Reader’s Links for July 20th, 2022

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53 Replies to “Reader’s Links for July 20th, 2022”

  1. I feel, and hope that one unintended consequence of our medical tyranny is that medical science is turned on its head. Given the most recent info provided on VTB we have all suffered medical injury from vaccines in some way, unless maybe you are Amish. And if you are Amish don’t you have a stupid barn to move instead of reading this on-line? How many Amish does it take to screw in a lightbulb? THEY DON’T HAVE LIGHTBULBS! (i guess).

    I really liked the idea someone came up with in Dystopia of writing political objections on fiat bills. Since I’m not sure if it is illegal or not–the guy from The Shed who said it says it is not illegal to write “Remove Dear Leader” on a bill then let it circulate–I won’t promote doing so here.

    Dystopia’s biggest book retailer won’t sell the trucker convoy book. What bastards. That event really did shake the world. Its spirit cannot be laid to rest. It showed us that the spirit of freedom born in America was absorbed by osmosis north of the border. The Canadian-American alliance for freedom will spread and conquer all as long as we never give up.

    Here is one of the greatest songs ever written. The Band was one of the greatest rock bands ever formed. It was comprised of a rag-tag group of Canadians and Americans. Keep fighting. As Vlad says PROTEST! Find your voice and use it.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ph1GU1qQ1zQ

    • The first casualty of any war is truth.

      At a rough guess some politicians are setting up get away funds for themselves, like the SS did during World War II

  4. This was EPIC!

    GOP Congressman Troy Nehls squared off against Biden regime Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg yesterday, exposing Joe Biden’s crumbling mental health and pointing out blatant examples of his severe cognitive decline

    MUST SEE: “Sadly, He Shakes Hands With Ghosts And Imaginary People.” – Rep. Troy Nehls GRILLS Pete Buttigieg On Biden’s Mental Health, Presses Him On 25TH AMENDMENT (VIDEO)
    By Jordan Conradson
    Published July 20, 2022 at 7:15am
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    also demanded answers as to whether or not Buttigieg and his colleagues have considered invoking the 25th Amendment and removing Joe Biden for his extreme incompetence and mental disability.

    Buttigieg was totally caught off guard, and he had no answers for Nehls. There seriously are no answers for this illegitimate and mentally deficient regime that is currently destroying our Country.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/must-see-sadly-shakes-hands-ghosts-imaginary-people-rep-troy-nehls-grills-pete-buttigieg-bidens-mental-health-presses-25th-amendment-video/

    • Wayne Allen Root is predicting the Dems are going to remove Biden before the election so they can be sure their new VP will be approved by the Senate.

    • twitter @disclosetv

      NEW – German Ministry of Health: “One in 5,000 is affected by a severe adverse reaction after a COVID vaccination.”

      https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1549737779097214976

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      twitter @BMG_Bund

      Eine von 5000 Personen ist von einer schweren Nebenwirkung nach einer COVID19-#Impfung betroffen. Sollten Sie den Verdacht auf #Nebenwirkungen haben, holen Sie sich ärztliche Hilfe und melden Sie Ihre Symptome ans @PEI_Germany

      http://nebenwirkungen.bund.de/nw/DE/home/home_node.html

      https://twitter.com/BMG_Bund/status/1549688073478455297

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      Covid lockdowns in Germany shouldn’t be ruled out, says expert

      German medical experts, scientists and industry bosses are looking ahead to autumn when the government will introduce new Covid laws. Many are wondering if lockdowns or contact restrictions will be on the table again.

      The current Covid infection protection laws expire on September 23rd. The German government plans to extend them – but it’s still not clear what they will contain.

      According to the German president of the World Medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, infection laws should allow for far-reaching measures to protect people against Covid.

      “Anyone who categorically rules out measures such as contact restrictions or lockdowns from the outset has neither understood the meaning of the law nor grasped the seriousness of the situation,” Montgomery told the newspapers of the Funke Mediengruppe on Wednesday.

      “An infection protection law should open up opportunities (for measures) and save lives.”

      Montgomery said the laws must contain a “toolbox” that politicians can draw from when the situation requires it.

      “Whether the instruments are used later depends on the respective assessment of the situation,” he said. “But the fact that they are needed should be indisputable.”

      Epidemiologist Hajo Zeeb, of the Leibnitz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology, told Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland that tough restrictions depended on the infection situation.

      “We only have to talk about a lockdown if new dangerous variants appear,” he said. Otherwise “such radical measures” are not needed for autumn and winter.

      Back in spring, mainly at the insistence of the liberal Free Democrats, who are part of the ruling coalition along with the Social Democrats and the Greens, Covid provisions in the Infection Protection Act were significantly relaxed.

      They form the legal basis for measures in the states, and define possible instruments that politicians can use to control the pandemic. At the moment, only basic measures are in force across Germany, including mandatory masks on public transport.

      The coalition is currently discussing future regulations.

      Operators of clubs, which have been hit hard in the past years, are following the current debate “with the greatest concern”, said the General Manager of the German Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga), Ingrid Hartges.

      She warned that measures such as mandatory masks or rapid testing for vaccinated and unvaccinated people at major events should only be introduced if they are needed to contain the pandemic. “The decisive factor must be how dangerous a virus variant is and how high the hospitalisation rate is,” Hartges said.

      Meanwhile, Munich-based expert Clemens Wendtner called for the possibility of prescribing the Covid-19 drug Paxlovid to at-risk groups as a precaution in view of the current relatively high infection figures.

      It’s crucial to take Paxlovid early, said the head physician of infectious diseases at the Munich Clinic Schwabing.

      “I am therefore of the opinion that people who belong to a vulnerable group should have the drug in their cupboard at home,” he said.

      On Wednesday the incidence stood at 740.1 Covid infections per 100,000 people in seven days. There were 140,999 Covid infections reported in the latest 24 hour period and 136 deaths.

      https://www.thelocal.de/20220720/covid-lockdowns-in-germany-shouldnt-be-ruled-out-says-expert/
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  6. Germany: “Syrian Refugee” Arrested in Killing of 17-Year Old Tabitha
    By Richard Abelson
    Published July 20, 2022 at 8:00am
    Comment

    This news will likely be blocked in the German press.

    17-year-old German girl Tabitha E. has been found dead near Ludwigsburg. A 35-year old Syrian “refugee” has been arrested.

    Tabitha had been missing since Tuesday, July 12, when she left home in the village of Asperg to go shopping in the city of Ludwigsburg. Tabitha took the bus, but never returned home.

    Her parents alerted the police, who began searching for her with public service announcements and then with drones, helicopters and dogs on the weekend.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/germany-syrian-refugee-arrested-killing-17-year-old-tabitha/

  7. (Richard: I hope they have better luck then the people who tried to get the truth about McCarthy into the historical record.)

    Exploding the Watergate Myth
    A new book shows that Woodward and Bernstein lied. And lied. And lied.

    Wed Jul 20, 2022Bruce Bawer34 comments

    was a child of the Watergate generation. Vacationing at a lake house the summer I was 17, I spent weeks glued to the committee hearings on TV. Back in school that fall, I wrote a paper arguing that Nixon should resist pressure to resign. Headed south the next August, I watched Nixon’s resignation speech at a motor lodge on I-95 and the next day, on the highway, listened on the car radio as Gerald R. Ford declared “our long national nightmare” over.

    And then there was the book All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who’d supposedly brought Nixon down. When it came out in 1974, I read it avidly. And two years later I was enthralled by the movie version, written by William Goldman and directed by Alan J. Pakula.

    But there was one thing – in the book and the movie – that always puzzled me.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/07/exploding-watergate-myth-bruce-bawer/

  8. Forget Jill Biden’s Stupid Taco Quip
    There’s much worse.

    Wed Jul 20, 2022Humberto Fontova11 comments

    First lady Jill Biden apologized for her recent comments comparing latinos to breakfast tacos at a Hispanic conference in San Antonio, Texas,” reported Fox News on July 12th.

    I’d say producing a tourism commercial to boost the income of the terror-sponsoring regime whose lifelong obsession is the destruction of the nation Jill Biden presides over as First Lady is much worse than the taco quip—especially when this tourism commercial was co-produced with a KGB-trained spy who was booted from the U.S. for espionage. To wit:

    “Dr. Jill Biden in Cuba to study Cuba’s achievements in health and education,” read a headline in Stalinist Cuba’s media, Oct. 6, 2016.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/07/forget-jill-bidens-stupid-taco-quip-humberto-fontova/

  10. Biden Phone Call to Ukraine Leader Poroshenko Revisited – Was Biden Threatening Poroshenko’s Life or Ukraine’s Security?
    By Joe Hoft
    Published July 20, 2022 at 8:20am
    14 Comments

    phone call between Vice President Joe Biden and Ukraine leader Poroshenko has been resurfaced on social media. People are now wondering if Joe Biden was threatening Ukrain leader Poroshenko’s life or his country’s security in the call.

    In October of 2020 before the 2020 Election, we reported on the call that occurred on November 16, 2016, only days after President Trump won the 2016 Election over corrupt Hillary Clinton.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/biden-phone-call-ukraine-leader-poroshenko-revisited-biden-threatening-poroshenkos-life-ukraines-security/

  11. (Richard: The article is interesting, the logic hangs together.)

    Globalism and the Georgia Stones
    The prevailing narrative of the globalists—we face doom and we must “reset”—is wrong and horrendously misanthropic.
    By Edward Ring
    July 6, in an act of vandalism for which the culprits are still at large, one of the four “Georgia Guidestones” was blown apart. The damage was so severe that the entire monument was rendered too unstable to leave standing. For safety reasons, state officials almost immediately demolished the rest of the monument.

    While the Georgia Guidestones are not as well known as, say, Stonehenge, among critics of globalism they had acquired a certain infamy because of the inscriptions on the stones. Carved into four massive blocks of granite, and rendered in eight languages, this is what was on the stones:

    Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
    Guide reproduction wisely—improving fitness and diversity.
    Unite humanity with a living new language.
    Rule passion—faith—tradition—and all things with tempered reason.
    Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

    https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/19/globalism-and-the-georgia-stones/

  12. FBI Investigated Decision by NIH, Fauci and Dr. Collins to Fund Wuhan Lab – And Its Controversial Testing of Bat Coronavirus — BUT SAID NOTHING!
    By Jim Hoft
    Published July 20, 2022 at 9:15am
    8 Comments

    documents released by Judicial Watch reveal the FBI was investigating the decision by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to fund the Wuhoan lab where the scientists were performing gain of function research on bat coronavirus.

    In early April of 2020 TGP reported that the China coronavirus (COVID19) most likely came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. After years of denials and disputes the head of the WHO believes this is where it came from as well.

    https://globalhealthtrends.com/neuropathy/2/index.html?cli=60099405

  13. reuters – EU asks countries to cut gas demand by 15% until spring

    BRUSSELS, July 20 (Reuters) – The European Union set out emergency plans on Wednesday for countries to cut their gas use by 15% until March, warning them that without deep cuts now they could struggle for fuel during winter if Russia cuts off supply.

    Europe is racing to fill its gas storage ahead of winter and build a buffer in case Moscow further restricts supplies in retaliation for European support for Ukraine following Russia’s invasion.

    A dozen EU countries are already facing reduced Russian deliveries. EU officials say a full Russian gas halt is likely. read more

    The European Commission on Wednesday proposed a voluntary target for all EU countries to cut gas use by 15% from August to March, compared with their average consumption in the same period during 2016-2021.

    The proposal would enable Brussels to make the target mandatory in a supply emergency, if the EU declares a substantial risk of severe gas shortages.

    The regulation needs approval from a reinforced majority of EU countries. Country diplomats are set to discuss it on Friday, with the aim of approving it at an emergency meeting of their energy ministers on July 26.

    “Russia is blackmailing us. Russia is using energy as a weapon. And therefore, in any event, whether it’s a partial, major cut-off of Russian gas or a total cut-off of Russian gas, Europe needs to be ready,” EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.

    The plan has faced resistance from some countries, which feel their contingency plans do not need reinforcement from the EU. Countries would be required to update their emergency gas plans by end-September to show how they will meet the EU target.

    Among those opposed is Poland, which has filled its gas storage to 98% of capacity after Russia cut its supply in April. Others have less stored, such as Hungary, which is at 47% full.

    But EU energy policy chief Kadri Simson said countries have reduced their combined gas demand by just 5% despite months of dwindling supplies from Russia and soaring prices, with deeper cuts urgently needed.

    A 15% cut would save about 45 billion cubic metres of gas from August-March. Russia supplied 40% of the EU’s gas before its invasion of Ukraine, or around 155 bcm per year, but flows have since plummeted.

    The International Monetary Fund last week warned a Russian gas cut could plunge European economies into recession.

    Brussels suggested measures governments can take to curb gas use, including auctions for compensation to industries that cut gas use and limits on heating and cooling temperatures in public buildings. Governments should also decide the order in which they would force industries to close in a supply emergency.

    Households are classed as “protected consumers” under EU rules and would be shielded from such curbs.

    Gas deliveries are due to restart through Russia’s Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany on Thursday, after annual maintenance. Sources told Reuters that flows would likely resume, despite some governments’ fears they would not, but at below full capacity.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/bracing-russian-gas-cuts-eu-readies-plan-cut-demand-2022-07-20/

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    EU lacking Russian gas? It should then launch Nord Stream 2, Putin says

    Ongoing disruptions with Russian gas supplies to Europe could be solved with the launch of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in Tehran on Tuesday (19 July).

    Russian gas supplies to Europe could increase if Nord Stream 2 is finally authorised to operate, Putin told reporters during his visit in Iran, according to a Kremlin transcript of the conversation in Russian language.

    The pipeline, which would bring an additional 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year (bcm/y) under the Baltic Sea to Germany, is completed, but Germany has put a halt to its certification in response to Russia’s recognition of the two breakaway regions in the Ukrainian Donbas.

    Russia doesn’t give up the pipeline, which it has built despite US sanctions. The Russian ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov commented after Germany’s decision to halt the certification that the project was not dead, but a “sleeping beauty”.

    “We have another route ready – it’s Nord Stream 2, which can be launched,” Putin said, when asked about ways to solve Europe’s energy crisis.

    “A month and a half or two ago, in a conversation with the chancellor [of Germany Olaf Scholz], we discussed this topic. I raised this issue, saying that Gazprom has reserved capacity. It [Germany] must do something about it, it cannot hang around in the air infinitely long”, Putin said.

    According to the Russian President, Scholz replied that he had more important matters.

    “Well, I had to warn him that then we will take away half of the volume intended for Nord Stream 2 for domestic consumption and processing. And Gazprom has already done it, so even if we launch Nord Stream 2 tomorrow, it will not be 55 billion cubic meters per year, but exactly half, and having in mind that we are in the second semester, it will be one quarter,” Putin added.

    The Russian president gave an overview of Russia’s supplies to Europe, blaming Poland and Ukraine for the ongoing disruptions.

    He said that Russia used to supply to Europe 170 bcm/y, and 30 bcm/y to Turkey.

    From those 170 bcm, he said that if his memory was good, 55 bcm went through the existing Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany, 33 bcm through the Yamal pipeline running via Poland, 33 bcm via each of the two pipelines running via Ukraine, and 12 bcm via TurkStream.

    But he said that “Ukraine suddenly announced that it was closing one of the two routes that run through its territory”, adding that the reasons were “political”.

    Then, Putin said that “Poland took and imposed sanctions on Yamal-Europe”. He blamed Warsaw for taking the same amounts of gas it used to take from Russia instead for Germany, adding that it was nevertheless Russian gas, but cheaper.

    “They (the Poles) took from us at a fairly expensive price, closer to the market price, while Germany takes from us under long-term contracts 3-4 times cheaper than the market price,” Putin said.

    ‘The Europeans only lost’

    “It is profitable for German companies to sell to the Poles at a small premium. It is profitable for the Poles to buy, because it is cheaper than taking [gas] directly from us. But the volume of gas on the European market decreased, and the overall price on the market has risen. Who won? The Europeans only lost.”

    Putin then blamed the sanctions, which in his words brought down the deliveries via Nord Stream 1 because of a turbine serviced in Canada.

    To avoid being blamed for breaching sanctions, Canada sent the turbine to Germany, from where it is expected to reach the Russian compressor station of Portovaya.

    “They closed one route, a second route, put these gas turbines under sanctions. Gazprom is ready to pump as much as needed. They closed everything themselves,” Putin said, blaming Western powers for their predicaments.

    https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/eu-lacking-russian-gas-it-should-then-launch-nord-stream-2-putin-says/
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    EU must cut gas use by 15% this winter over Russian disruption fears, Commission says

  14. QHere We Go, Again: San Diego Schools Reimplement Mask Mandates for Students and Teachers As Covid Cases Rise
    By Julian Conradson
    Published July 20, 2022 at 8:45am
    123 Comments

    public health ‘experts’ scramble to facilitate the next COVID wave ahead of the midterms, local officials are slowly bringing back arbitrary restrictions and mandates in an effort course correct what’s looking like an impending red wave, if the polls are an accurate reflection of November’s results when they come to pass.

    And, naturally, California is leading the charge in getting the COVID hysterics back on track.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/go-san-diego-schools-reimplement-mask-mandates-students-teachers-covid-cases-rise/

  15. KANEKOA HITS PAYDIRT: Recovered Text Message Should Lead to Joe Biden’s Impeachment and Hunter Biden’s Immediate Arrest
    By Jim Hoft
    Published July 20, 2022 at 10:00am
    94 Comments

    Democrats and the deep state tried to bring down President Donald Trump for colluding with a foreign regime against the interests of the United States.

    Now we all know it wasn’t Trump, it was Joe Biden and the Biden Crime Family all along.

    Do you think the fake news mainstream media WILL EVER report on this explosive development?

    Democrats and the deep state tried to bring down President Donald Trump for colluding with a foreign regime against the interests of the United States.

    Now we all know it wasn’t Trump, it was Joe Biden and the Biden Crime Family all along.

    Do you think the fake news mainstream media WILL EVER report on this explosive development?

    YOn December 14, 2018 at 10:41 AM Hunter Biden sent this text message to his brother’s widow Hallie Biden who he was now dating:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/kanekoa-hits-paydirt-recovered-text-message-lead-joe-bidens-impeachment-hunter-bidens-immediate-arrest/

  16. Time Changes Everything

    In the early 1800 s people went to an Apothecary Shop where medicines were prepared and sold wholesale to other medical practitioners as well as dispensing medicines to patients.

    David Rockefeller saw an opportunity to make money and founded Big Pharma in the early 1800. Apothecary Shops we’re mocked, demonized and some doctors were jailed for not going along with the “new” drugs and following the “old way”.

    Rockefeller invested 100,000,000 dollars when he founded the General Education Board. He patented his drugs and advertised “A pill for every ill”.

    Ivermectin was discovered in the late 60s and Merck made a pill in 1978. Ivermectin was used to treat River Blindness, Malaria etc., and saved millions of lives.

    2020 some doctors treat Covid patients with Ivermectin and are amazed at the cure rate. The Press, “healthcare officials”, politicians tell people, Ivermectin is not for humans, it is just a horse dewormer and doctors are told they may not use it. Doctors are told they may be subject to a physician’s ethical and and professional disciplinary action, including suspension or revocation of their medical licence for not following the Covid rules and “for spreading MISINFORMATION” about Covid-19 vaccines.

    The “pill for every ill” has been abandoned for the VACCINES.

    Canada’s top doc warns “Misinformation causes real harm and potentially kills”

    Justine Trudeau, the disgraceful, World Economic Forum puppet clown, calls people who do not want the vaccines the unacceptable and hateful, misfits, racists, uncaring and wonders if they should be tolerated. Then in his hypocritical way, when addressing the topic of abortion, states, “No government, politician, or man should tell a woman what she can or cannot do with her body”.

    The clown prince, Justine Trudeau tells Canadians the vaccines are SAFE and EFFECTIVE.

    As of July 8,2022, the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Reaction Events System reports 1,341,608 people have been vaccine injured, 29,460 people have died from the vaccines, and 243,466 people have life threatening serious injuries – blood clots, heart attacks, paralyzed, Guillian Barre Syndrome, myocarditis, pericarditis, seizures, brain bleeds, blindness, loss of hearing, Pots Disease, shingles, and on and on goes the tragic list.

    Eight year old girl from Texas, VARES #2327226, developed inflamed lymph nodes, rash all over her body, fever, her heart, liver, lungs, intestines and skin were inflamed, her belly distended, her lungs filled with liquids and her heart stopped beating.

    Now the government clowns are starting to vaccinate babies 6 months old and up.

    Pfizer has doubled their profits, made Billions.

    Well at least they have not “jailed” the doctors yet, just anyone else who is part of the “fringe minority”.

  17. This is just side-splitting funny roast of Trudeau right after the Trucker protests:

  18. CNN Italy – Draghi squeezes through confidence vote

    Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi won a confidence vote in the country’s Senate on Wednesday, but emerged badly bruised.

    Despite his calls for unity, lawmakers from three parties boycotted the vote: the powerful 5-Star movement; center-right Forza Italia and the far-right League.

    Earlier Wednesday, Draghi had asked lawmakers to support the coalition government in an effort to avoid calling a snap election.

    “We need a new pact of trust, sincere and concrete, like the one that has allowed us so far to change the country for the better,” he said.

    “If we still want to stay together, the only way is to rebuild this (national unity) pact with courage, altruism, credibility,” the former European Central Bank chief added.

    Last week, Draghi tendered his resignation after the 5-Star movement — the largest party in the country’s coalition government — withdrew its support in a parliamentary confidence vote on a package designed to tackle Italy’s cost-of-living crisis.

    The resignation however was rejected by Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella, who urged him to stay and find a solution.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/20/europe/italy-government-collapse-draghi-intl/index.html

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    https://www.rainews.it/maratona/2022/07/diario-della-crisi-di-governo-del-20-luglio-0efe8554-b5ef-43f7-9a77-cbe6c852206e.html

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    • WSJ – Italy’s Mario Draghi Likely to Resign Despite Winning Confidence Vote

      Mass abstentions by three large political parties indicate the prime minister no longer has the support of a majority of parliament

      Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi will likely resign despite winning a confidence vote in the Senate on Wednesday, putting an end to a national unity government that lasted almost 1½ years.

      Mr. Draghi won the vote, but mass abstentions by three large parties indicated he no longer has the support of a majority of parliament. Mr. Draghi could resign in the coming days after meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella.

      https://www.wsj.com/articles/italian-prime-minister-mario-draghi-says-he-wont-resign-if-he-wins-a-confidence-vote-11658306984
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      Draghi to announce his resignation tomorrow – report

      Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi will announce his intention to resign tomorrow at 9 am at the Chamber of Deputies, ANSA reported on Wednesday.

      The report comes just after Draghi won a Senate confidence motion, despite efforts by Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia and Giuseppe Conte’s Five Star Movement to boycott the vote.

      This would be Draghi’s second attempt to resign, following last week’s, when the country’s president, Sergio Mattarella, rejected his call to step down.

      https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Draghi-to-announce-his-resignation-tomorrow-report/58265334

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      ctv -Associated Press – Italian PM Draghi wins vote but his unity govt is in peril

      ROME – Italian Premier Mario Draghi won a confidence vote Wednesday in the Senate, but it was a hollow victory after boycotts by three of his key coalition allies in the voting virtually doomed any prospects for his unity government’s survival.

      The vote Wednesday went 95-38 in the favor of Draghi’s government in the 315-member Senate, after lawmakers deserted the roll call in droves.

      “In these days of folly, Parliament decides to go against Italy,” tweeted Enrico Letta, a former premier who leads the Democratic Party, the only large party in the coalition to back Draghi in the confidence vote. “Italians will show themselves at the ballot box to be wiser than their representatives.”

      The rapid unraveling of Draghi’s 17-month-old coalition in the last hours could prompt President Sergio Mattarella to dissolve Parliament, opening the path to holding an early election, possibly as soon as late September.

      Just before the vote, representatives of the populist 5-Star Movement, the conservative forces of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right Forza Italia party and right-wing senators of Matteo Salvini’s League party announced they would skip the roll call.

      Coalition turmoil prompted Draghi last week to offer his resignation, but Italy’s president rejected the bid and asked the premier to test his government’s support in Parliament. That test of his national unity government’s staying power failed dramatically on Wednesday night.

      The coalition partners’ walkouts came despite an unprecedented outpouring of sentiment by citizens in the last days appealing for Draghi to keep on governing, : ) 🙂 🙂 🙂 amid soaring inflation, high energy costs and a surge in pandemic infections.

      After hours of debate on his fate, Draghi asked the Senate to vote on a confidence measure calling on him to keep on governing.

      Last week Draghi had offered to step down after losing support from a major coalition partner, the populist 5-Star Movement. But Mattarella rebuffed the offer, asking him to go back to Parliament to gauge his support.

      Appearing shortly before the vote in Parliament’s upper house, Draghi cited an “unprecedented” outpouring of public pleas for him to continue governing. Draghi told the senators after hours of debate, including squabbles among coalition partners, that “at this point, I could declare my resignation and leave the hall.”

      But because the “mobilization that I have seen by citizens” and various associations is “without precedent,” Draghi said he instead was submitting to a vote reconfirming the loyalty of the coalition’s parties.

      Draghi had said repeatedly he saw no other governing alternative than the unusually broad coalition he led.

      Before Wednesday, even without the populist 5-Star Movement’s senators, Draghi could have still mustered a working majority in the Senate. But the rebuff by Salvini and Berlusconi sabotaged that possibility.

      In early 2021, Mattarella tapped Draghi to form a government of national unity, grouping parties from the right, left and the 5-Stars to guide Italy through its economic reboot amid the pandemic and reforms linked to some 200 billion euros in European Union recovery funds.

      During the day’s first showdown in the Senate, the former European Central Bank chief challenged the coalition partners to recommit to a unity pact.

      “Are you ready? Are you ready to rebuild this pact? Are you ready?” Draghi thundered at the end of his speech to senators. “You don’t have to give the answer to me. You have to give it to all Italians.”

      In the last week, 14,000 mayors, an association of doctors, other lobbying groups and tens of thousands of ordinary citizens signing “Draghi stay” petitions have urged him not to step down. The financial markets consider Draghi, a former European Central Bank chief, to be a guarantor of fiscal stability in Italy.

      In recent weeks, Draghi faced repeated ultimatums from 5-Star leader Giuseppe Conte, his predecessor in the premiership, as conditions for staying in the government. The populists have criticized Italian military help for Ukraine, as did Salvini. That prompted one lawmaker last week to describe Draghi’s impending departure as “a gift” to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

      Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Draghi has pressed ahead with efforts to slash Italy’s dependence on Russian gas, including agreements forged with Algeria, which the premier visited this week.

      https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/italian-pm-draghi-wins-vote-but-his-unity-govt-is-in-peril-1.5994675

      • @Martin~
        A swear word that resonates.
        More than an expletive, together with the gesture it's primal force.
        Like the mal de ojo.

    • europravda – Italy braces for new elections as PM Draghi loses support from key allies

      A new general election is expected to take place between end of September and beginning of October this year.

  20. ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) condemned the Turkish bombing of the Parkhi tourist resort in Duhok, calling for a comprehensive investigation and emphasizing respect for Iraq’s sovereignty.

    Health sources in Duhok province’s Zakho, on Wednesday reported that the death toll of the bombing of tourists in the Drakar sub-district has risen to nine, including women and children.

    https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/29001-UNAMI-condemns-artillery-shelling-in-Duhok,-calls-for-thorough-investigation-of-the-attack

    • Headlines, human interest stories blanketing Western media? Protests in the streets of enlightened Europe?
      Down with the Genocidaire! NO?

      Oh well, they’re just KURDS.
      Kurds are communists, maoists, terrorists, whatever…

  21. Biden Set to PURGE 27.5% of Army (Or More) Who Aren’t Fully Vaccinated Against COVID with Non-FDA Approved Vaccine
    By Joe Hoft
    Published July 20, 2022 at 10:30am
    912 Comments

    time is ticking for a quarter of the US army that lacks the second COVID vaccine shot. The Biden gang is ready to purge those in the military who have not received their second jab.

    The Lid reported on this yesterday:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/biden-set-purge-27-5-military-arent-fully-vaccinated-covid-coming-weeks/

  22. New York judge on Wednesday ordered Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to testify before a Georgia grand jury.

    In January Fulton County Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis requested a special grand jury in her investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn Georgia’s fraudulent 2020 election results.

    WwyWillis based her investigation on President Trump’s call with Georgia officials that was later doctored and leaked to the fake news outlet Washington Post. The WaPo published a completely fraudulent text of the call. These phony charges have already been debunked by The Gateway Pundit and others.

    Again — Willis and her handlers are investigating a now-infamous call between former President Trump and Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger, in which Trump pressured the Georgia SOS to uncover what he insisted was fraud that would overturn Georgia’s election results.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/new-york-judge-orders-giuliani-testify-georgia-sham-grand-jury-probe-trumps-efforts-overturn-2020-election-results/

  23. TWAYNE ROOT: The Things I know to be Truth…From a REAL Conservative Patriot. Get Ready for Liberal Heads to Explode.
    By Assistant Editor
    Published July 20, 2022 at 12:33pm
    158 Comments

    Wayne Allyn Root

    Today is my 61 st birthday. I will celebrate with a nice dinner tonight with my wife and children. But I won’t take the day off. I’ll be on TV and radio today- just like every other day. I’ll write this column today. I’ll continue writing my next book today. I won’t rest. I won’t back down.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/wayne-root-things-know-truthfrom-real-conservative-patriot-get-ready-liberal-heads-explode/

  24. Biden To Use Executive Powers To ‘Combat Climate Crisis’: ‘Since Congress Is Not Acting As It Should…This Is An Emergency’
    By Alicia Powe
    Published July 20, 2022 at 2:40pm
    272 Comments
    Biden announced he will use executive powers to combat a “climate emergency” on Wednesday during a speech at Brayton Point Power Station, a former coal-fired power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts.

    “I come here today with a message,” Biden said. “As president, I have a responsibility to act with urgency and resolve when our nation faces clear and present danger. And that’s what climate change is about. It is literally, not figuratively, a clear and present danger. The health of our citizens and our communities is literally at stake.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/biden-use-executive-powers-combat-climate-crisis-since-congress-not-acting-emergency/

  25. WAYNE ROOT: The Things I know to be Truth…From a REAL Conservative Patriot. Get Ready for Liberal Heads to Explode.
    By Assistant Editor
    Published July 20, 2022 at 12:33pm
    Comment

    Wayne Allyn Root

    Today is my 61 st birthday. I will celebrate with a nice dinner tonight with my wife and children. But I won’t take the day off. I’ll be on TV and radio today- just like every other day. I’ll write this column today. I’ll continue writing my next book today. I won’t rest. I won’t back down.

    Because I love America with all my heart. And the survival of America is on the line. I will never, ever, ever give up. I will fight every hour, of every day, to take America back from the radical, insane, globalist, socialist and communist traitors presently in control. I will be RELENTLESS! We can never let America go.

    In the meantime, here is why I’m fighting. After 61 years of experience and wisdom, here are some things I know to be truth…

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/wayne-root-things-know-truthfrom-real-conservative-patriot-get-ready-liberal-heads-explode/

    Did Joe Biden Just Announce He Has Cancer in Garbled Climate Change Speech? (VIDEO) …Update: White House Responds
    By Cristina Laila
    Published July 20, 2022 at 2:13pm
    821 Comments

    Joe Biden just announce he has cancer?

    After hiding out at the White House for 3 days, Joe Biden on Wednesday traveled to Brayton Point in Massachusetts where he will talk about his Marxist climate change agenda.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/joe-biden-just-announce-cancer-garbled-climate-change-speech-video/

    (Richard: If they are planning on his resigning cancer is a safer reason then diminished capacity. Using the latter would give the Patriots ammo to repeal all of his actions.

    We are going to have to wait to discover if Wayne Root is right Pout what the left is planning. The two things to watch for is when is Biden removed from office. (Either resigned or kicked out.) And who Kamala picks to be her VP.

    Keep your musket clean, your powder dry and watch your six.

  26. The Wuhan ‘Disinformation’
    by Pete Hoekstra
    July 20, 2022 at 4:00 am

    Send WhatsApp Telegram
    sources,” read the incoming email on January 24, 2020, “received reliable information according to which the situation related to corona virus infection is very serious and it’s hundreds the people who drop in the streets like flies both in Wuhan and in other 12 provinces.” The message continued:

    “The information given by Chinese government don’t represent the huge risk linked to new corona virus.

    “My sources confirm the new corona virus escaped from National Bio-safety Laboratory, in Wuhan, which is BSL-4 lab, through a laboratory technician who went in touch with this new corona virus.

    “My sources say Chinese Authorities are covering this ‘incident’ happened inside the laboratory. So, it’s extremely urgent to understand and to face

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18737/wuhan-covid-disinformation

  27. This is not the first time that the NASA administrator has lashed out at China in disregard of facts,” said Zhao Lijian, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, at his July 4 regular press briefing. “Some U.S. officials have spoken irresponsibly to misrepresent the normal and legitimate space endeavors of China. China firmly rejects such remarks.”

    Zhao, known for rabid anti-Americanism, was reacting to attention-grabbing comments of NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “We must be very concerned that China is landing on the moon and saying: ‘It’s ours now and you stay out,'” Nelson told German newspaper Bild in an interview published July 2.

    Nelson has every right to be concerned. America may have to go to war with China if it even wants to land on the moon. The Chinese have made it clear that, if they get there first, they will shoot down visitors.

    Chinese officials themselves reveal grand ambitions and malevolent intentions. “The

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18728/china-moon-explorers

  28. Congress is debating hydrogen pipeline regulations. Pay attention
    JAZZ SHAW Jul 20, 2022 2:31 PM ET

    Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in using hydrogen as a fuel source on a large scale for a variety of reasons. Several projects are already either in the planning stages or underway seeking to make this a reality. But in order for that to happen, we’re going to need to not only create a lot more hydrogen but establish ways to move it around the country. That means we’re going to need pipelines for it. But the requirements for transporting hydrogen are different than those for natural gas, so we’ll either need to make modifications to existing gas lines or build new pipelines from scratch. (Most likely a combination of both.) With that in mind, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has been meeting to explore what needs to be done and determine what regulations should be in place for these projects. Democrats on the committee seem eager to hand the regulatory responsibilities off to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) since they already handle similar regulatory responsibilities for the interstate transportation of oil and natural gas. But Republicans on the committee have been pushing back, claiming that the FERC could wind up crushing the nascent hydrogen energy industry before it even gets on its feet. This debate is an important one to watch since it would have a significant impact on America’s future energy opportunities. (SP Global)

    Fed up with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s recent handling of natural gas projects, Republicans of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee were reluctant to place regulatory authority over hydrogen pipelines in FERC’s hands during a July 19 hearing, fearing the consequences it could create for the natural gas industry.

    “The current majority of the FERC wants to make it nearly impossible to upgrade pipelines or build new ones,” said ranking Republican Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming. “I’m concerned that some on the commission may seek to make the ability to ship higher blends of hydrogen a reason to impose new conditions on newer upgraded natural gas pipelines.”

    The committee’s top Republicans have repeatedly pushed back against recent FERC actions that could delay or add new regulations to the permitting process for natural gas pipelines. Earlier this year, for instance, Barrasso warned that FERC’s proposed changes to the gas pipeline certification review process would delay pending projects, and he threatened to use the Congressional Review Act to turn back new FERC policies.

    There have been some serious issues raised about how the FERC handles the regulation of natural gas pipelines recently. They have been trending toward overregulation, seemingly siding more with the “leave it in the ground” crowd. The Republicans on the committee are concerned that the agency will simply jump in with both feet and impose such strict regulations that pipelines for both hydrogen and natural gas may become economically unfeasible.

    There are a few hurdles remaining in this process. First of all, it’s not entirely clear that the FERC even has the authority to regulate hydrogen pipelines. The commission derives the power to regulate interstate natural gas pipelines from the Natural Gas Act that was passed in the 1930s. It holds similar authority over oil pipelines through different legislation. But hydrogen is a new fuel by comparison and Congress really hasn’t addressed the issue.

    It’s been suggested that hydrogen infrastructure could be placed under the regulatory auspices of the Interstate Commerce Act and that might place it in the domain of the FERC but it could also fall under the Interstate Transportation Board. Some of the Republicans are clearly leaning toward the latter. But the one thing we don’t want to see is the entire process grinding to a halt over procedural issues and the risk of overregulation.

    Why any of the Democrats would be motivated to do anything to slow the growth of hydrogen energy is a mystery. Hydrogen has no carbon footprint, so that should make them happy. And while it’s flammable, it tends to dissipate quickly if it leaks and it’s not as toxic to human beings as natural gas. (You still shouldn’t go around intentionally inhaling it, however, as bad things will still happen.)

    Hydrogen has its own problems in terms of using it as a fuel as we’ve discussed here previously. We have an almost unlimited supply of it available since you can get it from seawater, but it still requires more energy to separate the hydrogen from the water than you get from burning the resultant fuel. And the energy needed to run that separation process has to come from somewhere, which usually involves fossil fuels.

    But a move to hydrogen energy will at least open up other options for us in the future. Cars powered by hydrogen cells are currently of limited use because of the difficulty in finding more fuel for them. Broader availability of hydrogen on a commercial level could alleviate that problem. But none of it will happen if Congress breaks out its regulatory pens and makes the entire industry untenable.

    Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in using hydrogen as a fuel source on a large scale for a variety of reasons. Several projects are already either in the planning stages or underway seeking to make this a reality. But in order for that to happen, we’re going to need to not only create a lot more hydrogen but establish ways to move it around the country. That means we’re going to need pipelines for it. But the requirements for transporting hydrogen are different than those for natural gas, so we’ll either need to make modifications to existing gas lines or build new pipelines from scratch. (Most likely a combination of both.) With that in mind, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has been meeting to explore what needs to be done and determine what regulations should be in place for these projects. Democrats on the committee seem eager to hand the regulatory responsibilities off to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) since they already handle similar regulatory responsibilities for the interstate transportation of oil and natural gas. But Republicans on the committee have been pushing back, claiming that the FERC could wind up crushing the nascent hydrogen energy industry before it even gets on its feet. This debate is an important one to watch since it would have a significant impact on America’s future energy opportunities. (SP Global)

    Fed up with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s recent handling of natural gas projects, Republicans of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee were reluctant to place regulatory authority over hydrogen pipelines in FERC’s hands during a July 19 hearing, fearing the consequences it could create for the natural gas industry.

    “The current majority of the FERC wants to make it nearly impossible to upgrade pipelines or build new ones,” said ranking Republican Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming. “I’m concerned that some on the commission may seek to make the ability to ship higher blends of hydrogen a reason to impose new conditions on newer upgraded natural gas pipelines.”

    The committee’s top Republicans have repeatedly pushed back against recent FERC actions that could delay or add new regulations to the permitting process for natural gas pipelines. Earlier this year, for instance, Barrasso warned that FERC’s proposed changes to the gas pipeline certification review process would delay pending projects, and he threatened to use the Congressional Review Act to turn back new FERC policies.

    There have been some serious issues raised about how the FERC handles the regulation of natural gas pipelines recently. They have been trending toward overregulation, seemingly siding more with the “leave it in the ground” crowd. The Republicans on the committee are concerned that the agency will simply jump in with both feet and impose such strict regulations that pipelines for both hydrogen and natural gas may become economically unfeasible.

    There are a few hurdles remaining in this process. First of all, it’s not entirely clear that the FERC even has the authority to regulate hydrogen pipelines. The commission derives the power to regulate interstate natural gas pipelines from the Natural Gas Act that was passed in the 1930s. It holds similar authority over oil pipelines through different legislation. But hydrogen is a new fuel by comparison and Congress really hasn’t addressed the issue.

    It’s been suggested that hydrogen infrastructure could be placed under the regulatory auspices of the Interstate Commerce Act and that might place it in the domain of the FERC but it could also fall under the Interstate Transportation Board. Some of the Republicans are clearly leaning toward the latter. But the one thing we don’t want to see is the entire process grinding to a halt over procedural issues and the risk of overregulation.

    Why any of the Democrats would be motivated to do anything to slow the growth of hydrogen energy is a mystery. Hydrogen has no carbon footprint, so that should make them happy. And while it’s flammable, it tends to dissipate quickly if it leaks and it’s not as toxic to human beings as natural gas. (You still shouldn’t go around intentionally inhaling it, however, as bad things will still happen.)

    Hydrogen has its own problems in terms of using it as a fuel as we’ve discussed here previously. We have an almost unlimited supply of it available since you can get it from seawater, but it still requires more energy to separate the hydrogen from the water than you get from burning the resultant fuel. And the energy needed to run that separation process has to come from somewhere, which usually involves fossil fuels.

    But a move to hydrogen energy will at least open up other options for us in the future. Cars powered by hydrogen cells are currently of limited use because of the difficulty in finding more fuel for them. Broader availability of hydrogen on a commercial level could alleviate that problem. But none of it will happen if Congress breaks out its regulatory pens and makes the entire industry untenable.

    https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/07/20/congress-is-debating-hydrogen-pipeline-regulations-pay-attention-n484049

  29. More AK-47s, AR-15s in Circulation Than F-150s on the Road

    https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ak-47s-ar-15s-firearms/2022/07/20/id/1079661/There are more AR-15 and AK-47-style rifles, or “modern sporting rifles (MSRs)” in circulation than there are Ford F-150s on the road — as of 2020.

    The new data released and compiled by the industry trade group the National Shooting Sports Foundation comes on the day the House is set to consider a ban on MSRs, or assault-style or semi-automatic rifles.

    As of 2020, there were 16.1 million Ford F-Series pickups on the road in the United States. And data from the NSSF reports that, from 1990 to 2020, there were roughly 24,446,000 MSRs circulating in the United States.

    https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ak-47s-ar-15s-firearms/2022/07/20/id/1079661/