Maryland Election Voting Machines Not Working – No Results Expected Tonight

Local news in Maryland is reporting that some precincts weren’t ready this morning because the voting machines weren’t ready. Reportedly because of polling issues, the results of today’s election aren’t expected until tomorrow.

Local News ABC7 reported at 7 a.m. — Officials tell 7News that in at least two locations, voting machines were not working as long as an hour after the polls opened. The sites affected were Charles Carrol Middles School in New Carrollton and Hoyer Early Childhood Learning Center in Cheverly. It’s not clear how many residents were waiting in line at the time of the issue.

The live broadcast says we probably won’t have results tonight.

Marilyn Mosby is running in the election today. She was recently arrested for perjury and false information on a mortgage application.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/go-maryland-election-voting-machines-not-working-no-results-expected-tonight/

Secret Service Tells Jan 6 Committee it Has No New Text Messages Related to Capitol Protest

As previously reported, the Secret Service was accused of ‘deleting’ text messages from January 5 and January 6 by the agency’s watchdog.

The Secret Service told the January 6 Committee that it has no new text messages related to the Capitol protest after it turned over documents and data.

Democrat Rep. Stephanie Murphy told MSNBC that the Committee didn’t receive the data it wanted.

It’s never enough.

The Secret Service said the agency will conduct a forensic investigation to search for the data.

“We are conducting forensic examinations on cell phones and while it’s unlikely that the data could be recovered, we are using every investigative resource to meet the committees request,” the spokesperson said.

ABC News reported:

The Secret Service notified the House Jan. 6 committee that it had found no new text messages related to the Capitol riot — the same day the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) sent a letter requesting the agency investigate the deletion of some its records from Jan. 6, 2021, which drew the scrutiny of an internal watchdog.

The Secret Service’s plans were confirmed to ABC News by a source familiar with the matter; they were first reported by The Washington Post.

“We received a letter today that did provide us with a lot of documents and some data. However, we did not receive the additional text messages that we were looking for,” Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a member of the committee, said on MSNBC later Tuesday.

“They’re going to continue to see if there are other ways in which they can secure the required and subpoenaed text messages that we have asked for,” Murphy, D-Fla., said.

The watchdog claims the Secret Service deleted the text messages after an oversight panel probing the agency’s response to January 6 requested the electronic communications.

The Secret Service denied the accusations and said all of the requested text messages had been saved.

“The insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.

They will never let it go.

The National Archives is also harassing the Secret Service.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/new-secret-service-tells-jan-6-committee-no-new-text-messages-related-capitol-protest/

China blames US for Ukraine conflict

Washington created the current crisis, said the Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing

A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry accused the US of starting the crisis in Ukraine and fueling the conflict. Zhao Lijian told reporters at a regular press briefing on Tuesday that Washington should stop playing “world police” and work on creating conditions for peace talks instead.

Zhao was asked about the recent remarks by US State Department spokesperson Ned Price, who once again threatened China with a “very steep cost” should Beijing help Moscow evade Western sanctions – even though there was no evidence China was actually doing so.

Accusing Price of sounding “as if the US were the world police,” Zhao said that China “takes an objective and fair stance and stands on the side of peace and justice” when it comes to Ukraine.

As the one who started the Ukraine crisis and the biggest factor fueling it, the US needs to deeply reflect on its erroneous actions of exerting extreme pressure and fanning the flame on the Ukraine issue.

“We firmly oppose any unwarranted suspicion, threat and pressure targeting China. We are also firmly against unilateral illegal sanctions and long-arm jurisdiction with no basis in international law,” Zhao said.

Washington needs to “stop playing up bloc confrontation and creating a new Cold War by taking advantage of the situation,” Zhao added, urging the US to instead “facilitate a proper settlement of the crisis in a responsible way and create the environment and conditions needed for peace talks between parties concerned.” 

https://www.rt.com/news/559273-china-us-ukraine-conflict/

Putin tells US to stop ‘looting’ Syria

Washington needs to stop “stealing” Syrian oil and lift its sanctions against Damascus

The US needs to stop “stealing” the oil from the Syrian people and state, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, after meeting with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts in Tehran. The three guarantors of the “Astana process” also agreed that the US should leave the trans-Euphrates, and stop making the humanitarian crisis in Syria worse with their unilateral sanctions.

American troops must leave the territory east of the Euphrates river and “stop robbing the Syrian state, the Syrian people, exporting oil illegally,” Putin told reporters on Tuesday evening. He said this was a “common position” of Russia, Iran and Turkey.

Several hundred US troops are illegally present in Syria, mainly controlling the oil wells and wheatfields in the country’s northeast, controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia since the defeat of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists. The US-backed SDF has refused to reintegrate with the government in Damascus, which Washington wishes to see overthrown.

Since 2019, the US has sought to punish anyone trying to assist the reconstruction of war-torn Syria via the “Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act,” accusing the government of President Bashar Assad of war crimes and blocking all assistance to Damascus.

https://www.rt.com/news/559279-putin-iran-turkey-syria/

Putin explains energy price hike

Russian president points to European sanctions and policies favoring “non-traditional” energy

The EU imposed sanctions against Moscow and closed off supply routes, but now wants to blame the gas shortages on Gazprom, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. Russia is ready to deliver as much gas as Europe needs, if the EU wishes to stop “stepping on rakes,” Putin said while visiting Tehran for the summit with presidents of Iran and Turkey.

“What does Gazprom have to do with it? They closed one route, the second route, put these gas pumping stations under sanctions,” Putin said when asked about the current shortage of gas in Germany. “Gazprom is ready to pump as much as necessary, but [the West] closed everything themselves. And they are stepping on the same rake when it comes to oil and petroleum products,” the Russian president added.

The Russian gas giant has always fulfilled its contractual obligations, Putin added, calling accusations against Gazprom “completely baseless” and an attempt by Western countries to “shift the blame for their own mistakes” onto Russia.

Putin repeated what he said last month about the EU’s energy policy, saying that the bloc spent the past decade neglecting the “traditional energy” sector – coal, oil, gas and nuclear – in favor of “green” projects such as wind and solar.

“Banks do not finance, insurance companies do not insure, local authorities do not allocate land for new developments, pipelines and other transport are not developed,” Putin said. “You now see the result.”

Western nations are “great experts in the field of non-traditional relations,” the Russian president said, so they decided to invest in “non-traditional types of energy” as well. “The winter turned out to be long. There was no wind. That's all.”

On Monday, Gazprom allegedly informed its clients that it had not been able to deliver natural gas to Germany since July 14 due to force majeure. The Nord Stream 1 pipeline was shut down for annual maintenance, and required a Siemens turbine that had been sent to Canada for repairs. Ottawa had held up the turbine, however, citing anti-Russian sanctions by the US and its allies. It has since reportedly changed its mind, at Berlin’s request. The pipeline is supposed to resume normal operations by Thursday.

Germany had also rejected Russia’s offer to reroute the deliveries through Nord Stream 2, the second pipeline under the Baltic Sea, saying the pipeline was not legally certified for operation. Berlin had put the pipeline’s certification on indefinite hold in February, prior to the Russian military operation in Ukraine.

https://www.rt.com/business/559282-putin-gas-oil-crisis/

Sydney school worker charged for allegedly faking her COVID-19 vaccination status

A worker at a Sydney primary school has been charged for allegedly providing a fake COVID-19 vaccine certificate to the school.

Police discovered the 55-year-old woman was allegedly faking her vaccination status as detectives were investigating an organised criminal network in south-west Sydney, NSW police has revealed.

While investigating crimes in the network, which has led to 20 people being charged with crimes involving drugs, firearms, fraud and the proceeds of crime, police learnt a fake COVID-19 vaccine certificate had been acquired in October.

Police then investigated the school administrative manager, who works at a school in Sydney's west, before raiding a home in Merrylands about 8.30am yesterday.

Officers seized cash, documents and electronics.

A 55-year-old woman was arrested at the home and taken to Granville Police Station.

She was charged with dishonestly obtain financial advantage by deception, deal with property proceeds of crime less than $100,000, and participate in criminal group contribute criminal activity.

Police will allege in court the woman used a fraudulent document to verify her vaccination status with her employer.

The woman was refused bail and will front Fairfield Local Court today.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-school-worker-charged-for-allegedly-faking-her-covid19-vaccination-status/e8c67562-bc5a-41e1-88fa-fe2ed39bf99a

Meanwhile police do nothing about elite pedo rings downunder