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Aug. 18, 2020
Japan GDP And US/China Trade Talk Disappointments Stifle European Markets

Aug. 18 -Following a choppy performance last week, especially in Europe, investors sat on their hands at the start of Monday’s trading.

It was another weekend full of disappointments. Like the UK last Wednesday, Japan just posted its worst GDP contraction on record – though it’s a stark warning of how bad things are over here that the Japanese drop was 7.8% to the UK’s 20.4% for the April to June quarter.

Meanwhile the teased, but never officially confirmed, videoconference trade talks between the USA and China were postponed indefinitely. Reuters is reporting that the delay has come about due to scheduling conflicts and the need to allow Beijing more time to buy up American exports as dictated by the phase one deal. It’s hard to know had to take the delay – in a sense, given the chaos of the last couple of months it has at least prevented things from getting any worse.
Add in an empty economic calendar, and it was difficult for the European markets to get a feel for what direction they should be heading in...     more

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Contractors hired by government officials to frame Donald Trump are “behind the fake news in mainstream media” and recent protests.

Aug. 15 - ..."This video was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) One of the key tenets of PolitiFact is that the burden of proof is on the speaker. This video and its claims fall woefully short.

The ShadowGate narrative hinges on the allegations of two "whistleblowers," someone referred to by the first name of "Tore," who is described as a linguist and intelligence contractor for the U.S. Navy, and Patrick Bergy, who is described as a "PSYOP Program Developer" in cyber security for the U.S. Army.
 
Neither the Navy nor the Army answered our questions about the video, including our efforts to verify their employment history.

Though Tore is not given a last name in the video she appears to be Tore Maras-Lindeman, host of the radio show Tore Says who in 2018 announced she was running for mayor of Minot, N.D., with the slogan "Make Minot Great Again."
   
Bergy, meanwhile, recently suggested in a video posted on YouTube that Weaver had recently been arrested because of her work exposing the deep state. Actually, Weaver and her boyfriend were arrested on charges of robbery, tampering with evidence, obstructing justice and domestic violence, Fox News reported'...    more