The United States is at the beginning of a nationwide lockdown that is slowly taking effect across the country. Schools are being closed, events are getting canceled, and many people are realizing that their way of life is going to radically change for the next few months, often in very scary and dramatic ways.

Most of the working class does not have the luxury of taking the social distancing measures that will protect them from catching the virus, because so many people are just one missed paycheck away from being homeless or unable to afford food. This issue was raised in an article published by Truth Theory earlier this week, which pointed out that service workers will have no choice but to work while they are feeling ill because they don't have enough sick time.

Meanwhile, the US government seems more concerned with giving bailouts to corporate CEOs and banks than helping out the people who need it the most.

This week, the Federal Reserve injected $1.5 trillion into wall street to help mitigate the losses from the coronavirus outbreak, a total which is more than double the $700 billion given to banks during the 2008 financial crisis.

Residents of Russia are less worried about the coronavirus epidemic, as they are resistant to various difficulties, among which the new infection is not at all the worst.

According to the Nation News publication, clinical psychologist Mikhail Khors came to this conclusion . He noted that over the past 30 years in the history of the country there have been many events that have been associated with serious life or death tests.

"We've been through hell and back in the country - the end of the 80s - the beginning of the 90s, and the war in the streets, and the revelry of crime, banditry," Khors said.

However, he noted that young people are more worried about an outbreak of coronavirus than adults. According to the expert, this is due to the fact that the young generation just does not have such an experience in overcoming adversity. He believes that partly the fault of the parents themselves, who are trying to limit their children from the realities of life.

After years of urging its terrorists to attack major European cities, ISIS is now telling them to steer clear due to the coronavirus.

Any sick jihadists already in Europe, however, should stay there — presumably to sicken infidels, according to a 'sharia' directive printed in the group's al-Naba newsletter, the Sunday Times of London reported.

The "healthy should not enter the land of the epidemic and the afflicted should not exit from it," the newsletter advised.

The newsletter instructs jihadists that the "plague" is a "torment sent by God on whomsoever He wills."

Iraq, where most of the surviving fragments of the group remain, had 110 reported coronavirus cases on Sunday morning, ten of them fatal, according to Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking the contagion.

The Defense Department late Friday halted all domestic travel for US-based service members, civilian employees and their families in response to the coronavirus.

It's the strictest travel restrictions yet for the department.

On Wednesday, the DoD set a 30-day restriction on travel from the US to China, Italy, Iran and South Korea, again for service members, civilian employees and their families.

The domestic restrictions apply to all personnel assigned to DoD installations, facilities and surrounding areas in the US and its territories, according to a department memorandum.

Service members will be allowed local leave only, the memorandum states.

"Conspiracy theory", what does the term mean? For most people it means a stupid belief based upon paranoia, imagination and a refusal to accept evident facts. This is perfectly understandable because that is precisely how the term is used by the State, the mainstream media (MSM), large swathes of academia, many in the scientific, business and financial communities, the legal profession, politicians and numerous "personalities."

For want of a better expression, let's call this nexus between the institutions of the State and representatives of the orthodox view the Establishment. If you only get your information from Establishment sources it is difficult to see how you could possibly think conspiracy theory meant anything other than a form of lunacy. Quite clearly, according to the Establishment, conspiracy theory is crazy.

More recently, the Establishment has suggested a belief in conspiracy theory is a dangerous, even extremist ideology. It is self evident that the term has a very strong, pejorative connotation.

If the Establishment label someone a conspiracy theorist this implies you should not listen to them. You should automatically reject everything they say. Not because you know what evidence their opinions are based upon, but because they have been labelled as a conspiracy theorist, and that's good enough.
Does anyone reading this doubt it? What do you think when the Establishment tells you an interpretation of historical events, an opinion or narrative is a conspiracy theory? If you are told someone is a conspiracy theorist what judgments do you make? Doesn't that immediately invalidate any evidence these ne're-do-wells offer? Doesn't the term conspiracy theory mean "not true?"

Yet, what if the Establishment is deceiving you? What if, instead of being baseless gibberish, many so called conspiracy theories are built upon verifiable, substantiating evidence? Is it worth looking at this evidence or do you trust the Establishment enough to accept what they tell you, and automatically ignore it? That is, after all, what the Establishment suggests.

I've offered links to some of this extensive evidence on In This Together and I hope some of you will find it a useful start for your own research. Please take a look around. However I'm not covering that evidence in this post.

In very general terms lets look at these opposing views of the world, from the western perspective. I don't claim to speak for anyone else and I represent no one but myself. I'm sure many will find much to disagree with here. However, I hope some basic truths seep through.

"The constitution is dead" was the last tweet ever sent by 21-year-old Duncan Socrates Lemp. On Thursday morning at 4:30 a.m., a Montgomery County SWAT team killed Lemp during a violent attack on his family's home in the affluent Washington suburb of Potomac, Maryland.

Why did the SWAT team attack the home as Lemp was sleeping? The initial county police press release referred only to "firearms offenses." County police spokeswoman Mary Davison refused to disclose either the details of Lemp's alleged offense or the affidavit used to justify the raid. Instead, she notified me that my press inquiries were being handled under the Maryland Public Information Act which entitles government agencies to delay responding for weeks or months.

Even the search warrant used to justify the raid is reportedly sealed for 30 days. This Blue Wall of Silence is doing nothing to slow the cascade of allegations on social media that Lemp was murdered.

Marc Steiner: Welcome to The Real News. I'm Marc Steiner, good to have you all with us. When you hear the word Gaza, what does that conjure up for you? War? Bombs being dropped? Rockets firing? Israeli blockades and occupation? Whatever it conjures up, it's not positive and, too often, forgotten.

Yellow Vest demonstrators aren't letting a ban on mass gatherings or fears of coronavirus stop them from expressing their opposition to the French government, and are staging their weekly protests in Paris.

France's Interior Minister Christophe Castaner on Friday banned all gatherings of more than 100 people but hundreds of demonstrators are continuing the weekly Yellow Vest vigil and are protesting at Paris landmarks.

Thousands of French security forces personnel hit the streets of the capital in a bid to clamp down on the movement, which has now been running for 70 consecutive weeks.

Disco vibes, flare pants, a chorus in Spanish and serious faces, while performing the freakiest of dance moves — Russia's rave-pop-punk hooligans Little Big have impressed the Eurovision crowd with a clip for its contest song.

Little Big, often described as "a Russian mental patient's answer to Die Antwoord," sure know how to make a hit. Two years ago their song, called 'Skibidi,' became a viral sensation, gaining 23 million views on YouTube in just 1 week. Since then it was seen by almost 370 million people, while the dance routine from the clip became a meme.

The Saint Petersburg band's entry for this year's Eurovision contest remained a mystery until Thursday, when the band finally presented their song on Russia's most popular late night talk show. The track called 'Uno,' which means 'one' in Spanish, has both Spanish and English lyrics, and is heavily influenced by disco music.

The owner of an oil pipeline that spewed thousands of barrels of crude oil onto Southern California beaches in 2015 will pay $60 million to to settle allegations that it violated safety laws, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday.

Texas-based Plains All American Pipeline didn't admit any wrongdoing or liability in the consent decree that will end a lawsuit filed on behalf of federal and state agencies. But it agreed to operational changes and to five years of federal and state scrutiny to ensure it is obeying the pollution and safety rules.

The agreement still must undergo a public comment period and needs federal court approval.

On May 19, 2015, oil gushed from a corroded pipeline north of Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County, northwest of Los Angeles. The spill blackened popular beaches for miles, killed or fouled hundred of seabirds, seals and other wildlife and hurt tourism and fishing.