Not ‘Putin’s Price Hike’: Fed Chair Breaks With Biden on Inflation

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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday broke with President Biden’s repeated attempts to blame Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine for the highest inflation in 40 years.

Powell, confirmed last month to a second term as chairman, explained to the Senate Banking Committee that “inflation was high before” the Feb. 24 Russian invasion of Ukraine, which increased global food and energy prices.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) elicited the remark from Powell at a committee hearing after laying out the fact that inflation grew higher over the course of 2021.

“I realize there are a number of factors that play a role in those historic inflation that we’re experiencing — supply chain disruptions, regulations that constrain supply, we’ve got rising inflation expectations and excessive fiscal spending, but the problem hasn’t sprung out of nowhere,” Hagerty said.

“In January of 2021, inflation was at 1.4%. By December of 2021, it had risen to 7% — a fivefold increase. Now, since the war in Ukraine began in late February, the rate of inflation has risen incrementally another 1.6% to a current level of 8.6%. So again, from 7% to 8.6%.” (Read more from “Not ‘Putin’s Price Hike’: Fed Chair Breaks With Biden on Inflation” HERE)

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Gun Rights Groups Explain the Problems With the Senate Gun Control Bill

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Gun rights organizations slammed the new bipartisan gun control bill that 14 Republican senators backed, warning that the bill creates new problems. . .

“The package extends current prohibitions on gun sales to those who have disqualifying juvenile records and those convicted of misdemeanor violent crimes against ‘dating partners,’” The Reload reported. “The bill also includes a new background check process for those 18 to 20 years old, funding for ‘Red Flag’ laws or other state crisis intervention programs, the reclassification of who must obtain federal gun dealing licenses, and several other proposals.”

Some of the more troubling aspects of the bill were highlighted in an analysis conducted by the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC)[.] . .

“The proposal seeks to chill the right to keep and bear arms by incentivizing local disarmament proceedings, of which many states currently employ secret ex-parte hearings, massive penalties and enhancements reminiscent of the mass incarceration of the so-called war on drugs, naked discrimination against young adults, and an aggressive assault on peaceable conduct,” FPC said in a separate statement. “Should this package be adopted, it will result in the imprisonment, injury, and death of peaceable people.” (Read more from “Gun Rights Groups Explain the Problems With the Senate Gun Control Bill” HERE)

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Largest Ever Florida Python Discovered, and the Contents of Its Stomach Will Blow Your Mind

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Field biologists discovered an 18-foot invasive Burmese python weighing 215 pounds in the Florida Everglades.

Researchers from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida believed their scale was broken when they weighed the beast, as none of them could comprehend a Burmese python would ever grow so huge, National Geographic reported Tuesday. The snake, the largest ever discovered in Florida, was captured using a male scout snake with a GPS tracker attached to it, the outlet continued. Burmese pythons are effectively impossible to spot without scout snakes, according to BroBible. . .

Inside her digestive tract, the researchers found “tan goop with bits of fur,” dissolved bone and three intact hoof cores belonging to a deer, National Geographic reported. Only 73 different animal species have been discovered inside of Florida Burmese python guts, including 24 mammals, 47 birds and two reptiles, according to the outlet. (Read more from “Largest Ever Florida Python Discovered, and the Contents of Its Stomach Will Blow Your Mind” HERE)

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Cops Introduce Their Homo Liaison Officer, and ‘Pride Cruiser’ (VIDEO)

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The police department in Columbus, Ohio, has unveiled a new “LGBTQIA+ liaison officer” and a “pride cruiser,” in recognition of the decision by the community of alternative sexual lifestyle seekers to claim June as “pride” month.

“The officer in the video says: ‘Hi I’m Officer Lutz with the Columbus Division of Police. I’m your LGBTQIA+ liaison officer and we are unveiling right now our pride cruiser for the month of June! I’m excited about this cruiser. It’s great for representation,'” according to a report from the Right Scoop.

The car has rainbow-colored emblems all over, and includes the “Love is love” and “Report hate crimes” slogans.

The Right Scoop’s commentary explained, “I think it might be time to defund the Columbus police. Heh, I’m kidding. But seriously, they should defund the officer or city official that came up with this crap. Ugh.”

A comment page at WeLoveTrump.com included the observation, “Oh great. We have a Gay Gestapo now.” (Read more from “Cops Introduce Their Homo Liaison Officer, and ‘Pride Cruiser’” HERE)

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ExxonMobil CEO Predicts Oil Market Turbulence Will Go On for Years

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ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods predicted Tuesday the global oil market will continue to be “tight” for years to come, indicating cost relief at the gas pump is not on the horizon.

Speaking at the Bloomberg Qatar Economic Forum in Doha, Woods predicted that turbulence within the global oil market will not subside for three to five years.

“You are probably looking at three to five years of continued fairly tight markets,” Woods said. “How that manifests itself in price will obviously be a big function of demand, which is difficult to predict.”

Woods added that protection from market volatility will require governments and oil companies to enact “more thoughtful policies.” (Read more from “ExxonMobil CEO Predicts Oil Market Turbulence Will Go On for Years” HERE)

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Fatally Shot Uvalde Teacher Called Police Officer Husband – He Tried to Rescue Her but Was Stopped, Removed From Scene, and His Gun Was Taken (VIDEO)

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Eva Mireles — a teacher who was fatally shot during last month’s massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — called her police officer husband and told him she was dying, but when he tried to rescue her, he was detained, his gun was taken, and he was removed from the scene, according to Col. Steven McCraw, director of the state Department of Public Safety, NBC News reported. . .

McCraw — speaking Tuesday during a Texas Senate hearing on the police response to the massacre — described what Mireles said to her husband, Officer Ruben Ruiz, and what happened to him when he tried to take action, the network said.

“We got an officer, Officer Ruiz, whose wife had called him and said she [had] been shot, and she’s dying,” McCraw said, according to video of the hearing. “What happened to him was he tried to move forward into the hallway … he was detained, and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene.”

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State Department Warns Russia: Attack on Lithuania Is Attack on U.S.

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A new Russian threat to target “the residents of Lithuania” has drawn a sharp reminder of the American pledge to fight alongside any NATO allies that might come under attack.

“Lithuania is a member of the NATO alliance,” State Department spokesman Ned Price emphasized. ”We stand by the commitments that we have made to the NATO alliance. That includes, of course, a commitment to Article 5: That is the bedrock of the NATO alliance.”

Price prefaced that warning with a dismissive remark about “Russian saber-rattling or Russian bluster.” The pairing would seem to reflect how unease about heightened military tensions around the war in Ukraine has been conditioned by the recognition that Russia is far likelier to use such threats for propaganda purposes than to risk a direct clash with the trans-Atlantic alliance.

“It seems like it’s partially a Russian influence operation or psyops a little bit,” a senior European official told the Washington Examiner. (Read more from “State Department Warns Russia: Attack on Lithuania Is Attack on U.S.” HERE)

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Jan. 6 Witness Who Blasted Trump Admits He’d Vote for the Former President Again

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Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers plans to vote for former President Donald Trump if he is the nominee in 2024 despite his disparagement of the president’s actions.

During a public hearing Tuesday before the House Jan. 6 committee, Bowers recalled how Trump pressured him to “break his oath” and engage in a “circus” gambit to thwart the election over bogus election fraud claims. Despite the former president’s antics, the state speaker contended that Trump is better than the alternative.

“If he is the nominee, if he was up against Biden, I’d vote for him again simply because what he did the first time, before COVID, was so good for the county,” Bowers told the Associated Press after the hearing. “In my view, it was great.”

Bowers reiterated his rebuke of Trump supporters peddling debunked claims about a “rigged” election depriving Trump of victory in 2020, underscoring how the claims had undermined public faith in elections. (Read more from “Jan. 6 Witness Who Blasted Trump Admits He’d Vote for the Former President Again” HERE)

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J6 Committee Focuses on Election Fraud Claims While Ignoring Tactics Used to Rig the 2020 Election

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That there was no widespread fraud in November 2020 doesn’t mean that the election was not rigged to keep Donald Trump out of the White House.

The Jan. 6 show trial continues this week in the House, with several partisan aims remaining in focus, chief among them conditioning the public to believe the Nov. 3, 2020 election was the most secure in American history. By limiting their focus to select and disproven claims of election fraud, the Democrat-stacked House committee provides a bait-and-switch prime-time presentation designed to convince the country that Trump lied to his supporters when he declared the election was stolen.

But stealing an election by fraud is not the only way to rig an outcome. Elections are rigged when systemic violations of election law occur, disparately favoring one candidate and allowing for tens of thousands of illegal votes to be counted.

And the election was rigged with every illegal drop box placed in Democrat-heavy precincts. (Read more from “J6 Committee Focuses on Election Fraud Claims While Ignoring Tactics Used to Rig the 2020 Election” HERE)

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‘Pro-Choice’ Democrats Demand Google Block Search Results for Crisis Pregnancy Centers

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As pregnancy centers, pro-life organizations, and churches all around the nation are under siege from pro-abortion criminal groups which are outraged that the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, 21 congressional Democrats are demanding Google’s parent company Alphabet ban search engine results for crisis pregnancy centers so women will feel they have no options but to seek services from facilities that promote murdering preborn babies.

In a letter addressed to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on June 17, Democrats such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Richard Blumenthal, Dianne Feinstein, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Bernie Sanders smeared life-affirming pregnancy centers, many of which offer free or discounted pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, and other care to women in need, as “fake clinics” that don’t deserve a spot in Google’s top results.

The Democrats parroted data from the foreign dark-money group The Center for Countering Digital Hate which recently claimed that 11 percent of search engine results for queries such as “abortion near me” and “abortion pill” in at least 13 states where abortion will be effectively banned if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade redirected users to pregnancy centers. The same CCDH report allegedly found that 37 percent of Google Maps searches also ended at pro-life care clinics.

In the letter, Democrat signatories argue that these kinds of search engine results are “misleading” and could direct women to organizations that encourage and help them keep their babies alive. (Read more from “‘Pro-Choice’ Democrats Demand Google Block Search Results for Crisis Pregnancy Centers” HERE)

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