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"That's above my pay grade, Tucker," Murphy said Wednesday on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight." "So, I wasn't thinking of the Bill of Rights when we did this. We went to all — first of all — we went to the scientists who said people have to stay away from each other."
Carlson pressed the Democratic governor on where he got the authority to contravene the Constitution.
"Well, here's the thing," Murphy responded. "We know we need to stay away from each other, number one. Number two, we do have broad authority within the state. And number three, we would never do that without coordinating, discussing, and hashing it out with the variety of the leaders of the faiths of New Jersey."
Comment: It's hard to believe this 'major incident' nothing-burger occurred in 2018. It seems like a lifetime ago now...

A police officer stands outside the London Road cemetery where the grave of Alexander Skripal; son of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal; is seen covered with a tent, in Salisbury, Britain
Months after President Donald Trump promised to open FBI files to help families of the 9/11 victims in a civil lawsuit against the Saudi government, the Justice Department has doubled down on its claim that the information is a state secret.
In a series of filings just before a midnight court deadline on Monday, the attorney general, William Barr; the acting director of national intelligence, Richard Grenell; and other senior officials insisted to a federal judge in the civil case that further disclosures about Saudi connections to the 9/11 plot would imperil national security.
But the administration insisted in court filings that even its justification for that secrecy needed to remain secret. Four statements to the court by FBI and Justice Department officials were filed under seal so they could not be seen by the public. An additional five, including one from the CIA, were shared only with the judge and cannot be read even by the plaintiffs' lawyers.
Barr insisted to the court that public discussion of the issue "would reveal information that could cause the very harms my assertion of the state secrets privilege is intended to prevent."
Raab added that the government can't yet provide a detailed time frame for easing the restrictions.
If I start giving you artificial and arbitrary time frames, it would be the irresponsible thing to do, and I can't do that.The country is currently in its fourth week of lockdown and social distancing, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the introduction of the emergency measures in a televised address to the nation on March 23.
A Cobra committee meeting was held today, as these measures were set to be reviewed after an initial three-week period.
Comment: Over in NY, Cuomo also extended his state's lockdown until May 15, i.e. 'stay-at-home', 'social distancing', closure of 'non-essential' businesses. He boasted that the policies have reduced the transmission rate to 0.9, and that the state will go through a "phased return" to normal. We'll see how normal that will be! Democrats are blaming Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, because the the Paycheck Protection Program intended to help small businesses - which they opposed extending - has run out of funds:
All $350 billion in the PPP was exhausted by Thursday, as over 1.6 million small businesses sought funds to keep running through the coronavirus lockdowns. Some 22 million Americans have already lost their jobs due to what senior public health officials described as an "inconvenience" that has lasted over a month already.It appears that the Philippines' Duterte has gone full crazy (maybe all those other crazy things he has said and done weren't an act!). After threatening to have authorities kill anyone violating quarantine, now he's threatening to call in the troops:
Duterte has sent out his warning in a televised speech. "I am asking for your discipline, because if you don't want to [follow the rules], the military and police will take over. I am ordering them now to be ready," he said, as cited by local media.Iran celebrated Army Day, but without the Army, choosing instead to parade medical equipment in a 'Defenders of the Homeland, Helpers of Health' parade:The police and the military will enforce social distancing and curfew. It would be like martial law. You choose.The president said that he could hand down the order as early as "next week."
And while London Police are acting like little tyrants with people violating social distancing diktat, they were cool with letting giant crowds of people violate said rules during #ClapForCarers, and even joining in the fun. Now that's smart and makes perfect sense.
Mayor Khan is recommending mandatory masks on public transport. China's economy saw its worst three months in decades, dropping almost 7%. And Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Jews clashed with police over the lockdown.
The world has gone mad, but that's not really a new thing. Sit back and enjoy the show?
See also:
- Hypocrisy: British govt sought out 'BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES' in China's wet markets as public health body warned Brits to stay away
- Trump says US conducting 'very thorough' probe into Covid-19 origins - French official says 'no evidence' connecting Covid-19 to Wuhan lab
- UK's callous disregard for care home residents - old, sick people acutely vulnerable to Covid-19 - has been a disgrace
- Alabama family denied entrance to storm shelter during tornado outbreak because they lacked masks
- Trump: Plan for 'opening up America again' will be governor-led and phased in, as top doctors agreed
- The talented Doctor Fauci
- 8 MORE Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic

A police officer checking a passenger's documents at a Moscow metro station on April 15, 2020.
Overall totals to today are 28K infected, 232 dead. This raises the question of why the death rate in Russia appears to be lower. One theory is that the widespread Soviet-era tuberculosis vaccinations (BCG vaccine) may have had an effect - just how or why is unclear, but there seems to be a statistical relationship. A test of its effectiveness is beginning in Australia. Over half the cases are in Moscow but every region except one reports cases: most of Sunday's infections in Shanghai came from a flight from Russia the day before. A pass system was introduced in Moscow yesterday but not very successfully (and many standing in line waiting to be checked). The new hospital in Moscow Region is up and running. A vaccine prototype is undergoing human testing (including by the developer). The Victory Parade is postponed. Meanwhile Russian military specialists are working away in Italy. (This, by the way, is why NBCW units were sent - not to spy, or for "gaining access to Italy's health and military system, which is part of a larger NATO structure", or to create "A hybrid lie. Or a hybrid truth" or be useless or whatever else NATO flacks imagine).
Kennedy repeatedly slammed Fauci on the Thomas Paine Podcast on Wednesday, revealing disturbing information about Fauci's problematic career steering key medical policy for the United States. Kennedy described Fauci as a workplace tyrant who has ruined careers of upstanding physicians and researchers in order to cover up scandals and costly medical research disasters at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases where Fauci has served as director since 1984 as part of the National Institute of Health.
Comment: See also:
- The dark truth about Fauci and Birx, Bill Gates and Globalist Elites
- Dr. Fauci admits he and Dr. Birx were the two 'experts' who persuaded Trump to kill the economy with their garbage predictions of 2.2 million deaths
- Trump shares call for Fauci to be fired
- The talented Doctor Fauci

Craig Murray and Julian Assange caught on a surveillance camera at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London
(Incidentally can anybody explain why the precise image you see there is an image which does not appear at any stage when you run the video? I am not even hinting at anything suspicious, just technically interested).
Having been on the inside and knowing their capabilities, I have always assumed that the security services know everything I say and do, so I cannot claim this comes as a great shock or that my behaviour would have been much altered had I known. The shadowing on those overseas trips was unsubtle in any case, more of a warning off than attempt at covert surveillance. As anyone who has read my books will realise, I have always rather enjoyed the more shadowy elements, with me since my former profession. During a visit to Washington in September 2016 which has become somewhat infamous, for fun I entered an establishment of low repute and spent an afternoon giving out free flash drives with my tips to various young ladies and barmen, just to give the FBI lots of particularly wild geese to chase. I have wondered occasionally whether subsequent embarrassment is connected to Robert Mueller's lack of desire to accept my evidence. (If you have no idea what I am talking about do not worry, you haven't missed much and just skip this para).
Comment:
- Belmarsh 'barely functioning': Assange tells friend Covid-19 is raging through British prison
- UK govt won't release Assange amid virus despite pre-existing lung condition
- Assange: 12 minute hearing suggest grim picture of judicial indifference
- Assange blasts court for preventing communication with lawyers, alleges legal team is being SPIED on
- Assange's trial and detention is a travesty of justice
Comment: The West is all a-twitter of late with talk of the virus having come from that Wuhan lab. We assumed so ourselves when this outbreak gathered steam in January. But now we think Our Dear Leaders 'doth protesteth too much' - there's something they know about this virus that they're not telling us, and we reckon it has to do with it having leaked from an AMERICAN lab...
US President Donald Trump hinted that a probe into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic hasn't ruled out that it may have started in a lab in China, fanning the flames of a conspiracy theory that's turning increasingly mainstream.
Asked to comment on reports stating the US government had "high confidence" the Covid-19 outbreak "emanated" from a virology lab in the city of Wuhan at Wednesday's White House briefing, the president remained somewhat tight-lipped, but said just enough to lend credence to the increasingly popular claim.
"Well, I don't want to say that... but I will tell you, more and more we're hearing the story, and we'll see," he said.
We are doing a very thorough examination of this horrible situation.
Comment: On the other side of this war of words between the US and China, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has rejected news claims that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab, a claim that they say is backed by the WHO.
Trump: Plan for 'opening up America again' will be governor-led and phased in, as top doctors agreed
White House officials told Daily Caller that Dr. Deborah Birx, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Robert Redfield are all in a consensus that the plan, which heavily takes into account regional public health concerns, is the proper path to move forward for the country.
The guidance is primarily focused on revitalizing the economy and addresses multiple different industries that have struggled under social distancing, including restaurants and bars. Large public gatherings will eventually be approved in a phased and layered way.
The officials explained that the guidance is extremely granular and will be issued all the way down to the county level. The White House acknowledged that some governors have already extended their current shelter in place orders but added that others could be ready to open their states ahead of Trump's previous target date of May 1.
Comment: See also:

In 2008, US President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Fauci "for his determined and aggressive efforts to help others live longer and healthier lives."
Tony Fauci, a leading member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, is being promoted by major US media such as CNN, MSNBC or the New York Times as the great expert on all related to the Covid19 outbreak. He had dismissed the President's efforts to promote a known malaria medication as treatment for severe corona patients as "anecdotal," even though seven years before he backed the same drug. He has publicly taken projections from an institute created in Washington State by the Gates Foundation, the same foundation that virtually owns the WHO and owns major stakes in the leading vaccine makers, to claim that up to 200,000 Americans could die from COVID19. Fauci stated that COVID19 is "probably about 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu," which would mean 300-600,000 coronavirus deaths this year, at the same time in a respected medical journal he compared Covid-19 as similar to seasonal flu in morbidity. When questioned how long the shutdown of much of the US economy must last, Fauci replied only when there is zero new covid19 positive tested cases, something impossible given the defective testing. He has also backed direct human tests of novel vaccines with no prior animal tests, including with radical non-tested mRNA gene-edited vaccines.











Comment: How to understand the 'Skripal Saga' now in the era of the apocalyptic 'Covid-19 plague'?
Like many other nothing-burger 'incidents of global importance' since 9/11, it was a mediatized event. Something really happened, but that something was insignificant and blown up into a 'major deal' by the media for the purpose of distracting us all while the Powers That Be and their authoritarian followers busily laid plans for a hostile global takeover of the human population.