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'We are not a vassal state': Philippines' Duterte won't stop infrastructure projects with US-sanctioned Chinese firms


RT
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 23:25 UTC
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte • Chinese President Xi Jinping,
The Philippines will not be cowed by a US blacklist on Chinese companies and will continue doing business with the sanctioned firms, a spokesman for President Rodrigo Duterte said, insisting Manila will not bow to a foreign power. "We are not a vassal state of any foreign power and we will pursue our national interest."

Duterte won't halt ongoing projects with Chinese businesses despite the American blacklist, spokesman Harry Roque told reporters on Tuesday, arguing infrastructure is a national priority and that the Philippines won't subordinate its own interests to those of Washington.
"The president declared last night that the Americans can blacklist Chinese companies in their territories in America and maybe in their military bases under their jurisdiction. But what the president said was clear: He will not follow the directives of Americans because we are a free and independent nation and we need those investments from China."
Last week, the Donald Trump administration penalized 24 Chinese state enterprises accused of helping to "militarize" outposts in disputed waters in the South China Sea. A number of small atolls and island chains in the region, such as the Spratly and the Paracel Islands, are contested by a flurry of competing claims, including from China, Vietnam, Malaysia and even the Philippines.
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Man charged with stalking, threatening Devin Nunes' wife, a school teacher; smear campaign against Rep. Nunes

Ashe Schow
The Daily Wire
Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
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House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes
A criminal complaint was filed against a California man earlier this month for sending threatening messages to Elizabeth Nunes, wife of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), who is the ranking member on the powerful House Intelligence Committee and one of the driving forces behind exposing the false narrative that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election.

A misdemeanor criminal complaint was filed on August 13, 2020, against William Joseph Burden (also known as William Joseph Terrell) after he allegedly sent threats and harassed Elizabeth, identified only as "E.N." in the complaint obtained by The Daily Wire, which can exclusively report that E.N. does, in fact, stand for Elizabeth Nunes. Burden is accused of "unlawfully, and with intent to annoy," calling or electronically contacting Elizabeth with "obscene language," including a "threat to inflict injury" to her or her property and family.

The man was not arrested, due to coronavirus restrictions, but a complaint was filed against him and he was ordered to appear before a court.
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Bad Guys

Estonia: NATO begins provocative military exercises on Russian border

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida
Infobrics
Wed, 02 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
US Troops Estonia
Once again, NATO is operating dangerous and bold military maneuvers in regions close to the European Russian border. This time, the country hosting the tests is Estonia, a Baltic State that in recent decades has been characterized by a strong pro-Western and anti-Russian stance. The small European country is occupied by a large contingent of American troops and will be in such a situation until at least September 10, when the operations end.

The tests started on September 1 are already causing a small diplomatic crisis between Russia and the United States. The Russian Embassy in Washington commented on the exercises with great antipathy:
"The Russian Federation has repeatedly offered to the United States and its allies to limit training activities and to divert exercise areas from the line of contact between Russia and NATO. We consider the actions of the US Armed Forces in Estonia provocative and extremely dangerous for regional stability (...) What signal from NATO members want to send us? Who is actually fueling tensions in Europe? And all this is taking place in the context of an aggravated political situation in that region of the European continent. Rhetorical question: how would the Americans react if such shooting were carried out by our military near the US borders?".

Comment: Estonia, it seems, has made a deal with the Western devil - irrationally setting itself against Russia - much, ultimately, to its own detriment. See also:

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To capture and subdue: America's theft of Syrian oil has very little to do with money

Steven Chovanec
Mint Press News
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
US troops in Syria
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A US military convoy drives the he town of Qamishli, north Syria, by a poster showing Syrain President Bashar Aassad, Oct. 26. 2019.
Years of US support to Al-Qaeda and ISIS and efforts to effect regime change in the country have culminated in the theft of Syria's oil, but is that really America's coup de gras in Syria?

Near the end of July, one of the most important recent developments in U.S. foreign policy was quietly disclosed during a U.S. Senate hearing. Not surprisingly, hardly anybody talked about it and most are still completely unaware that it happened.

Answering questions from Senator Lindsey Graham, Secretary of State Pompeo confirmed that the State Department had awarded an American company, Delta Crescent Energy, with a contract to begin extracting oil in northeast Syria. The area is nominally controlled by the Kurds, yet their military force, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), was formed under U.S. auspices and relies on an American military presence to secure its territory. That military presence will now be charged with protecting an American firm from the government of the country that it is operating within.

Pompeo confirmed that the plans for implanting the firm into the U.S.-held territory are "now in implementation" and that they could potentially be "very powerful." This is quite a momentous event given its nature as a blatant example of neocolonial extraction, or, as Stephen Kinzer puts it writing for the Boston Globe, "This is a vivid throwback to earlier imperial eras, when conquerors felt free to loot the resources of any territory they could capture and subdue."
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Hamas, Israel agree to end weeks-long escalation of violence along Gaza fence


PressTV
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 05:34 UTC
Gaza
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The sky is lit up after warplanes belonging to the Israeli army carried out airstrikes over Gaza City, early on August 21, 2020.
The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement says it has agreed to a Qatar-brokered ceasefire, which will put an end to nearly a month of Israeli aerial and ground attacks against the blockaded Gaza Strip.

In a statement released on Monday, the office of Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, announced the ceasefire, under which the Tel Aviv regime would stop airstrikes and the resistance group would halt launching of incendiary balloons.

After talks with Qatari envoy Mohammed al-Emadi, "an understanding was reached to rein in the latest escalation and end [Israeli] aggression against our people," it said.

The understanding, it added, would ease the way for implementation of projects "that will serve the people of Gaza, and alleviate the suffering amid the coronavirus wave."

Comment: See also:

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Stock Up

New National Poll: Trump surges to 28% support amongst black Americans

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Wed, 02 Sep 2020 03:19 UTC
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The results of a new national poll reveal that a stunning 28 per cent of black Americans plan on voting for President Donald Trump.

The Atlas Intel poll finds that Biden leads Trump nationally by just three points.

But the real story lies in the percentage of Hispanic and black voters who told the pollsters that they will vote for Trump.

Comment: See also:

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Family

WHO special envoy heaps praise on Sweden's Covid strategy

Charles Daly
Bloomberg
Mon, 31 Aug 2020 09:16 UTC

Comment: Yes, SWEDEN's. So the WHO isn't behind the lockdown drive...


Dr. David Nabarro

Dr. David Nabarro
One of the World Health Organization's six special envoys on Covid-19 has highlighted Sweden's virus response as a model that other countries should be emulating in the long run.

Dr. David Nabarro, speaking in a radio interview with Magic Talk in New Zealand, said, "For all countries, the real approach we've got to aim for is through behavior that's adopted everywhere."

Nabarro said the key to a sustainable coronavirus strategy is trust, and pointed to Sweden as a case in point. The Nordic nation imposed far fewer restrictions on movement than others, and instead relied on Swedes to act responsibly and embrace the guidelines laid out by the country's health authorities.

Comment: See also:

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Arrow Up

Donald Trump visits burned-out business in Kenosha, Wisconsin

Charlie Spiering
Breitbart
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 06:45 UTC
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President Donald Trump met with business owners affected by the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday outside a building burned-out by violent rioters last week in reaction to the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

The president spoke with about six people next to a burned-out building that used to be B&L Office Furniture Inc. in Kenosha and told them he would help them rebuild their businesses.

"This store was here 109 years," Trump told reporters. "Just about the oldest in the nation."

Scott Carpenter, the co-owner of the office furniture store, thanked Trump for visiting.

"I just appreciate President Trump coming today; everybody here does," he said. "We're so thankful that we got the federal troops in to help because once they got here, things did calm down quite a bit."

Comment: See also:

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The World Economic Forum clarion call: A breakdown of 'The Great Reset'

Steven Guinness
stevenguinness2.wordpress.com
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
economic reset
Last month I posted an article that looked at the World Economic Forum as the institution behind 'The Great Reset' agenda that was launched in June. One of the main themes of the article was the WEF's 'Strategic Intelligence platform', which the organisation describe as 'a dynamic system of contextual intelligence that enables users to trace relationships and interdependencies between issues, supporting more informed decision-making'.

As I made reference to, Strategic Intelligence is the mechanism which brings all the interests that the WEF focus on together. This includes specific countries and industries, as well as global issues like Covid-19 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

When you look into Strategic Intelligence, one aspect to it that quickly becomes apparent is how each global issue and industry intertwines with one another. For instance, Covid-19 is a strand of 'The Great Reset' and vice versa. What this does is create the impression that only a collectivised approach incorporating all 'stakeholders' has the capacity to deal with crises on a global scale. The WEF is built upon the belief that nations and corporations must be interdependent and seek to remedy the world's problems through the medium of global institutions.
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Info

Biden claims Trump 'lies' about Biden wanting to ban fracking

Jordan Davidson
The Federalist
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 20:37 UTC
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden switched his position on the use of fossil fuels and fracking on Monday. During his visit to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Biden claimed, "I am not banning fracking."

"Let me say that again: I am not banning fracking. No matter how many times Donald Trump lies about me," he said.


Biden was referencing Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention last week.

"Biden has promised to abolish the production of American oil, coal, shale, and natural gas, laying waste to the economies of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico, destroying those states," Trump said.

The problem? Trump isn't the one who is lying about Biden's position on fracking. Biden has promised to ban fracking multiple times, citing fossil fuels as dangerous for the environment.

"We would work it out. We would make sure it's eliminated," Biden said about coal and fracking from the Democratic presidential debate stage just a few months ago.

Comment: It's not as simple as Davidson claims. Biden's official policy has never been to "ban fracking". But that didn't stop him from seeming to claim otherwise, e.g., in the debate with Sanders. He's a politician. He says what he thinks will get him votes and the support of whoever happens to be listening to him speak, even if what he is saying has nothing to do with his campaign's actual policies. In other words, he's shameless. And it leads propaganda outlets like WaPo to need to write headlines like this:
Joe Biden's 'not banning fracking' defense, explained

What happened when Biden says he misspoke about his fracking position

Biden was in a heated debate in March with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) about this. Sanders and other liberal powerhouses want to ban all fracking, which is in line with what many climate change activists want.
Sanders: "I'm talking about stopping fracking as soon as we possibly can. I'm talking about telling the fossil fuel industry that they are going to stop destroying this planet — no ifs, buts and maybes about it."
Biden: "So am I."
Sanders: "Well, I'm not sure your proposal does that."
Biden: "No more — no new fracking."
Biden was wrong about his own proposal then. As The Washington Post's Salvador Rizzo fact-checked at the time: "The Biden campaign said that he misspoke and that his position was the same as ever: He would issue no new fracking permits for federal lands or waters, while allowing existing fracking operations to continue."

The campaign points to half a dozen other times in the past year when Biden has explicitly said he won't ban fracking. As far back as a town hall in September 2019, he declined to endorse a ban. "His position has never changed and certainly didn't change today," Biden spokesman Andrew Bates told The Fix on Monday.
Yes, he "misspoke". He surely wasn't just cynically saying what he thought voters wanted to hear.

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