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Anger mounts after corporations tap small-business relief funds Congress is under increasing pressure to ensure an extension of the popular Payment Protection Program (PPP) gets desperately needed funds to the small businesses it’s intended to help, not to big corporations. Nationwide chains and companies recently revealed they received funds from the program designed for businesses … Read more

ANN ALTHOUSE CALLS OUT NATE SILVER FOR GHOULISHNESS: It seems to me, he’s assuming the conditions of contagion are the same in red and blue states and only the politics are different. But I think the reason the red states are getting closer to reopening is that there’s good reason to think that it can be done carefully and that … Read more

It’s the 4 families in conjunction with apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Hollywood, Harris, waters, Feinstein, Schiff, who control what you see on TV, The internet, movies, newspapers and magazines. Independent media is the key. h/t Venus230

‘Impeachable Offense’: Fox’s Judge Nap Says NJ, MI Govs Violating The Law With CV Lockdowns Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano angered a lot of people earlier this year when he said President Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses regarding his July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president. Now, Napolitano is saying another “impeachable … Read more

by Shaun Richards A feature of the credit crunch era is that some subjects have never gone away in spite of all the official denials. Another is that establishment’s use crises to try to introduce policies which they would not be able to get away with in ordinary times. As today we are looking at … Read more

by Venus230 Rules for Radicals recommends mostly working within the system—though in the twisted way Machiavelli is reputed to have done (whether or not he’s been interpreted fairly). Below, you’ll find Alinsky’s list of 13 “Rules for Radicals,” offered with his proviso that political activism cannot be a self-serving enterprise: “People cannot be free unless they are willing … Read more

Less than two weeks ago, the federal government launched the $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program, aimed at keeping small businesses afloat as the coronavirus pandemic forces an unprecedented shutdown of the nation’s economy. Among those that qualified for the loans — businesses with fewer than 500 workers may borrow up to 2 1/2 times their payroll, or up to … Read more

(by Half Dollar) By now, everybody knows they’ll pay you to take a barrel of crude oil. Well, in theory anyway. In reality, crude oil is not exactly free. Nonetheless, it is dirt cheap! Which makes it seem like just the right time to start a brand new Middle East War during a raging pandemic! And it seems … Read more

As the new coronavirus took root across America, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent states tainted test kits in early February that were themselves seeded with the virus, federal officials have confirmed. The contamination made the tests uninterpretable, and—because testing is crucial for containment efforts—it lost the country invaluable time to get … Read more