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Chinese dictator Xi Jinping expressed his support for Iran in a phone call Monday with his nominal counterpart, outgoing Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Xi said Beijing supports Iran’s “reasonable demands” for reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s readout of the call said Xi saluted Iran as a partner in fighting the coronavirus pandemic and achieving “positive results in bilateral practical cooperation.” After reflecting on 50 ostensibly successful years of Chinese-Iranian diplomacy, Xi threw China’s weight behind Iran on a few specific issues: China will continue to firmly...

Charlotte, NC — On Monday, several media outlets were reporting that President Joe Biden’s approval rating is still strong. The Hill reported that 62% supported Biden in the most recent Harvard CAPS/Harris poll that was released to the organization. I have no doubt this is probably poll manipulation at its finest. Think back to the election, just 6 months ago, when our nation was as divided as ever. Even if you believe that Joe Biden won the 80+ million votes that the mainstream media and Democrats claim, it still was not 62%. It was somewhere around 51.3%. Are we really...

Moscow, May 24, Interfax - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia spoke about the special historical vector given to Russia by Slavic educators Cyril and Methodius on the day of remembrance of these holy brothers equal to the apostles. "We are praying, and we are especially asking them about all of historical Rus, which became the heir of Byzantium and not only preserved the legacy of St. Cyril and Methodius, equal to the apostles, but also increased that legacy, having gone through bloody persecution, the assaults of foreign tribes, and internal strife," the patriarch said on Monday after a...

“No Republicans voted for the bill” was the description NBC News offered in their coverage of the narrowly passed $1.9 billion dollar Democratic “supplemental security bill” which is part of their using the Jan. 6 riot to signal that the American people can’t be trusted. That’s all you’re supposed to want to know, and yet the story, one way or another, is more interesting than that. You see, while no Republicans voted for the bill, two Republicans didn’t vote at all. The almost $2 billion dollar legislation passed by just one vote. How this miraculous win by the Democrats came...

Hunter pitched tv producers a reality show , and spent his life trading on his father's name, says "Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump" by Edward-Isaac Dovere. ".....the chair set aside for Hunter by the stage at Biden’s campaign launch stayed empty, as he and his new wife spent the summer meeting with producers about a hazy concept they had for a reality TV show to highlight his charity work," Dovere wrote. "He’s OK with this? one of the producers remembers asking. ‘I know where the line is,’ Hunter said. ‘And my dad is understanding...

I pen this to provide an argument that the United States of America is on a downward spiral. The way I see it, what is best for this nation is being put on the back burner for what is best for select individuals and every other nation that comprise our global order. On the campaign trail, Joe Biden spoke frequently of what he called “Build back better.” Although to be truthful, the first time I heard “Build Back Better” was by the United Nations in 2015, and it referenced a tactic aimed at tackling social problems that would require modifying...

The government’s 2020 defence strategic update provided refreshing clarity about Australia’s deteriorating strategic environment and the need for new military capabilities to address it. These include long-range strike capabilities to impose greater cost on potential great-power adversaries at greater range from Australia. The government also included a shopping list of those capabilities giving a broad outline of schedule and the scale of investment. But there’s a big gap between where we are today and where we need to be, and the shopping list crosses that gap achingly slowly. In the vast reaches of the Indo-Pacific, range is crucial and the...

The college will keep fighting a Biden administration rule that 'requires private religious colleges to place biological males into female dormitories and assign them as females’ roommates.'May 24, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A federal district court has rejected the Missouri-based College of the Ozarks’ request to temporarily block the Biden administration from imposing a slate of new requirements on the Christian school to recognize and accommodate the “gender identity” of gender-dysphoric students. One of President Joe Biden’s earliest acts was signing an executive order declaring the “policy of my Administration to prevent and combat discrimination on the basis of gender identity...

The four gold bars stolen were part of a larger shipment from Australia, and Moody is accused of taking them after part of the cargo got separated from the rest when it arrived at LAX on April 22, 2020. A Canadian bank had shipped 2,000 gold bars, each weighing a kilogram and valued at around $56,000, via Singapore Airlines. During a layover at LAX, the gold was removed from the plane and secured, but an inventory check that evening showed one box of 25 bars had gone missing, prosecutors said. The following morning, Moody allegedly discovered the missing box near...

Anthony Fauci testified it would have been “almost a dereliction of our duty” if the National Institutes of Health had not worked with China to study coronaviruses as he defended NIH money going to fund “collaboration” with “very respectable Chinese scientists.” EcoHealth Alliance received at least $3.7 million from NIH from 2014 to 2020, and Peter Daszak, a key member of the WHO-China joint study team and the leader of EcoHealth, steered at least $600,000 in NIH funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research. Daszak criticized the United States for appearing skeptical of the WHO’s findings...

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How to think about entropy and time by Sean Carroll, CalTech prof of physics.

Sen. Martin Heinrich doesn’t think UFOs are technology from foreign governments. As I’ve been covering extensively over the past several weeks, UFOs are all over the news these days, and we can add the Senator from New Mexico to the list of people who think something is definitely off. When asked by TMZ if people should be more worried about UFOs being from foreign governments or aliens, Heinrich responded without hesitation, “Oh, option B. Much bigger thing to worry about.” He further added about UFOs potentially being from foreign countries, “I cannot imagine…if there is a foreign government that had...

U.S. diplomats unfurled Black Lives Matter banners to commemorate the first anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken launched a public relations campaign to condemn racism at home and abroad. “On the anniversary of George Floyd's murder, we remember that to be a credible force for human rights around the world, we must face the reality of racism at home,” Blinken wrote on Twitter, with an accompanying video. “By addressing our shortcomings openly and honestly, we live up to the values that we stand for worldwide.” Some embassies posted banners displaying the logo while others promoted...

Just saw an offer for a free one year Fox Nation subscription for active military and vets while watching Tucker.You do need a credit card but no charge until your one year renewal date, unless you cancel earlier. (Read the fine print, I did.)Sign-up if you want, it's free.

AsiaOne has launched EarthOne, a new section dedicated to environmental issues — because we love the planet and we believe science. Find articles like this there. China is the biggest generator of plastic waste, with one-fifth of the world's single-use plastic coming from the country in 2019, according to an Australian study. In its inaugural Plastic Waste Makers Index published on Tuesday, the Perth-based Minderoo Foundation said just 20 companies contributed half of the world's single-use plastic items thrown away yearly. And a quarter of those were firms headquartered in mainland China. "China is the world's most populous country. So...

Kansas Rep. Mark Samsel said “God works in mysterious ways” when confronted by law enforcement officers over a bruise he allegedly gave a student while he was substitute teaching in April, according to a newly-released court document.

English actor and comedian Russell Brand ripped the corporate media’s collusion with Silicon Valley tech giants as “troubling” in his latest video podcast Thursday featuring independent journalist Glenn Greenwald. In the episode, Brand and Greenwald highlight the media’s reflexive lurch to dispute blockbuster revelations surrounding the Biden family which emerged last fall in the heat of the presidential campaign. Twitter and Facebook notoriously censored stories related to the reporting and blocked links to the New York Post’s stories. “I’m not a pro-Republican person, I don’t see myself that way,” Brand said, “However, it seems to me – what reason is...

Pharmaceutical company executives have been hinting for months that booster shots will be necessary to maintain the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. A study of such boosters is already underway. But the companies that stand to profit from these shots shouldn’t get to unilaterally determine the need for a repeat mass vaccination campaign without scientific questioning. Moreover, focus groups among the vaccine-hesitant have shown that talk of boosters can decrease the likelihood of people getting a vaccine now. Bodies of scientific research indicate that your immune system should offer you long-lived protection from reinfection if you’ve been vaccinated, even with the...

Explanation: How does the Moon's appearance change during a total lunar eclipse? The featured time-lapse video was digitally processed to keep the Moon bright and centered during the 5-hour eclipse of 2018 January 31. At first the full moon is visible because only a full moon can undergo a lunar eclipse. Stars move by in the background because the Moon orbits the Earth during the eclipse. The circular shadow of the Earth is then seen moving across the Moon. The light blue hue of the shadow's edge is related to why Earth's sky is blue, while the deep red hue...