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For the first time in history, crude oil prices dropped to the point of entering a negative territory. This Monday, Fortune reports that the “evaporating demand and scarce storage” caused the decline to below zero. This decline means that there is a flip, with sellers effectively paying buyers to take the oil. Late Monday afternoon, the front-month WTI (West Texas Intermediate) contract sat at $38.45/barrel. This significant drop means that the decline was at 310.45%, all in the same day. An oil analyst from the Oslo based Rystad Energy told Fortune that this is almost unreal. Louise Dickson stated, “It’s like trying…

Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discussed how delay and denial can cost lives. She was talking with Ari Melber about what could happen if situations regarding the coronavirus are delayed or denied, and she heavily stressed that it could cost lives. In that case, she’s right. Any delay or denial when it comes to medical situations and patients could always cost lives – that’s a given. However, as Nancy Pelosi speaks about this, she’s missing one really gigantic and obvious point – that she’s also very guilty of the same delay and denial she speaks of. Except, her delay and…

Hollywood actor and producer Rob Reiner made a bold prediction that President Trump will lose this year’s election, suggesting there is no hope for him to be reelected. Reiner, a well known Trump critic, has spoken out about him before. This time his message was short, but the reactions were many. Reiner stated, specifically, that “Trump will lose in a landslide because Americans will literally be voting for their lives.” Reiner does not provide any evidence or reasoning on why he believes this will be the case for President Donald Trump. Trump will likely square off against top Democratic candidate,…

In Columbus, Ohio, Lashawn Samuel made a lasting impression on how hard work pays off. For five years, Samuel walked three miles from his home to a local library to do his homework. Twelve colleges and universities accepted the Columbus City Schools’ student. Not only that, but some offered him a full scholarship. It includes his first choice, which is the Ohio State University. Against all the odds, including his health, personal safety, and financial security, Samuel will be the first person in his family to go to college. In his interview with WJHL, he said that his story is a…

After President Donald Trump gave governors the power to reopen their states, Mayor Lenny Curry announced that beaches and parks in Jacksonville, Florida, will be opened. The city’s mayor stated that this means that the beaches and parks will operate that same way before. These places will only be open for what was termed as essential activities. Not only that, but the operation will only be for limited hours. According to the Epoch Times, the essential activities were narrowed down to a list. These activities are walking, biking, hiking, fishing, running, swimming, taking care of pets, and surfing. Mayor Lenny specified…

President Donald Trump unleashed a flurry of Tweets aimed at Democrats in a demand that governors begin lifting statewide lock-downs when the outbreak flattens and the peak is over. Trump suggests that each state is different and had recently said it will be up to each governor to make their own decisions on when and how to start lifting stay-at-home orders and other lock-down sanctions that were put in place to help flatten the curve of the outbreak that originated in China and has since traveled all over the world. Trump’s tweet storm against Democrats focused on Minnesota, Michigan, and…

Michigan’s Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer has faced heavy criticism and protests after issuing a stay-at-home order. She now responds to the protests by stating that said protests could actually make the stay-at-home order last even longer because people are purposely breaking social distancing guidelines. This information from Whitmer was revealed during an interview on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow. Whitmer stated that she was concerned that people congregating in protest would cause the virus to bounce back and start spreading further. Whitmer also discussed the possibility of opening the state too soon and having a “second wave” strike her constituents. Whitmer…

Self-driving startup Zoox ended up losing in a lawsuit filed by Tesla. Tesla sued the startup company over trade secret theft. Engadget reports Zoox having over a hundred ex-Tesla employees. This data was gathered in Spring 2019 and has not undergone another survey to check whether or not more Tesla workers jumped ship. In a detailed report by MarketWatch, it turns out that this lawsuit was filed last year. The court statement gave details on Tesla’s former employees joining Zoox and bringing proprietary information. These stolen documents were used as a basis to cover shipping and warehouse processes for the…

A Sheriff in Los Angeles County has released 4,276 inmates from a county jail in hopes to slow or prevent the outbreak from taking over the jail. But, now he’s concerned that there might be a “future surge of crime” with so many inmates being released at once. Despite the fact that most of the inmates were said to be non-violent, one must remember that someone who is released from prison who has nowhere to go, no family to call, will often resort back to crime to survive out of necessity. Some criminals don’t have many options when they’re released,…

Failed candidate Bernie Sanders has officially endorsed Joe Biden and they went on live video to chat. Bernie Sanders was already pushing for free college for the generations coming up. Biden suggests proposing canceling student debt for people who were abused by private colleges. He makes a point because some colleges keep raising their tuition while offering nothing extra in return and that should be capped at some point. One way to drop the student debt is to simply lower the interest rates to 1-2% so students can make bigger payments that aren’t mostly interest. Biden and Sanders, surprisingly, were…

Michigan’s first time governor, Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, is being slammed for her draconian style of ruling and extreme measures during the outbreak. She’s officially been labeled as the worst governor in America, a title given to her by Robert Stacy McCain of Spectator. Whitmer received this title after people started calling her policies regarding the outbreak insane and to the extreme. McCain points out that Michigan, at the time, had the third-highest number of coronavirus cases. This could be due to people not social distancing like they’re supposed to. There’s no way to prove one way or the other why…

Former Vice President and top Democrat candidate for president, Joe Biden, now faces accusations from at least seven women who claim he inappropriately touched them. Tara Reade posted a video on social media telling her story and at least three other women have spoken out since the disturbing video was posted. Biden has a reputation of smelling people in public and getting too close and touchy-feely. He has acknowledged that he gets too close, but that hasn’t actually stopped him from continuing to do it. Now he’s facing accusations from seven women and it remains unclear if more will speak…

Democrat Governor Tom Wolf has ordered all PA schools to remain closed for the rest of the academic year as a response to the coronavirus. PA’s education secretary signed the official order on Thursday. Over 1.7 million students in both public and private schools, grades K-12, will stay home and most will learn via online remote classes. There is no specific date for all, as each school district has their own academic calendar. The order states for schools to remain closed until the end of their particular school year. 6ABC reports that Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf worked with Pedro Rivera,…

This is Texas Democratic Rep Sheila Jackson Lee. She’s the chair of the Congressional task force created to focus on COVID-19. She wears her medical face mask like this. She has her nose mostly uncovered and it’s very hard to believe that someone actually voted for this woman who appears incapable of wearing a mask the correct way at the height of an outbreak. Even worse, she was on television in Houston talking about ways people can prevent themselves from getting the virus and help stop the spread, but she’s wearing a mask like this, which is the completely wrong…

Most everyone who was around, and who possessed self awareness remembers where and what they were doing the morning 19 years ago on September 11, 2001. The day we learned two commercial planes had struck the very foundation of everything that stands for freedom, liberty and capitalism, The Twin Towers, The World Trade Center, The heart and soul of what makes America America. Living here in Silicon Valley I didn’t hear about what was happening until my wife woke me up to tell me something really bad was transpiring. That’s one of thousands of times my wife has woken me…

This is the one message that did not age well for the NYC Mayor’s Office who, back in February, told people there was nothing to worry about and that restaurants needed their business. Now NYC is the epicenter of outbreak with some of the most staggering numbers of sickness and people passing away from the pandemic. It’s nothing to take lightly, that’s for sure, as the outbreak sweeps across the country, hitting city after city. Some of the lower population cities don’t have it as bad, but considering the urban geography of New York City and the amount of people…

There was nothing but cheers for the captain who was removed from his duty upon the USS Theodore Roosevelt after it was discovered he raised concerns about an outbreak upon his ship, in hopes to keep his sailors safe and taken care of.  The Roosevelt holds almost 5,000 people and is an aircraft carrier. His name is Capt. Brett Crozier and he’s accused of using “extremely poor judgment” when his letter leaked that had concerns about his crews safety and a potential outbreak on the ship. It was Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly who said the commander used the poor…

China is getting slammed left and right with criticism for how they’re handling the pandemic and accusations of providing false statistics. Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Bill Hagerty, went all in to suggest China is acting like criminals and participating in the “greatest cover-up in human history.” And still, to this day, we have no idea what the true statistics are, how long they were truly dealing with the outbreak, or even what the actual cause may be. There are reports suggesting information for all of the above, but many people are very concerned that the information they read is…

Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler is being accused of selling almost $50k worth of stock in an online travel company one day before President Donald Trump issued a travel ban on European travel to the United States to prevent the spread of the pandemic we’re currently dealing with. This comes after she was already accused of selling off stocks before the country became aware of the seriousness of the pandemic. The stocks were worth $46,027. Keep in mined that her husband is Jeffrey Sprecher and he’s the chief executive of Intercontinental Exchange, whose the parent firm of the New York Stock…

The 3M company faces a consumer boycott after they were accused of selling much needed medical masks to cash buyers representing other countries before selling them to America. The company was hit hard on Twitter by President Donald Trump and thousands of angry users who were using the hashtag, #Boycott3M. This was all revealed during an interview with Tucker Carlson and Jared Moskowitz, the head of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management. Moskowitz suggests that 3M distributors are “prioritizing foreign buyers after they refused to sell him the essential equipment.” It’s stated that the sales and shipping of the medical masks,…