Stock markets around the world plunged on Monday, with shares tumbling amid fears that the US could be heading for a recession, pushing investors into panic-selling mode. Japan’s Nikkei is leading the sell-off, down 12.4% – its worst day since the 1987 Black Monday crash.

The situation began to unfold last week after the US released a report showing weaker than expected employment data. Economists say the slump reflected deepening concerns over the overall state of the US economy. Wall Street closed sharply down on Friday, with the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite falling into a correction, with the slide continuing on Monday.

Asian markets plunging

New research produced by British scholars has claimed that vaccination with any Covid-19 shot lowers the incidence of heart attacks and strokes and therefore outweighs the risks of adverse effects.

Researchers from the universities of Cambridge, Bristol and Edinburgh were able to analyze millions of anonymized health records of adults in England, provided by the National Health Service (NHS) and dated from December 2020 to January 2022. By that point, over 90% of the UK population over the age of 12 had received at least one dose of the jab.

“We studied [Covid]-19 vaccines and cardiovascular disease in 45.7 million adults in England and found a similar or lower incidence of common cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks and strokes, following each vaccination than before or without vaccination,” said Dr. Samatha Ip of Cambridge, the lead author of the study.

The State of Israel recognizes 8 tiers of people under its control. For all 8 tiers, Israel controls the registration of births, marriages, divorces, deaths and address changes. Israel controls the telecommunication networks, electricity grids, water supply, airspace and currency. Israel controls the movement of people in and out of the country. All tiers of people are controlled by a single state, with a single Prime Minister, a single Defense Minister, a single cabinet and a single chain of military command. 

In my new book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I write about a global anti-free speech movement that is now sweeping over the United States. While not the first, it is in my view the most dangerous movement in our history due to an unprecedented alliance of government, corporate, academic, and media forces. That fear was amplified this week with polling showing that years of attacking free speech as harmful has begun to change the views of citizens.

With the support of the United Kingdom, Turkey is actively developing a revanchist policy within the framework of the doctrines of non-pan-Turanism and neo-Ottomanism, which is not being met with opposition from the US and EU. At the same time, Ankara is trying to take advantage of anti-Russian pressure from the West and Moscow’s preoccupation with the Ukrainian crisis.

BY Alexandr Svaranc

Past British patronage of Turkey and Turkish tactics of confrontation and partnership with Russia at the turn of the 20thcentury.

PARIS, Aug 2 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday offered his support to the artists behind the 2024 Olympic opening ceremony who had received death threats and praised their "audacity", adding that the show had made France proud.

Ukrainian Military Says It Sank Russian Submarine ...

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7 hours ago — KYIV (Reuters) - The Ukrainian military said on Saturday that it had sunk a Russian submarine and damaged an S-400 anti-aircraft missile ...

A Missile Maybe Blew Up Russia's 'Rostov-On-Don' Sub— ...

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3 hours ago — It's Possible A Ukrainian Missile Blew Up Russia's 'Rostov-On-Don' Submarine—For The Second Time In 11 Months ... The strike, if confirmed, would ...

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US Vice President Kamala Harris has declined former President Donald Trump’s invitation to take part in a televised debate on Fox News next month, insisting that her presidential opponent stick to a previously agreed showdown on ABC News.

In a post on his Truth Social platform on Friday, Trump accepted Fox’s proposal that he debate Harris on September 4 in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. 

Trump was scheduled to debate President Joe Biden on ABC News on September 10, before Biden suspended his reelection campaign and endorsed Harris to run in his place late last month. The ABC debate has been “terminated,” Trump explained, citing Biden’s decision to step down, and his pending litigation against ABC host George Stephanopoulos, which he claimed created “a conflict of interest.” 

West Coast carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is setting sail to the Middle East from the Pacific to relieve the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) and its strike group. Meanwhile, the Navy is sending additional ships to the region following threats from Iran, Pentagon officials announced on Friday evening.
“To maintain a carrier strike group presence in the Middle East, the Secretary has ordered the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group to replace the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, currently on deployment in the Central Command area of responsibility,” reads the Pentagon statement.

For a government, it's one thing to have bad ideas of its own, but far worse to implement another governments’ bad ideas – and tolerate no debate about them at home.

And yet that's what is happening now in Germany. Or, at least, it is what the unpopular coalition government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz and its proxies in the mainstream media are trying to achieve with regard to the planned stationing of intermediate-range missiles.

Germany is all too happy to paint a target on its back

Has Olaf Scholz gone too far with his subservience to Washington by agreeing to host American missiles?

BY Tarik Cyril Amar

We very rarely talk about it [WE DO ON THIS ALT SITE AND OTHER ALT SITES], but Australia has lived under the protection of the US “nuclear umbrella” since the 1960s. The umbrella, however, has developed big holes. Behind the scenes, Australian and US officials quietly have started talking about the problem, and should again next week when Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong and Defence Minister Richard Marles meet their US counterparts for the annual Ausmin consultations.

White House, Australia may need its own nukes

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 Miriam Adelson (née Farbstein; born 10 October 1945) is an Israeli-American physician, political donor, and philanthropist. She was married to Sheldon Adelson from 1991 until his death in 2021.

MOSCOW, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Russian energy giant Gazprom's (GAZP.MM), opens new tab average daily natural gas supplies to Europe in July reached their highest this year, up 5.7% compared with a year ago and 12% higher than in June, Reuters calculations showed.

Humanity is facing its greatest emergency, a crisis consisting of many, interlinked, catastrophic risks, the Roundtable on the Human Future has declared.

At present humanity has no way to deal with such a crisis – and a global plan of action is urgently needed, it said.

A world call to action on the multiple crises now enfolding humanity

By The Club of Rome and The Council for the Human Future

The assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh was carried out with an explosive device planted in a Tehran guesthouse where he was staying, the New York Times wrote on Thursday, citing officials in the Middle East.

Haniyeh, the head of the Gaza-based militant group’s political bureau, was killed in the Iranian capital on Wednesday. Both Iran and Hamas have blamed Israel for the attack, with the latter claiming that Haniyeh was taken out by a missile strike. West Jerusalem has neither confirmed nor denied involvement.

The top Hamas official was assassinated with a remotely detonated bomb smuggled into the guesthouse, the NYT said after talking to seven officials in the Middle East on condition of anonymity, among them two Iranians and a US official.