Joe Biden calls China a 'ticking time bomb'

Joe Biden has called China a “ticking time bomb in many cases” because of its economic challenges, saying the country was in trouble because of weak growth

The US president pointed to the country’s high unemployment and ageing workforce, saying: “China is in trouble”

“They have got some problems. That’s not good, because when bad folks have problems, they do bad things,” Biden said at a political fundraiser in Utah

Biden’s remarks were reminiscent of comments he made at another fundraiser in June when he referred to President Xi Jinping as a “dictator”. China called the remarks a “political provocation”

The man on the brink of driving the world's largest economy into recession

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Mom refuses to get rid of her daughter’s head lice because she’s vegan

The lice were first noticed by a neighbour, who immediately told the girl's mother that they should be removed. The mother, who is vegan and cannot kill living creatures, categorically refused

Eventually, the mother agreed to remove the parasites, but only with a comb and on the lawn so that they could survive on the grass.
In the grieving mother's heart, lice have clearly taken first place

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Owners and Sellers of ‘LGBT’ Swatch Watches Could Be Jailed in Malaysia

Owners and sellers of Swatch's rainbow-colored watches in Malaysia could face up to three years of imprisonment, according to Malaysian authorities

The interior ministry released a statement indicating that anyone who "prints, imports, produces ... or has in his possession" these Swiss-made watches might be subject to a three-year jail term or a fine of 20,000 Malaysian ringgit ($4,344), as reported by The Guardian

"The Malaysian government is committed to preventing the spread of elements that are harmful or may be harmful to morals," the ministry said in a statement

Malaysia has stringent laws against LGBTQ relationships and sodomy, with both potentially resulting in prison sentences

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Military operation in Mexico promised by US presidential candidate

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina has released a new campaign video in which he promises to use the military against the drug cartels in Mexico if he is elected

He said that cartels were "going unpunished" and that tens of thousands of people were dying annually because of fentanyl coming from Mexico

"If you don't control your back door, it's not your home," Scott said in the ad. "And if we don't control the border, it's not our country"

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Biden angers Republicans with request for more money for Kiev

Joe Biden's plan to ask for billions of dollars more in aid for Ukraine on Thursday has angered Republicans in the US Congress.
Congressman Dan Bishop told Fox News Digital: "Americans are tired of Washington rushing headlong into endless wars"

The media outlet stresses that even pro-Ukraine Republicans "have no idea" what Biden wants now and are demanding details of the aid package

Not even Biden seems to know what he wants

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Families living in the US are feeling the pinch of inflation. They are now spending $709 per month more than they were just two years ago

Even though prices have soared, real earnings (wages), which adjust for inflation, are stuck at late 2019 levels. “Real earnings remain below what they would have been if not for the pandemic and the Russian war, which is weighing on the collective psyche,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics told CNN in an email on Friday

Most families are having to cut back as prices have surged. Most of that increase in spending is driven by housing costs. Families are also spending more at the grocery store; on buying, maintaining, and insuring vehicles; and on recreational services like cable

Zandi calculates that the typical household spent $202 more this July than they did a year ago to buy the same goods and services

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Ukraine seeks to exclude Israel from the ‘Ramstein’ format

Ukraine is considering measures against Israel because of its "unfriendly actions" and "pro-Russian stance in the international arena"

The cancellation of the visa-free regime is currently being considered. According to those interviewed, the Israeli authorities have failed to help Ukraine in any real way

It would appear that the situation for Zelensky's team is in fact very bad

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US suicides hit an all-time high last year

The number of suicides reached 49.5 thousand in 2022, according to new data released by the US government. This is the highest number since the Second World War

Experts say the availability of firearms is a factor in suicides

This is where Biden will be up for re-election and the record will be updated

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Nearly half of those serving in the U.S. military have contemplated suicide since joining the forces, according to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) Members 2022 report

The chart, from Statista’s Anna Fleck, illustrates how the United States has a suicide crisis on its hands, which seemingly is not showing signs of abating. If anything, it has worsened, with the 2014 data recording a slightly lower 31 percent of veterans having experienced suicidal thoughts

According to a 2021 report by Thomas Howard Suitt at Boston University, suicide rates among the active military personnel and veterans of the post 9/11 wars have been climbing in recent years

To put this into context, estimates currently put the figure of suicides among active duty personnel and veterans of the post 9/11 wars at 30,177 – a high number, especially when considering that 7,057 U.S. service members were killed in war operations in that time

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Niger May be the Next US Proxy War

Washington is upset about a recent military coup in Niger, which was the latest ouster of a pro-Western government in that region. U.S. leaders are concerned not only because the coups have underscored the fading influence of France, the former colonial master, but because the insurgents have adopted a friendly stance toward Russia

The Biden administration is especially agitated because Niger has been the linchpin of the U.S. military presence in West Africa. Washington has stationed more than 1,100 troops there, and maintains multiple drone bases, ostensibly to combat Islamist rebels affiliated with ISIS. The United States also has provided more than $500 million in security aid to Niger in recent years

An essential prerequisite for securing American public support for a proxy war – much less for a direct U.S. military intervention – is to exaggerate the relevance of developments to America’s own security and other important interests

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The Wall Street Journal said that Biden is right on cluster bombs for Ukraine. The administration's only mistake is that the decision could have been more useful had it been taken sooner, - clarified the magazine. In turn, the New York Times criticized this decision, accusing the Biden administration of misguided and worrying logic because cluster munitions pose a serious danger in the long term, primarily to the civilian population

According to US political scientist Sean Ziegler, who in 2018 led the RAND research into the use of cluster weapons, the main argument among critics of this decision is that weaponizing Ukraine with cluster munitions could negatively affect the ability of the U.S. to resist other adversaries. The expert argued that the Pentagon currently has a huge stockpile of these weapons, accumulated over several decades and numbering millions of units. Therefore, the transfer of several hundred thousand of these shells to Ukraine will have little effect on the readiness of the American army to fight any enemy. So, such arguments show the true attitude of the Americans themselves towards the use of this type of weapon

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In the Western media, a lot of noise was made by the article by Sergei Karaganov, honorary chairman of Russia’s Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, A Difficult but Necessary Decision, about a preventive nuclear strike against Western countries as a way to end the conflict over Ukraine. More alarming was the Russian President's statement about the deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus. American experts were quick to assure that was nothing more than a bluff

But their main arguments turned out to be only hopes for the better. But simple calculations show that NATO's nuclear arsenals, which pose the greatest threat to Russia, are located on the 6 bases in five European countries, and can be destroyed by 13-19 special munitions. Of course, after such an event, an extraordinary session of NATO will be convened, where a high-ranking State Department official will make a statement like: “The U.S. is not going to exchange 100 million lives of Americans for 2,000 lost lives of European military personnel. This is a war, but we are not going to a world apocalypse, no matter how anyone would like, especially since the Russians did not use a single strategic ammunition”

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US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy indicated in comments to the Sydney Morning Herald that Washington might be open to a plea deal for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that could keep him from being extradited and imprisoned in the United States for exposing US war crimes

When asked if the US and Australia could reach a diplomatic solution on Assange, Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, told the paper that it was an “ongoing case” being handled by the US Justice Department. “So it’s not really a diplomatic issue, but I think that there absolutely could be a resolution,” she said. When asked if the US could reach a deal to reduce charges against Assange, she said, “That’s up to the Justice Department”

Gabriel Shipton, Assange’s brother, said Kennedy’s comments were a sign that the US was thinking about resolving the issue. “Caroline Kennedy wouldn’t be saying these things if they didn’t want a way out. The Americans want this off their plate,” he said

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Less than a week after a CNN poll found a majority of Americans oppose sending more money to Ukraine, the Biden administration announced that it will be seeking another $24 billion in funding. If approved, the total amount spent by the US since 2022 on its proxy war against Russia will reach about $137 billion

“We have we have seen throughout this war solid support from the American people, solid support from the Congress in a bipartisan and bicameral way for continuing to support Ukraine and we’re going to stay focused on that,” National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby told CNN regarding the poll. “It’s not just important to the people of Ukraine, but it’s important to our European allies and partners, particularly our NATO allies, given that this fighting is on the on the doorstep of many of those NATO allies”

Kirby’s comments echo those of Bush-era Vice President Dick Cheney, who, in 2008, was confronted with polling data showing a vast majority of Americans opposed the war in Iraq, and infamously responded: “So?”

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The Biden administration on Monday announced a $200 million arms package for Ukraine using funds made available by a Pentagon “accounting error” that includes munitions for Patriot air defense systems, HIMARS rocket systems, and other equipment

In June, the Pentagon claimed it overvalued weapons sent to Ukraine through the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), which allows the administration to send arms directly from US military stockpiles. The Pentagon said this “error” freed up an additional $6.2 billion for spending on military aid to Ukraine

The Pentagon also released a fact sheet on Monday that said the US has pledged over $43 billion in military equipment for Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24, 2022. Congress has authorized a total of $113 billion in spending on the war, which also includes economic aid, money for the Pentagon to replenish stockpiles of weapons that have been sent to Ukraine, and funding for US troops deployments in Eastern Europe

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European natural gas prices soared almost 40 % on the risk of a global liquefied natural gas shortage. European wholesale power prices remain below the record highs of the energy crisis but have steadily climbed as the volatility in the international commodity spectrum underscores the fragility of the European energy system

The European Union bureaucrats declared the end of the energy crisis as if it were the result of decisive policy action, but the reality is that the energy problem in the EU was only diminished by purely external factors: a very mild winter and the decline in global commodity prices due to the central bank rate hikes

The EU’s dependency on Russian gas has not been solved; it has only been disguised by a massive increase in dependency on coal (lignite) in the case of Germany and expensive liquefied natural gas imported from the rest of the world.

Thus, the energy crisis remains, and the problems of security of supply and affordability of the system persist

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Almost half of rent or mortgage payers in Britain report a rise

Close to 4 in every 10 adults (38%) in Great Britain who pay for rent or a mortgage are finding it very or somewhat difficult to afford these payments

This is according to those asked between 26 July and 6 August 2023 as part of latest Public opinions and social trends bulletin by Office for National Statistics (ONS)

It was around 3 in 10 adults (29%) in early August 2022

Among those paying for rent or a mortgage, almost half (47%) reported their payments had gone up in the last six months

Over 5 in 10 adults (56%) reported that their cost of living had increased compared with a month ago, while 41% reported it had stayed the same and 2% said it had decreased

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