He’s Culpable. He’s Lying About It. And He Needs to Be Held Accountable” – Sen. Ron Johnson Says It’s Time to Go After Fauci for Funding Gain-of-Function Research, Lying About It Under Oath

On Wednesday morning Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) joined Maria Bartiromo to discuss the latest on Dr. Fauci and the coronavirus.

Senator Johnson called out Dr. Fauci, “He’s culpable. He’s lying and he needs to be held accountable.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/culpable-lying-needs-held-accountable-sen-ron-johnson-says-time-go-fauci-funding-gain-function-research-lying-oath-video/

LIAR FAUCI BUSTED: 2018 Video Shows Dr. Fauci REINSTATING Gain-of-Function Research at NIH – Defending Its Use

It is widely known that Dr. Tony Fauci funded the Wuhan Laboratory.

The Gateway Pundit first reported on this in early 2020.

And Senator Paul opened his questioning by putting Dr. Tony Fauci on notice — his criminal lies will not be tolerated.

Senator Rand Paul: Dr. Fauci, as you are aware it is a crime to lie to Congress, Section 1001 of the US Criminal Code. Critics say a felony and a five-year penalty for lying to Congress. On your last trip to our committee on May 11th, you stated that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund ‘gain of function” research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And yet, “gain of function” was done entirely at the Wuhan Institute.

Dr. Fauci then denied the charges and screamed at Senator Rand Paul calling him a “Liar!”

Dr. Fauci funded the Wuhan lab that created the virus — Then Dr. Fauci withheld an effective treatment HCQ in treating the disease from Americans.

The man is a megalomaniac.

Senator Rand Paul Tuesday night said he is sending a letter to the Department of Justice asking for a criminal referral into Dr. Fauci.

now there is proof that Dr. Fauci was lying again under oath in yesterday’s hearing.

And there is video proof that Fauci was lying.

Back on January 29, 2018, Dr. Fauci announced, “NIH Lifts Funding Pause on Gain-Of-Function Research.”

And Dr. Fauci defended its use.

It appears Rand Paul has an open-and-shut case against liar Tony Fauci.

Via Kanekoa the Great:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/liar-fauci-busted-2018-video-shows-dr-fauci-reinstating-gain-function-research-nih-defending-use/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/liar-fauci-busted-2018-video-shows-dr-fauci-reinstating-gain-function-research-nih-defending-use/

Five Counties in Michigan Will Likely Break the Law and a Cease and Desist Order by Erasing 2020 Election Data from Their Voting Machines

Five Michigan counties are allegedly moving ahead with guidance from the state that is likely to erase all activities on the voting machines in the county. A Cease and Desist order was mailed to the counties but these few counties may move forward anyways.

At least five counties in Michigan are reportedly moving ahead with the destruction of data from the 2020 Election on the voting equipment they used in the election. The problem with this is that the procedure that the vendor is performing reportedly removes all data from the machines but federal law states that information related to the 2020 Election is to be maintained in safekeeping for 22 months after the election. Also, all the counties in the state have been provided a ‘cease and desist’ order preventing them from removing the data from the machines.

According to Kagbro88 on Twitter, at least five counties have said they are moving ahead with the request from the state to remove the batteries in the machines which would also remove all memory from the machines.

Midland and Manistee Counties are two of the counties moving forward with the state’s request.

Lake County says they are waiting for their attorney’s opinion while Dickinson is moving ahead with the ‘maintenance’.

Iron County is planning on going ahead with the state’s request as well.

These counties are risking a lot due to their actions. Removing batteries from their machines will likely erase data that is residing on the machines and the law requires all data to be kept intact for 22 months after the election. Also, removing the battery will make the machines out of compliance and they will have to be recertified as a result.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/breaking-exclusive-five-counties-michigan-will-likely-break-law-cease-desist-order-erasing-2020-election-data-voting-machines/

Elections Official Who DEMANDED Pens Before Election And Sharpies On Election Day DONATED TO MARK KELLY

Sharpiegate conspirator Kelly Dixon donated to Mark Kelly’s campaign just weeks before she participated in the 2020 election steal.

Prior to the 2020 election Maricopa County Elections Director Kelly Dixon demanded that poll workers give ballpoint pens to voters every day prior to elections, but on elections day she said they “NEED” to use sharpies.

We know that Trump voters showed up in overwhelming numbers on election day due to mail-in fraud concerns.

This is always the case. Republicans like to vote in person to make sure their vote counts.

Now there is evidence that Kelly Dixon donated to Democrat Mark Kelly.

Dixon also contributed $100 to ACTBLUE, earmarked for Mark Kelly for Senate. She secured this victory bad election practices.

Headline USA reports “According to her LinkedIn page, her office was responsible for filling “more than 4,000 temporary worker positions to support election day sites and elections activities.”

How many of the found discrepancies were caused by this woman or her 4,000 handpicked employees?

@CitizenSe7en721 Tweeted:

Of COURSE she did!!!

Maricopa Official Behind SharpieGate Gave to Mark Kelly Campaign

https://twitter.com/CitizenSe7en721/status/1417312023726247936

Why did they strictly use sharpies on election day but ballpoint pens every day prior?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/revealed-elections-official-demanded-pens-election-sharpies-election-day-donated-mark-kelly/

Pelosi Rejects McCarthy’s GOP Picks Jim Jordan, Jim Banks For January 6 Committee

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday rejected two of McCarthy’s Republican picks for her highly partisan January 6 committee.

Earlier this week GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy released his pics for Pelosi’s sham Jan. 6 select committee:

The five included:

Jim Banks (ranking member)

Jim Jordan

Rodney Davis

Kelly Armstrong

Troy Nehls

Pelosi rejected GOP Reps. Jim Jordan (OH) and Jim Banks (IN), both strong allies of Trump.

The RINOs McCarthy chose are safe from the chopping block.

According to Forbes:

Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), the chair of the House Administration Committee and a relative moderate in his caucus who was one of 35 House Republicans to vote to create a bipartisan commission to probe the attack, which was blocked by Senate Republicans.

Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.), one of seven House Republicans who signed a letter criticizing objections to President Joe Biden’s electoral college victory, which a majority of House Republicans voted for even after the Jan. 6 attack.

Pelosi also chose RINO Trump hater Liz Cheney to be on her sham committee.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/just-pelosi-rejects-mccarthys-gop-picks-jim-jordan-jim-banks-january-6-committee/

RUMBLINGS: 2 of 3 Retired Policemen Drop From Wisconsin Speaker Vos’s Audit Team – Vos Refuses to Call for a Forensic Audit in Wisconsin

Wisconsin’s Republican Speaker of the House continues to refuse a real forensic audit in the state. Now 2 of 3 policemen Vos selected for an audit of the state have reportedly resigned.

Wisconsin’s Speaker Vos has continueS to pretend he cares about election integrity while showing he does not. He’s taken numerous actions to indicate he knows the Wisconsin 2020 Presidential election was fraudulent. But he shows he doesn’t want to get to the truth by responding with actions that will never catch the fraud in the election in his state.

Now we have learned that two of the three retired policemen that Vos selected to perform an audit of the election in the state have resigned. For some reason, Vos is keeping this on the down-low.

All that the Speaker has to do is order a forensic audit of the state’s 2020 Election results and the people in his state will know that he made an effort to get to the bottom of the fraud in the state. But Vos can’t do this. He is owned by his friends from the past.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/rumblings-2-3-retired-policemen-drop-wisconsin-speaker-voss-audit-team-vos-continues-refuse-call-forensic-audit-wisconsin/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/rumblings-2-3-retired-policemen-drop-wisconsin-speaker-voss-audit-team-vos-continues-refuse-call-forensic-audit-wisconsin/

Saudi Aramco says its data being held for $50 MILLION in ransom on dark web, points finger at ‘contractor’

Saudi Arabia’s state oil company acknowledged that some of its data is being held for ransom online. Aramco said it likely came from a third-party contractor, denying there’s been any breach of its computer systems.

The company confirmed to AP on Wednesday it “recently became aware of the indirect release of a limited amount of company data which was held by third-party contractors.” The contractor was not identified, and it was unclear whether the data was obtained through hacking or leaking or some other way.

A website on the dark web claims to sell data from Saudi AramcoProof includes 34 mid-res images.Screenshots with PII are redacted, making verification impossible. pic.twitter.com/BP8C2GeOQk

— Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi) July 19, 2021

“We confirm that the release of data was not due to a breach of our systems, has no impact on our operations and the company continues to maintain a robust cybersecurity posture,” Aramco said in a statement.

Files purported to belong to the company began appearing on 'dark web' sites on Tuesday, along with a demand for $50 million worth of cryptocurrency to have the data deleted. It was unclear who was demanding the ransom.

Aramco is valued at around $1.8 trillion. The company has been targeted by cyber attacks in the past, for which the US and Saudi Arabia blamed Iran. In 2017, a virus disrupted computers at Sadara, a joint venture between Aramco and the US-based Dow Chemical Co. Officials claimed it might have been another version of Shamoon, the virus that in 2012 forced the Saudi oil giant to shut down its network and destroy some 30,000 computers.

https://www.rt.com/news/529864-saudi-aramco-ransom-documents/

https://www.rt.com/news/529864-saudi-aramco-ransom-documents/

French PM warns 96% of new Covid cases are among unvaccinated citizens

Prime Minister Jean Castex has warned that France is in the middle of a fourth wave of the pandemic as the Delta variant spreads through non-vaccinated citizens, with that cohort of the population comprising 96% of new cases.

Speaking on French television on Wednesday, Castex raised concerns about the Delta variant, referring it to as “the majority one” in the country, due to its “more contagious” nature.

Defending the decision to roll out a Covid health pass across France, Castex cited how 96% of new infections recorded on Tuesday were people who had not yet been fully vaccinated against the virus.

Supporting the prime minister’s remarks, Health Minister Olivier Veran told the nation’s lawmakers that there had been an unprecedented rise in cases recently – an increase of 150% in the past week – due to the prevalence of the Delta strain.

The health pass has faced opposition across France, with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets in a number of French cities to call President Emmanuel Macron’s administration a vaccine “dictatorship.” One of Macron’s own lawmakers, Pacôme Rupin, claimed the “health pass is going to fracture our country.”

The pass was introduced in an effort to reduce the spread of Covid infection while avoiding plunging the country back into a nationwide lockdown. Under the measure, access to many leisure and cultural venues in France is currently restricted to those with proof of vaccination, a negative test result, or recent recovery from Covid. Lawmakers are debating whether to extend its use to other locations, such as cafes, restaurants, and shopping malls in August.

While the French parliament is weighing up expanding the use of the Covid health pass, Castex was clear that it is not currently considering requiring it for school-age children when they return to the classroom in September.

https://www.rt.com/news/529854-france-high-percentage-covid-cases-unvaccinated/

US senators Sanders, Murphy & Lee introduce bipartisan bill to rein in presidential war powers & foreign weapons deals

A bipartisan group of US senators has introduced sweeping reforms of executive war-making authority and rules governing arms sales and national emergencies, in an effort to claw back congressional powers from the White House.

Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) put forward the National Security Powers Act on Tuesday – the latest effort to curtail presidential war powers, which have steadily accrued to the executive branch over several decades.

“I believe that we have become far too comfortable with the United States engaging in military interventions all over the world, and the time is long overdue for Congress to reassert its constitutional role in matters of war and peace,” Senator Sanders said in a press release announcing the new bill.

I believe that we have become far too comfortable with the United States engaging in military interventions all over the world, and the time is long overdue for Congress to reassert its constitutional role in matters of war and peace. https://t.co/YHK4YoJyDo

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) July 20, 2021

The lawmakers said the act had three main goals: clarifying and amending the original War Powers Resolution; reforming arms export regulations in a way that would require Congress to “affirmatively authorize” certain foreign weapons sales; and altering rules around national emergencies to prevent presidents from “exploiting a crisis to increase executive authority.”

Enacted in 1973 during the Vietnam War, the War Powers Resolution was meant to place a check on the White House’s ability to commit the country to armed conflict without lawmakers’ consent. However, as the US Constitution specifies that Congress must proactively declare a war, the Resolution effectively watered down that provision, allowing for armed action with a mere Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), which falls short of an outright declaration.

The new legislation would define key terms left unclear in the original War Powers Resolution, namely the meaning of “hostilities.” The senators said the word “has been interpreted so narrowly by the Executive branch that key aspects of the [War Powers Resolution] became almost meaningless.”

The bill would also add “teeth” to the resolution by automatically cutting off war funding unless the president secured Congressional approval, the senators said. While lawmakers currently require a veto-proof majority to terminate unauthorized military action, the bill would instead force the White House to obtain “specific statutory authorization” to keep a war going.

https://www.rt.com/usa/529785-bipartisan-bill-war-powers/

Undercover FBI informants played key role in plot to kidnap Michigan governor, suspects claim, as they accuse govt of entrapment

Several of the men accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer say they were entrapped by the FBI, with government documents suggesting that at least 12 undercover informants played major roles in the scheme.

A lengthy investigation by BuzzFeed News – published on Tuesday and based on court filings, text and audio transcripts, and more than two dozen interviews with sources close to the case – claimed that the 12 informants and undercover agents “played a far larger role” in the kidnapping plot than was previously known.

“Working in secret, they did more than just passively observe and report on the actions of the suspects. Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its inception,” the outlet reported, noting that the scope of their involvement “raises questions as to whether there would have even been a conspiracy without them.”

The feds call it a conspiracy to kidnap Michigan’s governor, but a BuzzFeed News investigation shows that FBI informants had a hand in almost every aspect of the plan. https://t.co/eWUbospoXj

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) July 20, 2021

So far, one of the 14 suspects in the case has formally accused the government of entrapment, saying the FBI actively drove the plot forward and helped to assemble its key planners, while lawyers for two others say they plan to raise similar claims in the future.

All but one of the 14 defendants – six of whom were slapped with federal counts, while eight others were charged under Michigan’s terrorism laws – have pleaded not guilty, insisting there was no serious plan to kidnap Whitmer. One defense attorney deemed the plot “big talk” between “crackpots” and “military wannabes.”

In the FBI’s original criminal complaint issued on October 6, 2020, the bureau acknowledged that it “relied on information provided by Confidential Human Sources (CHS) and Undercover Employees (UCE) over several months,” saying that, while all the informants were not present with the plotters at all times, “at least one … was usually present during the group meetings.”

The bureau mentioned only four undercover sources, however, including two actual agents, in its initial complaint – far fewer than the 12 ultimately revealed in later filings. The FBI also did not disclose the full extent of their involvement in the plot, though did note that some informants were paid for their work.

One of them, named as ‘CHS-2’ in the complaint, was paid at least $14,800, which the FBI says included “reporting and expenses,” while a source labeled ‘CHS-1’ was paid $8,600. It did not specify a reason for that payment.

https://www.rt.com/usa/529783-whitmer-kidnapping-fbi-entrapment/

Pentagon Reportedly Tracking "Extremist" Web Searches Including "The Truth About Black Lives Matter"

Reports circulating Tuesday reveal that the Pentagon is working with a contractor to track web searches that it describes as indicators of “white supremacy,” citing the phrase “the truth about black lives matter” as one example

Reports from Defense One and Fox News state that the Pentagon is working with a UK-based company called Moonshot CVE (Countering Violent Extremism) to uncover networks of domestic extremists within the military.

Moonshot regularly works with the notorious ADL, and has ties to former President Obama, as well as the SPLC and George Soros’ Open Foundation, according to the reports.

ADL and Moonshot’s research on online white supremacy culminated in the report, “White Supremacy Search Trends in the United States.” Find out more here: https://t.co/zPCXZYcKtX

Consider donating to ADL so we can continue to collaborate successfully: https://t.co/508JwtYZSC

— ADL Washington DC (@ADL_WashDC) July 18, 2021

Moonshot suggests that searching for the “truth about BLM” indicates a belief “that the BLM movement has nefarious motives,” which “is a disinformation narrative perpetuated by White supremacist groups to weaponize anti-BLM sentiment.”

The company further states that while the search phrase initially appears “innocuous,” it isn’t because the phrase has been used to suggest the BLM movement “is in line with the burning and looting of Antifa.”

“These sources echo White supremacist disinformation narratives alleging that BLM protesters are trying to ‘overthrow the republic’ and ‘harm American citizens in a Marxist coup,’ as a means of delegitimizing it,” the Moonshot research states.

So labelling BLM Marxist means you are an extremist, even though the organisation’s own website displays objectives are unequivocally in line with neo-Marxism, and its founders have described themselves as ‘trained Marxists’.

Appearing on Tucker Carlson’s show Tuesday night, Vince Coglianese, the editorial director of The Daily Caller discussed the Moonshot contract with the Pentagon, and noted that there is a sustained move within the Biden government to label everything as domestic extremism.

“It’s completely out of control,” Coglianese said, noting “Asking questions, now extremism. Free inquiry, now extremism. It’s getting worse.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pentagon-reportedly-tracking-extremist-web-searches-including-truth-about-black-lives

Unknown Man on FBI Most Wanted List for Appearing in Child Porn Video, ID’d as a Cop

Picayune, MS — Several years ago, the FBI began a program called Endangered Child Alert Program (ECAP) as a means of identifying unknown child rapists who appear in child sexual exploitation videos or imagery. The FBI, in partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children work together to find and arrest these monsters who are apparently so brazen, they post their own sexual abuse of children on the internet.

ECAP uses images of the offenders’ faces and/or distinguishing characteristics that are visible in child pornography images to identify these assailants. The images are posted on the ECAP website and the predators are identified and prosecuted.

For the last five months, the FBI has been seeking the public’s assistance in obtaining identifying information on a John Doe, who appeared in a child sexual exploitation video. According to the FBI, the video was first recorded by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in February 2021. The EXIF data embedded within the video files indicated that the files were produced prior to November 2018.

According to the FBI, the John Doe was approximately a 30-40-year-old white male with light brown hair, who spoke English. The predator’s picture was posted to the ECAP website and soon after, this sicko was positively identified. He was a sergeant in the Picayune Police Department.

Sgt. Joshua Stockstill was fired last week just after being taken into custody by federal agents in connection to the aforementioned sexual exploitation investigation, according to Police Chief Freddy Drennan.

According to Assistant Chief James Bolton, Stockstill did not turn himself in but he would not release any further details.

“Once we learned that there was an investigation going on, the police department cooperated 100% with the investigation fully,” said Drennan.

According to authorities, the video in question involved Stockstill and an unknown child. No details about the level of abuse have been detailed, though sources say that at some point in the video he can be heard saying “9 years old.” However, we can assume that they were serious for Stockstill to be placed on the FBI’s most wanted list.

The FBI also stated that Stockstill “may have critical information pertaining to the identity of a child victim in an ongoing sexual exploitation investigation.”

A news release from NCMEC said:

“Every day, we analyze images of child sexual abuse with the hope of identifying a clue that will lead us to the location where a child is being abused. One of the most useful clues is when we find an adult face in the imagery. Law enforcement can make that information publicly available during their investigation.

“When Shelley’s team comes across CSAM with a visible face, like John Doe 44, they pass it along to the FBI’s Endangered Child Alert Program and to the Department of Homeland Security Investigations’ Operation Predator team. In some cases, law enforcement chooses to distribute the photo to the public with the hope that someone will recognize the individual.

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“ . . . In the case of John Doe 44, the plan worked. Within hours of the FBI releasing his photo to the public, he was identified and arrested.”

As this video was made over three years ago, there very well could be other victims. The FBI is urging anyone with information about this investigation or any others can submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov, or call the FBI’s toll-free tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324).

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/fbi-most-wanted-child-predator-cop/

Federal judge blocks Arkansas from enforcing near total ban on abortions

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the state of Arkansas from enforcing one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, a law the Republican governor previously said was intended as a direct challenge to the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision.

U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker, an Obama appointee, said the law was "categorically unconstitutional" in her court order issuing a preliminary injunction to prevent it from taking effect on July 28. The law would have banned all abortions in the state of Arkansas, including in cases of rape or incest, with the only exception being the rare instance when the life of the mother is in danger.

She said the plaintiffs, the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood, were "likely to succeed on the merits" of their argument that the Arkansas law bans abortions before the unborn child could survive outside the womb and is therefore unconstitutional given Supreme Court precedent.

"Defendants do not make any argument to the contrary and concede that plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits," Baker wrote. "Instead, defendants argue that Roe and Casey were wrongly decided and that there is no constitutional right to abortion. As a federal district court, this Court 'is bound by the Supreme Court's decisions in Casey.' Accordingly, the Act is categorically unconstitutional, and plaintiffs have demonstrated they are likely to succeed on the merits.

"Defendants make no argument as to whether or not plaintiffs or plaintiffs' patients will experience irreparable harm. Since the record at this stage of the proceedings indicates that women seeking abortions in Arkansas face an imminent threat to their constitutional rights, the court concludes that they will suffer irreparable harm without injunctive relief," she added.

The plaintiffs in the case applauded the decision.

"We're relieved that the court has blocked another cruel and harmful attempt to criminalize abortion care and intrude on Arkansans' deeply personal medical decisions," ACLU of Arkansas Executive Director Holly Dickson said, according to the Associated Press.

Brandon Hill, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, added the decision "demonstrates that the court fully understands the harmful and immediate effects this law would have on Arkansans."

Arkansas Republicans were clear that the intention of the near-total ban on abortions was to advance to the Supreme Court and directly challenge precedents establishing a constitutional right to abortion.

Speaking in March, Governor Asa Hutchinson (R) said the "whole design" of the law was to go before the Supreme Court after President Donald Trump appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy left by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which purportedly created a 6-3 conservative majority on the court.

"It is not constitutional under Supreme Court cases right now," Hutchinson said at the time. "I signed it because it is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. That was the intent of it."

Arkansas has enacted 20 pro-life laws this year, the most of any state since 1978.

In 2019, Hutchinson signed a law that would ban abortions in the event that Roe v. Wade is overturned. Another 2019 Arkansas law that would ban abortions after 18 weeks into a woman's pregnancy and ban selective abortions of unborn children diagnosed with Down syndrome was temporarily blocked in January amid an ongoing legal challenge.

In May, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging a Mississippi law that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with some exceptions. The expected landmark decision could determine whether it is legal to outlaw abortions before an unborn baby could survive outside the womb, which is generally considered to occur at 22 weeks or later.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-arkansas-abortion-ban

Mitch McConnell warns of lockdowns if COVID vaccine rates don’t increase

A fresh wave of pandemic lockdowns like the ones that crippled the country last year loom on the horizon if people don’t wise up and get vaccinated against COVID-19, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned.

“These shots need to get in everybody’s arms as rapidly as possible or we´re going to be back in a situation in the fall that we don’t yearn for — that we went through last year,” McConnell (R-Ky.) said at a news conference Tuesday, adding, “This is not complicated.”

Asked about comments from Utah Gov. Spencer Cox alleging that conservative pundits are killing people with their rhetoric, McConnell stated that he encourages everybody to “ignore all of these other voices that are giving demonstrably bad advice.”

McConnell’s call to seek trusted and verified information about the virus and vaccines mirrors White House efforts this past week to counter false information that they say is spreading on social media and cable news.

McConnell took to Twitter to promote his pro-vaccination remarks, tweeting a portion of them with the words “Get Vaccinated!” at the top of the tweet.

A new Axios Ipsos poll highlights the difficulties that government officials have had in convincing a significant segment of the American population to take the jab: Of the unvaccinated respondents to that poll, fully half said they are “not at all likely” to take it.

The minority leader’s statements come at a time when the Delta variant has led to a spike in COVID cases across the country, although without a corresponding increase in hospitalizations and deaths.

McConnell noted that among those who are currently hospitalized for COVID, 97 percent are unvaccinated.

“It never occurred to me that there would be difficulty getting Americans to get the shot,” he said.

Across the country, some businesses and schools are mulling making vaccination mandatory, but thus far the White House has balked at the notion of a federal mandate to take one of the three provisionally approved vaccines.

https://nypost.com/2021/07/21/mitch-mcconnell-urges-covid-19-vaccines-warns-of-lockdowns/

Wife Of GOP Congressman Called Supporters ‘Trump Cult’, Compared Trump To Hitler After Husband’s Impeachment Vote

Is this how the Republican from South Carolina really feels about his voters?

In an email obtained by National File, Wrenzie Rice, the wife of U.S. Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC), described supporters of President Donald Trump as members of the “Trump cult” and likened the 45th President to genocidal dictator Adolf Hitler, one of the most evil villains in history.

Just days after Rep. Tom Rice voted to impeach President Trump for his alleged role in the mostly peaceful protests that erupted at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, his wife received a note of support for her husband’s planned vote, and in response referred to President Trump’s supporters as the “Trump cult” and likened the 45th President to Hitler. Wrenzie Rice also promised that he would not waiver in his support for impeachment. National File also understands the person Wrenzie Rice communicated with was not a constituent of her husband. National File obtained the email from a senior South Carolina Republican Party official.

“Thank you [REDACTED],” wrote Wrenzie Rice. “Thank you for the nice note of support and encouragement. Tom has not waivered one bit on his vote, but the Trump cult runs strong. Sometimes I wonder if this is how Hitler came to power – we very much appreciate your prayers! Note will be sent to Tom. Thanks again, Wrenzie (his wife)”.

Tom Rice, who was one of only a handful of Republicans who voted to impeach the 45th President at his second impeachment trial, later defended his decision to vote to impeach President Trump in an interview with The Washington Post. “I took an oath to defend the Constitution. I didn’t take an oath to defend Donald Trump,” said Rice. The sitting House Representative went on to suggest that President Trump was behaving like a “dictator”, but unlike his wife, stopped short of comparing him to Hitler. “What he did in my mind is what dictators do,” said Rice.

Rep. Rice was censured by the South Carolina Republican Party for his vote to impeach President Trump only days after it was cast, with South Carolina GOP Chair Drew McKissick releasing a statement describing Rice as “disappointing the Party and our Seventh Congressional District.” McKissick added, “We made our disappointment clear the night of the impeachment vote. Trying to impeach a president, with a week left in his term, is never legitimate and is nothing more than a political kick on the way out the door.” He added, “Congressman Rice’s vote unfortunately played right into the Democrats’ game, and the people in his district, and ultimately our State Executive Committee, wanted him to know they wholeheartedly disagree with his decision.”

https://nationalfile.com/exclusive-wife-of-gop-congressman-called-supporters-trump-cult-compared-trump-to-hitler-after-husbands-impeachment-vote/

CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYER: Karen Fann Has Authority, With Arizona House, To Decertify Fraudulent Election

"We don't have to live with a fraudulent election."

Constitutional attorney John Eastman revealed a path for the Arizona State legislature to legally decertify a fraudulent election in Arizona. “We don’t have to live with a fraudulent election,” said Eastman on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast.

As it becomes clearer that the 2020 election in Arizona was likely fraudulent, as revealed by the forensic audit of Maricopa County that confirmed enough voting irregularities and evidence of fraud that have brought the original outcome of the election into question, all eyes are on Arizona Senate President Karen Fann. Even while Arizona state legislators continue their calls for the Arizona Senate to decertify the 2020 election due to the evidence of widespread of the voter fraud, Fann recently made a statement claiming that the Senate body doesn’t have the authority to do so. “The Senate body — we do not have the authority to do that. So, this is what we have said, and I want to make this very clear on the record,” Fann said. However, constitutional lawyer John Eastman went on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast to explain that “there is ample authority to fix this problem.”

“We are in uncharted territory, but there are a couple of things to point to,” began Eastman. “We can point to the Hawaii Election of 1960, when the Governor subsequently certified another slate of electors after they discovered error in the initial certification.” (READ MORE: Arizona Audit Finds Enough Tainted Ballots To Erase Biden’s Lead As Senators Call To Decertify Election)

“We can point to Section 2 of Title 3 of the United States Code that says when a state has had an election, and has failed to make a choice on the day prescribed by law, which is, you know, the choice that was made. The assumption was that it was fraudulently given because of illegal votes. The electors may be appointed on a subsequent day in such manner as the legislature of such state may direct,” Eastman continued. “So that recognizes the authority of the Legislature to fix a problem.

“We also have a backdrop of Common Law, which is, when you have a fraud, the actions taken pursuant to the fraud, are unraveled after discovery of the fraud. If the evidence really does come in as definitive, that the election and the electorals cast from Arizona were fraudulently given, and they should have been given in the other direction, then I think there is ample authority to fix this problem,” Eastman said. “We don’t have to live with a fraudulent election.”

https://nationalfile.com/constitutional-lawyer-karen-fann-has-authority-with-arizona-house-to-decertify-fraudulent-election/

Author of Retracted Study on Harm of Mask-Wearing by Children Says Removal Was ‘Political’

The lead author of a now-retracted research note that claimed children’s masks trapped dangerously high concentrations of carbon dioxide has said that JAMA Pediatrics’ decision to pull the paper was politically motivated.

The research note, “Experimental Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Content in Inhaled Air With or Without Face Masks in Healthy Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial,” authored by Harald Walach and colleagues, was published in June. Based on measurements of carbon dioxide in air inhaled by 45 children between six and 17 years of age, the study found that children wearing face masks were inhaling carbon dioxide levels “deemed unacceptable by the German Federal Environmental Office by a factor of 6.” The researchers concluded that their findings “suggest that children should not be forced to wear face masks.”

JAMA Pediatrics retracted the research letter on July 16. In a retraction notice, Dr. Dmitri Christakis and Dr. Phil Fontanarosa cited “numerous scientific issues” raised about the study methodology, including concerns whether the proper device was used to measure carbon dioxide levels and if the measurements were an accurate reflection of carbon dioxide levels in inhaled air, along with “issues related to the validity of the study conclusions.”

“In their invited responses to these and other concerns, the authors did not provide sufficiently convincing evidence to resolve these issues, as determined by editorial evaluation and additional scientific review,” Christakis and Pontanarosa wrote.

“Given fundamental concerns about the study methodology, uncertainty regarding the validity of the findings and conclusions, and the potential public health implications, the editors have retracted this Research Letter,” they added.

But Walach, who holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Basel, Switzerland, told Just The News in an emailed statement that JAMA did not specify how he failed “to provide sufficiently convincing evidence” to back his conclusions.

“I would actually also like to see how those conclusions were reached, but I am afraid that there was no solid conclusion,” he told the outlet. Walach pointed to “potential public health implications” as a “key phrase” in the retraction notice that, to him, suggests “the retraction was political, because some people did not like our data.”

Walach’s study has, thus far, drawn 21 official comments, most of which are critical. In a written response to the comments (docx), Walach and colleagues defended their research.

“Facts are not constituted by single studies, but by multiple replications and discourse,” they wrote. “This is the first peer-reviewed study of carbon dioxide content under face masks in children in a short measurement set-up. The measurements, we contend, are valid and were conducted by individuals with high content expertise.”

“If someone doubts our results, the way to go is not to claim they are wrong without proof, but to produce better and different results,” they added.

https://www.ntd.com/author-of-retracted-study-on-harm-of-mask-wearing-by-children-says-removal-was-political_646619.html

Black Rifle Coffee CEO Hafer NEVER Donated to Trump, Gave Maximum to Loeffler and Perdue After 2020 Election

Evan Hafer's donation history has been revealed by National File, following an interview where he described America First supporters as "repugnant" racists

Evan Hafer, CEO and co-founder of Black Rifle Coffee, never donated to President Trump, with his 2020 election donations all coming after the presidential election, giving thousands to the doomed Georgia Senate campaigns of Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.

Black Rifle Coffee, the supposedly pro-America, pro-military coffee company, has come under fire in recent days for attacking their customer base. Evan Hafer and Mat Best, the CEO and Executive VP respectively, were interviewed for a ~10,000 word piece for the New York Times last week, and railed in the interview about customers who claimed they were “racist,” including the multi-racial Proud Boys organization, swearing repeatedly, and describing America First supporters as being “repugnant.”

Following the interview, National File revealed that a number of their high-ranking employees, including those with editorial control over their magazine and social media, had repeatedly donated to the Democrats. Donna Ng, the “Copy Chief” at Black Rifle Coffee’s magazine, gave $500 directly to Joe Biden, while their social media manager, Ayse Altunisik, their VP of IT, Chris Omer, and a senior financial analyst, David Rhee, all donated to ActBlue,a Democrat group that helps Democrat candidates and leftist organizations raise money online.

National File further decided to look into the FEC records of Hafer himself. While Hafer did not give money to Biden or to Democrats via ActBlue or similar organizations, they will likely still make disappointing reading for many of Black Rifle Coffee’s customers. Despite building the branding of Black Rifle Coffee on Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda, Hafer never gave money to him during either of his presidential campaigns. This may not have surprised some, given during his New York Times interview, he described himself as “a man without a party,” with the article noting that he was “reluctant to say much positive” about President Trump.

In fact, the only presidential candidate that Hafer ever donated to was Tulsi Gabbard, giving $500 to the anti-establishment Democrat challenger in November 2019. Hafer did not donate at all to Republicans during the 2020 election cycle, and instead only kicked off his spending three days after the presidential election had actually taken place, giving $120 to WinRed, the Republican version of ActBlue.

Hafer also wrote the company name for these donations as “BRCC,” rather than “Black Rifle Coffee,” something no other employee of the comapny had done previously. Searching purely for “Black Rifle Coffee” or any variants thereof into the FEC records would not display these donations. Hafer’s last donations on record amounted to a total of $8400 on December 3rd, spread across WinRed, the Senate Georgia Battleground Fund, and the election campaigns for Loeffler and Perdue directly. It is unclear exactly why Hafer pumped so much money into what many on the right saw as a clearly losing battle.

https://nationalfile.com/exclusive-black-rifle-coffee-ceo-hafer-never-donated-to-trump-gave-maximum-to-loeffler-and-perdue-after-2020-election/

Donald Trump to Michael Savage: ‘Collusive’ Media Backing Joe Biden Marks the ‘Beginning of Communism’

Former President Donald Trump blasted the media Tuesday for their “collusive” relationship with President Joe Biden and the Democrats.

“It’s collusive. Nobody’s seen anything like it,” Trump said, referring to the media’s flattering coverage of Biden’s administration in contrast with their uncharitable analysis of his own.

The former president spoke during an interview on the Michael Savage Show.

He noted that, during the 2020 election, corporate media outlets declared certain subjects off-limits.

“That is the beginning of communism,” Trump said. “That really is, literally … communism.”

He noted that under Biden, the media ignored issues of illegal immigrants and criminals flooding into the country, open borders, inflation, and other issues.

“Frankly if you look at the media. Where the media is a closed media. We don’t have an open free media anymore,” he said. “They don’t want to hear anything; they don’t write about it.”

Trump voiced disappointment that Biden was pushing the country to the left, despite having no electoral mandate for doing so.

He blamed the corporate media for failing to hold Biden accountable.

“The press and the media and the big tech of course … the press is just, they just play right into the hands, they just won’t talk about it,” he said.

Trump accused the establishment media of deliberately ignoring bad stories about Biden’s presidency.

“You could find the worse things ever with regard to the other side. They will never write about it. It’s unbelievable,” he said.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2021/07/21/donald-trump-michael-savage-collusive-media-backing-joe-biden-marks-beginning-communism/

GOP Excoriates Antony Blinken for Requesting Probe on U.S. Racism by Pro-Critical Race Theory U.N. Envoy

Members of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) slammed Secretary of State Antony Blinken for inviting a pro-Critical Race Theory (CRT) United Nations envoy to investigate human rights abuses in America, Breitbart News learned Monday.

In a bid to combat what Blinken describes as U.S. failures at home, the secretary extended unrequested invitations last Tuesday to two U.N. experts, one on racism and the other on minority issues, to make an official U.S. visit and scrutinize America’s human rights record.

The State Department added that the Biden administration would issue a standing invitation to all U.N. envoys, known as special rapporteurs, who investigate human rights issues, including racism and discrimination, and report back to the international body.

CRT and open borders proponent E. Tendayi Achiume, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), is the U.N. Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism.

She will join the U.N. Special Rapporteur on minority issues during the official U.S. visit, drawing the ire of 25 members of the Republican Study Committee, including Chairman Jim Banks of Indiana. The GOP lawmakers voiced their concerns and demanded to know why Blinken chose the pro-CRT envoy to conduct the probe in a letter sent to the secretary of state Monday. Breitbart News obtained the letter.

The Biden administration is expected to grant the U.N. officials free rein to investigate human rights abuses in America.

Achiume’s U.S.-based work and residence coupled with her “troubling history of radical views and rhetoric rooted in racial reductionism” prevent her from providing an unbiased outsider’s perspective, the letter asserted.

Blinken’s request for Achiume to participate in the U.N.’s racism investigation comes as the battle over CRT in schools has triggered nationwide tension. The Biden administration has also been trying to impose the CRT doctrine on U.S. troops and government workers.

Republicans found it disturbing that Blinken would task a proponent of the Critical Race Theory with “supporting human rights and equal dignity for all Americans.”

CRT, which many critics describe as “Marxist ideology,” claims that all U.S. institutions — government, economy, and culture — are inherently racist, with white people on top and black Americans at the bottom.

Under scrutiny, even that which appears race-neutral is racist, the CRT theory promoted by many on the left asserts.

The letter from the members of the conservative House caucus noted:

In our view, her involvement is likely to sow division and distorted accounts of American history. … With her anti-constitutional and anti-American views … already so well-established, it is impossible for Ms. Achiume to be objective in her analysis.

Achiume has also come out in support of open borders, asserting that countries like the U.S. must allow all migrants in due to its legacy of colonialism, the GOP lawmakers pointed out.

The Republican congressmen blasted Blinken’s global human rights priorities as misguided for focusing on America’s human rights challenges rather than more pressing issues across the world.

“Your invitation of Ms. Achiume suggests that you are more concerned about American self-flagellation than you are about those men and women facing oppression overseas,” they wrote.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/21/gop-excoriates-antony-blinken-requesting-probe-us-racism-pro-critical-race-theory-un-envoy/

Communist China ‘Directly Threatening’ Former Conservative Party Leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith

The former leader of the British Conservative Party, Sir Iain Duncan Smith claimed that he is being directly threatened by Communist China as a result of his work to expose the malign influence of the brutal regime in Beijing.

The former Tory leader told Parliament that he has been made aware of intelligence from the Five Eyes (the intelligence-sharing network comprised of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the U.S.) which warned that members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) are being targetted by the communist nation for cyberattacks.

Speaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Sir Iain Duncan Smith said: “I understand now there is intelligence from the Five Eyes sources that there is now a very active and direct threat from the Chinese government aimed directly at the co-chairs of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.

“Some of these co-chairs, of which I am one, have now been warned by their intelligence services in receipt of this that they should be very careful and that they will be supported.”

Sir Iain, who was among ten British individuals and organisations to be sanctioned earlier this year by Beijing for supporting sanctions against Chinese officials involved in the persecution of the Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang, made the comments amid discussion surrounding allegations from the UK, the United States and others that China was behind a cyberattack on Microsoft.

The Chinese embassy in London denied involvement in the hack, saying: “The accusation against China by the UK side is sheer fabrication and slander. The Chinese side is gravely concerned and strongly opposed to this. We call on the UK side to immediately stop echoing the groundless and irresponsible accusation against China.”

While activists and students in the UK have reported being threatened and intimidated by Chinese actors, the alleged threats made against Sir Iain and other members of the IPAC represent a marked escalation in the confrontation with the authoritarian state.

Speaking to Breitbart London, the founder and chairman of Hong Kong Watch, Benedict Rogers said: “These threats reveal just what a present and growing danger the Chinese Communist Party regime is to the world, and to freedom everywhere.”

Mr Rogers, who also serves as an advisor to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, told Breitbart London of his own experiences with threats from the communist regime.

“In a very small way, I have had my own experiences of attempts at intimidation and harassment, including receiving threatening letters by mail to my home, similar letters sent to my neighbours in my street in London asking them to ‘watch’ me, and letters to my mother in a different part of the country urging her to tell me to stop my human rights advocacy work,” Rogers said.

“I also know of at least four occasions when four separate Members of Parliament were directly lobbied by the Chinese Embassy in London to ask them to shut me up,” the Hong Kong Watch founder added.

“In my case, they tried the old-fashioned way, through the mail and attempts to influence MPs.

“Now they are behaving in a more sophisticated but even more dangerous and sinister way, threatening cyber-security. This cannot be ignored, nor can it be met merely with condemnation.

“The free world must unite and take robust action to stop this reckless behaviour and hold the perpetrators to account.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/07/21/communist-china-directly-threatening-former-conservative-party-leader-sir-iain-duncan-smith/

UK Microchip Plant Taken over by Communist China Was Developing British Military Tech: Report

The UK’s largest microchip factory, which has been taken over by a firm backed by Communist China, has reportedly received millions in funding from the British government, including military research grants.

Newport Wafer Fab (NWF), which was forced into selling its factory to Chinese-owned Nexperia after failing to meet its debt obligations earlier this month, has been reported to have been granted large-scale contracts from the British government’s innovation agency, Innovate UK.

A whistleblower told CNBC that the semiconductor firm had received around £55 million ($75 million) to develop next-generation technologies, including defence contracts.

“I don’t think anybody realized that there were a couple of defence-related projects in there,” the source told the news outlet.

One of the contracts is said to have been a £5.4 million joint project with Cardiff University to develop radar systems for fighter jets.

The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Tory MP Tom Tugendhat, said: “Britain has paid for the research that makes Newport Wafer Fab a key partner in a U.K. government defence project. That’s why we need a complete review of the decision on national security grounds, including asking why the deal was initially waved through.”

Mr Tugendhat added: “The U.K. and Welsh governments have spent tens of millions of pounds supporting compound semiconductor innovation in Wales — with NWF at the heart.

“While there’s a global shortage, and Beijing has hopes to dominate the market, we need to be much clearer about our interests, not just company profits or rivals’ opportunities.”

In 2019, the Dutch-based but Chinese-owned Nexperia entered into a contract with Newport Wafer Fab to support the firm in exchange for the British microchip putting up its factory as collateral.

NWF reportedly attempted to raise the funds necessary to remain free from Chinese control earlier this year. However, they were unable to meet the terms of the contract and therefore had to cede control of their facility in Wales.

Under the terms of the contract, Nexperia, which already held some stake in the firm, only had to pay out £63 million in order to take over the factory.

An analyst at research firm Forrester, Glenn O’Donnell, said that the price tag for such a factory is “minuscule”, saying: “Most wafer fabs cost well over £1 billion. Even if this is older tech, this deal is ridiculously cheap.”

Following widespread backlash and concern expressed about Communist China taking control of what many would consider a critical technology factory, Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a review of the sale under national security laws.

“We have to judge whether the stuff that they are making is of real intellectual property value and interest to China, whether there are real security implications,” Johnson said.

Yet on Thursday, the Under-Secretary of State for Science, Research and Innovation Amanda Solloway said that the government is not currently planning on intervening to block the sale as it is not believed to be of national security concern.

“It is right that commercial transactions are primarily a matter for the parties involved. The government has been in close contact with Newport Wafer Fab but it does not consider it appropriate to intervene in this case at the current time,” Solloway said.

While the review has not been concluded, a Nexperia flag has already been hoisted above the factory’s entrance.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/07/21/uk-microchip-plant-bought-by-china-developed-military-tech-report/

18,928 DEAD, 1.8 Million Injured (50% SERIOUS) Reported in European Union’s Database of Adverse Drug Reactions for COVID-19 Shots

As many countries around the world now begin another round of lockdowns, and take steps to cut off citizens from social life if they do not consent to receive one of the deadly COVID-19 shots and carry around some kind of identification that marks them as “vaccinated,” (See: Mapping Tyranny: The Countries Where Vaccination Is Mandatory) the death tolls following these injections continue to rapidly increase.

Yesterday we reported about an alleged whistleblower with the U.S. CDC who is claiming that there have been at least 45,000 deaths reported within 3 days of receiving the injections, and that this information is being suppressed. See:

Attorney Files Lawsuit Against CDC Based on “Sworn Declaration” from Whistleblower Claiming 45,000 Deaths are Reported to VAERS – All Within 3 Days of COVID-19 Shots

And yet, most people around the world still seem to be completely ignorant regarding how many deaths following COVID-19 injections are actually being recorded by government health agencies, as the corporate media around the world for the most part is not allowed to cover these verifiable statistics showing unprecedented amounts of deaths and crippling injuries following these shots, all of which are still in the experimental phase and have not even completed Phase 3 trials yet.

What we are witnessing is quite clearly a worldwide genocide and the implementation of a plan to reduce the world’s population.

Never before in modern, or even ancient history, have governments around the world acted in unison to force a medical procedure upon all their populations, and silence all dissenters who try to sound the warning alarm, which include tens of thousands of doctors and scientists.

The European Union database of suspected drug reaction reports is EudraVigilance, and they are now reporting 18,928 fatalities, and 1,823,219 injuries, following COVID-19 injections.

A Health Impact News subscriber from Europe reminded us that this database maintained at EudraVigilance is only for countries in Europe who are part of the European Union (EU), which comprises 27 countries.

The total number of countries in Europe is much higher, almost twice as many, numbering around 50. (There are some differences of opinion as to which countries are technically part of Europe.)

So as high as these numbers are, they do NOT reflect all of Europe. The actual number in Europe who are reported dead or injured due to COVID-19 shots would be much higher than what we are reporting here.

The EudraVigilance database reports that through July 17, 2021 there are 18,928 deaths and 1,823,219 injuries reported following injections of four experimental COVID-19 shots:

COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE MODERNA (CX-024414)

COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE PFIZER-BIONTECH

COVID-19 VACCINE ASTRAZENECA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19)

COVID-19 VACCINE JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S)

From the total of injuries recorded, half of them (904,609) are serious injuries.

“Seriousness provides information on the suspected undesirable effect; it can be classified as ‘serious’ if it corresponds to a medical occurrence that results in death, is life-threatening, requires inpatient hospitalisation, results in another medically important condition, or prolongation of existing hospitalisation, results in persistent or significant disability or incapacity, or is a congenital anomaly/birth defect.”

A Health Impact News subscriber in Europe ran the reports for each of the four COVID-19 shots we are including here. This subscriber has volunteered to do this, and it is a lot of work to tabulate each reaction with injuries and fatalities, since there is no place on the EudraVigilance system we have found that tabulates all the results.

Since we have started publishing this, others from Europe have also calculated the numbers and confirmed the totals.*

Here is the summary data through July 17, 2021.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/18928-dead-1-8-million-injured-50-serious-reported-in-european-unions-database-of-adverse-drug-reactions-for-covid-19-shots/5750722

Grocery Prices Could Rise 10 to 14 Percent By October, Grocery Chain CEO Warns

American families are already struggling amid mounting price inflation that’s eating away at their budgets, with higher costs for housing, vehicles, and more. Yet a top CEO is warning that the growing inflation problem facing Americans could get much worse in the coming months.

The latest June data already show price inflation at a 13-year high, with prices having risen 5.4 percent year-over-year. Proponents of the big-government policies driving much of this increase insist the uptick in prices is only temporary. But billionaire and grocery chain CEO John Catsimatidis just predicted that overall price inflation, for consumer goods generally, will hit a 6 percent annualized rate by October.

In an interview with Fox Business, the CEO warned that his industry is seeing skyrocketing costs on the supply chain side, and that businesses will have to raise prices for consumers as a result.

“Food prices are getting higher, and we expect even more increases by October,” Catsimatidis said. “You have to pass [those extra costs] on [to consumers] or you’re not doing your duty to God, your country, your employees, and your company.”

While we can’t know for certain, Catsimatidis said rising costs could mean an astounding 10 to 14 percent specific increase in grocery prices by October. That’s truly a shocking amount. But this warning offers more than insight into the grocery industry. It’s a painful reminder of how price inflation hurts everyday Americans.

When we hear terms like “Consumer Price Index” or “expansionary monetary policy,” the conversation surrounding inflation quickly becomes inaccessible for many people, whose eyes understandably glaze over amid discussion of the abstract-seeming phenomenon. But at its core, price inflation is simply a question of our purchasing power being eroded. Because what really matters is not the number on our paychecks, it’s what that number can buy us.

So, Americans should react to a 6 percent rise in consumer prices just as vociferously as they would react to having their salary cut. It’s essentially the same thing.

And, as we’ve previously explained here at FEE, consumer price inflation can ultimately be traced back to the policy decisions made by the federal government. So, don’t let them off the hook when your grocery bills start to spiral upwards. Remember whose fault it really is.

https://www.activistpost.com/2021/07/grocery-prices-could-rise-10-to-14-percent-by-october-grocery-chain-ceo-warns.html

Youngest ever FBI informant 'White Boy Rick', 52, files $100M lawsuit against the feds and Detroit Police for child abuse claiming he was coerced into aiding cops with drug busts when he was 14

A Michigan man whose decades in prison for drug dealing and work as an informant inspired the movie White Boy Rick has filed a lawsuit seeking $100 million in damages, claiming he was coerced into helping cops while just a helpless teenager.

Richard Wershe Jr., now 52, served roughly 30 years in prison in Michigan before his release in 2017, followed by a few more years in a Florida prison.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Detroit, comes on the first anniversary of his release from a Florida prison in 2020 for an unrelated crime.

Wershe's lawsuit alleges his troubles in the 1980s were related to the pressures of pleasing local cops and federal agents who used him as an informant, sending him into drug dens and abandoning him when he got in legal trouble.

'The justice system hasn´t been fair to me over the last 33 years,' Wershe said. 'This needed to be done. The truth absolutely needed to be told. … Everything that we say will be backed up by documents and FBI agents.'

His attorney, Nabih Ayad, acknowledged that Detroit and others named in the lawsuit will likely argue that Wershe's constitutional claims are too old to bring to court.

'This is a unique case,' the suit reads. 'Our Constitution, our justice system, and God-given right to all humanity calls on this court to finally bring justice to a man whose life has been taken from him at the tender age of 14 all the way up to 51 years of age.'

Detroit police spokesman Rudy Harper declined to comment, saying the department hasn't seen the lawsuit.

The lawsuit, broken into 'chapters,' reads like an autobiographic retelling of the story detailed in the 2018 American biographical crime drama film White Boy Rick starring Matthew McConaughey and Richie Merritt. The title referred to Wershe's nickname in his younger days, a nickname he dislikes.

The film, which received a score of 57% on Rotten Tomatoes, follows young Wershe as an FBI informant before he 'gets in too deep' and 'finds himself seduced by the lure of easy money and becomes a drug dealer himself,' according to its summary.

Wershe's saga began in the 1980's when his sister started dating a known drug dealer and his father contacted the FBI to ask for help getting the drug dealer out of her life, according to the lawsuit.

FBI Agent James Jim Dixon met with Wershe's father at a McDonalds In 1984 and agreed to help the family if his father could identify people in photographs the agent had brought with him to the restaurant.

Wershe, who was at the meeting with his father, helped Dixon identify most of the people in the photographs because he knew of them from neighborhood gossip, according to the lawsuit.

Dixon was allegedly impressed with Wershe, who was then just 14. Just days after the meeting, the FBI agent allegedly drove up alongside the young teen as he walked home from school and told the boy to get in his car.

Wershe 'felt compelled to do as he was told by this law enforcement agent, a figurative and literal authority figure' and continued to 'comply' with demands from Dixon, the lawsuit alleges.

'Mr. Dixon's unannounced visits with [Wershe] quickly became a regular occurrence, occurring dozens of times over the course of the next several months,' the lawsuit reads.

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2021/07/youngest-ever-fbi-informant-white-boy.html

Apple under pressure over iPhone security after NSO spyware claims

Apple urged to work with rivals after alleged surveillance of journalists, activists.

Apple has come under pressure to collaborate with its Silicon Valley rivals to fend off the common threat of surveillance technology after a report alleged that NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware was used to target journalists and human rights activists.

Amnesty International, which analyzed dozens of smartphones targeted by clients of NSO, said Apple’s marketing claims about its devices’ superior security and privacy had been “ripped apart” by the discovery of vulnerabilities in even the most recent versions of its iPhones and iOS software.

“Thousands of iPhones have potentially been compromised,” said Danna Ingleton, deputy director of Amnesty’s tech unit. “This is a global concern—anyone and everyone is at risk, and even technology giants like Apple are ill-equipped to deal with the massive scale of surveillance at hand.”

Security researchers said Apple could do more to tackle the problem by working with other tech companies to share details about vulnerabilities and vet their software updates.

“Apple unfortunately does a poor job at that collaboration,” said Aaron Cockerill, chief strategy officer at Lookout, a mobile security provider. He described iOS as a “black box” compared with Google’s Android, where he said it was “much easier to identify malicious behavior."

Amnesty worked with the journalism nonprofit group Forbidden Stories and 17 media partners on the “Pegasus Project” to identify alleged targets of surveillance.

NSO, which has said its technology was designed to target only criminal or terrorist suspects, described the Pegasus Project’s claims as “false allegations” and “full of wrong assumptions and uncorroborated theories."

Amnesty’s research found that several attempts to steal data and eavesdrop on iPhones had been made through Apple’s iMessage using so-called zero-click attacks, which do not require the user to open a link.

Bill Marczak, research fellow at Citizen Lab, a nonprofit group that has extensively documented NSO’s tactics, said Amnesty’s findings suggested that Apple had a “major blinking red five-alarm-fire problem with iMessage security."

A similar kind of zero-click Pegasus attack was identified using Facebook-owned WhatsApp messenger in 2019.

Will Cathcart, head of WhatsApp, called the latest disclosures a “wake-up call for security on the Internet.” In a series of tweets, he pointed to steps taken by tech companies including Google, Microsoft, and Cisco that have sought to push back against Pegasus and other commercial spyware tools.

But Apple, with whom Facebook has a long-running feud over the iPhone’s privacy controls, was absent from his list of collaborators.

“We need more companies, and, critically, governments, to take steps to hold NSO Group accountable,” Cathcart said.

While Apple does “a great job protecting consumers,” said Lookout’s Cockerill, it “should be more collaborative with firms like my own” to protect against attacks such as Pegasus.

“The big difference between Apple and Google is transparency,” Cockerill said.

Apple insisted that it did collaborate with external security researchers but chose not to publicize the activities, which included paying out millions of dollars a year in “security bounty” rewards for spotting vulnerabilities and providing its hardware to researchers.

“For over a decade, Apple has led the industry in security innovation and, as a result, security researchers agree iPhone is the safest, most secure consumer mobile device on the market,” Apple said in a statement.

“Attacks like the ones described are highly sophisticated, cost millions of dollars to develop, often have a short shelf life and are used to target specific individuals,” Apple continued. “While that means they are not a threat to the overwhelming majority of our users, we continue to work tirelessly to defend all our customers, and we are constantly adding new protections for their devices and data.”

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/07/apple-under-pressure-over-iphone-security-after-nso-spyware-claims/

Israeli firm NSO Group spent millions trying to woo the US government and gave huge payments to Washington lobbyists, consultants and lawyers to push its Pegasus spyware software before it was used to hack reporters' phones

The Pegasus Project revealed that NSO Group tapped some of Washington's most influential figures to burnish its image

They included Michael Flynn in the months before he became President Trump's national security adviser

And Rod Rosenstein advised it on a legal case after leaving his post as deputy attorney general

Details emerged amid continuing fall-out from news that the cyberintelligence company helped governments spy on opponents and journalists

NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio said the claims were 'concerning' and that it was investigating the allegations

Amnesty International and a consortium of media outlets published claims on Sunday that foreign governments were using its software to hack phones

They compiled a list of 50,000 phone numbers that might have been hacked

Ethics filings and company records show how the Israeli cyberintelligence company NSO Group spent millions of dollars on Washington lobbyists, consultants and lawyers as it tried to sell its Pegasus spyware to the U.S. government.

Its parent companies paid $100,000 to Michael Flynn before he became President Trump's national security adviser; it took on the public relations firm cofounded by Anita Dunn, a senior White House adviser; and it relied on the legal and consulting services of a slew of figures with government experience, according to new reports.

The company's activities have exploded into public view during the past week with revelations from a media coalition, called the Pegasus Project, that its software was used by governments to spy on political opponents and journalists

Now it has emerged in the Washington Post that NSO, its founders or allied companies hired some of Washington's most prominent names as they tried to secure government contracts.

The include former heads of the Homeland Security and Justice departments as well as some of the city's most powerful public-relations and law firms.

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In a statement through lawyers Clare Locke, NSO said: 'NSO does not operate the systems that it sells to vetted government customers, and does not have access to the data of its customers’ targets.

'NSO does not operate its technology, does not collect, nor possesses, nor has any access to any kind of data of its customers.

'Due to contractual and national security considerations, NSO cannot confirm or deny the identity of our government customers, as well as identity of customers of which we have shut down systems.'

It also said its software had 'nothing to do' with Jamal Khashoggi's murder, despite Amnesty International claiming it has proof his widow's phone was hacked using Pegasus after his death.

'NSO Group is on a life-saving mission, and the company will faithfully execute this mission undeterred, despite any and all continued attempts to discredit it on false grounds,' it said.

Foreign governments including India, Rwanda and Morocco have all denied using the software to collect data on targets.

Others targeted include several Arab royal family members, 65 Business executives, 85 human rights activists, 189 journalists including a 'small number from' CNN, the Associated Press, Voice of America, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Le Monde in France, the Financial Times in London and Al Jazeera in Qatar.

Some of the reporters are named Financial Times editor Roula Khalaf, Siddharth Varadarajan and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta from Indian news site Wire Omar Radi, a Moroccan journalist, Mexican freelance journalist Cecilio Pineda Birto and Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova.

In 2019, NSO Group reportedly contracted the SKDK - a PR firm run by Anita Dunn, one of President Biden's advisers.

She did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's inquiries about the scope of her work with the firm.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9806709/NSO-Group-spent-millions-Washington-lobbyists-woo-government-pushed-Pegasus-spyware.html

Hunter Biden was arranging for VP Joe to quit politics and start a DC 'swamp' consultancy firm together, raising MORE questions over President's claim that he has never discussed business with his son

Emails obtained from Hunter Biden's laptop show Joe Biden planned to join a law and consultancy firm with his sons Hunter and Beau

Hunter discussed the proposed firm in a November 2014 email with his business partner and Biden family friend Jeff Cooper

The plans were thwarted by Beau's tragic death in 2015 from brain cancer

The emails suggest that Joe Biden might have quit politics and entered the DC 'swamp' of politically-tied lawyers and highly-paid consultants and lobbyists

President Biden has often decried the DC 'swamp' in his speeches

Even deeper financial ties between Joe and Hunter were revealed this month, when emails emerged showing that he paid many of his father's bills

Joe Biden had plans to join a law and consultancy firm with his sons Hunter and Beau in 2014, halfway through his second term as vice president, emails reveal.

Hunter discussed the proposed firm in a November 2014 email with his business partner and Biden family friend Jeff Cooper, a lawyer and entrepreneur.

The plans were thwarted by Beau's tragic death in 2015 from brain cancer, setting the whole family on a drastically different path.

Had Beau not passed away, the emails suggest that Joe Biden might have quit politics and entered the DC 'swamp' of politically-tied lawyers and highly-paid consultants and lobbyists – a world he has decried in speeches.

The email also raises questions over the president's claim that he never discussed business with Hunter.

This claim has come under increasing scrutiny after emails from Hunter's abandoned laptop revealed multiple instances where Joe appeared to be involved in business meetings relating to Hunter – both during his tenure as vice president and after he left office.

A now-infamous email between Hunter and his business partners in a multi-million-dollar deal with Chinese oil giant CEFC, consultant James Gilliar set out potential terms of the deal and listed '10 held by H for the big guy?'

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9780397/Hunter-Biden-planning-Joe-quit-politics-join-DC-swamp-lobbying-firm.html

Oliver Stone’s new JFK assassination doc is being ignored by the MSM… a sure sign he might be onto something

The establishment media is celebrating odd, sexually charged movies at the Cannes Film Festival – yet won’t even acknowledge Oliver Stone’s foray back into the troubling case of President John F. Kennedy’s murder. I wonder why?

Last week, Oliver Stone premiered his new documentary about the Kennedy assassination titled ‘JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass’, at the Cannes festival.

You’d think that Stone, the polarizing, two-time Best Director Academy Award winner, whose filmJFK created such a furor it led to the US government passing the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, premiering a controversial JFK assassination documentary at Cannes would be very big news. You’d be wrong.

The New York Times’ vast coverage of Cannes consisted of 11 articles, most focusing on the more salacious content, such as ‘Benedetta’, a steamy story about lesbian nuns, ‘Annette’, a musical where Adam Driver sings while performing oral sex on Marion Cotillard, and ‘Titane’, where a woman has sex with a car and lactates oil. But not once has ‘JFK Revisited’ been mentioned in the supposed ‘paper of record’.

The same is true of the Washington Post, Boston Globe, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, the Guardian, the Atlantic, the New Yorker and every mainstream outlet I searched, as none of them acknowledge ‘JFK Revisited’exists at all.

The only media mentions I found were in trade papers likeVariety and the Hollywood Reporter, and in the British press, in the Times and Daily Telegraph. Their reaction to the film was split, with Variety and The Times giving negative reviews and THR and the Daily Telegraph praising it.

Considering that Cuba, intelligence agency nefariousness, and conspiracy theories are making headlines, and that the small critical assessment of the documentary is split, it’s curious that the media is maintaining the status quo by endorsing sexual depravity at Cannes instead of pursuing truth by debating ‘JFK Revisited’.

I’m kidding, of course. It’s no surprise that the American myth-making media who bequeath to us the official narrative from which ‘respectable’ people will never deviate, are tossing ‘JFK Revisited’ down the memory hole and lavishing praise on horny nuns and coital Cadillacs.

You see, the establishment loves to distract the masses and hate conspiracies – except for the ones they love.

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https://www.rt.com/op-ed/529754-stone-documentary-jfk-cuba/

“DELTA VARIANT” Spreads Via The Vaccinated: DUTCH MSM

Okay so we know COVID19 is BS, PCR tests are a fraud in this light and people have been suppressed with fear.

But if there’s anything more confusing it’s MSM papers.

” Once again, virologists are alarmed. The delta variant is so contagious that people who have already been fully vaccinated can also pass on the virus. This could have ‘major consequences’ for policy, the scientists warn.

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Fully vaccinated Americans are SPREADING covid’s delta variant, health expert warns

Public health experts are claiming that fully vaccinated Americans are helping spread the post-vaccine delta variant of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19).

Many states with high vaccination rates are reporting sharp surges in COVID-19 cases. The delta variant makes up around half of all active cases. Despite this, many so-called public health experts are still encouraging people to get vaccinated to curb transmission.

Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, believes one possible way the delta variant is spreading is being overlooked: with the help of vaccinated individuals.

The current policy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that vaccinated people not be tested for COVID-19 unless they are symptomatic. To Murray, this indicates that the CDC’s data does not show the true extent of the delta variant’s spread.

“We actually have states where hospitalizations are going up more than cases,” said Murray, noting that state-level coronavirus data shows that the delta variant has spread rapidly across the country.

“We have 14 states where transmission has started to go back up” due to the delta variant, said Murray. Additional data shows that 16 other states are seeing a rise in their number of COVID-19 infections.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/delta-variant-spreads-via-the-vaccinated-dutch-msm/

A Brief History of the Asbestos Industry's Great Cover-up

Commercials for mesothelioma often promote one thing: the $30 billion compensation fund for victims of asbestos. These commercials air so often that it’s easy to overlook how unique it was that a trust fund had to be established for victims of mesothelioma at all, let alone one so large.

What exactly happened that was so egregious that the courts mandated such a large and unprecedented source of compensation for victims?

The general outline of the story is well known: asbestos was used for decades in many industries until its full danger become known to the public and former employees began pursuing compensation en masse and effectively forced companies out of business. But the details of a decades long cover-up by the asbestos industry has faded with the passage of time.

"In the United States, doctors observed lung scarring in asbestos-factory workers as early as 1917."

To understand why an unprecedented fund for compensation was established for past victims of asbestos-related diseases like mesothelioma — and the thousands who don’t even know yet that they’re sick — it’s critical to understand the scope of the cover-up perpetrated by the asbestos industry.

Today, in recognition of Mesothelioma Awareness Day, we dive into one of the biggest cover-ups of the century.

Asbestos: A Century Old Killer

The health problems associated with asbestos in modern times can be traced back more than 100 years. Among the earliest contemporary findings about the dangers of asbestos came in 1900, when a physician in London discovered asbestos fibers in the lungs of a 33-year-old textile worker who had died of severe pulmonary fibrosis, according to the Environmental Working Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment.

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In the United States, doctors observed lung scarring in asbestos-factory workers as early as 1917. The following year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published a report by an insurance statistician that noted asbestos workers died unusually early. The report also revealed it had become routine for insurers to deny coverage to workers because of the "assumed health-injurious conditions" in the asbestos industry.

"…just as certain as death and taxes is the fact that if you inhale asbestos dust you get asbestosis."

The evidence that asbestos was dangerous to those who handled it would continue to mount.

In 1927, the first workers’ compensation disability claim for asbestos-related health issues was upheld in Massachusetts. Soon after, a case of lung issues related to asbestos was discussed in the medical journal Minnesota Medicine.

By then, the ill effects of asbestos on those who handled it were clear to both insurers and asbestos manufacturers. In fact, the use of asbestos was in sharp decline prior to World War II. However, when the war began, asbestos use recovered and reached new heights that wouldn’t recede until the industry collapsed in the 1970s and ‘80s.

https://www.forthepeople.com/blog/brief-history-asbestos-industrys-great-cover/

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How Facebook Is Taking Over Journalism With $1.6 Billion Secret Deals

There aren’t many companies that can say they’ve poured hundreds of millions into journalism in the last few years. Facebook has — $600 million over since 2018 — and it is promising another $1 billion in the next three years.

Yet when surveying those around the journalism and media world, the jury is still out on whether and how much Facebook’s funding is helping its stakeholders — or merely buying good PR.

A Wrap inquiry into the details of the $600 million found that many of those dollars are hard to track, except in the most general terms. When broken down into the main categories mostly based in the U.S., TheWrap could only specifically verify the expenditure of roughly $122 million — barely one-quarter of the pledged sum — begging the question: Where is the money going?

In addition to donating heavily to nonprofits and paying small grants to local newspapers (see graphic), Facebook pays rich licensing fees to a handful of premium publishers, like The New York Times, The Washington Post, News Corp, Bloomberg and BuzzFeed. Those deal terms are not publicly disclosed, but TheWrap has obtained documents of one agreement with a leading U.S. publisher for $5 million over five years.

An executive who was involved with making the deal said the agreement felt more like a PR move and less a business deal. “It always seemed about pacifying publishers, and less about granular tactics about how we help engage our audience. It was more about trying to quiet the storm around very serious audience losses at newspapers,” the individual said.

And in a recent interview, former New York Times CEO Mark Thompson said the paper is getting “far, far more” than $3 million a year from Facebook, in response to a reporter’s misimpression. (The Wall Street Journal reported that the agreements were worth as much as $3 million a year.)

Facebook also recently signed deals with hundreds of publishers across the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and Canada. Again, a Facebook spokesperson said the company does not disclose the terms of those deals.

When asked approximately how many of these content deals exist, Campbell Brown, VP of global news partnerships, replied only: “A lot.”

“We have deals in place with all the major publishers and many of the local and regional publishers in those markets. There are some countries where we haven’t yet launched Facebook News but we do deals to get additional content from publishers beyond just what they’re putting on the platform … We have a green light from Mark (Zuckerberg) to continue launching as fast as we can in different markets,” she said.

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https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/80428/how-facebook-is-taking-over-journalism-with-16-billion-secret.html