UK - Boris Johnson has claimed the UK may remain in the customs union and single market until 2021 as the Prime Minister discussed what his revised withdrawal agreement might look like. Mr Johnson said the chances of a no deal exit were “vanishingly small” as he visited Wales. The former Foreign Secretary said: “Some of the changes and adjustments necessary in the run-up to October 31, and a lot of which we have already done, will be crucial anyway if we are going to come out of the customs union, come out of the single market as we must in the next couple of years.” There has been speculation that in a potential snap election, the Tories might end up forming a pact with Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party. Lack of trust in the Conservatives is now a problem; many will only a believe in a clean-break Brexit when they see it.
USA - Will we look back on the month of July as a critical turning point for the stock market? During the first half of 2019, stock prices soared to record high after record high even though we just kept getting one number after another that indicated that a new economic slowdown was starting. Because of the disappointing performance of the US economy, it was believed that we would see a rate cut from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, and that is precisely what happened.
ISRAEL - The rabbi argued that there’s already a commandment in place that calls to build the Temple, and that issues such as the possible renewal of sacrifices should be discussed separately. Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl, a prominent Israeli theologist who, until recently, served as the chief rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem, has brought forth a rather sensitive religious matter as he called for the building of the Third Temple on the Temple Mount - one of the holiest sites in the world for Muslims, Christians and Jews, Breaking Israel News reports. According to the media outlet, Nebenzahl stated that "we must do everything in our power to build the Temple," insisting that there’s never been any sort of religious ruling that would tell the Jews to wait for the Temple to "fall from the sky."
USA - The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Wednesday for the first time in a decade to try to counter the impact of President Donald Trump’s trade wars, stubbornly low inflation and global weakness. It left open the possibility of future rate cuts, but perhaps not as many as Wall Street had been hoping for. During a news conference, Chairman Jerome Powell struggled to find just the right words to articulate the Fed’s strategy and what might prompt future rate cuts at a time when the risk of a recession in the United States seems relatively low. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled to finish down 333 points, or 1.2%. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.01% from 2.06% late Tuesday, a sharp drop. The central bank reduced its benchmark rate — which affects many loans for households and businesses — by a quarter-point to a range of 2% to 2.25%. It’s the first rate cut since December 2008 during the depths of the Great Recession
USA - Jeffrey Epstein is both a Technocrat and a Transhuman, both of which are based on Scientism. Scientism is a religion that believes all truth is derived from scientific inquiry and that all other truth is bogus. French philosopher Henri de St Simon (1765-1825) figures prominently in Scientism, Technocracy and Transhumanism. Epstein’s massive ego is the very epitome of St Simon’s telling statement:
IRAN - Iran on Monday reportedly indicated it is open to talks with its longtime regional rival Saudi Arabia following reports that US sanctions on its oil industry have severely crippled its economy. Some analysts have credited US President Donald Trump’s economic sanctions currently choking the Iranian economy with pressuring Iran to negotiate and compromise. Washington’s “maximum pressure” campaign has rendered Tehran increasingly isolated from the international community. Iran is open to an “unconditional resolution of regional issues,” the state-run Tasnim News Agency reports. On Monday, Abbas Mousavi, a spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, reportedly welcomed a call from Saudi Arabia to negotiate with Iran as a “positive signal.”
USA - Mario Lopez is feeling the wrath of the outrage brigade after suggesting that kids as young as three years-old shouldn’t be deciding their own gender. He was instantly pronounced “dead” by those for whom PC culture is a religion. Lopez made the comments on conservative YouTube host Candace Owens’ show back in June, but it took the usually hyper-vigilant PC police more than a month to notice them. Well, now that they have, it looks like no bell can save Lopez, with social media lit up with criticism of his “transphobia,” for which he was summarily “canceled” in the eyes of many liberal tweeters. The entertainer was forced to apologize on Wednesday, telling NBC his comments were “ignorant and insensitive.”
USA - What's worth paying attention to here is the following: Deutsche Bank is the most important bank in all of Europe, it has 49 trillion dollars in exposure to derivatives, and most of the largest “too big to fail banks” in the United States have very deep financial connections to the bank. In other words, the global financial system simply cannot afford for Deutsche Bank to fail, and right now it is literally melting down right in front of our eyes.
IRAN - Iran’s Central Bank announced Wednesday that the nation would rename the national currency, the rial, as the “toman” and “delete four zeros” from its value. The move follows months of intense American sanctions on Iran’s oil industry and mimics a similar move to bolster the bolívar currency in Venezuela. “The council of ministers, at a meeting presided by President Hassan Rouhani this morning, approved the central bank’s proposed bill to change the national currency from the rial to the toman and delete four zeros,” the Iranian Islamic regime said in a media statement, according to the government news outlet PressTV. As the re-evaluation of the currency must pass through the dictatorship’s rubber-stamp legislature, it will not be confirmed until a final vote in the Iranian parliament. The outlet blamed Washington for sending the rial into a “tailspin” and prices of basic goods in the country “through the roof.”
USA - It has been a seemingly quiet summer in America so far, but meanwhile we are witnessing major developments on the other side of the globe that could change everything. We are so close to war, and yet most people have absolutely no idea what is happening. In fact, if you showed most Americans a blank map of the world, they couldn’t even pick out Iran, Hong Kong or North Korea. There is so much apathy in our society today, and so little knowledge about foreign affairs, and so most people simply do not grasp the importance of the drama that is playing out right in front of our eyes. But if a major war does erupt, none of our lives are ever going to be the same again. So I am going to keep writing about these things, because I believe that we have reached an absolutely critical juncture in our history.
USA - Yesterday, the Democratic Congress had their big moment – the testimony of Russiagateprobe figurehead Robert Mueller, whose 448-page report detailing the findings of his nearly-two-year-long investigation into alleged “Trump-Russian collusion” and alleged “Russian interference” in the US 2016 elections. After no evidence of collusion or interference could be found, the remit was then shifted over to “possible obstruction of justice. ” And when no evidence of obstruction could be unearthed, the Democrat and Mueller position then became, ‘the Mueller Report has not cleared Trump of obstruction,’ or the report does not provide exoneration of the President.
USA - US official refutes Israeli newspaper report that Camp David conference in the works, says envoys will discuss ‘next steps’ with president after visit to Jordan and Israel. “No summit has currently been planned,” the official said in a statement to The Times of Israel. The report Wednesday by the Yedioth Ahronoth daily said invitations to the conference would be extended by Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, as he visits Israel and the Middle East this week to drum up support for the plan.
SWITZERLAND - Switzerland has “lost control” of its sovereignty to the European Union and other official bodies despite not being a member of the Brussels bloc, a shock study has found. The Central European country, which is not a member of the EU, is said to be losing grip as international bodies including the EU, UN, G20 and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development make more and more decisions, according to Swiss Radio and Television.
USA - Ron Kennedy, MD, is a California doctor currently suing the State Medical Board for intimidating doctors in California who write vaccine exemptions for their patients. He recently asked for parents who had children that died as a result of vaccines to email him their stories, and then another California doctor, Dr Robert Rowen, who has a large following on Facebook, published their stories today. Dr Rowen commented that these stories brought him to tears, and warns his readers that they may also have the same effect on them. We reproduce these stories here for greater public awareness, and to make sure their voices are not silenced by the Social Media tech giants. There are common themes in many of these tragic stories where once healthy and normal children deteriorated in health after receiving vaccines, and then died.
NIGERIA - The death toll from a suspected Boko Haram attack on a funeral gathering in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state over the weekend reached 70 as of Monday. Body count estimates varied by the news agency. Some of the victims likely succumbed to the injuries sustained during Saturday’s attack. China’s state-run Xinhua news outlet learned from unnamed local sources that the jihadis killed 70 people, adding, “More bodies were recovered by rescue workers between Sunday and Monday morning. … Most of the bodies were found in the bush, having bullet wounds.”
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