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NATO Intercepts Russian Warships After Kremlin Warns U.S. Over Troops in Poland

Aug. 19 - Britain's Royal Navy teamed up with NATO vessels to escort nine Russian warships that encroached into waters close to the U.K. The move marks the latest tit-for-tat maneuver involving the countries' military forces amid tension between Moscow and the alliance.

Offshore patrol vessels HMS Mersey and HMS Mersey joined Type 23 frigate HMS Westminster and ships from the alliance to track three Steregushchiy-class corvettes, three Ropucha-class landing ships and the same number of missile-armed patrol boats, the Royal Navy said in a statement.

In some of the busiest sea lanes in the world, British ships worked with Portuguese frigate NRP Corte-Real, the task group's flagship, and supporting alliance vessels to escort the Russian ships, which had sailed into the North Sea from the Baltic Sea following its own large-scale exercises.

"While the Russian Navy operated in a safe and professional manner, HMS Westminster combined with NATO-allied units across the North Sea and Baltic Sea to escort them throughout," Commander Will Paston, commanding officer of HMS Westminster, said in a statement.     source

AUGUST 19, 2020
President Trump News Conference
President Trump holds a news conference at the White House to provide an update on his administration’s ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic.

WATCH LIVE: Trump holds White House news conference 
August 19, 2020

Donald Trump announces US demand for all UN sanctions to be reimposed against Iran
“Iran will never have a nuclear weapon," said the US President
The US will demand on Thursday that all United Nations sanctions be reimposed against Iran.

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Belarus unrest: President Lukashenko accuses opposition of staging coup

President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has accused the opposition of trying to stage a coup, amid widespread anger over a disputed election.

Aug - Speaking as opposition leaders formed a council to organise a transfer of power, he said: "We definitely consider this as an attempt to seize power."

The opposition contests the official results of the 9 August poll, which gave Mr Lukashenko 80% of the vote.

The country has since seen 10 days of street protests and strikes.

The protesters allege massive vote-rigging and say the winner was opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya - who officially secured only about 10% of votes.

There were no independent election observers.     source

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/18/903525090/belarus-protests-grow-as-russia-warns-germany-france-not-to-interfere

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The risks of a Russian intervention in Belarus

Aug. 18 - Alexander Lukashenko, the dictator of Belarus, is facing the biggest threat of his 26-year reign. An extraordinary popular revolt has brought his regime to the brink of collapse — something that Vladimir Putin, mortally afraid of democratic contagion from a “color revolution” in his western neighbor, can hardly countenance.

Yet as startling as it might seem, the turbulence in Belarus also gives Russia’s president an opportunity — one he could seize with a high-stakes display of brazen military aggression that could go beyond merely cracking down in Belarus. Perhaps the most frightening scenario: an invasion of Lithuania. The Baltic republic, which shares a 420-mile border with Belarus, is a member of both the European Union and NATO.     more

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53823954

PBS NewsHour full episode, Aug. 18, 2020
Aug. 19, 2020
Tuesday on the NewsHour, Night 2 of the Democratic National Convention will include former presidents and a leadership theme. Plus: An unconventional DNC, the Senate Intelligence Committee report on 2016 Russian election interference, Republicans supporting Joe Biden, a former DHS official speaks out, the delegates nominating Biden, a Hezbollah conviction and Gloria Steinem on women’s rights.

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Trump used a mini-rally in Mankato, MI, to label Democrats 'fascists' who want to 'erase our borders, eliminate our police, vilify our heroes, and take away our energy.' He claimed a liberal Democratic congresswoman, Pramila Jayapal, had boasted she had 'total control' over Biden, who he called 'this jerk,' and also called Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar 'horrible,' and claimed Nancy Pelosi 'does not love our country.' The state's governor, Tim Walz, claimed Trump had wanted to speak at the memorial for George Floyd where he was killed in Minneapolis. The White House disputed the claim.

'Pandemic is God testing me': Trump describes his conversations with the Lord before branding Biden a 'jerk' and Dems 'fascists' during Minnesota campaign stop - then says in Wisconsin that he wants a THIRD term and can only lose a 'rigged' election

In Mankato, Trump rips critics, vows to win Minnesota

Aug. 17 - Hoping to win over Minnesota in the fall election, President Donald Trump on Monday pounded political opponents as a threat to the nation and portrayed himself as a law and order candidate during an hourlong campaign speech at the Mankato airport before heading to Wisconsin and vowing, “I’ll be back.”

“We’re going to have an election that is all about the survival of this nation,” Trump told supporters.
In remarks similar to those he made in October in Minneapolis, Trump attacked opponents in Minnesota and around the country, from Minneapolis DFL U.S. Rep Ilhan Omar to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

He described former Vice President Joe Biden, who’s expected to formally receive the Democratic nomination this week, as "a “puppet of left-wing extremists trying to erase our borders, eliminate our police, indoctrinate our children, vilify our heroes, take away our energy”...     more

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/08/17/trump-heads-for-minnesota-hoping-it-will-flip-this-fall

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Trump's moves risk further fracturing the global internet, upending families and online communities, and disrupting the flow of tech investment and innovation in both countries, without necessarily putting in place a set of policies to ensure popular apps — be they from China or the US — guarantee the privacy and security of their users.

"The solution can't be to undermine the free flow of information that underpins the internet," said Susan Ariel Aaronson, an expert on internet governance at George Washington University. "What worries me is that the US is becoming China by trying to block off apps."     more

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/15/tech/tiktok-wechat-security-us-china-intl-hnk/index.html

ByteDance faces China backlash as Trump piles pressure on TikTok
Analysts say Chinese internet group wary of being seen to bow to Washington over sale

Aug. 16 - The Chinese parent of TikTok faces a growing backlash at home, compounding the company’s problems as the Trump administration increases pressure on the hugely popular social media app. President Donald Trump on Friday issued an executive order requiring ByteDance to complete a sale of TikTok’s US operation within 90 days. The company is in talks with Microsoft over a deal. That has prompted anger among users and observers in China that the internet group will bow to US pressure at a time of rising tensions between Washington and Beijing...     more

WeChat's users and businesses feel impact of Trump's decision
Aug 13, 2020

Biden leads Trump nationally by nine points on eve of conventions - with strong support from black, Hispanic and female voters, new poll reveals
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Sunday found that 50 percent of US voters intend to vote for Biden, compared with 41 percent backing Trump

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South Florida’s Jamaican, Indian community supports Harris as Biden’s VP pick
LAUDERHILL, FLA. (WSVN) - U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris’ addition to the democratic presidential ticket for the 2020 election has drawn support from South Florida’s Jamaican and Indian communities.
Aug. 12

https://wsvn.com/news/politics/south-floridas-jamaican-indian-community-supports-harris-as-bidens-vp-pick/

Kamala Harris is boosting Biden in a state Trump desperately needs to win: report

Aug. 15 - On Saturday, Politico reported that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) being added to Joe Biden’s ticket has “electrified” a group of voters who normally are ignored by both parties: West Indian voters. And this could make a big difference in Florida — a state that could decide the outcome of the election.

“Calls from Caribbean radio show hosts flooded the Biden campaign from South Florida. And a jolt of excitement shot through the crowd of early vote poll workers at the Lauderdhill Mall, in the midst of Broward County’s growing Jamaican community,” reported Marc Caputo. “‘There was just this sense of energy,’ state Rep. Anika Omphroy, a daughter of two Jamaican immigrants, said in describing the moment the announcement was received. ‘It was all Black women out there working under the tents,’ she said. ‘It was 98 degrees in August in South Florida, so it was too hot to cheer. But you could feel it, this sense.'”     source

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/kamala-harris-just-supercharged-enthusiasm-in-a-new-demographic-and-it-could-help-biden-win-florida-report/

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