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  • Big Media Joins Forces to Give the US, Germany and the West a Way Out of Ukraine

    Big Media Joins Forces to Give the US, Germany and the West a Way Out of Ukraine

    Reports yesterday that a group of Ukrainians were responsible for the sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline provide the West a way out of the conflict in Ukraine.  Is this why it was created and reported?
    Yesterday, TGP reported on the story that came out the day before that blamed Ukraine for the sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline into Europe.  The New York Times and other publications all came out with the preposterous story on Tuesday.
    Oh Please: Pro-Biden Media Claim Someone Blew up Nord Stream, We Don’t Know Who, But it Sure Wasn’t Biden

    Today, it looks like the reports were created to provide a way out of the Ukraine War with Russia.
    One series of tweets lays this out and it makes sense.
    Last week the leader of Germany went to the White House.  They have an incentive to use the bogus narrative that Ukraine blew up Nord Stream 2 because it allows them to walk away from the Ukraine War.  Only a few days after Scholtz’s visit, the story was released.

    The Germans are going to use the terrorist attack against their infrastructure as the excuse to pull out of the Ukraine project.
    Olaf Scholtz went to the US to tell Biden: Either YOU blame Ukraine so we can pull our support for Ukraine—or WE blame YOU and pull out of NATO.
    2/
    — Gonzalo Lira (@GonzaloLira1968) March 8, 2023

    This story does give the Germans and the US an excuse to pull out of Ukraine.

    Fantastical or not, they give the Germans the political cover to get out of Ukraine without breaking their relationship with the US.
    It does something else: It makes Zelensky’s regime look like a bunch of crazy people—a perfect excuse for the US to pull out of Ukraine.
    4/
    — Gonzalo Lira (@GonzaloLira1968) March 8, 2023

    We’ll have to see if the US, Germany and the West use this as a means to get out of the war in Ukraine that has waning support from the people in the US and was never adequately explained in the first place.

    What better excuse than to “suddenly realize” the Kiev regime is full of neo-Nazis crazies?
    Nutters who blew up the German pipeline!
    Oh my!
    “We had NO IDEA!”
    Anyway, that’s for later.
    For now, the Germans have an off-ramp—and they’re going to take it, I bet.
    We’ll see.
    6/6
    — Gonzalo Lira (@GonzaloLira1968) March 8, 2023

    Biden does need a way out of being blamed for the Nord Stream 2 sabotage and a way out of the Ukraine War.  Maybe this is it.  Or he can continue to do all he can to get the US in a nuclear war with Russia.  
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  • Joe Biden Calls Donald Trump “the Former President and Maybe the Future President” During Lie and Gaffe-Ridden Speech (VIDEO)

    Joe Biden Calls Donald Trump “the Former President and Maybe the Future President” During Lie and Gaffe-Ridden Speech (VIDEO)

    Joe Biden spoke in Philadelphia today regarding his plans to enact his plan to enact a $5.5 trillion tax hike on working families.
    His budget would also spend $2.2 trillion over the next decade, pushing America ever closer to full blown socialism.
    Biden also told another big lie, claiming Republicans want to defund the police. Democrats of course are the ones who want to do so.

    Biden: “MAGA Republicans are calling for defunding the police department.” pic.twitter.com/FUiFNXAf5I
    — Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 9, 2023

    While speaking he had another major gaffe. He called Donald Trump “the former President and maybe the future President.
    Or maybe he was just acknowledging reality?
    WATCH:

    Biden describes Trump as “the former president and maybe the future president.” pic.twitter.com/FDnMLSPKpg
    — Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 9, 2023

    He also mispronounced Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s name during his embarrassing speech.

    Biden pronounces @RepMTG’s name “Mountjer.” pic.twitter.com/flFAVx8vAr
    — Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 9, 2023

    But don’t worry, Biden’s physician assures us he is “fit for duty.” Yet he will not take a cognitive assessment test.
    We all know the results would show he is shot mentally.
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  • Gateway Pundit and 33 January 6 Defendants File Official Request with Speaker McCarthy for January 6 Government Footage

    Gateway Pundit and 33 January 6 Defendants File Official Request with Speaker McCarthy for January 6 Government Footage

    WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 24: Micki Witthoeft (L), mother of Ashli Babbitt, is comforted by emcee Cara Castronuova during a prayer at a January 6th Solidarity Truth Rally near the U.S. Capitol on September 24, 2022 in Washington, DC. Demonstrators who support people who have been prosecuted in the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol gather at the rally to stand united and show our strength in numbers by protesting conservative political persecution in the heart of the American capitol. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
     
    In late February, Axios reported that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had given Fox News’ Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 protests.
    Since January 2021, The Gateway Pundit has shared the plight of the January 6 political prisoners, while the mainstream media has ignored the abuse of these men and women, stalked their families and homes, smeared their good name, and repeatedly lied about the events on January 6, 2021.
    Many of these prisoners had their homes raided by the FBI, lost their businesses and livelihoods, have been separated from their friends and families, and had their reputations ruined by entrenched politicians on both sides of the aisle.  Dozens still sit in prison without a trial over two years later. Several were convicted and sent to prison for walking into an open door of the US Capitol and leaving minutes later when asked.
    Chris Wray is STILL hunting down Trump supporters who stood outside the US Capitol that day. The DC prosecutors are STILL hiding evidence from the families and prisoners in their DC kangaroo court trials.
    The Gateway Pundit has been with these men and women from the beginning. TGP told their stories and helped their families raise funds to keep them afloat.
    TGP has published hundreds of reports, shared letters from the prisoners, released audio and video, spoke with their families and told THEIR SIDE of the story. We told the truth while the mainstream media continued to spread their lies and propaganda.
    The Gateway Pundit helped raised nearly $2 million to help these fellow Americans feed their families and fight the trumped-up allegations in the DC Kangaroo courts. Even leftist Rolling Stone magazine was forced to admit the impact we have had.
    TGP put together the single most comprehensive database on January 6, The American Gulag, that provides current information about each prisoner, including relevant news articles, an arrest map, and a list of those currently incarcerated. We also provide ways for you to contact those in prison, and to help cover their legal and living expenses.
    This week The Gateway Pundit officially petitioned Speaker McCarthy to release the J6 footage to our research team and the families of the January 6 victims and prisoners.
    Here is a copy of the official letter we sent off to Speaker McCarthy this week.

    Gateway Pundit Official Let… by Jim Hoft
    TGP plans to make this footage available to the American public, especially to the defendants and their families who have been blocked from receiving pertinent information that has been withheld from defendants to wage a defense.
    The undersigned send this message and request to Speaker Kevin McCarthy. “We, the January 6 prisoners and family members, respectfully request that the Speaker provide access to the more than 41,000 hours of Capital footage directly to The Gateway Pundit research team and to the J6 families.”
    If you are a January 6 defendant, family member, or attorney, and would like to add your name to this request, please email us at Americangulag@protonmail.com with the subject line “Petition.”
    We now have 33 January 6 defendants who have signed our petition and dozens more who are family members and supporters.
    The following people have signed their name to this request:

    Jim Hoft, Founder & Editor, The Gateway Pundit
    Cara Castronuova, Investigative Reporter
    Micki Witthoeft, Mother of Ashli Babbitt
    Nice Reffit, Wife J6 Defendant Guy Reffitt
    Jake Lang, J6 Defendant
    Ed Lang, Father of J6 Defendant Jake Lang
    Jeremy Brown, J6 Defendant
    Tylene Aldridge, Girlfriend of J6 Defendant Jeremy Brown
    Tommy Tatum, Tommy Tatum News
    David Valentine, Freedoms-Express Media
    Gary McBride, M5News
    Manny Perryman, Wife of J6 Defendant Brian Jackson
    Lydia Sorrow, J6 Investigator
    Stewart Rhodes, Founder, Oath Keepers, J6 Defendant
    Phillip Anderson, J6 victim
    Victoria White, J6 Defendant and J6 Abuse Victim
    Retired US Army CPT Gabriel Garcia, J6 Defendant
    Thomas Harlen Smith, J6 Defendant
    Donnie Duane Wren, J6 Defendant
    Treniss Evans, Founder of Condemned USA, J6 Defendant
    Matthew Krol, J6 Defendant
    Lisa Krol, Wife of J6 Defendant Matthew Krol
    Lisa DeLong, Sister of J6 Matthew Krol
    Micajah Jackson, Marine, J6 Defendant
    Brady Knowlton, J6 Defendant, law student
    AJ Fischer, J6 Defendant, InvestigateJ6.org
    Ali Alexander, Stop the Steal organizer
    Annette Kuehne, Wife of J6 Defendant Christopher Kuehne
    Aubrey Webb, Defense Attorney
    Gilbert Fonticoba, J6 Defendant
    Rachel Powell, J6 Defendant
    Laura Elizabeth Jenkins, American Gulag editor
    David Sumrall, STOPHATE.com
    Ashton Richie, Condemned USA
    Ryan Samsel, J6 Defendant
    Brian Boele, J6 Defendant, 9/11 Firefighter
    Christopher Alberts, J6 Defendant
    Derrick Evans, J6 Defendant
    Luke Coffee, J6 Defendant
    Rusty Coffee, J6 Defendant’s parent
    Mary Beth Coffee, J6 Defendant’s parent
    Patrick Montgomery, J6 Defendant
    James McGrew, J6 Defendant
    Leslie McGrew, J6 Defendant’s wife
    Nathaniel Tuck, J6 Defendant
    Traci Sunstrum, J6 Defendant
    Russell Alford, J6 Defendant
    Isaac Thomas, J6 Defendant
    Thomas Webster, J6 Defendant
    Michelle Webster, J6 Defendant’s wife
    David Rhine, J6 Defendant
    Mary Sturgeon, mother of J6er Isaac Sturgeon
    Nanci Klein, mother of J6ers Jonathanpeter and Matthew Klein
    John O’Kelly, J6 Defendant
    Elizabeth Kenyon, J6 Defendant’s wife
    J6 Patriot News
    American Gulag Chronicles
    Owen Shroyer, Infowars reporter & J6 Defendant
    Mark Leffingwell, J6 Defendant
    Dominic Pezzola, J6 Defendant
    Barbara Turpin, Mother of J6 Defendant Dominic Pezzola
    George Tanios, J6 Defendant
    Craig Bingert, J6 Defendant
    Mark Middleton, J6 Defendant
    Jalise Middleton, J6 Defendant
    William Pepe, J6 Defendant

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  • “I Never Thought That in My Own Country that Freedom of Speech Would Be Threatened in This Way” – Michael Shellenberger in Front of Congress Today (VIDEO)

    “I Never Thought That in My Own Country that Freedom of Speech Would Be Threatened in This Way” – Michael Shellenberger in Front of Congress Today (VIDEO)

    The government’s actions to censor free speech went from, ‘We’re just censoring ISIS, to censoring Russia misinformation bots to now we need to fight domestic misinformation’.  This was all code for stopping conservative speech and messages the communists running the country do not like. 
    Seriously, is China running the US today?
    The Washington Times reports:
    Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger appeared before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government in an explosive hearing that focused on the federal government’s alleged sweeping efforts to silence disfavored views.
    Mr. Shellenberger harkened President Dwight Eisenhower’s warning of a ballooning military complex that would one day “endanger our liberties” in describing what he said is a current-day web of government-funded and private efforts to monitor online speech to squelch disfavored views.
    In his remarks today, Shellenberger said:
    I never thought that in my own country that freedom of speech would be threatened in this way.  It’s just frightening when you get into it…
    …We first raised a lot of concerns around the way Twitter-free Elon Musk was censoring people and creating black lists.  Very quickly we discovered that we had FBI Agents basically, and other government officials, demanding that Twitter take certain actions..
    …They keep building out basically mechanisms to proliferate a censorship industrial complex around the country to censor a whole range of issues…
    See the video below:

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  • Biden Admin Reverses Course On TikTok – Trump Responds: “Now They Realize I Was Right”

    Biden Admin Reverses Course On TikTok – Trump Responds: “Now They Realize I Was Right”

    Trump was right…again.
    The Biden White House is now supporting a bill that would outlaw TikTok in the United States.
    When Biden took office he revoked a Trump-era executive order aimed at banning TikTok.
    The Epoch Times reported:
    The White House has reversed direction this week, saying it would support a Senate bill that would outlaw TikTok in the United States.
    The Biden administration had been at a standstill for two years over how to deal with the threat to national security posed by the Chinese-owned mobile app.
    U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Tuesday welcomed a bipartisan bill that would allow the Biden administration to ban the video-sharing app.

    On Tuesday, Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) introduced the measure called the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT) Act. The bipartisan bill is the most recent proposal that seeks to fully outlaw the app due to mounting concerns that it could be used to spy on Americans.
    Trump pointed out that when he wanted to ban TikTok he was attacked by Democrats and RINOs.
    Truth Social:
    Has anybody noticed that everyone wants to go after, and destroy, TIKTOK due to China influence and National Security. When I wanted to disable TIKTOK 3 years ago, I was met with opposition from RINOS to Democrats to everyone else. They actually went to court in an effort to stop me. Now they realize I was right, and have changed their tune. Sadly, I’ve been right about everything!
    Just last year, Joe Biden invited TikTok influencers to the White House to push propaganda for him.
    Total Clown Show: Biden White House Activates Dozens of Tik Tok Influencers to Spread Ukraine Propaganda – Holds Meeting to Coach Them

    Will they all apologize to Donald Trump?
    For the antidote to media bias, check out ProTrumpNews.com…
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  • Special Counsel Jack Smith Targets Trump Lawyer, Will Ask Obama Judge to Reject Trump’s Privilege Claims in Classified Documents Case

    Special Counsel Jack Smith Targets Trump Lawyer, Will Ask Obama Judge to Reject Trump’s Privilege Claims in Classified Documents Case

    Special Counsel Jack Smith is targeting Trump’s lawyer in arguments Thursday before a federal judge in the investigation into classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago.

    Jack Smith is expected to ask Chief Judge Beryl Howell of DC, an Obama appointee, to reject Trump’s claims of attorney-client privilege.
    The Special Counsel is seeking more testimony from Trump’s former lawyer Eric Corcoran because they don’t have a case.
    The Wall Street Journal reported:
    A federal judge is set to hear arguments Thursday over special counsel Jack Smith’s push to extract more grand-jury testimony from a lawyer for Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the escalating investigation into the handling of classified documents at the former president’s South Florida estate.
    In a closed-door court proceeding, Mr. Smith’s team is expected to urge Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the District Court for the District of Columbia to reject attorney-client privilege claims that Evan Corcoran, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, raised on behalf of the former president during a January grand-jury appearance. Following that appearance, prosecutors asked Judge Howell to invoke the so-called crime-fraud exception to bypass the privilege claims and compel Mr. Corcoran to provide more testimony, the people said.
    That exception applies in instances where there is reason to believe that legal advice has been used in furtherance of a crime. The move to invoke it suggests that Mr. Smith’s team suspects Mr. Trump or his allies used Mr. Corcoran’s services in such a way.
    Special Counsel Jack Smith has issued a flurry of subpoenas as he ramps up his harassment campaign against Trump and his inner circle.
    The special counsel investigation was supposed to focus on whether Trump broke the law when he took White House records to Mar-a-Lago and the other part of the probe is related to January 6.
    However, Jack Smith has now expanded his investigation and is looking into Trump’s efforts to fight the massive 2020 election fraud operation in key swing states.
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  • DEVELOPING: Chinese Military Rocket Disintegrates Over Texas

    DEVELOPING: Chinese Military Rocket Disintegrates Over Texas

    A Chinese military rocket disintegrated over Texas on Wednesday, USNI News reported.
    The rocket, which was launched from China, delivered military surveillance satellites to space in June and made its way back to earth on Wednesday over the United States.
    WATCH:

    [China’s 21st launch in 2022] At UTC 02:22 June 23, 3 Yaogan(遥感/RemoteSensing)-35-02 satellites were successfully launched by #CZ2D Y64 rocket in Xichang, Sichuan. This is the 424th launch of Long March rocket family. HD: https://t.co/018SGyq48M pic.twitter.com/0kDtkg7hua
    — CNSA Watcher (@CNSAWatcher) June 23, 2022

    The 8,000 pound rocket made its way back to earth on Wednesday over Texas.
    The debris field could be miles wide and several hundred feet long, USNI News reported.
    USNI News reported:
    The second stage of a Chinese rocket that delivered a trio of military surveillance satellites to space in June disintegrated over Texas on Wednesday, USNI News has learned.
    The four-ton component of a Chang Zheng 2D ‘Long March’ rocket punched through the atmosphere on Wednesday over Texas at 17,000 miles per hour and disintegrated, two defense officials confirmed to USNI News on Thursday.
    U.S. military officials have yet to find any debris from the rocket stage, however, USNI News understands the debris field could be miles wide and several hundred miles long.
    According to North American Aerospace Defense Command satellite tracking data, the stage was a piece of space junk in low Earth orbit before it made its unscheduled descent.
    Based on the NORAD tracking data, the stage belonged to a mission that delivered three military electronic signals surveillance satellites that were meant to collect signals data from the South China Sea, astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told USNI New on Thursday.
    The rocket took off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on June 23 in central China.
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  • Republicans Dive Into COVID Origins With Fresh Fervor

    By Casey Harper (The Center Square)
    U.S. House Oversight lawmakers held a subcommittee hearing Wednesday to dig further into where COVID-19 originated and who may be responsible.
    Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, led the hearing, saying they will be investigating not just COVID’s origins, but also decisions made during the pandemic.
    He began by laying out evidence that the virus came from a lab.
    “The genome of COVID-19 is inconsistent with expectations and is unique for its group of viruses,” he said. “COVID-19 has both a binding domain optimized for human cells and a furin cleavage site – or a small part of the virus that makes it so infectious – that has never been seen before in SARS related viruses. In other words, COVID-19 has unique characteristics that made it very infectious to humans. These have never been seen before in any other viruses of its type.”
    “We know the Wuhan Institute of Virology was conducting gain-of-function research on novel bat coronaviruses by creating chimeric viruses – combining two viruses together to test infectivity – and infecting mice with these viruses,” he added. “Work that former COVID-19 Task Force Coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx confirmed was, in fact, gain-of-function; contrary to the statements of Dr. Fauci.”
    The lab leak theory gained traction recently when news reports broke saying that the White House and key lawmakers received classified briefings saying that the Department of Energy had concluded COVID-19 likely came from the Wuhan virology lab.
    Soon after, the FBI confirmed that they had reached the same conclusion.
    Related: Wuhan Backlash Erupts After Stunning Biden Administration Admission
    Meanwhile, lawmakers are pushing to have documents related to the matter declassified.
    The U.S. Senate passed a bill by unanimous consent that would require Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to declassify documents related to COVID’s origins.
    One focus of the hearing was Dr. Anthony Fauci and his role in attacking the idea the virus could have originated in a lab.
    “And over the weekend we released a memo highlighting new evidence that suggests Dr. Fauci ‘prompted’ the drafting of a publication that would ‘disprove’ the lab leak theory, that the authors skewed evidence to achieve that goal, and that the current Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization was an uncredited co-author even though he appears to have contributed to the piece entitled, ‘Proximal Origins,’” Rep. Wenstrup said.
    “I think we have already established that the Select Subcommittee will try to leave no stone unturned to try to find the truth,” he added.
    Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines emphasized during the hearing that China’s lack of forthrightness has made finding the truth difficult.
    More hearings are expected on the matter. Wenstrup kicked off his remarks by calling this hearing “our first of many hearings concerning the Coronavirus Pandemic.”
    He also lamented the politicization of the question over COVID’s origins. Early on in the pandemic, some Republicans, like U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., raised the question of whether the lab could have been the source of the virus and was roundly mocked by the media.
    Related: U.S. Energy Department Says COVID-19 Likely Came From Chinese Lab
    As The Center Square previously reported, in 2020, the Associated Press called the idea a “myth.” The same year, The New York Times called it a “conspiracy theory,” and The Washington Post called it a “fringe theory.”
    Social media companies like Facebook were taking down posts in 2021 that claimed COVID-19 was man-made.
    Fauci also pummeled dissidents in repeated media interviews and social media companies censored viewpoints that did not adhere to the supposed facts.
    “Unfortunately, the question of the origins has been politicized,” Wenstrup said. “It has driven most people to their corners rather than driving apolitical scientific debate or discussion.”
    Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.
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  • Congressmen Want Marines Expelled By Vaccine Mandates Brought Back

    By Alan Wooten (The Center Square)
    The Marine Corps is being asked by four members of Congress, led by a practicing doctor from North Carolina, to reach out to and return thousands of Marines expelled because of COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
    Wednesday’s letter to Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marines, cited “unprecedented recruiting challenges your service and the entire Department of Defense is experiencing.” The letter noted the repeal of the vaccine mandate – by bipartisan support – and recognized the ability of those who could potentially be available for “positions where their Military Occupational Specialty expertise is of critical need.”
    North Carolina Republican Rep. Greg Murphy, the only practicing physician in Congress, authored the letter alongside Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., Mike Bost, R-Ill., and Max Miller, R-Ohio. Bost is chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee.
    Related: Air Force Leader’s Testimony On Military Vaccine Mandates Contradicts IG Report, Gaetz Says
    In a release, Murphy’s office says the “Marine Corps dismissed over 3,700 Marines due to the vaccine mandate – by far the most of any of the military services.”
    “It is an utter shame that many of these selfless individuals have been stripped of their livelihoods simply because they made a conscious medical decision,” Murphy said in the release, referring to his representation of more than 52,000 Marines aboard the North Carolina bases of Camp Lejeune and New River Air Station near Jacksonville, and Cherry Point in Havelock.
    “Our request is quite simple,” the members of Congress wrote to Berger. “We request your recruiters explore reaching out to the thousands of Marines who were expelled to investigate as to who could fill positions where their Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) expertise is of critical need. We would ask special consideration for those Marines who received re-enlistment bonuses due to a need for their MOS expertise.
    “As you know, the Marine Corps is now in the process of attempting to recoup these bonuses, so these dismissed Marines face double jeopardy. General Berger, we greatly respect your past extraordinary service in our Corps and implore you to carefully consider this recommendation.”
    Related: Rep. Gaetz: Navy Leader’s Testimony On Military Vaccine Mandates Contradicts IG Report
    The letter comes after an article published in Cell Host & Microbe earlier this year by Drs. Anthony Fauci, David Morens and Jeffery Taubenberger. Fauci, in 2022, left his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, from which he had great influence on the U.S. handling of COVID-19 under both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.
    The article says developing long-term vaccines for respiratory conditions like COVID-19 still needs to be overcome, and that it is something researchers have known for years. Joe Zinberg, a Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow, told The Center Square last month that Fauci had acknowledged vaccines “would provide limited protection against infection and only for a short time.” Zinberg said Fauci persisted on the need for vaccines “and until recently pushed for vaccine mandates.”
    Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.
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  • More Aggressive Interest Rate Hikes May Be On The Horizon

    By Casey Harper (The Center Square)
    Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warned Congress that more aggressive interest rate hikes may be on the horizon.
    Powell testified before the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday where he cited the stronger economy, saying bigger hikes could be necessary to address inflation. The Fed has been using 0.25% hikes as of late.
    “The latest economic data have come in stronger than expected, which suggests that the ultimate level of interest rates is likely to be higher than previously anticipated,” he said.
    Powell is expected to testify again Wednesday. 
    The Federal Reserve has hiked rates several times to help combat inflation, which soared in recent years. Inflation is not rising as quickly now, but it still remains unclear whether a leveling off will come soon.
    “The process of getting inflation back down to 2% has a long way to go and is likely to be bumpy,” Powell told the committee.
    Related: Poll: Inflation Has Americans Worried About Covering Expenses After Job Loss
    After his comments, the Dow Jones fell several hundred points.
    “Unsurprisingly, Chairman Powell delivered a message with hawkish undertones in his testimony to Congress,” said Charlie Ripley, Senior Investment Strategist for Allianz Investment Management. “While acknowledging the recent string of economic data has been ‘stronger than expected,’ he reiterated that ongoing increases in policy rates are warranted.”
    “While some market participants might have been caught off guard by Powell’s comments, the reality is that he is largely affirming what the bond market has already priced in,” he added. “The terminal level for policy rates will be slightly higher than previous expectations as the timing of an economic slowdown has been pushed further down the road.”

    Related: A Record Number of Americans Say They’re Worse Off Financially Under Biden – Most in Nearly 4 Decades
    Despite the concerns, Powell’s comments were not surprising to some experts.
    “Chairman Powell said explicitly what many market participants were already inferring – the economic data is coming in stronger than expected and rates are going to have to go higher and stay there for longer than previously believed,” said Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer for Independent Advisor Alliance.
    “Judging by the initial market reaction, most of this was already priced in, but there must have been some holdouts who truly believed that the Fed would be cutting this year and that is extremely unlikely at this point,” he continued. 
    Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.
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