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Biden finally gets around to condemning riots & violence in language Trump supporters say amounts to extortion: 'Blackmail Americans into voting'


RT
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 19:52 UTC
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© REUTERS/Alan FreedDemocratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about safety in America in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 31, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has finally spoken up against the riots and looting occurring across the US, blaming President Donald Trump. A poorly worded tweet has seen Biden's critics accuse the ex-VP of blackmail.

"Rioting is not protesting," Biden said during a speech in Pennsylvania on Monday. "It's lawlessness, plain and simple... Violence will not bring change."

The Democratic nominee's remarks come shortly after a Trump supporter was gunned down in Portland, Oregon and almost a week after three rioters were shot - two fatally - in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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Ice Age Farmer Report: When gardens are outlawed, only criminals will grow food


Ice Age Farmer
Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:38 UTC
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"Gardening is too dangerous!" Authorities are REMOVING plants grown from "unauthorized seeds!" The media is warning that homegrown food can be poisonous, and backyard chickens can be fatal. Soon, for your protection, growing food and raising animals will be illegal. Competition is sin to the transhumanists who are taking over our food supply, and they intend to eliminate it. Christian looks ahead -- but not too far -- at the agenda to criminalize homesteading.


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Red Flag

'I am Taiwanese': Czech senate president channels JFK in show of support for island

Linda Lew
South China Morning Post
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 18:22 UTC
Milos Vystrcil
© EPA-EFECzech senate president Milos Vystrcil addresses the Legislative Yuan in Taipei.
The president of the Czech senate shrugged off China's angry response to his trip to Taiwan to offer his support to the island on Tuesday, telling the parliament in Taipei: "I am Taiwanese".

Milos Vystrcil alluded to John F Kennedy's celebrated "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in Germany in 1963, saying: "Kennedy said freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

"Then he used the sentence 'I am a Berliner' to pledge support to the people of Berlin and the highest value of freedom," Vystrcil said in the first address to Taiwan's legislative yuan by a foreign politician in 45 years.

"Please allow me to pledge support to the people of Taiwan in the same way. I am Taiwanese."

Vystrcil spoke the last few words in Mandarin Chinese, for which he received a standing ovation.

On Monday, Beijing lashed out at the Czech delegation to Taiwan, which also included Prague mayor Zdenek Hrib, who dropped the capital's twin city arrangement with Beijing and replaced it with Taipei.

Comment: Prague-Reporyje Mayor Pavel Novotny penned a very undiplomatic response to Chinese FM Wang Yi's own undiplomatic threat. Rough translation follows:
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Magic Wand

Maduro pardons over 100 of his political opponents


Havana Times
Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
Maduro
© UnknownVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday pardoned 110 opposition politicians and activists. The announcement was made by Information Minister Jorge Rodríguez, reported dpa news.

The NGO Foro Penal put the total number of political prisoners in Venezuela at about 380. Those pardoned include people who are in prison, others who have gone into exile and some who had been barred from contesting elections.

Among them were lawmaker Freddy Guevara, staying on the Chilean embassy's premises. Likewise, the release of Roberto Marrero, an aide to opposition leader Juan Guaido. Marrero was arrested more than a year ago.

Rodriguez said the government seeks a "national reconciliation" and the opposition participation in its December 6 parliamentary elections. The main opposition parties have already dismissed the vote as another fraudulent "farce."
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Star of David

Palestinians 'can't be stuck in the past,' Trump's idiot son-in-law laments while backing Israel's own thousands-year-old claim to land


RT
Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:10 UTC
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© Reuters / WAM
White House adviser Jared Kushner urged Palestinians to make their peace with the newly official alliance between the UAE and Israel - whose leadership refers to its ancient religious texts to justify its own land grabs.

Kushner made the somewhat ironic statement after arriving in the UAE on Monday on board a passenger jet completing the first-ever direct flight from Israel. The route was officially established as part of the Abraham Accords between the two countries and the US earlier this month. The decision was hailed by Washington and its allies as "historic," though Palestine and its allies have deemed it a betrayal by their erstwhile Arab brethren.

This hasn't stopped Kushner from continuing to promote it. Donald Trump's son-in-law told reporters that Palestinians should know peace would be "ready for them...as soon as they are ready to embrace it," urging the occupied population to accept the help of "the whole region" in getting an economic boost.
We can't want peace more than they want peace...They can't be stuck in the past.

Comment: "But God gave it to us thousands of years ago!"


The UAE has defended its decision to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel by pointing out that the landmark agreement had postponed Israel's official annexation of the Jewish-only settlements currently honeycombing the Palestinian territory of the West Bank. However, Palestinians have argued that such a move would merely legitimize the status quo - since the land's occupation continues with Tel Aviv's backing.
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Bad Guys

Growing discontent with GNA's policies in Libya reaching critical levels

Vladimir Platov
New Easter Outlook
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 18:00 UTC
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© ReutersMartyrs’ Square, in the center of Tripoli, has been the nexus site of protests for many years.
In recent days, a protest movement in Libya has been growing, and with each passing day, it has been spreading to an ever increasing number of towns and cities in this country, devastated by the ongoing civil war.

Nine years since the overthrow of former Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, which Western powers, including the US, were actively involved in, a growing number of demonstrators have been calling on the Government of National Accord (GNA), currently led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, to step down, while he is being presented to the international community as the representative of the Libyan people. Protesters are demanding real improvements to living conditions in the country, and an end to corruption and unlawful actions taken by numerous militias and thousands of foreign mercenaries operating in and around the capital and other regions of Libya. They are also voicing their discontent about growing prices, lack of water, power outages, unemployment and lack of necessary support in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Israel frustrated at failure to cripple BDS movement

Dr Adnan Abu Amer
Middle East
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:48 UTC
BDS protest
© TwitterDemonstrators supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement
Israel is frustrated at its failure to tackle the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement despite the huge budget allocated to the task and the recruitment of pro-Israel activists worldwide to help. The movement continues to flourish in its effort to get Israel to abide by international law.

What's the reason for Israel's failure? Is it related to financial, political or security issues? What impact do these have, and how do they affect Israel's global image?

The Ministry of Strategic Affairs was assigned the task of dealing with BDS in 2017, under the leadership of Minister Gilad Erdan, who is now the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations and is due to become the Ambassador to the United States. Recent leaks suggest that bureaucracy is one of the reasons for its anti-BDS failure.
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Footprints

Trump: People 'in the dark shadows' are controlling Joe Biden

David Sherfinski
Washington Times
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:33 UTC
Trump
© AP Photo/Andrew HarnikPresident Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, in Washington.
President Trump said that Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden is essentially a "puppet" controlled by shadowy figures lurking in the dark.

He also suggested that a planned attack on the Republican National Convention might have been thwarted but declined to go into detail.

"He's a weak person. He's controlled like a puppet," Mr. Trump said of Mr. Biden in an interview that aired on Fox News Monday evening.

Asked who is "pulling Biden's strings," Mr. Trump said: "People that you've never heard of. People that are in the dark shadows."
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Western 'experts' predicted Covid-19 would lead to Russia's economic collapse & 'topple' Putin...they were wrong (again!)

Paul Robinson
RT
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:17 UTC
Moscow
© Sputnik / Evgeny Biyatov
A few months ago, US/UK media outlets and think tanks warned that the Covid-19 crisis meant Russia faced economic ruin. Now, as we enter the fall, it turns out Moscow is in a far better condition than most of its Western rivals.

Russia 'experts' in the English-speaking world love predicting the imminent downfall of the "Putin regime." Whether it be the 2012 Bolotnaya protests, Western sanctions, the collapse in the oil price, or anything else, pundits are always on the lookout for indicators and warnings that Russia's president and the system he governs are on the verge of breakdown.

It was hardly a surprise, therefore, that the arrival of the coronavirus provoked the commentariat into another round of doom-laden prognostications about Russia's future. In particular, experts reckoned that the country's fragile economy, already struggling to recover from its 2014 slump, was bound to suffer particularly badly, with negative political consequences for the Kremlin.

As spring turned into summer, newspapers told readers of Russia's "dire economic situation" and "looming economic collapse.""This is arguably the most serious challenge to Putin as national leader in the 20 years he has been in power, and he is failing it," stated one of the Western media's favored commentators, Mark Galeotti.
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Bad Guys

US foreign policy elite wants Biden & detests Trump because President failed to launch new NATO missions to justify its existence

George Szamuely
RT
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:40 UTC
Donald Trump
© Getty Images / Sean GallupFILE PHOTO: President Donald Trump arrives to speak to the media at a press conference on the second day of the 2018 NATO Summit on July 12, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium
One reason for the extraordinary hostility of the foreign policy insiders' brigade toward President Trump is that he has not wasted his time conjuring up new missions to justify NATO's continued existence.

Instead, he has promised to withdraw 12,000 US troops from Germany and, to add insult to injury, he has demanded that NATO member states increase their financial contributions toward the upkeep of the military alliance ostensibly there to "protect" them.

This is sacrilege to a foreign policy elite that have spent the last 70 years worshiping at the altar of NATO.

"US troops aren't stationed around the world as traffic cops or welfare caseworkers — they're restraining the expansionary aims of the world's worst regimes, chiefly China and Russia," Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., fumed.

Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice expressed alarm about the "continued erosion of confidence in our leadership within NATO, and more efforts that call into question our commitment, and more signals to the authoritarians within NATO and Russia itself that this whole institution is vulnerable."

Trump, according to Nicholas Burns, former US ambassador to NATO and current adviser to Joe Biden, has cast America's military allies primarily as a drain on the US Treasury, and he has aggressively criticized Washington's true friends in Europe — democratic leaders such as France's President Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel — even as he treats Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, and other 'authoritarians' around the world with unusual tact.

Seventy former Republican national security officials recently issued a statement accusing Trump of having "disgraced America's global reputation and undermined our nation's moral and diplomatic influence." And — horror of horrors! — Trump "has called NATO 'obsolete.' "
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