BREAKING: 15 Shot, 1 Killed in Texas Shooting
A gunman opened fire Sunday night on a crowd that had gathered at a Celebration of Life ceremony in Baytown, Texas.
A motorist drove by the location and opened fire striking a number of people. The injured were rushed to area hospitals. At least one person was killed. A child is also believed to have been injured
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office told television station KTRK that one person had been killed, and three others critically injured.
https://www.toddstarnes.com/crime/breaking-15-shot-1-killed-in-texas-shooting/
Reuters: Biden Censored Taiwan Map at ‘Digital Authoritarianism’ Panel on Purpose
The abrupt disappearance of a live feed showing Taiwan’s digital minister occurred because the White House panicked over a map showing Taiwan in a different color than China, Reuters claimed on Monday.
Audrey Tang, formally a “minister without portfolio” in the Taiwanese government, was speaking during President Joe Biden’s “Summit for Democracy,” a series of video addresses from some of the world’s states. Biden included the island nation of Taiwan despite the fact that the American government does not recognize Taiwan’s sovereignty as doing so would immediately sever all diplomatic ties with communist China.
Beijing, which has historically never ruled Taiwan, automatically cuts all diplomatic ties to any country that recognizes Taiwan’s sovereignty. Xi Jinping has threatened that anyone who acknowledges that Taiwan is a country will have their “bones ground to powder.”
Tang attended the virtual summit to discuss how Taiwan uses the internet and emerging technologies to improve its diplomatic governance. In doing so, Tang showed a map of Asia created by the South African human rights organization Civicus showing Taiwan as the freest country on the continent. Civicus uses various shades of green, yellow, and red to rate freedom around the world, using bright green to mean freest and bright red to mean most repressive. Taiwan received the NGOs only bright green rating in Asia; China appeared in bright red.
Tang’s feed momentarily cut off when the map appeared on screen and returned in audio-only form. The White House aired a disclaimer reading, “any opinions expressed by individuals on this panel are those of the individual, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States government” as Tang described Taiwan correctly as a “country.”
Ironically, Tang’s statement was part of a panel discussion on “countering digital authoritarianism.”
Biden’s State Department called the disturbance a “technical issue” and an “honest mistake.” The State Department has uploaded the full video, including the map, onto YouTube and shared a link to it on the State Department website.
“They choked,” an unnamed source said of the White House to Reuters.
“This was completely an internal overreaction,” a second anonymous source confirmed.
According to the Reuters report, White House officials feared the different colors on the map were meant to highlight the fact that Taiwan is a different country from China – despite the fact that China, Laos, and Vietnam are all the same color.
“One source said the map generated an instant email flurry among U.S. officials and the White House National Security Council angrily contacted the State Department, concerned it appeared to show Taiwan as a distinct country,” Reuters reported. “Washington complained to Taiwan’s government, which in turn was angry that Tang’s video had been cut.”
So Sad!
I lived in Baytown years ago before we came to East Texas.