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More than half a million Chinese netizens have signed a joint letter to the WHO as of the press time on Sunday, demanding the organization conduct an investigation into the US' Fort Detrick lab, a place whose sudden shutdown is still shrouded in secrecy which has not been subject to any scrutiny from the international community. They believe a thorough probe into the US lab could prevent a future epidemic. The move came as certain Western politicians and media stirred up a new round of pinpointing China as the culprit for the coronavirus origin. A group of Chinese netizens drafted...

One of the first people in the world to observe the moon scientifically, Aratus is so well known and respected by astronomers that when astronauts took the first step on the moon, the first crater they named was for Aratus...“Aside from more familiar structures, such as the colonnaded streets, the ancient port, the theater, and the bathhouse, something very unique has been found. This find brings dynamism to the ancient city and can influence tourism in the region – for both those interested in cultural heritage and general visitors to the region.”The unearthing of the ruins has been ongoing since...

The Biden administration is planning to temporarily house about 2,500 Afghans fleeing unrest in their home country at Fort Lee, Va., with expansion to other military bases possible in the future, U.S. officials said Monday. The Army post, about 25 miles south of Richmond, will serve as a way-station for Afghans who have passed the State Department’s screening for special immigrant visas, said John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman. The group includes interpreters who worked alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan and their family members. “These people and their families are in the very final stages of the SIV process, so there’s...

The Biden administration today formally blamed China for the hack that took place in March of Microsoft Exchange servers and said the actions involved criminal hackers who have carried out other ransomware and cyber-attack operations as well, holding people up for millions of dollars. The U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre said the groups also targeted maritime industries and naval defense contractors in the U.S. and Europe and the Finnish parliament, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the hacking was “conducted from the territory of China for the purpose of intellectual property theft and espionage.”So now that the Biden Administration...

Archaeologists unearthed two 2,500-year-old marble statues and an inscription during excavations at the Temple of Zeus Lepsynos, one of the best-preserved Roman temples of Asia Minor, in Turkey's western Muğla province.Built in the second century B.C., the temple is located in the ancient city of Euromos.Abuzer Kızıl, head of the excavation committee and faculty member at Muğla Sıtkı Kocman University's department of archeology, told Anadolu Agency (AA) Sunday that the artifacts were found unexpectedly during the restoration efforts, and came as a surprise to the world of archaeology."We have unearthed two very important links of the missing archaic sculpture of...

A study conducted by researchers from the UPF Culture and Socio-Ecological Dynamics research group (CaSEs) and the University of Leicester (UK) has provided a highly dynamic image surrounding the use and importance of hitherto unknown wild plant resources at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük (Anatolia, Turkey). The researchers carried out their work combining the analysis of microbotanical remains and use-wear traces in various stone implements recovered from the site, which in the past hosted one of mankind's first agricultural societies."We recovered residues trapped in the pits and crevices of these stone artifacts that date back to the time of being...

[H/T Combat Boots]Dozens of Americans held in a Washington D.C. jail have been incarcerated for months awaiting trials that aren’t scheduled to begin until next year. Joe Biden’s Justice Department has repeatedly sought pre-trial detention for Americans who, on January 6, protested Biden’s election.SNIPThe defendants have been transported to a special portion of the D.C. prison system used to house those charged with offenses related to January 6. Most were held in solitary confinement conditions, only allowed one hour out of a single-man cell one hour a day, for months until restrictions were recently loosened somewhat. SNIPEvery night at 9...

Join together with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holi-ness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Fo-rum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

New report reveals mass of decapitated bodies were unearthed at former Tarmac quarry in Cambridgeshire... where excavations unearthed a Roman burial site containing the remains of a mass of decapitated bodies, has become the focus of international interest....the extensive findings at the site at Knobb’s Farm, in Somersham, after a report, funded by Tarmac, was recently published by Cambridge Archaeology Unit, led by Dr Isabel Lisboa of Archaeologica Ltd.The fascinating discoveries, which mainly date back to the 3rd century (201–300AD), revealed a total of 52 burials including 17 decapitated bodies, believed to be victims of Roman execution methods.Despite the poor...

The European Union announced yesterday that it is bringing legal action against Hungary and certain areas of Poland for their stances in defense of traditional family values, which the EU considers “violations of the fundamental rights of LGBTIQ people.” The press release from the European Commission, the EU executive branch, begins with a quote from President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Parliament: ““Europe will never allow parts of our society to be stigmatised: be it because of whom they love, because of their age, their ethnicity, their political opinions, or their religious beliefs.” Charges are being brought against...

While there is substantial evidence for art and symbolic behaviour in early Homo sapiens across Africa and Eurasia, similar evidence connected to Neanderthals is sparse and often contested in scientific debates. Each new discovery is thus crucial for our understanding of Neanderthals’ cognitive capacity. Here we report on the discovery of an at least 51,000-year-old engraved giant deer phalanx found at the former cave entrance of Einhornhöhle, northern Germany. The find comes from an apparent Middle Palaeolithic context that is linked to Neanderthals. The engraved bone demonstrates that conceptual imagination, as a prerequisite to compose individual lines into a coherent...

A woman yanked down two religious statues outside a Queens church and destroyed them by chucking them into the street in a “heartbreaking” act of vandalism, the church’s pastor said. The early Saturday morning wrecking spree was caught on video outside Our Lady of Mercy in Forest Hills, where the hammer-wielding suspect hopped a short barrier and began shaking the decades-old statues until they became loose. The video shows the woman then throwing the figures — one of the Blessed Mother and another of St. Therese the Little Flower — onto the sidewalk and then onto Kessel Street. The enraged...

Dr. Anthony Fauci has pushed for young to children to wear face masks as school look to reopen nationwide. Earlier on Monday, the nation’s chief medical advisor stood beside the American Academy of Pediatrics who recommended schools could require young children as young as three-years-old to mask up indoors, regardless of their vaccination states. The move by AAP comes in stark contrast to the most recent wave of reopening across the country amid a downward trend in cases. Nonetheless, Fauci said the decision was totally acceptable. “So, I think that the American Academy of Pediatrics, you know, they’re a thoughtful...

A veterinarian in China has died after being infected with a rare infectious disease found in monkeys - the Monkey B virus. The death of the 53-year-old man from Beijing was reported by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. It is the first known case and death of the Monkey B virus, sometimes known as herpes B in China. The first known case of a human infected with the Monkey B virus was in 1932 and there have since been about 60 cases, mostly involving vets, people working with animals or lab researchers in the US. The man...

Facebook is firing back at Joe Biden for claiming the social media site is responsible for vaccine hesitancy. President Joe Biden said Friday that social media platforms like Facebook are "killing people" by allowing vaccine misinformation to spread. Guy Rosen, Facebook's vice president of integrity, published the company's full rebuttal in a blog post on Saturday."The fact is that vaccine acceptance among Facebook users in the US has increased. These and other facts tell a very different story to the one promoted by the administration in recent days," Rosen said. Rosen said Facebook has been working with Carnegie Mellon University...

Liz Harrington, a former Republican National Committee official, told One America News Network there would not be another election without a "fix" to the November contest, which election officials on the federal, state, and local levels have defended against Trump's allegations of widespread fraud. "When all these Republicans and RINOS suddenly start pretending like they cared about election integrity, it's always the next election. Well, what the base is focused on, what the average American is focused on, regardless of your party if you were paying attention during the election, what you were focused on, is we can never allow...

Dan Scavino 🇺🇸🦅: Forwarded from Team Trump We are not going to wait for 2024, the situation is alarming and abysmal. President Donald Trump will return in 2021 and we can do it together!

It seems that Traditional Latin Masses in dioceses throughout the United States are largely set to continue as scheduled, while bishops prepare responses to Traditionis custodes. As diocesan bishops consider how to implement Pope Francis’ motu proprio on the use of the Traditional Latin Mass, the Archbishop of San Franciso has said it will continue to be available in his local Church. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco told CNA July 16 that “The Mass is a miracle in any form: Christ comes to us in the flesh under the appearance of Bread and Wine. Unity under Christ is what...

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