‘People need to learn that the days of Chinese rapid growth—debt-fueled as it was—are basically over,’ says one analyst

By Terri Wu, EPOCH TIMES        August 15, 2023

Chinese laborers work at a construction site at sunset in Chongqing, China, on Mar. 6, 2005. (China Photos/Getty Images)

China has slid into deflation after months of disappointing export, manufacturing, home sales, and youth employment results. This has led to louder calls for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to roll out stimulus measures to kickstart the sputtering economy.

The world’s second-largest economy has been struggling for months, failing to achieve the post-pandemic boom that many had anticipated. The latest July data release showed exports posting its sharpest year-on-year drop since before the pandemic, and imports at five straight months of decline. Factory-gate prices fell for the 10th consecutive month, while new home sales saw its most significant monthly drop since July 2022.

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By Mark Swanson, NEWSMAX    |   Monday, 14 August 2023 11:51 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump released a lengthy statement late Monday night, shortly after the Fulton County District Attorney’s office returned a 13-count indictment against him for allegedly trying to overturn 2020 election results in Georgia.

Trump’s statement:

“Justice and the rule of law are officially DEAD in America.

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Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola

https://rumble.com/v34fn1p-australian-senator-gerard-rennick-grills-evasive-pro-vaccine-pro-pfizer-doc.html

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• August 3, 2023, the Australian Senate held a COVID hearing. Sen. Gerard Rennick asked Dr. Krishan Thiru, Pfizer’s Australian medical director, to explain the mechanism of how the mRNA COVID shot causes myocarditis. Thiru, however, kept talking in circles rather than answering the question
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GATEWAY PUNDIT

Guest post by David and Erin Clements

A growing majority of Americans know the 2020 election was fraudulent. Many analysts who have been studying election integrity have concluded that there had to be a two-way connection between local election electronics (electronic poll pads, tabulators, election management systems, voter databases, etc.) and a centralized data collection system responsible for monitoring and manipulating the election. Fingers have rightly been pointed at all-inclusive election management software, the Albert Sensor system, Scytl and Edison, and the Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC).

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The new understandings could cement Iran’s stature as a nuclear threshold state with an American stamp of approval.

 By  Meir Ben Shabbat, ISRAEL HAYOM /a> 08-14-2023

This past May, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant revealed that Iran had accumulated enough uranium enriched to 60% and 20% purity for five nuclear bombs. He further said that “the Iranian nuclear program has reached its most advanced stage ever.” When policymakers speak about the emerging understandings between Iran and the US, they have to take into account those two facts above everything else. These include Israeli officials as well as the members of the Biden administration, congress members and senators, and US public opinion influencers.

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T. Belman.  The US is no longer covering for Abdullah

Human rights groups call it draconian

By Omar Akour, WaPo    August 12, 2023

AMMAN — The King of Jordan approved a bill Saturday to punish online speech deemed harmful to national unity, according to the Jordanian state news agency, legislation that has drawn accusations from human rights groups of a crackdown on free expression in a country where censorship is on the rise.

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Col Douglas Macgregor

This is a good summary of the stupidity of the West.

T. Belman. The adoption of liberal values by Jews in Israel and more so, in the US, has eroded our belief in ourselves and in our right to our homeland.

As in the United States, Israel’s mainstream media outlets favor the political left. That’s why they’re trying to crush “Channel 14,” which favors Netanyahu and judicial reform.

By Jonathan S. Tobin, INN<

As different as the United States and Israel are, the events of the last several months have shown that the political and media cultures of the two nations are growing more and more alike. Nothing demonstrates that better than the current campaign to silence Israeli television’s Channel 14.

A free and politically diverse press is essential to democracy. Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that if given the choice between, “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

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‘Haredi parties have never submitted a bill on religious matters, other than when Supreme Court forced Knesset to intervene,’ Min. Malkieli says.

Israel National News    Aug 14, 2023, 3:53 PM

Religious Affairs Minister Michael Malkieli (Shas) has said that the criticism constantly leveled at the haredi community is rooted in the haredi parties’ support of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I don’t remember periods in which we were not fried, other than if we joined a left-wing government. With them, the media would not attack us, because it’s all about ‘anyone other than Netanyahu,'” Malkieli told Kol Hai Radio.

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By Jay Valentine, AM THINKER<
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Seems like every day, someone is finding new, fun types of election fraud. This is not accidental — this is exactly how industrial, at-scale, organized fraud is uncovered. We call it spiraling to accuracy.

When our team was hired by State Farm, GEICO, USAA, and other top insurers to stop organized auto fraud rings, we found the easy stuff fast — the equivalent of phantom voters.
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Uri, Weiss. It uncovers the entire milieu of oligarchs psychopaths who are determined to regress us to the medieval times of slavery and despair. They think that this time they will be successful, in their words they own the “science” to be used to usher the era of TRANSHUMANISM, by first reducing the world population, getting rid of undesirables and subjugation of the remaining, by tampering with their DNA, to turn them into obedient sheep. This was their plan, in the words of Claire Edwards:

by Claire Edwards  2022

https://rumble.com/vynpgo-the-covid-19-genocide-of-2020-by-claire-edwards.html

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By Sandy Fitzgerald, NEWSMAX    |   Sunday, 13 August 2023 

The Biden administration is trying to “claim credit for something that is years away from being implemented” with its talk about a deal to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, former National Security Council Chief of Staff Fred Fleitz told Newsmax on Sunday.

“There is no deal,” Fleitz, the vice chair of the America First Policy Institute Center for American Security and a Newsmax contributor, commented on “Wake Up America,” adding that if a deal ever would be reached, that would mean Saudi Arabia would have to cut ties with China, and Israel would have to make peace with the Palestinians.

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Connecting China, Ukraine, Global Warming, the Trump Indictments & Monetary Theory

By ANDREW BENJAMIN, VIEWS ASKEW   AUG 13, 2023

Monetary theory posits that a change in money supply is a key driver of economic activity. It challenges progressive media theory, whereas everything progressives claim is so, is usually the exact opposite of what is so.

What is so is:

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by Michael Freund

Thirty-three years ago, I stood amid the ivy-covered architecture on the campus of Princeton University and proudly tossed my cap in the air along with my fellow graduating students.

The feeling of elation upon completion of our studies at the august institution, which was founded in 1746 and was the site of a famous battle in 1777 during the American Revolution, was hard to contain. We all felt a sense of accomplishment, and I was proud to call myself a Princetonian.

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Representative of haredi parties says Supreme Court always rules against the haredim, so Override Clause must be for more than Draft Law.

Israel National News

Netanyahu, Goldknopf, and DeriYonatan Sindel/Flash90. 

A senior coalition member claimed that the haredi parties have doubled down on their demand for the passage of a full override clause during recent talks between coalition parties and have no intention of compromising on the issue, Israel Hayom reported.<

The haredi parties are divided between the Ashkenazi United Torah Judaism party, led by Yitzhak Goldknopf, and the Sehardic Shas party, led by Aryeh Deri. UTJ is considered the more hardline of the two parties, while Shas is considered the more pragmatic party.

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By Aharon Garber and Avraham Shalet, KOHELET

Like all liberal democracies, Israel needs a strong court and independent judges who will guard the rule of law, good governance, and civil and human rights.

In the past decades, the Supreme Court has empowered itself in a manner that completely violates the balance between government branches. In a series of decisions, the Supreme Court has changed the rules of the game and arrogated for itself jurisdiction which it was not given, some of these being exceptional by international standards. Against the basic concept of rule of law according to which the Court judges according to the rules set by the legislature, the Israeli Supreme Court has designed its own rules, and unilaterally taken unauthorized power, without any public legitimacy. In parallel, the Court has adopted the position that “everything is justiciable”, transforming itself into the sole adjudicator in almost all public and political controversies, large or small. The Court has interfered in issues of foreign policy, security, economic policy, and even who will receive the Israel Prize.

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