Nancy Pelosi Urges Support Of $50 Billion 'CHIPS' Bill Hours After Disclosing $8 Million Nvidia Stake

Oh, look: Nancy Pelosi is pushing legislation that stands to benefit her significantly thanks to a couple of brand new, multi-million dollar trades she has made.

Stop us if you've heard this one before…

This past week it hit the terminal that House Speaker Pelosi was doing a little portfolio re-jiggering, including exercising $8 million of call options in Nvidia and selling Apple and Visa calls. The data was per CongressTrading.com and was reported on by Bloomberg.

The Nvidia LEAPS were bought June 3, 2021 with $100 strikes, set to expire June 17, 2022 and the position appeared to be disclosed on Thursday morning for the first time. $8 million trades seem a little odd for members of Congress to begin with, but who are we to judge?

But then, what did Speaker Pelosi do just hours after disclosing the trade, on Friday? She threw her weight behind a stalled $50 billion CHIPS PLUS bill that "would provide $52 billion in funding for semiconductor manufacturing grants and investment tax credits for the chip industry," according to RollCall.com.

Pelosi said last week: “We had been working constantly on the chips bill. And we need to have the transformative nature of research and education and the rest to make us continue to be preeminent in the world. How it shapes up in the next short period of time, we’ll see. But we are determined that we will pass a bill.”

"Democrats are 'more interested in' a chips-plus bill than a chips-only measure," Pelosi added, according to the Roll Call report.

Yeah…interested in that and buying super yachts. Let us guess: the unrealized gains tax won't be supported by Pelosi until she cashes out of the market altogether, either…

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nancy-pelosi-throws-her-support-behind-50-billion-semiconductor-bill-hours-after-disclosing

Tucker Carlson slams ‘corrupt’ Ukraine

The US should focus its energies on countering China, not Russia, the Fox News host argued

Fox News host Tucker Carlson issued a fierce condemnation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday over his crackdown on political opposition. While members of both parties in Washington rail against Russian President Vladimir Putin, “it is China that is on its way to controlling the world,” Carlson claimed.

“What does the cause of liberty have to do with Ukraine?,” Carlson asked. “Well, very little. Last February the Ukrainian government shut down opposition media, then they arrested the leader of the main opposition party. Now President Zelensky has decided to combine all television stations in Ukraine into a state-owned propaganda ministry.”

“What is that?” Carlson continued. “It’s not the profile of a free country. Not even close.”

Lawmakers in both US parties have described the Ukrainian conflict as a battle for democracy itself, with the leaders of America’s allies using similar language. Before condemning Zelensky, Carlson played a clip of Republican Senator Kevin Cramer (North Dakota) declaring that the US should not put a limit on its financial assistance to Ukraine, which he claimed is fighting “back a communist intrusion for the cause of freedom.”

“He’s a communist, says Senator Cramer,” Carlson exclaimed. “You don’t have to like Vladimir Putin to see how absurd this is.”

“Is Vladimir Putin more or less communist than Joe Biden’s domestic policy? Is Putin throwing Americans in jail for attending political rallies at the Capitol? Is he sterilizing children in the name of trans liberation?”

“Whatever his many faults, Vladimir Putin is not doing any of that.”

Carlson argued that China’s economic activities in Africa and its construction of foreign military bases constitute an attempt to build a “Chinese empire.”

“It is China that is on its way to controlling the world,” he declared.

https://www.rt.com/news/559074-tucker-carlson-ukraine-putin/

PURE POISON: Covid Shots Affected NEARLY HALF (42%) of Women’s Menstrual Cycles

Can you imagine any other product with side effects of excessive bleeding and affecting 42% of menstruating women allowed on the market?

They are poisoning the women!

And the men have lowered sperm counts.

Yet, Dr. Fauci, the CDC, and Big Pharma are still pushing these poison shots.

The latest study on the COVID vaccines found that nearly half of women’s menstruation cycles were affected.

9News reported:

COVID-19 vaccines were found to affect about 42 per cent of women’s menstrual cycles in a new study run by Washington University.

The study, which sought to shed light on reports of unusual menstrual bleeding after receiving SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, surveyed more than 39,129 adults online after they were double-vaccinated against the virus.

It found that 42 per cent of people with regular menstrual cycles bled more heavily during their period after having the vaccinations than they had previously.

It further found that some people who do not usually menstruate, such as those on long-acting reversible contraceptives or gender-affirming hormones and those who have experienced menopause, reported breakthrough bleeding.

As we reported earlier today — In April 2021, The Gateway Pundit first reported on the tens of thousands of women who complained about irregular menstruation after taking the COVID vaccines.

NBC Chicago reported:

Thousands of women have reported changes to their monthly cycle after getting the COVID vaccine.

Anne Thompson received her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine April 12, on what should have been the last day of her period.

“I continued to have spotting the entire time. And now two weeks post getting the vaccine, I think it was three days ago, I started my period again,” Thompson said.

Her next period came a week a half early, prompting Thompson to wonder if the vaccine had somehow impacted her menstrual cycle.

It’s a question researcher Katherine Lee asked after her own experience.

”I had spotting when I normally don’t have any sort of menstrual symptoms, because I have the Mirena IUD,” said Lee, a postdoctoral research scholar in the Division of Public Health Sciences at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/pure-poison-covid-shots-affected-nearly-half-42-womens-menstrual-cycles-updated/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/pure-poison-covid-shots-affected-nearly-half-42-womens-menstrual-cycles-updated/

Fourteen Mexican Marines Die in Helicopter Crash While Helping Catch Notorious Drug Lord on FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List

Fourteen Mexican Marines died during a helicopter crash while helping to capture infamous drug lord Rafael Caro-Quintero, who is accused of kidnapping and murdering a United States Drug Enforcement Administration officer in 1985.

The cartel leader was arrested on Friday by Mexican forces.

Caro-Quintero, the former leader of the Guadalajara cartel, was released from Mexican prison in 2013 after serving 28 years. His sentence had been overturned by an appeals court, but it was quickly upheld by the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, by the time the decision was made to uphold his sentence, he had already left the prison in a vehicle that was waiting for him.

The drug lord quickly reverted to his bloody, drug smuggling ways. It is believed that he has been working with the Sinaloa cartel.

“Caro Quintero was from Badiraguato, Sinaloa, the same area as Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, the former Sinaloa cartel leader now serving a life sentence in the United States. He eventually became one of the ‘godfathers’ of Mexican drug trafficking,” according to a report from the Associated Press.

In 2018, the FBI added him to its Top Ten Most Wanted list and the State Department’s Narcotics Rewards Program offered a $20 million reward for his capture.

Caro-Quintero was found by a search dog in San Simon during an operation being conducted by the Navy and Attorney General’s Office. There were two pending Mexican arrest orders for him as well as an extradition request from the US government.

“President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has maintained that he is not interested in detaining drug lords and prefers to avoid violence,” the report says. “But the arrest came just days after López Obrador met with U.S. President Joe Biden in the White House.”

Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office said that he is being held at the the maximum security Altiplano prison awaiting extradition.

The helicopter crash appears to have been an accident, according to reports, but the cause is still under investigation.

US Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a statement celebrating the arrest and expressing remorse for the families of those who died in the helicopter crash.

“There is no hiding place for anyone who kidnaps, tortures, and murders American law enforcement,” he said in a statement. “Today’s arrest is the culmination of tireless work by DEA and their Mexican partners to bring Caro-Quintero to justice for his alleged crimes, including the torture and execution of DEA Special Agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena. We will be seeking his immediate extradition to the United States so he can be tried for these crimes in the very justice system Special Agent Camarena died defending.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/14-mexican-marines-die-helicopter-crash-helping-catch-notorious-drug-lord-fbis-10-wanted-list/

Svetlana Lokhova’s Suit Against Stefan Halper, the Drug Addict Informant Behind the Russia Collusion Coup, Moves Forward

The defamation suit against Stefan Halper, who provided garbage used by the Mueller gang, is moving forward.

Svetlana Lokhova’s is suing Stefan Halper for defamation. Halper, as you may recall, accused Lokohova, who’s a professor, of jumping into a car with General Michael Flynn years ago. The accusation was used by the Mueller gang who were looking for any information they could find to tie President Trump to Russia.

Halper reportedly spied on numerous individuals later brought into the Trump-Russia sham, a fairy tale created by the Hillary gang. Lokhova released information on Halper after she was brought into the case because of his allegations.

Svetlana produced records showing that Halper was paid to spy on General Flynn during the Obama Administration as soon as Flynn was connected to President Trump. Halper was paid to get near General Flynn back in 2015.

Svetlana next shared that Halper tried to get her to attend dinner with him but at the same time was telling others she was a spy. She never accepted this invitation. At the same time, a letter she sent to General Flynn was forwarded to the press. Svetlana doesn’t know how it got there.

See more below, what you will find is Halper was all over the Russiagate scandal created by Hillary and Obama.

Margot Cleveland described the numerous actions to date that Svetlana has taken to obtain justice against Halper. It’s been a long road.

Yesterday the judge allowed the case to move forward.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/svetlana-lokhovas-suit-stefan-halper-behind-russia-collusion-fairy-tale-moves-forward/

New COVID-19 Variant "Sensationalized" By Fauci, White House: Sen. Paul

After White House adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra issued warnings about a new COVID-19 subvariant, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said they are not providing key facts about the latest strain.

“How come the flu vaccine changes every year and they’re not willing to change this vaccine?” Paul told Fox News on Tuesday. “Now, you might have me with an argument. I’ll listen to you if you tell me, ‘We’ve got a new vaccine that actually has something to do with the current virus,'” he said.

It came after Fauci, who has given hundreds of media interviews since the start of the pandemic, told CNN this week that the Omicron subvariant BA.5 is concerning due to its high transmissibility. People infected in the first COVID-19 waves “really don’t have a lot of good protection” against the latest subvariant, Fauci also said at a White House briefing several days ago.

But Paul, himself a doctor, told Fox that Omicron “was about 90 percent less likely to put you in the hospital than the first variant,” saying that Americans should “discount” what both Fauci and Becerra are saying about the latest subvariant.

“So if no one’s telling you any information, how can you make any judgment other than the emotionalism and the sensationalism of the government?” he asked.

Fauci himself was infected with COVID-19 several weeks ago and confirmed he took Pfizer drug Paxlovid before his symptoms recurred, although he’s received two booster shots.

In a recent interview, Fauci conceded that most COVID-19 vaccines don’t protect “overly well” against the latest variant. However, he used that statement to claim that they are effective at limiting the most severe symptoms.

“At my age, being vaccinated and boosted, even though it didn’t protect me against infection, I feel confident that it made a major role in protecting me from progressing to severe disease,” said Fauci, who is 81 and has worked in various capacities in the federal government since the late 1960s.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Fauci suggested that Americans ages 5 to 50 should be allowed to get a second booster shot.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-covid-19-variant-sensationalized-fauci-white-house-sen-paul

Israel Unleashes Airstrikes On Gaza Hours After Biden Departure

Not long after President Joe Biden departed Tel Aviv in Air Force One on Friday, becoming the first American president to fly straight from the Jewish state to Saudi Arabia after the kingdom opened its airspace to Israeli air traffic, the Israeli military began pounding Gaza.

"Hours after President Joe Biden ended a three-day visit to the region, Israel's military said Saturday that it had attacked what it said was a Hamas military site in the Gaza Strip in response to a pair of rocket attacks," NBC reports.

"In response to the attacks from the Gaza Strip on Israeli territory, the IDF is continuing to target Hamas weapons manufacturing sites in the Gaza Strip," the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.

Specifically the IDF said it targeted a Hamas rocket production facility located underground. This in response to Hamas rockets said to have been launched at around 1am.

"The site targeted was one of the largest and most important sites in the Strip for the production of base materials for rockets by terror groups," the IDF added. An additional two rockets were later reported fired from Gaza toward an Israeli settlement just northeast of the Strip, however they landed in open areas without injuring anyone.

The timing of the Hamas rockets suggests the group is trying to send its own message related to Biden's Mideast presence; however, it's the Hamas side accusing Israel of using Biden's visit as 'cover' to launch fresh airstrikes, according to Al Jazeera:

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said it was no coincidence that the Israeli raids took place right after Biden’s visit to Israel.

"This escalation, which came immediately after US President Biden’s visit to the Zionist entity, reflects the amount of American support and encouragement that the Israeli occupation has received for the continuation of its aggression and the perpetration of its crimes," he said in a statement.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-unleashes-airstrikes-gaza-hours-after-biden-departure

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-unleashes-airstrikes-gaza-hours-after-biden-departure

France Cuts Nuclear Power Generation Amid Record-Breaking Heatwave

Europe's ongoing heat wave will continue through the end of the month, producing record-breaking temperatures across the continent. The heatwave is beginning to curb nuclear power production in France, which could have widespread effects across European markets.

Bloomberg reports French utility Electricite de France SA (EDF) was forced to reduce power generation at three power plants this week, two on the Rhone River and another on the Garonne, after water temperatures from each respective river were too hot to circulate through condensers and discharge back into waterways because superheated water would cause environmental harm.

Restrictions on the Rhone will cut output at the Saint-Alban plant from July 20, but the facility will maintain minimum production of at least 1,300 megawatts for grid operational reasons, EDF said in a filing. That's half its usual capacity. The Tricastin and Blayais plants will each operate at a minimum level of 1,800 megawatts from July 17.

The Saint-Alban and Blayais facilities, as well as the Golfech plant, have received temporary waivers of water-discharge rules to keep them in operation during the heatwave, Les Echos reported, without giving specifics on output. The Garonne River reached 28 degrees Celsius on Thursday. -Bloomberg

France's nuclear reactor capacity was around 46% on Friday, down from 47% on Wednesday, according to data via grid operator RTE.

The implications of slumping nuclear power output for France's atomic fleet, the largest in Europe and producing 25% of all power on the continent, have been soaring electricity prices.

French week-ahead power soared 18% to 500 euros a megawatt-hour since last week – the highest weekly close on record.

https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/france-cuts-nuclear-power-generation-amid-record-breaking-heatwave

Hidden His-Story of Man & Deep State: Act 8 – The Tower of Babel

https://www.bitchute.com/video/u8yr3wgsuHJM/

Hunter Biden laptop shows dozens of meetings with dad, business partners

Hunter Biden met with his father at least 30 times at the White House or the vice president’s residence, often just days after he returned home from overseas business jaunts.

The breakfasts, lunches and other gabfests between 2008 and 2016 raise questions about whether Hunter was relaying messages to his father on behalf of foreign clients, and cast new doubt on the president’s repeated denials that he had any role in his son’s shady overseas business dealings.

The meetings were found in a review of the personal calendar on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop.

Eric Schwerin, the president of Hunter Biden’s investment company Rosemont Seneca Partners, is named as a calendar invite recipient on 21 of 30 listed meetings, with a green check frequently indicating his confirmed receipt of the invite for meetings with the vice president. Schwerin was a longtime Hunter Biden business confidante, and had access to the elder Biden’s personal financial information.

House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik — who has promised to subpoena Hunter Biden should Republicans win back control of Congress in the 2022 midterm elections — said it was more evidence of corruption.

“Hardly a day goes by without another revelation about how intimately involved Joe Biden was with his son Hunter Biden’s corrupt foreign business dealings. The fact that Joe was in meetings with senior foreign leaders on behalf of Hunter and his business associates while Vice President further proves that Joe has been lying to the American people,” Stefanik told The Post.

HUDDLES WITH DAD

Hunter Biden often would huddle with his dad in the days, or even minutes, after high-profile meetings.

Hunter Biden met Daniel Kablan Duncan, the Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire, on April 15, 2016 in Washington D.C., his calendar shows. The 8:15 a.m. sitdown was quickly followed by a 9 a.m. confab with Vice President Biden at the Naval Observatory. The purpose of his meeting with Kablan is unclear.

Between Feb. 15-18, 2012, Hunter Biden was wined and dined by billionaire oligarchs in Moscow, including one now wanted for murder. Four days after his return, Hunter Biden met with Vice President Biden, again at the Naval Observatory.

On Nov 14. 2015, Hunter Biden met with Romanian ambassador to the United States George Maior, before heading off for meetings in that country. He returned Nov. 17, and had breakfast with his father at the Naval Observatory two days later. Just months after the trip, he teamed up with former FBI Director Louis Freeh to help Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu avoid jail time.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/16/hunter-biden-laptop-shows-meetings-with-joe-business-partners/

Would-Be British PM Rishi Sunak’s Family Runs A China-Linked, World Economic Forum Partner Company Pushing Digital ID and Social Credit Scores.

Sunak's wife is a foreign citizen with a shareholding in the WEF-linked company.

Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak – a frontrunner to become Britain’s next Prime Minister – has family ties to a technology partner of the World Economic Forum that has advocated for a Chinese Communist Party-style economy complete with trackable, digital identities and currency.

Sunak, who topped the second round of voting by Conservative Members of Parliament (MP) in the Tory leadership race on July 15th following Boris Johnson’s resignation, is widely considered the “neoliberal” or “globalist” candidate.

The father of Sunak’s wife Akshata Murthy is the founder of Infosys, an Indian information technology company that provides services to a host of Fortune 500 companies and banks. One of the company’s leading services is Finacle, a digital banking platform. Murthy remains a foreign citizen with “non dom” i.e. non UK tax-paying status despite her husband’s work as Britain’s most senior finance chief, and expectation of becoming Prime Minister.

Infosys is listed as an official partner of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which has been accused of seeking to develop the technological infrastructure to implement a global “social credit score” system.

Social credit scores have been used by authoritarian regimes to deny rights and restrict the movements of individuals who fail to comply with diktats. For the World Economic Forum, social credit priorities would likely focus on left-wing social issues like climate change, diversity, and equity.

Klaus Schwab’s Candidate.

Far from being a silent partner, InfoSys has earned praise from the WEF, being dubbed a “global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting.”

“With three decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, it steers clients through their digital journey by enabling them with an artificial intelligence-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change…”

– WEF on the Sunak-linked InfoSys

Several Infosys executives have also contributed articles to the WEF website, including the company’s Global Head, President, and Chief Compliance Officer.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/07/16/company-founded-family-of-uk-prime-minister-frontrunner-is-wef-partner-advocating-for-china-style-digital-identities-currency/

Former Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Rejects DOJ Plea Offer

Former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has declined a plea offer to plead guilty to a contempt of Congress charge, the lead federal prosecutor in the case told a judge on Friday.

Navarro had pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress on June 17 after he refused to cooperate with the House January 6 committee’s probe into the breach of the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.

He cited executive privilege due to his former position at the White House under the Trump administration. But Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the Jan. 6 committee, rejected his claims of executive privilege, and the committee voted in late March to advance criminal charges against Navarro.

A grand jury indicted Navarro on June 3 on two counts: one for his refusal to produce the documents the committee requested, and the other for his refusal to comply with the committee’s subpoena to show up and testify. Each count carries a maximum of one-year imprisonment.

At a status hearing on July 15, federal prosecutor Elizabeth Aloi told U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta that the Justice Department had offered to let Navarro plead guilty to a single count instead of the two he was indicted with.

Prosecutors also said the deal would mean they would not have sought more than the minimum 30-day jail time.

But the deal would have required Navarro to “comply with the January 6 committee subpoena to the satisfaction of the Justice Department,” Aloi said.

Navarro attended the hearing with two defense attorneys. He had been representing himself before he was indicted on the criminal charges.

“It’s a complicated constitutional case involving separation of powers,” John Irving, one of the defense attorneys, told reporters outside the courthouse after the hearing.

“It involves not only the President of the United States asserting his executive privilege, but [also] over 50 years of DOJ opinions that make it clear that top presidential aides are able to assert absolute immunity and not testify before Congress. Not only that, but also the Justice Department has longstanding policies about not prosecuting someone criminally for this kind of situation,” he added. “So I wonder what changed.”

John Rowley, another defense attorney, told reporters: “This is the first time in our nation’s 250-year history that a senior adviser to a president has been criminally charged for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena.

“In essence, this is a dispute between the Office of the President and Congress, and Mr. Navarro was placed on the horn of the dilemma—either to follow the executive direction or risk prosecution.”

Trump’s attorneys have previously argued that former White House officials shouldn’t comply with congressional subpoenas because the requested information is protected by Trump’s executive privilege.

https://www.ntd.com/former-trump-adviser-peter-navarro-rejects-doj-plea-offer_809954.html

Dutch Farmers: Netherlands a ‘Pilot Country’ for Great Reset Agenda, Eva Vlaardingerbroek Tells Breitbart

Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek told Breitbart News that her homeland is being used as a “pilot” for the Great Reset agenda.

In an interview with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow, Eva Vlaardingerbroek said that countries like Canada and the Netherlands are being used as staging grounds for the World Economic Forum (WEF) and other globalist elites to pursue their radical schemes to transform society.

Much like the trucker convoy protests earlier this year in Canada against vaccine passports and other lockdown restrictions, the Dutch government is currently in a battle with farmers, who have used their tractors to shut down critical infrastructure across the country in protest against alleged plans to seize their land to supposedly conform with European Union regulations on wildlife protection and emissions:

Vlaardingerbroek said: “Our government is following a climate agenda, the 2030 agenda more broadly speaking, and they are saying that the Netherlands has nitrogen and ammonia emissions are too high and that they are threatening the climate and local nature, and that they need to be cut down

“For some reason, they aren’t coming after the airlines or other industries that actually are contributors to these emissions apart from the Dutch farmers. They are saying that the farmers need to give up 30 per cent of their land by 2030 and for a lot of these farmers that means they will go completely out of business depending on where they are in the country and that land goes to the state, surprise, surprise,” she claimed.

“Our farmers are being expropriated and the state is stealing their land… and oftentimes these are businesses that they have had in their families for centuries on end because the farming industry in the Netherlands is very strong.”

The Dutch political commentator said that the attack on the farming industry could have major economic implications, noting that the Netherlands is the second-largest agricultural exporter in the world.

The country is also the largest exporter of meat in Europe and the fifth-largest dairy exporter globally — industries that will be the chief target of the supposedly climate-focused scheme.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/07/16/dutch-farmers-netherlands-pilot-country-for-great-reset-agenda-eva-vlaardingerbroek-tells-breitbart/