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New leader of Hong Kong’s 400,000 Catholics says church will ‘passively cooperate’ in city politics The new bishop of Hong Kong, Stephen Chow Sau-yan, says he is "not happy to see" the removal of crosses by authorities in the mainland but shies away from describing it as religious "suppression"The new leader of Hong Kong’s more than 400,000 Catholics says the church will adopt a position of “passive co-operation” in politics as the city grapples with the fall-out from months of protest and the imposition of a wide-ranging national security law by Beijing.Stephen Chow Sau-yan was appointed bishop of the...

Some of rock’s greatest stories are short ones. After making one, solitary studio full-length, these acts were promptly derailed by death, internal band politics or the simple desire to put something down and never pick it back up. Here are the best one-and-dones.

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R- AK) told CNN’s Manu Raju on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump was a “key individual” when asked if he should testify before a commission investigating the January 6 Capitol riots. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Tuesday he does not support the legislation to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the events of January 6 because the scope is too narrow

Dr. Steve Pieczenik delivers hard hitting information about what went on behind the scenes leading up to the Arizona election audit and how patriots within the government are fighting back against the globalist agenda. Video...

One of China’s tallest skyscrapers was evacuated on Tuesday after it began to shake, sending panicked shoppers scampering to safety. The near 300 metre (980ft) high SEG Plaza in Shenzhen, southern China, inexplicably began to shake at around 1pm, prompting an evacuation of people inside while pedestrians looked on open-mouthed. Bystander videos published by local media on Weibo showed the skyscraper shaking as hundreds of terrified pedestrians ran away outside. Building collapses are not rare in China, where lax building standards and breakneck urbanisation lead to constructions being thrown up in haste.

President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, on Tuesday confirmed what Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told him two months ago about mask-wearing being unnecessary for Americans vaccinated against COVID-19. Fauci appeared on ABC's"Good Morning America" to discuss the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new mask recommendations, reiterating that the CDC says it's safe for vaccinated people to stop wearing face coverings. He explained that the science has "evolved" over the last few weeks to show that vaccinated people are protected from infection and that the risk of them spreading the virus to someone else is "extremely low,...

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) called out a CNN reporter for misrepresenting his comment about the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. CNN's chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju stopped Massie to pepper him with questions about the riot, but Massie says his report did not document his comment correctly. "Do you agree with Trump that the election was rigged or stolen somehow?" asked Raju. "We didn't have hearings, there's no way to litigate that up here. If you're in the minority, the DOJ wouldn't investigate it," responded Massie. "There's no evidence of widespread fraud," replied Raju. "That's your opinion,"...

CHICAGO — The City of Chicago is no longer requiring fully vaccinated people to wear masks, health officials announced Tuesday. In a news conference, Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr Allison Arwady said the city would be in alignment with Gov. JB Pritzker’s mask guidelines for all of Illinois. “Following guidance from the CDC and the state, and recognizing how safe and effective this COVID vaccine is, the city of Chicago will no longer require masks for fully vaccinated people in most settings,” Arwady said. Currently, Illinois residents who are fully vaccinated do not have to wear masks anymore, in most...

On this episode of the Resistance Library Podcast, Sam Jacobs invites Eric Matheny onto the show. Eric Matheny is an attorney and the host of Bob and Eric Save America. He came on The Resistance Library Podcast to discuss the Derek Chauvin show trial, COVID safety theater, and the Capitol Hill "insurrection."

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday urged President Biden to “remain strong” in support of Israel’s military campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip — as his Democratic counterpart, Chuck Schumer, endorsed a push from the left flank of his party for a ceasefire. Biden so far has supported Israel’s airstrikes in response to a barrage of Hamas rockets, resisting a pro-Palestinian faction among leftwing Democrats, some of whom are leading the push for a ceasefire

If the state of South Carolina runs out of the drugs used for a lethal injection, no worries, the death row inmates have options thanks to Gov. Henry McMaster. The governor signed a bill into law on Friday that would require death row inmates who are about to be executed to choose between the electric chair and firing squad, CNN reported.’

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (60% of American Adults have at least a first shot - vaccination rates are slowing down - yesterday's unusual downward revision report was (unusually) revised upward last night - weak and erratic numbers lately) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 346,672,525 (20,231,100 J&J) Administered: 275,535,207 (9,751,200 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 158,365,411 Fully Vaccinated: 124,455,693

President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, on Tuesday confirmed what Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told him two months ago about mask-wearing being unnecessary for Americans vaccinated against COVID-19. When asked by host George Stephanopoulos how his personal mask-wearing habits have changed, Fauci responded that he feels more comfortable being seen in public indoors without a mask. Though he was vaccinated in December, Fauci said he had continued to wear a mask to avoid sending "mixed signals" to the American people by not wearing a mask. "I'm obviously careful because I'm a physician and a health care provider....

What This Period of Japanese History Teaches Us About Financial Crises ============================================================================ Japan's economy was the envy of the world before succumbing to one of the longest-running economic crises in financial history that would come to be known as the Lost Decade. In the 1970s, Japan produced the world's second-largest gross national product (GNP) after the United States and, by the late 1980s, ranked first in GNP per capita worldwide. But all of that ended in the early 1990s when its economy stalled. What Caused Japan's Lost Decade? Most economic crises immediately follow an economic boom where valuations disconnect from...

VIDEO As we all know, claiming the election was stolen is the greatest mortal sin you can commit... Unless you are a Democrat. Here we see a few Democrats claiming an election was stolen. Does anybody remember a bit of castigation directed their way? They were definitely not burned by the media with the "Big Lie" brand of which we are hearing so much nowadays.

In Wuhan, China, where the first cases of the coronavirus emerged in late 2019, at least two labs studied coronaviruses that originate in bats — the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention (WHCDC). Both are close to the seafood market that was originally deemed the source of the outbreak. The WIV is about eight miles away. The WHCDC is right around the corner. The WIV is where one of the world’s foremost experts on bat viruses, Shi Zhengli, works. The WIV has a biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory, the most secure, where...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called on Tuesday for business leaders to pay higher taxes to support government stimulus spending, and backed stronger labor unions and lowering barriers to foreign competition. In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Yellen reiterated the White House’s intent to raise taxes on corporations and the highest earners as part of an ambitious infrastructure spending plan. She said the administration is also looking to stop tax evasion that has “stacked the deck for decades against responsible and compliant taxpayers.” The administration also is seeking a global corporate minimum tax in an effort to stop...

Faster than light travel is the only way humans could ever get to other stars in a reasonable amount of time. Credit: NASA The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri. It is about 4.25 light-years away, or about 25 trillion miles (40 trillion km). The fastest ever spacecraft, the now-in-space Parker Solar Probe will reach a top speed of 450,000 mph. It would take just 20 seconds to go from Los Angeles to New York City at that speed, but it would take the solar probe about 6,633 years to reach Earth’s nearest neighboring solar system. If humanity ever...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is unhappy with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) Tuesday over his refusal to accept the proposed January 6 commission to be voted on Wednesday. “I’m very pleased that we have a bipartisan bill to come to the floor,” Pelosi told reporters. “And [it’s] disappointing but not surprising that the cowardice on the part of some on the Republican side not to want to find the truth.”

Statement by Ralph Baric, PhD, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill."The Baric laboratory has never investigated strategies to create super viruses,” he said. “Studies focused on understanding the cross-species transmission potential of bat coronaviruses like SHC014 have been reviewed by the NIH and by the UNC Institutional Biosafety Committee for potential of gain-of-function research and were deemed not to be gain of function.” “We never introduced mutations into the SHC014 [horseshoe bat coronavirus] spike to enhance growth in...