Premier Liu He and USTR Lighthizer Discuss Renewed Phase-1 Deliverables…


United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and China’s Vice-Premier Liu He release a joint statement showing renewed emphasis on phase-1 purchases.

Washington, DC – Ambassador Lighthizer and Secretary Mnuchin participated in a regularly scheduled call this evening with China’s Vice Premier Liu He to discuss implementation of the historic Phase One Agreement between the United States and China. The parties addressed steps that China has taken to effectuate structural changes called for by the Agreement that will ensure greater protection for intellectual property rights, remove impediments to American companies in the areas of financial services and agriculture, and eliminate forced technology transfer.

 

The parties also discussed the significant increases in purchases of U.S. products by China as well as future actions needed to implement the agreement. Both sides see progress and are committed to taking the steps necessary to ensure the success of the agreement. (link)

This is interesting timing. In the foreground President Trump has openly stated he was/is not seeking further trade discussions with China. However, in the background if China does not meet the $75 billion phase-1 purchases, then a set of automatically triggering tariffs kick-in…. so it is in China’s interest to engage.

This trade leverage, combined with President Trump’s willingness to completely decouple from China…. combined with tariffs against China being favored by President Trump… explains the position of the administration.  Do nothing and tariffs kick back in.

According to Reuters analytics China has only purchased $7.3 billion in agricultural products through the first half of the year. The phase-1 agreement (tariff avoidance) requires $36.5 billion in purchases for 2020.

Additionally, in the energy sector: “China bought only 5% of the targeted $25.3 billion in energy products from the United States in the first half of 2020. Chinese state-owned oil firms have booked tankers to carry at least 20 million barrels of U.S. crude for August and September.” [Reuters Link] Again, if China doesn’t meet the agreement threshold the suspended tariffs return in full force.

It looks like Vice-Premier Liu He is attempting to head-off the re-institution of tariffs due to phase-1 purchases falling below the agreement; thus Beijing is trying to avoid the built-in tariff penalty aspect.

…If you plant your trees in another man’s orchard, don’t be surprised when you have to pay for your own apples…

The Democrats’ Death To America Logo


Other than in the delusional dreams of the Democrats, the devil is no match for God Almighty

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The Democrats’ Death To America LogoYou didn’t have to torture yourself by tuning in to the 1st ever virtual Democrat Convention last week to know what the Democrats are all about—#DemHateFest2020.

You never had to cringe upon hearing what hypocrites like Barack, Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton had to say—the same tiresome things they’ve been whining about for the last four years straight without ever changing the tune.

You never had to endlessly ponder how many takes it took to get a pre-recorded Joe Biden speech—without even one of his embarrassing signature gaffes.

You don’t have to toss and turn in your bed at nights knowing that Biden has vowed to shut down America shortly after his inauguration.

You don’t have to worry about Kamala Harris, who Democrats claim that mispronouncing her first name is “racist” to take over as president when Biden’s dementia forces the issue.

You never have to wonder at the brazen audacity of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign privately apologizing to radical left-wing activist Linda Sarsour after publicly   condemning her extreme anti-Israel views last week—and worse giving her speaker status at the Democrat convention.

Sarsour is a former leader of the pink cap-wearing anti-Trump Women’s March, all of whom have a special place in the hearts of the Democrats.

Never mind that “as a former leader of the Women’ March, she excluded pro-Israel women from the march and maintained ties with the racist and antisemitic Nation of Islam. She also called for “jihad” against President Donald Trump. (Breitbart, Aug. 24, 2020)

Things that count for gold with the desperado Democrats.

“Last week, Sarsour spoke during the Democratic National Convention’s virtual caucus meeting for the Muslim Delegates and Allies Assembly, declaring that the Democratic Party was “absolutely our party in this moment.” After critics complained, the Biden campaign publicly criticized her and attempted to distance itself from her views. (Breitbart)

“Biden spokesman Andrew Bates told CNN: “Joe Biden has been a strong supporter of Israel and a vehement opponent of anti-Semitism his entire life, and he obviously condemns her views and opposes BDS, as does the Democratic platform … She has no role in the Biden campaign whatsoever.”

Make that “no role in the Biden campaign whatsoever” other than being a spokeswoman at the Democrat convention that officially named him as their candidate for the 2020 election!

LOL!

“However, the Middle East Eye reported Sunday that Biden campaign officials privately apologized to Sarsour on a call with Muslim community activists, which was recorded and leaked to the publication. (Breitbart)

Biden coalitions director Ashley Allison said she was “sorry”:

Allison said she empathised with “the pain” that the campaign had caused to Arabs and Muslims by disavowing Sarsour.

“The Trump campaign noted in a press statement that the Democratic National Convention included six speakers, including Sarsour, who had supported or associated with Farrakhan in the past.

You don’t need Sarsour, the other five speakers who had supported or associated with Farrakhan in the past to know all about the Democrats.

You don’t have to drive yourself crazy wondering why Democrats continue to look the other way at the looting, rioting and burning down of cities run by Democrat mayors and governors.

You don’t have to ponder how Joe Biden, who supports defunding the police says it is President Donald Trump who wants to defund the police—and gets away with it.

All you have to do is take a close gander at the Democrat Convention logo, which infers “Death to America”.

Democrat Convention logo

You don’t have to wade though the laborious Wide Eye and Zero diatribe explaining how digital geniuses came up with the branding for the convention logo,  you just have to see it.

Catholic priest Fr. John Zuhlsdorf (Fr. Z) described the Dem logo as a “Satanic logo”.

Satanic Symbol

Some of us believe that’s exactly what it is.

Other than in the delusional dreams of the Democrats, the devil is no match for God Almighty.

Reflecting on Democrats and a Convention of Hollow Word


Sadly, Biden didn’t have any new hollow words, he merely re-used the same hollow words from 2008

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and ArchivesAugust 25, 2020

Reflecting on Democrats and a Convention of Hollow Word

Last week, the Democrat Party pushed out their version of truth, which normal people would call propaganda, but the words spewed out at their convention rang hollow. In fact, anyone suffering from a hangover due to the poisonous propaganda spread across the airwaves should be cured through a good dose of the GOP Convention this week. Yet, some of the propaganda that spewed forth from the “Demorants” at the convention is too hard to not comment on, too hard to pass up, especially speeches given by Hillary Clinton as well as Barack and Michelle Obama.

The Lies of Michelle Obama

One of the most startling realities that emerged from the Democrat Convention was Michelle Obama’s remarks in the keynote speech on the opening night were fact-checked by Associated Press, and that left-leaning news source called out Ms. Obama for the lies she tried to get away with as she repeated the outdated Leftist mantra that President Donald Trump was responsible for “ripping migrant children from their parents and throwing them into cages.” This had been   frequently used Democrat propaganda until some intelligent Democrats sorted it out, and were shocked by the lies of their leaders.

After fact-checking such lies of the leadership, some of the more honorable Democrats who had tweeted out photographs of “kids torn from their families and thrown into cages” from 2014, felt it important to delete their tweets unless they embarrass President Obama. Others, who cling to the lies, like Michelle Obama, or are too stupid to acknowlwedge the lie, continue to propagate it. Such actions are a simple admission from those who continue with the mantra, that they feel they can get away with circulating such lies among people too ignorant to know any better. What Michelle did was to bring the issue back to the surface.

It was President Obama’s Administration that built and used those cages to hold the kids of illegal migrants in temporary custody while their parent’s immigratin status was worked out.The Trump Administration followed similar policies of the Obama Administration in dealing with such a glut of illegals at the U.S.-Mexico border, and used the same or similar chain-link enclosures where migrant children were temporarily housed.

Michelle Obama was attempting to stir anger again that stirred emotions at the height of President Trump’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy. The pictures of the children in cages were taken by the Associated Press, so they would know the truth of the matter. The fact that they would clarify it immediately after the lies were told is significant. May truth regain respect.

Truth was rarely on display in the Democrat rantings last week

Actually, truth was rarely on display in the Democrat rantings last week, and it is noteworthy that Hillary Clinton also took her own jab at Trump “If he had put his own interests and ego aside, seeing the humanity in a child ripped from her parents at the border…” The extreme irony of such a statement in light of this summer’s shootings of so many innocent children shows how shallow and devoid of genuine concern for human life Democrats are.

These two women, two mothers, could bring up the years’ old issue of the illegal immigrant kids at the border being ripped from their parents (during the commission of criminal entry) while not saying one word about innocent black and white children who were killed on Independence Day—who were murdered—ripped from their parents forever. How heartless. And to think, these are considered two women to look up to as leaders in the Party proclaiming that “Black Lives Matter.” How hypocritical and self-serving. If these two women could put their own self interests and egos aside, there may have been some few words of compassion expressed in conjunction with the mention of the immigrant children.

Sadly, in their world only certain people matter. Truly, they show up as queens of ego. But Hillary Clinton went a step further in her admonishment of Trump in that full sentence: “If he had put his own interests and ego aside, seeing the humanity in a child ripped from her parents at the border, or a protester calling for justice, or a family wiped out by natural disaster, that would have been a good thing for America and the world.”

So, by Clinton’s perspective of reality, as well as the rest of the Democrat leadership, “the protestor calling for justice” obscured the anarchist destruction, the Antifa violence, and the BLM terrorism. All they seem to see, or pretend to see, is the “peaceful protestor” that a mainstream media portrays in their own version of propaganda. While it may have been hard for her to face reality head on, she was able to do her job as a good Democrat leader in endorsing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as her Party’s 2020 nominees. Or, was it Barack Obama’s nominees?

Democrat Deep State Spying while Obama was POTUS.  Obama incompetent or complicit

In reality, much of the Party and the Democrat convention has been immersed within Obama’s shadow. Obama’s nefarious influence permeates the Party. His former Vice President currently is holding the proverbial “scepter of power” bestowed upon him at the convention. Yet, the real scepter is more in the hands of Kamala Harris. But, Obama as the puppet master showed up, and his cynical and vitriolic character was on full display last week. So were his attempts at his own version of reality.

In former President Obama’s speech on the 19th, he warned about President Trump, “This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that’s what it takes to win.” Such an Alinsky-esque tactic is way too obvious in the basics of accusing the opposition of the crimes oneself has committed. Of course, it is a slow justice system that is narrrowing down the various suspects in the crime of the century against “democracy.”

The audacious and nefarious process of spying on American citizens for political purposes that were initiated at the highest levels of our government to undermine a campaign of an opposition candidate, and then to undermine the outcome of a duly elected president of the United States is a good example of tearing down democracy, in order to win. Only, those efforts originated in the Democrat Deep State while Obama was POTUS. That either makes Obama incompetent or complicit. May justice be restored.

Obama’s warped mentality

Obama may also be found instrumental in utilizing the services of Al Sharpton and other less infamous individuals in instigating the rioting and violence of the Black Lives Matter terrorist organization. While Sharpton seems to have been the link between the Obama White House and the various rioting groups over what appeared as injustice in various racially charged events during the tenure of Obama, it was quite apparent that none of the Democrat support puppets at the convention did not decry the violence, rioting, and murders due to the anarchists, Antifa, and Black Lives Matter terrorists—Neither did Obama.

Instead of condemning the violence and the murders of innocents, Obama has gone on record for praising such young people who are taking to the streets as part of a “Great Awakening” of the youth who are “eager to take on some of the core challenges that have been facing this country for centuries.” So, citizens should see that Obama’s perspectives of reality are not only reflective of his warped mentality, it is being instilled in many of the gullible and naive young people who have not seen Obama for who he really is – a man of tremendous ego, narcissism, who honestly appears to care more about himself and his “legacy” than he does about the lives of the citizens of this country. His words were totally hollow.

Even more lame is that people don’t really know Joe Biden, the man who wants to be POTUS. Sadly, Biden didn’t have any new hollow words; according to the Gateway Pundit, they discovered he merely re-used the same hollow words from 2008.

Republican National Convention – RNC Live Coverage


Day 1 Land of Promise

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Re-Posted for the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and ArchivesAugust 24, 2020

Land of Promise, Speakers include former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, Donald Trump Jr., and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.

The Great Reset: WHO declares ‘We cannot go back to the way things were’


WHO Dir-Gen: ‘Covid-19 has given new impetus to the need to accelerate efforts to respond to climate change’

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and ArchivesAugust 24, 2020

The Great Reset: WHO declares ‘We cannot go back to the way things were’
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a news conference from the agency’s Geneva headquarters:

“In particular, the Covid-19 pandemic has given new impetus to the need to accelerate efforts to respond to climate change. The Covid-19 pandemic has given us a glimpse of our world as it could be: cleaner skies and rivers.”

Marc Morano comments: “You were warned, COVID & Climate – A marriage made in authoritarianism. The morphing of the public health bureaucracy and the climate establishment is at hand. Nothing good can come from this arranged marriage.”

  • World leaders and the public must learn to manage the virus and make permanent adjustments to their daily lives to bring the virus down to low levels, the WHO said.
  • Throughout history, outbreaks and pandemics have changed economies and societies, the agency said.

The World Health Organization said Friday that a vaccine will be a “vital tool” in the global fight against the coronavirus, but it won’t end the Covid-19 pandemic on its own and there’s no guarantee scientists will find one.

World leaders and the public must learn to manage the virus and make permanent adjustments to their daily lives to bring the virus down to low levels, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a news conference from the agency’s Geneva headquarters. “At the same time, we will not, we cannot go back to the way things were.”

Throughout history, outbreaks and pandemics have changed economies and societies, he said.

“In particular, the Covid-19 pandemic has given new impetus to the need to accelerate efforts to respond to climate change,” he said. “The Covid-19 pandemic has given us a glimpse of our world as it could be: cleaner skies and rivers.”

The virus has infected more than 22.7 million people worldwide and killed at least 794,100 in more than seven months, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. There are at least 30 potential vaccines currently in clinical trials, according to the WHO, but there is no guarantee they will be safe and effective, he said.——More…

Tyranny is Indistinguishable whether used by Kings, Dictators or Career Politicians


What is going on in New Zealand and Melbourne is the complete rejection of every principle of liberty, which has degenerated into a tyrannical coup. These are the very same actions by those governments that sparked the American Revolution. We have to wonder about this forecast of Socrates about rising civil unrest on a global scale. I had assumed it would be because of the debt collapse and rising taxation. But we are witnessing such tyrannical actions from Europe to New Zealand and Melbourne that this appears to be using the virus to suppress what they realize will be the collapse of their governments. They are turning our Free World into Venezuela. These tyrannical people in office now will perhaps eventually suspend elections when they realize they themselves would be booted out.

They have suspended all warrants and authorized the police to simply break into anyone’s house if they suspect you are violating COVID regulations. This is precisely the same tyranny that sparked the American Revolution. The king authorized Writs of Assistance which allowed the government to arbitrarily search whatever they suspected for any reason. John Adams, Second President, listened to the 4-hour speech of the defense lawyer James Otis (1725-1783) who argued against the king’s Writs of Assistance in February 1761. History repeats for there are few people in government today that even understand what is at stake with the actions being taken in the name of this virus. This also proves that there is NO DIFFERENCE between kings and career politicians. Liberty cannot exist with pretend representatives of the people.

Here are a few excerpts from that famous speech of James Otis that so moved John Adams and inspired the birth of the American Revolution.

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law-book…  

The writ prayed for in this petition, being general, is illegal. It is a power that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer. I say I admit that special Writs of Assistance, to search special places, may be granted to certain persons on oath. But I deny that the writ now prayed for can be granted…

In the first place, the writ is universal, being directed “to all and singular justices, sheriffs, constables, and all other officers and subjects”; so that, in short, it is directed to every subject in the King’s dominions. Everyone with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.   In the next place, it is perpetual; there is no return. A man is accountable to no person for his doings. Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul. In the third place, a person with this writ, in the daytime, may enter all houses, shops, etc., at will, and command all to assist him. Fourthly, by this writ not only deputies, etc., but even their menial servants, are allowed to lord it over us…  

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. This writ, if it should be declared legal, would totally annihilate this privilege. Custom-house officers may enter our houses when they please; we are commanded to permit their entry. Their menial servants may enter, may break locks, bars, and everything in their way; and whether they break through malice or revenge, no man, no court can inquire. Bare suspicion without oath is sufficient. 

French Police Arrest Man Because his Mask was Just Below his Nose


 

COMMENT: The French police are out of control. In a recent video gone viral, a CCTV video footage shows a supermarket employee being violently arrested because he allegedly was not wearing his mask “properly”.

With such pretexts, the government can arrest anyone without barely anybody even noticing. I think they’re testing kidnapping. We also know that the government has implemented without any vote or debate the use of rivotril to kill people said to be “dying”. Family members were not allowed to see them before dying, nor their relatives to attend the funerals. This is the typical soviet methodology to get rid of dissenters.
BL from france

REPLY: They arrested this clerk because his mask was just below his nose.

Biden Supports the Green Agenda


Biden said: “When Donald Trump thinks about climate change, the only word he can muster is ‘hoax,’” Biden said during a speech unveiling the plan on Tuesday, “When I think about climate change, the word I think of is ‘jobs.’”

These people have no idea how much damage has been created within the global economy. You cannot buy many computer parts and items because they are manufactured in Asia where they are ignoring their Green Agenda. Even imported liquor has dropped 30%. Gates is proudly telling everyone this must continue until the end of 2021. This will unleash a world war. Perhaps that’s the objective.

Jim Jordan Discusses President Trump, then Offers a Challenge…


Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) spoke on the first night of the Republican National Convention. Jordan discusses the fraudulent roadblocks the democrats tried to put in front of President Trump, and the accomplishments.  Then Jordan tells a story about the humanity of our president; an aspect people don’t often hear about.

Toward the end of his remarks Jim Jordan leaves us with a challenge…

 

Are Tech Companies Protecting You Know Who?


COMMENT: Hello Martin,

Thanks for everything that you do. Just wanted to share an observation.

I am using a dell PC with Microsoft operating system. Over the past few days your mails that refer to Bill gates have magically ended up in my junk mail. I only noticed as I get your mails direct to my home PC and also my phone ( Samsung S.9.) The Phone is showing all your posts but the PC only some. for example today the mails that were hidden from view are ” Are Gates & Schwab Committing Crimes Against Humanity. Also the very Excellent video ” The Pandemic to Future Climate Change Agenda “. Less controversial posts are getting though on the PC and had it not been for the diffidence in the two platforms ( PC and Phone) I would have never checked.

You are certainly touching a nerve.

With Great Respect from the UK.

Best wishes

NW

REPLY: A number of people are reporting the same thing. If “GATES” is in the email, there may be some filter to send it off to JUNK.  This is the problem when they are all supporting this Gates agenda because eliminating cash means they will get a piece of every transaction in the world.