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Battery Wars: is Japan about to beat China in race for the energy game changer of the decade? Japan once supplied the world with the most advanced Li-Ion batteries. China and Korea now dominate the market, and Japan wants it back The search for the holy grail of batteries may be over. After a multi-year industry-wide effort, Japan solves the elusive solid-state technology

National Republicans are desperate to avoid a floor fight in Congress over the certification of the Electoral College vote next month, believing it would be horrible politics to continue waging what most recognize to be a hopeless battle to overturn the outcome of the election. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has intervened, asking his members not to join Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) or any other House members looking to object to the results on Jan. 6, when Congress meets to certify the Electoral College count. President Trump is waging a pressure campaign to get senators to revolt. Incoming Sen....

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55388846 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/health/coronavirus-britain-variant.html https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-55384502 All of the above are fear porn about the new Coronavirus variant. I don’t care how many variants there are. This is a virus that attacks those with weakened immune systems. Each person is responsible for their own immune system. There is NO shared responsibility among all American citizens to protect those with weak immune systems. This is NOT an existential threat to the nation like a war. If your immune system sucks then maybe you need to do what you can to protect yourself...I will not throw away the freedom and...

@M_Veselinovic Massive, miles-long lorry queues on the approach to Dover seem to be a combo of Brexit stockpiling, xmas rush and Covid-19 backlog. But if it’s like this now, when there’s still free trade with EU, what’s it going to be like from Jan 1 if extra checks + paperwork is needed? Video...

Chris Christie joined a Sunday edition of The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer, where he responded to reports President Trump floated the idea of imposing martial law and overturning the election at a White House meeting on Friday. Trump’s embattled former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who was reportedly at the meeting along with his lawyer Sidney Powell, has been touting the imposition of martial law for weeks. “This is why someone like Michael Flynn never belongs anywhere near the White House, let alone inside the Oval Office,” Christie said. “And his lawyer Sidney Powell.” Christie has been warning Trump...

Dear FRiends, of your Charity please pray for my twin brother Thomas who is dangerously ill. He is in hospital with a respiratory disease (thought to be Covid). He is on oxygen and is under observation. We are all very worried for him. We ask; we beg for a Christmas miracle.

This is all Kubuki theatre.

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New documents reported by Fox News Wednesday offer more details into a $10 million deal outlined between Hunter Biden and Chinese businessmen with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party, adding fuel to ongoing scandals plaguing President-elect Joe Biden, big tech, and big media. According to correspondence obtained by Fox, Hunter Biden reportedly offered his “best wishes from the entire Biden family” to CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming in 2017 and urged the Chinese business partner with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party to wire over $10 million to “properly fund and operate” a joint Biden venture. “I hope my...

In the Gospel for this Fourth Sunday of Advent, we step back nine months to March 25th, the feast of the Annunciation, an all-but-hidden event that changed the world. God, whose focal presence departed the Temple just prior to the Babylonian invasion (cf Ez 10:18) and the loss of the Ark of the Covenant, now returns to the ark of Mary’s womb. The glorious presence of God returns now to His people, in an obscure town of fewer than three hundred, a town so small that no road led to it. We are reading here of a pivotal moment in...

(h/t Foldspace)Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of...

Sen. Rand Paul on "Mornings with Maria". Watch...

@RealWayneRootFunny how mainstream media reports in big headlines “Covid cases” but there’s no flu this flu season? Where did old fashioned flu go? It disappeared? Used to kill 50k to 80k per year with no headlines, no panic, no lockdowns, no businesses closed. Now wrapped into COVID.

December 21 2020 Memorial of Saint Peter Canisius, priest and doctor of the Church St Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ,Kokkamangalam, Kerala, India Lectionary 197Reading 1 SG 2:8-14 Hark! my lover–here he comes springing across the mountains, leaping across the hills. My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Here he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattices. My lover speaks; he says to me, “Arise, my beloved, my dove, my beautiful one, and come! “For see, the winter is past, the rains are over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger is urging Joe Biden to create a new “Voting Rights Act,” saying that such a law would help combat “voter suppression.” The Terminator star said in an interview Saturday with CNN’s Michael Smerconish that he wants the president elect and Congress to work on the new legislation. “I just recommend very strongly that now when Biden is in office that they go and work on a new Voting Rights Act,” he said. “I think it is irresponsible to not have a Voting Rights Act and to have those polling places closed under the auspices of budgets,...

Former Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang proposed a “barcode” program Friday for Americans to prove they have received a coronavirus vaccination. “Is there a way for someone to easily show that they have been vaccinated – like a barcode they can download on their phone? There ought to be,” Yang wrote on Twitter. “Tough to have mass gatherings like concerts or ballgames without either mass adoption of the vaccine or a means of signaling,” he continued.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will quarantine for 10 days after one of his staffers tested positive for COVID-19, according to a spokesperson for the governor's office. The staffer tested positive Sunday afternoon, the spokesperson stated. Newsom was then tested and his result came back negative. The staffer also had contact with other staff members, who were also tested. Their results came back negative.

Boris Johnson was last night urged to publish clear evidence of the Covid data he used to cancel Christmas for millions. The Prime Minister has warned the new variant of coronavirus may be up to 70 per cent more transmissible than previous strains and could overwhelm the NHS. But last night one scientist demanded greater transparency over the number that shut down swathes of the UK.

A man who stabbed a woman and threatened to stab others before claiming he was a terrorist in the Arndale Centre last year has been given a hospital order. Ali Algdaner (08/01/1993), of Talbot Street, Eccles, was sentenced today (Friday 18 December 2020) at Manchester Crown Court (Crown Square) to an indefinite order under section 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983. He had previously admitted affray, section 47 assault and communicating false information causing a bomb hoax. The court heard how Algdaner had entered a restaurant in the centre, as it was beginning to close for the evening, on...