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Standing near a mountaintop, overlooking two empty villages of mud and straw homes below, Communist Party secretary Cai Hongmin beamed: “We plucked out the people’s roots of poverty all at once.”... ...Many homes here in Lianghekou, a cluster of villages and vegetable patches perched amid the dry mountains of China’s Gansu province, would be demolished, others restored as part of a tourist attraction and mountaintop resort.

As coronavirus cases surged in Oregon, county commissioners representing some of the most hard-hit areas in the state decided to travel -- two to Hawaii and one to Mexico. While two of the trips began before Gov. Kate Brown’s “freeze” travel advisory went into effect, the optics of taking these vacations while Brown was asking Oregonians to take all available precautions to stem the tide of the disease, is causing some county workers and members of the public to wonder about a double standard. KGW reported Monday that Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran called in to public meetings from her...

Meet Bowie the Pitbull. Dumped by his owner and rescued. Video, 3 minutes & 22 seconds

A former Cuomo aide has written a blistering attack on the New York Governor, calling him 'St Andrew of COVID' and claiming he is lapping up the limelight at a time when the entire world is in crisis. Alexis Grenell used to work as Cuomo's deputy director of intergovernmental affairs when he was New York's Attorney General. In an article published by The Nation on Friday, she said that while he'd 'undeniably' shown good leadership at the start of the year, he has since descended into being snarky and argumentative.

A prestigious New York City priest has been accused by a Bronx woman of forcible touching. Ashley Gonzalez, a 22-year-old who worked as an overnight security guard at St. Michael the Archangel Church on West 34th Street in Manhattan, is calling for the arrest of 75-year-old Father George William Rutler. "It was like a monster," said Gonzalez describing her alleged encounter Rutler. News 12 obtained video she recorded that she said shows Rutler watching pornography on his computer in front of her. News 12 has blurred the alleged sexually explicit video. "He looked at me with a smile, looked away,...

A fight is breaking out among Democrats over who Joe Biden should pick to be his Secretary of Agriculture. The president-elect has yet to appoint the person who will head up the Agriculture Department, which oversees various agencies including the United States Forest Service, the United States Food Safety and Inspection Service, and the Food Stamp Program. South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn - who is widely seen as playing a crucial role in Biden's Democratic primary victory - told The New York Times on Thursday that Biden should name Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge to the powerful position. Fudge - a...

MEMORANDUM Posted: November 27, 2020 12:50 PM From: Representative Russ Diamond and Rep. Eric R. Nelson, Rep. Paul Schemel, Rep. Greg Rothman, Rep. Francis X. Ryan, Rep. Dawn W. Keefer, Rep. Mike Jones, Rep. David H. Rowe, Rep. Michael J. Puskaric, Rep. Barbara Gleim, Rep. Bud Cook, Rep. Cris Dush, Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, Rep. David H. Zimmerman, Rep. Daryl D. Metcalfe, Rep. David M. Maloney, Sr., Rep. Dan Moul, Rep. Brad Roae, Rep. Kathy L. Rapp, Rep. Jim Cox, Rep. Rob W. Kauffman To: All House members Subject: RESOLUTION Disputing the 2020 General Election Statewide Contest Results In the immediate...

Moscow, November 26, Interfax - The presidential bill from the package presented in furtherance of the constitutional amendments, which declares the supremacy of the Russian Constitution and moral fundamentals over international law, has passed the first reading in the State Duma. At the moment, the Family Code recognizes the supremacy of international law over Russian family norms and regulations unless they are mutually contradictory. The presidential bill specifies and augments the norm with the provision, according to which the rules laid down by an international agreement shall not apply in an interpretation that contravenes the Russian Constitution and "fundamentals of...

[AIER Editor’s note: the article and video discussed below have been pulled by Johns Hopkins Newsletter. You can read the announcement here. An additional explanation is here. The claims made by the economics professor will clearly require more investigation, as the announcement says. That said, AIER is publishing this in the interest of objective science and open discussion.]Article originally published by AIER.At the time of this writing, the United States currently maintains the highest number of Covid-19 deaths and ranks 11th for the highest deaths per capita. There have been approximately 262,000 recorded Covid-19 deaths in the United States, which...

Georgia is ground zero in the battle for the balance of power in Washington, D.C., as control of the U.S. Senate now hinges on the outcome of the two Senate runoff races in the Peach State. With the Senate majority leadership within his reach, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) recently declared, “Now we take Georgia, and then we change America.” Now Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are reportedly the latest Hollywood celebrities to lend their star power to Democrats in Georgia, hoping to boost the chances of candidates Raphael Warrnock and Jon Ossoff and turn the Senate blue.

Melania Trump worked as a fashion model before getting married to the President of the United States Donald Trump, 73. It is well known that the First Lady of the United States has a particular love for designer clothes, shoes and jewels, but many have noted that FLOTUS usually wears one particular item of jewellery more regularly than others - what piece does she favour most? In recent years, the gorgeous First Lady has been spotted wearing one item of her jewellery collection than most - her stunning, and enormous, engagement ring. When Donald proposed marriage to Melania in 2004,...

Seeks repayment in wake of cover-upBUFFALO, N.Y. (ChurchMilitant.com) - New York's attorney general is suing the Buffalo diocese and three bishops for covering up allegations of clergy sex abuse and for using charitable funds to protect accused priests rather than making them face trial. In a series of tweets posted on Monday, attorney general Letitia James publicized the lawsuit filed against the Buffalo diocese, former bishop Richard J. Malone and his former auxiliary Edward M. Grosz, and Bp. Edward B. Scharfenberger (in his current capacity as the diocesan apostolic administrator). The suit comes at the conclusion of a two-year investigation...

Milwaukee County completed its recount of presidential ballots Friday, finding only small changes in vote totals for one of the two Wisconsin counties recounting ballots, but President Donald Trump’s attorneys appear ready for a legal challenge seeking to toss tens of thousands of ballots. President-elect Joe Biden’s lead increased by 132 votes after county election officials recounted over 450,000 votes.

Tonight, #BidenCheated is at #1 on Twitter trends in the United States after a number of conservative activists and politicians got the hashtag trending.Conservative activist “Rooster” used the hashtag and said, “#BidenCheated worse than Bill Clinton did on Hillary.”Another conservative activist “Tiff” said, “#BidenCheated worse than Willie Brown did on his wife with Kamala Harris, when he battering rammed her tuna stank tank. Yes. Heels up!”America First supporter Pete D’Abrosca wondered, “Who’s about to lose their job over at @Twitter for letting #BidenCheated trend No. 1?”One member of the Trump team, Caleb Thompson, believes, “#BidenCheated is trending in 1st place...

‘It is my absolute wish, and that of my colleagues, to allow a little more human closeness for Christmas,’ the Belgian Minister of the Interior claimed. ‘At the same time, we must take the alarm signals from hospitals very seriously.’ROESELARE, Belgium, November 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Belgium’s Minister of the Interior warned that police would “ensure compliance with health measures at Christmas,” knocking on doors to assess if families are breaking COVID-19 restrictions. Speaking to Belgian weekly newspaper De Zondag, Annelies Verlinden announced that over Christmas, police will “monitor compliance with the measures.” “Enforcement is very important,” Verlinden said. “And...

As it turns out, attorney Sidney Powell has plenty of firepower to back up her Kraken claims about the 2020 presidential election, including high-tech intelligence experts who concluded electronic ballot theft tipped the results in key battleground states.Article originally published on Press California.First and foremost is Dr. Navid Keshavarz-Nia, an experienced cybercrimes investigator and digital security executive, who has worked with the CIA, NSA, FBI, and U.S. military counterintelligence, as well as corporate financial giants like Deutsche Bank and Stripe.In an affidavit filed with Powell’s complaint in a Georgia court before midnight Wednesday, Keshavarz-Nia had this bombshell assessment.Hundreds of thousands...

The temporary order will be in place for three weeks through Dec. 20 and will allow essential and emergency workers, and those securing or providing essential and permitted services, to leave their homes, the county said in a news release. On Nov. 17, Los Angeles County established thresholds for additional actions if the five-day average of cases reach 4,500 or more or hospitalizations are more than 2,000 per day. Currently, the five-day average of new coronavirus cases is 4,751. On Friday health officials reported 24 new COVID-19 deaths and 4,544 new cases. Health officials said because cases remain at “alarming...

Advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have called an emergency meeting for Tuesday to vote on who they recommend should be the first to get a coronavirus vaccine once one is authorized.... ...The CDC estimates there are 21 million healthcare personnel, 87 million essential workers, 100 million adults with high-risk medical conditions and 53 million others 65 and older.

FRANKFORT - A federal court has ruled that in-person learning can resume at Kentucky's religious schools.(Snip)...Following the ruling, Cameron released the following statement:"The court prohibited the Governor from enforcing his executive order and unequivocally stated that the Commonwealth's religious schools can resume in-person learning. This is not the first time during this pandemic where religious exercise has been threatened, first with the prohibition on drive-in church services, then in-person worship services, and now in-person instruction at religious schools. In each of these instances, the courts have affirmed that the freedoms provided by our Constitution are stronger than the fears of...

Straightforward from here: ▶️GOP controls state legislatures in key swing states ▶️Legislatures convinced of fraud; send own/no electors ▶️Biden deprived of 270 ▶️State delegations in House re-elect Trump 26-23 "So the outcome would be to re-elect Donald Trump."