GERMANY - Thirty years after Germany’s reunification, the Unity Expo was opened in Potsdam this past weekend. It shows what happened in the past 30 years, in 30 glass boxes anyone can take a look at. Contrary to its name, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was not democratic. It became part of the democratic Federal Republic of Germany on October 3rd, 1990. This happened eleven months after the Berlin Wall fell, 29 years after it was built, and 45 years after the Allies finally ended fascism and the Holocaust by defeating Nazi Germany. Today, the almost 13 million Germans who are 30 years old or younger never lived in any of the two German states while they existed next to each other. They just hear stories about divided Germany from their families or at school. To many of those who do remember the inner-German border, time has raced by since.

UK - Britain’s government is banning gatherings of more than six people in England, as officials try to keep a lid on daily new coronavirus infections after a sharp spike across the UK that has been largely blamed on party-going young adults disregarding social distancing rules. Downing Street said urgent action was needed after the number of daily laboratory-confirmed positive cases hit nearly 3,000 on Sunday. The figure dipped Tuesday to 2,460.

USA - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned in an interview with Axios on HBO that there’s a “heightened risk” of “violence or civil unrest” in the wake of the November election — particularly between election night and when the winner is declared — as Facebook scrambles to address concerns around how it handles election information and misinformation. Zuckerberg noted to Axios that “we may not know the final result on election night,” and said Facebook would provide messaging to start “preparing” people that it’s “normal” if tallying the vote takes days or weeks, as well as messaging on posts in which a candidate claims victory before there’s a consensus. Zuckerberg said Facebook was “trying to make sure that we do our part” to ensure any post-election unrest is not organized on Facebook’s platforms.

UNITED NATIONS - The first famines of the coronavirus era could soon hit four chronically food-deprived conflict areas — Yemen, South Sudan, northeast Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo — the top humanitarian official of the United Nations has warned. In a letter to members of the Security Council, the official, Mark Lowcock, said the risk of famines in these areas had been intensified by “natural disasters, economic shocks and public-health crises, all compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.” Together, he said, “these factors are endangering the lives of millions of women, men and children.” The letter, which has not been made public, was conveyed by Lowcock’s office to the Security Council on Friday under its 2018 resolution requiring updates when “the risk of conflict-induced famine and widespread food insecurity” occurs. A copy of the letter was seen by The New York Times.

CHINA - China recently launched the "Clean Plate Campaign," which targets people wasting food, as speculation of a worldwide food shortage mounts. President Xi Jinping has pushed new measures to curb food waste following the virus pandemic, calling those who live stream their eating experiences on social media as "shocking and distressing." Estimates show China wastes enough food to feed 30 to 50 million people per year, according to a study published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the World Wildlife Fund in China. The government's abrupt crackdown on food waste suggests a shortage could be nearing. The one thing central bankers cannot print is food - if shortages in China and or elsewhere become more serious, resulting in out of control spikes in food prices as the virus pandemic and economic downturn continues, then there's going to be a lot of angry people around the world. It's only then when the next round of global protests could overwhelm governments and central bankers, as they realize "you can't eat an iPad." A global reset is ahead.

GERMANY - The head of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, referred to fellow CDU member Friedrich Merz's calls to freeze the promising joint Russian-German Nord Stream 2 venture for at least two years as an erroneous move. "Nord Stream 2 must be completed. We depend on each other, we need this cooperation", the politician was quoted by DPA as saying. According to a Bloomberg report citing three sources in the Bundestag, Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU and Social Democratic Party coalition won't support demands to block Nord Stream 2, as the project is favoured by German industry.

USA - In fact, the judge has no such authority, but the revolution has proceeded beyond the bounds of law. Obviously, the revolution under way against “white America” has support not only from Democrat mayors, city councils, governors, Speaker of the House, Biden and Kamala — all of whom refuse to support law and order — but also from members of the judiciary. To spell it out for you, the revolution in process is supported by the Democrat Party. If you are a white person and you vote Democrat, you are voting against yourself. The revolution is directed against “white America.” Indeed, Americans are so unaware of what is happening that they will regard this warning as a joke or the ranting of a conspiracy theorist or a racist, one of those terrible white people who do not believe in the indictment of white people for their “systemic racism.” The situation in America is so far gone that it is not even possible to inform people what is happening to them. They are brainwashed and indoctrinated to their own destruction.

USA - Russiagate Didn’t Work, Impeachment Didn’t Work, Crashing The Economy Didn’t Work, Coronaphobia Didn’t Work, Riots Didn’t Work, So What’s Next? President Trump’s approval rating has inched back to its pre-coronavirus high, an indication that he has recovered from a summer of polling woe as the 2020 presidential campaign kicks into high gear. Friday’s Rasmussen Reports approval rating for Trump was 52%. Some 48% disapprove.

USA - New wildfires ravaged bone-dry California during a scorching Labor Day weekend that saw a dramatic airlift of more than 200 people trapped by flames and ended with the state’s largest utility turning off power to 172,000 customers to try to prevent its power lines and other equipment from sparking more fires. The previous record was set just two years ago and included the deadliest wildfire in state history — the Camp Fire that swept through the community of Paradise and killed 85 people. That fire was started by Pacific Gas & Electric power lines. Liability from billions of dollars in claims from that and other fires forced the utility to seek bankruptcy protection. To guard against new wildfires and new liability, PG&E last year began preemptive power shutoffs when conditions are exceptionally dangerous. California has seen 900 wildfires since August 15, many of them started by an intense series of thousands of lightning strikes in mid-August. There have been eight fire deaths and more than 3,300 structures destroyed.

UK - On Friday night, a group of extremists from Extinction Rebellion blockaded the printing plants where The Telegraph and other titles are produced. We were not their primary target but production of The Telegraph titles was severely affected. This meant many of our loyal readers were denied the opportunity to enjoy the fine journalism that we produce. Following the assault on the free press, we have made the decision that all the Telegraph journalism published this weekend is now free to read on our website until Monday morning and removed the paywall until then. Chris Evans, Editor of The Telegraph, said: "I’m very concerned by the attack on free speech. Whatever your politics, you should be worried by this. There are also questions for the police who perhaps placed the right of these few people to protest above the right of the rest of the people to read a free press."

UK - In July, Oriel College, Oxford set up a panel to consider the future of a statuette of Cecil Rhodes that rests in a niche high in the building paid for by the diamond magnate himself. It seemed, at the time, like a wise move. The college was being besieged by Black Lives Matter protesters, some of whom were making considered arguments against memorialising Rhodes while others railed in general terms against slavery, police brutality, apartheid and a hundred other evils unconnected to the dapper adventurer. It seemed sensible to pass the decision to a commission that could deliberate cool-headedly. Glancing at the public positions of the nine commissioners, though, it looks as if Oriel has empanelled a hanging jury. Most have said things that are, in broad terms, woke; and several appear to have already made up their minds to remove the statue.

USA - Breitbart News technology reporter Allum Bokhari appeared on the Liz Callaway show on TALK 94.5 FM WTKN last week, to discuss revelations in his upcoming book, #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase The Trump Movement and Steal The Election, which features interviews with insiders from Google, Facebook, and other companies. A source close to Google and other tech giants has said that the book, which lifts the lid on Big Tech’s four-year plot to undermine the Trump movement and influence the election, will “shake the foundations of Silicon Valley.”

TURKEY - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned Greece to enter talks over disputed eastern Mediterranean territorial claims or face the consequences. “They’re either going to understand the language of politics and diplomacy, or in the field with painful experiences,” he said at a hospital’s opening ceremony in Istanbul. Ankara is currently facing off against Greece and Cyprus over oil and gas exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean. All sides have deployed naval and air forces to assert their competing claims in the region. “They are going to understand that Turkey has the political, economic and military power to tear up the immoral maps and documents imposed,” Erdogan added, referring to areas marked by Greece and Cyprus as their economic maritime zones.

UK - Police have been criticised for failing to halt a demonstration intended to stifle the freedom of the press as Extinction Rebellion was accused of crossing the line “from protest to planned criminality”. The condemnation came as it emerged warnings the group - known as XR - was planning to target newspaper printworks were reported nine months ago.

UK - Here’s a little anecdote that Peter Hambro, a long-standing advocate of the merits of gold as a store of value and means of exchange, likes to tell. In the late Sixties, his cousin, Jocelyn Hambro, invited Her Majesty the Queen into lunch at Hambros Bank in the City, and wishing to put on a bit of a show, he assembled a pile of gold bars to the value of £1 million. Quite a pile it was too, taking up an entire corner of the room. But here’s the point. If you were to do the same exercise again today, the same million pounds would buy you less than two of the larger 400 ounce bars. That’s how much the price of gold has gone up in the meantime.