The G20 meets in tech hub Hangzhou, China, at an extremely tense geopolitical juncture.

China has invested immense political/economic capital to prepare this summit. The debates will revolve around the main theme of seeking solutions "towards an innovative, invigorated, interconnected and inclusive world economy."

G20 Trade Ministers have already agreed to lay down nine core principles for global investment. At the summit, China will keep pressing for emerging markets to have a bigger say in the Bretton Woods system.

But most of all China will seek greater G20 backing for the New Silk Roads - or One Belt, One Road (OBOR), as they are officially known - as well as the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

So at the heart of the G20 we will have the two projects which are competing head on to geopolitically shape the young 21st century.

Three young women selected for a US State Department-sponsored education program struggle to chase their dream because Israeli authorities decided that allowing them out of blockaded Gaza would pose a security threat.

TechWomen is a program for women living in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, who are invited to the US for a five-week mentorship. They study their chosen fields in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley to hone their tech skills and establish social networks. Since its launch in 2011, 333 women have participated in the course, according to its website.

Greece's radical left Syriza government awarded new broadcasting licenses to only a handful of companies in a controversial step to limit the number of TV channels.

The Greek government seems to be getting ahead of the media censorship curve.

The Alexis Tsipras radical left Syriza government has taken a very controversial step in cementing media censorship by issuing TV licenses to only four entities.

The winners of the TV licenses paid a total of €246 million, which we are sure will make absolutely no dent in Greece's mountainous €350 billion debt load.

Tsipras said the move to regulate the TV sector was about stamping out corruption and mismanagement, but the media says it will curb free speech and shut down stations, putting thousands of people out of work. With an unemployment rate that is near 27%, the last thing Greece needs is more people looking for a job.

You know the world has been turned upside down when a far left socialist government (which states it is for free speech, human rights and open borders) begins closing down TV stations under the guise of mismanagement.

Syriza's move to authoritarian rule was brash and direct, by only offering four licenses to the highest bribe bidder...meaning some of the eight channels now broadcasting nationwide will now close down.

An integrated jamming system to screen strategic facilities from cruise missiles, smart bombs and drones using GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and Beidou global positioning systems for homing has entered service with the Russian armed forces, the newspaper Izvestiya wrote citing a Defense Ministry source in Moscow.

Dubbed as POLE-21, the system consists of jamming modules installed on mobile phone towers and working as a single whole to cover entire areas and making them impregnable to satellite navigation systems. Besides being powered by a tower's circuit, the Pole-21 modules also use their GSM antennas as a backup channel for signal control and transmission.

"The system has already been successfully tested and is now operational," the source told the newspaper.

All the four global positioning systems whose signals are effectively deflected by Pole-21 work within the 1176.45 and 1575.42 MHz range. Even a 20 watt transmitter is enough for Pole-21 to jam all signals in this range within a radius of 80 kilometers.

Pole-21 has one downside though. While generating radio interference against the enemy using the GPS satellite navigation systems, it does the same to domestic users of GPS and its Russian analogue - GLONASS.

Though it was not their primary mission, FBI agents who investigated Hillary Clinton's email collected significant evidence suggesting she and her team violated federal record-keeping laws, including persisting to use a private Blackberry and server to conduct State Department business after being warned they posed legal and security risks, government sources tell Circa.The evidence was compelling enough to convince FBI Director James Comey that the Clinton team had not complied with record-keeping laws and to cause at least one witness to raise their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during an investigative interview, the sources said.

In public, the FBI recommended not filing criminal charges against Clinton on national security grounds. But in private, the Bureau chose to defer to the State Department on whether to recommend anyone to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution on records law violations, the sources said, speaking only on condition of anonymity.

Each email transmission of a government document that was not preserved or turned over to the State Department from Mrs. Clinton's tenure could theoretically be considered a violation of the Federal Records Act, the main law governing preservation of government records and data.

Other federal laws make it a felony to intentionally conceal, remove or destroy federal records as defined under the Act, punishable with a fine and imprisonment of up to three years. A single conviction also carries a devastating impact for anyone looking to work again in government because the law declares that any violator "shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States."

The front page of Sunday's edition of The New York Times bears the headline 'More of the Kremlin's Critics are Ending Up Dead'. According to the long article which follows: 'Muckraking journalists, rights advocates, opposition politicians, government whistle-blowers and other Russians who threaten that image are treated harshly — imprisoned on trumped-up charges, smeared in the news media and, with increasing frequency, killed.'

The article then cites Gennadi V. Gudkov, 'a former member of Parliament and onetime lieutenant colonel in the KGB' as saying, 'The government is using the special services to liquidate its enemies. ... It was not just Litvinenko, but many others we don't know about, classified as accidents or maybe semi-accidents.'

I have two serious doubts about the Times article. First, it makes a claim about an 'increased' frequency of state-sponsored murder without providing any evidence that such murders are indeed more frequent than in the past. The article mentions 13 deaths. The great majority of these occurred before Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency in 2012. This is hardly evidence of an 'increasing' frequency of state-sponsored murder.

Second and more importantly, the article fails to provide evidence that most of the people it mentions did indeed die unnatural deaths and also died at the hands of Kremlin assassins.

To fund construction of a new U.S. border wall, Donald Trump and senior advisers are considering various ideas, including the use of assets seized from drug cartels and others in the illicit drug trade.

As the debate over who will pay for the wall dominates the discussion on cable news, sources involved in the pre-planning of the GOP nominee's Mexico trip told LifeZette the Trump camp is looking for innovative ways to pay for the construction of the border wall — ways that both countries can support. Sensitivities in Mexico regarding Trump's visit, and specifically paying for the border wall, are running high.

A senior Trump policy adviser stressed the proposal was just one of several funding options being discussed and said the idea was not raised during Trump's meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Advocates of the "make the cartels pay" plan believe it has the added benefit of punishing the "worst of the worst who bring violence to our streets and prey on innocent Mexicans and Americans," while giving political cover to both leaders to accomplish their objectives. Sources close to both the Mexican government and the Trump campaign have confirmed that this proposal exists, but wish to remain anonymous given the preliminary nature of the discussions.

Germany's foreign minister has said the Bundestag resolution recognizing the 1915 massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide is "non-binding," following media reports the German cabinet would disavow the resolution so as to continue using Turkey's Incirlik airbase.

"The German parliament naturally has the right and the freedom to pass any resolution it likes, but the Bundestag itself has said that not every resolution is legally binding," Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was quoted by Reuters as saying on Friday.

Earlier in the day, Spiegel said in an unsourced report that the Foreign Ministry and the Chancellery are likely to give cabinet spokesman Steffen Seibert the green light to make a public statement distancing the government from the resolution.

"There can be no talk of the German government distancing itself from the Armenia resolution," Seibert told reporters at a planned news conference shortly after the magazine broke the news. He also said the resolution is not legally binding.

The resolution, adopted by German MPs on June 2, formally calls the 1915 massacre of ethnic Armenians by the Ottoman Turkish forces "genocide." The vote was almost unanimous, and was met with delight by Armenian communities worldwide.

Leaked emails are filling in the picture of a Bill-and-Hillary-Clinton plan to destroy Russia - a plan which had originated with US President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990, and which has been followed through both by his son George W Bush, and by both of the Clintons, but which has only recently started to become documented by leaked publications of personal communications amongst the key operatives who were the insiders running this operation behind the scenes, and who include Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George W Bush, Victoria Nuland, Jeffrey Feltman, Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman al-Saud, and the Emir of Qatar.

This operation came out into public view only briefly when the news site Zero Hedge headlined on 6 October 2015 'Saudi Clerics Call For Jihad Against Russia, Iran' and linked to a number of sources, including to a Wall Street Journal report the day before, which simply ignored the Saudi involvement and headlined 'US Sees Russian Drive Against CIA-Backed Rebels in Syria', as if this matter were merely a US-vs-Russia issue, not an issue involving the Saud family at all. By contrast, the Zero Hedge article closed with "'This is a real war on Sunnis, their countries and their identities,' said the statement [by the International Union of Muslim Scholars, which is based in Qatar, whose ruling family, the Thanis, work closely with the Saud family]. It urged the rebels to join a 'jihad against the enemy of God and your enemy, and Muslims will back you every way they can.'" As a British news-site for jihadists put the matter, "According to experts, by issuing this statement they seek to encourage Saudi, Gulf, and Muslim youths to fight against Russian forces, similar to the recruitment of young fighters during the Afghan-Soviet war." (That joint US-Saudi operation, which was assisted by the Pakistani military and by Pakistan's heavily-Saudi-influenced Islamic clergy, was the brainchild of Saudi Prince Bandar and of the born Polish aristocrat Zbigniew Brzezinski, and its success at breaking up the Soviet Union is an enduring topic of pride for today's jihadists.) On 5 October 2015, the British mainstream 'news' site Reuters had called these "Saudi opposition clerics", and alleged that they "are not affiliated with the government", but Reuters's statement (especially that these were "Saudi opposition clerics") was simply false, and even ridiculously false, likely an outright lie, because Saudi laws don't allow any "opposition clerics", especially not Islamic ones, since those would be executed for publicly questioning the legitimacy of the country's rule by the royal Saud family, which is what an "opposition cleric" in Saudi Arabia would, by definition, be doing, if any of them existed there and hadn't been executed yet. The pretense, by Reuters, that Saudi Arabia is a religious-freedom country, is an insult to their readership, but this falsehood helps to keep their readership thinking that somehow the West can be allied with the Sauds and yet still call itself 'democratic' and allied only with 'democratic' governments, not with some of the world's worst tyrannies. Realism in foreign affairs (such as to acknowledge that some of the world's worst regimes are our government's allies) is fine, but it can't include lying to one's own public, because that necessarily entails misinforming the voters on the basis of which any actual democracy receives its very legitimacy as being a democracy, which seems less and less what countries such as the US and UK are, at least after 9/11. A "democracy" and a "deceived public" cannot coexist in the same country - and, at least in the United States, a deceived public is what predominantly exists (as a consequence of a deceiving 'news' media).

European Council President Donald Tusk, Commission President Jean-Claud Juncker, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Slovak PM Robert Fico are in talks Friday (September 2) to set the critical agenda for the next EU summit amid growing divisions in the union.

Slovakia holds the six-month rotating presidency of the EU, so it falls to the country's Prime Minister Robert Fico to set the agenda for the upcoming EU summit on September 16. In a sign that Fico is leading the EU in a new direction, he has decided not to hold the summit in Brussels, but in his capital, Bratislava.

The significance of the location is crucial, as Slovakia is one of the Visegrad Group, along with the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland — all of whom are calling for a major rethink on the whole EU project. In a joint communique in July, the leaders of the four countries said:

"It's time for the Union to be more pragmatic, focused on the essentials and reforms. At the same time the EU must act with due consideration and solve the problems of citizens while respecting the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality as well as the role of the national parliaments."