Reader’s Links for July 26th, 2022

Posted on by

Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

73 Replies to “Reader’s Links for July 26th, 2022”

  1. Tucker Carlson – July 25.

    As usual, all controversial topics of the day. Stick with it till the end when he talks about Zelensky.

  4. OOF! Even The Liberal New York Times Worries Kamala Harris Not Ready To Take Over For Biden
    By Mike LaChance
    Published July 26, 2022 at 2:42am
    0 Comments

    the liberal New York Times is apparently worried that Kamala Harris isn’t fit to take over for Joe Biden if needed.

    There are millions of Americans who feel this way but if you’re a Democrat and the New York Times is saying this, it’s a pretty big problem.

    Advertisement – story

    this the liberal media’s way of warning Harris that she will be pushed aside in 2024?

    John Sexton writes at Hot Air:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/oof-even-liberal-new-york-times-worries-kamala-harris-not-ready-take-biden/

  5. Lawless Biden Regime Plans to Give ID Cards to the Millions of Illegals Who Invaded the US Under Their Watch
    By Jim Hoft
    Published July 25, 2022 at 9:10pm
    0 Comments
    The lawless Biden regime is planning to hand out ID cards to illegal aliens who invaded the country so that it is easier for them to to access housing, healthcare, transportation and other benefits.

    The cards will essentially make illegal immigration legal in America. It would allow the illegal aliens to show police that they are already in the system.

    This would assure their permanent stay in the country.

    And since most migrants toss their IDs in a ditch before they cross into the US, US authorities would have to trust the illegals to provide the details on their identity. What could go wrong?

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/lawless-biden-regime-plans-give-cards-millions-illegals-invaded-us-watch/

  6. Iowa’s Senator Chuck Grassley Drops a bomb on the FBI and DOJ
    By Larry Johnson
    Published July 25, 2022 at 8:17pm
    0 Comments
    is no mere coincidence that the once highly regarded FBI has become a malevolent force, a cancer on the body politic. Like any cancer, it needs to be cut out, and destroyed as an institution. Harsh words, but the shameful, partisan conduct of the FBI during the past 7 years conjurers up images of the Soviet’s KGB or East Germany’s Stasi.

    Let me be clear, especially for any FBI thugs monitoring me, I am calling for the lawful action of Congress to defund the Bureau and create a new, professional Federal police force. This is not a call for violence.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/iowas-senator-chuck-grassley-drops-bomb-fbi-doj/

    • Sundance at the Conservative Treehouse calls the intelligence apparatus the Fourth Branch of Govt. An unelected bureaucracy, unaccountable to We, the People.

      It works hand-in-glove with MI6, more attached than most Americans would tolerate. Look how aggressive the UK has been with Ukraine, far more than continental Europe. We could use another Prez Eisenhower, who’d put his foot down on such foreign adventurism.

      They’ve got their own foreign policy agenda wrt Russia. That’s their putrid Great Game. It predates the Revolution, ongoing since at least the Crimean War. Pre-commie, so they can’t claim the high ground on that score.

      Remember this one?
      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7231869/UKs-envoy-Sir-Kim-Darroch-Washington-leaked-memos-trigger-Trump-fury.html

      Then they collaborated in sabotaging PTrump’s reelection. (Well, so did Italy, Switzerland, etc.…)

      • The rivalry Britain and Russia (as far as I know) started when the two nations started clashing to see who would dominate the Indian subcontinent. This was some time in the 1500s, that rivalry was the hidden reason opposed Russia in the Crimean war. This rivalry was semi suppressed during the Napoleonic wars, WWI and WWII. The US stayed out of this mess until after WWII, now thanks to the Third World Election Tactics of the Dem leaders we are in the middle of that mess with a weak President that is working to destroy the US. Like you I hope we stay out of the mess, and with the high probably of a civil war we may succeed in dodging that bullet.

        • That’s right!
          It goes way back to early rivalry over India, the old empire thing. It just pivots with the times.

          A family affair. Supporters of the last Tsar asked the UK if he and his family could go into exile there. The request was denied. Then they’re all in with the White Russians in the Civil War.

          I Like Ike.

  7. She Is A Nazi’ Is Trending On Twitter After Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green Urges GOP To Embrace ‘American Nationalism’
    By Alicia Powe
    Published July 25, 2022 at 6:43pm
    0 Comments
    Democrats deflect its party’s legacy of secession, segregation and socialism by charging every Republican lawmaker with racism ad infinitum.

    According to the Cambridge Dictionary, “nationalism” is defined as “a nation’s wish and attempt to be politically independent” or “a great or too great love of your own country.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/nazi-trending-twitter-rep-marjorie-taylor-green-urges-gop-embrace-american-nationalism/

  8. QJanuary 6th Prisoner Held in “Cage Like a Dog” in Penitentiary Yard by the Biden Regime – Desperately Needs Help! EXCLUSIVE AUDIO INTERVIEW!!!
    By Cara Castronuova
    Published July 26, 2022 at 8:00am
    0 Comments

    From his tiny cell, 33 year old Andrew Taake of Houston, Texas described to us what pre-trial detention is like for a non-convicted Trump Supporter and prisoner of the Biden Regime at United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg. Meanwhile, actual convicted murderers and rapists in the prison are treated better with access to amenities that J6’ers are prohibited from using.

    J6’ers are apparently deemed too dangerous to mingle with the actual murderers and gangsters at the penitentiary and are instead forced into a secluded unit where they spend their small allotments of “recreation” time in individual cages surrounded by razor wire.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/january-6th-prisoner-held-cage-like-dog-penitentiary-yard-biden-regime-desperately-needs-help-exclusive-audio-interview/

  9. Obama-Biden’s ‘Climate Change’ Initiative Hurts Economy, Helps Iran, And Does Little to Prevent ‘Climate Change’
    By Joe Hoft
    Published July 26, 2022 at 8:45am
    Comment

    2015 Obama signed the nuclear deal with Iran. On July 14, 2015, Daniel Greenfield wrote in Frontpage Magazine that Obama signed the nuclear deal with Iran to cripple American power in the Middle East:

    …Obama did not go into this to stop Iran from going nuclear. He did it to turn Iran into the axis of the Middle East…supporting Iran is his way of blocking the power of his successors in the White House to pursue a more pro-American foreign policy…

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/obama-bidens-climate-change-initiative-hurts-economy-helps-iran-little-prevent-climate-change/

  10. the guardian – British pro-Kremlin video blogger added to UK government Russia sanctions list

    Graham Phillips is accused of being a conduit for pro-Russian propaganda and is first UK citizen put on list

    […]Phillips – the first UK citizen to be added to the growing sanctions list – has long been a controversial figure, receiving medals from the Russian state for his reporting. He has consistently toed the Russian line on the war, suggesting in recent weeks that Ukraine is run by Nazis and that the massacre of Ukrainians in Bucha was staged.

    In April Phillips drew condemnation from Boris Johnson and others when he interviewed Aiden Aslin, a British member of the Ukrainian armed forces who had been captured by Russian forces during the siege of Mariupol. Aslin is facing the death penalty.

    […]Phillips – who faces a freeze of his assets – is described on the sanctions list as “a video blogger who has produced and published media content that supports and promotes actions and policies which destabilise Ukraine and undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence of Ukraine”.

    Commenting on the newly sanctioned individuals, the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, said: “We will not keep quiet and watch Kremlin-appointed state actors suppress the people of Ukraine or the freedoms of their own people. We will continue to impose harsh sanctions on those who are trying to legitimise Putin’s illegal invasion until Ukraine prevails.”

    Johnson described Phillips’ interview with Aslin as a “propaganda message” for Russia. Aslin’s local MP, Robert Jenrick, said Phillips’ video showed his constituent “handcuffed, physically injured and being interviewed under duress for propaganda purposes”.

    Jenrick said the video was a breach of the Geneva conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war and that “the interviewer Graham Phillips is in danger of prosecution for war crimes”.

    Aslin was captured by Russian forces while defending the besieged city of Mariupol, although it remains unclear how he ended up being interviewed by Phillips.

    Phillips says his work is self-funded and regularly solicits donations from his 264,000 YouTube subscribers. He also earns money from YouTube adverts paid for by big western companies. YouTube has so far declined to take down Phillips’ videos, despite calls from politicians to remove the channel.

    In July 2014 he was banned from entering Ukraine but managed to illegally enter the occupied territories.

    His rise from obscure Briton abroad to figure of national political interest was unlikely. According to a 2014 interview with BuzzFeed News, Phillips first went to Ukraine when travelling as an away fan to an England football match.

    Aged 30, he quit his job at the now defunct UK government Central Office of Information and moved full-time to Ukraine, where he reinvented himself as a journalist.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/26/british-pro-kremlin-video-blogger-graham-phillips-added-to-uk-government-russia-sanctions-list

    ======================================
    Graham Philips on Youtube

    https://www.youtube.com/c/GrahamPhillipsUK/videos

    ======================================
    JULY 25 2022 – Lysychansk People Speak – Uncensored Reportage!! LNR – Donbass –

    ( 14 min 30 )

    • APRIL 2022 – British reporter Graham Phillips spoke in Donetsk with the captured British national Aiden Aslin

      ( 44 min )

      British reporter Graham Phillips spoke in Donetsk, DPR, with the captured British national Aiden Aslin.

      During the lengthy interview Aiden tells his whole story – from how he first enlisted in the Ukrainian military till the moment he got tricked by the Ukrainian neo-Nazis, realized his poor life choices and made a wise decision to surrender in Mariupol.

      It’s unfortunate that a young man with supposedly valiant aspirations and noble causes was hoodwinked and simply used by the Ukrainian extremists. Although Aiden is, by far, not the first victim of the Kiev regime’s deception.

      Re-evaluation of his decisions, however, is the first step to a healthy recovery!

    • the conservative tree house – Tucker Carlson Outlines the Ukrainian Blacklist of American Critics, Including Rand Paul, Glenn Greenwald, Tulsi Gabbard and Col Douglas McGregor

      The non-democratic, socialist and totalitarian Ukraine government of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has created a blacklist of western voices that are considered “Russian propagandists” for their criticism of the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
      ——————————————————–
      [Details Here]

      https://unherd.com/thepost/ukraine-government-issues-blacklist-of-russian-propagandists/
      ——————————————————-

      Currently the burden of financing the continuation of the Ukraine government has fallen upon U.S. taxpayers who have provided approximately $60 billion so far for the pay and pension benefits of Ukraine officials and their families. President Zelenskyy says we have a moral obligation to continue this funding, and any voice who would question the process is now blacklisted within Ukraine and labeled a Russian propagandist.

      Tucker Carlson discussed the issue with two of the people targeted by Zelenskyy, former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and journalist Glenn Greenwald.

      https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/07/26/tucker-carlson-outlines-the-ukrainian-blacklist-of-american-critics-including-rand-paul-glenn-greenwald-tulsi-gabbard-and-col-douglas-mcgregor/

    • Lavrov said that Nord Stream 2 is ready to meet the needs of Europe.

      ENTEBBE (Uganda), 26 July – RIA Novosti. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Nord Stream 2 is fully prepared to meet Europe’s energy needs, but has been shut down for political reasons.

      “And of course, Nord Stream 2, completely ready to meet what is needed, to meet the need … on this type of fuel was closed only for political reasons,” the minister said at a joint meeting. Press conference with the President of Uganda.

      He also noted that although all EU regulations were complied with during construction, the European Commission had retroactively adopted directives that slowed the completion of the project.

      “However, as soon as all this was ready for operation, the European Commission retroactively – I emphasize retroactively – adopted the standards used so far to slow down this most important gas pipeline for Europe’s energy security,” Lavrov said.

      He also noted that the story of Russia using its gas as a weapon is not new, the EU itself is doing everything possible to limit the capacity of another Russian project, Nord Stream 1.

      “The European Union says that for the last six to seven years, Russia has used gas as a weapon without giving a specific example, while also doing everything to limit the gas pumping capacity that Nord Stream 1 has,” he said. aforementioned.

      https://newsunrolled.com/economy/67914.html

      • July 2020:
        A Lesson From Ukraine on Revolution

        Whether or not to “glorify” Ukraine in 2014 was a question as pressing as proclaiming “Black Lives Matter” or insisting all lives matter in America today.

        …Of course, the schools had to start teaching that the kids were always Ukrainians and that Russia had stolen their heritage, and if someone told them differently at home, well, kids, feel free to rat out your parents for the motherland…

        Essentially all humanities and social sciences students and diploma-holders backed the new regime and its Ukrainist ideology. And of course, big business was on board – all the oligarchs were either Ukrainist from the start, or came around very quickly.

        Few in the trades, engineering, or small business were into it. At the outset, even the military was not into it for the most part, but they needed to get paid. In fact, the army was so unreliable that the new regime had to found a “national guard” of vetted partisan loyalists to spearhead offensives and perform “filtration” duties in areas retaken from the Donbass rebels.
        Today's *anti-retreat* forces

        What did the majority get? A failed state and a pauper’s existence. And not surprisingly, the useful fascists from the revolution days – the guys who had stormed the government buildings in Kiev – have been killed off, imprisoned for rape or drugs or whatever their vice…

        https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/18/a-lesson-from-ukraine-on-revolution/

    • FEB 2022 – Army of Ukraine lobbyists behind unprecedented Washington blitz

      An analysis of FARA filings shows they contacted members of Congress and others over 10,000 times.

      As tensions with Russia reach a boiling point, lobbyists from Ukraine are working feverishly to shape the U.S. response. Firms working for Ukrainian interests have inundated congressional offices, think tanks, and journalists with more than 10,000 messages and meetings in 2021, according to an analysis of Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, filings for a forthcoming report from the Quincy Institute. To put this extraordinary campaign into perspective, the Saudi lobby — known for being one of the largest foreign lobbies in D.C. — reported 2,834 contacts, barely a quarter of what Ukraine’s agents have done.

      Russia has positioned more than 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s border and, just yesterday, it began conducting military drills with Belarus on Ukraine’s border in what some fear could be the lead-up to an invasion. As the number of Russian troops on Ukraine’s border has grown, so too have the efforts of Ukraine’s agents in the United States to secure U.S. and NATO military support.

      More specifically, the far-reaching campaign has been focused on stopping the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which Ukrainian officials argue is as much of a threat to their security as Russian troops. If completed, the pipeline would allow Russia to export natural gas directly to Germany and the rest of Europe, jeopardizing the billions Ukraine currently earns from transiting Russian gas to Europe.

      Congress has been the primary target of Ukraine’s agents, with over 300 House and Senate staff and members of Congress on the receiving end of more than 8,000 emails, phone calls, and meetings with Ukraine’s lobbyists. Agents representing the Ukrainian Federation of Employers of the Oil and Gas Industry, or UFEOGI, the largest association of energy companies in Ukraine, have flooded Capitol Hill with headlines like “Ukrainians call on U.S. Senate to sanction Putin’s pipeline weapon,” and others claiming “Moscow regards concessions as a sign of weakness.”

      The lobbyists seem to have found a friendly ear in Senate Republicans, in particular Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). In January, they distributed a tweet from the prime minister of Ukraine that said Nord Stream 2 is “no less an existential threat to our security & democracy than Russian troops on our border.” The sentiment was echoed, nearly verbatim, two days later by Cruz, who said he was hoping to “lift the existential threat posed by Nord Stream 2.”

      In 2021, UFEOGI’s lobbyists also focused intently on senators who co-sponsored 2020 legislation to block completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, including Cruz; John Barrasso (R-Wyo.); Tom Cotton, (R-Ark.); Ron Johnson, (R-Wis.); and Jeanne Shaheen, (D-N.H.). These senators, all members of the Foreign Relations Committee who had previously taken tough stances toward Russia, were contacted at least 100 times in 2021 and, on multiple occasions, staffers met directly with lobbyists.

      In early 2022, after Cruz introduced a bill to impose further sanctions on the building of the pipeline, lobbyists worked feverishly in support. When the bill came under fire from the Biden administration, which argued it was “Designed to undermine the unity of our allies, not punish Russia,” Ukraine’s agents quickly responded with a “facts on the ground” brief sent to nearly every Senate Democratic office and half of Senate Republican offices debunking the administration’s talking points.

      The brief was distributed on behalf of UEFOGI by Daniel Vajdich, the former senior national security adviser on Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign and current president of Yorktown Solutions, the lobbying group that represents UFEOGI. Ukraine’s agents at KARV Communications also sent a brief to journalists explaining, “The only message Russia understands is firmness and pressure.” (Disclosure: KARV Communications senior adviser Amir Handjani is a supporter of the Quincy Institute.)

      Cruz’s bill received a floor vote but, despite the efforts of Vajdich and other lobbyists, it did not pass. A rival piece of legislation, introduced by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), and supported by the Biden administration has a better shot; it also seeks to block completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and has been called the “mother of all sanctions.” Ukraine’s lobbying push on Capitol Hill has been aided by former Menendez staffer, Brittany Beaulieu of Yorktown Solutions, who now represents UFEOGI and the Civil Movement for a Just Ukraine, a nonprofit whose primary goal is “the de-oligarchization of Ukraine.” In her new role lobbying on behalf of Ukraine, Beaulieu has distributed tweets from her old boss on the need for “enhanced security assistance to Ukraine and new sanctions on the Kremlin.”

      Yorktown Solutions also distributed a Wall Street Journal editorial board article warning, “a failed sanctions vote would be one more reason for Mr. Putin not to take U.S. sanctions threats seriously,” in reference to the Menendez legislation that would impose sanctions on Russia regardless of whether it invades Ukraine. Reporters with the Wall Street Journal’s newsroom — which operates independently of the editorial board — were contacted on at least 147 occasions throughout 2021, including arranging a meeting with UFEOGI leadership, according to the Quincy Institute’s analysis of FARA filings.

      Finally, think tanks were contacted more than 1,100 times by Ukraine’s agents, and more than half of these were directed at one in particular: the Atlantic Council. This extraordinary outreach included multiple meetings with Atlantic Council scholars, like ex-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst, who has advocated for a more militarized approach to Russia amid the Ukraine crisis. Herbst recently told NPR that President Joe Biden should “send more weapons to Ukraine now. By all means, get additional U.S. and NATO forces up along Russia’s border.” Herbst was also at the center of an Atlantic Council kerfuffle last March, when he and 21 other Atlantic Council staff signed a letter opposing the work of two Atlantic Council colleagues who suggested a restraint-based approach to dealing with Russia.

      The Atlantic Council has also launched “UkraineAlert” which publishes daily pieces on deterring Russia. A recent article, “Survey: Western public backs stronger support for Ukraine against Russia,” notes the survey in question was commissioned by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and Yalta European Strategy, which Pinchuk founded; however, the article does not mention that the foundation is a large contributor to the Atlantic Council, donating $250,000-499,000 a year, or that Pinchuk himself — the second wealthiest man in Ukraine — sits on the international advisory board of the Atlantic Council.

      After the Atlantic Council, the hawkish Heritage Foundation was the second most contacted think tank by Ukraine’s agents. Heritage has consistently pushed for militarized solutions to the Russia-Ukraine crisis and was contacted 180 times throughout 2021 by Ukraine’s agents. This outreach was targeted at high-level Heritage experts, like Heritage Vice President James Carafano, who has repeatedly belittled U.S. diplomatic efforts related to Ukraine.

      The Ukraine lobby amplifies the voices of those pushing for more aggressive U.S. responses to the current crisis, but Ukrainian interests are far from the only players in this behind-the-scenes lobbying battle. The U.S. defense sector, for example, spent more than $117 million on lobbying in 2021. With U.S. weapons manufacturers making billions in arms sales to Ukraine, their CEOs see the turmoil there as a good business opportunity. And, of course, Russian interests are spending exorbitantly on influence operations and lobbying in the U.S. — approximately $182 million since 2016, according to OpenSecrets.

      https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/02/11/ukrainian-lobbyists-mounted-unprecedented-campaign-on-us-lawmakers-in-2021/

    • Celebrities lead tributes to Ukraine at First Ladies and Gentlemen summit

      Attendees listened to messages of support from UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron, footballer David Beckham and actor Richard Gere.

    • Mike Waltz: ‘It’s irresponsible’ to send arms to Ukraine without boots on the ground

      Mike Waltz discusses his visit last weekend to Ukraine to meet with President Zelenskyy and the National Guard vaccine mandate with Fox News’ Bret Baier on July 25, 2022.

    • Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak debate pulled off air after presenter fainted on stage

      News UK have confirmed presenter Kate McCann fainted on stage when live on air for the debate between the two candidates.

      They have confirmed Kate is doing ok however the debate will no longer continue.

      Liz Truss was interrupted when a loud crash was heard on stage before she left her podium.

      The programme was abruptly taken off air

      TV debate between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss halted ‘due to medical issue’ after sound of crash in studio – UK politics live

      + COMMENTS ON THE YT PAGE

  11. CAUGHT: Machines Stole Another Race in Colorado – Flipped Vote Totals from GOP Grassroots Favorite Lynda Wilson After Election Called and Gave Them to RINO Lundeen — BRAZEN FRAUD!
    By Jim Hoft
    Published July 26, 2022 at 8:30am
    0 Comments

    Zamora Wilson is a retired US Air Force officer with a PhD in Economics, an MS in Mathematics, MA in International Economics, and an MA in Education.

    She was a senior economist at the Pentagon and an f-22 Flight Test Analyst.

    Earlier this year Lynda jumped into the Republican primary race against incumbent state Senator Paul Lundeen.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/caught-machines-stole-another-race-colorado-flipped-vote-totals-gop-grassroots-favorite-lynda-wilson-election-called-gave-rino-lundeen-brazen-fraud/

  12. FBI Agent Who Covered For Hunter Biden is Russia Collusion Hoaxer – Per Sen. Grassley – The DOJ and FBI Are “Institutionally Corrupted to Their Very Core”

    Senator Grassley outed dirty cops at the FBI of which there are many, if not all at this point. These crooks have been protecting their criminal handlers in the corrupt DNC while persecuting conservatives like the Jan 6ers locked up for over a year in the DC jail for protesting the stolen election.

    Senator Grassley did what should have been done years ago. The DOJ and FBI are not criminal enterprises led by political crooks behind the Democrat party and its socialist agenda. These people are terrible people.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/fbi-agent-covered-hunter-biden-russia-collusion-hoaxer-per-sen-grassley-doj-fbi-institutionally-corrupted-core/

  13. Fake News NYT Claims the Forceful Overthrowing of the Sri Lankan Government Was “Relatively Low Key and Polite… Much More Peaceful” Than January 6th
    By Julian Conradson
    Published July 26, 2022 at 7:30am
    0 Comments
    The fake news factory that is the New York Times is in need of a serious update for its longstanding tagline. If they were honest, it would read: “all the propaganda that’s fit to print.”

    In the wake of the complete collapse of Sri Lanka’s economy and government, the hucksters at NYT had the nerve to describe the people’s forceful overthrow of the country’s failed leadership as “relatively low key and polite” in comparison to other similar uprisings.

    Advertisement – story

    only that but there was apparently a comedic quality to the whole thing, according to NYT’s German Lopez.

    Essentially, the massive revolt, which saw what looked like hundreds of thousands of enraged citizens storm Sri Lanka’s presidential palace and surrounding government buildings, was – to take a page from CNN’s Orwellian playbook – a ‘mostly peaceful’ insurrection.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/fake-news-nyt-claims-forceful-overthrowing-sri-lankan-government-relatively-low-key-polite-much-peaceful-january-6th/

  14. Wisconsin State Representative Chuck Wichgers will become the third Wisconsin lawmaker to sign on to decertify the 2020 Wisconsin Election Results.

    Wichgers made a public announcement at a Monday press conference. He joins Reps. Timothy Ramthun and Rep. Janel Brandtjen in signing on to legislation to decertify the 2020 results for President in the state.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/breaking-rep-chuck-wichgers-becomes-third-wisconsin-lawmaker-sign-decertify-2020-wisconsin-election-results-fraud-great/

  15. zero hedge – Erdogan Demands US Troops Leave Syria, Vows Won’t Back Down From New Cross-Border Operation

    […]”You see that the American staff there train members of the terrorist organization,” Erdogan continued, demanding that the US stop all training programs for Kurdish militants in Syria.

    […]”As America supports terror organizations and as we are struggling against these terror organizations, our job will be easier if it withdraws from there or it ceases its support to them,” Erdogan said.

    […]Last week’s Tehran summit also raised eyebrows in Europe, where German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock described a joint photo op with Erdogan and Putin as a “challenge” to NATO.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/erdogan-demands-us-troops-leave-syria-vows-he-wont-back-down-new-cross-border

    • Would these fine, liberal Europeans accept the character assassination of another entire ethnicity?
      Again?

      All 30 million Kurds are “terrorists” who must be exterminated, says the Filthy Turk. The language he uses is softened in most English translations. MEMRI versions are more literal, frankly genocidal.

    • sky news australia – Former CDC director pushes lab leak theory, rejects Fauci’s COVID origin hypothesis

      Former CDC Director Robert R Redfield has dismissed Dr Anthony Fauci’s hypothesis that it’s more likely COVID-19 originated from a “natural occurrence”, believing the virus instead leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

    • JULY 26 2022- Leadership in Challenging Times: A Conversation with Dr. Albert Bourla, CEO, Pfizer Inc

      ( 1 min 56 )

      “Nothing of what was accomplished would have been accomplished without partnerships. In our case, we had to partner with BioNTech…

      But, we also had to partner with the FDA, and the CDC. […]

      Without their active collaboration—without [our] active sensing of the way that they worked as well—we wouldn’t be able to achieve what we achieved.”

      So says Dr. Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer, Inc. in this interview with Dr. Lori Esposito Murray, President of the Committee for Economic Development, the public policy center of The Conference Board (CED).

      The CED discussion series, Leadership in Challenging Times, interviews business leaders about the unprecedented challenges facing the nation and how they are helping chart a path forward for both their companies and communities in which they operate.

    • JULY 26 2022 – Leadership in Challenging Times: A Conversation with Dr. Albert Bourla, CEO, Pfizer Inc.

      ( 19 min 49 )

      Listen as Dr. Bourla tells Dr. Murray about how Pfizer went about making the “impossible possible” with the development and rollout of the mRNA vaccine, as well as Pfizer’s current efforts to extend health equity to all.

    • JULY 26 2022 – BBC – Covid origin studies say evidence points to Wuhan market

      Scientists say there is “compelling evidence” that Wuhan’s Huanan seafood and wildlife market was at the centre of the Covid-19 outbreak.

      Two peer-reviewed studies published on Tuesday re-examine information from the initial outbreak in the Chinese city.

      […]One of the researchers involved, virologist Prof David Robertson from the University of Glasgow, told BBC News that he hoped the studies would “correct the false record that the virus came from a lab”.

      […]Over the last two years, the search for the origin of the deadly pandemic turned from a scientific investigation into a toxic political row.

      […]One of the subjects of a fierce international blame game – primarily between politicians in the US and China – was a theory that the virus could have been leaked from a Wuhan laboratory, the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

      […]The major risk of being distracted by looking for someone in a laboratory to blame for all this, he added, “is that we run the risk of letting this happen again because we’ve focused on the wrong problem.”

      https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62307383

      =========================================
      JULY 26 2022 – SCIENCE –

      The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic

      Understanding how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in 2019 is critical to preventing zoonotic outbreaks before they become the next pandemic.

      The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, was identified as a likely source of cases in early reports but later this conclusion became controversial.

      We show the earliest known COVID-19 cases from December 2019, including those without reported direct links, were geographically centered on this market. We report that live SARS-CoV-2 susceptible mammals were sold at the market in late 2019 and, within the market, SARS-CoV-2-positive environmental samples were spatially associated with vendors selling live mammals.

      While there is insufficient evidence to define upstream events, and exact circumstances remain obscure, our analyses indicate that the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 occurred via the live wildlife trade in China, and show that the Huanan market was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.

      […]During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, animals sold at the Huanan market were hypothesized to be the source of the unexplained pneumonia cases

      […]Determining the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic at a neighborhood- rather than city-level could help resolve if SARS-CoV-2 had a zoonotic origin,

      […]We tested the robustness of our results to the possibility of ascertainment bias

      […]Our statistical results were robust to a range of factors, for example, the use of an empirical control distribution based on presumptive COVID-19 cases locations later in the Wuhan epidemic (Weibo data)

      […]The ‘distance to the nearest vendor selling live mammals’ and ‘distance to the nearest human case’ were independently predictive of environmental sample positivity (p=0.004 and 0.014, respectively for N=6; table S9).

      […]In each case, the distance to live mammal vendors remained predictive of environmental sample positivity, and the region of increased positive sample density in the southwest corner of the western section of the market remained consistent

      […]SARS-CoV-2 emerged from activities associated with live wildlife trade.

      […]These findings suggest that infected animals were present at the Huanan market at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic

      […]The sustained presence of a potential source of virus transmission into the human population in late 2019, plausibly from infected live mammals sold at the Huanan market, offers an explanation of our findings and the origins of SARS-CoV-2.

      […]The live animal trade and live animal markets are a common theme in virus spillover events

      […]Maximum effort must now be applied to elucidate the upstream events that might have brought SARS-CoV-2 into the Huanan market, culminating in the COVID-19 pandemic.

      […]Ethics statement

      This research was reviewed by the Human Subject Protection Program at the University of Arizona and the Institutional Review Board at The Scripps Research Institute and determined to be exempt from IRB approval because it constitutes secondary research for which consent is not required.

      […]Funding: This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. 75N93021C00015 (MW). JIL acknowledges support from the NIH (5T32AI007244-38). SAG acknowledges support from the NIH (F32AI152341). JEP acknowledges support from the NIH (T15LM011271). JOW acknowledges support from NIH (AI135992 and AI136056). DLR acknowledges support of the Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12014/12) and the Wellcome Trust (220977/Z/20/Z). MAS, PL and AR acknowledge the support of the Wellcome Trust (Collaborators Award 206298/Z/17/Z – ARTIC network), the European Research Council (grant agreement no. 725422 – ReservoirDOCS) and NIH grant R01AI153044. ALR is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research as part of the Coronavirus Variants Rapid Response Network (CoVaRR-Net; CIHR FRN#175622) and acknowledges that VIDO receives operational funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation – Major Science Initiatives Fund and from the Government of Saskatchewan through Innovation Saskatchewan and the Ministry of Agriculture. MK receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 874735 (VEO, Versatile Emerging infectious disease Observatory). RFG is supported by the NIH (R01AI132223, R01AI132244, U19AI142790, U54CA260581, U54HG007480, OT2HL158260), the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation, the Wellcome Trust Foundation, Gilead Sciences, and the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership Programme. ECH is supported by an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship (FL170100022). KGA is supported by the NIH (U19AI135995, U01AI151812, and UL1TR002550).

      https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715

      ========================================
      SCIENCE – JAN 26 2020

      Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

      Description of earliest cases suggests outbreak began elsewhere

      […]

      https://www.science.org/content/article/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally

      ======================================

      Scientists Trace Earliest Cases of COVID-19 to Market in Wuhan, China

      ( 25 min )

      An international team of 18 researchers, including Stephen Goldstein, PhD, University of Utah Health, have determined that the earliest cases of COVID-19 in humans arose at a wholesale fish market in Wuhan China in December, 2019.

      Goldstein explains and answers questions about the study.

    • 1936 – Hollywood – Native-Canadian dance from the film Rose-Marie with Jeanette MacDonald

      “When my grandpa Chief Chickee Kotem, took grandma out to the totem, totem tom tom… totem tom tom.”


    • PMW: Abbas incites Church against Israel in phone call with the Pope

      Under the guise of concern for Pope Francis’ health, PA Chairman Abbas exploited a phone call with the pope to incite and inflame the Church against Israel.

      In their conversation, Abbas repeated the libel that Israel “attacks” Christian and Muslim holy sites:

      ”His Honor [Abbas] updated Pope Francis on the attacks to which the Christian and Islamic holy sites are being subjected, and especially the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.” [Official PA TV News, July 12, 2022]

      Palestinian Media Watch has documented numerous such statements that refer to the presence of Jews at these places as “invasions,” “break-ins,” and “attacks.” The statements also expose the PA’s antisemitic ideologies, declaring that the presence of Jews “defiles” and “desecrates” these holy sites…

      “The Israeli occupation forces are committing oppression and arbitrary acts in order to erase the holy city’s identity, change its spiritual and historical characteristics, desecrate the sanctity of our holy sites – the Islamic and Christian ones, and pressure its residents, visitors, and those coming to worship there. The Al-Aqsa Mosque is being subjected to invasions every day…”?

      https://palwatch.org/page/31856

    • ITALIAN PUBLIC TELEVISION – RAI – Canadian purgatory – Original language

  18. Biden’s TSA Becomes the Transportation False Security Administration
    Illegal aliens are welcomed aboard airliners – using arrest warrants for ID.

    Tue Jul 26, 2022Michael Cutler8 comments

    Biden Administration continues to implement policies that are not in the best interests of America or Americans. Nowhere is this more apparent than the multifaceted immigration system.

    Immigration is not a single issue, but a singular issue because it profoundly impacts nearly every challenge and threat that confronts America in this especially perilous era.

    Even with the ongoing “crisis on the southern border” getting some attention by some news organizations, the immigration crisis involves far more than the unending tsunami of illegal aliens flooding into the United States from Mexico.

    The frequently maligned Border Wall was never designed to keep people from entering the United States, only to make it more difficult of those who seek to enter to evade the vetting process we conduct at ports of entry to screen out aliens who would pose a threat to public health, public safety, national

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/07/bidens-tsa-has-become-transportation-false-michael-cutler/

  19. China’s Exploitation of Biden’s Border Insecurity
    How the Biden Administration is enabling China’s expansion of espionage and intellectual property theft in the U.S.

    Tue Jul 26, 2022Jonathan Emord6 comments

    One aspect of America’s border insecurity has largely escaped media attention but poses a dire threat: China’s massive campaign to infiltrate American public and private institutions in an effort to sap from them strategic intelligence and intellectual property in aid of China’s quest for global dominion. The United States is inundated with spies for China. In addition to tech and intelligence theft, Chinese spies are discovering and aiding in means to disrupt essential American infrastructures vital to energy production, water treatment, web communication, and national security.

    Every Chinese citizen, company, and enterprise destined for interaction with American citizens, businesses, universities, laboratories, and non-profits understands from China’s Ministry of State Security and domestic laws that each must serve the motherland by spying on, stealing from, and otherwise interfering with enterprises in

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/07/chinas-exploitation-bidens-border-insecurity-jonathan-emord/

  20. europravda –France could make it legal to use cooking oil as fuel in bid to battle cost of living crisis

    France’s new bill will allow citizens to power their diesel vehicles with recycled cooking oil.

    • What a joke. The enviornmental cost of converting veggie oil to diesel is high and exactly how much are they pretending there is of that stuff? Ever watch a video on how to make useable fuel from cooking oil? You need a lot of space, a hazmat suit, chemicals galore and kitchen equipment you never plan to use again for food. And that won’t make enough to get to Grandma’s house.

    • APRIL 2022 – More than 10% of Chinese people consume sewer oil every day/Hotel workers recycle sewer oil

    • MAY 2013 – The Making Of ‘Gutter Oil’

      Most of China’s ‘gutter oil’ winds up in cheap restaurants and among street food vendors.

    • JUNE 2022 – Gutter oil’ problem in China: 3.5 million tons of gutter oil consumed at dining tables every year

  22. Seth Frantzman:
    Nasrallah: Hezbollah has all of Israel in its missile range

    Nasrallah’s threats and statements against Israel ran the usual gamut of claims, he said Israel was afraid to enter Lebanon’s territory and that this showed that Hezbollah had deterred Israel. Nasrallah spoke to the media on the 40th anniversary of the establishment of Hezbollah and spelled out its accomplishments and future endeavors. He praised Iranian support for the “axis” of resistance.

    He looked back at history and said that Israel had withdrawn from Lebanon in the past and that Israel had shown it could not even maintain the “security belt” inside Lebanon that Israel maintained until 2000. He said Israel has been afraid to confront Hezbollah since the 2006 war.

    “We are capable of deterrence and if needed, we will respond. Even if it leads to war…

    “Due to Europe’s need to replace Russian oil and gas, Lebanon is facing a historic opportunity. Biden came to the region because of oil and gas. But the additional oil of Saudi Arabia and the UAE will not solve Europe’s needs either. The war between Ukraine and Russia has made them look for alternatives to Russian oil and gas.”

    Hezbollah hopes to gain from the Ukraine crisis.
    “This is a historic and golden opportunity for us to push for our oil. Regarding NATO in the Middle East, I must say that many people talk about their dreams. Biden only traveled to the region for oil. The priority of Biden and America is to confront Russia in Ukraine. For this reason, they are against any war…They do not want a war that will cause an explosion in the region.”

    Nasrallah details Hezbollah’s abilities, discussing Hezbollah’s precision-guided missiles. He said that this gives Hezbollah the ability to prevent Israel or companies from extracting gas from Karish…

    Besides noting that Hezbollah drone threats to Israel are increasing, Nasrallah also spelled out how it would make decisions for Lebanon in the future.

    The Secretary General of Hezbollah stated that “The Lebanese government is not able to make a proper decision to protect this country and its resources. Therefore, the resistance is forced to make a decision.

    Our goal is for Lebanon to extract oil and gas; Because this is the only way to save Lebanon. This is an action that must be taken. We will not accept any deception and we must take back our rights. Our goal is to make Lebanon extract oil and gas and to draw the maritime borders of this country correctly…”

    https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-713053
    ……….

    Would Nasrallah risk war with Israel over the Karish gas rig? – analysis

    Hezbollah has made it clear that they will continue to challenge Israel over the rig, despite the real risk of deteriorating into a full-blown war.

    And unlike past wars, this would be a war over a strategic economic asset. Lebanon has been suffering from a crippling economic crisis since 2019 that has only gotten worse with the global food and fuel crisis.

    A ruling in favor of Lebanon would allow the country to finally have some breathing room for its population which has not had a break in years.

    Israel, of course, is not immune to the crisis and the Karish was set to be an answer to the country’s expanding demand for energy. The excess gas would also be available for export, such as for Europe, which is reeling from Russia’s war in Ukraine and its threat to shut off or reduce supply to the continent over its support for Kyiv.

    Should Nasrallah follow through with his threats, Israelis across the country need to be ready.

    It would not look like a war with Hamas, and it would not look like the war between Russia and Ukraine. A war with Hezbollah would drag the entire region into a war that would also see all terror groups and Iranian proxies take part.

    And the complete destruction and deadly consequences of the war would be on Nasrallah, not the IDF.

    https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-713086
    ……….

    Hizbullah Sec.-Gen. Nasrallah: All of Israel’s Offshore Gas Fields Are Within Range of Our Threat

    On July 25, 2022, Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah was interviewed on Mayadeen TV (Lebanon). He said that Lebanon will not give up on its right to extract natural gas and oil from its offshore reserves, and he rejected the idea that Lebanon keep the Qana offshore prospect in exchange for Israel keeping the Karish oil field (for more about the maritime border dispute between Israel and Lebanon, see MEMRI Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1640).

    He also said that Hizbullah’s precision missiles can reach any Israeli target on land or at sea and that Hizbullah has the offensive and defensive naval capabilities to effectively deter Israel. In addition, Nasrallah said that Israel is a “temporary entity” and that in a matter of a few years, Israelis will be grabbing their suitcases and fleeing the country.

  23. MEMRI:
    Failed Initiative To Establish Middle East NATO – Arab Countries Clarify: There Will Be No Regional Military Alliance Against Iran; We Seek To Improve Our Relations With It

    In the weeks preceding the visit of U.S. President Joe Biden to Saudi Arabia for the July 16, 2022 Jeddah Security and Development Summit, Arab and international media published numerous reports claiming that one of the main topics slated to be discussed at the summit – attended by Biden and the leaders of the nine Arab countries – was the establishment of a regional military alliance against Iran.

    According to the reports, this alliance was to include Israel alongside the moderate Arab countries, among them Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, and Jordan. Many were referring to this initiative as the establishment of a “regional NATO.”

    …However, as the Jeddah summit approached, Arab countries began to clarify – either officially and explicitly or via articles in the press – that they had no intention of joining a regional military alliance against Iran…

    It appears that, even if at some point several Arab countries had considered forming a regional alliance against Iran, a series of considerations and insights led them to discard the idea and to stress that they do not seek a military confrontation with this country.

    The main consideration is their understanding that the Biden administration is committed to achieving a nuclear agreement with Iran and that it views diplomacy as the best option, if not the only option, for contending with Iran’s nuclear program.

    Therefore, these countries assess that they cannot depend on the U.S. to protect them from Iran, and fear that the U.S. will not come to their aid in the event of a military confrontation with it, just as it did not come to the aid of Ukraine when it was attacked by Russia.

    Moreover, Arab countries apparently fear that the U.S. will sign a new nuclear agreement with Iran which will not address their concerns regarding the conduct of Iran and its militias in the region, and have therefore deemed it prudent to open a direct channel of communication with Iran, rather than move toward military escalation with it.

    It appears that these countries have taken a strategic decision to maintain calm relations with Iran and seek dialogue with it. In fact, in recent months five rounds of talks, mediated by Iraq and Oman, have been held between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The UAE is likewise maintaining contacts and dialogue with this country, and, as mentioned, Egypt and Jordan have done the same in the recent weeks.

    https://www.memri.org/reports/failed-initiative-establish-middle-east-nato-–-arab-countries-clarify-there-will-be-no

  25. ctv news -‘Freedom Convoy’ organizer Tamara Lich to be released on bail, again

    OTTAWA – “Freedom Convoy” organizer Tamara Lich has once again been ordered released from jail after a Ontario Superior Court judge found errors in the decision to revoke her bail two weeks ago.

    […]Superior Court Justice Andrew Goodman says the justice of the peace made several legal errors, including that her bail conditions didn’t stipulate that she had to be discussing her case.

    Goodman warned Lich the authorities are watching her every move and to abide by the letter of her conditions, because if her bail comes into question again he does not expect she would be released a third time.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/freedom-convoy-organizer-tamara-lich-to-be-released-on-bail-again-1.6003101

    =================================

    cbc – Convoy organizer Tamara Lich again granted bail

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tamara-lich-bail-ottawa-july-26-2022-1.6532149

    • For several summers after the drought breaks, it will take time to rebuild the herds.

  27. BREAKING: Joe Biden’s DOJ Opens Investigation Into President Trump
    By Cristina Laila
    Published July 26, 2022 at 6:28pm
    0 Comments
    Biden Justice Department has opened an investigation into Trump’s actions to ‘overturn the 2020 election results.’

    The Biden Regime is jailing its political opponents and now investigating a former US President.

    Meanwhile, the Republican party is silent.

    According to The Washington Post, DOJ prosecutors are probing “conversations with Trump, his lawyers, and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute Trump allies for certified electors from some states Joe Biden won.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/breaking-biden-doj-opens-investigation-trump/

    (Richard: I have stayed (several times) that the left is trying to start a civil war they can’t win. This action and the statements that if they can fake enough evidence they will arrest President Trump just before the election. Doing this is sure to touch off massive protests that the left will use violence to suppress. The suppression of the protests will probably be the incident that starts the war. I hope the left isn’t desperate enough to carry out their threat but I am afraid they are that scared of President Trump.)

  28. BREAKING: #SUETHEVIEW Trends NATIONWIDE After Turning Point USA Issues Cease And Desist Letters to ABC News Calling on Them to “Retract The Defamatory Statements” (VIDEO)
    By Jordan Conradson
    Published July 26, 2022 at 8:22pm
    0 Comments
    SueTheView is trending in the United States on Twitter after Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida, faced slanderous commentary from Whoopi Goldberg and her co-hosts on “The View.”

    Turning Point USA is a powerful conservative activist organization dedicated to fighting woke college agendas.

    Advertisement – story continues below

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/breaking-suetheview-trends-nationwide-turning-point-usa-issues-cease-desist-letters-abc-news-calling-retract-defamatory-statements-video/

  29. Harrington: Biden Is the “Coward” – Along with Others Who Tried to “Rubber Stamp His Illegitimate Results from November 3rd”
    By Joe Hoft
    Published July 26, 2022 at 8:00pm
    0 Comments

    Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington called Biden “the coward” as he had “zero courage” during the 2020 riots, which he was “encouraging.”

    Joe Biden made up a plethora of lies about Jan 6 on Monday in a call to police in Florida. Biden made it sound like Trump supporters were beating up cops on Jan 6 and the truth shows Trump supporters helping police pick up trash at the Capitol.

    Biden then called President Trump guilty of insurrection when Biden stole the 2020 Election to obtain power for criminal leftovers from the Obama gang who couldn’t win an election fair and square because their policies are anti-American and destruction – look at the economy,

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/liz-harrington-biden-coward-along-others-tried-rubber-stamped-illegitimate-results-november-3rd/