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Russia and China are coordinating military exercises to threaten not only Taiwan but also Hawaii, according to a senior Japanese defense official who warned the United States to beware of a Pearl Harbor-style surprise attack.“We have to show the deterrence towards China, and not just China but also the Russians, because, as I told you, that they are doing their exercises together,” Japanese deputy Yasuhide Nakayama told the Hudson Institute this week.Taiwan’s vulnerability to an invasion from mainland China has become a preoccupation of Indo-Pacific strategists in recent months, as Chinese Communist forces escalate their military drills around the island....

JOHNSON CITY (WBNG) -- Civil Air Patrol, a non-profit organization and auxiliary of the United States Air Force, is a program that teaches the youth about aerospace careers. Doing their part to try to combat the pilot shortage, Civil Air Patrol is encouraging those aged 12-18 to join the program to prepare them to become either commercial or military pilots. By the end of 2023, commercial airlines are expected to be short 12,000 to 20,000 pilots. Currently, the Air Force is out 2,000 to 5,000 pilots. With open opportunities on the rise, the chance to pursue a pilot career can...

Police around the region say we are in the midst of an epidemic of gun violence the likes of which we have not seen in decades. And it isn't just in the big cities like San Francisco or Oakland, but the smaller ones, too. Our ABC7 News Insider Phil Matier has been talking to local law enforcement agencies to see what they are finding and what police say they need to stop it. One veteran is Hayward Police Chief Toney Chaplin, who knows what it's like to work in a big city. On the streets of his suburban town, guns...

Joe Biden PARTNERED With Chinese COMMUNISTS For $30M | Rudy Giuliani | Ep. 81 (rumble.com)Rumble — Ep. 81Don’t forget to comment below with your Common Sense and subscribe to my podcast at www.RudyGiulianiCS.com► Connect with Rudy Giuliani on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/RudyGiuliani► Connect with Rudy Giuliani on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therudygiuliani► Connect Rudy Giuliani on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realrudygiuliani

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- According to the California Retailer's Association three cities in our state are among the top 10 in the country when it comes to organized retail crime--Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento. Already we are seeing the negative impact it is having in San Francisco with stores permanently shutting down or closing early. It has become one of the most pressing issues in our city today. RELATED: Bay Area police chief says rise in assault rifles, ghost guns used to 'hunt and kill' people Target has now acknowledged that San Francisco is the only city in America...

Abp. Viganò Tells Abbé Barthe: Derailing of Vatican II, Creation of New Mass are Results of “Revolutionary Forces Infiltrating the Church”In a new and extensive interview with Abbé Claude Barthe (first published here), author of Le Messe de Vatican II (“The Mass of Vatican II” — see here for a review in English), Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò fields several questions related to the Second Vatican Council and the creation of what he calls “Montini’s Novus Ordo,” referring to the new rite of Mass created after the Council by the Consilium (liturgical committee) under the direction of then-Fr. Annibale Bugnini and...

A Delhi-based lawyer has filed a police complaint against Twitter India and its chief Manish Maheshwari and sought registration of an FIR against for allegedly spreading communal hatred and outraging religious feelings of Hindus. The complaint filed by one Aditya Singh Deshwal states that a Twitter user (Atheist Republic) has been repeatedly posting "highly objectionable graphic/cartoon of Hindu goddess Maa Kali". It alleges that this Twitter user has depicted Maa Kali in an "obnoxious manner" with an intent to "insult and demean the Hindu religion". Deshwal has stated that other content tweeted by Atheist Republic shows that it is a...

IMPORTANT 6-MINUTE VIDEO: The Ten Stages of Genocide What we are seeing unfolding before our eyes with a combination of the Covid-19 lockdowns, Critical Race Theory, and other authoritarian components of Neo-Marxism are bad enough. When we extrapolate where all of this is going as InfoWars did in the video below, it becomes clear we must do what we can to get the word out. They created the video detailing “The Ten Stages of Genocide”

[Catholic Caucus] The Most Precious Blood of Jesus: A Feast Added, Withdrawn & ReturningEACH YEAR, AS we turn the corner from the month of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus into July, the height of summer in the northern hemisphere, we fittingly start off with the feast of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus that bathes the rest of the month in its vermilion glow. Like so many feasts in the calendar, this one owes its origin to an act of thanksgiving for a military victory: its inscription in the general calendar was Pius IX’s act of thanksgiving for the...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Biden Admin Missed their goal of 70% of Adults with a first shot by July 4th - 67% today - Vaccination picked up a bit on this daily report - Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths remain low, but may be starting to bend upward a bit - could be the Delta variant starting its run) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 383,067,560 (21,434,300 J&J) Administered: 329,970,551 (12,581,723 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 182,109,860 Fully Vaccinated: 156,982,549

The leak near dawn Friday occurred about 150 yards (meters) from a drilling platform. The company said it had brought the gas leak under control about five hours later. But the accident gave rise to the strange sight of roiling balls of flame boiling up from below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

A Toyota Prius driver who affixed a Starlink dish in the middle of his car's hood was ticketed by the California Highway Patrol on Friday. 'Sir I stopped you today for that visual obstruction on your hood. Does it not block your view while driving?' the officer asked, according to a post on CHP Antelope Valley’s Facebook page. 'Only when I make right turns...' the driver cheekily replied.

Years of ultra-loose fiscal and monetary policies have put the global economy on track for a slow-motion train wreck in the coming years. When the crash comes, the stagflation of the 1970s will be combined with the spiraling debt crises of the post-2008 era, leaving major central banks in an impossible position.In April, I warned that today’s extremely loose monetary and fiscal policies, when combined with a number of negative supply shocks, could result in 1970s-style stagflation (high inflation alongside a recession). In fact, the risk today is even bigger than it was then. After all, debt ratios in advanced...

On the second anniversary of the crash of Boeing 737 MAX in Ethiopia, killing all 157 aboard, it was clear to those attending a memorial at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C. that the crash was preventable and those 157 would be with us today but for Boeing’s criminal actions and a beholden FAA management. That point was driven home last month by FAA safety engineer Joe Jacobsen. Jacobsen wrote a five page letter to the parents of Samya Stumo, who died that day two years ago in Ethiopia, and made clear that had he and...

Remembering John Paul II's angry outburst during World Pride 2000The Vatican has not changed one iota of its formal teaching on the immorality of homosexual acts.But the Bishop of Rome's attitude towards gays and lesbians has taken a 180 degree turn since the election of Pope Francis in 2013.With just a few words -- "Who am I to judge?" -- the first pope to be born in the New World added another verse to "Born This Way", the 2011 hit single by Lady Gaga!And since Francis made that now-famous remark, doctrinal hardliners within the Church and other social conservatives (and...

The weekend long binge of the bizarre starts at 12p ET | 9a PT on July 4, on the Decades cable channel.

Jason Richey, 49, a native of Aliquippa, Beaver County, and partner of Pittsburgh’s K&L Gates law firm, has entered the 2022 GOP Pennsylvania gubernatorial race to succeed the current Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, who is in his second and final term. Richey has never held public office before. He told The Epoch Times, “We need to have a political outsider like myself, who has had 25 years of law experience. [I am known] as an expert in state law. I’ve spent my time representing energy construction, in addition to doing state law issues in 40 different states and finding...

A motorcyclist was shot dead in the middle of a Texas highway after exchanging gunfire with a driver of a SUV during a road rage incident last Friday. The motorcyclist - JaDerek Gray, 19 - allegedly pointed a gun at a SUV driver who cut him off on Interstate 35 in Forth Worth before the driver pulled his own gun and shot Gray multiple times, Fox 4 reported. Police told Fox 4 they believe Gray also fired but didn't hit anyone and police believe the SUV driver acted in self-defense.

A team of scientists is reportedly working to obtain the sharpest pictures ever taken of the Cascadia subduction zone – a fault line that runs for seven hundred miles off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. The subduction zone, which has been the site of some of North America's largest earthquakes and the Earth's past "megathrust" earthquakes, has been strangely quiet, with almost no seismic activity detected. To investigate Cascadia's Oregon and British Columbia portion and the reason for this lull, Columbia University led a team of researchers – including students – from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics,...

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