中国は、中東欧16ヶ国にギリシャを加えた中国中東欧首脳会議（17＋1）を主導している。中東欧諸国との協力や投資を踏み切り板として、EUへの影響力を高めるのが狙いだといわれている。一方参加国は、2012年発足当時の世界的な金融危機とユーロ圏の危機を受けて、中国からの投資が殺到することを期待した。しかし発足から9年を経て一部の参加国からメリットが疑問視され始め、離脱する国も出ている。 リトアニアの駐中国大使、Diana Mickeviciene氏は、脱退は「純粋な計算」によるものだとする。「17＋1」に参加したのは、中国市場へのアクセスを改善するためだったが、残念ながらそうはならなかった。リトアニアの中国への輸出はわずかに伸びてはいるものの、中国からの輸入がはるかに速く伸びており、貿易収支はマイナスのままだとしている。（サウスチャイナ・モーニング・ポスト紙、SCMP）
米大リーグ公式サイトなどは１６日、エンゼルスの大谷が、オールスター戦前日のホームラン競争に参加して受け取った賞金１５万ドル（約１６５０万円）を球団職員らに贈ったと報じた。ホームラン競争の優勝賞金は１００万ドル、準優勝なら５０万ドル。大谷は初戦敗退だったが、賞金額にかかわらず、トレーナーやクラブハウスのスタッフ、広報担当者らに贈ろうと考えていたとしている。 エンゼルスの本拠地、カリフォルニア州の地元紙「オレンジ・カウンティー・レジスター」（電子版）によると、１６日に賞金を小切手にして贈ったのは約３０人。日頃の仕事に対する感謝の気持ちからの行動だとしている。読売新聞<iframe id="google_ads_iframe_/51343015/yol2020/open_area/YOL_premiumrec_0" title="3rd party ad content" src="https://aeff018b5a2105f6d4084fd0a945ecd2.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html" name="" width="1" height="1" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" sandbox="allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" data-is-safeframe="true" data-google-container-id="2" data-load-complete="true"></iframe>
祇園祭 厳かに徒歩巡行 山鉾に代わり保存会代表ら
京都・祇園祭は１７日、新型コロナウイルスの影響で２年連続で中止となった前祭（さきまつり）の山鉾（やまほこ）巡行に代わり、各山鉾保存会の代表らによる徒歩での巡行が行われた。
前祭で山鉾巡行を行うはずだった２３の山鉾保存会の代表と、祇園祭山鉾連合会の役員ら約６０人が参加。はかま姿で榊（さかき）を手に持ち、「祇園会（ぎおんえ）」と記された旗を先頭に午前９時に京都市中心部の四条烏丸交差点を出発。２年ぶりに長刀（なぎなた）鉾が建った四条通を歩き、約７００メートル東にある八坂神社の御旅所で拝礼した。
同じく徒歩巡行だった昨年は、前年の巡行順で行ったが、今年は２年ぶりに、巡行の順番を決める「くじ取り式」を実施。この日はくじの順番に従って代表らが厳かに巡行した。
徒歩巡行は後祭（あとまつり）の２４日にも行われる。産経新聞
滋賀県東近江市は１７日、蒲生支所の新型コロナウイルスワクチン集団接種会場で、ワクチンを保管する冷蔵庫内が適正温度を超えたため、１４９４回分を廃棄すると発表した。冷蔵庫のコンセントが抜けかかった状態になっていたという。
市によると１７日朝、コンセントが抜けかかっているのを職員が発見。冷蔵庫の自動記録表を確認したところ、１６日午後４時ごろから温度が上昇していたことが分かった。
１６日の最終接種分を取り出した午後３時には、異常がないことを職員が確認している。抜けかかった原因は不明という。 時事通信
米国で新型コロナウイルスの感染の再拡大に拍車がかかっている。ワクチン接種が遅れている地域の増加傾向が全国に拡大し、未接種者を中心に死者や入院者も増えている。政府はワクチン接種促進を呼びかけているが、接種ペースは上向いておらず、保健当局は「未接種者の間でのパンデミック（大流行）が起きつつある」と警告している。
米疾病対策センター（CDC）によると、今月9～15日の1日平均の新規感染者は2万7804人、死者は263人だった。2～8日と比較すると、感染者は約1・6倍、死者は約2・6倍に増えた。米CNNは16日、「全50州で感染者が前週から増加したのは今年1月以来だ」と報じた。
感染の再拡大は当初、南部アーカンソーやルイジアナ、中西部ミズーリなど、ワクチン接種完了率が40％以下（全国平均は48・4％）の州で目立っていたが、人口が3番目に多い南部フロリダ州（接種完了率47・3％）でも急拡大するなど警戒感が広がっている。
政府は「入院者の97％以上はワクチン未接種者だ」（CDCのワレンスキ所長）として、感染拡大や重症化を防ぐのにワクチン接種が最も有効な対策だとしている。しかし、成人（18歳以上）のうち、約8265万人（約32％）はまだ一回も接種を受けていない。
世論調査では「ワクチンを信頼できない」「既に感染した」「若いので必要ない」など、接種しない理由はさまざまだ。【ワシントン秋山信一】 毎日新聞
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感染者数
3400万
34,000,000
+51,874
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死亡者数
60.8万
608,000
+362
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東京都新規感染者65才以上 40人
重傷者 ５9人（+6）
新たな死亡者 2人
佐賀市は16日、米ファイザー製の新型コロナウイルスワクチン1680回分を廃棄処分すると発表した。市内の一つの医療機関で不適切な管理があり品質が保証できないため。廃棄分は市の在庫から補充するとしており、接種計画に直ちに影響はないという。
ワクチンは5～15日、零下60度以下の超低温冷凍庫から医療機関に送付。到着後は本来、冷蔵庫（2～8度）で保管しなければならないが、医療機関が誤って冷凍庫に入れた。
到着時はワクチンが凍った状態だったため、冷凍庫で保管できると判断したという。市は「医師会と連携して再発防止を図る」としている。（米村勇飛） 西日本新聞
Good News Friday July 16
Dear Patriots,
Honestly, it was a bit of a challenge finding the good news for this week's Good News Friday.
A line from a very, very, very old song kept playing in our heads.
"Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step."
(American Pie-1971)
There is much difficulty and uncertainty happening in our world and so many people who are doing nothing about it. (Talking to you Elected Republicans!)
Be assured that a lot of people DO recognize what is happening and are trying very hard to change the direction our national GPS currently has us on.
We dug deep and DID find today's GOOD NEWS!!!
1- At LEAST 17,000 kids may have been rescued from the propaganda cutches of the government school system in just one state! Check YOUR state on the map at the link.
Federal data confirm MN public school enrollment down 17,000 students
Federal data released Monday revealed Minnesota K-12 public school enrollment dropped by 2.36 percent — roughly 17,000 students — in 2020 compared with the previous school year, according to The 74.
2- WHAT are the odds?
Witnesses Claim Lightning Hit George Floyd Mural, Causing It to Crumble
QUOTE: Witnesses claimed a George Floyd mural in Toledo, OH, on a building crumbled due to a lightning strike.
City building inspector Hugh Koogan disputed the account because "the wall had been showing signs of weakness for some time and literally just gave way on its own."
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3- We have been dealing with this illogical subject of "global warming" and now "climate change" for more than 30 years.
The Climate-Change Agenda Goes Out With a Bang. Ambitious plans conceal growing voter skepticism. Politicians will catch on sooner or later, and hard.
QUOTE: We're supposed to view this week as a banner occasion in the annals of climate change. The European Union unveiled a mammoth new plan to control carbon emissions, while Beijing rolled out an emissions-trading scheme and the U.K. released a plan to green up transportation.
Except this is all happening as climate politics seem to be undergoing a rapid and significant shift in many places, and not in the direction environmental activists hoped. To wit: Voters have started noticing how much they're each going to have to spend to reduce carbon emissions, and they don't like it. It's a startlingly broad phenomenon.
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4- THE most investigated and probed man in all of historical time, past, present and future.
Every Left-Wing Attempt To Prosecute Trump Has Failed. From impeachment to tax evasion charges, desperate attempts to criminalize the former president have fallen flat.
QUOTE: Political prosecutions are not new in America. Political pogroms are. It is sad to watch the Democratic Party embrace such third-world practices as policy. It is sadder to note there has never in history been a more sustained yet unsuccessful political effort to oust or destroy one man.
Even before Donald Trump took office, Democrats claimed Russia elected him as the Manchurian candidate. The intelligence community-Democratic Party-media tripartite axis then swung for the fences, using wiretaps obtained through FISA fraud, honeytraps, Australian and Israeli cutouts, intel scrubbed by GHQ, and every other trick in the spy business. They came up so empty-handed even a Deep State O.G. like Robert Mueller could not find anything indictable.
This level of paranoid vengeance is scary, a sign that a portion of the electorate's critical thinking skills have been eaten by political syphilis. The Democrats should carefully consider the secondary effects of their actions, and ask (as voters will) if the goal is law enforcement or a political kill shot. If it is the latter, they better not miss. Again.
5- Some Elected Republicans in the states are working very hard to fix elections so that we can have full faith in the results. All Elected Democrats oppose this.
Texas Senate Passes Voter Integrity Bill As Democrats Flee State To Subvert Democracy
QUOTE: The Texas Senate passed a voter integrity bill while 51 Texas Democrat House members and eight Texas Democrat Senate members fled the state to subvert democracy by denying the Republican-led House the quorum needed to approve bills in Governor Greg Abbott's special session agenda.
"Senators voted 18-4 along party lines to approve the legislation. Eight Senate Democrats announced that they too had fled to Washington, D.C., on Monday, with a ninth expected to arrive Monday evening," National Review reported. "However, with 22 out of 31 members present, the Senate kept a quorum and was able to pass the measure."
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6- Join any group that is pushing back on your alma mater.
QUOTE: As the battle for the future of the university has raged on, a most encouraging, grassroots — and "Buckley-esque" — response has emerged from alumni and friends.
An organization known as The Generals Redoubt (TGR) was formed in 2018. This group of alumni, parents, and friends has actively challenged the revisionists and is responding as Buckley had long ago hoped they would.
TGR's campaign was instrumental in the W&L Board's recent rejection of faculty demands to change the university's name. TGR has attracted over 9,700 followers. While alumni giving to W&L is down, TGR has raised over $1,000,000. Encouragingly, alumni groups at Davidson College, University of Virginia, VMI, Yale, University of Texas, and other colleges are now emulating this model.
7- We KNOW how many United States "legal experts" depend on international precedent.
Spanish High Court Rules Pandemic Lockdown Unconstitutional
QUOTE: The first Wuhan coronavirus lockdown imposed by the government of Spain was ruled unconstitutional by the Spanish Constitutional Court, in a 6-5 ruling on Wednesday.
The ruling, which came in response to a suit brought by the right-wing Vox Party, found that the lockdown's "limitations on movement" had violated the fundamental liberties of Spanish citizens. Therefore, the court said, the "state of alarm" order issued by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was insufficient and not protected by Spain's national constitution.
8- Worldwide citizens are trying to push back on mandatory vaccinations.
In Athens, thousands rally against COVID-19 vaccination
QUOTE: More than 5,000 anti-vaccine protesters, some them waving Greek flags and wooden crosses, rallied in Athens on Wednesday to oppose Greece's coronavirus vaccinations programme.
Shouting "take your vaccines and get out of here!" and calling on Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to resign, the protesters gathered outside parliament under heavy police presence.
9- This is an excellent piece about the current struggle in Cuba for freedom. It offers a clear cut way the United States can and should help.
Liberate Cuba - U.S. now has a chance to finish what it started in 1961
QUOTE: Shortly after historic protests swept the island of Cuba on Sunday, the Biden administration expressed its "support" for the Cuban people to "peacefully protest and determine their own future," but also "call[ed] upon the Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment...."
While the intent may have been to offer solidarity, this statement is inadequate because it is not conducive to what this national uprising is trying to achieve.
QUOTE: The mass demonstrations occurring now are a historical moment. It would be a terrible mistake to turn away from the Cuban people in their greatest moment of courage.
The Cuban people have the right to liberate themselves by whatever means are necessary, and the U.S. should stand behind them—even if that means authorizing a military intervention—or at least providing weapons to the Cuban people to defend themselves.
Such support would send a message that America does not abandon anyone and finally allow the U.S. to answer its own moral conscience for failing the Cuban people in the past.
10- Last but certainly not least, there is good news on the audits.
QUOTE: "Fulton County's continued failures have gone on long enough with no accountability. Rick Barron and Ralph Jones, Fulton's registration chief, must be fired and removed from Fulton's elections leadership immediately," Raffensperger tweeted. "Fulton's voters and the people of Georgia deserve better."
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Thank you for your encouraging words and feedback.
Hold Fast,
Sidney & Team Kraken
P.S.
Cubans are not marching for more vaccines, as the Fake News is pushing. They are marching for FREEDOM. Keep these people in your prayers.
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