Biden Considers Declaring a National Health Emergency in Response to Abortion Ruling

President Joe Biden said on Sunday he is considering declaring an emergency to utilize federal resources to promote abortion access, even though the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month.

“I don’t have the authority to say that we’re going to reinstate Roe v. Wade as the law of the land,” Biden told reporters in Delaware, adding that he believes that Congress is the entity to codify the ruling into law.

Biden was on his way to ride his bike near his private residence in Delaware when he spoke with reporters, who asked if he was considering declaring a public health emergency on abortions. Biden responded by saying that he is now asking White House staffers to determine “whether I have the authority” and what the impacts might entail.

His administration is attempting to pursue policies and rules that do a “lot of things to accommodate the rights of women” after the Supreme Court’s decision, he told reporters.

Also in his remarks, Biden called on pro-abortion demonstrators to “keep protesting” and “keep making your point. It’s critically important.” He did not address the violent threats against certain Supreme Court justices or attacks on pro-life organizations and pregnancy centers.

The comments come after Biden on July 8 signed an order to provide more access to services to terminate pregnancies.

Feasibility

Also on July 8, a White House official, Jen Klein, told reporters that declaring a public health emergency “didn’t seem like a great option” over access to abortion, which conservative and religious groups have said is immoral and tantamount to murder.

“When we looked at the public health emergency, we learned a couple things: One is that it doesn’t free very many resources,” Klein told reporters. “It’s what’s in the public health emergency fund, and there’s very little money—tens of thousands of dollars in it. So that didn’t seem like a great option. And it also doesn’t release a significant amount of legal authority. And so that’s why we haven’t taken that action yet.”

Some left-wing groups and certain Democrats have called on the Biden administration to use executive actions to aggressively implement pro-abortion rules.

“I want President Biden to do absolutely everything in his power to protect access to abortion in America—let’s really push the envelope to protect women in this country, and let’s do it now,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Calif.), who chairs the Senate Committee on Health Education and Labor, said in a statement last month after the Supreme Court decision was handed down.

In the court’s majority opinion, Justice Supreme Court Samuel Alito wrote that the “Constitution makes no reference to abortion” and argued that only legislatures should have the power to pass laws around the procedure.

“Roe’s defenders characterize the abortion right as similar to the rights recognized in past decisions involving matters such as intimate sexual relations, contraception, and marriage, but abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called ‘fetal life’ and what the law now before us describes as an ‘unborn human being,” he said.

https://www.ntd.com/biden-considers-declaring-a-national-health-emergency-in-response-to-abortion-ruling_806711.html

Protesters demanding frozen millions from Chinese banks face rough-handling in tussle with security

Several people protesting in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou over the freezing of deposits by some rural-based banks said they were injured on Sunday when heavy-handed security personnel dispersed the crowd.

Key points:

Chinese media reports the frozen deposits could be worth up to $2.2 billion

Around 1,000 protesters gathered to demand their money back

Security personnel roughly dragged them away

The banks froze millions of dollars worth of deposits in April, telling customers they were upgrading their internal systems. The banks have not issued any communication on the matter since, depositors said.

None of the banks has responded to emails and telephone calls seeking comment.

Chinese media has reported that the frozen deposits could be worth up to $US1.5 billion ($2.2 billion) and authorities are investigating the three banks.

About 1,000 people gathered outside the Zhengzhou branch of China's central bank on Sunday to demand action.

Videos and photographs on social media showed depositors waving banners and throwing plastic bottles at approaching security guards who then roughly dragged some of the protesters away.

"I feel so aggrieved I can't even explain it to you," one protester, surnamed Zhang, 40, told Reuters.

Mr Zhang said he had been hoping to retrieve about 170,000 yuan ($37,000) deposited with one of the banks, the Zhecheng Huanghuai Community Bank.

He said he had suffered injuries to his foot and thumb, and was taken away by four unidentified security personnel around midday.

Security personnel outnumbered protesters by around three to one, he said.

"They did not say they would beat us if we refused to leave. They just used the loudspeaker to say that we were breaking the law by petitioning," he said.

"That's ridiculous. It's the banks that are breaking the law."

Reuters was not immediately able to reach police for comment.

The banks — which include the Yuzhou Xinminsheng Village Bank and the Shangcai Huimin County Bank — are under investigation by the authorities for illegal fundraising, the state-run Global Times reported.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-11/china-bank-protests-security-crackdown-demand-money-frozen/101225856

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-11/uber-files-investigative-report-kill-switch-icij-skirt-taxi-laws/101225802

Corruption - coverup

National security cited to keep Barilaro documents secret

The NSW government is refusing to make public several documents relating to the process surrounding John Barilaro’s appointment to a US trade posting.

The previous deputy premier was awarded a $500,000-a-year job in New York however withdrew final week after intense scrutiny over his appointment, which triggered two separate inquiries and a backlash from his previous colleagues.

One of many parliamentary inquiries set as much as examine the controversial appointment is on Monday anticipated to hear evidence from Jenny West, the girl who was initially supplied the US commerce job just for it to be rescinded and given to Barilaro.

Whereas a bunch of paperwork referring to the appointment course of behind the senior commerce positions was launched final week underneath a parliamentary order, the federal government is making an attempt to maintain others personal, arguing they might prejudice worldwide relations of Australia.

One of many paperwork pertains to a presentation for the premier and cupboard about Funding NSW’s worldwide technique, together with evaluation of commerce priorities.

One other accommodates “confidential briefings” between the premier’s division and a number of other Commonwealth businesses concerning nationwide safety issues, an index of the paperwork printed to the NSW Parliament’s web site exhibits.

“A declare of public curiosity privilege is made in relation to a part of the doc on the idea that public disclosure of the knowledge may prejudice the nationwide safety of Australia; and harm relations between the Commonwealth and the State of New South Wales,” the federal government mentioned in its submission.

NSW opposition treasury spokesman Daniel Mookhey mentioned it was absurd the federal government was making an attempt to invoke nationwide safety dangers to forestall paperwork from being made public.

“Australia’s relationship with Britain and America has survived crises far worse than revelations about how Mr Perrottet’s authorities selected its commerce representatives,” Mookhey mentioned.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/nsw-government-cites-national-security-to-keep-barilaro-documents-secret-20220710-p5b0ir.html

Black GOP pastor fights 'Democrats in Klan hoods' with AR-15 in campaign ad

"Racist white liberals love to tell me that my LIVED EXPERIENCE didn't happen!" the congressional candidate wrote on Twitter

https://twitter.com/Jerone4Congress/status/1544700948164972546

Liz Cheney Funded by Obama and Hillary Donors in Wyoming Primary

In April The Gateway Pundit’s Cassandra Fairbanks reported that a majority of Liz Cheney’s donations came from out of state.

The Wyoming primary is on August 16.

Cheney may have raised millions, but only $202,980 came from donors in Wyoming.

Challenger Harriet Hageman, who Trump has endorsed, has raised about $745,382 — with the majority coming from in-state donors.

“Texas tops the list with donors from that state contributing $556,430 to Cheney’s campaign. California is the second highest, with the state’s donors contributing $541,880. Cheney raised $466.100 from Virginia donors, $450,370 from Florida donors, $408,290 from New Yorkers and $215,600 from Connecticut donors. Donors from each of those states have contributed significantly more for Cheney’s 2022 reelection bid than they did for the 2020 election,” Open Secrets reports.

The report adds, “Last election cycle, Wyoming donors gave Cheney $276,290, more money than any other state. In 2021, Cheney raised $202,980 from donors in Wyoming, placing the state in seventh place.”

But it’s worse than that.

Cheney is being funded in her primary election by Obama and Hillary donors.

Breitbart.com reported.

Many of the Democrat political elites are funding Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) reelection bid in Wyoming’s Republican primary against Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman.

While polling shows Hageman has taken a huge lead with the primary just around the corner, the American donor class has taken notice of Cheney’s shrinking chances of retaining her seat on August 16. Fearing Cheney may lose through a series of political miscalculations, establishment donors are coming out of the woodwork to protect one of their own.

One of the Democrats’ most prominent donors, film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, who has funded Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s former presidential campaigns, has donated at least $43,000 to Cheney. The totality of the sum has not been disclosed for unknown reasons.

“We agree on little, if anything,” Katzenberg admitted in an interview with the New York Times. “But she has done something that very, very few people in history have done, which is she’s put her country over party and politics to stand in defense of our Constitution.”

Dmitri Mehlhorn, a strategist who advises far-left LinkedIn co-founder and Democrat donor Reid Hoffman, is also supporting Cheney’s reelection bid. “Cheney is the most important politician in America right now,” Mehlhorn alleged to the Times.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/revealed-dirtbag-liz-cheney-funded-obama-hillary-donors-wyoming-primary/

Liz Truss Announces Her Candidacy for UK Prime Minister

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has announced that she is joining the race to succeed Boris Johnson as British prime minister.

"I am putting myself forward because I can lead, deliver and make the tough decisions. I have a clear vision of where we need to be, and the experience and resolve to get us there," Truss said in a Sunday article for The Telegraph, adding "I will fight the election as a Conservative and govern as a Conservative."

She mentioned Russia, China and the economic crisis among the challenges that the United Kingdom currently faces.

"Under my leadership, I would start cutting taxes from day one to take immediate action to help people deal with the cost of living," Truss said, also mentioning that she would reverse the National Insurance increase.

The current foreign secretary said that if she were to become prime minister, she would get the United Kingdom "back on track towards becoming a high-growth and high-productivity powerhouse," based on "long-standing Conservative philosophy."

On Saturday, former British health and foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt, who lost to Boris Johnson in 2019, as well as Sajid Javid, another former health secretary, announced in separate interviews with The Telegraph that they were joining the race to succeed Johnson as UK prime minister.

Both Hunt, 55, and Javid, 52, said they would cut corporation tax from the current 25% to 15% if they were to become prime minister. Javid told The Telegraph that he would scrap the controversial National Insurance rise, introduced during his time as health secretary.

Also on Saturday, newly appointed UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi announced his candidacy for the post of prime minister, as well as UK Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps. Shapps and Zahawi joined the list of candidates, which among others includes Rishi Sunak, who resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer on July 5.

Outgoing UK Prime Minister and Tory leader Boris Johnson has been grappling with calls to resign after a series of scandals over violations of COVID-19 regulations throughout 2020 and 2021. The scandal with the appointment of Christopher Pincher led to a string of resignations and eventually forced Johnson to step down both as the prime minister and head of the UK's Conservative Party. He will remain in office until a new appointment is made.

https://sputniknews.com/20220710/liz-truss-announces-her-candidacy-for-uk-prime-minister-1097163497.html

Former Polish president suggests reducing Russia’s population

The West should either change the Russian “political system” or instigate a massive uprising, Lech Walesa believes

The world will never be safe as long as modern-day Russia exists, former Polish president Lech Walesa told French broadcaster LCI on Friday, claiming that Russia is “imperial” in nature and will always seek to “keep annexing peoples.”

Even if Western nations would help Ukraine to win its ongoing conflict with Moscow, they would still fail to make the world a safer place, Walesa argued, adding the international community would potentially see another conflict involving Russia “in five years.” “In ten years, we will see another Putin arise,” he added, referring to Russian president Vladimir Putin, who is increasingly portrayed as an autocratic strongman by Western officials and the media.

To avoid such a development, the West “must force [a] change of political system” in Russia, the former Polish president believes. If it proves to be impossible, “organizing an uprising” would be another option, he said.

According to Walesa, Russia still has “60 peoples, who have been annexed like Ukrainians [are being annexed] today.” It would be “necessary to stir those peoples … to action” to bring Russia’s population “back to less than 50 million,” the former president said, pointing to a potential forceful disintegration of the modern-day Russia. According to the latest population census held in 2021, Russia’s population currently amounts to around 147 million people, the state statistical agency, Rosstat, said in April.

Walesa, who was a co-founder of the Solidarity movement that brought down the socialist government in Poland, also argued that the West should have “brought Russia down” but it eventually fell for the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev’s positive image and wasted its chance.

“We should have brought Russia down. But Gorbachev was too smart. We said to ourselves at the time: ‘There was Stalin, Brezhnev, but Gorbachev is nice’,” Walesa said, adding that “it was our mistake then.” According to the former Polish leader, Russia was allowed to “wait out” the hard times and to “carry on like they have done for centuries and keep annexing people into their empire.”

https://www.rt.com/news/558739-walesa-russia-uprising-reduce-population/