Pelosi in peril: Pentagon plays down fears China will SHOOT DOWN Nancy's plane if she visits Taiwan after Beijing warned U.S will 'bear all consequences'

U.S. officials today said they have little fear that China could attack Nancy Pelosi's plane if she flies to Taiwan as Beijing doubled down on their threat to take 'firm and strong measures' if the House speaker visits the island.

If Pelosi does travel to Taiwan, which is still an uncertainty, the U.S. military would increase its movement of forces and assets in the Indo-Pacific region, officials said.

The officials declined to provide details of their plans, but said that fighter jets, ships, surveillance assets and other military systems would likely be used to provide overlapping rings of protection for her flight to Taiwan and any time on the ground there.

The US military is also reportedly considering deploying a multi-domain task force that would utilize missile, electronic and cyber capabilities in an integrated manner in Asia, according to the Japanese news outlet Nikkei News.

Any foreign travel by a senior U.S. leader requires additional security. But officials said this week that a visit to Taiwan by Pelosi - who would be the highest-ranking U.S. elected official to visit the island since 1997 - would go beyond the usual safety precautions for trips to less risky destinations.

It comes as China warned today that Washington would 'bear the consequences' if Pelosi visits Taiwan - days after threatening to take 'resolute and forceful measures' against the US if the trip goes ahead.

'If the US pushes ahead and challenges China's bottom line… the US side will bear all the consequences arising therefrom,' Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a regular press conference.

Self-governed Taiwan's 23 million people live under the constant threat of invasion by authoritarian China, which views the island as its territory and has vowed to one day seize it, by force if necessary.

More at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11052517/US-military-making-plans-case-Pelosi-travels-Taiwan.html

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will not teach George Washington Law seminar after uproar

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will not be teaching a course at George Washington University's law school after students protested his role with the school.

An email announcing the decision was sent by Thomas' expected co-lecturer Gregory Maggs and obtained by Fox News Digital.

"Unfortunately, I am writing with some sad news: Justice Thomas has informed me that he is unavailable to co-teach the seminar this fall. I know that this is disappointing," Maggs wrote.

He added, "I am very sorry.The seminar has not been canceled but I will now be the sole instructor. For those of you still interested in taking the course, I assure you that we will make the best of the new situation."

A university representative also confirmed the news to Fox News Digital.

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/us/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-will-not-teach-george-washington-law-seminar-uproar

Leftist: We Need to Kill Babies in Abortions So We Can Have “Care-Free Sex Lives”

The overturn of Roe v. Wade is going to impair the next generation’s sex-life according to Sunday’s Daily Beast piece.

Rebecca White, a “culturally white, cis, straight-identifying woman” penned the piece titled “I Had a Carefree Sex Life. The Next Generation Will Have Fear” to talk about how great her sex life is/was without having to worry about limited access to abortion. Ms. White expressed her concern for younger people who will have to “fear” the result of unprotected sex.

Abortion access has supposedly become “a war” and White advocated for women to “manifest on the streets, on the page, and in conversation.” Yes, take to the streets to ensure that you have the “right” to kill your babies after you choose to engage in unprotected sex. That’s the narrative these lunatics want you to buy.

White’s key line was: “If every man went into sex thinking, ‘Do I want to have children with this woman?’—the idea would be seen as patently absurd.”

That’s the thing though. Every time you have sex you should recognize that there is a chance of pregnancy resulting. If you don’t want to take that chance, don’t! Very simple math.

Keeping sex fun is not the most important conversation to be had right now. But it cannot go without being said. Our war to regain equality as women in this country must be won on as many fronts as possible.

So the war now is that abortion needs to be accessible so that people can have more sex and not worry about having to raise a child. OK then.

More at: https://www.lifenews.com/2022/07/26/leftist-we-need-to-kill-babies-in-abortions-so-we-can-have-care-free-sex-lives/

West Virginia Committee Passes Abortion Ban Protecting Lives of Unborn Babies

A second West Virginia House committee has advanced a pro-life bill that would ban abortions, protecting the lives of unborn babies from conception.

The state legislature is holding a special session on a few political issues, including abortion. Knowing that the state’s old abortion ban is tied up in courts, supposedly for lack of clarity, Governor Jim Justice called on the legislature to pass a new abortion ban that would stand up in court following the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

“From the moment the Supreme Court announced their decision in Dobbs, I said that I would not hesitate to call a Special Session once I heard from our Legislative leaders that they had done their due diligence and were ready to act,” Justice said in a statement. “As I have said many times, I very proudly stand for life and I believe that every human life is a miracle worth protecting.”

Justice said he wanted the legislature to produce a pro-life bill to “ensure a coherent, comprehensive framework governing abortions and attendant family services and support to expecting mothers to provide the citizens of this State more certainty in the application of such laws.”

Yesterday, the House Health and Human Resources Committee passed an abortion ban that protects babies from abortions starting at fertilization — only allowing abortions in cases where the life of the mother is in danger and when the baby is severely disabled. The measure also makes it clear that ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages are not abortions and can be treated under the law.

More at: https://www.lifenews.com/2022/07/27/west-virginia-committee-passes-abortion-ban-protecting-lives-of-unborn-babies/

Tennessee and Idaho Abortion Bans Will Go Into Effect August 25th

Two states will have abortion bans going into effect next month that will protect more babies from abortions.

Thanks to the Supreme Court making its Dobbs decision official yesterday, trigger laws in Tennessee and Idaho that ban abortions when Roe v. Wade is overturned will go into effect August 25th. That will protect all babies from abortions and only allow abortions in very limited instances.

In June, the Tennessee heartbeat law went into effect following the Dobbs decision. The pro-life law protects babies from abortions and it has already been responsible for closing two abortion businesses. While the pro-life law bans abortions on babies when their heart starts beating, the trigger law will offer full legal protection for unborn children starting from conception.

More at: https://www.lifenews.com/2022/07/27/tennessee-and-idaho-abortion-bans-will-go-into-effect-august-25th/

Abortionist Loses His Medical License After Almost Killing Three Women in Botched Abortions

They say aboritons should be safe and legal but the truth is legal abortions are anything but safe. In Florida, the state health department has suspended the medical license of an abortionist who almost killed three women in botched abortions.

Christopher Saputa, a Tarpon Springs-based abortionist, ends the lives of unborn babies at the American Family Planning clinic in Pensacola. And he almost ended the lives of three women when he failed to provide proper post-abortion medical care when their botched abortions caused medical emergencies.

Saputa is so incompetent that the health department suspended his license and called him a “great public danger” when he left three women to die after their abortions. He is so bad that even a nurse at the abortion business complained about how shoddy he is and said Saputa should have initiated emergency transport sooner than he did in at least one case.

More at: https://www.lifenews.com/2022/07/27/abortionist-loses-his-medical-license-after-almost-killing-three-women-in-botched-abortions/

Vehicle repossessions are surging, report finds

From dealers to lenders to tow truck operators, reports have poured in this month about a disturbing trend of rising car and truck repossessions.

Lisa Beilfuss Popeo, who covers the economy for Barron's, recently reported that vehicle repossessions have doubled among “prime” borrowers, which includes consumers with good credit scores.

"One red flag is the rate of repossession for prime borrowers is starting to rise. It's not just subprime borrowers that are having problems," Popeo told CBS News.

The reason for the sharp increase in repossessions is not exactly clear. Some point to a bubble in the car market that was caused by rapidly rising prices due to a shortage of new cars and trucks.

The average price paid for a used vehicle in June was around $32,000 – an all-time high. Popeo thinks the rise in repossessions will result in a lot more used cars on the market, which could temper rapidly rising prices, especially if it’s accompanied by softening demand.

May not affect used car prices

Karl Brauer, executive analyst at iSeeCars.com, thinks a lot of used vehicles would have to hit the market to make a sizable dent in prices.

“The backlog of vehicle demand is pretty deep, so repossessions need to hit a fairly high volume to have any real impact on vehicle pricing,” Brauer told ConsumerAffairs. “We’ve seen pricing stabilize in the last few months, but at a much higher level than it was 15 months ago, around $10,000 higher on average for both new and used cars.”

Brauer thinks the only way repossessions could affect prices is if an economic downturn triggered a substantial drop in car buying and repossessions continued at a high rate.

“That could reverse the price of cars, but it has a long way to go if people are waiting for prices to return to normal, he said.

Some economists think the pandemic’s stimulus and extra unemployment benefits may have played a role in pushing up the price of used vehicles. Now that the stimulus money has been spent and the extra unemployment benefits have expired, some consumers who overspent on a vehicle are struggling to keep up with payments, especially now that inflation makes everything else more expensive.

Source: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/vehicle-repossessions-are-surging-report-finds-072622.html

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Bokhari: Big Tech’s Blueprint to Stop a Red Wave in 2022

Republicans think a “red wave” is inevitable in November. But the Democrats still have one big advantage: the ever-tightening grip of Big Tech censorship, which will be used to prevent undecided voters from encountering even the most mainstream conservative news in the runup to the next election. Republicans will have a strong message — but what if voters are prevented from hearing it?

In the runup to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Google completely suppressed Breitbart News from its search results. Compared to 2016, Breibart News went into the 2020 election with a 99.7 percent reduction in visibility for its links on Google search. The censorship was so severe, no-name blogs with plagiarized headlines and content would appear in search results before the original Breitbart News articles. On searches for the term “Joe Biden,” Google cut visibility on Breitbart News links to zero.

Then, a few weeks before the election, Big Tech teamed up to suppress one of the biggest stories of the cycle: the Hunter Biden laptop story. A post-election poll found that 17 percent of Biden voters would have reconsidered their decision had they been aware of the laptop story alone, not counting the hundreds of Breitbart News stories voters didn’t have access to due to Google censorship.

Biden’s margin of victory in three swing states was less than a percentage point, making tech censorship a pivotal factor in the outcome. There is no law preventing Silicon Valley from not only repeating this plan in 2022, but scaling it up to a massive level – and that’s exactly what they are doing. The groundwork is already being prepared, in a number of ways:

#1 “Independent” Watchdogs Downgrading Conservative Media — NewsGuard Discredits The Right

No matter how mainstream you are, you aren’t safe. NewsGuard, the establishment “misinformation” watchdog that received funding from the Pentagon and whose software is being rolled out by millions of schoolteachers across the country, recently downgraded Fox News in its rankings of trustworthy and untrustworthy news sources.

NewsGuard users will now see a red warning label next to Fox News links all around the internet, signaling to users that the source is considered untrustworthy by the organization, which was set up by former establishment media figures Steven Brill and L. Gordon Crovitz in 2018, in the early years of the media-concocted “misinformation” panic.

Fox News and Breitbart News have now both received the negative “red” rating from NewsGuard. This means that, going into the 2022 midterm elections, NewsGuard is warning its users not to read the two leading conservative-leaning sources of online news.

Naturally, the sources that pushed the Russiagate hoax and said the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinfo” — a claim repeated by NewsGuard’s co-founder — receive no such warning label.

#2 Facebook Suppressing The News — If The Wrong Side Is Winning, Call Off The Game

Silicon Valley has also found a way to censor all conservative media at the same time. For years, the left has been wailing and screaming about the success of conservative media on Facebook. Despite algorithm changes that suppressed traffic to conservative websites — by a whopping 20 percent in the case of Breitbart News — conservative media has continued to crush the competition.

Facebook has an answer: if conservative media is winning the news war on its platform, it will simply suppress all news at the same time. This month, the Wall Street Journal reported that the platform is shifting resources away from its News Tab and news distribution, and towards a “creator economy.” This means that news will be featured less frequently to users, whether they ask for it or not. This is a way of preventing unwanted narratives from reaching the public, at the very moment when news coverage of the failures of Democrat rule in D.C. will be ramping up.

This is a repeat of what Facebook did after the 2016 election when it reduced the visibility of political posts — a change that resulted in engagement on Donald Trump’s page dropping by almost half.

More at: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/07/27/bokhari-big-techs-blueprint-to-stop-a-red-wave-in-2022/

This shit again….

New studies agree that animals sold at Wuhan market are most likely what started Covid-19 pandemic

New studies agree that animals sold at Wuhan market are most likely what started Covid-19 pandemic

In one, scientists from around the world used mapping tools and social media reports to do a spatial and environmental analysis. They suggest that although the “exact circumstances remain obscure,” the virus was probably present in live animals sold at the market in late 2019. The animals were held close together and could easily have exchanged germs. However, the study does not determine which animals may have been sick.

The researchers determined that the earliest Covid-19 cases were centered at the market among vendors who sold these live animals or people who shopped there. They believe that there were two separate viruses circulating in the animals that spilled over into people.

“All eight COVID-19 cases detected prior to 20 December were from the western side of the market, where mammal species were also sold,” the study says. The proximity to five stalls that sold live or recently butchered animals was predictive of human cases.

More BS at: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/health/wuhan-market-covid-19/index.html

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‘Top Chef’ TV Personality Dies ‘Unexpectedly’ After Heart Attack at 46

Howard “Howie” Kleinberg, a personality on Bravo TV’s “Top Chef” series, has died after suffering from a heart attack. He was 46.

His mother, Susan, confirmed his death to the Miami Herald newspaper that he died over the weekend. The obituary for Kleinberg said he had passed away “unexpectedly” on July 22.

“I am just finding out how many lives he touched,” Susan told the paper. “He was married to his passion in life, which was his cooking.”

Kleinberg, both in Florida, was known for having competed in the third season of Top Chef in 2007, coming seventh place in the competition.

To his friends and family, he is known as “Chef Howie.”

After competing on Top Chef, Kleinberg opened his own restaurant called Bulldog BBQ in Miami in 2008. The restaurant was inspired by his love of barbecue and summers spent in North Carolina, according to his obituary.

After the restaurant closed ten years later, Kleinberg spent time as executive chef for the Anderson, a cocktail bar in Miami, according to the Miami New Times. The outlet said that in March 2022, he joined as executive chef at Peacock Garden Resto Bar + Grill, a fine dining restaurant in Miami.

Kleinberg also participated annually in the South Beach Wine and Food Festival. This was a “great source of pride for him,” his obituary reads.

“Howie is survived by his mother, Susan Kleinberg Ratner and stepfather, Ken Ratner. His sister, Amy (William) Wildstein and their three children Whitney, Lindsey, and Phillip and his beloved dog Skye.”

More at: https://www.theepochtimes.com/top-chef-tv-personality-dies-unexpectedly-after-heart-attack-at-46_4625133.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=imctgm01

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Fed increases key interest rate by 0.75 points again. How will it affect economy and you?

Another month, another outsize interest rate hike.

The Federal Reserve raised its key short-term rate by three-quarters of a percentage point for a second straight month Wednesday in a bid to corral soaring inflation, matching the largest increase since 1994.

It puts the federal funds rate – which is what banks charge each other for overnight loans – at a range of 2.25% to 2.5%, close to the Fed’s 2.5% long-run, or neutral rate. That’s the rate intended to neither stimulate nor curtail economic growth.

In recent months, Fed Chair Powell has said the central bank must “move expeditiously” to that neutral level and then likely beyond it to cool the economy and bring inflation under control.

The big question: Will the Fed now dial back the size of its stock-market-dampening rate increases for the rest of the year?

Powell could provide clues at a 2:30 p.m. news conference. Goldman Sachs and Barclays both expect the central bank to approve a half-point rate increase in September before throttling back to more traditional quarter-point moves in November and December. That would leave the rate at 3.25% to 3.5% at year-end, in line with Fed officials’ median forecast.

But they say Powell will likely avoid sending strong signals to keep the Fed’s options open for a half- or three-quarters point move in six weeks.

More at: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/07/27/fed-interest-rate-hikes/10150515002/