Kremlin Expresses "Solidarity" With China, Calls Pelosi Taiwan Visit A "Provocation"

On Friday the Kremlin issued a statement expressing "solidarity" with China amid soaring tensions with the US over Taiwan, especially at a moment Nancy Pelosi is ready to become the first US House Speaker to visit the democratic-run island in 25 years.

Coming just after Presidents Biden and Xi Jinping spoke by phone Thursday, wherein the Chinese leader warned the US not to "play with fire" over the self-ruled island, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said to reporters, "Certainly we are in solidarity" with China.

"We respect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and believe that no country in the world should have the right to question this or take any inflammatory or other steps," Peskov asserted.

"We are convinced that such behavior on the international arena can only cause additional tension," he added in reference to the potential Pelosi trip next week, and US policy toward the island in general.

Russian Foreign Minister too, in separate comments on the same day, blasted Washington policy on Taiwan, underscoring that the US administration's rhetoric on upholding the One China policy is not being matched in practice, according to TASS:

"Our position of having only one China remains unchanged, the same position in words is periodically confirmed by the United States, but in practice, as you yourself understand, actions do not always match their words. We have no problem with defending the principle of China's sovereignty, and we assume that no irritants, no provocations that could aggravate this situation will be undertaken," Lavrov said in reply to a question about the situation around Taiwan and possible plans of Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to pay a visit to Taiwan.

So clearly Moscow is joining Beijing in framing the possible Pelosi visit as a "provocation" - coming after months of China resisting Western pressure to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Instead, China's Foreign Ministry has at every turn appeared to back the Kremlin's argument that NATO expansion is enough of a threat to Russia's national security that it had to act against Ukraine.

Pelosi's scheduled Asia tour has kicked off Friday - to include Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore over the coming days. On the same day, The Washington Post's Josh Rogin reported that a Taiwan stopover is "expected to happen" during the "early part" of the trip, based on diplomatic sources.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kremlin-expresses-solidarity-china-calls-pelosi-taiwan-visit-provocation

Biden is running in 2024 – White House

Despite plummeting polls and Democratic defections, the 79-year old will apparently stand for reelection

President Joe Biden intends to run for reelection in 2024, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Friday. Biden is currently dealing with declining support from Democrat voters, while some lawmakers in the party are withholding their endorsement.

“The president intends to run in 2024 [and] we are a ways away from 2024,” Jean-Pierre told reporters. “We are going to continue to focus on doing the business of the American people, by delivering for families, by lowering costs for families, as we have been.”

Food and energy costs have skyrocketed under Biden, however, and GDP data released on Thursday indicates that the US economy has entered a recession. Despite Biden’s insistence that the US is “on the right path,” a poll by Civiqs earlier this month put approval of Biden’s performance at 29%, while an average of five other leading surveys shows the president’s approval rating at 39%. Across multiple polls, Biden almost always scores lowest for his handling of the US economy.

With the economic outlook gloomy, a CNN poll published earlier this week found that 75% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning voters want a fresh face to represent the party in 2024.

Democratic lawmakers have seemingly taken notice. Massachusetts Rep. Dean Phillips said in a radio interview on Thursday that he wants Biden to step down in 2024 to allow the country to be “well served by a new generation of compelling, well-prepared, dynamic Democrats.”

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, a critical swing vote who has obstructed some of Biden’s core legislation in the Senate, said on Thursday that while Biden is “a good person with a good heart,” he would “wait and see” before backing him in 2024.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has also refused to support Biden’s reelection, telling CNN last month that “if the President has a vision, then that's something certainly we're all willing to entertain and examine when the time comes.”

Aside from his dwindling poll numbers, Biden is also facing the realities of age. Republicans have long hammered the president for his apparent cognitive decline, mocking his apparent inability to speak even with a teleprompter and his visible disorientation in public. By 2024, Biden will be 81 years old, and according to a Harvard poll in May, 53% of Americans have “doubts about [Biden’s mental] fitness for office,” while 62% believe that he is “showing he is too old to be President.”

https://www.rt.com/news/559868-biden-running-election-2024/

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Leading ISIS Media Figure and Foreign Fighter Sentenced to Life Imprisonment

Mohammed Khalifa Executed Two Syrian Soldiers on Behalf of ISIS and served as the English-Speaking Narrator on Exceptionally Violent ISIS Propaganda Videos

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/leading-isis-media-figure-and-foreign-fighter-sentenced-life-imprisonment

More than 450,000 acres of land purchased by a billionaire-funded conservation organization

The American Prairie (AP) is attempting to form the largest nature park in the U.S. by buying up massive amounts of land in Montana. The group states that its mission is to create "a refuge for people and wildlife preserved forever as part of America's heritage."

AP has successfully purchased over 450,000 acres since 2004 but aims to acquire 3.2 million for its American Prairie Reserve project. When completed, the park will be roughly the size of Connecticut and 25% larger than Yellowstone.

The Montana acreage primarily consists of land once used for farming and grazing. The region's economy heavily depends on its $4.72 billion agricultural industry, and ranchers are concerned that the group will buy up too much privately-owned land and sabotage production.

During a Fox News Digital interview, AP's vice president and chief external relations officer, Pete Geddes, stated the organization is "engaged in private philanthropy and voluntary exchange by buying ranches from people who would like to sell that to us."

With the help of billionaire donors, AP has raised tens of millions of dollars since its inception. Its donors include well-known financiers and retail moguls.

Geddes stated AP selected the area because of its decreasing population, saying that "perhaps there's greater potential for less conflict over conservation in this part of the world."

United Property Owners of Montana (UPOM) is made up of local ranchers who are against the plan set in motion by AP. UPOM's policy director, Chuck Denowh, explained that the donors helping purchase the land are concerned only about having a tax-deductible charitable donation and not the consequences on agricultural production.

Denowh expressed concern about where the donations are coming from and that "for the future of food security of this country, we need to take a close look at that."

AP originally made headlines over its bison grazing plan in Montana. Recently, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) decided to grant AP its request to have bison roam on 60,000 acres previously reserved for cattle grazing.

UPOM expressed concern that the large bison population could spread disease to ranchers' cattle.

Montana's attorney general, Austin Knudsen, told Fox News Digital that allowing bison on the land would be illegal. "This is federal land that is specifically – by the Taylor Grazing Act, by federal law – set aside for livestock grazing. Bison are not livestock, even under federal law," he stated.

Another group, Montana Stockgrower Association, also spoke out against AP. President Jim Steinbeisser stated, "Ranchers have worked diligently for over a century caring for the public land livestock graze. Ranchers are held to the highest standards by federal land agencies in the areas of range management, range monitoring, range improvements, and processes within the BLM's grazing regulations, yet when concerns were raised regarding these areas in comments and protests, BLM did not acknowledge these concerns."

With farmers and ranchers being pushed out of the state, it remains to be seen the impact this could have on America's food supply.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/more-than-450000-acres-of-land-purchased-by-a-billionaire-funded-conservation-organization

Twitter Censors All Content From The Epoch Times

Twitter has imposed a blockade on all content from The Epoch Times without explanation, raising further concerns about freedom of speech on the platform.

Beginning on the evening of July 28, the platform put up a warning on all links from The Epoch Times. A click on a link would direct users to a page titled “Warning: this link may be unsafe” which prompts users to return to the previous page.

“The link you are trying to access has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe,” read the warning, which cited the platform’s URL policy.

The notice said that the link could fall into any of four categories: “malicious links that could steal personal information or harm electronic devices”; “spammy links that mislead people or disrupt their experience”; “violent or misleading content that could lead to real-world harm,” or content that “if posted directly on Twitter, are a violation of the Twitter Rules.”

The platform has not responded to multiple requests from The Epoch Times for clarification.

The Epoch Times was founded in 2000 by Chinese Americans who fled communist China and sought to create an independent media outlet to bring uncensored and truthful information to the world.

At least 10 staff members for The Epoch Times were arrested that year in China, with one editor-in-chief spending a decade in prison.

While operating outside of China, the media outlet has remained a consistent target of attacks from the Chinese regime over the past two decades. The printing press of the Hong Kong edition of The Epoch Times has suffered a series of violent break-ins, including arson, over the years, viewed as attempts by Beijing to intimidate the publication.

Major Chinese state media, by contrast, remain accessible on the platform as of the press time.

Among the first to be affected by Twitter’s blockade was Eliza Bleu, a trafficking survivor. Bleu shared about how abusers groomed her by preying on her vulnerabilities on EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program in an interview that premiered at 7:30 p.m. ET on Thursday.

Bleu tried to repost the link after watching the interview, and to her surprise and dismay, found that she “couldn’t even click on the link.”

“I’m pretty disheartened that the interview link was labeled as unsafe, because it’s not unsafe,” she told The Epoch Times.

“By watching the interview, anyone can tell it’s pretty educational,” she said. “I wasn’t talking about anything that wasn’t factual. I was just really just trying to educate, raise awareness, and bring attention to the issue.” She added that the link seemed to be accessible when the interview first aired but became blocked sometime afterward.

Twitter’s warning page allows users to proceed to the actual Epoch Times link if they click on the word “continue” at the very bottom of the page.

Republican lawmakers have decried the move as an act of censorship.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Thursday called out Twitter for blocking all links to The Epoch Times’ website.

“.@Twitter is blocking all links to @EpochTimes, including a story about a human trafficking survivor, and labeling them as ‘spammy’ and ‘unsafe,’ Twitter must explain itself for this outrageous act of censorship,” he wrote in a tweet.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) described Twitter’s action as “alarming.”

“Twitter is censoring @EpochTimes under the guise of ‘unsafe’ speech. Remember what happened the last time corporate media and big tech tried to censor my investigation on Hunter Biden corruption?” he wrote. “The truth always prevails.”

Jeffrey Tucker, founder of the Brownstone Institute think tank and a contributor for The Epoch Times, also expressed his shock.

“The @EpochTimes, the entire media complex, has been declared by Twitter to be unsafe. This stuns me, even though I thought I was beyond shock at this point,” he wrote.

https://www.ntd.com/twitter-censors-all-content-from-the-epoch-times_816702.html

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Dominion Voting Machines FAIL El Paso Co Logic and Accuracy Test for Hand Recount

Dominion Voting machines in El Paso County, Co. have reportedly FAILED their Logic and Accuracy test for the upcoming hand recount of the 2022 Primary election. The recount was ordered (and paid for) by some of the candidates, including Mesa Clerk Tina Peters and El Paso senate candidate Linda Zamora Wilson, who had her election inexplicably overturned AFTER it had been called by local news without any explanation.

According to Jim Wiley of ColoradoRecount.com:

The L&A consisted of 4,000 ballots. 2,200, around 60%, were reportedly kicked out for adjudication. Two Dominion employees were present and it still can’t be run correctly. Teams of judges are reviewing the ballots as part of the adjudication process.

The candidates were required to pay for the cost of the recount, including $10,000 allocated to “vendor programming/support”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/breaking-dominion-voting-machiens-fail-el-paso-co-co-logic-accuracy-test-hand-recount/

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Fennimore Man Charged with Producing & Possessing Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwi/pr/fennimore-man-charged-producing-possessing-child-pornography

Operation False Haven: Convicted Child Molester Sentenced for Naturalization Fraud and Judicially Denaturalized

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdnc/pr/operation-false-haven-convicted-child-molester-sentenced-naturalization-fraud-and

Mexican National Sentenced to Over 34 Years for Producing Child Pornography and Cyberstalking

https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/mexican-national-sentenced-over-34-years-producing-child-pornography-and-cyberstalking

St. Louis man sentenced to 25 years for producing child pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmo/pr/st-louis-man-sentenced-25-years-producing-child-pornography

Sex abuser won't be free until he's 90 after being jailed for historic sex offences

https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/sex-abuser-wont-free-until-24623509

YouTubers help cops nab pair of suspected child predators

https://www.police1.com/arrests-sentencing/articles/youtubers-help-cops-nab-pair-of-suspected-child-predators-EpPpZms9QsH4Q2cw/

Three arrests in Bradford in child sex abuse investigation

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-62349151

Ellensburg ICE officer arrested in child sex trafficking investigation

https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/northwest/ellensburg-ice-officer-arrested-in-child-sex-trafficking-investigation/article_34e27654-e651-5a77-8d2c-148d3c4f0445.html

Lexington County men arrested in child sex abuse cases

https://www.wistv.com/2022/07/29/lexington-county-men-arrested-child-sex-abuse-cases/

New Jersey Man Federally Charged with Enticement of a Minor and Interstate Transportation of a Minor to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activit

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdin/pr/new-jersey-man-federally-charged-enticement-minor-and-interstate-transportation-minor

Federal Jury Finds Former Navy Sailor Guilty of Sexually Exploiting a Minor on Snapchat

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/federal-jury-finds-former-navy-sailor-guilty-sexually-exploiting-minor-snapchat

Pontiac Man Sentenced to 15 years for Advertisement of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/pontiac-man-sentenced-15-years-advertisement-child-pornography

Normal, Illinois Man Sentenced to 120 Months in Prison for Child Sex Trafficking

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdil/pr/normal-illinois-man-sentenced-120-months-prison-child-sex-trafficking

Morrisville Man Sentenced to 150 Months in Prison and 20 Years Supervised Release for Posting Child Pornography on Dark Web Chat Room

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/morrisville-man-sentenced-150-months-prison-and-20-years-supervised-release-posting

Baltimore Sex Trafficker Sentenced to Over 10 Years in Federal Prison for Recruiting a 14-Year-Old to Engage in Commercial Sex

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/baltimore-sex-trafficker-sentenced-over-10-years-federal-prison-recruiting-14-year-old

Previously convicted sex offender from Nevada sentenced to 14 years in prison after failing to update sex offender registration

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/previously-convicted-sex-offender-nevada-sentenced-14-years-prison-after-failing-update

Alabama Man Convicted of Traveling To Florida To Engage In Sexual Acts With Minor Kills Self In Jail

https://breaking911.com/alabama-man-convicted-of-traveling-to-florida-to-engage-in-sexual-acts-with-minor-kills-self-in-jail/

12 minor girls who were allegedly trafficked from Rajasthan to Kerala with the support of a Perumbavoor-based charity firm.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/minor-girls-rescued-from-suspected-human-trafficking-in-kozhikode/article65693922.ece

Kerala Pastor arrested for alleged human trafficking of minor girls

https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-kerala-pastor-kerala-human-trafficking-kerala-human-trafficking-of-minor-girls-minor-girls-trafficked-in-ke-2972259

US and UN react to Ukraine POW camp shelling

White House says it can’t “speak intelligently,” while UN has no first-hand information

The US on Friday declined to speculate on the shelling of the Ukrainian prisoners in Elenovka, saying it did not have enough information to do so. Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed concern about the incident, but his office said he lacked firsthand reports to comment further. Dozens of “Azov” fighters housed at the complex were killed in what Russia says was a strike by HIMARS rockets supplied by the US to Ukraine.

“We just don’t have enough information to speak intelligently about these very early reports,” John Kirby, spokesman for the US National Security Council, told reporters.

According to an unnamed senior Pentagon official, Americans “don't have any definitive information” on what happened and whether the facility was struck by Ukraine or Russia.

The facility in Elenovka, south of Donetsk, housed hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners – mainly members of the “Azov” neo-Nazi militia captured in Mariupol in May. It was struck at around 2 am on Friday, as the prisoners were asleep. As of Friday afternoon, Donetsk People’s Republic authorities say 53 people were killed and 75 were injured.

The government in Kiev accused Russia of carrying out the attack on the territory of its Donbass ally. DPR authorities, however, showed fragments of what they said were rockets used by HIMARS, the rocket artillery supplied to the Ukrainian military by the US.

Ukrainian authorities also knew exactly where the “Azov” prisoners were being held, DPR militia spokesman Eduard Basurin told reporters, accusing Kiev of ordering the strike. He said the attack was intended to kill the “Azov” fighters who began to testify about war crimes and other atrocities Ukrainian forces had been involved in.

Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements, designed to give the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk special status within the Ukrainian state. The protocols, brokered by Germany and France, were first signed in 2014. Former Ukrainian president Pyotr Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev’s main goal was to use the ceasefire to buy time and “create powerful armed forces.”

In February 2022, the Kremlin recognized the Donbass republics as independent states and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked.

https://www.rt.com/russia/559865-us-un-elenovka-reactions/

NSW Respiratory Surveillance Report - week ending 23 July

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Documents/weekly-covid-overview-20220723.pdf

House Republicans push resolution that calls critical race theory 'a form of Marxist ideology' and 'a clear and present danger to the Republic'

A group of House Republicans is backing a resolution that calls critical race theory a "Marxist ideology" and a "threat" the the country.

"CRT proponents cannot be allowed to conceal the Marxian foundations of their racist ideology. This resolution allows Congress to do what has always been essential to defeating Marxism — calling it what it is and exposing those who consort with it,” GOP Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina noted, according to the Daily Caller.

Bishop introduced the resolution, which is cosponsored by Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin, Randy Weber of Texas, Greg Steube of Florida, Bob Good of Virginia, Jim Banks of Indiana, and Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

According to a copy of the resolution posted by the outlet, the text of the measure would declare that the House "recognizes critical race theory and its derivatives as a form of Marxist ideology" and "recognizes that critical race theory exists in direct opposition to the founding ideals, way of life, and form of government of the United States."

The resolution also states the the House "declares that, as a Marxist ideology, critical race theory poses a significant threat to the United States Republic, its citizens, and the free people of the world rising to the degree of a clear and present danger to the Republic, its citizens, and the States, its allies, and the good and happiness of mankind."

The measure will likely fail to make any headway in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives.

Bishop has previously pushed legislation to prohibit the federal government from supplying funds to any entity that teaches concepts such as the idea that America is a "fundamentally racist" nation or that a person is "inherently racist or oppressive" because of their race. He has also pushed legislation to bar the military from promoting such concepts.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/critical-race-theory-marxist-resolution