GOOD MORNING! Two things from the 1970s that I will always remember are the Seattle Supersonics and inflation. Only one of them is making a comeback. And it is the wrong one.
ITEM 1: The Washington Examiner reported, "Just one day after reporting the highest inflation for consumers since the Great Recession, the Bureau of Labor Statistics sounded another alarm, this time with June's producer price index. The PPI soared by 7.3% over the past year, the largest annual increase on record, and even without the volatile categories of food and energy, it increased by 5.6%. In the single month from May to June, the PPI increased by a full 1%, just one-fifth of a percentage point lower than January's record-setting monthly PPI."
ITEM 2: AP reported, "Spain’s Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that a strict stay-at-home lockdown order the Spanish government issued under a state of emergency during the first wave of COVID-19 last year was unconstitutional.
"While upholding most terms of the state of emergency, the court said provisions ordering the population off the streets except for short shopping trips, unavoidable work commutes and other essential business violated Spain’s Constitution.
"The court issued a brief statement that described the ruling as a split decision. State broadcaster TVE said six magistrates were in favor and five against. The full decision is expected to be released in the coming days.
"According to TVE, the court majority ruled that the limitations on movement violated citizens’ basic rights and the state of emergency was a constitutionally insufficient mechanism to do that. The six magistrates said a state of exception, which does allow the government to suspend basic rights, would have been necessary."
How did Spain wind up with freedom and we wind up with Franco?
ITEM 3: Mediaite reported, "A German court is ordering YouTube to pay a $118,000 fine for removing the video of a protest against Covid-19 lockdowns filmed in Switzerland last year.
"A regional court in Dresden ordered to pay the 100,000 Euro fine last week more than a year after the company ran afoul of German laws. The court ordered YouTube to put the video online in May 2020, a month after YouTube removed it, but the company took weeks to comply. YouTube unsuccessfully argued the video violated its policies on Covid-19 misinformation."
The Germans now protect dissidents while we lock ours up for months on end for trespassing -- in a public building.
ITEM 4: CNN reported, "After 26 Colombians were accused of assassinating Haitian President Jovenel Moise, a retired special forces soldier in Colombia has told CNN that they were actually hired to provide the leader security, and that he himself was approached for the job by a US-based company.
"Matias Gutierrez, 45, told CNN he was contacted in early June by a fellow veteran named Mendivelso Gersain, who put him in touch with another man — retired Sgt. Duberney Capador — recruiting a group of private security guards to travel to Haiti."
Who set up the company, and was it working for the Clintons?
Remember, the Clintons through their fake charity were deeply involved in Haitian politics.
ITEM 5: Just the News reported, "Republican Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Chuck Grassley of Iowa sent a letter to the Justice Department Wednesday asking for more information regarding missing phones used by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team during the Russian collusion investigation.
"The senators sent the letter after finding out the Justice Department 'could not locate 59 of the 96 phones used by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team,' according to Grassley's website.
"The two senators wrote to the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General in September 2020 regarding allegations that cell phones assigned to "multiple people on then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team were 'wiped' for various reasons during [the Russia investigation]."
The Deep State answers to nobody, senators.
We have become Haiti.
ITEM 6: Newsblock reported, "In a surprising reflection of concern over the approval of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm, the Cleveland Clinic said Wednesday night that it would not administer it to patients.
"The clinic, one of the largest and most respected medical centers in the country, said in a statement that a panel of its experts had 'reviewed all the available scientific evidence on this drug,' which is also called aducanumab.
"'Based on current data on its safety and efficacy, we have decided not to carry aducanumab at this time,' the statement said.
"A spokeswoman for the clinic said individual doctors could prescribe Aduhelm to patients, but those patients would have to go elsewhere to receive the drug, which is given as a monthly intravenous infusion.
"The major medical center’s stance is the latest fallout from the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug on June 7, a decision that has also spurred congressional investigations."
The drug treatment costs $56,000 a month. I suspect its peddler, Biogen, paid someone to get approval. Who knows, maybe they bought some Hunter artwork.
ITEM 7: NPR reported, "After 10 straight days of hiccups, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was admitted to a hospital Wednesday with what doctors said was a bowel obstruction that could require surgery. They later announced that they would not operate immediately.
"Bolsonaro, 66, was admitted to the Hospital of the Armed Forces in the capital Brasilia in the morning and was fine, according to an initial statement."
Hiccups.
What a weird reason to be hospitalized.
ITEM 8: National Review reported, "The Senate passed a bill to curtail imports from Xinjiang Province in China on Wednesday evening, following reports of China’s mass internment and sterilization of Uyghurs and other minorities in the region.
"The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, introduced by Senators Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.) and passed by a voice vote, seeks to prevent importation of all goods made in Xinjiang with forced labor. Various reports have emerged alleging that China forces Uyghurs to work in industries and supply chains based in Xinjiang, for products including solar panels and cotton."
That's a start.
We should do absolutely no business with Red China.
ITEM 9: New York magazine reported, "To pick the worst press failure of the past half-decade would be a daunting assignment, but the coverage of the Steele dossier would have to be high on any list.
"The document, penned by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, was commissioned in 2016 by the private research firm Fusion GPS, in turn working for the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. The aim was to dig up dirt on Donald Trump, especially regarding any ties he might have to Russia. Steele delivered, alleging a long-standing conspiracy between Trump and the Kremlin and offering details that proved to be as unfounded as they were spectacular: a meeting in Prague between Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and Russian officials in 2016, a collaboration between Trump and Moscow to hack the emails of the Democratic National Committee, and, most infamously, a surveillance video of Trump cavorting with prostitutes at the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow (a.k.a. the pee tape). Although they were almost certainly specious, these claims spawned countless news stories — including at New York — and prompted government investigations into possible ties between Moscow and Trump."
None of this was true, by the way.
Cohen never went to Prague. The DNC emails were leaked, not hacked. And the pee tape was the imagination of immature minds.
The story said reporters were duped. Baloney. They knew it was bogus. They just wanted to get Donald Trump. That is why no one has apologized and the Pulitzer committee has not rescinded its prizes.
ITEM 10: The AP reported, "Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday.
"That estimate far eclipses the high of about 72,000 drug overdose deaths reached the previous year and amounts to a 29% increase."
What doubles the pain is that it was all so unnecessary.
We never should have locked down the economy.
ITEM 11: Axios reported, "About 1.8 million out-of-work Americans have turned down jobs because of the generosity of unemployment insurance benefits, according to Morning Consult poll results released Wednesday.
"Why it matters: U.S. businesses have been wrestling with labor supply shortages as folks capable of working have opted not to work for a variety of reasons."
This was as predictable as the overdose deaths. The temporary federal bonus is becoming permanent, creating a new class of entitled ne'er-do-wells.
Democrats are destroying the American work ethic.
ITEM 12: Paul Bedard reported, "As the Senate, nudged along by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, moves to include immigration for millions of illegal immigrants in an infrastructure bill, new polling shows it could be a career killer for several Democrats up for reelection next year.
"Data provided by the Federation for American Immigration Reform found most blame President Joe Biden for the border crisis and that a large majority believes that providing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the legislation would only make the crisis worse.
"One early draft of the infrastructure bill would put $150 billion to immigration policies, including the path to citizenship.
"Overall, 57% agreed that 'such legislation would encourage more people to enter the country illegally and make an already difficult situation worse.'"
They already have a path to citizenship. But instead of getting visas and following the law, they try to skip the line.
To heck with them.
ITEM 13: Politico reported, "House Democrats are plowing ahead on investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection with or without Republican leadership participation, scheduling the first select committee hearing on July 27."
Insurrection?
We should be investigating covid.
Red China laughs at Washington's paranoia and craven abuse of power to silence dissenters.
ITEM 14: The Daily Beast reported that Shep Smith's ratings have tanked after he left Fox for CNBC. Turns out he's not taking it too well.
Ace reported, "Oh, No: Shep Smith's Low Ratings Are Causing Turmoil at CNBC; Smith Throws Temper Tantrums
"This doesn't sound like the Noted Baby-Eating at the Superdome Documentarian and Car Chase Color Man that I know."
The show peaked at 296,000 viewers in February. In June, it was down to 197,000.
Tucker Carlson drew more than 10 times as many viewers.
FINALLY, BizPac Review reported, "The NAACP on Tuesday vowed to bail out any Texas Democrat arrested by state authorities for running away from a special legislative session earlier in the week called by GOP Gov. Greg Abbott to consider, among other things, new voter integrity legislation."
The NAACP is now a slave to the party of slavery.
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