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Anta Sports threatened to cut ties with the league over its support for Hong Kong protesters The maker of the NBA’s official game balls is owned by a Chinese company accused of using Uyghur slave labor that has threatened to cut ties with the league for supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. In 2019, the Chinese-owned Anta Sports acquired Amer Sports and its subsidiaries, including the sporting goods maker Wilson. The NBA inked a deal with Wilson to provide game balls for the upcoming season. The league has also sold Anta brand shoes on its website. The NBA has faced...

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The latest onslaught of racist injustice is roadway construction. Yup: There's an all-out attempt to enlighten people to the fact that highway construction is racist. The reasons for said accusations range from the owner of the company building the highway being a racist, to the placement of the highway being racist because of people suffering the inconvenience of having to detour because of construction. The color-coded crayon people have one of the smallest population footprints, yet they're portrayed as being the most disaffected on so many different fronts. They're adversely affected by a flu that has been weaponized to scare...

The average daily number of new coronavirus cases in the US has surged more than 300 percent in the past three weeks — with hotspot states including Florida and Louisiana seeing major spikes in infections and hospitalizations. The country notched a daily seven-day rolling average of 79,951 new cases Sunday, or a 312 percent jump over the 19,400 rolling-average figure three weeks ago, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Most of the new infections appear to be in unvaccinated people, as so-called breakthrough cases in people who are inoculated are not common. Research shows the vast majority of breakthrough...

Thirty years ago this month, the Cold War ended with a failed coup in Moscow. As was remarked by many at the time, Marx’s dictum that history repeats itself as farce proved true for the Soviet Union, the state that had defined itself by his ideology. In August 1991, while the USSR’s reforming General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev holidayed in his Ukrainian dacha, a group of hard-liners seized power. Gorbachev, under house arrest, turned to the BBC to find out what was going on, since in the Soviet Union nothing the media said was true unless the party said so. He...

Over the past months, many states and the federal government have advised or even required individuals to wear masks in order to stop or slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Taking this relatively small step can significantly reduce the potential of virus transmission — serving as an effective way to protect both ourselves and others. Wearing a face covering of some sort seems like an easy choice to make for the greater good (provided, of course, that you do not have a disability that makes you unable to wear a mask). Yet this pandemic has illuminated another way in...

JESUS RAISES LAZARUS FROM DEATH . JOHN 11 New International Version ©1984, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . Resources to CLICK: To read JOHN 11 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John Harmony of the Gospels 29 A.D. Bible Timeline JOHN 11:1-45 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on...

Social justice movements are fantastic at making issues worse than they were to begin with, which is becoming the unfortunate case in Portland, Oregon. The Portland Police Bureau's Focused Initiative Team has been able to garner the interest of only four law enforcement officials to fill the 14 slots needed to have a fully functioning unit, according to The Wall Street Journal. Homicides are on the rise in the liberal city, with gun violence being the main cause. Fifty-three people have been killed so far this year, the second-highest on record, as 1987 saw 70 homicides, according to the report...

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joined "Hannity" Monday to hit President Biden's "weak" Chinese policy and the risk that comes with not being able to stand up to America's adversaries. MIKE POMPEO: Yes. Well, we’ve known since I spoke about this—at least in the spring of 2020—that this virology lab almost certainly the place, Sean, that this virus came from and we’ve seen the deep cover-up, right? It continues to this day. They won’t let anybody in to do the investigation in a proper way. The Chinese Communist Party is responsible for allowing people to travel with a known,...

Maricopa County and Dominion Voting Systems have both refused to comply with a subpoena from the GOP-controlled Arizona state Senate demanding that representatives from the county and the company produce materials as part of its audit of the 2020 presidential election.The Arizona Republic reported that the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors responded to the subpoena with a letter stating they have already provided much of what has been asked of them in subpoenas filed at the beginning of this year and late last year.They also stated that some of the materials that have been requested are in the custody of...

4029tv.com reports that hundreds of Arkansas laws have become effective on 28 July 2021. Among those laws are several incremental reforms of firearms and self-defense law, removing restrictions that were previously in place. The links below go directly to the Arkansas state legislative site, which has the exact wording of the new law. Here is a summation of the changes, with links. Act 1024 removes the prohibition on carrying in places owned, controlled, or operated by a local unit of government, if they have a carry permit, except for the following:(i) A courtroom or the location of an administrative hearing...

I have a dream! O’Biden has decided to not only destroy the Southern Border but to also allow hundreds of thousands of holier than thou Illegal immigrants into the US. O’Biden is using his military to fly them all over the US without testing or informing local communities. Wouldn’t it be amazing to have O’Biden’s military fly in a few hundred, nay a few thousand, untested holier than thou illegal immigrants into Martha’s Vineyard to welcome O’Biden’s 500 guests and wish O’Biden a Happy 60th Birthday? Now that is an O’Biden 60th Birthday Party I would enjoy! Like I said,...

The golf course crime spree is relieving men of their expensive Rolexes. A pair of female thieves posing as reps for a charity have been prowling upscale golf courses in southern England, swiping Rolexes from the wrists of wealthy older men. Police say the thieves are dark-haired women in their 20s or 30s with "Eastern European accents" who have reportedly robbed 14 golfers at posh UK golf courses.

I have always been a strong supporter of Israel. This is not because I always agree with its secular leadership, which is often as corrupt as America's on seminal biblical issues like child-killing and sodomy, but because the Bible makes clear that Israel is an intact nation-state at the time of Christ's return. Jesus said in the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21) that we would know the season of His return by the revival of the fig tree – the primary biblical symbol of the House of Judah per Jeremiah 24 and many other passages. It is...

The left continues to capture more of the institutions with the manipulation of gender dysphoria. LinkedIn has decided to join the Woke Movement. Recently, when I clicked on my profile, I was invited to identify my preferred pronouns. LinkedIn could not resist being excluded by the Big Tech family. For the most part, on the surface, they have maintained a presence without politics. Every so often, someone posts something political, but until the last year or so, people have stayed away from this arena, sticking to professional endeavors. Over the last few months, however, there has been an increase in...

As best I recall, the sequence of statements coming from the government and "experts" since the beginning of COVID-19 has gone something like this: You don't need to wear a mask and it's no more serious than the flu; you do need to wear a mask, though the virus is so small it can penetrate all but the N95 brand, so you should wear two masks; a vaccine will protect you from catching the virus and, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, you won't have to wear a mask if fully vaccinated; you must still wear a...

In an almost unprecedented move, Germany has joined the US and UK in bolstering its military presence in the South China Sea, on Monday sending a warship to contested waters to counter China’s expanding territorial ambitions for the first time in two decades. Reuters cited defense officials in Berlin who said “the German navy will stick to common trade routes,” who further described that “The frigate is not expected to sail through the Taiwan Strait either, another regular U.S. activity condemned by Beijing.”German Navy’s F 217 FGS Bayern“Nevertheless, Berlin has made it clear the mission serves to stress the fact...

The 9/11 attacks changed the Nation's dynamic, a newfound sense of patriotism not felt since World War 2 began. On September 20, 2001, George W. Bush stood before the Nation proclaiming, "Our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated." So, the long war began, with an entire generation growing up knowing nothing but war. Millions deployed to combat zones worldwide for this new form of warfare termed the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). Podcasting flourished during the GWOT...

It was a quiet and rainy Saturday afternoon, and the weather prevented getting outside of the house and doing much of anything constructive. The kind of day to slouch down onto the sofa with a blanket, some popcorn and soda pop, and just vegetate. I had by now overdosed on watching the Olympic Games and found myself mindlessly flipping through the channels on my TV, looking for something, anything to pass the time. I landed on a channel showing the movie Apollo 13, the film about NASA’s 1970 ill-fated lunar landing mission. I started watching the movie, probably for the...