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Kidnapped Priest Tortured to Force Him to Join State-Sanctioned Church 09/28/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – A priest from the Diocese of Mindong who was kidnapped by the Chinese government, was tortured during his detention in an effort to solicit his membership in the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA).Priest Liu Maochun was visiting his parents in a hospital in Guangdong province on September 1, when he was met with police and taken away to an undisclosed location in Fu’an city for interrogation. He was only released 17 days later.According to Bitter Winter, Fr. Liu was ruthlessly tortured. Officers were banging...

EXCLUSIVE: Special Adviser to President Trump Dr. Scott Atlas fired back at criticisms leveled against him and his role on the Coronavirus Task Force on Monday, defending his record and expertise while maintaining that his advice to the president is based on the "current science." Atlas, in an interview with Fox News, said he has received a number of personal attacks and attempts to “delegitimize” him, specifically referring to a recent comment from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield. According to an NBC News report, Redfield slammed Atlas during a phone call made in public on an...

Protesters chalked up a victory over CNN Saturday as they chanted "fake news" until a segment on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court had to be cut short. President Donald Trump formally nominated Barrett to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In a video of the CNN segment that was posted online by Mediaite, CNN host Wolf Blitzer seeks to hear from CNN's Ariane de Vogue, who was speaking from in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. Adve

Joe Biden has been talking about the Biden/Harris campaign's effort to help American manufacturing, in the form of a $700 billion spending bill, essentially a repackaged version of an economic program that Senator Elizabeth Warren ran on in the primaries. The program, as Mr. Biden describes it, is a combination of $400 billion focused on federal purchases of goods, and $300 billion focused on federal grants and partnerships for research and development. On the surface, this doesn’t sound entirely bad. It’s not innovative either; presidents always propose spending programs. President Trump tried very hard to get a large infrastructure spending...

I haven’t written much about the Wuhan virus lately, because once it became clear that COVID posed a modest threat at most, and my own life returned to normal, I lost interest. At this point, it seems that COVID is more a political than a medical or scientific phenomenon.Several months ago, I wrote a series of posts about COVID in the five Upper Midwestern states. The comparisons seemed useful because the states are similar in many respects, but their responses to the Wuhan epidemic were very different. Now that more water has gone over the dam, it is a...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Healthcare; Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media.This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

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For Fauci to go on record this way, knowing how it’s destined to piss Trump off, there must be tremendous pressure on him from the rest of the feds’ coronavirus-response bigwigs. There was a story last week that Deborah Birx was “distressed” by Atlas’s growing influence within the task force, to the point where she’s reportedly considering stepping down. Just this morning, an NBC reporter overheard CDC chief Robert Redfield saying of Atlas, “Everything he says is false.” Remarkably, when asked by the reporter to confirm that that remark referred to Atlas, Redfield did so.The infectious-disease experts in the...

Presidential contender Joe Biden and his Democratic allies are seeking to turn President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court into a referendum on the future of American health care. Trump nominated the Indiana-based federal appeals court judge to the high court on Saturday night, praising her credentials and noting that future cases would decide the “survival of our Second Amendment, our religious liberty, our public safety.” Left unsaid at Barrett’s nomination was that the court will hear a case challenging the legality of the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama’s signature health-care overhaul,...

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A new study on China’s real estate market reported by state media paints a bleak picture: 76 of the biggest real estate developers need to repay 2,500 trillion yuan ($367 trillion) in the next 12 months, including 177 trillion yuan ($25.69 trillion) in interest.Such enormous debt has prompted real estate firms to refinance.A second study, conducted by private financial data service supplier Chinese Beike Institute, revealed that Chinese property developers issued 307 bonds in the third quarter of 2020 and collected about 324.7 trillion yuan ($47.67 trillion) from Chinese and overseas financial markets.“The scale of financing in Q3 is 14...

China’s former finance minister Lou Jiwei warned in a recent speech that China’s “immature” 5G technology is likely to become a failed investment.In recent weeks, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has emphasized the need for the country’s economy to develop an “internal circulation system—in other words, having domestic sectors produce all the goods for Chinese consumption, from raw materials to manufacturing.The economy should “create a new development pattern where domestic and foreign markets can boost each other, with the domestic market as the mainstay,” Xi had said.But Lou said that China’s 5G innovations—heavily subsidized by Beijing—could become a “blockage point”...

California has adopted transgender reforms into law, including allowing biological males who identify as female to be placed in women's prisons, and a fund using state revenue for gender-transition drugs and surgeries. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Saturday that requires the Golden state to let inmates who identify as transgender, nonbinary, or intersex be housed on the basis of "gender identity" instead of biological sex. The phrase "gender identity" has been used in public policy to describe a transgender-identifying person's internal feelings about their sex but is not informed by chromosomes. The California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation is...

Law enforcement agencies across the country reported brief outages of their 911 systems Monday night, and it was not immediately clear if there was a connection with a major Microsoft system outage. Law enforcement agencies around the country, from Nevada to Pennsylvania and Arizona to Minnesota, tweeted that their 911 systems were down beginning sometime after 7 p.m. ET. Multiple reports indicated outages throughout Delaware and Ohio as well. By 8:15 p.m., many of those departments reported that their services had come back online. Others were still recommending that people call local department numbers instead of the emergency line. The...

Last updated: September 23, 2020 Elections for 35 U.S. Senate seats will take place in 2020.[1] Ballotpedia has identified 16 races as general election battlegrounds. Of the 16 seats, four have Democratic incumbents and 12 have Republican incumbents heading into the election. These battleground seats were selected by examining the results of the 2016 presidential election in the state, whether the incumbent was seeking re-election, and whether the incumbent was serving his or her first term in the Senate. Race ratings from the Cook Political Report, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and Inside Elections with Nathan Gonzales were also considered. For more...

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Senator Rick Scott introduced legislation last week to require mail-in ballots to be counted within 24 hours of Election Day.This legislation is a severe blow to the Democrat Party’s plan to corrupt and overwhelm the system with ballot harvesting, mail-in votes and delayed counting that they would like to go on for days and weeks. This is great news for the country and trust in our election system. Sen. Rick Scott introduces bill requiring mail-in ballots be counted within 24 hours of Election Day | Fox News https://t.co/dbT2m5Wdkt— True the Vote (@TrueTheVote) September 28, 2020 FOX News reported: Sen....

he system that carries 911 emergency calls suffered a temporary outage Monday night. Calls in Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois, Nevada, Ohio, Arizona and Delaware were affected with Minneapolis police claiming the loss of service in the U.S. affected the entire country. "ATTENTION: The 911 lines are not operational nationwide," tweeted the Minneapolis Police Department. "This is for phone calls and text messaging."

Last updated: September 23, 2020 Elections for all 435 U.S. House seats will take place in 2020. Ballotpedia has identified 39 of the 435 House races (9.0%) as battlegrounds. Of the 39 seats, 20 have Democratic incumbents, 18 have Republican incumbents, and one has a Libertarian incumbent. These battleground districts were selected by examining the 2018 winner's margin of victory, the results of the 2016 presidential election in the district, whether the incumbent is seeking re-election, and whether the incumbent is serving his or her first term in Congress. Race ratings from the Cook Political Report, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and...