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China said on Friday it firmly opposes the United States’ wanton oppression of its companies and asked America to stop abusing the concept of national security, after the Trump administration added China’s SMIC and CNOOC to a defense blacklist. It will severely harm the U.S. interest and image, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular briefing. The United States on Thursday added China’s top chipmaker, SMIC, and oil giant CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, a move likely to escalate tensions with Beijing before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.

Preference in wine can speak volumes about a person’s taste across the board. Do you love grilling red meat over an open flame, followed by a robust pull from a cigar? Is your yearning for pristine beach weather and briney oysters a year-round obsession? These hankerings call for different wine pairings—which alone comprise a culinary school forged over centuries of meticulous study. This holiday season, you should consider giving wine as a gift, but only if you’re serious about doing the legwork. It’s easy to give someone wine under the guise of thoughtfulness, but grabbing any old of two buck...

I have been using Eudora or Eudora Pro since the nineties. It has finally quit working (again) and before I go through the process of trying to make it work(again), which could take all day(again), I thought I would take the cowards way out and ask for advice from my most trusted source. Free Republic What course of action, or new software would FReepers choose?

RUMORS AND PROPAGANDA52 years ago when I went into the United States Air Force during the Vietnam era, I still very distinctly recall that one of the first courses we were given as new Airmen was to recognize rumors and propaganda as attempts to mislead us and to cause us to act contrary to the interests of our own country. That lesson has stuck with me for over a half-century and now I see that as a very important threat to the survival of our constitutional republic in this age of disinformation.Unlike back in 1968, today fake news can be...

Hot takes this morning from Jay and his son Jordan on all the current election topics. 50 mins total.

resident Donald Trump’s legal team on Dec. 3 presented surveillance footage at a Georgia state legislature hearing that appears to show ballot-counting workers telling poll observers late at night on Election Day to leave before continuing to count and pulling out what appears to be boxes filled with ballots. Today more allegations came from Jody Brownlow Hice who serves as a U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 10th congressional district since 2015 as he made another huge announcement. He says that yesterday they learned that a forensics examination of a Ware County, GA Dominion Voting Systems machine found votes were switched from...

SOUTH CHINA SEA tensions spiked between the US and China when two ships came within 45 yards of each other, with Beijing "trying to push the US ship out of the way". The footage shared by the US Navy displayed just how close a Chinese vessel came to its US counterparts as the forces undertook freedom of navigation patrols. As the ships drew closer to one another, Chinese military personnel could be seen preparing buoys to absorb any impact between the ships. In the footage, one US soldier is recorded saying: "We interacted with a Luyang- II DDG, CPA was...

President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday revealed that he broke his foot tripping on a rug after a shower as he chased one of his dogs and grabbed its tail. Biden’s campaign previously explained the hairline fracture by saying Biden fell while playing with the dog, but did not mention the shower or tugging the animal’s tail. The injury requires Biden, who turned 78 last month, to wear a boot for weeks. “What happened was I got out of the shower. I got a dog and anybody who’s been around my house knows — dropped, little pup dropped a ball in...

n Friday the U.S. House passed a historic bill that would end the federal prohibition of marijuana and expunge many cannabis-related convictions. It’s the first time the full House has considered —let alone passed — such a bill.The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act (MORE Act), made it through the House by a 228 to 164 vote. Nearly every Democrat supported the measure, while just five Republicans voted for it. Six Democrats voted against the bill.The bill, introduced by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.), would eliminate conflict between state and federal law and allow states to set their own marijuana...

If you don't have time to read my review of Tom Holland's Dominion, here it is in three words: Read this book. A few more words: Buy this book, give this book to friends, and encourage them to read it. "Dominion" is not only rich, seductive, eye-opening, conversation-sparking, and occasionally surprisingly witty, it is urgently necessary. Read this book – before it's too late. Why do I endorse "Dominion" so zealously? Let me tell you a few stories. I was a schoolgirl in New Jersey. I sat next to "Aisha." She moved like a butterfly and, quiet and shy, she...

This is the best thing I’ve seen all day lol MSM meltdown https://twitter.com/stephanie_co239/status/1334935012437843970

STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A tractor-trailer crash right on the edge of Stafford County and Prince William County is causing major delays on Interstate 95. Drivers traveling northbound will be forced to reroute due to a closure of northbound lanes at mile marker 147. Virginia State Police responded to the crash at 10:28 a.m. They say the tractor trailer ran off the left side of the road and hit a jersey wall. The back of end of the truck came to a stop across the travel lanes. Stafford County Fire and Rescue arrived at the scene on 10:30 a.m....

Gal (Ruby Freeman) in purple shirt from Election night video provides selfie video evidence of additional absentee ballot fraud... --> Stick with the video to the end! https://video.parler.com/Ue/qL/UeqLJw4vcfgZ_small.mp4

Beijing has successfully powered up its “artificial sun” nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, China’s People’s Daily reported on Friday. It’s designed to be a clean energy source, similar to the real Sun. Made to replicate the natural reactions that occur in the sun using hydrogen and deuterium gases as fuels, the HL-2M Tokamak reactor is China's largest and most advanced nuclear fusion experimental research device. It is located in southwestern Sichuan province and was completed late last year. The reactor is often called an "artificial sun" due to the enormous heat and power it produces. Men work inside...

Georgia recertified its election results on Friday as Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office debunked a recently surfaced video that appeared to show illegal ballot-counting without supervisors. The Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections adjourned a meeting Friday in which members voted to recertify the results of the 2020 presidential race in favor of President-elect Joe Biden in a 3-2 voice vote. Much of the meeting focused on a video that went viral Thursday, which political commentators claimed showed Fulton County election officials illegally stuffing ballots -- a form of election fraud in which more ballots are counted than...

In a Facebook live stream, Freeman said “Y’all want to know who my new supervisor is? It’s my daughter. I just do what she say do and it’s her show baby, it’s her show. Supervisor of registration giving that look to the employees.” Ruby Freeman films herself, shows us all the ballots… VIDEO AND PICS AT LINK.......................

The Wake County school system will stop using the word “grandfathering” because of the term’s “racist origins” in preventing Black people from voting after the Civil War. A Wake County parent challenged the school district this week for continuing to use “grandfathering” to describe how some students can stay at their current school if their neighborhood is reassigned to a different school. North Carolina’s largest school district responded with a tweet promising to stop using the term — next year. “Thank you for your message,” Wake tweeted Wednesday. “We are aware of the racist origins of the term grandfathering, and...

Rudy: Giuliani: Republican Legislature let down America. I’m ashamed of them. They completely misled the President and me. All of us Republicans let them know what we think of them.

Last month the head of the U.S. Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs, Vice Adm. Johnny Wolfe said that the U.S. Navy is on track to field a hypersonic missile on its submarine fleet by 2025. The weapons, which will be used as a conventional prompt strike (CPS) alternative to long-range nuclear weapons has been called a high priority for the Navy. Wolfe who spoke at the Naval Submarine League annual symposium last month, as reported by USNI News, said that challenges remain. To meet the goal, the U.S. military along with government agencies and private industry, must “take all the successes...

The Christmas season is upon us, and I want everyone to remember that Christmas is not about the exterior things of this Holiday season. It’s about the Man this child would become. The Man who would one day be nailed to a cross and lifted like a snake in the desert for our sins.I offer this story about a man and his beloved son.Author is Unknown A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had everything in their collection, from Picasso to Raphael. They would often sit together and admire the great works...