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“Gone In 60 Seconds” – 19 Children In North Carolina Steal 46 Cars From Dealerships

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Crime has increased during every recession since the 1950s. As people lose their jobs, they sometimes resort to theft and robbery to compensate for lost income. As a depression unfolds across America, a group of 19 kids, ages 19 to 16, have been accused by law enforcement for stealing over a million dollars in vehicles from dealerships under the cover of the pandemic.

The thefts began on March 17, and occurred across numerous auto dealerships in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, reported WXII NBC.

Winston-Salem Police said 18 break-ins were reported at dealerships in the region, along with two in Kernersville.

In total, 46 vehicles were stolen, worth about $1.14 million. Police said all but three were recovered.

It appears these kids were just shy of the 50 mark, something that movies buffs would know if they’ve seen the movie “Gone in 60 Seconds,” where Nicolas Cage had to steal 50 luxury cars in one night to save his brother from a crime lord. Now there were no reports suggesting the kids were working for an organized crime organization, that would take the cars and part them out or load them up in sea containers for overseas clients.

But there’s something that is troubling to us. How the heck did they kids get a hold of the technology, remember, most cars today need key fobs or laser cut keys – to start these vehicles?

Police have been denied custody orders from the Forsyth County Department of Juvenile Justice for the children. They said one adult was arrested, 19, Mekeal Binns, was charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle, and remains in Forsyth County Detention Center.

Here are some of the dealerships the kids targeted: 

  • Flow Honda, 2600 Peters Creek Parkway
  • Flow Lexus, 801 Jonestown Road
  • Enterprise Rentals, 3080 University Parkway
  • Parkway Ford, 3150 University Parkway
  • Flow Audi, 465 Silas Creek Parkway
  • Modern Infinity, 1500 Peters Creek Parkway
  • Bob King Kia, 1725 Link Road
  • Modern Toyota, 3178 Peters Creek Parkway
  • Volvo, 701 Peters Creek Parkway
  • Parkway Ford, 2104 Peters Creek Parkway
  • Flow Subaru, 425 Silas Creek Parkway
  • Flow Chevrolet, S. Stratford Road
Map of dealerships that saw thefts

Authorities have asked the dealerships to better secure cars during the virus lockdowns. Looting was also seen in South Carolina in early April during statewide stay-at-home orders.

 

Top ER Doctor Kills Herself After Treating COVID-19 Patients in New York City

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“She tried to do her job, and it killed her.”

In the latest tragic example of the horrendous burden that the coronavirus pandemic is having on medical workers, a top emergency room doctor in New York City died by suicide on Sunday.

Dr. Lorna M. Breen was the medial director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital. On Sunday, she died while staying with her family in Charlottesville, Virginia, her father told New York Times.

Her father, Dr. Philip C. Breen, has some idea of why she may have taken her own life—and the devastating scenes of the death and suffering among COVID-19 patients which she had described in recent weeks were a likely contributing factor.

“She tried to do her job, and it killed her,” he told the paper.

While she herself had contracted SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes the disease COVID-19—she attempted to return to work after recuperating for a week and a half. The hospital quickly sent her home before Breen’s family convinced her to stay with them in Charlottesville, her father said.

Lorna Breen apparently had no history of mental illness, her father said. However, in a recent conversation between the two she seemed detached, raising her dad’s worries that something was wrong.

She also recounted nightmarish scenes of “an onslaught” of patients dying just as soon as their ambulances arrived. Philip Breen explained:

“She was truly in the trenches of the front line.

“Make sure she’s praised as a hero, because she was. She’s a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died.”

In an email to hospital staffers sent Sunday night, head of emergency medical services at the NewYork-Presbyterian hospital system Dr. Angela Mills said:

“A death presents us with many questions that we may not be able to answer.”

The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has taken a tremendous toll on doctors and nurses around the world in the months since it first emerged in Wuhan, China, both in terms of pushing the capacity of hospitals toward or past the breaking point or doing the same to medical workers’ mental health limits.

Doctors and nurses across the U.S. have admitted that while the COVID-19 crisis has helped them feel more dedicated than ever to their profession and their vows to protect patients, it has caused a mental health crisis for medical workers.

It has also accentuated frustrations over a lack of personal protective gear, a fear of spreading the disease to their families, and a nagging sense that they are unable to do enough for patients.

Negative thoughts and feelings of despondency have also been enhanced by extremely long and exhausting shifts at the hospital and a deep sadness over the deaths that they have had to witness.

Italian hospital doctors’ union leader Carlo Palermo told Associated Press also confirmed that two nurses had committed suicide due to the emotional trauma resulting from their front-line work. Fighting back tears, Palermo said:

It’s [an] indescribable condition of stress.

“I can understand those who look death in the eye every day, who are on the front lines, who work with someone who maybe is infected, then a few days later you see him in the ICU or die.”

The NewYork-Presbyterian Allen is a 200-bed hospital located in Manhattan that has had as many as 170 COVID-19 patients at a time. There were 59 patient deaths at the hospital as of April 7, according to an internal document acquired by The Times.

According to the most recent data, there have been roughly 160,000 confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 in New York City’s five boroughs and 12,287 deaths. For weeks now, the city has been the epicenter of the outbreak sweeping across the United States.

By Elias Marat | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com

Armed Gunmen Enter Capitol Building Demanding End to Coronavirus Lockdown

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On Wednesday a state court ruled that Michigan’s stay-at-home order does not violate constitutional rights.

The movement against public health measures designed to stave off the coronavirus pandemic escalated on Thursday as armed gunmen were among those who stormed the Michigan state house and tried to enter the legislative chamber.

The protesters entered the building after holding a small rally outside the State House in Lansing, calling for an end to Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home order in accordance with guidance from public health experts due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The so-called “American Patriot Rally” was organized by the recently-formed group Michigan United for Liberty and came two weeks after a similar protest dubbed “Operation Gridlock” created a traffic jam outside the government building.

Some demonstrators on Thursday wore “Make America Great Again” hats, while others carried firearms into the Capitol building. It is legal to carry a visible weapon in Michigan.

“You aren’t allowed to bring in posters to the Michigan State Capitol, but you can bring guns and rifles,” wrote progressive activist Linda Sarsour.

The protesters demanded to be let into the state House chamber, where the Republican-controlled legislature was debating an extension of Whitmer’s emergency order, which is due to expire at the end of the day Thursday. The lawmakers eventually adjourned without extending the order.

Democratic State Senator Dayna Polehanki posted photos of armed men with long guns in the public gallery above the floor:

A number of progressive advocates noted that racial and economic justice demonstrations have been met with force in recent years, while the crowd of largely white and pro-Trump protesters was permitted to force their way into the Capitol building with weapons.

The protest—during which one speaker compared the crowd to civil rights leaders including Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—came as the advocacy group Progress Michigan released poll results showing the majority of Michigan residents oppose protests like the American Patriot Rally and Operation Gridlock.

More than half of respondents said they trust Whitmer to handle the state’s response to the pandemic, while only 15% said they trust the state legislature and 24% said they trust President Donald Trump.

Only 25% supported the anti-Whitmer protests, and 56% opposed them.

“Once again, the polling shows that Michiganders support Gov. Whitmer’s commonsense, science-based handling of the COVID-19 crisis,” said Lonnie Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan. “Operation Gridlock protesters have made a lot of noise, but these numbers make it clear they’re only a very vocal minority of our state.”

The demonstration came a day after a state court ruled that Whitmer’s stay-at-home order does not violate constitutional rights.

“Our fellow residents—have an interest to remain unharmed by a highly communicable and deadly virus, and since the state entered the Union in 1837, it has had the broad power to act for the public health of the entire state when faced with a public crisis,” Court of Claims Judge Christopher M. Murray wrote.

By Julia Conley | CommonDreams.org | Creative Commons

50 Million Americans Have Lost Their Job in Past 6 Weeks, Survey Finds

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“I have nothing. As much as I don’t want my kids to see me stress out, each one has seen me cry.”

When Thursday’s initial claims report is published at 8:30am on Thursday, the Dept of Labor will confirm that the current depression unlike any seen before, with approximately 30 million Americans losing their jobs in the past 6 weeks alone. That number, however, may be underestimating the full number of of Americans who have lost their jobs by as much as 50%.

According to an online poll by the left-wing Economic Policy Institute, millions of Americans who have been thrown out of work during the coronavirus pandemic have been unable to register for unemployment benefits. The poll found that for every 10 people who have successfully filed unemployment claims, three or four people have been unable to register and another two people have not tried to apply at a time of acute economic crisis.

Official statistics show that 26.5 million people have applied for unemployment benefits since mid-March, wiping out all of the jobs gained during the longest employment boom in U.S. history, and another 3.5 million initial claims are expected to be filed this week.

“It’s almost set up to fail. It was made complicated so people would get discouraged and give up.”

EPI surveyed 24,607 adult internet users using Google Surveys between April 13 and April 24. The poll has a confidence interval, an indicator of accuracy, of plus or minus 1%. 9.4% of poll respondents said they had successfully applied for unemployment benefits, while 3.4% said they tried but could not get through. A further 1.9% said they did not apply because the process was too difficult.

Among the reasons for the continuing technical challenges listed by Reuters, is that states like New Jersey and Georgia have struggled to find staffers who know how to update computer systems that run on decades-old technology. Others that have moved to newer technology have also encountered technical woes. States have also had to incorporate enhanced federal benefits that provide an extra $600 per week and extend coverage to Uber drivers and other independent contractors.

On top of that, many states entered the crisis with fewer workers to handle unemployment claims as an improving economy had allowed them to cut staff.

States had the equivalent of 26,360 full-time workers in their unemployment offices in the 2018 fiscal year, according to the U.S. Labor Department, down 30% from staffing levels during the peak of the Great Recession in 2009 and 2010. Many Americans who managed to file claims have yet to receive payments weeks after they lost their jobs.

Labor Department statistics show that 71% who apply are getting payments, although that figure varies significantly by state. Florida, for example, said on Saturday it had sent payments to roughly one in five of those who had successfully submitted claims. Among those waiting are Rachel Alvarez, 44, who says she now hides snacks in her bedroom so her three children cannot eat them too quickly. The former restaurant server in Naples, Florida, says she has run through her savings since she was laid off on March 25.

“I have nothing,” she said. “As much as I don’t want my kids to see me stress out, each one has seen me cry.”

By Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge.com | Republished with permission

Pentagon Releases 3 UFO Videos Taken By US Navy Pilots

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The US Department of Defense has released three declassified videos of “unexplained aerial phenomena”.

The US Department of Defense today officially released three short videos of “unidentified aerial phenomena” – aka unidentified flying objects – that it still apparently doesn’t have an explanation for.

The footage has already been widely circulated online, thanks to Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge: he is on a mission to obtain and publicly distribute UFO sightings via his To The Stars organization, and revealed the trio of videos between December 2017 and March 2018.

Now Uncle Sam has itself emitted the material online, which shows Navy pilots observing strange stuff mid-flight. The Pentagon said it released the videos “to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos.”

The first video, code-named FLIR presumably after the thermal-imaging tech involved, shows an encounter in 2004 off the coast of Mexico. A Navy fighter recorded what the commanding officer of Strike Fighter Squadron 41, David Fravor, called “a 40-foot long tictac shaped object hovering above the water,” with no wings nor rotor wash. His aircraft circled the object, which in turn circled him, Fravor claimed, but when he approached the object it headed away at “supersonic” speeds.

Here it is:

The other two pieces of footage, codenamed GOFAST and GIMBAL, are dated between summer 2014 and March 2015, and were shot on the US East Coast between Virginia and Florida. In the first vid, codenamed GOFAST, a pilot targets a small, seemingly fast-moving target over the water. “What the f**k is that thing!” he cries. You can judge for yourself below.

GIMBAL shows an object, or a fleet of them as one pilot says, spotted moving at high speeds against 120 knot winds and seemingly rotating in flight. One of the pilots who witnessed the event, Lieutenant Ryan Graves, told The New York Times the object would skip between sea level and 30,000 feet at “hypersonic speeds.”

“After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena,” the Pentagon said today.

The Pentagon has previously studied recordings of aerial encounters with unknown objects as part of a since-shuttered classified program that was launched at the behest of former Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada. The program was launched in 2007 and ended in 2012, according to the Pentagon, because they assessed that there were higher priorities that needed funding.
Nevertheless, Luis Elizondo, the former head of the classified program, told CNN in 2017 that he personally believes “there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone.”
“These aircraft — we’ll call them aircraft — are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of,” Elizondo said of objects they researched. He says he resigned from the Defense Department in 2017 in protest over the secrecy surrounding the program and the internal opposition to funding it.
Reid tweeted Monday that he was “glad” the Pentagon officially released the videos, but that “it only scratches the surface of research and materials available. The U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential national security implications.”
And some members of Congress are still interested in the issue, with senators receiving a classified briefing from Navy officials on unidentified aircraft last summer.
“If pilots at Oceana or elsewhere are reporting flight hazards that interfere with training or put them at risk, then Senator Warner wants answers. It doesn’t matter if it’s weather balloons, little green men, or something else entirely — we can’t ask our pilots to put their lives at risk unnecessarily,” Rachel Cohen, spokeswoman for Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, told CNN at the time.

The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as “unidentified.” Which is nothing new. Likely explanations for the strange blobs can be found here:

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