doling out for the wall. Construction is supposed to be completed by the end of June 2021.

And it’s only the latest wall contract the firm has gotten. BFBC, a reliable contributor to Republican politicians, has gotten over $1 billion in taxpayer money in less than a year to build a mere 37 miles worth of wall. Scott Amey, the general counsel at the Project on Government Oversight, urged federal watchdogs to investigate the new BFBC contract.

“$1 billion for 37 miles of wall is a travesty and it must be investigated and audited immediately,” Amey said. “That’s nearly $27 million per mile, which is well above other wall costs. These efforts might make good on a campaign promise, but who is minding the store and ensuring that military readiness and bases are not negatively impacted?”

The Terrible Waste of This Presidency

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/04/14/the-terrible-waste-of-this-presidency/

As I write this, Donald Trump has been president for 1,180 days.

I’ve been trying to find a way to describe that time, to summarize in a small space, the depth and breadth of the injury we’ve sustained as a people and a nation.

The word I keep coming back to—is waste.

These 1,180 days have simply been a terrible, unforgivable, unthinkable waste.

A waste of time; the countless hours so many people from every walk of life have had to spend trying to care for people and rebuild their communities and save lives and champion justice and do good work—all while facing their own president as a daily, formidable adversary.

A waste of financial resources; adding 2 trillion dollars to our national debt, stratospheric corporate bailouts, a widening in the gap between the needy and the greedy—a brazen financial flooding of a spreading swamp.

A waste of natural resources; a steady stream of environmental protection rollbacks, wanton disregard for nature and planet and science, and an open contempt for the delicate web of all living things.

A waste of energy; the emotional, physical, and mental drain on so many decent people, who’ve spent their waking days and sleepless nights trying to reckon with a steadfast malevolence that simply defies reason and escapes comprehension.

A waste of ideas; a systematic shutting down of diverse and qualified people: doctors, economists, educators, scientists, creators, and public servants, whose qualified presence served as a threat to the eggshell ego and twitchy ignorance of a historically insecure man-child.

A waste of relationships; the violently uncivil wars waged by people for whom this single person has become the hill they’re ready to let their closest intimacies die on; the fractures in families and friendships and neighborhoods, the cost of which is incalculable.

A waste of human life; children pulled from their parents at the border, refugees stranded at airports, transgender teenagers bullied to self-harm, victims of gun violence left without protection, people without healthcare overcome by financial and physical threat, already vulnerable communities subjected to further violence.

I try to imagine all we could have accomplished in these 1,180 days as a nation, if so many talented, compassionate, gifted, intelligent people hadn’t had to spend so much time trying to protect themselves from their own government; the art that could have been created, the medical advances that could have been made, the humanitarian work that could have been done, the habitats we could have protected, the species that could have been saved, the equity that might have been achieved—and that unfathomable loss grieves me.

I try to imagine how different this place would have been if our leadership had celebrated diverse humanity instead of assailing it; if they’d have generated compassion and not had contempt for it; if they’d have wanted more people to be seen, not less; if they’d have desired collaboration and not confrontation; if they’d have trafficked in hope and not in fear; if they’d have wanted to make America defined by goodness and not “greatness.”

But since we have hopelessly squandered this season of our story with this catastrophic error in judgment, the only way to rectify it is not to repeat it.

By Inauguration Day 2021, we will have spent 1,460 days of 328 million people’s collective lives—with this cruelty and ignorance and disdain representing and defining us: with the severed ties and fractured families and polluted water and poisoned courts and perverted religion and elevated racism it has yielded.

That is a tragedy that we will never truly recover from.

The only greater shared transgression, the only more horrible sin, is if we decide to waste a single day more.

It is all about politics, the economy, the stock market which Trump has always boosted about as his own making and the elections in November

Petyprincess:
Breakfast

Breakfast of champions. Pap and bean cake

Eating in moderation and doing reasonable exercise, sexcercise will be beneficial to the body and soul

Almighty God will help all true ministers of the gospel

Jesus Christ is the son of God

The whole of Abuja should be quarantined for full 14 days + 7

The question is why did Abba Kyari travelled to Germany to negotiate for power project in Nigeria, when we have a whole minister, minister of state, permanent secretary etc of the power ministry. One word - Greed.

Beautiful family.

Looking at the list of presidential aides, consists of family members if PMB. Nepotism at the highest level.

Muaz Mogaji spoke the truth and nothing but the truth.

Here lies the ex-active President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. May his soul rest in peace.

Nigerian version of MILFs

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/warren-endorses-biden-as-democrats-unite-for-the-fall-187627

Warren endorses Biden as Democrats unite for the fall


Elizabeth Warren endorsed Joe Biden on Wednesday morning, the third big endorsement for the former vice president this week as Democrats unite for the general election.

"We're all in this together now," Warren said in a prerecorded video posted on Twitter. "And now, it’s up to all of us to help make Joe Biden the next president of the United States. Let’s get to work."

https://www.foxnews.com/science/hydroxychloroquine-does-not-clear-coronavirus-but-can-alleviate-symptoms-study-says

Hydroxychloroquine does not clear coronavirus, but can alleviate symptoms, study says

A study of COVID-19 patients in China who received hydroxychloroquine showed the anti-malarial drug did not clear the patients of the virus.

"The overall 28-day negative conversion rate was not different between [standard-of-care] plus [hydroxychloroquine and standard-of-care] group (Kaplan-Meier estimates 85.4% versus 81.3%, P=0.341)," researchers wrote in the study. "Negative conversion rate at day 4, 7, 10, 14 or 21 was also similar between the two groups. No different 28-day symptoms alleviation rate was observed between the two groups."

The research consisted of 150 patients who were hospitalized with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. It has not yet been peer-reviewed and was published earlier this month on the medXiv repository.

Trump blaming WHO, but WHO sent out this memo back in January. Trump is a joke!

Trump halting funding to World Health Organization

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/14/trump-world-health-organization-funding-186786

President Donald Trump on Tuesday night said he would halt funding to the World Health Organization while his administration reviews the group’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. He’s been increasingly critical of the organization’s early response to the health crisis as he’s sought to deflect criticism over his administration's slow response to the outbreak.

Trump attacked the organization for opposing early travel restrictions to China and accused WHO of being overly deferential to the Chinese early in the outbreak, even though Trump himself often hailed the Chinese government’s response until a few weeks ago.

It is always everyone's else resonsibility, but never Trump. Election indeed have huge consequences. This move will definetely put lots of people from less developed regions around the world in great danger, as the US is one of the biggest donors to WHO.

President Obama endorses VP Joe Biden

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=external&v=272544770436618

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sanders-endorses-biden-via-livestream-to-help-him-defeat-the-most-dangerous-president-in-the-history-of-this-country-195300072.html

Sanders endorses Biden via live stream to help him defeat 'the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country'

Less than a week after dropping his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday formally endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for that role to “make certain” the party defeats Donald Trump, “the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country.”

Sanders made his endorsement of Biden in a remarkable event that was live-streamed from their respective homes in Burlington, Vt., and Wilmington, Del., amid the coronavirus outbreak that has dislocated daily life and brought the country to a standstill.

“Not in a million years would we have believed that we would be talking to each other in our respective homes, that we could not do rallies, that we could not, you know, get out of the house,” Sanders said. “We are in a terrible moment, an unprecedented moment, and I know we share the understanding that we’ve got to go forward right now and out of this in an unprecedented way to address the terrible pain that so many of our fellow Americans are feeling. And so today I am asking all Americans — I am asking every Democrat, I am asking every independent, and I’m asking a lot of Republicans — to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy, which I endorse, to make certain that we defeat somebody who I believe, and I’m just speaking for myself now, is the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country.”

The moderate Biden and progressive Sanders said they agreed to form six “policy working groups” to merge their platforms. The Vermont independent senator had been pushing for the former vice president to adopt some of his popular policies, including Medicare for All.


https://news.yahoo.com/ap-interview-sanders-says-opposing-213251181.html

AP Interview: Sanders says opposing Biden is 'irresponsible'

Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that it would be “irresponsible” for his loyalists not to support Joe Biden, warning that progressives who “sit on their hands” in the months ahead would simply enable President Donald Trump's reelection.

And lest there be any question, the 78-year-old Vermont senator confirmed that “it’s probably a very fair assumption” that he would not run for president again. He added, with a laugh: “One can’t predict the future.”

Sanders, who suspended his presidential bid last week, spoke at length about his decision to endorse Biden, his political future and the urgent need to unify the Democratic Party during an interview with The Associated Press. He railed against the Republican president but also offered pointed criticism at his own supporters who have so far resisted his vow to do whatever it takes to help Biden win the presidency.

He seemed to distance himself from his campaign's former national press secretary, Briahna Joy Gray, when asked about her recent statement on social media refusing to endorse Biden.

basilico:
By What's your comment on the following statements by concerned corona influential officers of the society?

Nancy Pelosi accompanied by De Blasio telling people to come out and celebrate their new year day in China town york.
Dr Fauci on Feb 29th this year telling Americans to go on with their lives?
WHO DG saying on Jan 21 that the corona is not a human to human spread
Gov Cuomo telling Yorkers to use the subway as normally as they would.

We all remember Trump saying that there were just 15 cases that would soon go down to zero, and that everything was under control. A totally baseless claim, and he acted accordingly or should I say he didn’t act as required.

On Jan. 28, Trump retweeted a headline from One America News, an outlet with a history of spreading false conspiracy theories: “Johnson & Johnson to create coronavirus vaccine.” This was a lie. 

On Feb. 29, Trump said a vaccine would be available “very quickly” and “very rapidly” and praised his administration’s actions as “the most aggressive taken by any country.” None of these claims were true. Dr. Fauci said it would be 12-18 months before it could become available to the American people. 

Trump’s inaction meant that the United States fell behind South Korea, Singapore and China in fighting the virus. “We just twiddled our thumbs as the coronavirus waltzed in,” William Hanage, a Harvard epidemiologist, wrote. Hanage could have added that Trump's thumbs were busy on his phone tweeting out nonsense to the American people.

At a Feb. 10 political rally Trump said, “Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” Note: April is just a few days away. Do you think Trump's promised miracle will occur? We shall see.

On Feb. 5, Senator Chris Murphy tweeted: “Just left the Administration briefing on Coronavirus. Bottom line: they aren't taking this seriously enough. Notably, no request for ANY emergency funding, which is a big mistake. Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff etc. And they need it now.”

Murphy also criticized the White House’s decision not to take coronavirus test kits offered by the World Health Organization in January, which he said was an especially devastating mistake because that test was ready to go and easily replicable.

A lot of Chinese businesses worldwide will be negatively affected once this sad episode is over. People will treat them like 'shit'

The way the Chinese people and government treat foreigners is very bad indeed

Huawei should go and sit down somewhere, the health of the population is paramount

So what's the purpose and function of 'Amotekun' ?

SAD BREAKING NEWS: US sailor on coronavirus-stricken Navy ship dies from virus-related complications, officials say

https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-sailor-on-coronavirus-stricken-navy-ship-dies-from-virus-related-complications-officials-say

A U.S. sailor who was admitted to the intensive care unit at a Navy hospital in Guam after contracting the coronavirus has died, Navy officials said Monday.

The sailor, who was admitted into the ICU at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Guam on April 9, is the first active-duty service member to die from COVID-19. The Navy is withholding the sailor's name until 24 hours after next-of-kin notification.

The sailor tested positive for coronavirus on March 30, three days after the carrier docked in the Western Pacific island. They were removed from the ship and put in an isolation house on Naval Base Guam with four other sailors assigned to the vessel, the Navy said.

Medical checks were carried out twice daily on the sailors in isolation. During a check on April 9, the sailor was found unresponsive. Emergency responders performed CPR and transferred the sailor to the Naval hospital's ICU. The sailor died four days later, on April 13.

Was covid-19 reported in Jigawa state?

Another shift-blaming by Trump, but CDC W.H.O memo sent to W.H. in January

From the stable of WH and Foxnews, some data about past and present death disasters under #43, #44 and #45, *covid-19 under #45 is now more than 20k and still counting*

Trump's now retweeting OANN's tweet saying Dr. Anthony Fauci should be fired. After attacking W.H.O. he's trying to divert the blame to Dr Fauci. Trump never accepts any responsibility. With 20,000+ dead, this is the last thing that Trump should be concerned about.

Dr Fauci has been director of NIAID since 1984. He's ready to live his best life and not have to deal with Trump. He knows history will be in his favour.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/coronavirus-trump-retweets-call-fire-gov-expert-fauci-200413071754443.html

What has Fox News done to Trump to suggest OANN is much better?

Shows Trump hasn't got anything much to do than to binge on Fox News

Maybe Trump was annoyed about this:
Chris Wallace: Trump has no chance at re-election if voters believe he handled coronavirus poorly
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chris-wallace-trump-coronavirus-2020-biden-sanders

Wallace predicted that the November election would double as a referendum on President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying: “If people come to the conclusion, a majority of Americans, that he has handled the health issue and the economic issue poorly, I don’t think he has any chance to win. ”Wallace also addressed whether Trump can win reelection during a coronavirus-induced recession.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/492434-trump-blasts-chris-wallace-asks-what-the-hell-is-happening-to-fox-news