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Tropical Storm Hilary batters California with dangerous flooding, mudslides, power outages
Tropical Storm Hilary made landfall over Mexico's Baja California peninsula late Sunday morning before setting its sights on Southern California and prompting flash flood warnings in the areas surrounding Los Angeles.
Hilary had weakened from a Category 1 hurricane to tropical storm status early Sunday. The National Weather Service had predicted the storm was likely to bring "catastrophic and life-threatening" flooding to the region and cross into the southwestern U.S. as a tropical storm.
On Sunday night, President Joe Biden released a statement confirming that federal government officials are providing resources to impacted states.
"I continue to be briefed on our preparedness efforts, and the storm’s potential impact — including flooding," Biden's statement read. "My Administration stands ready to provide additional assistance as requested. I urge people to take this storm seriously, and listen to state and local officials."
NWS also announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the Los Angeles, Long Beach and Glendale areas are all under a flash flood warning until 3 a.m. local time. Los Angeles Unified School District officials also announced that schools will be closed on Monday due to the storm.
Late Sunday, video obtained by Fox News Digital from Alexandra Datig showed the Malibu Search and Rescue Team of the LA County's Sheriff's Department execute a hoist rescue of a fisherman who had fallen over a rocky embankment during the storm, Public Information Officer David Katz confirmed.
Eisenhower Medical Center in Riverside County had flooded, NBC LA reported. A tornado warning was also issued for San Diego County, where power outages were reported.
The worst of the flooding in Southern California and the Southwest, Fox Weather reported, are expected to be felt late Sunday. Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo declared a state of emergency for the Silver State, with storm impact anticipated in Clark, Mohave and Nye Counties.
"Hurricane Hilary represents a serious threat to our communities, and once again, I implore all Nevadans to prepare for flooding, remain vigilant, and to follow all guidance from state and local emergency officials," Lombardo's statement read, according to FOX 5 Vegas.
-Danielle Wallace & Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News
5.5 magnitude earthquake strikes near Los Angeles
Breaking: US Warns American Citizens in Belarus to Leave the Country Immediately
The US Embassy in Minsk, Belarus urged US citizens in Belarus to leave the country immediately as the war hawks in the West continue to escalate the War in Ukraine.
This is from the Embassy in Minsk:
Location: Belarus
Event: The Lithuanian government on August 18 closed two border crossings with Belarus at Tverecius / Vidzy and Sumskas / Losha. The four border crossings at Lavoriskes / Kotlova, Medininkai / Kamenny, Raigardas / Privalka, and Salcininkai / Beniakoni are currently open. The Polish, Lithuanian, and Latvian governments have stated that further closures of border crossings with Belarus are possible.
Actions to take:
* Do not travel to Belarus due to Belarusian authorities’ continued facilitation of Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine, the buildup of Russian military forces in Belarus, the arbitrary enforcement of local laws, the potential of civil unrest, the risk of detention, and the Embassy’s limited ability to assist U.S. citizens residing in or traveling to Belarus.
* U.S. citizens in Belarus should depart immediately. Consider departing via the remaining border crossings with Lithuania and Latvia, or by plane. U.S. citizens are not permitted to enter Poland overland from Belarus. Do not travel to Russia or to Ukraine.The elites are going to ramp up their War in Ukraine.
-Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit
US approves sending Ukraine F-16s from the Netherlands and Denmark
A U.S. official announced earlier this week that the U.S. approved sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine from Denmark and the Netherlands.
"We welcome Washington's decision to pave the way for sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine," Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said on X, formerly known as Twitter. "Now, we will further discuss the subject with our European partners."
The jets will be used to defend Ukraine against Russian invaders, soon after pilot training takes place, a U.S. official said, according to Reuters.
The Danish defense ministry announced on Friday that a coalition of 11 countries would start training Ukrainian pilots later this month.
"The government has said several times that a donation is a natural next step after training. We are discussing it with close allies, and I expect we will soon be able to be more concrete about that," Danish Defense Minister Jakob Ellemann-Jensen told news agency Ritzau.
"It remains critical that Ukraine is able to defend itself against ongoing Russian aggression and violation of its sovereignty," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.
-Charlotte Hazard, Just The News
Syria says soldier wounded in Israeli airstrikes on Damascus
Israeli fighter jets carried out strikes against targets in the Syrian capital Damascus shortly before midnight on Monday, wounding one soldier, Syria’s state-run media reported.
The official news agency, SANA, said Israeli Air Force warplanes launched their missiles from over the Golan Heights, targeting a number of sites in and around Damascus.
SANA said air defenses had engaged the Israeli missiles. Syria regularly claims to intercept Israeli projectiles, though military analysts doubt such assertions.
Large explosions were heard over the capital during the alleged strikes, SANA reported.
The state-run media outlet said that “material damage” was caused to the sites that were targeted, and one soldier was wounded.
In recent years, numerous Syrian soldiers serving in air defense units have been killed or wounded in airstrikes attributed to Israel.
While Israel’s military does not, as a rule, comment on specific strikes in Syria, it has admitted to conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country, over the last decade.
The Israeli military says it also attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for those groups, chief among them Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Additionally, airstrikes attributed to Israel have repeatedly targeted Syrian air defense systems.
The attack would be the first alleged Israeli sortie over Syria since August 7, when fighter jets reportedly carried out strikes against targets in Damascus, killing four Syrian soldiers.
The last several months have seen increased tensions along Israel’s northern border via Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy group allied with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
-Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Isreal
US intelligence believes Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail – WaPo
US intelligence agencies have made a “grim” assessment of Ukraine’s ongoing counteroffensive, believing Kiev will fail to plunge south toward the Crimean Peninsula by the end of the year, according to the Washington Post.
Officials have voiced grave doubts about the Ukrainian mission in a classified intel report, the contents of which were relayed to the Post on Thursday, with the outlet citing Moscow’s “brutal proficiency” in defending captured territory.
“The US intelligence community assesses that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail to reach the key southeastern city of Melitopol,” the report said, adding that Kiev would then be unable to “fulfill its principal objective of severing Russia’s land bridge to Crimea in this year’s push.”
Though the peninsula has been under Moscow’s control since its residents voted to rejoin Russia in 2014, Ukrainian officials have repeatedly vowed to retake the region by force, insisting it is Ukraine’s sovereign territory.
In Kiev’s plans to reclaim Crimea, Melitopol would reportedly play a significant role as one of the largest urban centers near the Azov Sea coast. Taking the city could offer a staging area for further attacks on the peninsula itself, which has already been the target of several Ukrainian strikes this year.
The Post report appears to echo recent revelations by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. In a story published earlier on Thursday, he cited an unnamed US intelligence official who bluntly stated that Ukraine “will not win the war.”
“The word was getting to [US Secretary of State Antony Blinken] through the [CIA] that the Ukrainian offense was not going to work,” Hersh’s source said. He added that the offensive has merely been “a show by [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky, and there were some in the administration who believed his bulls**t.”
The Ukrainian counteroffensive began in early June, with Kiev deploying its best Western-equipped and trained brigades in an attempt to sever Russia’s land bridge linking the Donbass with Crimea in the southern province of Zaporozhye. The operation has been a failure by most accounts, and according to Russian estimates, has cost Ukraine more than 43,000 troops and nearly 5,000 pieces of heavy equipment in exchange for a handful of villages.
Since June, Zelensky has repeatedly blamed his military’s lack of success on the West, insisting he was not provided adequate weapons to penetrate Russian lines while demanding fighter jets and long-range missiles. Ukrainian leadership is now split on whether to continue the operation or wait and try again next spring, Newsweek reported on Wednesday. According to the American magazine, Zelensky must now decide “whether to go all-in and risk a costly failure, or to cut Ukraine’s losses and accept a politically damaging defeat.”
-RT News
Total Ukraine War Troop Deaths, Injuries Approaching 500,000: US Officials
A surprisingly blunt and revealing Friday report in The New York Times cites US officials who estimate that total war casualties in Ukraine among both sides are at nearly 500,000 dead and wounded.
"The number includes as many as 120,000 deaths and 170,000 to 180,000 injured troops," the Times wrote based on the unnamed officials. "The Russian numbers dwarf the Ukrainian figures, which the officials put at close to 70,000 killed and 100,000 to 120,000 wounded."
To put these grim and tragic figures in perspective, the United States military involvement in Vietnam over the course of a nearly two-decade period resulted in about 58,000 Americans killed.
Given Kiev doesn't release official casualty numbers, the US officials cited in the Times report are estimating, but it generally lines up with the immense numbers of Ukrainian losses the Kremlin has presented in evaluating the counteroffensive. But Western sources have consistently said that Russian losses are more staggering.
The NY Times has characterized the now largely stalemated conflict as a war of attrition, with Russia having the manpower and supply lines keep the upper-hand and to far outlast:
Ukraine has around 500,000 troops, including active-duty, reserve and paramilitary troops, according to analysts. By contrast, Russia has almost triple that number, with 1,330,000 active-duty, reserve and paramilitary troops — most of the latter from the Wagner Group.
As for Russia, the West has accused it of habitually undercounting its own casualty rates. Last January, US Chief of the Joint Staff Mark Milley asserted that Russian forces had suffered losses at "significantly well over 100,000".
Likely many of the recent casualties on each side were from the months-long battle for the city of Bakhmut. President Zelensky has come under recent criticism for pouring so many resources and manpower into what was a losing battle. That's when many reports emerged of large amounts of completely untrained and underequipped Ukrainians being shipped to the frontlines.
The military analysis source 19fortyfive.com has assessed that the defense of Bakhmut was an incredible risk and gamble which didn't pay off, and led to a very poor start to the now faltering counteroffensive:
However, Zelensky chose to press the fight anyway. For months, senior U.S. leaders warned the Ukrainian president the battle was unwinnable and to move to other defensive positions. Not only did he refuse to withdraw to a superior fighting position, he ordered his men not to give up so much as a single building, forcing them to fight to the death. Month after month, Zelensky sent brigade after brigade to reinforce Bakhmut in an effort to reverse the tide.
Not only was it painfully obvious that military fundamentals made clear there was little rational hope of stopping Wagner’s drive to capture Bakhmut, but many of those brigades Zelensky sent in futile aid to help Bakhmut were also urgently needed in the upcoming spring and summer offensive. Two days after Bakhmut’s fall, Zelensky was still defiant, claiming the city had not fallen. In 2022, Zelensky’s tenacity and unwillingness to compromise resulted in blunting Russia’s invasion and then inflicting two major operational defeats.
While Ukrainian forces held out for longer than most predicted, it was a very costly loss, and at the same time it's anything but clear that it put a significant dent in Russian force strength.
19FortyFive concludes that it's certainly not Washington's fault (despite the persistent complaint to this end of Zelensky officials)... "No one can claim the United States didn’t give Ukraine every chance to find out if it could succeed on the battlefield, as we provided literally thousands of armored vehicles, millions of shells, missiles, and bombs, and training and intelligence support – along with scores of billions in other aid." And the publication emphasizes, "But that help did not produce a Ukrainian victory."
-Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge
China Stages War Games in ‘Stern Warning’ to Taiwan
China held air and sea drills around Taiwan on Saturday, in what it said was a “stern warning” after the island’s vice president visited the United States.
William Lai — the frontrunner in Taiwan’s presidential election next year and a vocal opponent of Beijing’s claims to the island — returned Friday from a trip to Paraguay, during which he stopped in New York and San Francisco.
China has reacted angrily to the US stops, and on Saturday reiterated that Lai was a “troublemaker” while vowing to take “resolute measures… to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
The People’s Liberation Army “launched joint air and sea patrols and military exercises of the navy and air force around the island of Taiwan” on Saturday, military spokesperson Shi Yi said, according to state media outlet Xinhua.
Taiwan said 42 warplanes had entered its air defense zone since 9 am (0100 GMT), and eight Chinese vessels cooperated in the exercises.
Twenty-six of the warplanes involved crossed the Taiwan Strait median line, the island’s ministry of defense said in a statement.
Xinhua said the drills were carried out “in the waters and airspace to the north and southwest of Taiwan Island” to test the PLA’s ability “to seize control of air and sea spaces” and fight “in real combat conditions.”
They were also intended to serve as “a stern warning to the collusion of ‘Taiwan independence’ separatists with foreign elements and their provocations,” it added.
A social media video published by the PLA on Saturday showed soldiers in fatigues sprinting through a military facility and fighter jets soaring above clouds, set to action movie-style music.
Taiwan said it strongly condemned “such irrational and provocative behaviour” and that it would dispatch “appropriate forces” to respond “with practical actions”.
“Conducting a military exercise this time under a pretext not only does not help the peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, but also highlights (China’s) militaristic mentality,” Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence said.
-The Defense Post
Russia's First Lunar Mission In Decades Abruptly Ends In Failure
Russia’s first lunar mission in nearly 50 years ended in failure Saturday after its Luna-25 spacecraft collided with the Moon’s surface ahead of its planned landing on Monday.
Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, revealed that, at approximately 2:57 p.m. Moscow time, communications with the Luna-25 were lost, CNN reported. A preliminary investigation into the matter revealed that prior to losing communication, the spacecraft “switched to an off-design orbit,” causing it to spiral out of control as it was trying to enter a pre-landing orbit.
“During the operation, an emergency situation occurred on board the automatic station, which did not allow the maneuver to be performed with the specified parameters,” Roscosmos announced, according to CNN.
“The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon,” Roscosmos added, according to Reuters.
Russia’s lunar mission, its first since 1976, was undertaken, in part, to show that Russia could still compete with the world’s superpowers despite its post-Soviet decline, the outlet stated. During the Soviet years, Russia — then the U.S.S.R. — made history by being the first country to put a satellite into orbit with Sputnik. Russia was also the first country to send a man into space, namely Yuri Gagarin in 1961. Russia then became the first country to send a woman into outer space when Valentina Tereshkova embarked on a solo flight in 1963.
-Gretchen Clayson, Daily Caller
RED SPACE Russian scientist who worked on failed moon mission suddenly hospitalised after demanding ‘no cover up’ over crash
A RUSSIAN scientist who worked on Putin's disastrous moon mission has been rushed to hospital after he demanded "no cover ups".
Top astronomer Mikhail Marov suffered a "sharp deterioration" in his health after the Luna-25 probe smashed into the lunar surface.
Marov, 90, was a reportedly a key consultant on the mission - and is one of the most respected physcists and astronomers in Russia.
He was an academic grandee and had worked on previous space missions for the Soviet Union.
And he had hailed the Luna-25 mission as the culmination of his life's work.
Russia was once the leading force in space exploration in the 1950s - putting the first satellite and first man into orbit during the Cold War.
But they were quickly overtaken by the US in the space race, who then put a man on the moon in 1969.
Putin had personally ordered the Luna-25 launch - which would have been the first Russian lunar visit in 47 years.
Vlad has been keen to restablish Russia as a leading scientific power - and to exploit space.
The unmanned spacecraft instead crashed on the surface of the moon after spinning out of control.
Before he was suddenly taken to hospital - the elderly Marov had demanded no cover up of the reasons for the failure.
And suspicions have already been raised of endemic corruption in the space industry in Russia.
Luna-25's failure is expected to trigger a blame game with Putin firing those he holds responsible for Russia’s humiliation.
Professor Marov, an ardent proponent on the moon mission described in some reports as its scientific director, was devastated over the failed landing.
And he made clear this was the reason for his sudden hospitalisation in Moscow’s elite Central Clinical Hospital (TsKB).
He is a giant of spaceship design, and expert on the moon, Mars and Venus.
He made clear Luna-25 was his "last hope to see the revival of our lunar programme” and this was now dashed.
“It’s sad that we didn’t manage to land the device,” he said.
He demanded that the reasons should not be hushed up.
“There was a mistake in the algorithms for launching into near-lunar orbit,” he said.
“It must be found.
“For the specialists who will be involved in the work of the commission, this will not be a big problem.
“I think the answer will be found in the foreseeable future.”
From hospital Marov - a Soviet-era space giant - told reporters: "I am under observation.
“How can I not worry? This has been very much a matter of my life. It's all very hard.”
Russia must return to space and landing on the moon, he demanded.
The spacecraft spun out of control as it was being prepared for pre-landing.
"The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon," admitted Roscosmos, the Russian space agency.
It was the most ambitious space project of Putin’s almost 24 year as the de-facto leader of Russia.
Russia had not attempted a moon mission since Luna-24 in 1976, when Communist leader Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Kremlin.
Russian sources are already blaming endemic corruption inside the agency for the failure of the mission.
They are questioning the future of Yury Borisov, a Putin-loyalist and ex-deputy premier now at the helm of the Russian Space Agency.
He is accused of ending probes into corruption and misuse of budgets at the space agency.
-Henry Holloway & Will Stewart, The Sun
Biden Regime to Reinstate COVID-19 Restrictions Beginning with Mask Mandate as “COVID Cases Rise”, Say TSA and Border Patrol Whistleblowers
The Biden regime is preparing to reinstate full COVID-19 lockdowns, beginning with masking mandates for TSA and airport employees reportedly as early as mid-September, Infowars first to report.
A high-level TSA official reached out to Infowars, detailing a Tuesday meeting where TSA managers were informed of new memorandums and policies that would reimplement mask-wearing.
These policies will reinstate the mask mandate for TSA and airport employees starting in mid-September.
According to the TSA official, further details on how the policy will escalate will be provided next week.
The official added that by mid-October, mask-wearing will be mandated for pilots, flight staff, passengers, and all airport patrons.
Following this disclosure from the TSA official, Infowars reached out to a trusted Border Patrol source, also in a managerial position.
This source corroborated the directives, confirming that similar measures were being planned for Border Patrol personnel.
“They were told it was not a matter of “if” but “when” official Covid numbers will go back up and they expect by mid-October a return to forced-masking policies that the Biden administration previously only reluctantly ended after massive pressure,” Infowars reported.
The news outlet added, “Both whistleblowers were told this rollout will be in tandem with the new Covid “variant” hysteria that the MSM has been reporting on this week.”
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that health experts are now sounding the alarm on the new COVID variant.
The World Health Organization classified the EG.5 coronavirus strain circulating in the United States and China as a “variant of interest” but stressed it did not seem to pose more of a threat to public health than other variants. Despite the message from WHO, some health experts are sounding the alarm.
On Thursday, WHO made a formal announcement on Thursday, categorizing the BA.2.86 variant—a highly mutated variant—as a “variant under monitoring.”
This designation represents the lowest of three levels of alert set by the global health body.
Meanwhile, the so-called “high flying” variants EG.5, XBB.1.5, and XBB.1.6 have been elevated to the status of “variants of interest,” signaling a higher level of concern.
Among all current variants, only Omicron retains the classification of a “variant of concern,” which is the WHO’s most urgent level of alert, according to Fortune.
The media is now pushing for another lockdown. Another fear porn from the so-called health experts and media just in time for the next election. The same old playbook.
-Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit
BREAKING: Biden Admin Already Buying COVID-19 Equipment, Hiring Pandemic ‘Safety Protocol’ Enforcers
The federal government has already begun purchasing COVID-19 equipment and hiring advisors on “safety protocols” according to an exclusive finding from War Room.
The discovery comes on the heels of Alex Jones’ bombshell report that the feds are gearing up for new COVID restrictions in the fall.
Journalist Natalie Winters breaks down her findings below:
The unearthed government contracts from entities including the Department of Defense (DOD) show millions in taxpayer funds being used to purchase COVID-19 equipment such as test kits. Some of the contracts, which are traceable via the federal government’s spending database, are even scheduled to begin in future months such as September and October.
The DOD, for example, gave Hologic Sales and Service LLC a $1.5 million contract beginning on October 1st that’s set to conclude in May of 2024. The federal database reveals the funds are for “Hologic covid testing services in support of the department of pathology at Madigan army medical center, Tacoma, WA 98431. (new delivery order).”
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) also inked a $2 million contract with Abbott Molecular Inc. beginning on September 22nd. Set to conclude in September of 2024, the contract will provide testing services for viruses including COVID-19.The VA also started a $1.3 million contract with Biofire Diagnostics LLC on August 18th for its “COVID-19 testing reagents and equipment.” The contract is slated to expire in August of next year.
On August 14th, the VA also began a $3.3 million contract with Oddball Inc for advisory on “adequate COVID/19 safety protocols”:
“TASK ORDER IS FOR DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE. “EO14042” MODIFICATION TO ADD FAR 52.223-99 ENSURING ADEQUATE COVID-19 SAFETY PROTOCOLS FOR FEDERAL CONTRACTORS (OCT 2021) (DEVIATION).”
The contract is set to expire in August of next year.
Infowars wants readers like you to spread stories like this far & wide to help prevent the next wave of medical tyranny.
-Natalie Winters, InfoWars
US approves maternal vaccine to prevent RSV in infants
The United States on Monday became the first country to approve a vaccine for pregnant women that prevents severe disease caused by Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in their babies.
The Pfizer shot, which was already approved for use in older adults, has now been greenlighted for use as a single injection from 32 through 36 weeks of pregnancy, to protect infants from birth through six months, a statement by the Food and Drug Administration said.
It is the latest in a succession of medicines recently approved against the common microbe, which causes tens of thousands of hospitalizations among infants and the elderly in the United States every year, according to official estimates.
Researchers have targeted an RSV vaccine since the 1960s, but the spate of shots that are emerging now were made possible thanks to a scientific breakthrough a decade ago.
“RSV is a common cause of illness in children, and infants are among those at highest risk for severe disease, which can lead to hospitalization,” said Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
“This approval provides an option for healthcare providers and pregnant individuals to protect infants from this potentially life-threatening disease.”
The approval follows a clinical trial involving some 7,000 pregnant women, which showed Pfizer’s vaccine, called Abrysvo, reduced severe disease caused by RSV by 82 percent in babies from 0-3 months, and 69 percent from 0-6 months.
Abrysvo was previously approved by the FDA for adults aged 60 and over, as was another vaccine by drugmaker GSK, called Arexvy.
While RSV most often causes mild, cold-like symptoms in infants and young children, it can also lead to more serious outcomes such as pneumonia and bronchiolitis.
An estimated 58,000-80,000 children younger than five years are hospitalized due to RSV infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control, making it the leading cause of hospitalization among infants.
Commonly reported side effects by pregnant patients who received Abrysvo included pain at the injection site, headache, muscle pain and nausea.
A dangerous blood pressure disorder, known as pre-eclampsia, occurred in 1.8 percent of pregnant individuals who received Abrysvo compared to 1.4 percent of those on a placebo.
The FDA further noted an imbalance in preterm births between the group who received the vaccine versus the placebo (5.7 percent against 4.7 percent), but said the sample size was small and the topic merited further study.
It has therefore required Pfizer to continue studying the risk of preterm birth and pre-eclampsia.
Following FDA approval, a product must receive clearance from the CDC which will offer recommendations on how best to use it, meaning it’s not clear whether it will be available in time for RSV season this fall and winter.
Parents can look to another medicine, however.
Earlier this month, regulators approved an antibody treatment called Beyfortus, developed by Sanofi and AstraZeneca, as a preventative treatment that works like a vaccine to protect babies and toddlers.
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Multiple buildings in New York City burst into flames
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Massive fire at fertilizer food plant
China is Currently Selling Fewer Products to the United States Than Mexico or Canada
Mexico and Canada have surpassed China as the leading exporters of goods to the United States. Per a report by Bloomberg, a nearshoring campaign spearheaded by the United States has promoted more diversified supply chains in an effort to wean the American economy off of Chinese trade.
The US imported roughly $203 billion in goods from China in the first six months of 2023, which is a 25% reduction in import volume from the same period in 2022, according to the latest unadjusted figures published by the Commerce Department. These figures aren’t adjusted for inflation.
China is currently the third-largest provider of goods to the US behind Mexico and Canada. Product imports from Mexico increased by 5.4% in the first half of 2023 from a year ago. Germany and Japan follow the three aforementioned countries as the top 5 exporting nations to the US.
In the last decade or so, China has been the US’s leading supplier of goods to the US. However, bilateral trade is now deteriorating due to the growing split between the US and China over issues concerning fair trade, human rights, and competition for technology and markets.
US consumers have grown more anti-China in terms of their product spending over the last few years, which has contributed to this gradual decoupling of the American economy from China. In a similar vein, supply chain problems that emerged throughout the Wuhan virus have prompted US policymakers to pursue more diversified supply chains. As a result, the US is increasing more of its imports from its partners in the north and south.
Such measures are a much more proactive way of dealing with China than pursuing the neoconservative/neoliberal interventionist military confrontation approach. Add in some immigration restriction, and the US will have a solid America First approach to contain Chinese influence without having to go to war with it. This is a much more sensible way of dealing with the China question without having the US stumble into a geopolitical calamity of epic proportions.
-Jose Nino, Big League Politics
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Media Don’t Care About Maui Fires Or Biden’s Heartless ‘Katrina Moment’
It’s hard to imagine a more shameful, indifferent response to the tragic wildfires in Maui than what we’ve seen from President Joe Biden in recent weeks. Upon first being asked about the deadly fires, which have killed 115 people and counting, Biden, who was on vacation at the time, simply said, “No comment.”
When he finally got around to visiting Hawaii (after a second vacation) nearly two weeks after the fires had devastated swaths of Maui, with more than 1,000 people still missing and the death toll rising daily, Biden embarked on a series of almost unbelievably crass and heartless comments.
As Greg Price noted on Twitter, the president “joked about how hot the ground was, mispronounced the names of every Hawaii elected official, told a complete lie about how his house once almost burned down, joked about how he knows what they are feeling because he almost lost his corvette, fell asleep while meeting with Maui residents and is now going back on vacation.” He also opened his remarks in Maui by invoking his late wife and daughter, who died in a car accident in 1972, following his usual pattern of making mass tragedies all about himself.
Hard to believe, but it’s true. Here’s Biden apparently falling asleep during a ceremony honoring Maui’s dead.
Hours later, he was back on a plane to Lake Tahoe.
Whatever one thinks of Biden, his behavior in Maui was simply appalling. In a healthy society with a functioning free press, he would be justly excoriated for his performance. Yet the response of establishment media, not just to Biden’s callousness but to the whole story of the Maui fires, has been a collective shrug.
-John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist
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Maui Residents Salute Joe Biden With Growing Fury Over Government Failure
Normally a visitor to Hawaii is greeted by this hand gesture.
But it seems the Hawaiians had something else in mind for the demented Joe Biden:
I think we can conclude that many of the good people of Maui who survived the fiery inferno are a tad miffed with creepy Joe Biden.
Since I first posted about the wild fire that incinerated Lahaina I have received several emails from survivors who want their voice heard. So here goes:
I went to an emergency shelter (War Memorial Gymnasium) with my friend on Thursday to donate stuff, and it was chaotic.
My buddy and I signed up to volunteer for the Red Cross last week Thursday, and the next online class orientation is this coming Friday. That’s obviously not soon enough, so we are volunteering through more direct means at the nearest shelter.
I also want to point out that the response from the Red Cross and FEMA has been almost unnoticeable from the start of these fires. Everything from emergency services, medical aid, sheltering, and just basic stuff like feeding the people out in Lahaina and getting them things like propane to cook food, and larger things like getting at least one Starlink out to Lahaina so the people there can use internet to notify their families and friends, it’s all been done by local Hawaiians.
I don’t think I sent this one yet.
It asks why the warning siren was not sounded, I nor anyone I know received a text from the government warning about any of the fires, and I think the one in Lahaina started on Monday morning.
-Larry Johnson, Gateway Pundit
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X CEO Linda Yaccarino discusses the new 'freedom of speech'
Chairman Jordan Subpoenas FBI and DOJ in Censorship Investigation Over Big Tech Collusion
August 17, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) issued subpoenas to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland of the Department of Justice (DOJ) related to the Committee's ongoing censorship investigation. Specifically, the Committee is seeking communications between the FBI and DOJ, private companies, and other third-party groups related to content moderation and the suppression of disfavored speech online.
On April 18, 2023, the Committee wrote to the FBI and DOJ requesting voluntary cooperation with oversight, and to date, their compliance has been woefully inadequate, producing only a single document: a publicly available transcript of a civil deposition of FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Elvis Chan from Missouri v. Biden. Through its investigation, the Committee has uncovered evidence that contradicts several statements in Agent Chan’s deposition, particularly as they relate to his communications with social media platforms.
For the Committee to inform potential legislation, such as the possible enactment of new statutory limits on the Executive Branch's ability to work with social media platforms and other companies to restrict the circulation of content and deplatform users, the Committee must first understand the nature of this collusion and coercion between the federal government and Big Tech companies.
Read the full cover letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray here.
Read the full cover letter to Attorney General Garland here.-House Judiciary Committee
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