President Trump’s Former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon Praises President’s China Strategy – Discusses Hong Kong Uprising (Video)

Former Chief Strategist for President Trump, Steve Bannon, joined Trish Regan on FOX Business Network on Monday night to discuss President Donald Trump’s actions with China and the events in Hong Kong.

Steve started off by noting that President Xi from China just last night stood up before the elites invited to his special dinner and said that “We [China] are the leaders of the world!”

Bannon notes that China’s GDP is about $15 trillion and second to only the US.  He also claims that the US financed China’s rise and they increased their technology by either stealing it or buying it.  He also noted that today on China’s 70th anniversary of the communist party rising to power that there will be a parade of military might and China will show not only troops but more sophisticated weapons like stealth drones.

Steve Bannon mentioned how much he admired President Trump’s trade position with China.  When the Chinese tried to step away from the deal and call the President’s bluff, the President stood strong.  The Chinese don’t know how to deal with Trump.  He won’t give in on his position and they have no answer.  President Trump is standing strong and not giving in to a position that isn’t best for America.

In Hong Kong, Bannon notes that the protests continue and are ramping up.  Hong Kong is very close to initiating Martial Law.  He said:

The people in Hong Kong are not going to back off.  They’re fighting for the rule of law.  They’re fighting for democracy.   They’re fighting for freedom, they’re fighting for capitalism.  And they have told this totalitarian regime that … we’re not going to back down to you.

Steve Bannon is spot on in his assessment of China.  He once lived in China and knows much from that experience.  His admiration for President Trump is noticeable and well supported.



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“Like Something From A Sci-Fi Movie”: Russia Shows Off Secretive Next Generation Aircraft

Russia’s Defense Ministry has released rare footage showing its futuristic and newest heavy drone Okhotnik (or ‘Hunter’) conducting its first ever tactical aerial movements next to a fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jet.

The footage was part of a 30-minute flight test, and comes after its maiden brief take-off and landing test in early August, when it was unveiled to the world as a stealth heavy unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) being developed by Sukhoi as a sixth-generation aircraft.

The Russian military claims it possesses “special material and coating” in order to avoid radar detection. The wedge-shaped drone is considered among Russia’s most advanced aircraft to date, and looks like something straight out of Star Wars.

Russian media has further described the Okhotnik as capable of traveling up to 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), despite it’s significant weight of about 20 tons.

“Okhotnik has a flying-wing body type, which makes it looks like something from a sci-fi movie,” one Russian media report noted.

The next generation Su-57s, one of which was filmed flying just meters apart from the still in testing phase ‘Hunter’ drone, are set to be active by the end of the year.

Much less is known about the experimental drone, however. First photos of the advanced stealth drone initially surfaced in January 2019, and were published by the aircraft analysis site The Aviationist.

Via The Aviationist

Earlier this year the secretive aircraft was first spotted by land-based cameras at an airfield in Novosibirsk in southern Russia, and then picked up by commercial satellite imagery in May at the Chkalov State Flight-Test Center.

The Aviationist previously described the secretive UAV as possessing “low-observable capabilities, providing it with the ability to penetrate heavily defended airspaces without detection to conduct covert precision strikes.”



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Trump: Schiff ‘Lied to Congress’ When He Fabricated Parts of Transcript

September 27, 2019

President Donald Trump alleged that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) “lied to Congress” when the representative fabricated parts of the released transcript of the call between Trump and Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“Rep. Adam Schiff fraudulently read to Congress, with millions of people watching, a version of my conversation with the President of Ukraine that doesn’t exist. He was supposedly reading the exact transcribed version of the call, but he completely changed the words to make it sound horrible [and] me sound guilty,” Trump said in a statement early Sept. 27.

“HE WAS DESPERATE AND HE GOT CAUGHT. Adam Schiff therefore lied to Congress and attempted to defraud the American Public. He has been doing this for two years. I am calling for him to immediately resign from Congress based on this fraud!”

Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, added words to the transcript while appearing to read from it during opening remarks at a committee hearing on Thursday. Schiff quoted part of the transcript before mixing in words Trump did not say, later claiming he did it partly in jest.

Republicans on the committee castigated Schiff, one of the leading proponents of the Russia-Trump collusion theory, for fabricating portions of the transcript.

“While the chairman was speaking I had someone text me, ‘is he just making this up?’” Rep Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said. “And yes, yes he was. Because sometimes fiction is better than the actual words or the text. But luckily the American public are smart and they have the transcript. They’ve read the conversation, they know when someone’s just making it up.”

Schiff later told those assembled: “My colleague is right … it’s not okay. But also my summary of the president’s call was meant to be, at least part, in parody. The fact that that’s not clear is a separate problem in and of itself. Of course, the president never said ‘if you don’t understand me I’m going to say it seven more times.’ My point is that that was the message that the Ukranian president was receiving in not so many words.”

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) later took a shot at Schiff, before reading from the transcript, saying: “I’m not going to improvise for parody purposes like the chairman of this committee did, I’m going to read from it directly.”



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Lindsey Graham Says DOJ Should Investigate Biden-Ukraine Connection

September 23, 2019 Updated: September 23, 2019

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a top ally of President Donald Trump, said that the Department of Justice (DOJ) should look into what happened with former Vice President Joe Biden and Ukraine.

Biden in March 2016 pressured Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who was looking into alleged wrongdoing by Burisma, a company for which Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was a board member.

The 2020 presidential candidate denied talking to his son about business dealings in Ukraine. His son previously said he did discuss the dealings with his father once. Biden also said no evidence has connected him to any wrongdoing.

“Joe Biden said everybody’s looked at this and found nothing. Who is everybody? Nobody’s looked at the Ukraine and the Bidens. Nobody’s looked at the role the Ukraine played in the 2016 election,” Graham said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the Oval Office in Washington on Sept. 20, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

“I’m calling for somebody in the Justice Department to look at all things Ukraine. We have looked at all things Russia and Trump, his family, everything about his family, every transaction between the Trump campaign and Russia,” Graham said.



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The term “social justice” is a dog whistle for left-wing communists whose goal is total anarchy, then revolution

The rise of far-left “anti-fascism,” or what has come to be known as Antifa, and its corresponding “social justice” agenda has absolutely nothing to do with fighting fascism or creating a just society as these words and titles suggest.

Instead of fighting fascism, Antifa is actually spreading it, using “social justice” as a rhetorical cover to usher in a system of communist despotism, first through violent anarchy, then with total revolution.

Despite what the mainstream media and leftist politicians would have us all believe, fascism isn’t a problem on the “right.” Unless you count Antifa, there’s really no significant “Nazi” presence anywhere in the United States today, nor is “white supremacy” even a real thing.

All of these buzzwords and ideas represent nothing more than divisive propaganda that Antifa terrorists, ironically enough, are using in typical fascist fashion to impose their tyrannical agenda on the American populace.

It’s the same thing that happened in Nazi Germany under Adolph Hitler, of course, which makes Antifa the quintessential fascists in today’s America, and the real threat to Americans’ freedom and liberty.

History shows that “anti-fascists” had a dominant presence in Germany prior to World War II, maintaining their world headquarters in Berlin from 1926 to 1933. Known as Antifaschistische Akton, or Antifa, this group was directly affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany that existed from 1932 to 1933.

After the war, the legacy of this historical organization persisted, morphing into a variety of other Antifa movements that all use the same concepts and even aesthetics of the original Antifaschistische Akton, including symbols like the hammer and sickle.

Through each of its many iterations, Antifa has always been about the same thing: implementing a global communist system using fascist tactics, once again proving that Antifa always has been, and continues to be, the true fascist scourge on our planet.

“Antifa was and is primarily a global Communist movement using fascist tactics,” writes Ray DiLorenzo for Canada Free Press.

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The dictionary definition of fascism describes Antifa to a T…..

If you take some time to look up what the word fascism actually means in the dictionary, you will quickly see that Antifa represents a perfect embodiment of it.

“Fascism is a set of political beliefs that includes strong control of society and the economy by the state, and the halting of any resistance,” explains DiLorenzo.

“In a fascist nation, private enterprise would continue, but all private commercial endeavors would be heavily controlled by the state. Examples would be Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy.”

It’s important to keep this in mind in light of Antifa’s admitted goal of creating a communist society, in which all means of production are owned and controlled entirely by the state. And fascism in action is how Antifa is aiming to make this happen.

While Hitler himself actually expelled Antifa and other communist groups from Germany in the early 1930s, history shows that he adopted his own fascist tactics to bring about his own version of a totalitarian state.

In other words, fascism is more of a tactic than it is a belief system, as it can be used as a weapon by anyone to try to advance an agenda. And in the case of both the Nazis and Antifa, these two groups adopted fascism as the means to their own respective ends.

“Fascism and Communism are not opposite ends of the spectrum, rather, they are first cousins on the left,” reveals DiLorenzo about an important truth of which many Americans are unaware.

“Both are secular socialist with power being absolute with no opposition tolerated, especially from God. No natural rights, only that which they choose to dispense.”



Google has become the anti-health search engine; now censoring nearly all holistic health and nutrition websites on the planet

Image: Google has become the anti-health search engine; now censoring nearly all holistic health and nutrition websites on the planet

 When you’re looking for information about a certain topic, what do you do? If you’re like most people, you head to Google and type in a query, then choose from the first few results it displays. In fact, looking for something like “natural diabetes prevention” might have been what originally brought you to Natural News in the first place.

All that is changing, however, and not for the better as Google has finally gone into full censorship mode, ensuring holistic health and nutrition websites aren’t shown to people seeking information about their health and their bodies. Their latest algorithm update appears to be the final nail in the coffin, burying previous top sites for such queries like Natural News, Green Med Info and Mercola in favor of results for the cancer establishment and Big Pharma.

Google often tweaks its algorithm with the supposed aim of bringing people the most relevant search results possible, but some of these adjustments seem to be motivated by something else entirely: bias and greed. It’s hard to reach any other conclusion about a “broad core algorithm update” that the search engine giant carried out on August 1.

Referred to in SEO circles as the “Medic update,” it has affected sites in the health and medical space disproportionately. Experts say they’ve never seen a specific category being impacted so strongly in past algorithm updates.

In a chart that was published on Search Engine Land of the top 20 losing domains in the U.S. after the update, you’ll find names like Very Well Health, Dr. Axe, and Organic Facts.

This is despite the fact that he is a board-certified physician and his articles are typically approved by medical and scientific experts prior to publication and contain full references to scientific studies. In other words, it doesn’t have as much to do with a site’s authority or honesty as Google claims.
Dr. Joseph Mercola, who has a natural health site of his own, wrote that traffic to his website had dropped by 99 percent recently thanks to algorithm changes. He said the only way users can now find his articles is by typing “Mercola.com” before the topic in question, such as “Mercola.com heart disease.” In the past, simply searching for “heart disease” could bring up one of his articles among the first few pages of results.

Tell the truth, get demoted

Analysts believe that Google is demoting sites that disagree with what it deems to be standardized “facts.” That’s why sites that share information about vaccine dangers, like Natural News and Mercola, and sites promoting fasting, like Diet Doctor, are being hit. Of course, there’s also another factor at play here: Sites that tell people how to protect their health naturally and avoid illness (and vaccines) have the power to cut into the profits of pharmaceutical companies who spend big money on Google ads.

This is more than just a theory: YouTube, which is owned by Google, recently started demonetizing channels that speak out against vaccination or mention its dangers. As part of that change, they started placing an information panel with links to entries on Wikipedia about “vaccine hesitancy” that will appear before such videos air in an effort to combat what they’ve labeled “misinformation.”

At the time, YouTube stated that in addition to removing ads, they wanted to make “more authoritative content” about the benefits of vaccines easier for people to find – a move that was sure to please Big Pharma. Some companies had reportedly pulled all of their advertising until YouTube took action on this matter.

It’s only going to get worse

Natural News reported in July that a high-level source said that by the end of 2020, the Google Chrome browser will automatically block websites that discuss the risks of vaccines, chemotherapy and GMOs.

With half of the world’s population using Google each year and more than 40,000 search queries processed every second, the power Google holds over the flow of information in modern society is incredible. They are uniquely poised to ensure that people only see the information that will sway them toward whatever belief will benefit Google and its sponsors the most while suppressing anything that could stir up doubts.

Now, Google has essentially become the search front for Big Pharma, a massive racketeering scam that is prospering at the expense of people’s health.



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Trump Congratulates “Both Countries” As Russia And Ukraine De-Escalate Tensions With Prisoner Swap

Russia and Ukraine conducted a long-expected prisoner swap on Saturday, as government planes from both countries took off from their respective capitals around the same time to pick up dozens of people, according to the New York Times.

The plane carrying the sailors took off from Vnukovo Airport near Moscow, according to Ukraine’s presidency and Nikolai Polozov, a lawyer working on their case in Russia, who announced the news on the Ukrainian television channel 112. A similar plane departed from Borispol Airport near Kiev, taking off around noon local time.

Included in the swap was 24 Ukrainian sailors detained in the Kerch Strait last November, who Russian President Vladimir Putin refused to hand back nnder Ukraine’s old leadership, stating at the time “The current Ukrainian leadership is not interested in resolving this at all.

In May, however, Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky took office. Four months later, the sailors are home.

Zelensky called the swap the “first stage to unblock our dialogue,” and “the first step to stop the war.”

For Mr. Putin, the exchange could open the door to easing tensions with Europe, which imposed sanctions on Russia’s ailing economy after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. For the Russian leader — weakened by an ailing economy and weeks of protests calling for fair municipal elections after opposition candidates were stricken from ballots — the gesture could be a way to demonstrate to Europe that he was willing to compromise.

For Mr. Zelensky, the swap represented the first diplomatic coup of his presidency and the first significant campaign promise fulfilled. With his approval ratings at record-high levels, it is important for Mr. Zelensky to keep his administration’s momentum and to deliver results. Defusing tensions in the country’s east was the top priority for Ukrainians, polls showed. –New York Times

President Trump praised the swap in a Saturday tweet, calling it “Very good news,” and “perhaps a first giant step to peace.”

Russia and Ukraine just swapped large numbers of prisoners. Very good news, perhaps a first giant step to peace. Congratulations to both countries!

A lawyer for Ukrainian filmmaker and Russian prisoner Oleg Sentsov announced over Twitter that Sentsov – who had been sentenced to 20 years on terrorism charges – was part of the exchange.

The Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, left, who was jailed on terrorism charges in Russia, arriving in Kiev as part of the prisoner exchange on Saturday. Photo: Gleb Garanich/Reuters

Russia’s Embassy in Kiev tweeted a picture of the released Russians, writing “Our people have been released! They are flying home

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Russia-Ukraine relations cratered following Russia’s annexation of Crimea, while armed Russia-backed separatists have been conducting violent campaigns in Ukraine’s east – leading to the deaths of over 13,000 people according to the United Nations.

Ukraine’s president at the time of the sailors’ detention, Petro O. Poroshenko, had put his nation on a war footing with Russia as tensions over the shared Kerch waterway escalated into a crisis that dragged in NATO and the United Nations.

The sailors, who were onboard three small vessels, had been involved in a clash with a Russian tanker in the strait, a disputed waterway linked to the Black Sea. Some of them were wounded in a firefight.

In retaliation, Ukraine in July this year seized the Russian tanker that it said had been used during the confrontation. The tanker was accused of blockading the route under the Kerch Bridge, a structure built hastily and opened by Mr. Putin in 2018 as the first direct link from Russia to the Crimean peninsula. –New York Times

Families of the prisoners greeted them following their respective touchdowns, while Zelensky greeted the Ukrainians at the Kiev airport.

“On Aug. 7, we had a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin,” he said at a Saturday press conference. “We have agreed on the first stage to unblock our dialogue and on the first step to stop the war: the release of our servicemen, our hostages, our sailors, our territories.

We agreed that we should work hard for a month without any lies and return our boys home. We agreed to release sailors and prisoners of war. I believe that the first step has been fulfilled,” Zelinsky added. “We will try to return all our hostages.”

Sentsov, the film director, was detained in Crimea in 2014 and accused of a plot to blow up power lines, bridges and a statue of Lenin – allegations he denied. He did admit, however, his opposition to the Crimean annexation, and was sentenced to 20 years in a Siberian prison. He made international headlines during the 2018 men’s soccer World Cup when he went on a hunger strike and was kept alive for 145 days due to medical intervention.

When Sentsov was transferred from his Arctic prison to one in Moscow, Rumors began to swirl about the long-teased prisoner exchange.



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Mexico’s “Teflon” presidency starting to show wear


FILE – In this July 1, 2019 file photo, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador arrives at a rally to celebrate the one-year anniversary of his election, in Mexico City’s main square, the Zocalo. As President Obrador gets ready to give his state of the union address on Sunday, Sept. 1, Mexico’s drug war has burst into flames again, the economy is flat, the health care system is creaking and, facing the wrath of U.S. President Donald Trump, he has cracked down on Central American migrants harder than ever. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s drug war has burst into flames again, the economy is flat, the health care system is creaking and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — facing the wrath of U.S. President Donald Trump — has cracked down on Central American migrants harder than ever.

Yet López Obrador, once known for being angry and irascible after years of losing presidential bids, almost never loses his smile at the news conferences he has held almost every morning since taking office Dec. 1. He is scheduled to give his first state of the union address Sunday.

In some ways, it is a Teflon presidency: Little sticks to Lopez Obrador because he is so quick to smile and say “peace and love” to adversaries. It doesn’t hurt that the opposition is so discredited, disheartened and disorganized that on most major issues its voice isn’t even heard over Lopez Obrador’s daily din.



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DoJ May Block Google-Backed Fiber-Optic Project Over ‘National Security’ Fears

Offering a glimpse of complications that are arising from Washington’s campaign to stamp out ‘national security’-related issues emanating from the Chinese telecom sector, WSJ reported on Wednesday about a major project to lay high-speed fiber-optic cable across the Pacific that would increase the Internet connectivity between China and the US. The project, known as the Pacific Light Cable Network, involved laying 8,000 miles of undersea fiber-optic cable between Los Angeles and Hong Kong, creating a new link between the US and Hong Kong.

The project, which is already in its final stages, with most of the cable having already been laid, is being financed by Facebook, Google-parent Alphabet and a major Chinese telecoms company.

But now, a committee of US officials responsible for granting the project final approval are getting cold feet, and the project’s backers are worried it might not pass its final ‘national security’ review led by the DoJ, DHS and other US federal agencies. These agencies make a recommendation to the FCC, which makes the final decision whether to allow the project will receive a license to operate.



China Rotates Troops at Hong Kong and Macau Borders

August 29, 2019

HONG KONG—China rotated troops in its People’s Liberation Army garrison in Hong Kong on Aug. 29, days before protesters planned to hold a march calling for full democracy for the Chinese-ruled city after three months of sometimes violent demonstrations.

Chinese state media described the troop movement in the early hours as routine. Troops were also rotated in neighboring Macau, a former Portuguese colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1999.

But the timing is likely to hit a few nerves in Hong Kong, which was returned to China in 1997 under a “one country, two systems” agreement.

China’s state mouthpiece Xinhua decried that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) garrison in the territory will make even greater contributions to maintaining Hong Kong’s prosperity and stability.

The military had completed a routine troop rotation of air, land, and maritime forces, Xinhua said. Along with the People’s Daily, it released pictures and footage of armored personnel carriers moving in convoy in Hong Kong before dawn, their lights flashing.

Observers estimate the Hong Kong garrison numbers between 8,000 and 10,000 troops split between bases in southern China and a network of former British army barracks in Hong Kong.



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Google’s Power to Shift Elections—Zachary Vorhies, Greg Coppola and Dr. Robert Epstein

August  2019 Updated: August 25, 2019

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According to Google whistleblower Zachary Vorhies, how is Google suppressing certain viewpoints, promoting others, and altering public perception?

Is there evidence of active intent on the part of Google staff or executives?

And in the eyes of Dr. Robert Epstein, what are the broader implications of Google bias—whether intentional or unintentional—for America and beyond?

This is American Thought Leaders ??, and I’m Jan Jekielek.

In this special episode, we sit down with Google whistleblower Zachary Vorhies, a former senior Google engineer, who recently leaked nearly 1000 pages of documents that he says suggest Google has been secretly acting as a publisher, selectively boosting or demoting content, while publicly claiming to be a neutral platform.

We sent Google some questions regarding each specific allegation that Vorhies made in our interview. Google has not responded to our requests for comments.

We also spoke to another Google whistleblower Greg Coppola, who has also called out big tech bias, and Dr. Robert Epstein, a leading expert on Google search engine bias, to get their take on the leaked documents and Vorhies’ allegations against Google.

 

 

 

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President Donald Trump and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, right, attend a working breakfast at the Hotel du Palais on the sidelines of the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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US Military Ship Passes Through Strategic Taiwan Strait Amid China Tension

August 23, 2019

WASHINGTON—The United States sent a Navy ship through the Taiwan Strait on Aug. 23, rekindling one of a growing number of flashpoints in Washington’s relationship with Beijing.

The U.S. military has increased the frequency of its transport movements through the strategic waterway in the face of opposition from China.

Friday’s voyage risks further raising bilateral tensions stoked by a bitter trade war, but will likely be viewed by self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from the administration of President Donald Trump.

This month China denounced arms sales from the United States to Taiwan and in July said it was ready for war if there was any move by Taiwan towards independence.

Beijing has been ramping up pressure to assert its sovereignty over the island, which it considers a wayward province.

Commander Reann Mommsen, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, said the ship’s transit through the Strait—a 112-mile wide (180 km) waterway separating Taiwan from China—“demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific.”



Russia sends its first humanoid robot Fedor into space

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Named Fedor, the robot is the first ever sent up by Russia

Named Fedor, the robot is the first ever sent up by Russia (AFP Photo/-)

Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Thursday launched an unmanned rocket carrying a life-size humanoid robot that will spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts on the International Space Station.

Named Fedor, short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, the robot is the first ever sent up by Russia.

Fedor blasted off in a Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft at 6:38 am Moscow time (0338 GMT) from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz is set to dock with the space station on Saturday and stay till September 7.

Soyuz ships are normally manned on such trips, but on Thursday no humans are travelling in order to test a new emergency rescue system.

Instead of cosmonauts, Fedor, also known as Skybot F850, was strapped into a specially adapted pilot’s seat, with a small Russian flag in hand.

“Let’s go. Let’s go,” the robot was heard saying during launch, repeating the famous phrase used by first man in space Yuri Gagarin.

The silvery anthropomorphic robot stands 1.80 metres (5 foot 11 inches) tall and weighs 160 kilogrammes (353 pounds).

Fedor has Instagram and Twitter accounts with posts saying it is learning new skills such as opening a bottle of water. In the station, it will trial those manual skills in very low gravity.

“That’s connecting and disconnecting electric cables (and) using standard items, from a screwdriver and a spanner to a fire extinguisher,” the Russian space agency’s director for prospective programmes and science, Alexander Bloshenko, said in televised comments ahead of the launch.

“The first stage of in-flight experiments went according to the flight plan,” the robot tweeted after reaching orbit.

Fedor copies human movements, a key skill that allows it to remotely help astronauts or even people on Earth to carry out tasks while the humans are strapped into an exoskeleton.

Such robots will eventually carry out dangerous operations such as space walks, Bloshenko told the state news agency RIA Novosti.

On the website of one of the state backers of the project, the Foundation of Advanced Research Projects, Fedor is described as potentially useful on Earth for working in high radiation environments, demining and tricky rescue missions.

Though initially developed for the emergencies ministry, Fedor can also be seen shooting at targets from two handguns in a video posted by Russian space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin.



The “Lungs Of The Earth” Are Being Burned Away As Unprecedented Wildfires Absolutely Ravage The Planet

Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,

We have never seen anything quite like this.

This week the skies above Brazil’s largest city turned black in the middle of the afternoon due to the massive wildfires that are currently raging in that country.  But the wildfires aren’t actually happening anywhere near Sa?o Paulo.  In fact, the smoke that turned the skies black actually came from fires that were happening more than 1,000 miles away.  Can you imagine how powerful the fires have to be in order to do that?

And it isn’t just Brazil – right now horrific fires are scorching vast stretches of our planet from South America all the way up to the Arctic.  Some of the fires are producing so much smoke that you can actually see it from space.  And in the process, irreversible damage is being done to our ecosystems.

I know that this number is hard to believe, but there have been more than 72,000 wildfires in Brazil so far in 2019, and most of those fires are happening in the Amazon rainforest.  I understand that many of you may not care what happens in Brazil, but you should.  Approximately 60 percent of the entire Amazon rainforest is in Brazilian territory, and that rainforest produces approximately 20 percent of all the oxygen in our atmosphere.  So essentially the “lungs of the Earth” are being burned away right in front of our eyes

The fires are burning at the highest rate since the country’s space research center, the National Institute for Space Research (known by the abbreviation INPE), began tracking them in 2013, the center said Tuesday.

There have been 72,843 fires in Brazil this year, with more than half in the Amazon region, INPE said. That’s more than an 80% increase compared with the same period last year.

The Amazon is often referred to as the planet’s lungs, producing 20% of the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Every minute of every single day, an average of 1½ soccer fields of Amazon rainforest are being wiped out.  This is an ongoing crisis that hasn’t been getting nearly the attention that it deserves in the United States.

Infographic: Record Number Of Wildfires Burning In The Amazon | Statista

You will find more infographics at Statista

But when the skies above Sao Paulo suddenly turned completely black at three in the afternoon on Monday, that set off a social media frenzy

São Paulo’s skies were blackened for roughly an hour at around 3 p.m. Monday due to raging fires throughout the region and weather conditions that pushed particulate matter over the city, setting off intense speculation on social networks about the reason why the day was seemingly transformed into night.

Videos and images posted by local residents depicted disturbing scenes of pedestrians walking under black skies and cars driving in the mid-afternoon with their headlights on as the continued fires throughout the Amazon rainforest drove the hashtags #PrayforAmazonia and #PrayforAmazonas to worldwide viral status.

Sadly, these fires are not going to end any time soon.  It is being reported that more than 9,000 fires are raging at the moment, and it is being estimated that 640 million acres have been affected by those fires.

Yes, you read that number correctly.

640 million acres.

Meanwhile, 50 large wildfires are burning in a dozen U.S. states right now.  The worst fires are happening in Alaska, where “more than 400,000 acres are currently burning”

Multiple fires are burning near the state’s biggest city, and firefighters have called in assistance from the Lower 48. More than 400,000 acres are currently burning, and one of the biggest concerns is the McKinley Fire, which has destroyed at least 50 structures about 100 miles north of Anchorage. Officials with the Matanuska-Susitna Borough declared a state of emergency, and firefighters hoped that calmer weather predicted for Wednesday could permit evacuees to return.

When I think of Alaska, I think of a place that is bitterly cold.  But apparently it is hot enough this year for wildfires to sweep across hundreds of thousands of acres.

And we are also witnessing highly unusual wildfires in the Arctic in 2019…

The Arctic as a whole has seen unusually high wildfire activity this summer, Parrington said, including areas such as Greenland that typically don’t see fires. One estimate found that the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from fires burning within the Arctic Circle in in June 2019 was greater than all of the CO2 released in the same month from 2010 through to 2018 put together.

To me, it is very strange to be talking about “wildfires in the Arctic”, but we have entered a period of time when our entire definition of “normal” is going to change.  Last winter we experienced one of the coldest winters in ages, during the first half of this year the middle of the U.S. experienced unprecedented rainfall and flooding, and now we are being told that last month was the hottest July ever recorded

The average global temperature in July was 1.71 degrees F above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees, making it the hottest July in the 140-year record, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.

The previous hottest month on record was July 2016. Nine of the 10 hottest recorded Julys have occurred since 2005; the last five years have ranked as the five hottest. Last month was also the 43rd consecutive July and 415th consecutive month with above-average global temperatures.

Unfortunately, many believe that this is just the beginning.  Global weather patterns are going haywire, and so the extremes that we have seen so far may just be the tip of the iceberg.

The environment that we depend upon for life every moment of every day is being shaken, and many are deeply alarmed about what is happening to the Earth.  Each day it is being destroyed a little bit more, and the clock is ticking…



President Trump and PM Boris Johnson Discuss Brexit and Trade Deal…

According to the White House:

President Donald J. Trump spoke by telephone with Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom earlier today to discuss a wide range of trade and economic issues. Prime Minister Johnson also provided the President with an update on Brexit. The President expressed great enthusiasm for his upcoming meeting with the Prime Minister at the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France. (link)



NBC News Repeats Chinese Communist Party Propaganda in Hit Piece on The Epoch Times

Seeing the success of The Epoch Times as America’s fastest-growing newspaper, NBC News has published a hit piece





US Tests Cruise Missile That Was Banned Under INF Treaty

August 19, 2019

The United States tested a cruise missile that was banned under a treaty it was party to with Russia until Aug. 2 known as the INF.

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces was signed during the Cold War, but American officials—with backing from NATO—had argued Russia breached the treaty and refused to correct the breaches, instead insisting it had not breached the treaty.

“The United States has fully adhered to the INF Treaty for more than 30 years, but we will not remain constrained by its terms while Russia misrepresents its actions,” President Donald Trump said in a statement. “We cannot be the only country in the world unilaterally bound by this treaty, or any other.”

The Department of Defense said Aug. 19 that it conducted a test on Sunday afternoon of “a conventionally-configured ground-launched cruise missile” at San Nicolas Island in California.

“The test missile exited its ground mobile launcher and accurately impacted its target after more than 500 kilometers of flight. Data collected and lessons learned from this test will inform the Department of Defense’s development of future intermediate-range capabilities,” it stated.



Cameras installed in airline seats now surreptitiously record you during every flight, then store the video files indefinitely

If being subjected to radiation and groped at the airport wasn’t enough, now airline passengers will be monitored in their seats by CCTV cameras that can randomly take pictures of you, watch you eat, and pick your nose. In Hong Kong, individual camera screens are being installed in every headrest, glaring at each passenger.

Hong-Kong based Cathay Pacific has installed “entertainment screens” in the back of every airline seat. These screens are equipped with cameras that can surreptitiously monitor every passenger’s movements and personal preferences. The only place where cameras aren’t installed – the airline reassures – is in the bathrooms.





Tens of Thousands of Hong Kongers Join Rally Pressuring Local Government Meet Their Demands

August 18, 2019

HONG KONG—Tens of thousands of protesters poured into one of Hong Kong’s busiest shopping districts on Aug. 18, braving a downpour to join a rally in the eleventh week of what have been often violent demonstrations in the Asian financial hub.



China Amasses Army Vehicles, Conducts Military Drills near Hong Kong Amidst Pro-Democracy Rallies

This Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, photo shows armored vehicles and troop trucks are parked outside Shenzhen Bay Stadium in Shenzhen, China. Members of China's paramilitary People's Armed Police marched and practiced crowd control tactics at a sports complex in Shenzhen across from Hong Kong on Friday, in what some interpreted …

SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Members of China’s paramilitary People’s Armed Police marched and practiced crowd control tactics at a sports complex in Shenzhen across from Hong Kong in what some interpreted as a threat against pro-democracy protesters in the semi-autonomous territory.



Clinton Emails With Classified Info Sat in Gmail Account Two Weeks Before Comey Exonerated Her

Hundreds of Hillary Clinton’s emails that included classified information from her tenure as State Secretary sat in a …



Trump Says He Doesn’t Want to See Violent Crackdown in Hong Kong, Links Issue to Trade Talks

President Donald Trump in several tweets suggested Chinese Leader Xi Jinping take……… the story



FTC Chair Joe Simons Says He Is Prepared to Break Up Big Tech

The Associated Press

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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joe Simons said Tuesday he remains prepared to break up America’s largest technology companies, even by reversing past mergers, as part of the regulator antitrust investigation into big tech.



Donald Trump says China moving troops to Hong Kong border, says situation is ‘tricky’

Demonstrators protesting a perceived erosion of civil liberties under Chinese rule clashed with police at Hong Kong`s international airport late on Tuesday, plunging the former British colony deeper into turmoil after 10 weeks of increasingly violent clashes. …





Global Times Shows Dramatic Video Of Chinese Army Preparing For Hong Kong Invasion

“The People’s Armed Police have been assembling in Shenzhen, a city bordering Hong Kong, in advance of apparent large-scale exercises.”



Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas in Subway Station as Protests Continue for Another Weekend

Hong Kong was rocked by mass demonstrations and clashes between protesters and police on Aug. 11, as protesters



WHO DONE IT?

This March 28, 2017 image provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. The wealthy financier pleaded not guilty in federal court in New York on Monday, July 8, 2019, to sex trafficking charges following his arrest over the weekend. Epstein will have to remain behind â?¦

 

According to ABC News, Jeffrey Epstein was reportedly found dead by suspected suicide in his jail cell.

WATCH: ABC News Special Report: Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide overnight in his Lower Manhattan jail cell where he had been held pending trial on federal sex trafficking charges, three law enforcement officials told @ABC News. https://abcn.ws/31twJBV 

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Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced millionaire who was facing federal sex trafficking charges, died by suicide Friday night in his Lower Manhattan jail cell, three law enforcement officials told ABC News.

The exact timing and circumstances were not immediately clear.





Pakistani FM visits ‘trusted friend’ China amid Kashmir escalation

Pakistani FM visits ‘trusted friend’ China amid Kashmir escalation

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has traveled to Beijing to consult with Chinese leadership over rising tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi, after India revoked the special status of Kashmir.



Assange being ‘treated worse than a murderer’ in prison – John Pilger

Assange being ‘treated worse than a murderer’ in prison – John Pilger
Julian Assange is suffering from poor health as a result of mistreatment in prison, according to journalist John Pilger, who recently visited the WikiLeaks founder. Pilger said that he now fears for Assange.

Describing Assange’s “deteriorating” condition, Pilger tweeted that he was being treated “worse than a murderer” at London’s Belmarsh prison.

“[H]e is isolated, medicated and denied the tools to fight the bogus charges of a US extradition. I now fear for him. Do not forget him,” Pilger wrote.

Do not forget Julian . Or you will lose him.
I saw him in Belmarsh prison and his health has deteriorated. Treated worse than a murderer, he is isolated, medicated and denied the tools to fight the bogus charges of a US extradition. I now fear for him.

Assange was arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in central London on April 11 and received a 50-week sentence for skipping bail in a Swedish investigation involving alleged sexual assault.

The 48-year-old now faces extradition to the United States, where he is charged with possession and dissemination of classified information. If found guilty, he could receive up to 175 years in prison.

Assange has been in Washington’s crosshairs for years, with his organization gaining notoriety after publishing a leaked video showing the US military attacking journalists and civilians in Iraq in July 2007.

ALSO ON RT.COMJulian Assange faces ‘TORTURE’ if extradited to US – UN rapporteur warns 



50,000 Attend Nuclear Bomb Anniversary Memorial in Hiroshima

 

50,000 Attend Nuclear Bomb Anniversary Memorial in Hiroshima

Latest US Sanctions Could Bring Venezuelan Economy to ‘Grinding Halt’

BY   LUKE TAYLOR, SPECIAL TO THE EPOCH TIMES

August 7, 2019

BOGOTA, Colombia—The latest U.S. sanctions against the Maduro regime may cause some of Venezuela’s biggest trading partners to cease doing business with it, leaving that country financially isolated.

“If the Venezuelan economy has already slowed, it’s going to come to a grinding halt” should the sanctions be fully enforced, Sergio Guzman, of Colombia Risk Analysis, predicted.

The executive order, announced late Aug. 5, freezes Venezuela’s assets in the United States, bans entry to Venezuelan citizens believed to have aided the dictator, and could lead to measures being taken against any countries that continue to trade with Nicolás Maduro’s government.

All business dealings with “property and interests in property of the Government of Venezuela” within the United States will now be prohibited, according to the statement released by White House.

Private Venezuelan businesses aren’t affected, as the order stops short of a full embargo—such as the one enforced on Venezuela’s socialist ally, Cuba. It remains, however, the most symbolic wave of U.S. sanctions to date on the country, enforcing blanket measures instead of targeting individuals—as was previously the case—to break the ongoing political impasse.

“While the order falls short of an outright trade embargo, it represents the most determined U.S. action to remove Maduro since the Trump administration recognized opposition leader Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s rightful leader in January,” said Geoff Ramsey, assistant director for the Washington Office on Latin America.



China Opens New Front in Trade War, Manipulating Its Currency

WASHINGTON—China has resorted to currency manipulation, allowing the yuan to fall against the U.S. dollar, in an apparent …



 



For The First Time In 25 Years, US Treasury Just Designated China A Currency Manipulator

“This pattern of actions is also a violation of China’s G20 commitments to refrain from competitive devaluation.”





Trump: North Korea’s 3 Short-Range Missile Tests Are Not a Violation of Singapore Agreement

President Donald Trump said North Korea’s three recent short-range missile tests are not a violation of the 2018 …





 

U.S. Designates Brazil â??Major Non-NATO Allyâ??

 

President Donald Trump designated Brazil a “major non-NATO ally” on Wednesday, making good on a pledge he made to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in March of greater military cooperation.

The move, announced by the White House on Wednesday, will give the Brazilian military preferential access to American weaponry and training facilities that other nations outside of NATO cannot access. The announcement comes four months after Trump publicly promised Bolsonaro greater security cooperation.

“I intend to designate Brazil as a major non-NATO ally, or even possibly, if you start thinking about it, maybe a NATO ally,” he said at the time. “I’ll have to talk to a lot of people but maybe a NATO ally – which will greatly advance security and cooperation between our countries.”



Pompeo Jabs at China’s ‘Bad Behavior’, Defends US Tariffs

August 2, 2019

BANGKOK–U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Aug. 2 decried “decades of bad behavior” from China that have hampered free trade, laying out a case at a Southeast Asian forum for Washington’s escalating trade war with Beijing.

Pompeo’s statements came after President Donald Trump on Thursday announced he would slap a 10 percent tariff on the remaining $300 billion of Chinese imports starting Sept. 1, abruptly ending a truce in year-long trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies.

“China’s problems are homegrown, but President Trump’s confrontation of China’s unfair trade practices has helped shine a light on them,” Pompeo said in his speech to business executives and others in the Thai capital, where he is attending a wider meeting of Southeast Asian nations with world powers. “We’d like our trade matters resolved as quickly as possible. All we want is for China to compete on a level playing field with everyone else. This will benefit not only us, but you, and the global trading system, too.”

“We want free and fair trade, not trade that undermines competition,” Pompeo said.

U.S. criticism of China has been a running theme at the Bangkok forum.

“For decades, China has taken advantage of trade … It’s time for that to stop. President Trump said we’re gonna fix this. And to fix it requires determination, and that’s what you saw this morning,” Pompeo said on Friday.









US Set to Push Security Strategy in South China Sea as Chinese Maneuvers Rattle Region



 

More Trump Miracles! Latest Data Shows Job Openings and New Hires Reached Historic All-Time Highs in 2018!

More Trump Miracles! Latest Data Shows Job Openings and New Hires Reached Historic All-Time Highs in 2018!



Tokyo Trying Out Cruise Ships to Reduce Street Traffic in Preparation for 2020 Olympics



US Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Against Chinese Banks in North Korea Sanctions Probe



Crackdown Coming? China Gathers Forces On Hong Kong Border Amid Unrest

Massive anti-Beijing protests which have gripped Hong Kong over the past month, and have become increasingly violent as both an overwhelmed local police force and counter-protesters have hit back with force, are threatening to escalate on a larger geopolitical scale after the White House weighed in this week.

With China fast losing patience, there are new reports of a significant build-up of Chinese security forces on Hong Kong’s border, as Bloomberg reports:

The White House is monitoring what a senior administration official called a congregation of Chinese forces on Hong Kong’s border.

Riot police fire tear gas to disperse protesters in Hong Kong on Sunday. Image source: EPA-EFE

From nearly the start of the protests which began over a proposed extradition bill (which would see Hong Kong citizens under legal accusation potentially extradited to the mainland) interpreted as major Chinese overreach inside historically semi-autonomous Hong Kong, officials in Beijing have suggested an “external plot” afoot, more recently alleging the hidden hand of the United States.

The latest charge made Tuesday by mainland government officials is that the still escalating Hong Kong unrest is the “creation of the US” — something which the Trump admin official speaking under anonymity to Bloomberg firmly denied.

On Monday Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a press interview that “protest is appropriate” and that “we hope the Chinese will do the right thing” regarding respecting Hong Kong’s historic “one country, two systems” status. This was enough to elicit a quick response alleging US meddling out of Beijing on Tuesday.

“The White House is monitoring a buildup of chinese forces on Hong Kong’s border, a senior administration official said.” Here we go..the moment the pla army marches from Shenzhen, it’s over. china’s army is going to invade HK. It’s inevitable. Twitter Ads info and privacy

“It’s clear that Mr. Pompeo has put himself in the wrong position and still regards himself as the head of the CIA,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a news briefing“He might think that violent activities in Hong Kong are reasonable because after all, this is the creation of the U.S.”

China’s position has been to recently declare the protests going “far beyond” what’s legal and “peaceful” amid clashes with police.

People’s Liberation Army soldiers at Stonecutters Island naval base in Hong Kong last month. Source: NYT/Reuters

Last week Chinese military leaders hinted that People’s Liberation Army troops could be used to quell the protests following widespread reports of vandal attacks on the central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong, according to The New York Times. Ministry of National Defense, Senior Col. Wu Qian, said at the time, “That absolutely cannot be tolerated.”

For now, few details are known concerning the reported Chinese “build-up” on the border, which could consist of military forces, as Bloomberg added to its report:

The nature of the Chinese buildup wasn’t clear; the official said that units of the Chinese military or armed police had gathered at the border with Hong Kong. The official briefed reporters on condition he not be identified.



July 30, 2019

Honduras, El Salvador Expected to Follow After Guatemala, Mexico Make Immigration Deals With Trump

Honduras, El Salvador Expected to Follow After Guatemala, Mexico Make Immigration Deals With Trump



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Trump Announces Rep. John Ratcliffe to Replace Dan Coats as Director of National Intelligence

July 28, 2019

President Donald Trump announced on July 28 that Daniel Coats, the director of national intelligence (DNI), will be leaving his office in the coming weeks and is to be replaced by Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas).



 

 

Trump predicted Johnson would “do a great job” and that they would get along well. They do have similarities. Both want to control the endless influx of people from 3rd world countries looking for free stuff. Both have blonde hair and blue eyes. They’re both conservative.

BOJO is an Oxford man who was trained in the classics and he speaks several languages. He said his hero is Winston Churchill. Britain will need another Churchill to drain their swamp, which is nearly as bad as ours here in America.
It will be interesting to see how Boris Johnson starts out.

 

 

Iran Test-Fires Medium-Range Ballistic Missile, Says US Official

July 26, 2019

A U.S. official confirmed that Iran test-fire a medium-range ballistic missile on July 25, going about 600 miles from the southern part of the country to northern Iran.

The unnamed official told several news outlets that the country fired a Shahab-3 medium-range missile, and one told the New York Times that the projectile didn’t pose a threat to American or Western interests in the region.

The official said the missile landed east of Tehran, the capital, and stayed within the country the entire time. American officials, the person said, were monitoring the site that Iran was preparing to use as a launch site.

A Shahab-3 medium-range missile is displayed during a rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran, Iran, on June 23.  (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)

“We are aware of reports of a projectile launched from Iran, and have no further comment at this time,” a senior Trump administration official also told Fox News.





July 25, 2019

EU Strikes Conciliatory Tone With US on Trade, Calls for Unified Front Against China

EU Strikes Conciliatory Tone With US on Trade, Calls for Unified Front Against China
BY NICK GUTTERIDGE, SPECIAL TO THE EPOCH TIMES

BRUSSELS—The European Union has called for a joint approach with the United States to tackle China’s “unfair trading practices” as part of a plea to de-escalate commercial …



Terror Attacks in Hong Kong Result of Power Struggle in Beijing

July 25, 2019

News Analysis

The situation in Hong Kong is becoming more intense after violent gangster attacks against peaceful protesters on July 21. A Chinese analyst says it’s a reflection and manifestation of internal power struggles in Beijing, and Xi Xinping is at another crossroad.





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Boris Johnson Wins U.K. Leadership Race, Will be Prime Minister

Boris Johnson Brexit

Former Mayor of London Boris Johnson has won the internal vote to become the new leader of the governing Conservative Party, meaning he is due to become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Wednesday afternoon.



Comey’s Cyber Spy in White House Stole Classified White House Material — Is Now Working for CNN

(Corrupt Comey’s corrupt cyber spy Anthony Ferrante)

Yesterday a report was released that corrupt and fired former FBI Director James Comey had a spy in the Trump White House.  We know he stole information and shared it with Comey, the question is, did he try to frame the President as well?

As of yesterday we now know that corrupt former FBI Director James Comey had an agent inside the White House reporting back to the FBI about Trump and his aides.  It’s clear that Comey’s spy, Anthony Ferrante, was feeding information that he stole back to Comey.  That is what spies do.  But what is not yet clear is whether Ferrante, who now works for CNN, attempted to frame the President as well, from within the White House.

In March 2019 CNN reported that their cyber expert Anthony Ferrante was used by Buzzfeed as an expert in the lawsuit against them by Aleksej Gubarev. Guberove denied the allegations and Buzzfeed used Ferrante as an expert in their defense.

If corrupt Comey and his spy Ferrante tried to frame the President, it wouldn’t be the first time that the Obama – Comey Deep State gang was accused of attempting to frame President Trump through a cyber crime.

We reported a month ago that the recent firings of top Italian spies were related to Obama and a plot to set up candidate and then President Trump.  Obama’s Deep State reportedly tried to frame President Trump by inserting Hillary emails on a  related party’s servers.

Italian Prime Minister Conte asked for the resignations of four top intelligence officials after his call with President Donald Trump.  It was next reported that the recent removal of these top Italian intelligence ministers from their positions as top spies in the government.

The story begins in January 2017 when Computer World wrote about alleged crimes committed by Italian Giulio Occhionero


Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan attends a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of State in Bishkek on June 14, 2019. (Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images)



The 2nd Cyprus Partition: American Promises vs Turkish Arms vs Russian Money & Missiles

This week a group of US senators has proposed to leave Turkey in control of the northern part of Cyprus, and force the Greek Cypriots to choose between the US and Russia for the economic and political future of the south of the island.



US Authorizes Deployment of Troops, Resources to Saudi Arabia

July 20, 2019

WASHINGTON—With Iranian military threats in mind, the United States is sending American forces, including fighter aircraft, air defense missiles and likely more than 500 troopsto a Saudi airbase that became a hub of American airpower in the Middle East in the 1990s but was abandoned by Washington after it toppled Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein in 2003.



photo: AP / Vincent Yu



The New EU Is Even More Insane Than The Old EU

Von der Leyen is more of a euro-integrationist than Juncker was… But the trends are clear… von der Leyen is the past and Nigel Farage is the future….



Iran says its seizure of British ship a ‘reciprocal’ move

 WAR DRUMS IRAN

A British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero which was seized by the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on Friday is photographed in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, Saturday, July 20, 2019. The chairman of Britain’s House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee says military action to free the oil tanker seized by Iran would not be a good choice. Tom Tugendhat said Saturday it would be “extremely unwise” to seek a military solution to the escalating crisis, especially because the vessel has apparently been taken to a well-protected port. (Tasnim News]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A powerful council in Iran said Saturday the country’s seizure of a British oil tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz was in response to Britain’s role in impounding an Iranian supertanker two weeks earlier.

Spokesman of Iran’s Guardian Council, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, was quoted in the semi-official Fars news agency saying “the rule of reciprocal action is well-known in international law” and that Iran’s moves to “confront the illegitimate economic war and seizure of oil tankers is an instance of this rule and is based on international rights.”

The council rarely comments on state matters, but when it does it is seen as a reflection of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s views. That’s because the council works closely with Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters.



Iran Seizes Foreign Oil Tanker Accused of Smuggling Fuel: State TV

July 18, 2019

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has seized a foreign oil tanker because it was smuggling fuel, according to the country’s state television.

Iran’s Press TV said on July 18 that the Guard Corps seized the “foreign vessel,” which was supposedly smuggling one million barrels of fuel. It was seized near Larak Island in the Persian Gulf.

According to Iran’s Fars News agency, the ship had 12 foreign crew members on board and capacity for 2 million liters of fuel.

The Revolutionary Guards said the impounded vessel—which Iranian authorities have not yet named—was the same one it towed after it sent a distress call.





US Tech Giants Are Top Contributors to China’s Surveillance State

July 16, 2019

The IBM and Google led non-profit “OpenPOWER Foundation may be skirting technology-transfer restrictions to assist Chinese censors to surveil 200 million people.

With Western companies using patents to protect their intellectual property and set technical standards, China’s State Council launched an initiative in 2006 to influence international technology standards to “make market space for Chinese innovations.” Leveraging its 1989 Technology Standardization Law as the “sole legal basis for China’s standardization system,” foreign firms seeking to do business in China must “proactively disclose any patents which may be infringed by the proposed standard.”

China tech-standards start as recommendations by university scientists at government-funded institutions, including the National University of Defense Technology. A researcher setting a standard favored by Chinese companies is eligible to receive “bonuses, travel permissions, or credits toward promotions and tenure.” Given the limited value of foreign patents in China is offset by market size, IBM and Google are the premium sponsors for a Linux open-source software non-profit called “OpenPOWER.”

The Intercept reported that IBM under the OpenPOWER banner as an effort to “drive innovation” in China, has been leading a collaboration with China’s Semptian Big Data Solutions and top U.S. chip manufacturer Xilinx to “advance a breed of microprocessors that enable computers to analyze vast amounts of data more efficiently.”

A source that gave documents to The Intercept claimed that Shenzhen-based Semptian uses high-performance cloud computing to “enhance the capabilities of internet surveillance and censorship technology it provides to human rights-abusing security agencies in China” that routinely surveils 200 million Chinese Internet users each day.

The Intercept “after contacting Semptian under the pretext of a potential customer, received documents through Semptian’s iNext unit for a product called Aegis that can “store and analyze unlimited data” to offer “a full view to the virtual world”; reveal “the connections of everyone”; and provide “location information for everyone in the country.”



India lifted 271 million people out of poverty in 10 years:

UNITED NATIONS, JULY 12, 2019 
According to a UN report, India and Cambodia reduced their Multidimensional Poverty Index values the fastest.According to a UN report, India and Cambodia reduced their Multidimensional Poverty Index values the fastest.   | Photo Credit: Shaju John

India lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2016, recording the fastest reductions in the multidimensional poverty index values during the period with strong improvements in areas such as “assets, cooking fuel, sanitation and nutrition,” a report by the United Nations said.

The 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) from the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) was released on Thursday.

The report said that in the 101 countries studied — 31 low income, 68 middle income and 2 high income – 1.3 billion people are “multidimensionally poor”, which means that poverty is defined not simply by income, but by a number of indicators, including poor health, poor quality of work and the threat of violence.

The report identifies 10 countries, with a combined population of around 2 billion people, to illustrate the level of poverty reduction, and all of them have shown statistically significant progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 1, namely ending poverty “in all its forms, everywhere”.

The 10 countries are Bangladesh, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru and Vietnam.

The report said that within these 10 countries, data shows that 270 million people moved out of multidimensional poverty from one survey to the next.





Macron Echoes Trump, Announces New French Military Space Force

French President Emmanuel Macron talks to US President Donald Trump, as they visit Napoleon Bonaparte's tomb at Les Invalides in Paris, on July 13, 2017, during Trump's 24-hour trip that coincides with France's national day and the 100th anniversary of US involvement in World War I.

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French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday the French air force will expand to include a space command to improve the country’s defense capabilities.

The move echoes U.S. President Donald Trump who signed a policy directive in February requiring the secretary of defense to create a separate Space Force within the United States military.

“The Space Force will organize, equip, and train the next generation of warriors to deter aggression and defend the nation, our allies, and American interests against hostile actions in the form of space and taking place in space,” Mr Trump said.

The president noted that America’s enemies were already creating technology to threaten the country from space, which he was determined to meet and surpass, an enhancement to U.S. military capabilites that was applauded by Vice President Mike Pence:

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The brave men and women here at Vandenberg AFB have made it a priority to advance our country’s leadership on the frontier of space in their work towards President @realDonaldTrump‘s Space Force! Thank you for all for your hard work, dedication, and service to our nation!

Macron’s declaration meanwhile came on the eve of France’s Bastille Day national celebrations that feature a military parade down Paris’s Champs-Elysees.

“To assure the development and the reinforcement of our capacities in space, a high command for space will be created in September,” Macron told military brass gathered for a traditional pre-Bastille Day reception.

He called the renewed military focus on space a “true national security issue.”

Observers see military activities — including spy satellites, location tracing and jamming, communications and cyber attacks — increasingly being set up in orbit around Earth.

France has a 2019-2025 military spending plan that allocates 3.6 billion euros ($4 billion) to defence in space.

That includes the renewal of the France’s CSO observation and Syracuse communication satellites, the launch of three CERES electromagnetic-monitoring satellites, and the modernisation of a spatial radar surveillance system called GRAVES.

In March, United Nations-backed talks in Geneva to prevent an arms race in outer space ended without agreement.









Hongkongers Use Ingenious Method to Break Through China’s Information Blockade

BY OLIVIA LI, EPOCH TIMES
July 10, 2019

Historically, airborne leaflets have been used as an effective form of psychological warfare. During the Second World War, the Allies dropped packets of leaflets or hydrogen balloons from aircraft over German territory to refute the Nazi regime’s deceptive propaganda. After the Korean War, several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in South Korea have been using balloons to send materials censored in North Korea to the North Korean people.

In the past month, Chinese state media kept silent on the mass protests in Hong Kong. Internet police and robot censors continue to stop the spread of pictures, videos, and reports about the Hong Kong protests on all social media platforms.

As a result, many Chinese tourists who witnessed the July 7 parade in Hong Kong, a vast march with 230,000 participants, were shocked and bewildered by the event, as they had no idea what has been happening in Hong Kong over the last few weeks.

Having realized how important it is to help mainland Chinese understand what they have been fighting for, the Hong Kong protesters figured out an ingenious method to share information with tourists from mainland China. They are now using “AirDrop,” a file sharing feature that allows Apple devices (mobile phones, tablets, etc.) to send photos and videos over Bluetooth and wireless networks. They write the information in simplified Chinese characters to make sure the recipients would easily understand the content.

“Did you know that in the past month, there have been three large-scale parades in Hong Kong, and as many as 2 million people have taken to the streets to protest?” said one of the AirDropped leaflets.


 



UK Ambassador to the US Kim Darroch Resigns After Criticizing Trump



Chief Investment Officer of Largest US Public Pension Fund Has Deep Ties to Chinese Regime

July 8, 2019 Updated

Newly discovered deep ties between the chief investment officer (CIO) of the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) and the Chinese government, along with CalPERS’s China investment holdings, have provoked controversy about the operations of the biggest public retirement fund in the nation.

CalPERS is one of the largest public retirement systems in the West. It manages more than $350 billion in funds for public employees either already retired from or currently working for most of the state and local public agencies in California.

The fund holds tens of millions of shares in equities of Chinese companies. Among other things, these companies develop advanced weapons for China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and are involved in unethical business practices and human rights abuses, including the concentration camps holding Uyghurs in Xinjiang, according to one expert.

According to a 2017 report by the People’s Daily, the official mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the current CIO of CalPERS, Yu “Ben” Meng, as at 2015 was a participant in the Chinese government’s prestigious headhunting program called the Thousand Talents Plan (TTP).

In testimony by the FBI to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in December 2018, the TTP was called part of “China’s non-traditional espionage against the United States.”


July 9, 2019

US-China Space Race: Amazon and SpaceX to Launch 7,661 5G and 6G Satellites

US-China Space Race: Amazon and SpaceX to Launch 7,661 5G and 6G Satellites



Chinese Regime Waging Economic War With West, US Experts Warn

Chinese Regime Waging Economic War With West, US Experts Warn
BY CATHY HE, EPOCH TIMES



Nintendo Says to Shift Part of Switch Console Production Out of China

July 9, 2019

TOKYO—Nintendo Co Ltd plans to shift part of the production of its Switch gaming console to Vietnam from China to diversify manufacturing sites, a spokeswoman at the Japanese video game maker told Reuters on July 9.



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Trump–Xi Summit a Clear Win for America

Steven W. Mosher
Updated: July 4, 2019

Chinese leader Xi Jinping came as a supplicant to the G-20 summit meeting in Japan with President Donald Trump, and left having narrowly escaped disaster.

Xi faces a flagging economy at home and a popular uprising in Hong Kong. In fact, the political crisis that his hardline policies toward the former British colony have caused is so sensitive that the Chinese side insisted that the issue not be brought up at the summit. The fear in Beijing is that the unrest will spread across the border.

Worse yet, he faced a U.S. president who has his finger on the “kill switch” of the Chinese economy, or at least on both its export sector and its premier high-technology company, Huawei.

Xi knew, better than anyone, that if Trump imposed 25 percent duties on all $570 billion worth of Chinese imports, the export sector of the Chinese economy, already limping along, would be fatally crippled. Factories would flee China, and millions would lose their jobs.





 

With Google doubling down on its criminal enterprise of election meddlingand politically motivated censorship, the world is becoming increasingly aware of how unfair and evil Google has become.

A new meme has emerged that perfectly captures Google’s “philosophy” of brainwashing the public by rigging search results and search suggestions to annihilate independent journalism and push establishment, liberal lies that enslave humanity and cause untold human suffering.


Israeli Fighter Jets Renew Aggression against Syrian Army positions near Damascus

 

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Israeli Fighter Jets Renews Aggression Against Syrian Army Positions in Homs, Near Damascus

Israeli warplanes conducted fresh attacks on the Damascus Army’s military positions in Eastern and Southern Syria by using Lebanon’s airspace, and were confronted by the Syrian Army’s air defense batteries, the Arabic-language media outlets reported on Monday.



July 3, 2019

Iran Warns It Will Increase Nuclear Enrichment Within Days

Iran Warns It Will Increase Nuclear Enrichment Within Days


 



The Iran Crisis Is Exposing a Far Deeper Conflict Between Trump and Europe

Europe and the U.S. have clashed on Iran policy since the revolution. But as Trump exacerbates tensions, Europe’s fears are more fundamental: that America is set on trashing the transatlantic alliance



China's President Xi Jinping attends a bilateral meeting with France's President Emmanuel Macron during the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 29, 2019. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) (Photo credit should read LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty Images)

China’s Global Times government newspaper cited experts Sunday who credited “China’s mediation and encouragement” to North Korea for this weekend’s surprise meeting between President Donald Trump and communist dictator Kim Jong-un.

China’s Communist Party chairman Xi Jinping visited Pyongyang in June to give Kim assurances that China would support his rogue state amid the strictest sanctions North Korea has endured since its founding, which China allowed to pass through the U.N. General Assembly despite having veto power. Since the sanctions took hold in 2017, abundant evidence has surfaced that Chinese companies, which act only under the authority of the communist regime, have been helping Kim evade the sanctions and keep his economy afloat





July 1, 2019

The World Faces a Choice on the Anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s Founding

The World Faces a Choice on the Anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s Founding



Fake News Media in Serious Trouble

June 30, 2019
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I can’t think of a single major mainstream media outlet that has admitted to its audience that it has examined how it ended up presenting the Trump-Russia collusion hoax as real news for more than two years, figured out what went wws Media in Serious Trouble   

I can’t think of a single major mainstream media outlet that has admitted to its audience that it has examined how it ended up presenting the Trump-Russia collusion hoax as real news for more than two years, figured out what went wrong, and made the necessary corrections to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.

Isn’t that a telling sign? They can’t bring themselves to admit it was all a hoax, because that would mean exposing the role they themselves played in creating and sustaining it for more than two years, as they relentlessly gaslighted the entire country






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Trump at G-20: Democratic Party ‘Has Become the Socialist Party’

OSAKA, Japan— President Donald Trump commented June 28 on Democratic presidential candidates, calling them socialists during his bilateral …



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Russia Blamed For “Mysterious” GPS System Disruption In Israeli Airspace

Israeli Army Radio reported that the disruption was a result of a satellite signal jammer used by the Russian military at Hmeimim Air Base base in Syria.



Chinese Consumers Shun All American Products As Nationalism Soars

This could get very ugly for American companies.



Concern over Angela Merkel’s health as German chancellor seen shaking for second time this month

 

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BUSTED: Democrats are intentionally withholding assistance and supplies to illegal minors at the border so they can blame Trump for “caging children”

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(Natural News) Even as they feign being heartbroken over the plight of illegal alien children being held in detention facilities at America’s southern border, leftist Democrats have kept themselves busy actively blocking aid to these same children as a gesture of hatred towards President Donald Trump.



Trump Arrives in Japan for G-20 Summit

OSAKA, Japan—President Donald Trump arrived in Osaka on June 27 ahead of a two-day Group of 20 (G-20) …











US Sanctions Iranian Regime Leader, Military Commanders

President Donald Trump imposed new “hard-hitting” sanctions on Iran on June 24 that targeted Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, …



Thousands of Taiwanese Rally Against Beijing Infiltration Through Media

Tens of thousands of Taiwanese citizens braved heavy rain for more than four hours on June 23 to …



 

Trump–Xi Meeting to Take Center Stage at the G-20 Summit









Trump Reveals Why He Called Off Military Strike Against Iran: ‘I Am in No Hurry’



 

Interview With ‘Shield Girl’: The Story Behind an Iconic Image From Hong Kong Protests

BY FRANK FANG, EPOCH TIMES
June 20, 2019

As the world turned its attention to Hong Kong’s mass protests against a controversial extradition bill, a young woman stood out among the hundreds of thousands.

Right in front of a line of riot police officers holding shields, Lam Ka Lo, 26, decided to sit down, close her eyes, and meditate.

Photojournalists from around the world captured the image. It soon circulated widely on social media. People called her “Shield Girl.”

“I wanted to protect those who were younger than me. That night, seeing how the police line kept advancing toward [the protesters], I just sat down with my back facing the police. I just wanted to let the police know that, we do not want you to keep on advancing. At the same time, we don’t want to attack you either,” said Lam, in an interview with the Hong Kong bureau of the Epoch Times.

On the evening on June 11, before legislative debates on the controversial bill were to take place the following day, Lam decided to join protesters in an area near Hong Kong’s government headquarters, located in the Admiralty neighborhood.

The Hong Kong government first proposed controversial amendments to its extradition laws in February, which would allow the chief executive—the city’s top official—to sign off on extradition requests, including from mainland China, without approval from the city’s unicameral legislature.