President Trump on Election Fraud: “When They Steal it From You and Rig It, We Have to Fight – We Have No Choice”

President Donald J. Trump spoke tonight at the ‘Rally To Protect Our Elections’ sponsored by Turning Point USA.

The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson and Julian Conradson are attending the rally today in Phoenix.

President Trump HAMMERED HOME the idea that the 2020 election was stolen.

There were no apologies.

Trump told the TPUSA crowd, “When they steal it from you and they rig we have to fight. We have no choice.”

President Donald Trump: It was the most corrupt, dishonest, election in US history… The crime of the century is being fully exposed.

The chants to “Lock her up!” from the crowd when he mentioned Hillary Clinton never get old.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/president-trump-election-fraud-steal-rig-fight-no-choice-video/

Protesters Rage Across Europe As Lockdown, Vaccination Mandates Begin

The demonstrators defied restrictions on non-essential travel and mass public gatherings that could be extended through October.

The Greater Sydney area has been locked down for a month as infections rise.

Protesters were also seen in Melbourne and Adelaide.

There's discontent with Australians being forced into lockdowns again as an outbreak of the delta variant began last month.

Protests are not limited to Australia. New COVID rules have been implemented across Europe as Delta infections flare-up, which demonstrators in France and Greece recently took to the streets. The UK has even triggered widespread panic through a new app that notified tens of thousands of people they must quarantine for ten days because of possible exposure.

Multiple US cities are now requiring people to wear masks indoors amid surging cases.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/thousands-join-anti-lockdown-protests-australia-amid-new-restrictions

San Francisco Rolls Out "Ridiculous" $20,000 Designer-Style Trash Cans

What a bunch of rubbish. San Francisco elected officials can barely govern their own city as violent crime, homelessness, a drug epidemic, and trash plague the metro area. With complaints piling up about garbage strung across streets that resemble a third-world country, officials know how to do one thing: spend. They have proposed installing new prototype trash cans that cost a whopping $20,000 each.

Local news KRON4 spoke with San Francisco Public Works, Aleric Degrafinried, who defended the cost associated with the prototype trash cans shaped like a fancy salt shaker.

City officials agreed Wednesday to build 15 trash can prototypes, five each of three different designs.

Supervisor Matt Haney told the San Francisco Chronicle that he was not thrilled when he learned about the "ridiculous" $20,000 trash cans.

"Our streets and our sidewalks are a mess and the cans we have out there now are actually part of the problem," Haney said. "At this point they've already come up with designs, we won't save time now to go backward, but it's really frustrating that they [Public Works] chose this route."

If the new trash cans are successful during pilot runs - the city plans to pick one design that will eventually replace 3,000 existing green trash cans scattered around the metro area. Mass-producing the prototype trash can would be around $2,000 to $3,000. Current costs for a trash can are approximately $1,200.

Haney said he held discussions with Public Works officials about reducing costs of the prototype trash can program. He said Public Works could've used models from other cities instead of reinventing the wheel.

The current trash cans easily overflow, attracting rats and the homeless. The locks are easily broken, and people search for recyclables to turn in for cash.

Costing $20,000 a pop, there had to be a little bit of technology in these new prototype cans. The San Francisco Chronicle describes each can is equipped with smart sensors that will notify trash collectors that the can is full to reduce overflow.

For the program of 15 trash cans, Public Works is asking the city for between $537,000 from $840,000.

And, of course, who would've guessed these expensive designer-style trash cans would receive a lot of flak on Twitter. People said the money should be spent elsewhere, such as cracking down on violent crime.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/san-francisco-rolls-out-20000-designer-style-trash-cans

Texas Begins Arresting Illegal Immigrants For Trespassing As Part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Border Security Plan

Authorities in Texas have begun arresting illegal immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border on trespassing charges, according to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has blamed the Biden administration for the surge in illegal immigration and has put in motion his own border security plan to crack down on illegal crossings.

“Texas has begun arresting illegal immigrants who are trespassing in Texas or vandalizing property & fences. They are now being sent to this jail rather than being released like the Biden Admin. has been doing. We are adding more officers, National Guard & jails,” Abbott said in a tweet Thursday.

So far, at least 10 people have been jailed, with more on the way, authorities said Thursday. The detainees are being held at what had been an empty state prison in Dilley, Texas, about 100 miles north of the border city of Laredo, according to Robert Hurst, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The converted facility will be able to hold more than 950 people, he said.

Val Verde County Attorney David Martinez said that all of those arrested so far have been single adult men. He said he had been advised last week that the number of arrests of illegal immigrants could rise to as many as 100 to 200 per day.

The arrests put in motion plans that Abbott first announced in June, when he hosted a Border Security Summit in Del Rio, during which he said individuals who enter Texas illegally would be subject to arrest for trespassing.

“President Biden’s open-border policies have led to a humanitarian crisis at our southern border as record levels of illegal immigrants, drugs, and contraband pour into Texas,” Abbott said in a June 10 statement. “While securing the border is the federal government’s responsibility, Texas will not sit idly by as this crisis grows. The state is working collaboratively with communities impacted by the crisis to arrest and detain individuals coming into Texas illegally.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/texas-begins-arresting-illegal-immigrants-trespassing-part-gov-greg-abbotts-border

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/texas-begins-arresting-illegal-immigrants-trespassing-part-gov-greg-abbotts-border

Philadelphia's Murder Rate Highest Among Largest US Cities

Last spring, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced a series of police reforms within the 6,500-member police department. A year later, his administration has succeeded in implementing several of those changes, while others are a work in progress. But over the last year, did those meaningful police reforms result in better public safety?

The answer is no, as Philadelphia was just ranked the highest murder rate per capita among the US' top largest cities.

According to CBS Philly, the number of homicides across the metro stands at 314 on Thursday, up 35% from this time last year. The city has become more dangerous as gun violence is out of control.

About a third of the violence happens in just five zip codes in North Philadelphia, Hunting Park, West Philadelphia, Kingsessing, Kensington, and Port Richmond.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/philadelphias-murder-rate-highest-among-largest-us-cities

Arizona Secretary of State Candidate Who Killed Election Integrity Bill Gets BOOED Off Stage, Escorted Out By Police

She shouted "I will win my primary!" before being booed off stage and escorted out by Phoenix police.

Arizona Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, who is now running for Arizona Secretary of State and recently killed election integrity legislation to help prevent accusations of fraud in future races, was booed off the stage during her speech at the Turning Point USA Chapter Leadership Summit held today in Phoenix, Arizona.

Ugenti-Rita begged the crowd multiple times to allow her to give her speech, but was met by a chorus of boos throughout. Eventually, she admitted defeat, and angrily stomped off stage after telling voters, “I will win my primary!” National File spoke to a source who attended the event and understands that she was escorted from the venue by the Phoenix Police Department.

On Ugenti-Rita’s decision to block election integrity legislation, National File previously reported:

SB1241, which was set for its third reading in the Senate on Tuesday, contained over 34 various election integrity measures, including: requiring paper ballot copies for every vote cast on a voting machine, securing those machines and hard drives outside of voting hours, sending ballots with mismatched signatures to the Attorney General for potential investigation, requiring ballot observers to be able to see the voting machines, increasing chain of custody requirements, and forcing anyone registering in Arizona who moved from another state to deregister from their previous state.

However, Republican Senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita, announced that she would join the Democrats in voting against the election integrity bill, which Townsend implied was revenge for her own vote against Ugenti-Rita’s SB1485. Although SB1485 included some election integrity measures, it would not have applied key revisions in time for the 2022 primaries, leaving them open to the same potential attacks that may have occurred in the 2020 election.

Much of the provisions included in the final version of SB1241 were tacked onto the bill when it went through the House, after Ugenti-Rita refused to allow Townsend to hear the issues in the Government Committee that she chaired. When it came to voting, Ugenti-Rita objected exactly because of the methodology Townsend used to get the issues into the bills, despite the fact it was her own tactics had seemingly forced her to do.

Later in the event, Rep. Paul Gosar invited the mother of Ashli Babbitt to attend his speech, and National File was able to interview her. She was met by uproarious applause and chants of “Ashli!” at the event.

https://nationalfile.com/arizona-secretary-of-state-candidate-who-killed-election-integrity-bill-gets-booed-off-stage-escorted-out-by-police/

Bizarre arrest of FBI agent spotlights accusations of bureau corruption

Angry, and armed, the militiamen in Michigan were gearing up, getting ready to unleash their fury over an unjust government and zeroing in on a target who they believed upended their lives with pandemic restrictions: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

They trained with live assault weapons; skulked around Whitmer’s summer mansion in the dark as they allegedly plotted a wild scheme to kidnap her, even relying on an Iraq war veteran among them for his tactical experience.

The June 2020 plot by the Wolverine Watchmen — which authorities claim included the possible use of a stun gun on Whitmer and talk of blowing up a bridge to prevent cops from giving chase — never came to pass, broken up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a celebrated bust in which 14 people have been arrested so far.

But as it was revealed that the FBI had at least a dozen informants heavily involved in the Watchmen — including that Iraq veteran — critics say the G-Men did as much to prod the plot as they did to prevent it from happening in the first place.

The agents took an active part in the scheme from its inception, according to court filings, evidence and dozens of interviews examined by BuzzFeed. Some members of the Wolverine Watchmen are accusing the feds of entrapment.

One FBI informant from Wisconsin allegedly helped organize meetings where the first inklings of the Whitmer plot surfaced, even paying for hotel rooms and food to entice people to attend, BuzzFeed reported. The Iraq veteran, identified as “Dan” by BuzzFeed, allegedly shelled out for transportation costs to militia meetings and apparently goaded members to advance the plot.

Kareem Johnson, a black, left-wing attorney representing Pete Musico, one of the 14 arrested, told The Post the FBI played an outsize — and, at the very least, inappropriate — part in the incident. Before the bureau was involved, Johnson and other attorneys said, the Watchmen weren’t even considered a violent threat.

“The FBI knew these people had some beliefs and were egging them on and providing help and ammunition,” Johnson said. “They encouraged, helped instigate and escalated the criminal conduct of those individuals. At the end of the day, there were almost as many FBI agents leading the group as the other people in the group.”

https://nypost.com/2021/07/24/bizarre-arrest-of-fbi-agent-spotlights-accusations-of-bureau-corruption/

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China Sanctions Former U.S. Commerce Secretary, Six Others for U.S. Warnings on Hong Kong

On July 16, the Biden administration issued a wide-ranging “Business Advisory” regarding Hong Kong and the Chinese Communist government’s crackdowns on the freedom and autonomy of the people of Hong Kong. The administration also imposed sanctions on seven Chinese individuals involved in the Hong Kong crackdown.

On Friday, China responded by sanctioning former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and six other individuals and companies. Why the sanctions were imposed is unclear. The Chinese are accusing the United States of issuing the Business Advisory “to groundlessly smear Hong Kong’s business environment.” Cracking down on freedom and closing companies that won’t play ball with Beijing was doing a pretty good job of depressing the business environment without the U.S. “smearing” it.

But China’s hypersensitivity to any criticism whatsoever meant they had to impose “reciprocal sanctions.”

According to Axios, a Chinese spokesperson said, “The US has concocted the so-called ‘Hong Kong Business Advisory’ to groundlessly smear Hong Kong’s business environment, and illegally imposed sanctions… These acts gravely violate international law and basic norms governing international relations, and severely interfere in China’s internal affairs.”

Fox Business:

The sanctions were imposed under China’s new Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law that was passed last month and target Ross, who served in the Trump administration, along with the chair of the U.S.-China Economic Security Review Commission Carolyn Bartholomew, former staff director of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China Jonathan Stivers, and Sophie Richardson, director of Human Rights Watch’s China.

Top officials from the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and the International Republican Institute were also named.

“These actions are the latest examples of how Beijing punishes private citizens, companies, and civil society organizations as a way to send political signals,” press secretary Jen Psaki said.

Those political signals include colorful metaphors.

“I would like to stress once again that Hong Kong is China’s Special Administrative Region and its affairs are an integral part of China’s internal affairs,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said. “Any attempt by external forces to interfere in Hong Kong’s affairs would be as futile as an ant trying to shake a big tree.”

Why an ant would want to shake a big tree is unknown. Perhaps the meaning got lost in translation.

Meanwhile, despite the warnings and sanctions, it’s pretty much business as usual with China as far as the Biden administration is concerned. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will visit Beijing next week.

The administration is framing the meeting as being “added on” to a Far-East swing by Sherman, but that almost surely isn’t the case. In fact, there had been a disagreement over who Sherman would meet with.

The Diplomat:

The Financial Times had reported earlier that the uncertainty over Sherman’s trip was due to a disagreement over who her host would be: the U.S. wanted Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng, while China was offering Xie Feng, the fifth-ranking member of the Foreign Ministry. The two sides seemed to have finessed that deadlock with an arrangement for Sherman to primarily hold talks with Xie, but be afforded a meeting with Wang. China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian made that clear in his press briefing on July 22.

The trip looks set to be a rocky one, as might be expected given the current state of tensions. A previous meeting in March between Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi devolved into the diplomatic equivalent of a shouting match at the opening.

China is flexing its muscles and doesn’t much care who is offended or upset. They believe they have the upper hand with Biden and will continue to press their advantage until someone pushes back.

As long as Joe Biden is president, that’s not very likely.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/07/24/china-sanctions-former-u-s-commerce-secretary-six-others-for-u-s-warnings-on-hong-kong-n1464479

Australia secures another 85million Pfizer doses to be used as booster shots once the country is fully immunised - as everyone in Sydney is urged to get jabbed 'with ANY available vaccine'

60 million doses to arrive by beginning of next year to be used as booster shots

Evidence suggests booster dose may be needed a year after first Covid vaccine

Australia's immunisation advisory body urged Sydney adults to get AstraZeneca

Plea came after Sydney recorded another 163 infections overnight on Saturday

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9821249/Australia-secures-85-million-doses-Pfizer-Covid-vaccine-used-booster-jabs.html

R. Kelly 'sexually abused a teenage boy he met at McDonald's in 2006 and forced another young man to have sex with women while he filmed them' prosecutors allege ahead of singer's trial

R. Kelly's sex trafficking trial is scheduled to begin on August 18

On Friday, prosecutors submitted a motion to include evidence they claim is inextricably connected to Kelly's charged crimes

The evidence revolves around uncharged acts they claim Kelly carried out over the course of several years

Prosecutors say Kelly had a sexual relationship with an underage male in 2006

They also assert he had a separate sexual relationship with a young man several years later, during which time he forced the man into sex with a minor female

Kelly is also accused of attempting to bribe an official in 2019 after he was first charged with sex crimes in the wake of the documentary 'Surviving R. Kelly'

Federal prosecutors in New York have filed a motion seeking permission to include evidence of alleged, uncharged crimes committed by R. Kelly at his upcoming sex trafficking trial.

The disgraced singer, 54, is set to stand trial in Brooklyn next month after being charged with 22 crimes, including child sexual exploitation, child pornography production, racketeering and obstruction of justice.

Prosecutors claim Kelly led an enterprise made up of managers, bodyguards and other employees who helped him recruit women and girls for sex.

On Friday, the prosecutors submitted a new filing asking a judge to admit evidence for other uncharged acts that they claim are 'directly relevant to and inextricably intertwined with the evidence of the charged crimes'.,

They include a shocking allegation that Kelly sexually abused a 17-year-old boy - known as John Doe #1 - after meeting him at a Chicago McDonalds in 2006 .

The documents further contend that that boy subsequently introduced Kelly to another underage male, identified only as John Doe #2.

Several years later, the prosecutors claim Kelly began a sexual relationship with John Doe #2. They also allege the star forcing several of his 'girlfriends' - including a minor - to have sex with the young man as he filmed them.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9821073/R-Kelly-sexually-abused-teenage-boy-met-McDonalds-2006-prosecutors-allege.html