Communist Chinese News Outlets Support and Promote the ‘Never Trump’ Lincoln Project

As mainstream media outlets across America write positive coverage about the Lincoln Project‘s ads attacking President Trump and the organization’s belief that “Trump and those who sign onto Trumpism are a clear and present danger,” another media source is promoting the group: Chinese Communist Party propaganda outlets.

China Global Television Network (CGTN) and China Daily — both deemed by the State Department as foreign agents — are operated by the Communist Chinese Party and have frequently voiced support for the group, as reported by the National Pulse.

Ceng Jing, editor for CGTN, wrote an op-ed piece detailing the group’s founding, purpose, and advertising campaigns with ads that play constantly on news channels and Youtube pages across America.

“A group known as the Lincoln Project has produced dozens of hit videos that quickly reached millions of views on Twitter and Youtube,” the communist Chinese publication editor wrote. “The videos’ success at ridiculing the American president, from his failure at handling the coronavirus pandemic to his sluggish walk down the ramp at West Point, has established the group as a leading voice in the online political crusade against Trump.”

The Lincoln Project is made of supposed Republicans seeking to defeat Donald Trump at the ballot box — going so far as to pledge their support for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

The National Pulse also notes how the Chinese outlets are using the Lincoln Project’s attacks to distance China from taking responsibility for the pandemic.

CGTN writes that “the [Lincoln Project] puts the spotlight on Trump’s comments at the beginning of the pandemic in reaction to the delay in COVID-19 testing: “I don’t take responsibility at all.”

https://saraacarter.com/communist-chinese-news-outlets-support-and-promote-the-never-trump-lincoln-project/

Wonder why Victoria is pushing the Rona for China

Australia’s Victoria back in the spotlight for going it alone on belt and road agreement with China

State Premier Daniel Andrews was publicly criticised by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison for signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in October 2018

Local press reports also emerged last week, while the deal was also criticised by pro-democracy protests this week relating to China’s handling of Hong Kong

Eighteen months after the Australian state of Victoria signed a controversial memorandum of understanding with China supporting its Belt & Road Initiative, the four-page document is back in the spotlight.

State Premier Daniel Andrews was publicly criticised by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison when he signed the memorandum of understanding (MOU) in support of the initiative in October 2018.

It is the only state in Australia to sign a MOU, and Andrews has been accused of selling out Australia’s national interests for Victoria’s own economic pursuits with China as well as for not aligning with the federal government’s decision not to support the initiative over strategic concerns.

Some of Australia’s neighbours, including New Zealand, have supported the initiative, and the MOU has generated more investment and trade interests for Victoria, according to the Australian business community, although they insist there was already plenty of interest in China's plan to grow global trade both from local and Chinese enterprises across all states.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3087701/australias-victoria-back-spotlight-going-it-alone-belt-and

Melbourne forced back into lockdown in $6b blow to economy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1mmGp1nDlE

Andrews sold out Australia to China/cabal

Put your mask on or be fined!

Ukrainian Researcher “Proves” Jewish And Ancient Greek Heroes And Gods Originated In Ukraine

On July 19th, the Director General of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky discovered the book “The glorious forefathers of Ukrainians” by Sergiy Piddubniy.

Among other things it claims that the flood for which Noah (from the Bible) built his Ark took place in modern day Ukraine, and that is where his family found survival and revived life on Earth.

“Noah’s flood took place at the modern Ukraine’s territory, here his family found survival and revived life on Earth.

Greeks have no relations to myths, heroes and science, this is our, Ukrainian history,” are some of the entirely non-ironic quotes in the book.

“The second part of the name of the biblical Nimrod – his clan – unambiguously indicates its pro-Ukrainian origin, and the first, at the beginning, was” nip “, which together constitutes” niprod “- the Dnieper clan.”

The Ukrainian historian ends his epic work with an unprecedented scale – in courage, the writer assures that the ancient Greek myths, and even the ancient Greeks, who gave the world science, heroes, etc., are the myth itself. Because all this is the history of the Ukrainians.

The annotation in the book then says:

“Do you still think that Ukrainians pray to gods and saints invented by Jews?

Researcher of pre-Ukrainian history and language Sergey Poddubny gives iron arguments that, on the contrary, gods and prophets of Jews were ancestors of Ukrainians.

The same applies to Greeks who allegedly gave the world myths, heroes and science. In fact, they have nothing to do with them. This is our, Ukrainians, history.

This is our truth, glory and strength!”

He further praises the ancient Ukrainians’ skills and initiative.

“The book tells about a mighty people – a people who are creators, a people who are victors and a people who sowed knowledge with at least three thousand years of history.”

It should also be reminded that in February 2020 it was reported that the modern American actor Keanu Reeves got into the Ukrainian textbooks on world history.

The textbook with Keanu Reeves was released in 2018 and recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Netizens discovered a funny mistake in the Ukrainian textbook on world history. In the historical photo “Lunch on a skyscraper” in 1932, sad Keanu Reeves (from the viral meme) is sitting next to the workers.

https://southfront.org/ukrainian-researcher-proves-jewish-and-ancient-greek-heroes-and-gods-originated-in-ukraine/

Khazars/Jews claiming they are God's, how original

Montenegro Is Burning

The Montenegrin government demonstrates a painful commitment to its campaign against the Serbian Orthodox Church, which already led to wide-scale protests in the country.

On July 19, Prime Minister Dusko Markovic announced that the government’s work group is ready to continue negotiations on the controversial Freedom of Religion Law, which infringes on rights of the Serbian Orthodox Church and its Metropolitanate of Montenegro.

The Serbian Orthodox Church is traditionally the main and only canonic Orthodox church in Montenegro and has a wide support of the local population. Despite this, the Markovic government has been fiercely working to change this by promoting a project of the ‘independent’ Montenegrin Orthodox Church. To do so, the government seeks to adopt a new law allowing to seize church properties of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro and setting conditions for psuhing the canonic church out of the country. The government apparently believes that the existence of the canonic church as an important part of the traditionally conservative Serbian society undermines its attempts to impose Western-promoted ‘neo-liberal values’ in Montenegro. While the jointing in NATO in 2017 faced a controversy in the country and the attempts to join the European Union are seem mainly as relatively positive by the population, the blatant propaganda of the modern variant of ‘democratic values’ (i.e. joining the minorities-ruled, neo-liberal camp) faces a mostly negative reaction.

In other words, Montenegro seeks to repeat the Ukrainain case, when the Kiev regime also participated in the creation of a local puppet pro-Western church that should support the Ukrainain ‘integration to Europe’, neo-liberal values and oppose the silent conservative majority of the population.

Metropolitan Amfilohije (the current Metropolitan bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, making him the Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro) accepted the government invitation to hold another meeting on July 20.

https://southfront.org/montenegro-is-burning/

Yet Another Explosion Hits Power Plant In Iran. MSM Points At Israel

Yet another strange and unexplained explosion has rocked central Iran on Sunday, state-owned Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported on Sunday. The explosion occurred at a power station in the city of Islamabad, which is in the central province of Isfahan.

Iranian officials blamed faulty equipment, and no casualties were reported.

A “worn out transformer… at Isfahan’s Islamabad thermal power plant exploded at around 5:00 am today,” the managing director of Isfahan’s electricity company Said Mohseni told IRNA.

The facility returned to normal working conditions after about two hours and Isfahan’s power supply was uninterrupted, he added.

The blaze was the result of an explosion of 230 KV power transformer at a substation of the power plant, said the provincial electric company, blaming “wear and tear on the transformer.”

The substation returned to normal operations within two hours and the damaged equipment was being repaired and replaced, plant officials said.

The power plant was constructed about 50 years ago, and provides electricity to the main city of Isfahan, with capacity to generate around 500 MW of electricity.

Separately on Sunday, a cellophane factory in northwest Iran erupted in fire. Video and images showed a huge cloud of smoke billowing from the site through the day as fire fighters struggled to put it out.

Iran’s civil defence organization chief, Ghulam Reza Jalali, was cited in state media as saying Iran is not ruling out sabotage on the power plant either by internal opposition groups or externally supported entities.

Last week, an explosion occurred at a chemical plant in the Razavi Khorasan Province in eastern Iran on 13 July. The blast allegedly occurred at a gas condensate plant in the Kavian Fariman industrial zone in the Razavi Khorasan Province in eastern Iran. The explosion was caused by a fire which broke out at one of the gas tanks.

https://southfront.org/yet-another-explosion-hits-power-plant-in-iran-msm-points-at-israel/

Syrian Air Defense Systems Intercept 'Hostile Targets' in Damascus - State Media

Explosions were reported the skies over Damascus Monday night as Syrian air defenses engaged incoming projectiles.

Videos posted on social media show anti-air missiles taking flight in al-Kiswah, a city southwest of the Syrian capital, late Monday night.

While no definitive claim about the origin of the missile attacks has yet been made, analysts noted on Twitter that air activity is very heavy over northern Israel. The Israeli Air Force has launched airstrikes at many times in the past into Syrian territory, often targeting Iranian or alleged Iranian installations.

Sky News reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based organization, had claimed it was an Israeli attack.

A local news station reported the missiles targeted Damascus International Airport as well as Iranian positions in the countryside outside al-Kiswah.

In a possibly related incident, a large explosion was reported in the Golan Heights, a border area that Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 war, shortly after the air attacks. Syrian state media reported the Israeli jets entered Syria for their attack near the northern Golan town of Majdal Shams.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202007201079938822-videos-syrian-air-defense-systems-intercept-hostile-targets-in-damascus—state-media/

Global Real Estate Investment Plunged By 33% In First Half Of The Year

The largest decline were seen in the Asia Pacific region, down 45%

By sector, investments in hotels suffered the steepest drop, down 59% on a global basis

Industrial properties showed the most resilience, with investments slipping by only 4%.

Cross-border investments in global real estate plunged by 33% in the first half of the year compared to the first half of 2019, according to a report released Monday by Savills, the London-based global real estate services provider.

The largest declines were seen in the Asia Pacific region, down 45%, and the Americas, down 36%.

By sector, investments in hotels suffered the steepest drop, down 59% on a global basis. Investments in retail properties and office spaces plunged 41% and 40%, respectively.

Industrial properties showed the most resilience, with investments slipping by only 4%.

Interestingly, investments in residential properties in Asia-Pacific actually surged by 105% – partly boosted by the purchase of a Japanese apartment portfolio by Blackstone Group for about $3 billion in February 2020.

“Overall the global 33% fall in real estate investment activity so far this year is less than the decrease at the start of the global financial crisis in the first half of 2008, when real estate investment volumes across the world fell by 49% and continued falling until mid-2009,” said Sophie Chick, director of Savills World Research team. “Unsurprisingly, those asset classes that have been most [affected] by social distancing measures have been hit hardest, while industrial and residential, which is a long-term income play, have been impacted least.”

By region, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, or EMEA, saw only a 19% decline in investments.

“The huge increase in entity-level deals in EMEA has helped insulate that market from the biggest falls, as some buyers have used this period for opportunistic M&A or equity deals,” Chick explained.

Simon Hope, Savills’ head of global capital markets, added: “Volumes are expected to remain well below pre-pandemic levels for the rest of 2020 as investors wait for market clarity. However, certain sectors are expected to outperform as investors focus on secure assets, namely logistics, residential and life sciences.

Hope also noted that looking ahead, “there seems to be general consensus across G8 governments around the world to build their way out of this downturn, turning on a tap of capital for infrastructure projects. This generally bodes well for the real estate industry as it potentially creates more assets to invest in as well as reducing unemployment rates.”

The International Monetary Fund expects the global economy to shrink by 4.9% this year.

But some countries, including the U.K., plan to increase spending on infrastructure projects to push their economies out of recession.

For instance, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said his government plans to “build, build, build” to boost growth.

https://www.ibtimes.com/global-real-estate-investment-plunged-33-first-half-year-3014066

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Report: The Ochs-Sulzberger Family That Owns The New York Times Were Slave Owners

The Ochs-Sulzberger family that owns the New York Times were slaveholders who supported the Confederacy, according to a report from the New York Post.

From New York Post, The Family That Owns The New York Times Were Slaveholders:

I have found compelling evidence that the uncle Bertha Levy Ochs lived with for several years in Natchez, Miss., before the Civil War owned at least five slaves.

He was her father's brother and his name was John Mayer because he dropped the surname Levy, according to a family tree compiled by the Ochs-Sulzberger clan some 70 years ago.

Mayer was a store owner and prominent leader of the small Jewish community in Natchez and, during the war, organized a home-guard unit, according to family letters and historians.

Neither the 1860 census nor its separate "slave schedule" lists the names of Mayer's slaves. They are identified as two males, ages 70 and 26, and three females, ages 65, 45 and 23.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61598

GOP Sen. Hawley Introduces Anti-Slave-Labor Bill Aimed at China and 'Woke' Brands Like Nike and the NBA

China and American off-shoring corporations received a rude shock Monday morning when Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) introduced legislation “to hold American companies accountable for slave labor in their supply chains,” largely in Communist mainland China.

Sen. Hawley’s office says that The Slave-Free Business Certification Act “increases corporate supply chain disclosure requirements, mandates regular audits, requires Chief Executive Officers to certify that their companies’ supply chains do not rely on forced, slave labor, and creates penalties for firms that fail basic minimum standards for human rights.”

Hawley chided American companies, saying, “the celebrities that hawk their products have been playing this game for a long time – talk up corporate social responsibility and social justice at home while making millions of dollars off the slave labor that assembles their products.”

According to a press release from Sen. Hawley’s office, the Act will:

• Compels companies to disclose the steps they are taking to eradicate forced labor, slavery, and human trafficking from their supply chains

• Directs major companies to undergo independent audits to ensure they are not complicit in forced labor and trafficking in their supply chains

• Mandates public reports to the Department of Labor on the results of their independent audits

• Requires CEOs to certify that their supply chains are free from slave labor or that they have reported all instances of forced labor in their companies

The release also reminds us, “At least 80 global companies have been tied to forced Uighur labor in China, from sportswear companies like Nike, Adidas, and Puma to tech giants like Lenovo and Samsung.”

This isn’t the first time Hawley has introduced legislation taking aim at those who prey on the most vulnerable. In February of this year, the former Missouri attorney general “introduced legislation to reauthorize a provision of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (TVPRA) commissioning a two-part comprehensive federal study on trafficking in persons by the Department of Justice.”

Today Hawley called corporate America out for its obvious hypocrisies, telling them that “if corporate America wants to be the face of social change today, they should have to certify they are completely slave-free.”

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stephen-green/2020/07/20/china-take-note-gop-sen-hawley-to-push-comprehensive-anti-slave-labor-bill-n665010