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Chinese leader Xi Jinping personally directed the communist regime to focus its efforts to control the global internet, displacing the influential role of the United States, according to internal government documents recently obtained by The Epoch Times. In a January 2017 speech, Xi said the “power to control the internet” had become the “new focal point of [China’s] national strategic contest,” and singled out the United States as a “rival force” standing in the way of the regime’s ambitions. The ultimate goal was for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to control all content on the global internet, so the regime...

The trifecta of fake news-retractions unrolled this week after the far-left Washington Post, the far-left New York Times, and the far-left NBC News were all forced to issue retractions for smearing former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. All three fake news outlets reported Giuliani had received a defensive briefing from the FBI warning him he was the target of a Russian influence campaign. The faker-than-fake Washington Post also claimed OAN received the same briefing so the faker-than-fake Post was forced to retract that, as well. The Post’s original lies (I don’t link fake news): The FBI warned Rudolph W. Giuliani...

Portland descended into chaos again late Saturday and into Sunday even after the mayor had pledged earlier in the week to crack down on 'anarchist mobs' and 'unmask' them. The mayor himself had received an apparent death threat in a voice-disguised, anonymous Twitter video Wednesday, just days after he promised to 'take our city back' from violent rioters and 'hurt them a little bit.' Two groups of radical protesters, who have throughout the past year represented Antifa and other far-left causes, were armed with weapons, body armor, shields and flares. The riots came as violent skirmishes occurred worldwide during so-called...

SNIP...I had the misfortune of attending in Huntington Beach two weeks ago. When this perfect day for the beach had ended, all that was left in the streets was the residue of racial hate. In the hours prior, many Americans shouted profanities and ideological cliches at one another with no genuine attempts to find common ground. Instead, they left behind cardboard signs with scrawled social justice messages on the sandy sidewalks as they returned to the comfort of their homes with their ideological hatreds renewed. The reason why I drove down the coast from Los Angeles to Huntington Beach was...

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~General Raymond DavisInfo and photos from this website. General Raymond G. Davis, 13 Jan 1915 - 03 Sept 2003,who earned the Medal of Honor in Korea in 1950, retired from active duty March 31, 1972, after more than 33 years on active duty. His last assignment was as Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps from March 12, 1971...

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The CBC invited an author who wrote about "detonating" white people, while "the exits are locked and the air vents [are] filled with gas" to be interviewed on their flagship arts program. The CBC host then explained that she was Jewish, but apologized to the author that his experience of the world made him feel this way. Ben Philippe appeared on Q where he discussed his newest book and racial issues in North America. During this program, an excerpt from his book was read where he considered what his actions would be in a race war. "When this race war...

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who once led efforts to bring China into the world economy to potentially spread the influence of democracy, now warns of potential nuclear and high-tech war between the two world powers. "For the first time in human history, humanity has the capacity to extinguish itself in a finite period of time," Kissinger, 97, told former Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., at the McCain Institute's 2021 Sedona Forum on Friday. "We have developed the technology of a power that is beyond what anybody imagined even 70 years ago. "And now, to the nuclear issue is added...

Officials said the group was overcrowded on a 40-foot (12-meter) cabin cruiser that is larger than the typical open-top wooden panga-style boats often used by smugglers to bring people illegally into the U.S. from Mexico. “Every indication from our perspective was this was a smuggling vessel. We haven’t confirmed their nationality,” said Jeff Stephenson, a supervising agent with U.S. Border Patrol.

We’ve been reporting on the influence the American Federation of Teachers union seems to have had on the Biden regime in regard to schools reopening.But now emails reveal that influence may have been even more than we thought.The emails were obtained by Americans for Public Trust, a conservative watchdog group, through FOIA, and provided to the New York Post.What they show is a lot of correspondence between the AFT and the CDC, with the White House and the CDC Director Rochelle Walensky included in the email train. According to the Post, the CDC had been “preparing to write that schools...

This historical disco recording is referred by some to be "the apotheosis of the dance" and is considered a landmark musical achievement of the disco era. "Let's All Chant" is basically an uptempo disco song with Baroque overtones, driven by a repetitive bass line, handclaps and numerous vocal hooks (such as "Ah-ah, eh-eh, let's all chant" and some more complex lyrics such as "Your body, my body, everybody work your body"). Without wanting to get into too much detail for laypeople, these lyrics are essentially about dancing and working one's body. The song's instrumentation also includes Afro-Cuban drums, a rollicking...

Cindy McCain said Sunday that the continued efforts to overturn Arizona's presidential election results are 'ludicrous' 'The election is over,' McCain told CNN'. 'Biden won. I know many of them don't like the outcome. But, you know, elections have consequences' The widow of late Senator John McCain could be the first Republican to join Biden's administration as U.S. ambassador to the UN World Food Program

Speaking to Berkshire’s millions of shareholders on Saturday, Buffett warned the company was being hit by inflationary pressures: “We’re seeing very substantial inflation – it’s very interesting. I mean, we’re raising prices. People are raising prices to us. And it’s being accepted.” “The costs are just up, up, up. Steel costs, you know, just every day, they’re going up.” “And it just won’t stop! People have money in their pocket, and they pay the higher prices… There’s more inflation going on that people would have anticipated six months ago or thereabouts.” -VIDEO

Utah Republicans booed Sen. Mitt Romney but ultimately rejected a motion to censure him Saturday for his votes at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trials.The measure narrowly failed, 798 to 711, in a vote by delegates to the state GOP convention, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.Romney drew heavy boos when he came to the podium earlier in the day.

The term “cancel culture,” like “political correctness” before it, is a comical expression for an ugly cultural pathology. To be canceled—an older, closely related term is “blacklisted”—is to have your public persona or influence assailed, typically by a sizable mob, for some real or perceived offense against progressive orthodoxy, whatever that orthodoxy may hold at the moment. For that to happen, you must possess some form of authority in the first place: an academic post, a political office, a role in the entertainment industry, employment with a “mainstream” media organization, a voice as an intellectual or imaginative writer. But the...

Following (Thursday's) yesterday’s launch, the core stage of China’s Long March 5B rocket inadvertently went into low Earth orbit. The booster—now spinning out of control—is poised to perform an uncontrolled reentry from orbit, potentially threatening inhabited areas. As SpaceNews reports, the core stage will likely fall from low Earth orbit at some point in the next few days, making it one of the biggest human-made objects to perform an uncontrolled reentry. The gigantic core stage, measuring 98 feet (30 meters) long and 16 feet (5 meters) wide, might burn up during atmospheric reentry, but debris could potentially reach the surface....

Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” called Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) “a woman of strength and conscience.” Anchor Jake Tapper said, “Let’s turn to the state of the Republican Party. Your fellow Republican Senator Mitt Romney, who I believe is a friend of yours, he was booed by delegates at the Utah Republican Convention yesterday. What was your reaction when you saw the clip of the vote for him being booed and the close vote to censure him?” Collins said, “I was appalled. Mitt Romney is an outstanding senator who served his state and our...

Hope is one of the Apostle Paul's Big Three. "Now these three remain: Faith, Hope, Love." Ya gotta have Hope to survive bro. You can't make it on Gloom, Doom, Negative Thinking, Despair, and Pessimism. That Old Dragon Pessimism has haunted humans throughout our history, but it's time to say goodbye to that aged ugly devil forever because he's a joy-killing serpent disguised, most of the time, as a wise knowledgeable Prophet Of Doom out to steal away your Hope -- but he'll not succeed cause our Hope is in such as this: "I know the plans I have for...

Dr. Vladimir Zelenko has been included in a group of doctors nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in addressing the coronavirus pandemic. The list of this year’s nominees includes 43 candidates.Dr. Zelenko achieved worldwide prominence for treating COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine and zinc, finding that mortality dropped 8-fold with use of those two substances. He says treatment with hydroxychloroquine and zinc within the first 5 days reduces death rates by 85%.“Basically, the main element of this treatment approach is zinc," he said in an interview. "Zinc inhibits a very important enzyme called RNA dependent RNA polymerase or...

The American Federation of Teachers lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on, and even suggested language for, the federal agency’s school-reopening guidance released in February. The powerful teachers union’s full-court press preceded the federal agency putting the brakes on a full re-opening of in-person classrooms, emails between top CDC, AFT and White House officials show. The emails were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the conservative watchdog group Americans for Public Trust and provided to The Post. The documents show a flurry of activity between CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, her top advisors and union...