veteranstoday--2020-03-17--France Locked Down, Reporting/Video Censored, a Nation Under ‘House Arrest’

The Chateau de Versailles has shut its doors due to the coronavirus outbreak ( pictured today ) .
In a solemn live TV address on Monday evening , President Macron said that people would have to stay at home unless shopping for food or going to a pharmacy , heading for absolutely essential work , or exercising alone Admitting that the economic cost would be enormous , Mr Macron said : ‘ All businesses must organise to facilitate remote work .
And when that is not possible , they will have to adapt their organization to enforce these new measures.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to those facing bankruptcy , while tax demands will be frozen .
There are currently 5400 people infected by Coronavirus in France , while 127 are dead and 400 in intensive care in hospitals which are struggling to cope .
Despite measures brought in over the weekend including a ban on crowds of more than 100 , and the closure of non-essential shops , people were still breaking the new rules .
Mr Macron said : ‘ We are at war and the Nation will support its children who , there , medical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , are on the front line in a fight that will ask them for determination , solidarity .
‘ They have rights over us .
We obviously owe them the means , the protection .
We will be there .
We owe them masks , gel , all the necessary equipment , and we will make sure of it .
‘ We also owe caregivers custody of their children .
A minimum daycare service has been in place since that day in nurseries and schools .
We also owe them serenity , movement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I decided that from taxis and hotels can be mobilized for their benefit .
The state will pay .
I therefore decided that a field hospital of the army service would be deployed in the days to come in Alsace ( the eastern region close to Germany ) .
The army will also help to move the sick from the most affected regions and thus reduce congestion in hospitals.
’ Hours earlier , Mr Macron had attending an emergency meeting in Paris , where the country ’ s Scientific Council recommended an ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ The government has taken firm decisions to curb the spread of the virus .
On Saturday evening , restaurants and non-essential businesses closed their doors .
France had never had to make such decisions in peacetime .
They were taken for good reasons , with one goal : to protect us .
‘ This is why , after having consulted , listened to the experts in the field and in good conscience , I decided to further strengthen the measures to reduce our travel .
‘ To protect ourselves and contain the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to preserve our healthcare systems , we have taken a joint decision between Europeans .
From noon tomorrow , the borders at the entrance to the European Union and the Schengen area will be closed .
All travel between European countries and the European Union will be suspended .
French women who are currently abroad and wish to return can of course join their country .

In an address to the nation, Macron said the French had to ‘severely restrict movements for the next 15 days’
Authorities will enforce the new restrictions, with so-far unspecified ‘punishments’ for those who break them
Hotels and private businesses will be requisitioned by the state in order to help sufferers of the lethal virus
After thousands crowded into parks in Paris yesterday the capital city appeared near-deserted this morning
President Emmanuel Macron tonight said ‘we are at war’ with coronavirus as he ordered a full lockdown in France and told the public to stay at home.
In a solemn live TV address on Monday evening, the head of state said that people would have to stay at home unless shopping for food or going to a pharmacy, heading for absolutely essential work, or exercising alone. In French:
French troops are also being deployed to transport patients to a field hospital which is being set up in the east of the country and today, in scenes reminiscent of China’s lockdown, army trucks rolled through the streets of Paris.
Per contact:Tuesday total confinement Paris except for absolute necessity. Curfew, will be barriers. Army preparing. Only doctors police etc authorised. Macron to announce tonight. Banned to leave home except to get food/medical assistance Army imposing. Fines #parislockdown — Claire Waddington (@clairewad) March 16, 2020
Macron also announced that the second round of local elections due to be held on March 22 would be postponed and hotels and other private businesses will meanwhile be requisitioned by the state in order to help treat sufferers of the lethal virus.
The country’s Interior Minister, Christophe Castaner, later clarified that anyone leaving the house in France ‘for any reason’ will have to download a form or risk a minimum £34.60 fine enforced by 100,000 police and gendarmes.
I am French but live in the Netherlands, France is on lockdown and the military is approaching Paris and big cities. There is a rumor of curfew. In The Netherlands the approach is more relax but supermarkets are empty of essentials. pic.twitter.com/IVasYiS5n5 — Protée 🇫🇷👩🏼🎨 (@nadedge) March 16, 2020
He said ‘essential professions’ who can still enjoy easy travel include medical and postal workers, but few others.
They will instead have to write ‘going out to buy a baguette’ or ‘walking the dog’ on an individual printed form every single time.
‘We can always practice a physical activity or take our dog out, but everyone should do it sparingly, without meeting in a group,’ Mr Castaner said.
‘We can get some fresh air yes, but certainly not play a football match. A control system will be set up by 100,000 police and gendarmes,’ he added.


veteranstoday--2020-03-16--Intel Drop: What we know (with commentary by Phil Butler)

By the Senior Editor with Phil Butler and New Eastern Outlook , Moscow For those who support Trump , as ye sow so shall ye reap Scroll down for Butler ’ s new Trump piece This is the price of selling your soul to the devil .
Not just Trump , the entire GOP has failed , a party filed with climate denialists , science haters and fools who also now have turned out to be , surprise surprise , utterly ignorant of economics .
By sabotaging testing , obviously on the recommendation of Jared Kushner , only those dying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If 300,000 Americans have a mild case of CV19 , which is very possible , Trump ’ s need to hide that…and the obvious fact that the US is the origin for a disease which MAY have originated at US biowarfare facility… .
and the disease is not that lethal..which MAY be true…we will never know the truth .
Than you Donald Trump , you fuckup !
20 % , thus far , of America ’ s small businesses , just disappeared The most obvious problem , for those following the economic destruction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , not on purpose , but because he isn ’ t very good at being president .
His ideas are shit , he is nasty , aloof and a pathological liar .
He is no FDR or Jack Kennedy .
He isn ’ t even a passable Calvin Coolidge .
He can ’ t handle the press , even though his mobster friends own and run the press and watched it taken over by broken down models and rent boys .
The press needs to be silenced , no more “ death rates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , now four .
I am seeing click bait sensationalism which is pushing public panic , something during a time of emergency needs to be stopped .
Check VT. None of that crap there .
The fear porn gang needs to be put in isolation .
Trump really failed there as the fake press and the fake president make a perfect team .
It ’ s just the US that is dying , but they ’ re doing perfectly well .
Before venting , the least thing anyone should worry about is CV19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be dying , and I won ’ t begin to speculate about the numbers , if you are going to die from this , you were already dying from something else .
If you are high risk , smokers , compromised breathing , physically weak from other conditions , read Carol ’ s piece and leave it at that .
This is the best information out there , real medical information : Right now , your biggest enemy is your other weaknesses , that of the soul .
This is a time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just returned from lunch , “ last call ” as it were as the state ’ s restaurants and bars all closed only minutes ago .
Many will go bankrupt , millions and millions of lives disrupted .
Little traffic out here , some things missing from stores but that will get better in a few days after idiot buying is overcome .
Some out there are panic speeding , weaving in and out of traffic as though they have been watching Fox News or InfoWars .
This has now been a test @ @ @ @ @ @ @ price we pay when gangsters are given the run of Washington .
No one trusts anything from the Trump administration , not the financial markets , certainly not the people , the endless thousands of lies are now hanging out there when we need straight talk .
Trump simply keeps lying more and things get worse than ever , not from CV19 , but from Trump .
He is the disease .
There is a multi-layered coverup going on .
No one is investigating this disease , where it originated…patient zero…nor where it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a “ super-infector.
” We know it went to China with the US Army athletes ( worst in the world ) .
The story has held up .
How did they get it ?
Why are there no figures from the military ?
Why is the entire US military on 100 % secrecy about this disease , their probably or even certain culpability in spreading it and how many are affected .
Make sure you read the following : As for the realities of disease progression here , I am not an epidemiologist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suddenly gone , silent or silenced .
I can only guess that the disease will progress like a super-flu and hit millions of Americans .
Closing schools , churches and discos isn ’ t going to fix that .
Within 10 days we will see what these efforts do , the numbers will turn , shrink , or not depending on mathematical probability .
To you , it will probably mean you may be ill or not but chances are you already might well have the low grade flu out there , everyone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really CV19 and is all of this made up ?
No more lobbyists or nutcase “ fringe ” doctors , and we don ’ t mean Ben Carson , running things .
Want to know how to do it ?
Look at what Obama did , then do that .
If you don ’ t secretly or not so secretly miss Barak Obama , you aren ’ t paying attention .
He was really good .
Credibility is everything and Trump pissed his away and now we are all sinking because of it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , sadly .
The next issue is bio-warfare .
The high risk nations involved are the US , Britain , France and Israel but their labs are in Romania , Georgia , Libya and a bunch of places you never heard of with laundered cash , some drug money from Afghanistan , Nobody knows who runs these labs , who they answer to or what diseases they work on , but SARS , Swine Flu and others are known to be things they “ investigate , ” which may mean and probably means @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Global Hawk that can drop hundreds of smaller drones that distribute the pathogens .
We believe this is the methodology based on examination of how other diseases have jumped hundreds of miles in a single day , even thousands .
It is possible that in some nations , the disease will “ burn through ” and in others be stopped as China is claiming now .
If the US was the vector nation for accidental infection in China passed on by US military or something more sinister , all that will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all weren ’ t suppressed .
It will all be about accountability .
In the interim , the economic fallout will cost the US a decade of problems .
Does anyone remember the scene in the original film Jaws in 1975 when Captain Quint gets devoured by the shark ?
Well , the COVID-19 situation in the US makes me imagine Donald Trump being devoured by a gigantic coronavirus .
Or perhaps , the shark ’ s role could be played by western mainstream media ?
Either way , there is some Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effect you apply , the Trump presidency is over .
Hey , by the way , did Joe Biden engineer the SARS-CoV-2 ?
Remembering then-Vice President Joe Biden from the days of the Ukraine coup d ’ é·ta , most truthtellers would not put it past old 1-percent Joe .
But no matter how COVID-19 came about , Trump is just not going to be able to “ Tweet ” himself out of his most recent screwups .
It ’ s a funny thing about Americans , they can be as gullible as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on… And boy are they about to catch on .
I almost feel sorry for the bad boy they once called The King of Debt , but Donald Trump had it coming .
Now , an article on Jeff Bezos ’ Washington Post by columnist Eugene Robinson , does not seem so mean and cruel in portraying Trump ’ s support base as the stupidest , most gullible people on earth.. Robinson , who ’ s not exactly my favorite expert , aptly pointed out The Donald promised his supporters he ’ d @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US – Mexico border , and then bill Mexico for it .
But “ not a single mile of Trump ’ s wall has been built , ” according to Robinson .
However , in fairness to the president , a half a mile of the wall has been built by a private organization called We Build the Wall on private property near El Paso , Texas , with Trump ’ s encouragement .
Check it yourself , if you doubt me here .
I don ’ t want to drag the reader @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have donated a lot of time and money to help create this Tower of Babel .
Trump ’ s other lies are more damnable , anyway .
Take Robinson ’ s assertions about Trump ’ s promises on America ’ s imbalance of trade .
“ The Chosen One ” ( another Trump nickname ) told his supporters he ’ d reverse trade policies that helped other nations and hurt Americans .
Robinson wrote : “ The Commerce Department announced Wednesday that the overall US trade deficit in goods last year soared to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The deficit with China , Trump ’ s principal target — the amount by which the value of imported goods exceeded the value of exported goods — reached a record $ 419 billion.
” Then there ’ s “ Draining the Swamp ” , affordable care , and a laundry list of other Trump promises that have gone unfulfilled .
But none of Donald Trump ’ s follies would have even been remembered has he not screwed the pooch on COVID-19 .
In this one , the emotional escapism Americans get to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s New York bravado in a booming economy is about to hit everybody ’ s next-door neighbor .
The Wall Street bubble is about to become a vacuum .
The world pandemic is going to suck the life out of the American people when the US Treasury is forced to print more borrowed money just to keep the world afloat .
And make no mistake , that ’ s the economic future if we are to escape Mad Max and Thunderdome replacing next year ’ s Super Bowl .
As horrible as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of America ’ s unpreparedness for the coronavirus is already unbelievable .
How many reading this remember the time when the world looked to the United States for vaccines , healing-aid , and outreach to stem the miseries of other nations ?
And in America , Trump swore he had “ shut down ” the coronavirus back in early February 2020 .
I did run across a Trump Tweet early on in the fight to stop COVID-19 .
“ The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA .
We are in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart .
Stock Market starting to look very good to me !
” Throughout the crisis up until he was caught lying about the availability of coronavirus tests a few days ago .
Before he announced flight bans on Europe , Trump has bragged and spewed like his comment ; “ The CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus… ” The American president is unveiled as a man who does not even care to study the issues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ York City officials say New Yorkers should consider themselves to have been exposed to the coronavirus .
How ’ s that for under control ?
I almost feel bad saying that President Trump is the worst kind of incompetent , but even his most stalwart fan base is beginning to see through the bullshit .
And as he continues to babble like an idiot about his “ good job , good job , good job ” Trump manages to use a deadly disease to plug his failed border wall fiasco : “ Going @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than ever !
” – President of the United States of America , Donald J. Trump Meanwhile , the 2018 promises by Trump to fund Italy ’ s debt seem to be paying off , interestingly , as the entire country will probably be up for sale shortly .
Italy leaders are already planning a moratorium to get more investment to float the country ’ s burgeoning debt made worse by the coronavirus .
And , it ’ s no surprise that ( hey , isn ’ t she a crook ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ loan guarantor ) , who ’ s now the President of the European Central Bank , told the Italians they were “ pretty much on their own ” the other day .
Bond yields went through the roof because the ECB is not going to help Italy .
This means mortgage rates on Italian homes etc , are going to be unpayable for many Italians .
And when they lose their properties , guess who will move in to snap them up ?
Say “ billionaires ” softly .
Allianz Global Investors is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are mint chocolates on a Waldorf pillow .
Around the world , the Norwegians are closing all airports and seaports .
The Saudis have grounded all air carriers .
Global tourism accounts for 320 million jobs and more than $ 9 trillion dollars of the global economy .
Here in Europe , Multinational travel and tourism company TUI Group is on target to follow rival tours company , Thomas Cook down the tubes .
The COVID-19 pandemic has already caused the German company to postpone pre-payments hoteliers depend on to stay afloat and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suck for the last five years anyhow and the company now has limited options to cover dividends and its burgeoning debt .
TUI shares have fallen by 42 % year-to-date .
Investors who were once sedated with juicy dividends are worried now that travel demand hit by coronavirus will crash the company .
Underneath , the hotels , restaurants , retailers , wholesalers fear utter devastation .
And at the White House , the news is good – President Donald Trump tested negative for the coronavirus !
The whole mess stinks of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ placed super-virus designed to let those with money take over what ’ s left of the world .
Opps !
I did not mean to insert that here .
It just slipped out in the middle of all this Trump over truth .
Aha !
And maybe I got it !
Maybe the reshaping of the world is the crescendo of Donald Trump ’ s purpose in the first place ?
It is probably time for him to leave .
Now wouldn ’ t that make all of us feel gullible and stupid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ head .
Allianz , Allianz , where was it I was reading about Allianz Global and presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg ?
Well , that ’ s for another time .
A good cop – bad cop ending here would just be too much .
The current “ good cop ” seems dressed and ready to make his exit .
Phil Butler , is a policy investigator and analyst , a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe , he ’ s an author of the recent bestseller “ Putin ’ s Praet

By the Senior Editor with Phil Butler and New Eastern Outlook, Moscow
Scroll down for Butler’s new Trump piece
This is the price of selling your soul to the devil. Not just Trump, the entire GOP has failed; a party filed with climate denialists, science haters and fools who also now have turned out to be, surprise surprise, utterly ignorant of economics.
By sabotaging testing, obviously, on the recommendation of Jared Kushner, only those dying or very seriously ill can get tested…thus…
…If 300,000 Americans have a mild case of COVID-19, which is very possible, Trump’s need to hide that…and the obvious fact that the US is the origin for a disease which MAY have originated at US biowarfare facility…
…and the disease is not that lethal..which MAY be true…we will never know the truth.
Thank you Donald Trump! You Fuck-Up!
20%, thus far, of America’s small businesses, just disappeared
The most obvious problem, for those following the economic destruction, is that Trump makes things worse, not on purpose, but because he isn’t very good at being president. His ideas are shit, he is nasty, aloof and a pathological liar.
He is no FDR or Jack Kennedy. He isn’t even a passable Calvin Coolidge.
He can’t handle the press, even though his mobster friends own and run the press and watched it taken over by broken down models and rent boys.
The press needs to be silenced, no more “death rates double,” meaning 2 people died, now four. I am seeing clickbait sensationalism which is pushing public panic, something during a time of emergency needs to be stopped.
Check VT. None of that crap there. The fear of porn gang needs to be put in isolation.
Trump really failed there as the fake press and the fake president make a perfect team. It’s just the US that is dying, but they’re doing perfectly well.
Before venting, the last thing anyone should worry about is CV19 and getting sick. For those who will be dying, and I won’t begin to speculate about the numbers if you are going to die from this, you were already dying from something else.
If you are high risk, smokers, compromised breathing, physically weak from other conditions, read Carol’s piece and leave it at that. This is the best information out there, real medical information:
COVID-19-Primer Facts NOT Fiction
Right now, your biggest enemy is your other weaknesses, that of the soul. This is a time for extreme civility and patience. I just returned from lunch, “the last call” as it were as the state’s restaurants and bars all closed only minutes ago.
Many will go bankrupt, millions and millions of lives disrupted.
Little traffic out here, some things missing from stores but that will get better in a few days after idiot buying is overcome.
Some out there are panic speeding, weaving in and out of traffic as though they have been watching Fox News or InfoWars.
This has now been a test of leadership and we now know the price we pay when gangsters are given the run of Washington. No one trusts anything from the Trump administration, not the financial markets, certainly not the people, the endless thousands of lies are now hanging out there when we need straight talk.
Trump simply keeps lying more and things get worse than ever, not from CV19, but from Trump. He is the disease.
There is a multi-layered coverup going on.
No one is investigating this disease, where it originated…patient zero…nor where it came from, how SARS suddenly became a “super-infector.”
Someone made it.
We know it went to China with the US Army athletes (worst in the world). The story has held up. How did they get it? Why are there no figures from the military? Why is the entire US military on 100% secrecy about this disease, their probably or even certain culpability in spreading it and how many are affected? Make sure you read the following:
As for the realities of disease progression here, I am not an epidemiologist. In fact, qualified epidemiologists are suddenly gone, silent or silenced.
I can only guess that the disease will progress like a super-flu and hit millions of Americans. Closing schools, churches, and discos isn’t going to fix that.
Within 10 days we will see what these efforts do, the numbers will turn, shrink, or not depending on mathematical probability.
To you, it will probably mean you may be ill or not but chances are you already might well have the low-grade flu out there, everyone I know has it. Is it really CV19 and is all of this made up?
Possibly.
Fixes:
No more lobbyists or nutcase “fringe” doctors, and we don’t mean Ben Carson, running things. Want to know how to do it? Look at what Obama did, then do that.
Really? Yep!
If you don’t secretly or not so secretly miss Barak Obama, you aren’t paying attention. He was really good. Credibility is everything and Trump pissed his away and now we are all sinking because of it.
Is this really true? Yes, sadly.
The next issue is bio-warfare. The high-risk nations involved are the US, Britain, France, and Israel but their labs are in Romania, Georgia, Libya and a bunch of places you never heard of with laundered cash, some drug money from Afghanistan,
Nobody knows who runs these labs, who they answer to or what diseases they work on, but SARS, Swine Flu and others are known to be things they “investigate,” which may mean and probably means weaponized for use with larger drones like the Global Hawk that can drop hundreds of smaller drones that distribute the pathogens.
We believe this is the methodology based on examination of how other diseases have jumped hundreds of miles in a single day, even thousands.
It is possible that in some nations, the disease will “burn through” and in others be stopped as China is claiming now.
If the US was the vector nation for accidental infection in China passed on by US military or something more sinister, all that will be discovered or would be, if only all weren’t suppressed.
It will all be about accountability.
In the interim, the economic fallout will cost the US a decade of problems.
Is COVID-19 Devouring What’s Left of the Trump Presidency?
Does anyone remember the scene in the original film Jaws in 1975 when Captain Quint gets devoured by the shark? Well, the COVID-19 situation in the US makes me imagine Donald Trump being devoured by a gigantic coronavirus. Or perhaps, the shark’s role could be played by western mainstream media?
Either way, there is some Trump munching going on. Whatever Hollywood special effect you apply, the Trump presidency is over. Hey, by the way, did Joe Biden engineer the SARS-CoV-2?
Remembering then-Vice President Joe Biden from the days of the Ukraine coup d’é·ta, most truthtellers would not put it past old 1-percent Joe. But no matter how COVID-19 came about, Trump is just not going to be able to “Tweet” himself out of his most recent screwups. It’s a funny thing about Americans, they can be as gullible as they come, but once they catch on…
And boy are they about to catch on. I almost feel sorry for the bad boy they once called The King of Debt, but Donald Trump had it coming. Now, an article on Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post by columnist Eugene Robinson, does not seem so mean and cruel in portraying Trump’s support base as the stupidest, most gullible people on earth.
Robinson, who’s not exactly my favorite expert, aptly pointed out The Donald promised his supporters he’d build a 2,000 mile-long wall on the US – Mexico border, and then bill Mexico for it. But “not a single mile of Trump’s wall has been built,” according to Robinson. However, in fairness to the president, a half a mile of the wall has been built by a private organization called We Build the Wall on private property near El Paso, Texas, with Trump’s encouragement. Check it yourself, if you doubt me here.
I don’t want to drag the reader into this mess. Some good people have donated a lot of time and money to help create this Tower of Babel. Trump’s other lies are more damnable, anyway. Take Robinson’s assertions about Trump’s promises on America’s imbalance of trade. “The Chosen One” (another Trump nickname) told his supporters he’d reverse trade policies that helped other nations and hurt Americans. Robinson wrote:
“The Commerce Department announced Wednesday that the overall US trade deficit in goods last year soared to an all-time high of $891 billion. The deficit with China, Trump’s principal target — the amount by which the value of imported goods exceeded the value of exported goods — reached a record $419 billion.”
Then there’s “Draining the Swamp”, affordable care, and a laundry list of other Trump promises that have gone unfulfilled. But none of Donald Trump’s follies would have even been remembered has he not screwed the pooch on COVID-19. In this one, the emotional escapism Americans get to relish in because of what was Trump’s New York bravado in a booming economy is about to hit everybody’s next-door neighbor.
The Wall Street bubble is about to become a vacuum. The world pandemic is going to suck the life out of the American people when the US Treasury is forced to print more borrowed money just to keep the world afloat. And make no mistake, that’s the economic future if we are to escape Mad Max and Thunderdome replacing next year’s Super Bowl.
As horrible as total bankruptcy sounds, the human cost of America’s unpreparedness for the coronavirus is already unbelievable. How many reading this remember the time when the world looked to the United States for vaccines, healing-aid, and outreach to stem the miseries of other nations? And in America, Trump swore he had “shut down” the coronavirus back in early February 2020. I did run across a Trump Tweet early on in the fight to stop COVID-19.
“The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Throughout the crisis up until he was caught lying about the availability of coronavirus tests a few days ago. Before he announced flight bans on Europe, Trump has bragged and spewed like his comment; “The CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus…” The American president is unveiled as a man who does not even care to study the issues and facts surrounding him. Now New York City officials say New Yorkers should consider themselves to have been exposed to the coronavirus. How’s that for under control?
I almost feel bad saying that President Trump is the worst kind of incompetent, but even his most stalwart fan base is beginning to see through the bullshit. And as he continues to babble like an idiot about his “good job, good job, good job” Trump manages to use a deadly disease to plug his failed border wall fiasco:
“Going up fast. We need the Wall more than ever!” – President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump
Meanwhile, the 2018 promises by Trump to fund Italy’s debt seem to be paying off, interestingly, as the entire country will probably be up for sale shortly. Italy leaders are already planning a moratorium to get more investment to float the country’s burgeoning debt made worse by the coronavirus.
And, it’s no surprise that (hey, isn’t she a crook) Christine Lagarde (Bernard Tapie’s loan guarantor), who’s now the President of the European Central Bank, told the Italians they were “pretty much on their own” the other day. Bond yields went through the roof because the ECB is not going to help Italy.
This means mortgage rates on Italian homes etc, are going to be unpayable for many Italians. And when they lose their properties, guess who will move in to snap them up? Say “billionaires” softly. Allianz Global Investors is already snapping up Italian bonds like they are mint chocolates on a Waldorf pillow.
Around the world, the Norwegians are closing all airports and seaports. The Saudis have grounded all air carriers. Global tourism accounts for 320 million jobs and more than $9 trillion dollars of the global economy. Here in Europe, Multinational travel and tourism company TUI Group is on target to follow rival tours company, Thomas Cook down the tubes.
The COVID-19 pandemic has already caused the German company to postpone pre-payments hoteliers depend on to stay afloat and to cancel outright contracts. TUI stocks suck for the last five years anyhow and the company now has limited options to cover dividends and its burgeoning debt. TUI shares have fallen by 42% year-to-date. Investors who were once sedated with juicy dividends are worried now that travel demand hit by coronavirus will crash the company.
Underneath, the hotels, restaurants, retailers, wholesalers fear utter devastation. And at the White House, the news is good – President Donald Trump tested negative for the coronavirus!
The whole mess stinks of a genetically engineered, secret germ warfare 007 placed super-virus designed to let those with money take over what’s left of the world. Oops! I did not mean to insert that here. It just slipped out in the middle of all this Trump over truth. Aha! And maybe I got it! Maybe the reshaping of the world is the crescendo of Donald Trump’s purpose in the first place?
It is probably time for him to leave. Now wouldn’t that make all of us feel gullible and stupid? A name is sticking in my head. Allianz, Allianz, where was it I was reading about Allianz Global and presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg? Well, that’s for another time. A good cop – bad cop ending here would just be too much. The current “good cop” seems dressed and ready to make his exit.
Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, he’s an author of the recent bestseller “Putin’s Praet


veteranstoday--2020-03-17--CoronaVirus: $820 Billions Q.E. Bazookas by ECB & FED for Stealing Soveregnty in Italy, EU and US

“ Long live Christine Lagarde !
” For once , the globalist face of High Finance , founded on the criminal principle of legalized seigniorage , now more stainless than any constitution of a sovereign country , has told the truth .
The spread can not be touched !
« We will be using all the flexibility , but we are not here to close the spreads .
This is not the function or the mission of the ECB , there are other tools and other actors to intervene on these aspects » said the arrogant French queen of Eurotower @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no pity for the EU states even in the face the pandemic .
The technical statement translated into vulgar means “ tears and blood for the people ” .
Obviously especially for the Italian one which is cyclically more devastated by international wars as the Corona Virus seems to be more and more .
This happened about a month after the New Development Bank of Russia-led BRICS countries subsidized China with $ 10 billion to help fight the epidemic .
These opposing behaviors make different financial strategies and philosophies macroscopic .
In the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Italian European politics all hurried to cheer the inhabitants of the peninsula ( and of the other hardest hit countries like Spain now ) with gigantic lying promises of unconditional help , she has already been reproduced in various caricatures such as the vulture Frankfurt , home of the European Central Bank , a private spa owned by other private banks , but at least it has shown the courage to tell all Europeans how things are without hypocrisy… At least she had the “ kindness ” to warn us immediately that it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or other similar devilries to strangle Italy but it will be the public debt that will become our social killer for the poorest sections of the population and the relentless loan shark for the richer ones also at risk of future “ bail-in ” forced withdrawals on current accounts if some national institution were to fall down after the CoVid-19 financial catastrophe which continues to kill and devastate the stock exchanges of the whole world … To stem an economy on the brink of the abyss , repeatedly proclaimed by the former technical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was a need to give money to banker friends , here is the nefarious solution of the European Union that grants Rome to overcoming the deficit or the possibility of general other public debt .
« Nobody should expect that the ECB will be the first line in the response to Coronavirus » Lagarde said before being forced to correct the shot and announce the use of the famous bazooka Quantitative Easing with which its predecessor Mario Draghi allowed former italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni , now EU commissioner an historic ally of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the American Dems George Soros , to make his Government , supported by the Democratic Party and wanted by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella ( former MP in italian Dems ) , make a good impression , overcoming the deficit ( report percentage between Gross Domestic Production and Public Debt ) .
The failure of the Mattarella ’ s financial cure ( and the ones of its predecessor in the Quirinale until 2015 Giorgio Napolitano , another former Dems MP now Senator for Life ) is soon seen in the numbers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from 1,990 to 2,327 billion euros in May 2018 ( new League-5 Star government from 1 June 2019 ) in the 7 years of political governments ( 2013-2016 ) and technical ( 2011-2013 and 2016-2018 ) registered by PD from 2012 to May 2018 .
And today in unstoppable growth above 2.409 billion euros from 31 December 2019 , after the new yellow-red Left-Wing government PD-5 Star .
In the ordinary Italian economic disaster , in which the parties today of the noisy but not very concrete opposition of the Right-Wing parties as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ above all of Forza Italia which governed with the PD from January 2014 to January 2015 ) the CoronaVirus catastrophe brought the boot to its knees , soft touching only Rome and Palermo , but hitting hard on the Lombardy ’ s provinces , the real economic turbine of the country so as to increasingly credit the plot theory about a biogenetic weapon… The first answer of the French lawyer Lagarde “ get by ” is almost better than the second “ €120 billion euros ” of bazooka Quantitative Easing to buy government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ due to the Covid-19 emergency .
The same will make the Fed in Us with $ 700 billions Q.E .
action .
In the first case , in fact , Italy could have meditated a difficult ItalExit from the European Union with the direct help of world partners : USA on the one hand or China and Russia on the other , in the second case it is certain to follow on a track died the route traced by Draghi and already highlighted by Gospa News in the economic article “ The bazooka @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Italian assets ” .
For those who do not have the time or desire to read it , I summarize it brutally : the more securities the ECB private bank buys .
that with the seigniorage ( similar to dollar deception ) makes us pay the issue of “ Monopoly money ” not guaranteed by any gold coverage , the more it will be the owner of the Italian public debt just like any credit institution becomes more owner of a personal or corporate asset every time it provides them new loans in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Meloni , Brother of Italy president , was one of the smartest to report the colossal danger for the artistic , landscape , financial ( for example Italian Mails governmente company ) assets of the peninsula .
The politician in an intervention on the television broadcast is not the Arena on LA7 highlighted the risk for the resources of the ‘ Bel Paese ” .
« Albert Einstein said that the big crises are an opportunity , I think the big crises reveal the real nature of people and states – said Meloni @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opportunity for Europe to prove that it exists .
Instead , yet another opportunity has turned out , especially for France and Germany , to try to plunder Italy » .
« One who has the Lagarde curriculum , who has twice been at the helm of the International Monetary Fund , knows very well what the weight of her words is .
The plan is to force Italy to the corner , to pluck Italy and acquire its assets at bargain prices and treat it like Greece .
We must not allow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ usual .
read more THREE ITALIAN PUPPETS IN THE DEEP STATE HANDS This is why the treatment of Eurotower is only a sedative , a temporary narcotic that can become the social killer of the peninsula as it has been in Greece .
But it was instead welcomed with enthusiasm by the Italian government because it is made up of members of that PD who voted Lagarde herself in the role of ECB president conferred on her by the European Parliament also thanks to the indirect help of the abstentions of the 5-star @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many of the wealthy Italian savers a bit deserve these extreme consequences because they are the first to not believe in their national identity by holding around 1,371 billion euros in the bank accounts , as evidenced by a report by Milena Gabanelli on newpaper Corriere last year .
Although they have good reasons not to believe in a country where the mafia ( from yesterday ’ s Cosa Nostra to today ’ s ’ Ndrangheta ) increasingly controls finance as much as politics , as recent investigations and law enforcement operations confirm @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that bites its tail .
If those billions lying on bank accounts with interest expenses had been invested in Government Bonds or Capital Accumulation Plans ( CAP ) of the Italian Mails , a joint stock company in which the Italian State , through the Ministry of Economy and Finance , is l the majority shareholder , holding about 60 % of the share capital ( 35 % Cassa Depositi e Prestiti , 29.7 % ) Ministry of Economy ) , the public debt could have been mitigated by virtue of the introduction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the debt would have ended almost entirely in Italian hands just like that of Japan is 90 % in those of the Japanese .
This is why no country or foreign entity can “ blackmail ” Tokyo although it has the highest deficiency in the world of 236 % in the relationship with the Gross Domestic Product as opposed to the Italian one which has always fluctuated a little 130 % and is now around 135.7 % .
Instead , Italy , which has ceded monetary sovereignty , is forced to beg @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has never been disbursed with non-repayable loans but through the famous bazooka QE from the ECB private bank in a perfect logic of speculation on bank seigniorage .
This is why it is not surprising that Lagarde accustoms us to the severe tones of an economic dictatorship : it was put there specifically for that by the International Monetary Fund of which she was president and which is always well addressed by the majority shareholder : namely the United States , to in turn kept on a leash by the Fed .
Finally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of private banks , the majority of wealthy Zionists , just like the ECB which was inspired by Washington ’ s monetary mechanism .
This chain of economic terrorism is capable of attacking any country in the world like a hyena , bringing it to its knees as it did for Venezuela through the tightening of economic sanctions .
We had already pointed out the financial emergency for Syria , Italy and Europe in general a year ago in a previous report which highlighted the role of the International Monetary Fund , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to induce countries rich of BRICS ( Brazil , Russia , India , China and South Africa ) to set up their New Development Bank with the ambition to make it a competitor to the IMF .
The competition has so far been implemented only in some countries of Africa , Asia and Latin America , but not with a real dynamics of national loans but with “ small ” investments of hundreds of millions of dollars for each targeted intervention .
« Thus far , the NDB has approved 46 projects for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
By the end of this year , we expect the approvals to reach about USD 15 billion .
In 2020 , we are targeting approvals of USD 8-10 billion » said Kundapur Vaman Kamath , Indian president of the international bank , on November 14 , 2019 at the end of the 11th BRICS Summit in Brasilia , Brazil .
« Going forward , the Bank is capable of sustaining between USD 8-10 billion of annual lending .
With the initial USD 10 billion of capital that has been provided to it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Bank can achieve a total asset book of about USD 50 billion » had foreseen the NDB chairman .
On the sidelines of the Summit , the NDB and the Government of Russia signed the Agreement on the Hosting of the New Development Bank Eurasian Regional Centre ( ERC ) in the Russian Federation .
« The Bank ’ s Africa Regional Center in Johannesburg has proved that on-the-ground presence makes a big difference to our work .
Our Brazil office is already staffed and ready to open and we await @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our office in Moscow are at an advanced stage and we will open this office early next year .
We will follow that up with our Delhi office in the first half of 2020 » added K.V .
Kamath .
Then came the tsunami of the pandemic that swept China and therefore the New Development Bank had to focus on emergency aid by allocating 71 million yuan for Beijing , the equivalent of 10 billion dollars : without conditions … The billions given by the Brics bank to China appear small compared to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the world banks that control it , to be more and more in control of the American public debt .
« The Federal Reserve returns to intervene on the market for the second time in a few days , in an extraordinary action to respond to the emergency of the coronavirus .
An action that comes this time with the banks of all the main international central banks , including the ECB , which have activated measures to provide dollar liquidity to the markets » wrote Raffaele Ricciardi in the newspaper Repubblica @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Central Bank has cut interest rates by surprise bringing them into the 0-0.25 % range : it means a one percentage point cut compared to the level set only on March 3 , « which brings the cost of money to the historical lows seen during the Great Recession following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and announces to keep it until the economy has recovered from the financial repercussions of the catastrophic pandemic .
« Not only that , the Fed has also dusted off purchases of securities by launching a massive $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the economy and protect it from the impact of the pandemic .
In detail , the note says that “ over the next few months ” it will buy $ 500 billion in treasury bills and $ 200 billion in mortgage securities » Repubblica reported .
In the past week , the Fed had already deployed $ 1.5 trillion interventions to support the markets through “ repurchase agreements ” that fuel short-term liquidity .
Obviously all virtual money resulting from the bank seigniorage that brings to mind that old phrase of the great @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ford … “ It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system , for if they did , I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning ” .

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy
VERSIONE ORIGINALE IN ITALIANO
“Long live Christine Lagarde!” For once, the globalist face of High Finance, founded on the criminal principle of legalized seigniorage, now more stainless than any constitution of a sovereign country, has told the truth.
The spread cannot be touched! «We will be using all the flexibility, but we are not here to close the spreads. This is not the function or the mission of the ECB, there are other tools and other actors to intervene on these aspects» said the arrogant French queen of Eurotower making it clear that there would be no pity for the EU states even in the face the pandemic.
The technical statement translated into vulgar means “tears and blood for the people”. Obviously especially for the Italian one which is cyclically more devastated by international wars as the Corona Virus seems to be more and more.
This happened about a month after the New Development Bank of Russia-led BRICS countries subsidized China with $ 10 billion to help fight the epidemic. These opposing behaviors make different financial strategies and philosophies macroscopic.
ECB and FED, indeed, will use the Quantitative Easing Bazookas for helping the countries with purchasing of government bonds respectively for €750billions by Frankfurt and for $700billions by Washington.
In the usual ‘TheatreCracy” of Platonic memory Italian European politics all hurried to cheer the inhabitants of the peninsula (and of the other hardest hit countries like Spain now) with gigantic lying promises of unconditional help, she has already been reproduced in various caricatures such as the vulture Frankfurt, home of the European Central Bank, a private spa owned by other private banks, but at least it has shown the courage to tell all Europeans how things are without hypocrisy…
MATTARELLA-GENTILONI’S THERAPY UNDER SOROS SHADE
At least she had the “kindness” to warn us immediately that it will not be technical details like Mes or other similar devilries to strangle Italy but it will be the public debt that will become our social killer for the poorest sections of the population and the relentless loan shark for the richer ones also at risk of future “bail-in” forced withdrawals on current accounts if some national institution were to fall down after the CoVid-19 financial catastrophe which continues to kill and devastate the stock exchanges of the whole world …
To stem an economy on the brink of the abyss, repeatedly proclaimed by the former technical premier Mario Monti in 2012 whenever there was a need to give money to banker friends, here is the nefarious solution of the European Union that grants Rome to overcoming the deficit or the possibility of general other public debt.
«Nobody should expect that the ECB will be the first line in the response to Coronavirus» Lagarde said before being forced to correct the shot and announce the use of the famous bazooka Quantitative Easing with which its predecessor Mario Draghi allowed former italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, now EU commissioner an historic ally of the globalist financial speculator and founders of the American Dems George Soros, to make his Government, supported by the Democratic Party and wanted by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella (former MP in italian Dems), make a good impression, overcoming the deficit (report percentage between Gross Domestic Production and Public Debt).
read more ITALIAN PRESIDENT PROTECTED BANKERS, PIRANHA OF SAVERS
The failure of the Mattarella’s financial cure (and the ones of its predecessor in the Quirinale until 2015 Giorgio Napolitano, another former Dems MP now Senator for Life) is soon seen in the numbers of the public debt, which rose from 1,990 to 2,327 billion euros in May 2018 (new League-5 Star government from 1 June 2019) in the 7 years of political governments (2013-2016) and technical (2011-2013 and 2016-2018) registered by PD from 2012 to May 2018.
And today in unstoppable growth above 2.409 billion euros from 31 December 2019, after the new yellow-red Left-Wing government PD-5 Star.
In the ordinary Italian economic disaster, in which the parties today of the noisy but not very concrete opposition of the Right-Wing parties as League and Brothers of Italy (but above all of Forza Italia which governed with the PD from January 2014 to January 2015 ) the CoronaVirus catastrophe brought the boot to its knees, soft touching only Rome and Palermo, but hitting hard on the Lombardy’s provinces, the real economic turbine of the country so as to increasingly credit the plot theory about a biogenetic weapon…
The first answer of the French lawyer Lagarde “get by” is almost better than the second “€120 billion euros” of bazooka Quantitative Easing to buy government bonds of the various countries in recession due to the Covid-19 emergency.
Financial intervention was then raised by the ECB to 750 billion only 48 hours after the first announcement. The same will make the Fed in Us with $700 billions Q.E. action.
MELONI (RIGHT-WING): “ECB WANTS TO PLUNDER ITALY”
In the first case, in fact, Italy could have meditated a difficult ItalExit from the European Union with the direct help of world partners: USA on the one hand or China and Russia on the other, in the second case it is certain to follow on a track died the route traced by Draghi and already highlighted by Gospa News in the economic article “The bazooka to make more debt and rob the Italian assets”.
read more DRAGHI-ECB BAZOOKA FOR ROBBING ITALIAN ASSETS
For those who do not have the time or desire to read it, I summarize it brutally: the more securities the ECB private bank buys. that with the seigniorage (similar to dollar deception) makes us pay the issue of “Monopoly money” not guaranteed by any gold coverage, the more it will be the owner of the Italian public debt just like any credit institution becomes more owner of a personal or corporate asset every time it provides them new loans in connection with binding repayment contracts.
Giorgia Meloni, Brother of Italy president, was one of the smartest to report the colossal danger for the artistic, landscape, financial (for example Italian Mails governmente company) assets of the peninsula. The politician in an intervention on the television broadcast is not the Arena on LA7 highlighted the risk for the resources of the ‘Bel Paese”.
read more THE DOLLAR DECEPTION
«Albert Einstein said that the big crises are an opportunity, I think the big crises reveal the real nature of people and states – said Meloni – the CoronaVirus could have been an opportunity for Europe to prove that it exists. Instead, yet another opportunity has turned out, especially for France and Germany, to try to plunder Italy».
«One who has the Lagarde curriculum, who has twice been at the helm of the International Monetary Fund, knows very well what the weight of her words is. The plan is to force Italy to the corner, to pluck Italy and acquire its assets at bargain prices and treat it like Greece. We must not allow it» added Meloni as pugnacious as usual.
read more THREE ITALIAN PUPPETS IN THE DEEP STATE HANDS
This is why the treatment of Eurotower is only a sedative, a temporary narcotic that can become the social killer of the peninsula as it has been in Greece.
But it was instead welcomed with enthusiasm by the Italian government because it is made up of members of that PD who voted Lagarde herself in the role of ECB president conferred on her by the European Parliament also thanks to the indirect help of the abstentions of the 5-star MEPs.
1.371 BILLIONS FIXED ON ITALIAN BANK ACCOUNTS
To tell the truth, many of the wealthy Italian savers a bit deserve these extreme consequences because they are the first to not believe in their national identity by holding around 1,371 billion euros in the bank accounts, as evidenced by a report by Milena Gabanelli on newpaper Corriere last year.
Although they have good reasons not to believe in a country where the mafia (from yesterday’s Cosa Nostra to today’s’ Ndrangheta) increasingly controls finance as much as politics, as recent investigations and law enforcement operations confirm, are it is the classic dog that bites its tail.
If those billions lying on bank accounts with interest expenses had been invested in Government Bonds or Capital Accumulation Plans (CAP) of the Italian Mails, a joint stock company in which the Italian State, through the Ministry of Economy and Finance, is l the majority shareholder, holding about 60% of the share capital (35% Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, 29.7%) Ministry of Economy), the public debt could have been mitigated by virtue of the introduction of immediate liquidity.
But above all, the debt would have ended almost entirely in Italian hands just like that of Japan is 90% in those of the Japanese. This is why no country or foreign entity can “blackmail” Tokyo although it has the highest deficiency in the world of 236% in the relationship with the Gross Domestic Product as opposed to the Italian one which has always fluctuated a little 130% and is now around 135.7%.
Instead, Italy, which has ceded monetary sovereignty, is forced to beg for liquidity to the European Union that has never been disbursed with non-repayable loans but through the famous bazooka QE from the ECB private bank in a perfect logic of speculation on bank seigniorage.
This is why it is not surprising that Lagarde accustoms us to the severe tones of an economic dictatorship: it was put there specifically for that by the International Monetary Fund of which she was president and which is always well addressed by the majority shareholder: namely the United States, to in turn kept on a leash by the Fed.
read more VENEZUELA: 40 THOUSANDS DEAD FOR TRUMP SANCTIONS
Finally, the Federal Reserve is made up of private banks, the majority of wealthy Zionists, just like the ECB which was inspired by Washington’s monetary mechanism. This chain of economic terrorism is capable of attacking any country in the world like a hyena, bringing it to its knees as it did for Venezuela through the tightening of economic sanctions.
BRICS’ BANK HELPED CHINA
We had already pointed out the financial emergency for Syria, Italy and Europe in general a year ago in a previous report which highlighted the role of the International Monetary Fund, which is so choking of poor countries as to induce countries rich of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) to set up their New Development Bank with the ambition to make it a competitor to the IMF.
The competition has so far been implemented only in some countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America, but not with a real dynamics of national loans but with “small” investments of hundreds of millions of dollars for each targeted intervention.
«Thus far, the NDB has approved 46 projects for USD 12.8 billion in our member countries. By the end of this year, we expect the approvals to reach about USD 15 billion. In 2020, we are targeting approvals of USD 8-10 billion» said Kundapur Vaman Kamath, Indian president of the international bank, on November 14, 2019 at the end of the 11th BRICS Summit in Brasilia, Brazil.
«Going forward, the Bank is capable of sustaining between USD 8-10 billion of annual lending. With the initial USD 10 billion of capital that has been provided to it by the founding members, by 2027, the Bank can achieve a total asset book of about USD 50 billion» had foreseen the NDB chairman.
On the sidelines of the Summit, the NDB and the Government of Russia signed the Agreement on the Hosting of the New Development Bank Eurasian Regional Centre (ERC) in the Russian Federation.
«The Bank’s Africa Regional Center in Johannesburg has proved that on-the-ground presence makes a big difference to our work. Our Brazil office is already staffed and ready to open and we await completion of necessary formalities. Preparations for our office in Moscow are at an advanced stage and we will open this office early next year. We will follow that up with our Delhi office in the first half of 2020» added K.V. Kamath.
Then came the tsunami of the pandemic that swept China and therefore the New Development Bank had to focus on emergency aid by allocating 71 million yuan for Beijing, the equivalent of 10 billion dollars: without conditions …
US: SUPER-BAZOOKA FED FOR $700 BILLIONS
The billions given by the Brics bank to China appear small compared to what the Fed is investing, thanks to the world banks that control it, to be more and more in control of the American public debt.
«The Federal Reserve returns to intervene on the market for the second time in a few days, in an extraordinary action to respond to the emergency of the coronavirus. An action that comes this time with the banks of all the main international central banks, including the ECB, which have activated measures to provide dollar liquidity to the markets» wrote Raffaele Ricciardi in the newspaper Repubblica on March, 15.
The American Central Bank has cut interest rates by surprise bringing them into the 0-0.25% range: it means a one percentage point cut compared to the level set only on March 3, «which brings the cost of money to the historical lows seen during the Great Recession following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and announces to keep it until the economy has recovered from the financial repercussions of the catastrophic pandemic.
«Not only that, the Fed has also dusted off purchases of securities by launching a massive $ 700 billion Quantitative Easing program to support the economy and protect it from the impact of the pandemic. In detail, the note says that “over the next few months” it will buy $ 500 billion in treasury bills and $ 200 billion in mortgage securities» Repubblica reported.
In the past week, the Fed had already deployed $ 1.5 trillion interventions to support the markets through “repurchase agreements” that fuel short-term liquidity.
Obviously all virtual money resulting from the bank seigniorage that brings to mind that old phrase of the great businessman of the American car industry Henry Ford …
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning”.
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
© 2020 no reproduction without authorization – italian original version
MAIN SOURCES
GOSPA NEWS – CORONAVIRUS INVESTIGATIONS
CORRIERE – I MILIARDI IN BANCA DEGLI ITALIANI
REPUBBLICA – BAZOOKA FED PER GLI USA
NEW DEVELOPMENT BANK – BRICS SUMMIT IN BRASILIA


veteranstoday--2020-03-17--Intel Drop: St. Patrick’s Day, CV 19 Terror Coverup

If you don ’ t think the lesson here will be applied to a symptomless Ebola… .
Trucks line America ’ s highways , bumper to bumper , loaded with toilet paper .
Please dear lord save me from the foolishness .
Rest areas are closed , portajohns only…which will spread the disease much faster .
All paper money now virtually worthless , only plastic accepted as cash is though to be germ ridden .
Toll roads require Easy Pass or stick to back roads only .
It is time we looked at CV19 as terrorism .
Did the US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military games ?
The US took 369 fake athletes to China , housed them at ground zero for the outbreak , and we mean a 2 minute walk , and did this exactly timed for “ patient zero ” which China has yet to find .
China has massive resources and still can ’ t find “ Patient Zero.
” This is statistically impossible .
Italy locked down 1/4th of the country and still can ’ t find Patient Zero .
This is statistically impossible .
Akums Razor says it is terrorism .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ by their military at Nes Tziona , where they make diseases .
This is not an accusation but a possibility .
We also look at Israel when we see an epicenter in Milan .
Our Italian sources cite Milan as a hotbed of post-Gladio terrorism branching into all of Europe but tied to Macedonia , Kosovo , Albania and the Kosher Nostra ’ s massive presence in that area , under the protection of Turkey .
We have highest level “ on the ground ” resources there .
As stated over and over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this seems to be a fake pandemic , 99 % fear , fake deaths of those already dying ( PROVE ME WRONG ) and poor Tom Hanks and his wife ( VT LOVES TOM ) , held prisoner in an Aussie hospital though they DID NOT REQUIRE ONE SECOND OF HOSPITALIZATION .
No need of oxygen , no need to be in a hospital , end of story .
Behind this , the oil and market manipulation games , the trillions in debt all tied to Kosher Nostra “ banks ” makes this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigations that should be done , and the WHO should have a huge team in Iran , that should track down this disease and find its real origins and identify how it spread is in total “ stand down.
” Moreover , every security agency in the world should be out there banging on doors .
With 200,000 Israeli trained fake investigators at DHS that costs the American people tens of billions a year to subsidize ( wasted cash every single cent ) , none are working on the biggest threat in history @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of capability and intent .
If you don ’ t think the lesson here will be applied to a symptomless Ebola… .
This is a test run with a variety of purposes : • Demonstrating a total breakdown of the US government • Total control of the press , censorship and fake news both • Testing the mechanisms of martial law hidden behind disease prevention • Pushing world debt limits by 50 percent , bankrupting the entire planet in one act • Destroying 20 % of the jobs in the industrialized west @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have testing issues with half of the positives tested thus far , according to a recent study , fake : Potential false-positive rate among the ‘ asymptomatic infected individuals ’ in close contacts of COVID-19 patients ] .
[ Article in Chinese ; Abstract available in Chinese from the publisher ] Objective : As the prevention and control of COVID-19continues to advance , the active nucleic acid test screening in the close contacts of the patients has been carrying out in many parts of China .
However , the false-positive rate of positive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reported up to now .
But to clearify the falsepositive rate during screening is important in COVID-19 control and prevention .
Methods : Point values and reasonable ranges of the indicators which impact the false-positive rate of positive results were estimated based on the information available to us at present .
The false-positive rate of positive results in the active screening was deduced , and univariate and multivariate-probabilistic sensitivity analyses were performed to understand the robustness of the findings .
Results : When the infection rate of the close contacts and the sensitivity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as the point estimates , the positive predictive value of the active screening was only 19.67 % , in contrast , the false-positive rate of positive results was 80.33 % .
T he multivariate-probabilistic sensitivity analysis results supported the base-case findings , with a 75 % probability for the false-positive rate of positive results over 47 % .
Conclusions : In the close contacts of COVID-19 patients , nearly half or even more of the ‘ asymptomatic infected individuals ’ reported in the active nucleic acid test screening might be false positives .

The Senior Editor
If you don’t think the lesson here will be applied to a symptomless Ebola….
Trucks line America’s highways, bumper to bumper, loaded with toilet paper. Please dear lord save me from the foolishness.
Rest areas are closed, portajohns only…which will spread the disease much faster. All paper money now virtually worthless, only plastic accepted as cash is thought to be germ ridden. Toll roads require Easy Pass or stick to back roads only.
It is time we looked at CV19 as terrorism. Did the US really take CV19 to Wuhan with the military games? The US took 369 fake athletes to China, housed them at ground zero for the outbreak, and we mean a 2 minute walk, and did this exactly timed for “patient zero” which China has yet to find.
China has massive resources and still can’t find “Patient Zero.” This is statistically impossible.
Italy locked down 1/4th of the country and still can’t find Patient Zero. This is statistically impossible.
Akums Razor says it is terrorism.
Israel’s new vaccine was developed by their military at Nes Tziona, where they make diseases. This is not an accusation but a possibility.
We also look at Israel when we see an epicenter in Milan. Our Italian sources cite Milan as a hotbed of post-Gladio terrorism branching into all of Europe but tied to Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and the Kosher Nostra’s massive presence in that area, under the protection of Turkey.
We have highest level “on the ground” resources there.
As stated over and over, as recently reported in Israel, this seems to be a fake pandemic, 99% fear, fake deaths of those already dying (PROVE ME WRONG) and poor Tom Hanks and his wife (VT LOVES TOM), held prisoner in an Aussie hospital though they DID NOT REQUIRE ONE SECOND OF HOSPITALIZATION.
No need of oxygen, no need to be in a hospital, end of story.
Behind this, the oil and market manipulation games, the trillions in debt all tied to Kosher Nostra “banks” makes this organized crime and terrorism.
The normal investigations that should be done, and the WHO should have a huge team in Iran, that should track down this disease and find its real origins and identify how it spread is in total “stand down.”
This is a coverup.
Moreover, every security agency in the world should be out there banging on doors. With 200,000 Israeli trained fake investigators at DHS that costs the American people tens of billions a year to subsidize (wasted cash every single cent), none are working on the biggest threat in history, not a health threat but rather one of capability and intent.
If you don’t think the lesson here will be applied to a symptomless Ebola….
This is a test run with a variety of purposes:
Demonstrating a total breakdown of the US government
Total control of the press, censorship and fake news both
Testing the mechanisms of martial law hidden behind disease prevention
Pushing world debt limits by 50 percent, bankrupting the entire planet in one act
Destroying 20% of the jobs in the industrialized west while killing almost no one
Then we have testing issues with half of the positives tested thus far, according to a recent study, fake:
Potential false-positive rate among the ‘asymptomatic infected individuals’ in close contacts of COVID-19 patients].
[Article in Chinese; Abstract available in Chinese from the publisher]
Zhuang GH1, Shen MW, Zeng LX, Mi BB, Chen FY, Liu WJ, Pei LL, Qi X, Li C.
Abstract
in English, Chinese Objective: As the prevention and control of COVID-19continues to advance, the active nucleic acid test screening in the close contacts of the patients has been carrying out in many parts of China. However, the false-positive rate of positive results in the screening has not been reported up to now. But to clearify the falsepositive rate during screening is important in COVID-19 control and prevention. Methods: Point values and reasonable ranges of the indicators which impact the false-positive rate of positive results were estimated based on the information available to us at present. The false-positive rate of positive results in the active screening was deduced, and univariate and multivariate-probabilistic sensitivity analyses were performed to understand the robustness of the findings. Results: When the infection rate of the close contacts and the sensitivity and specificity of reported results were taken as the point estimates, the positive predictive value of the active screening was only 19.67%, in contrast, the false-positive rate of positive results was 80.33%. The multivariate-probabilistic sensitivity analysis results supported the base-case findings, with a 75% probability for the false-positive rate of positive results over 47%. Conclusions: In the close contacts of COVID-19 patients, nearly half or even more of the ‘asymptomatic infected individuals’ reported in the active nucleic acid test screening might be false positives.
KEYWORDS: COVID-19; Close contacts; False-positive; Nucleic acid test; Screening


veteranstoday--2020-03-17--Idlib jihadis tell Turkey and Russia to ‘shove their ceasefire’

Militants in Syria ’ s Idlib not complying with ceasefire : Russian Foreign Ministry [ Editor ’ s Note : The Idlib ceasefire is in ‘ no man ’ s land ’ with the current stand off .
The Jihadis are mining the M4 highway and certainly will have IEDs in place , to directly confront Russia and Turkey .
We watch to see what Turkey does .
It has already tried to isolate the problem by blaming it on extremist factions only .
Yet , it may have set a trap for itself .
If that is the case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a coalition of Russian , Syrian and Turkish forces to intervene and take the offending groups out of the picture .
As for the road blocking civilians , if they are not jihadis out of uniform , let them fend getting supplies themselves when Turkey cuts them off .
If Turkey does nothing , then it will look more and more like it is in cahoots with the Jihadis on preventing the Syrian use of the highway .
Erdogan will be staring Putin down , daring the Russians to support a new Syrian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a fix for taking the Turkish combat drones down , that could just increase the SAA losses for little to no gain , which is what Erdogan and the jihadis would want .
But the COVID virus is inside Turkey , with a reported 47 cases , but no new ones showing up , a clear sign it is not reporting new cases .
The virus could undermine Erdogan ’ s Grand New Sultan plans , just like it is derailing everybody else ’ s plans , each waiting for the hammer to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jim W. Dean ] The Russian Foreign Ministry says foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants are not complying with the terms of a ceasefire reached earlier this month by Ankara and Moscow to halt an escalation of violence in Syria ’ s embattled northwestern province of Idlib .
My input starts about half way through .

Militants in Syria’s Idlib not complying with ceasefire: Russian Foreign Ministry
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …with PressTV, Tehran
[ Editor’s Note: The Idlib ceasefire is in ‘no man’s land’ with the current stand off. The Jihadis are mining the M4 highway and certainly will have IEDs in place, to directly confront Russia and Turkey.
We watch to see what Turkey does. It has already tried to isolate the problem by blaming it on extremist factions only. Yet, it may have set a trap for itself. If that is the case, then the rational response would be a coalition of Russian, Syrian and Turkish forces to intervene and take the offending groups out of the picture.
As for the road blocking civilians, if they are not jihadis out of uniform, let them fend getting supplies themselves when Turkey cuts them off. If Turkey does nothing, then it will look more and more like it is in cahoots with the Jihadis on preventing the Syrian use of the highway. Erdogan will be staring Putin down, daring the Russians to support a new Syrian advance. Unless the Syrian coalition has a fix for taking the Turkish combat drones down, that could just increase the SAA losses for little to no gain, which is what Erdogan and the jihadis would want. But the COVID virus is inside Turkey, with a reported 47 cases, but no new ones showing up, a clear sign it is not reporting new cases. The virus could undermine Erdogan’s Grand New Sultan plans, just like it is derailing everybody else’s plans, each waiting for the hammer to fall, but with Turkey already broke… Jim W. Dean ] – First published … March 17, 2020 – The Russian Foreign Ministry says foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants are not complying with the terms of a ceasefire reached earlier this month by Ankara and Moscow to halt an escalation of violence in Syria’s embattled northwestern province of Idlib. My input starts about half way through.
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veteranstoday--2020-03-17--Police State Crackdown: Israel to Track all cell phones over CV19

JERUSALEM ( JTA ) — The Israeli Cabinet approved a measure that will allow the Israel Security Agency , or @ @ @ @ @ the cell phones of Israelis who are infected with coronavirus .
The agency would not @ @ @ @ @ perform the surveillance and it will be limited in the scope of information it can @ @ @ @ @ access to it , and what it can be used for , according to a @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Office .
After approval of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Subcommittee @ @ @ @ @ the authorization would be valid for 30 days .
Under the authorization , the agency @ @ @ @ @ cell towers to track the movements of those infected with the coronavirus and who they @ @ @ @ @ going into quarantine .
Anyone who came within about six feet of an infected person @ @ @ @ @ would receive a message telling them to self-quarantine , the Times of Israel reported .
@ @ @ @ @ the measure would infringe on civil liberties .

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli Cabinet approved a measure that will allow the Israel Security Agency, or Shin Bet, to track the cell phones of Israelis who are infected with coronavirus.
The agency would not require a court order to perform the surveillance and it will be limited in the scope of information it can collect, who would have access to it, and what it can be used for, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office.
After approval of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Subcommittee on the Secret Services, the authorization would be valid for 30 days.
Under the authorization, the agency would be allowed to use cell towers to track the movements of those infected with the coronavirus and who they came in contact with before going into quarantine. Anyone who came within about six feet of an infected person for more than ten minutes would receive a message telling them to self-quarantine, the Times of Israel reported.
The decision prompted criticism that the measure would infringe on civil liberties.


veteranstoday--2020-03-17--Too Much Bull: 60% of Americans Think Trump is “Full of it” on CV19

NPR/PBS : Americans have little trust in the information they are hearing from President Trump about the novel coronavirus , and their confidence in the federal government ’ s response to it is declining sharply , according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll .
Just 46 % of Americans now say the federal government is doing enough to prevent the spread of the coronavirus , down from 61 % in February .
Just 37 % of Americans now say they had a good amount or a great deal of trust in what they ’ re hearing from the president , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very much or no trust at all in what he ’ s saying .
The president rates worst of all groups tested , be it public health officials , state and local leaders or the news media .
And more Americans disapprove of the president ’ s handling of the pandemic than approve by a 49 % -44 % margin .
But that does not differ greatly from his overall job approval rating , which stands at 43 % .
That ’ s largely unchanged from the last survey in February , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the president ’ s handling of the economy , despite the massive slides in the stock market of late related to the coronavirus .
Public health officials got the highest level of trust at 84 % , followed by those state and local leaders ( 72 % ) .
Americans were split 50 % to 47 % on whether they can trust information coming from the news media or not .

NPR/PBS: Americans have little trust in the information they are hearing from President Trump about the novel coronavirus, and their confidence in the federal government’s response to it is declining sharply, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
Just 46% of Americans now say the federal government is doing enough to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, down from 61% in February.
Just 37% of Americans now say they had a good amount or a great deal of trust in what they’re hearing from the president, while 60% say they had not very much or no trust at all in what he’s saying.
The president rates worst of all groups tested, be it public health officials, state and local leaders or the news media. And more Americans disapprove of the president’s handling of the pandemic than approve by a 49%-44% margin. But that does not differ greatly from his overall job approval rating, which stands at 43%. That’s largely unchanged from the last survey in February, and 51% still said they approve of the president’s handling of the economy, despite the massive slides in the stock market of late related to the coronavirus. Public health officials got the highest level of trust at 84%, followed by those state and local leaders (72%). Americans were split 50% to 47% on whether they can trust information coming from the news media or not. read more… https://www.npr.org/2020/03/17/816680033/poll-americans-dont-trust-what-they-re-hearing-from-trump-on-coronavirus


veteranstoday--2020-03-17--Aussie SAS Faces War Crime Arrest for Murders in Afghanistan

ABC Australia : Extraordinary footage captured on the helmet camera of an Australian soldier in Afghanistan could result in charges of war crimes .
• The video shows the SAS soldier shooting the man dead at close range • The video is at odds with what soldiers told investigators , who ruled the killing was self-defense • Another SAS soldier who served in the same squadron has described it as a “ straight-up execution ” • Four Corners has obtained video which shows a Special Air Service ( SAS ) operator shooting an unarmed Afghan man three times in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the ground .
His death took place within three minutes of the soldiers arriving in the village .
An Australian Defence Force ( ADF ) investigation later ruled the killing was justified because it was in self-defense .
The killing was one of a series of cases uncovered by Four Corners that may constitute war crimes .
A former member of the same SAS squadron , who was on the 2012 deployment to Afghanistan and has been shown the vision , described the killing to Four Corners as a “ straight-up execution ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ helmet camera of the patrol ’ s dog handler , shows the SAS patrol disembarking from one of two Black Hawk helicopters before fanning out near the village of Deh Jawz-e Hasanzai .
It is a bright day in May 2012 , and 3 Squadron SAS is looking for an insurgent bombmaker .
The handler , with his dog , follows the patrol scout , who Four Corners has called Soldier C , through a field towards a mud compound .
The helicopters are guiding them to a person who has been spotted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the dog lets go , Soldier C trains his M4 assault rifle on the man from a range of between 1 and 2 meters .
After more than 20 seconds the soldier turns to the dog handler .
“ You want me to drop this c*** ?
” “ I don ’ t know mate .
Hit ***** up , ” replies the dog handler , referring to the patrol commander , who has taken up a position nearby .
The soldier turns to the commander .
“ You want me to drop @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the commander a second time : “ You want me to drop this c*** ?
” The patrol commander ’ s response is inaudible on the video .
Soldier C fires the first shot into the Afghan man on the ground .
As the dog streaks towards the prone man and the handler calls for him to come back , the soldier pumps two more bullets into the victim .
Fewer than three minutes have elapsed between the SAS landing their chopper , and the killing in the wheat field .
The dead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and he was thought to be 25 or 26 years old .
Braden Chapman was a signals intelligence officer with 3 Squadron SAS on that 2012 deployment but was not a witness to the killing .
Four Corners showed him the footage .
“ It ’ s just a straight-up execution really , ” he said .
“ He ’ s asked someone of a superior rank what he should do , but it comes down to the soldier pulling the trigger .
It ’ s a straight-up execution.
” Mr. Chapman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saw on the video .
“ That soldier there is not someone I saw do anything like that , and he didn ’ t usually act like that either , ” he said .

The video is at odds with what soldiers told investigators, who ruled the killing was self-defense
Another SAS soldier who served in the same squadron has described it as a “straight-up execution”
Four Corners has obtained video which shows a Special Air Service (SAS) operator shooting an unarmed Afghan man three times in the head and chest while he cowers on the ground.
His death took place within three minutes of the soldiers arriving in the village.
An Australian Defence Force (ADF) investigation later ruled the killing was justified because it was in self-defense.
The killing was one of a series of cases uncovered by Four Corners that may constitute war crimes.
A former member of the same SAS squadron, who was on the 2012 deployment to Afghanistan and has been shown the vision, described the killing to Four Corners as a “straight-up execution”.
The deadly three minutes
The video, taken by the helmet camera of the patrol’s dog handler, shows the SAS patrol disembarking from one of two Black Hawk helicopters before fanning out near the village of Deh Jawz-e Hasanzai.
It is a bright day in May 2012, and 3 Squadron SAS is looking for an insurgent bombmaker.
The handler, with his dog, follows the patrol scout, who Four Corners has called Soldier C, through a field towards a mud compound.
The helicopters are guiding them to a person who has been spotted in a wheat field ahead.
“Quake, leave!” yells the dog handler.
As the dog lets go, Soldier C trains his M4 assault rifle on the man from a range of between 1 and 2 meters.
He is still, as the soldier keeps the weapon pointed at his head.
After more than 20 seconds the soldier turns to the dog handler.
“You want me to drop this c***?”
“I don’t know mate. Hit ***** up,” replies the dog handler, referring to the patrol commander, who has taken up a position nearby.
The soldier turns to the commander.
“You want me to drop this c***?”
The soldier asks the commander a second time: “You want me to drop this c***?”
The patrol commander’s response is inaudible on the video.
Soldier C fires the first shot into the Afghan man on the ground.
As the dog streaks towards the prone man and the handler calls for him to come back, the soldier pumps two more bullets into the victim.
The Afghan man is dead.
Fewer than three minutes have elapsed between the SAS landing their chopper, and the killing in the wheat field.
The dead man’s name was Dad Mohammad, and he was thought to be 25 or 26 years old.
‘It’s just a straight-up execution’
Braden Chapman was a signals intelligence officer with 3 Squadron SAS on that 2012 deployment but was not a witness to the killing.
Four Corners showed him the footage.
“It’s just a straight-up execution really,” he said.
“He’s asked someone of a superior rank what he should do, but it comes down to the soldier pulling the trigger. It’s a straight-up execution.”
Mr. Chapman said he was shocked by what he saw on the video.
“That soldier there is not someone I saw do anything like that, and he didn’t usually act like that either,” he said.
Source: ABC News


veteranstoday--2020-03-17--President Kushner, the Corrupt Leading the Stupid-a Failure of Power

Daily Beast : So at least now we know where he was getting his misleading information from .
Jared Kushner repeatedly advised President Donald Trump that the media ’ s coverage was exaggerating the severity of the coronavirus outbreak , according to a report from The New York Times .
In the early days of the outbreak , Trump downplayed the threat from the virus , and publicly accused the “ Fake News Media ” and Democrats of trying “ to inflame ” the situation .
The Times reports that Kushner , who was tasked with carrying out research into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to do next , privately told Trump what the president then repeated publicly .
Kushner has reportedly sought out a bigger role for himself in the coronavirus task force despite his lack of knowledge on the topic .
He is said to have urged his father-in-law to go ahead with his European travel ban and declare a national emergency , both of which were announced last week .
https : //www.thedailybeast.com/kushner-repeatedly-advised-trump-the-media-was-exaggerating-coronavirus-threat-says-report ?
ref=home From the NY Times : “ Senior aides battling one another for turf , and advisers protecting their own standing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ indecision and quick to blame others and who views events through the lens of how the news media covers them .
A pervasive distrust of career government professionals , and disregard for their recommendations .
And a powerful son-in-law whom aides fear crossing , but who is among the few people the president trusts .
The culture that President Trump has fostered and abided by for more than three years in the White House has shaped his administration ’ s response to a deadly pandemic that is upending his presidency and the rest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to how Americans live their daily lives .
It explains how Mr. Trump could announce he was dismissing his acting chief of staff as the crisis grew more severe , creating even less clarity in an already fractured chain of command .
And it was a major factor in the president ’ s reluctance to even acknowledge a looming crisis , for fear of rattling the financial markets that serve as his political weather vane .
“ What begins every kind of mobilized response by the president — clear assignments and some sense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ none of that seemed to be a part of the president ’ s discussion , ” said Kathleen Sebelius , who served as the health and human services secretary under President Barack Obama .
“ The agencies were kind of left to their own devices . '
” https : //www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/kushner-trump-coronavirus.html

Daily Beast: So at least now we know where he was getting his misleading information from. Jared Kushner repeatedly advised President Donald Trump that the media’s coverage was exaggerating the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, according to a report from The New York Times. In the early days of the outbreak, Trump downplayed the threat from the virus, and publicly accused the “Fake News Media” and Democrats of trying “to inflame” the situation.
The Times reports that Kushner, who was tasked with carrying out research into the coronavirus to help Trump decide what to do next, privately told Trump what the president then repeated publicly. Kushner has reportedly sought out a bigger role for himself in the coronavirus task force despite his lack of knowledge on the topic. He is said to have urged his father-in-law to go ahead with his European travel ban and declare a national emergency, both of which were announced last week. https://www.thedailybeast.com/kushner-repeatedly-advised-trump-the-media-was-exaggerating-coronavirus-threat-says-report?ref=home
From the NY Times: “Senior aides battling one another for turf, and advisers protecting their own standing. A president who is racked by indecision and quick to blame others and who views events through the lens of how the news media covers them. A pervasive distrust of career government professionals, and disregard for their recommendations. And a powerful son-in-law whom aides fear crossing, but who is among the few people the president trusts.
The culture that President Trump has fostered and abided by for more than three years in the White House has shaped his administration’s response to a deadly pandemic that is upending his presidency and the rest of the country, with dramatic changes to how Americans live their daily lives.
It explains how Mr. Trump could announce he was dismissing his acting chief of staff as the crisis grew more severe, creating even less clarity in an already fractured chain of command. And it was a major factor in the president’s reluctance to even acknowledge a looming crisis, for fear of rattling the financial markets that serve as his political weather vane.
“What begins every kind of mobilized response by the president — clear assignments and some sense that this is an absolute priority — none of that seemed to be a part of the president’s discussion,” said Kathleen Sebelius, who served as the health and human services secretary under President Barack Obama. “The agencies were kind of left to their own devices.'” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/kushner-trump-coronavirus.html