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China urges US to stop politicizing economic issues


Xinhua
Mon, 14 Dec 2020 19:09 UTC
White House
© Xinhua/Liu JiePhoto taken on Dec. 4, 2020 shows the National Christmas Tree and the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States.
The United States should stop the erroneous practice of politicizing economic and trade issues and stretching national security concepts to suppress foreign businesses, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Monday.

Spokesperson Wang Wenbin made the remarks at a press briefing after Nasdaq said last week it would remove shares of four Chinese companies from indexes it maintains in response to a U.S. government order restricting purchases of these shares.

China's capital market enjoys improved openness day by day, making it easier for international investors to choose and buy stocks of Chinese enterprises. Being excluded from some indexes will not impair these enterprises' ability to attract and receive investment from international investors, Wang said.

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Eye 1

The latest evasions and cover-ups by Western governments over their funding of terrorist groups in Syria are starting to unravel

Vanessa Beeley
RT
Sun, 13 Dec 2020 20:16 UTC
Yarmouk
© ReutersPeople walk past damaged buildings at the Yarmouk refugee camp on the southern outskirts of Damascus
Evidence of Dutch and British funding for extremists who've beheaded children & carried out ethnic-cleansing grows by the day. Yet most of the mainstream media - including the BBC - still try to keep this truth silent.

Recently, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte effectively blocked a Parliamentary motion to allow an external independent investigation of Dutch government funding of terrorist groups in Syria.

Rutte initially tried to deny his involvement in the burial of the investigation but tenacious questioning from journalists forced him to admit his personal interference. According to Rutte, such an investigation could result in "tensions with our allies [...] the lives of former members of opposition groups could be put at stake."


Comment: Couldn't put terrorists, murderers, and their accomplices at risk now, could we?


Rutte's protection of illegal armed groups wreaking havoc in Syria are reminiscent of the UK Government's response to similar Parliamentary questions requesting clarity on the armed groups supported by its Foreign Office (UK FCO). The standard line is, "for security reasons, we do not disclose the names of those moderate opposition groups supported."

This article will demonstrate that Rutte is very probably preventing tensions with the UK by quashing an investigation, and that the "moderate opposition" promoted by both governments actually consist of savage, extremist gangs who think nothing of conducting ethnic cleansing pogroms in Syria.
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Acclaimed pharma professor thrown in psychiatric hospital for questioning official COVID narrative

Jeanne Smits
Life Site News
Fri, 11 Dec 2020 07:35 UTC
Uzès psych hospital
© Begir/ShutterstockPsychiatric hospital Le Mas Careiron in Uzès where Fourtillan is held against his will.
Early on December 10, Jean-Bernard Fourtillan, a French retired university professor known for his strong opposition to COVID-19 vaccines such as those presently being distributed in the U.K., was taken from his temporary home in the south of France by a team of "gendarmes" — French law enforcement officers under military command — and forcibly placed in solitary confinement at the psychiatric hospital of Uzès. His mobile phones were taken from him, and at the time of writing, he had not been allowed to communicate with the outside world. The order for his internment appears to have been issued by the local "préfet," the official representative of the French executive.



Comment: The video is short and to the point. This expert has evidence to back his claims.


Comment: The PTB are picking off experts one-by-one. The message: bow down to the narrative and support the lie or forever be silenced.

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Snakes in Suits

Biden to tap Obama-era hawk Samantha Power as head of US foreign aid...Libya, Syria, Yemen legacy, anyone?


RT
Mon, 14 Dec 2020 09:06 UTC
SamanthaPower/Benghazi
© Reuters/Andrew Kelly/Esam Omran Al-FetoriSamantha Power • Benghazi, Libya as of November 23, 2020
Joe Biden reportedly considers picking Samantha Power to head the relief agency USAID in his administration. If selected, she'll be tackling humanitarian disasters that she "helped" create during Obama era, critics claim.

If she gets to be the next head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Power would "signal the Biden administration plans to revitalize foreign assistance and use it as an instrument of soft power and to achieve humanitarian goals", according to the Axios news website, which reported her possible nomination. The decision is said not to be final yet.

Power served in the previous Democratic administration first as a member of the National Security Council and later as US envoy to the UN. The story of her banding together with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-UN ambassador Susan Rice to lobby President Obama for a military intervention in Libya was widely circulated across the media.

The outcome of the 2011 NATO operation was utter devastation that persists today. Open slave markets popped up in the country, which is engulfed in a civil war and serves as a major route for the smuggling of people into Europe after Muammar Gaddafi was toppled.

Libya is considered to be one of the biggest failures of 'Responsibility to Protect' (R2P), a concept that Power helped to formulate, and which advocates the global use of force by powerful nations to protect human rights. She was also a strong supporter of US involvement in Syria and Yemen, two other places hit by terrible humanitarian disasters.

Critics of the hawkish Obama-era official were quick to conclude that if she is appointed to head the USAID, she would be dealing with the very same problems she "helped create."

Comment: There are no possible justifications for allowing the Power disaster to become part of any administration.

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'Dismissed with Prejudice': District judge nixes Trump's federal lawsuit in Wisconsin

Benjamin Fearnow
Newsweek
Sat, 12 Dec 2020 02:37 UTC
Courthouse
© Tim Evanson/CC-By-SA/KJNScales of Justice
A federal judge on Saturday afternoon dismissed President Donald Trump's "extraordinary" lawsuit, which sought to overturn Wisconsin's election results.

Trump's latest failed legal challenge comes from U.S. District Court Judge Brett Ludwig, who ruled that the president's federal lawsuit seeking to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's win has no merit. Ludwig was nominated for his current spot on the district court bench by Trump himself. His ruling comes as arguments are being heard in Trump's state lawsuit against Wisconsin's elections commission. All of the president's legal attempts to overturn the election have been dismissed across several states he lost to Biden, including Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia.

Ludwig's conclusion in his ruling reiterated that all of Trump's complaints about the Wisconsin Legislature's "chosen manner" of conducting the election should have been surfaced before the election took place. A lawsuit "dismissed with prejudice" is legal jargon meaning the plaintiffs cannot simply re-file the same complaint a second time.
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Trump issues more EOs - And these concern the military

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sun, 13 Dec 2020 06:54 UTC
Trump tweet
© Twitter
We heard last week that the President issued an Executive Order concerning Christmas Eve but there was another Executive Order concerning the Military that he also sneaked through.

President Trump's Executive Orders (EOs) have been in the news lately. One EO relates to foreign interference in the elections which was renewed in September after being first issued in September 2018. This EO mandates that the DNI - currently John Ratcliffe - produce a report on foreign intervention in the 2020 election within 45 days of the election. This equates to December 18.

Another EO issued by President Trump related to Christmas Eve. This year the President is giving all US government employees Christmas Eve off as a holiday. This holiday went to all employees of the government except those related to "National Security, Defense or other public need." This also makes the holiday weekend a four-day weekend instead of three.

Comment: Trump has every right to issue executive orders, as have presidents in office before him. They need not be categorized as a 'sneak through'! Enough with the drama!

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Report reveals Democratic National Committee's 'intervention' to blame for chaos at 2020 Iowa caucuses


RT
Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:18 UTC
Iowa presumably
© Unknown
An audit commissioned by the Iowa Democratic Party has found that the national Democratic Party's "intervention" in the process led to the delayed and questioned results at the very beginning of the 2020 presidential election.

The Iowa caucuses should have kicked off a frontrunner in the race for the party's presidential nomination. Two of the candidates - South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders - were claiming they were winning the contest in a key state that often defines the eventual winner. However, inconsistencies in reporting results led many to question them, for example the Associated Press announced it did not have enough faith in the process to declare a winner at the time.

Back then, the eventual nominee, Joe Biden, did not get enough support in Iowa to even be among the top three candidates in the state, trailing behind Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. However, Buttigieg later handed all the delegates he won in Iowa to the former vice president, giving him a much-needed advantage over Bernie Sanders in the national fight for the nomination.

Comment: Calculated? The heralded Iowa caucus was more than a farce, it was a face plant. The plan was always 'Biden'.



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How a Democrat who promoted Trump-Russia collusion story got dragged into 'Chinese spy' scandal

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Sun, 13 Dec 2020 12:07 UTC
Swalwell
© screenshotCalifornia Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell
A story about an alleged Chinese spy rubbing shoulders with prominent US politicians was broken by Axios in early December - it was the result of a year-long investigation. Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel has shed light on the US mainstream media's sudden interest in the Democrat's longstanding ties with China.

California Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell found himself caught up in a spy scandal after an investigation by Axios journalists revealed he was being targeted by an alleged Chinese spy named Fang Fang, aka Christine Fang.

Fang was a student at California State University East Bay and is said to have developed extensive ties with US policy-makers, including one congressman, between 2011-15. She subsequently attracted the attention of the FBI, who placed her under surveillance. According to Axios, US authorities believe Fang's major aim was to gather political intelligence and "to influence rising US officials on China-related issues."

Swalwell, who won a seat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in January 2015, reportedly had ties to Ms Fang but cut them short after she was tracked by the FBI.

Comment: The nature of politics is to outrageously accuse, not suss out facts from fiction.

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Bullseye

No other relevant topics? Guardian labels report on Corbyn's mysterious new project with 'Antisemitism' tag


RT
Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:46 UTC
Corbyn
© Twitter/jeremycorbynFormer Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn
Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has announced a mysterious new project, which is to be launched next month. No details known for now, but the UK's Guardian newspaper chose an "Antisemitism" tag for the article.

Corbyn was somewhat vague about his new endeavour, promising on Sunday to tell more when it officially launches on January 17. He said that the Covid-19 pandemic has showcased that "our privatised hollowed-out systems" are incapable of handling global crises in an interconnected world. Corbyn stated:
"We need solidarity beyond our borders and across communities to solve our common problems together. The Peace and Justice Project is there to create space hope and opportunity."
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Russia's Sputnik V Covid vaccine efficacy confirmed at 91.4 percent, '100 percent effective' against severe cases


RT
Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:27 UTC
Sputnik V
© Reuters / Anton Vaganov
The Russian Sputnik V vaccine has proven to be 91.4 percent effective overall against Covid-19, its creator has said, as the country embarks on a mass vaccination program.

In a statement released on Monday, the Gamaleya Institute and Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which funded the vaccine's development, cited data received from volunteers 21 days after they were inoculated with the first dose of the jab. The results confirmed a 91.4 efficacy rate overall and showed that it is "100 percent" effective against severe cases of the virus.

"Among the confirmed cases of coronavirus infection, 20 severe cases were recorded in the placebo group, while no severe cases were recorded in the vaccine group," the statement reads.

Comment: Whilst no vaccine is necessary because the virus is provably harmless for the vast majority it's worth noting that if there were any concerns about the Russian vaccine, the Western media would seize the opportunity to condemn it. However, as it is, unlike the West's attempts at a vaccine that have been mired in controversy, the Russian vaccine's side effects appear to be minimal: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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