(FREE) PAINE IN THE MORNING: What you need to know this Tuesday – July 19, 2022

Here’s what you need to know today, Tuesday – July 19, 2022.

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Biden Secures No Immediate Oil Output Boost Pledges, But US Officials Hopeful ‘in the Coming Weeks’ – While the administration is not expecting Saudi Arabia to boost oil output immediately as a result of President Biden’s Mideast trip, officials are voicing confidence that the weeks ahead may see Gulf producers increase production.

They are also looking to the next meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and allied producers (OPEC+) in a little over a fortnight’s time, when the group will consider output for September and beyond. – READ MORE

Biden’s oil-to-China program reaches 6 million barrels – The Biden administration sold nearly six million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) since July 2021 to a Chinese state-run energy firm, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of Department of Energy data.

From July 2021 until the end of June 2022, Biden’s energy department auctioned off 5.9 million barrels of strategic reserve oil to Unipec, the trading division of the Chinese state-owned Sinopec, in an effort to increase the supply of oil globally and drive down fuel costs in the U.S. that were exacerbated by the war in Ukraine and Biden’s climate policies. SPR oil is sold to the highest bidder, and some of the businesses entitled to make bids are American subsidiaries of foreign corporations like Unipec. – READ MORE

EU Mulling Rationing Gas Across Bloc as Public Told to Expect Prices to Triple –The European Union is considering rationing gas across the bloc in the hopes of fighting shortages this winter, with the public being told to expect a tripling of prices.

As supplies go down and prices go way up, the European Union is now seemingly fearing a breaking point may be soon upon its member states, with the Commission now reportedly penning an emergency rationing plan for if Russia decides to cut countries off from its energy exports entirely. – READ MORE

China On Verge Of Violent Debt Jubilee As “Disgruntled” Homebuyers Refuse To Pay Their Mortgages – While US snowflakes are all too happy to talk the talk (which remains free, even despite Biden’s hyperinflation), Chinese residents are increasingly walking the walk. First, it was the violent outcry against mandatory covid vaccines that put an end to Beijing’s desire to forcibly innoculate all Beijing residents in just 48 hours – a feat not all of America’s armed militias have been able to achieve, and now it’s a grassroots push for what appears to be a debt jubillee as millions of homeowners suddenly stop paying their mortgages, a shocking move that has sent shockwaves across China’s capital markets and has sparked panic within China’s political leadership circles.

As Bloomberg reports overnight, a rapidly increasing number of “disgruntled Chinese homebuyers” are refusing to pay mortgages for unfinished construction projects, exacerbating the country’s real estate woes and stoking fears that the crisis will spread to the wider financial system as countless mortgages default. – READ MORE

New Dystopian UK Law Would Give All Social Media Users A ‘Truth Score’ – In another manifestation of the onerous ‘social credit score’ system, an amendment to a bill in the UK would mandate all social media users be given a ‘truth score’ that pre-determines the accuracy of their posts.

The amendment has been proposed to be added to the already odious ‘Online Safety Bill’, which would censor “legal but harmful” content, and was introduced by Conservative Party lawmaker John Penrose. – READ MORE

Amazon Ring Video Handed To Police Without Users Consent Sparks “Surveillance Crisis Of Accountability” – While people purchase Ring cameras on Amazon and mount them on their front doors to keep their homes safe, law enforcement agencies use them without the user’s permission, according to a press release published by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts).

The heading of the press release reads, “Senator Markey’s Probe Into Amazon Ring Reveals New Privacy Problem,” highlighting the alarming access to “the close relationship between Ring and law enforcement, including the proliferation of policing agencies on the Ring platform.” – READ MORE

San Francisco’s plan to surveil private security cameras is ‘authoritarian,’ says tech oversight advocate – San Francisco’s plan to allow police officers access to real-time private security cameras would be ineffective at stopping crime and a violation of peoples’ rights, a surveillance technology oversight advocate said.

“We know these systems don’t work and it’s political theater, but we pay a real price, not just in dollars and cents, but with our civil rights,” Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, told Fox News. – READ MORE

As Mask Mandate Looms, LA Hospital Officials Mock COVID “Media Hype” – In a press conference dripping with a mix of exasperation and dry-witted sarcasm, two officials at one of the largest hospital systems in Southern California threw a bucket of cold water on media and government efforts to whip the public into a state of fear over the latest Covid-19 uptick.

Their remarks came on the same day that Los Angeles County health director Barbara Ferrer declared the county had moved into a “high” level of Covid transmission. Two consecutive weeks in that status would trigger the reimposition of an indoor mask mandate on the nearly 10 million people who still choose to live there. – READ MORE

Canadian Court Rules it Was Legal To Deny Unvaccinated Person Organ Transplant – A judge in the Canadian province of Alberta has ruled that a woman did not have her rights violated when she was denied an organ transplant due to not being vaccinated against the Wuhan coronavirus.

Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Paul Belzil ruled that Edmonton, Alberta woman Annette Lewis had not had her fundamental character of Rights and Freedoms rights violated by being denied an organ transplant over her vaccination status. – READ MORE

Study ties COVID booster to startling spike in excess deaths – A study based on weekly government data in New Zealand – one of the world’s most vaccinated nations – found that the age groups most likely to have had COVID booster shots had up to 10% more excess deaths.

Excess mortality is the number of deaths from all causes above what would be typically expected in one year. – READ MORE

Dr. Birx Praises Herself While Revealing Ignorance, Treachery, & Deceit – The December 2020 resignation of Dr. Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under Trump, revealed predictable hypocrisy.

Like so many other government officials around the world, she was caught violating her own stay-at-home order.

Therefore she finally left her post following nine months of causing unfathomable amounts of damage to life, liberty, property, and the very idea of hope for the future. – READ MORE