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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has deleted a statement posted to his official Twitter account on Thursday that said the U.S. would “stand with the people of Hong Kong,” the South China Morning Post reported Friday. Blinken’s now-deleted tweet, originally posted on September 16, read: Beijing should let the voices of all Hong Kongers be heard. The PRC [People’s Republic of China]’s disqualification of district councilors only weakens Hong Kong’s long-term political & social stability. We stand with the people of Hong Kong and continue to support their human rights & fundamental freedoms. The U.S. Secretary of State replaced...

Megadeth‘s Dave Mustaine launched into an anti-mask rant during a concert in New Jersey last night (September 15) The frontman decried the enforcement of masks in the US ahead of the band’s last song ‘Holy Wars… The Punishment Due’ at the Metal Tour Of The Year in Camden. He said: “I just wanna tell you how great it is. Look around you, guys. Look to your right, look to your left, and look how wonderful this is. We’re all here together. We’re not freaking out, and we’re not yelling at people, ‘Wear your f***** mask.’ “Listen, it starts with this...

If someone were to ask you to think of either extreme of the political spectrum, odds are you would immediately picture a swastika at one end, and a hammer and sickle at the other. Regardless of your views of the left-right paradigm, or whether you subscribe to horseshoe theory or not, we (rightfully) tend to perceive fascism and communism as the standard ideologies of the extreme. As such, many of us would also feel rather uneasy seeing those two symbols. Upon seeing a swastika, we are immediately reminded of the evils of the Nazi regime, and are accordingly repulsed. To...

It’s perhaps the most effective way to save your life if you are infected with COVID-19, but probably the least known. It reduces the risk of even being hospitalized by 70% to 85%, though it must be administered early to be effective – within four days of infection. Lives probably are being lost unnecessarily because people don’t know about it.It’s monoclonal antibody treatment, abbreviated as mAb. To the extent the public has any familiarity with it they, may know it as Regeneron, though that’s actually the name of the company that makes the leading treatment, REGEN-COV2, and there are several...

[Catholic Caucus] Another Baffling Papal Press ConferenceKeep giving Communion to Joe Biden and company, Pope Francis tells the bishops.“I have never refused the Eucharist to anyone. No one,” said Pope Francis last week. Speaking to the press on his plane after returning from a trip to Hungary and Slovakia, the pope signaled that he wants Communion distributed to Joe Biden and other pro-abortion politicians.He did acknowledge that “abortion is murder” and, at first, sketched out the Church’s “theology” of Communion: “Communion is a gift, a gift, the presence of Jesus in his Church. It is in the community. This is...

French Health Workers Suspended For Not Getting Vaccinated On Wednesday French Health Minister Olivier Veran said that three thousand health care workers were suspended without pay for being unvaccinated. His move came on the day designated by the government for workers either to be vaxxed or face the disciplinary action. Veran claimed that many of those suspended had agreed to be vaccinated and would soon return to work. Official figures published Tuesday from "Public Health France" said 89.3 percent of nurses and 89.8 percent of paramedics had been vaccinated in the country. Some 95 percent of workers in nursing home...

The official line on vaccines is that they are extremely effective at protecting against serious illness. And yet, these same people are also claiming that the unvaccinated are a major threat to the vaccinated.More specifically, President Biden claimed on September 10 that vaccine mandates were to “protect the vaccinated workers from unvaccinated workers.”In other words, it is claimed that vaccines are remarkably effective, and that the vaccinated must also be protected from the unvaccinated. How can both claims be true at the same time? They can’t. The idea that vaccinated people are being frequently harmed by the unvaccinated is a...

While the world is still very much in the transition phase with 5G, research is already well underway for the next iteration of the technology standard for mobile broadband networks - 6G.Statista's Martin Armstrong notes that, according to a whitepaper by Samsung it takes an average of ten years for a new standard to become ready for commercialization, with 5G taking eight years. The tech giant suggested a potential rollout date of 2028-2030 for 6G, highlighting the urgent need for progress to be made.As this infographic shows, the country at the front of this new charge is China. You will...

BEIJING—Six executives of China’s heavily indebted Evergrande redeemed some of the company’s investment products in advance earlier this year, the property group said on Saturday.Between May 1 and Sept. 7, the six executives made early redemptions of 12 investment products, Evergrande said in a statement on its website, without identifying the executives or giving details on the nature of the products.“Regarding the early redemption of Evergrande wealth investment products by some managers, the group company views the matter seriously,” the company said.Evergrande said it had requested that all the funds the six managers redeemed in advance be returned within a...

When Major League Baseball hosted its "Field of Dreams" game in Iowa in August, it was a celebration of small-town America. But less than 100 miles away, a small town is worrying that its local economy, that's centered around baseball, is getting shut out. Kris Van Cleave traveled to Caledonia, Minnesota, where a factory partially owned by MLB is closing up shop and shipping jobs overseas. (Video at the link)

The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese company CanSino, with whom Ottawa partnered before the deal fell through, used technology developed in a 2016 paper on Ebola by a now-fired scientist from a government laboratory in Winnipeg and a Chinese major general, an expert says.The government’s partnership on the clinical development of the CanSino vaccine, first announced on May 12, 2020, fell apart on Aug. 26, 2020, after Beijing blocked shipment of the vaccine to Canada.CanSino’s vaccine was developed in partnership with China’s People’s Liberation Army, an effort that was led by Maj. Gen. Chen Wei, a military medical scientist. Chen...

Indiana University Health, the biggest hospital system in the state, has announced that 125 staff members are no longer employed there after refusing to comply with the organization’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.“Indiana University Health has put the safety and well-being of patients and team members first by requiring employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 1,” IU Health said in a Sept. 16 statement. “After a two-week unpaid suspension period ending Sept. 14, a total of 125 employees, the equivalent of 61 full-time employees, chose not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and have left the organization.”While the statement did...

Amid global chip shortages, China’s largest chipmaker—facing a U.S. blacklist—struggles to acquire advanced chipmaking equipment and technology, and to meet the high global demand, it is rapidly expanding existing production lines but cutting its R&D investment and personnel.On Sept. 3, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) announced that Zhou Zixue, the company’s chairman, resigned citing personal health reasons. On the same day, SMIC also announced its plans to build a factory in Shanghai to expand its production capacity.According to the announcement, Zhou Zixue will continue to serve as the company’s executive director. Meanwhile, SMIC chief financial officer Gao Yonggang has taken...

“Our tolerance for people who do not get vaccinated has run out,” Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett stated Sunday, exasperated that his vaccination strategy—arguably the most aggressive in the world—has failed to curb the Delta variant coursing through the country. Instead of defeating the virus, as he had been promising for weeks in pushing a third COVID shot on Israelis, the number of Israelis at peril climbed steadily: 246 on Sunday were deemed critically ill, 178 of them on ventilators; a week earlier the numbers were 206 and 157, and two weeks earlier 203 and 153. About 400 Israelis died...

This week we kneeled and prayed in remembrance of the victims of 9/11/2001. Almost 3,000 Americans were killed in one day as we were attacked by Islamic Jihadists. The threat from overseas came to our shores, and as Americans, we rose to fight back against an ideology that sought the destruction of everything for America stands. How disappointing then that former President Bush used the opportunity to equate the January 6th riot with murderous Islamic fundamentalists. Mark has had enough of the false equivalency.

A 15-year-old girl caught a catfish that exceeded her height on Friday the 13th. Hannah Truscott went fishing with her father Paul, 51, in Essex County, England, on the superstitious day, according to South West News Service (SWNS). The pair traveled more than 100 miles from their Derbyshire home to the county’s White Lakes. According to the teen’s father, she had doubts about their fishing trip because it was Friday, Aug. 13. "She didn’t think she’d catch anything because of the date, but I said not everyone can be that unlucky," Truscott reportedly told SWNS. Hannah’s first catch of the...

For months we’ve witnessed the scores of illegal invaders crossing the border and deliberately distributed throughout out the country, especially to pro-freedom states. Meanwhile, the anti-liberty Left has been coming up with new ways of going full authoritarian fascist with all manner of new draconian measures to supposedly ‘fight’ the spread of the same scourge.No new clampdown on liberty seems beyond the pale for the nation’s socialist Left to the point that at times they seem to be competing with each other to be the new rendition of Stalin or Hitler.Back during the days of ‘15 days to slow the...

Let’s get one thing clear, right from the front. I’m not the big expert. That’s because there’s waaaay too much information for any one person to understand. I’m just the “splainer,” since I’m the nut who has taken waaaay too much time away from his golf game to study the experts and learn what’s actually going on so I can ‘splain it for you.Don’t try this at home. I am a professional. I spent 36 years practicing medicine, with a huge chunk of that time wearing masks, both in the operating room and the expensive – oops – Intensive Care...

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was an Iranian physicist and nuclear scientist who Israeli operatives assassinated in that country in November of last year. The New York Times has a lengthy story about how the Israelis took him out remotely with an “A.I.-assisted, remote-controlled killing machine.” Basically, the New York Times reports that it was a “remote-controlled machine gun” that killed Fakhrizadeh as he drove with his wife to a vacation house in an area near the Caspian Sea in Iran. New York Times World promoted the story about the Iranian nuke scientist who “craved small domestic pleasures” this way: NOT the Babylon...

Editor's Commentary: When Daniel Horowitz over at The Blaze posted an article last month about Uttar Pradesh in India and their success with Ivermectin, I was dumb enough to assume mainstream media would be forced to report on it as well. The Blaze has a strong audience and the story was compelling. Certainly, corporate media couldn't sweep this one under the rug, right?Like I said, I was dumb. Nobody in the Mainstream Media Industrial Complex picked it up. Literally zero. What shocked me was that very few in conservative media picked it up, either. That's arguable more distressing. Since then,...