November 12, 2025

10 thoughts on “Asses&Villains: The Italian Edition

  1. THE HILL

    “The West needs leadership: Biden has failed the test”

    Opinion by Liz Peek, Opinion Contributor

    28 September 2022

    Global economies are in free fall even as inflation runs unchecked.

    The Western world looks to the president of the United States for leadership; they look in vain.

    While Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has (finally) undertaken stiff measures to rein in money supply growth, the White House nullifies his efforts by continuing to pump money into the economy as fast as possible.

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    Reuters

    “Putin accuses West of blowing up pipelines as Europe steps up vigilance”

    By Jake Cordell and Nina Chestney

    September 30, 2022

    In the Netherlands, citizens have started stockpiling wood and coal to save on rocketing gas bills.

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    “So the United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea and it is an alliance that is strong an enduring.”

    – Biden executive assistant autocrat Karmela Harris

  2. Real Clear Politics

    “January 6 and Justice Department Overreach: The Public Rejects Both”

    Mark Penn

    30 SEPTEMBER 2022

    The public believes that former President Donald Trump bears significant and perhaps criminal responsibility for what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6, but also believes that the Justice Department and the FBI are overreaching in their actions against the former president, his aides, and private citizens.

    The net of all the back and forth so far is that the ratings of Trump seem to have increased and the favorability of the Justice Department and FBI have declined.

    Let’s look at the actions of the Justice Department.

    They could have moved in court to enforce the subpoena and asked a judge to demand that Trump turn over his remaining documents.

    Such a process would be similar to what happened in the fight over the Watergate Tapes or the Clinton historical tapes (that were ruled as personal, not government records).

    It would have allowed Trump’s lawyers to make their best arguments before a judge and the country.

    Instead, the Justice Department went to a low-level magistrate judge operating in a one-sided secret process to send dozens of FBI agents to raid the former President’s home.

    They used their maximum power, given to them to pursue fleeing cartels, against a former president.

    The FBI and DOJ’s unprecedented method has split the country.

    Just over half of voters in the September version of the Harris poll say the Mar-a-Lago raid was a politically motivated use of force rather than the “least invasive” way to retrieve presidential documents.

    Another half say that the DOJ then exceeded the terms of its warrant by taking too much material from Mar-a-Lago.

    Americans remain unconvinced that a criminal investigation is even necessary: 52% of voters, including 54% of independents, think the former president’s having documents at home should be handled in non-criminal ways.

    Six in 10 think that if the DOJ wanted Trump’s documents, it should have asked a judge and argued for its motion in open court rather than obtaining a warrant through a one-sided, closed proceeding.

    And 58% of Americans think the appointment of a special master to review the DOJ’s retrieved documents – as a federal judge later ordered – is reasonable.

    And the Justice Department didn’t stop with the former president – FBI agents are showing up all over the place seizing people’s phones in front of their families rather than sending out a subpoena that could be contested.

    Agents went so far as to seize the phone of an ordinary citizen, the “MyPillow Guy”; they better have proof he was connected to violence rather than just exercising his First Amendment rights.

    They even arrested the former trade representative for the U.S., Peter Navarro, and put him in handcuffs over a congressional subpoena.

    The public knows that former Attorney General Eric Holder put those congressional subpoenas he received in the wastepaper basket and that Hillary Clinton did the same, even ordering her devices destroyed.

    As with the January 6 Committee, exactly the voters who need to be convinced of the investigations’ sincerity are the same ones who need to see legal processes scrupulously followed.

    Every lawyer for Trump knows that the Justice Department will treat them as though they are mafia lawyers, looking at every turn to secure all their phones, papers, and advice as they already have with almost all of Trump’s attorneys.

    Of course, this serves to chill any possible representation, undermining another key aspect of our system of justice.

    Gone are the days when people, confident of the rightness of their arguments, were willing to run the gauntlets of due process and counterarguments that are at the heart of our legal system and the often-cited rule of law.

    Instead, every shortcut and technique to squelch the other side is deployed with the idea they are so in the right that the other side should be dispensed without a hearing.

    Since the Mar-a-Lago search on Aug. 8, Trump’s popularity has risen in defiance.

    Trump is now almost even at 46% favorable and 48% unfavorable, with the gap narrowing three points between the July and September Harris polls.

    Trump’s 2024 prospects are improving too: 59% of GOP voters in the September poll would pick Trump if the Republican presidential primary were held today – up 7 points from July.

    Even the recent Washington Post-ABC News poll has Trump beating Biden by 2 points while a majority thinks Trump should face possible indictment over Jan. 6.

    Meanwhile Biden remains 15 points underwater in the Harris poll.

  3. WHAT HAPPENS TO JOE BIDEN’S ENEMIES:

    Reuters

    “Russian factory activity expands at fastest rate in Sept since 2019 – PMI”

    By Reuters Staff

    October 3, 2022

    MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian manufacturing activity grew at its fastest rate in 3-1/2 years in September, driven by rises in production, new orders and client demand, a business survey showed on Monday, though Western sanctions continued to weigh on export business.

    The S&P Global Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose in September to 52.0 from 51.7 in the previous month, climbing higher above the 50.0 mark that separates expansion from contraction to its highest point since March 2019.

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    WHAT HAPPENS TO JOE BIDEN’S FRIENDS:

    Reuters

    “Germany heading for recession despite new relief plan – economists”

    Reuters

    September 5, 2022

    BERLIN, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Germany, Europe’s largest economy, is still on course for a recession even with a new government plan to spend 65 billion euros ($64.49 billion) on shielding energy customers and businesses from soaring inflation, economists say.

    The latest package brings to 95 billion euros the amount allocated to inflation-busting since the Ukraine war began in February.

    “The third relief package does little to change the fact that Germany is likely to slide into recession in the autumn,” said Commerzbank chief economist Joerg Kraemer.

    ING chief economist Carsten Brzeski agreed: “The package will probably fall short in preventing the broader economy from falling into recession.”

  4. AND WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR MILITARY AS A RESULT OF THE “ULTRA-WOKE” POLICIES OF THE JOE BIDEN REGIME WHO IS TURNING OUR MILITARY INTO THE MOST “WOKE” MILITARY FORCE THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN, AND NEVER WANTED TO BEFORE JOE BIDEN:

    (From 2/12 Inf. Reg. newsletter)

    Can this be for real?

    Our Military has lost it’s collective mind by the people running it!!

    The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado is encouraging cadets to apply for a fellowship program for “gender minorities” that specifies “cisgender” men need not apply.

    The academy sent an email on Sept. 14 informing cadets that the 2023 application for the Brooke Owens Fellowship for “undergraduate women and gender minorities interested in aerospace” is due by Oct. 10.

    The application on the fellowship’s website says, “If you are a cisgender man, this program isn’t for you.”

    “If you are a cisgender woman, a transgender woman, non-binary, agender, bigender, two-spirit, demigender, genderfluid, genderqueer, or another form of gender minority, this program is for you,” the application states.

    “If you are a cisgender man, this program isn’t for you… but we encourage you to check out our spinoff programs, the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship and the Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program.”

    AIR FORCE ACADEMY DIVERSITY TRAINING TELLS CADETS TO USE WORDS THAT ‘INCLUDE ALL GENDERS,’ DROP ‘MOM AND DAD’

    The USAFA’s email said the Brooke Owens Fellowship is a “nine-week paid internship at a leading aerospace company” and that any undergraduate who is a “woman or gender minority” is welcome to apply.

    Another nine-week paid internship mentioned in the email, the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship, is only available for Black cadets pursuing aerospace careers.

    Fox News Digital obtained the email from a concerned cadet who requested anonymity in order to avoid retaliatory measures/professional repercussions.

    The cadet alleged that the USAFA is hyper-focused on diversity and inclusion (D&I) instead of the military threats the country faces.

    “It’s a little worrying that we have more briefs about D&I than briefs about foreign adversaries, emerging technologies or current events across the world,” the cadet said.

  5. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”

    – Karl Marx, 1875

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    “I know we are all thinking about the families in Florida and Puerto Rico with Hurricane Fiona and what we need to do to help them in terms of an immediate response and aid.”

    “We have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity.”

    “Understanding not everyone starts out at the same place, and if we want people to be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take into account those disparities.”

    – Biden executive deputy autocrat Karmela Harris speaking during the Democratic National Committee’s Women’s Leadership Forum on 30 September 2022.

  6. “NOBODY ***** with a Biden!”

    – Joe Biden in Fort Myers Beach, Florida on 5 October, 2022

    AND IN THE MEANTIME, SOMEBODY JUST DID, BIG TIME, ON PRIMETIME TV:

    CNBC

    “OPEC+ to cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day to shore up prices, defying U.S. pressure”

    Sam Meredith

    October 5, 2022

    A group of some of the world’s most powerful oil producers on Wednesday agreed to impose deep output cuts, seeking to spur a recovery in crude prices despite calls from the U.S. to pump more to help the global economy.

    OPEC and non-OPEC allies, a group often referred to as OPEC+, decided at their first face-to-face gathering in Vienna since 2020 to reduce production by 2 million barrels per day from November.

    Energy market participants had expected OPEC+, which includes Saudi Arabia and Russia, to impose output cuts of somewhere between 500,000 barrels and 2 million barrels.

    The production cut for November is an attempt to reverse this slide, despite repeated pressure from U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration for the group to pump more to lower fuel prices ahead of midterm elections next month.

    The White House said in a statement that Biden was “disappointed by the shortsighted decision by OPEC+ to cut production quotas while the global economy is dealing with the continued negative impact of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.”

    It said that Biden had directed the Department of Energy to release another 10 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve next month.

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    THE WASHINGTON POST

    “OPEC, allies move to slash oil production, eliciting blistering White House response”

    By Jeff Stein, Rachel Lerman and John Hudson

    Updated October 5, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. EDT

    A coalition of oil-producing nations led by Russia and Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday it will slash oil production by 2 million barrels per day, in a rebuke to President Biden that could push up gas prices worldwide, worsen the risk of a global recession and bolster Russia in its war in Ukraine.

    Biden administration officials had launched an extraordinary effort to press Saudi Arabia to produce more oil to compensate for the global shortage caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with the president personally visiting Saudi leaders in a trip to Jiddah.

    With this move, Saudi Arabia has rejected those entreaties at least in part, leaving senior White House officials contemplating their next steps and publicly hinting at unprecedented measures to undercut the gulf nation’s grip on international energy markets.

    Russia will benefit from the cut, because lower production will increase the price of oil — helping Moscow finance its war effort in Ukraine.

    American consumers could also be strained by higher gas prices, potentially imperiling the Biden administration’s determination to lower gas costs ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

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    Rigzone

    “Oil Up After OPEC Announces Largest Cut Since 2020”

    by Bloomberg | Ilena Peng

    Thursday, October 06, 2022

    Oil topped $88 a barrel a day after the OPEC+ alliance announced its biggest production cut since 2020.

    West Texas Intermediate extended gains with a slight price increase Thursday after jumping 10% over the previous three sessions.

    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies agreed Wednesday to slash daily output by 2 million barrels, drawing a swift rebuke from the US as the Biden administration seeks to battle energy-driven inflation.

    On Thursday, Saudi Arabia surprised traders by keeping its flagship Arab Light crude oil price to Asia unchanged.

    It cut prices for Europe, while lifted those to the US to a fresh record.

  7. And this following is one statement from Joe Biden that I have to agree with one hundred percent because this Biden dude is a disaster in the happening as he puts an end to the concept of world peace and getting along with others on the planet and in the process turns us into an international pariah nation:

    Fox News

    “Biden invokes possibility of ‘Armageddon’ in Democratic fundraiser speech”

    Max Thornberry

    6 October 2022

    President Joe Biden said in an address to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee on Thursday night that the country under his leadership is as close to “Armageddon” as it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s.

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