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First up, a Long March 2C lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, northwest China, at 7:15 a.m. EDT (1115 GMT, 7:15 p.m. local time) on Aug. 24. The rocket used a Yuanzheng 1S upper stage to deliver three payloads into near polar orbits with average altitudes of around 680 miles (1,100 kilometers) above Earth, according to U.S. space tracking. Chinese space contractors and Chinese state media announced that two satellites were "fusion" communication technology test satellites with the acronym RSW. No further details were provided.

GOP Cassidy said, “I am pro-life. Let’s be clear, George, the ruling on SCOTUS was the plaintiffs did not have standing. It had nothing to do with the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade. It was only on if the plaintiffs had standing. People are using it to gin up their base to distract from disastrous policies in Afghanistan, maybe for fund-raising appeals. I wish we would focus on issues as opposed to theater. It was about if they had standing, nothing to do with constitutionality. I think we should move on to other issues.” (Snip) “He added, “I think the...

Season 11 episode 3 "Hunted":

Jack Posobiec Flag of United States @JackPosobiec ·1h There is zero chatter in the White House about getting American citizens out of Afghanistan. "They're acting like they aren't even there," per WH official 5:45 • Sep 5, 2021

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The FReeper Canteen Presents...Happy Labor Day! September 6, 2021 HISTORYLabor Day is a national legal holiday that is over 100 years old. Over the years, it has evolved from a purely labor union celebration into a general "last fling of summer" festival. It grew out of a celebration and parade in honor of the working class by the Knights of Labor in 1882 in New York. In 1884, the Knights held a large parade in New York City celebrating the working class. The parade was held on the first Monday in September. The Knights passed a resolution to hold...

CHICAGO — Some River North residents and their alderman are fed up with increasing crime in the neighborhood. “You just don’t feel safe in your own neighborhood,” said resident Frank Gurick. “This is no way to live.” Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd Ward) addressed what he called a dramatic spike in crime on WGN Radio. “I’ve been trying to get foot patrols permanently dedicated to State Street until we get it under control,” Reilly said. He has sent letters this week to Mayor Lightfoot and CPD Supt. David Brown asking for an increased police presence along State, Hubbard and Clark streets...

After moving into a downtown high-rise from the suburbs in 2013 to take advantage of the vibrant atmosphere and walkability of Seattle’s urban core, Ted and Priscilla Tanase are now looking to rent a place on the Eastside to temporarily escape the open-air drug use, lawlessness and filth that’s led them to feel unsafe when they walk out their front door. “We’re going to live away for a year and see what happens,” said Ted Tanase, 79. “I just need a break from here. We have four adult kids and none of them think it’s safe.” Haley Mae, a 27-year-old...

US President Joe Biden has directed the declassification of certain documents related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a supportive gesture to victims' families who have long sought the records in hopes of implicating the Saudi government. The order, coming little more than a week before the 20th anniversary of the attacks, is a significant moment in a years-long tussle between the government and the families over what classified information about the run-up to the attacks could be made public. That conflict was on display last month when many relatives, survivors and emergency workers came out against Mr Biden's...

[Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Cupich and the Reality of the DevilThe news of Cdl. Blase Cupich's ban on the Prayer to St. Michael at the end of the celebration of the Mass piqued the interest of many. "Si non e vero, e bene trovato," the Italians say ("If it is not true, it is well found" or, in other words, it makes perfect sense).The Exorcist and Hostage to the DevilThe action of the Devil is a reality in the Catholic Church today more than ever. And his effort to pass unnoticed is a successful strategy, sometimes helped by trendy ecclesiastics.You will...

The Taliban executed a pregnant former female police officer in front of her family in Firuzkouh, Afghanistan. The woman named Negar was a former police officer. The Taliban reportedly used a screwdriver to pick her brains. The BBC has more.

Parents of students in the California public school system have filed a lawsuit against the state's Department of Education in an attempt to remove a chant to Aztec gods that's part of a new ethnic studies curriculum. The lawsuit was filed Friday by the conservative legal firm Thomas More Society on behalf of the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, individual taxpayers and parents of current and former students after their Aug. 26 letter to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction demanding withdraw of the Aztec prayer from the curriculum went unanswered. The lawsuit says the “Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum” has...

U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany says that, of the approximately 2,000 evacuees from Afghanistan at Wisconsin’s Fort McCoy when he visited recently, “none of them were there on a special immigration visas.” He claimed that the Fort McCoy Afghan refugees are not properly vetted. He also says that the Afghan refugees are allowed to leave the base unsupervised “including without the authority of the general.” (Note: Since Tiffany’s comments on Aug. 31, the number of Afghan refugees has ballooned to 8,000. It’s not clear how many of the new refugees have SIVs.) Those SIVs, explained Tiffany, are visas that involve a...

Beth Faber knows sports. She knows sports media. She knows sports fans and what they want to hear and see when the game is on the line. Faber knows all of this because she’s been doing sports media with ESPN for nearly three decades.But ESPN just fired Beth Faber, not because she reported something inaccurately, or failed to show up on time for a broadcast or refused an assignment. She was fired because her religious faith tells her not to be vaccinated against Covid.How valued an employee was she? Here’s how Front Office Sports (FOS) described her in the introduction...

A 29-year-old Afghan man in Germany repeatedly stabbed a 58-year-old landscape gardener who was working in a park in Berlin, allegedly because he didn't like the fact that as a woman she was working, police said Sunday. The man stabbed the woman in the neck several times in the city's Wilmersdorf district on Saturday afternoon. A 66-year-old man who saw the attack unfold rushed to help the woman but was also stabbed in the neck by the suspect.

I believe China Biden 'owes' China some US military bases , and that is why he gave them Baghram, all that military hardware, and it's why he's working to keep American hostages in Afghanistan. China owns Biden. Biden owes China. Installing cities of Afghanis within US military bases in America may be the only way he can cede homeland military bases to China. He'll just 'accidentally' lose control of them and they'd have hardware and bases. Wondering where these bases are located - China is 'choosy'. There is NO reason to put the enemy within the gates.The United States is...

White House chief of staff Ron Klain would not give a specific date as to when Covid-19 booster shots would be available to the public but committed to following the science and waiting for full approval from health officials before making a third dose available to those who seek one. This comes after CNN and other outlets reported that top health officials warned the White House that they need more time to review all the necessary data before they can recommend boosters for all adults, despite an initial announcement last month that boosters for people who had either mRNA Covid-19...

There’s a legal threshold that religious people must achieve in order to be exempted from a vaccine, or any other mandate by the government. It’s the “sincerely held belief” threshold and government and public health officials are preparing to challenge that by basically saying that those people who invoke the “sincerely held belief” standard are lying.Others believe that there is danger in stretching the meaning of a religious exemption by not questioning those who seek to use it.Admittedly, the standard is vague. But in addition to a reasonable definition of “sincerely held,” most supporters of the exemption think that abusing...

During an interview with the Fox News Channel aired on Saturday’s “Fox Report,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said there were plans to re-take the Bagram Air Base, which “were briefed.” But that doing so would have required 15-20,000 in additional forces, and “would re-initiate a war with the Taliban.” Milley added that he didn’t think the military conditions warranted taking back Bagram. Milley said, [relevant remarks begin around 6:45] “Well, if we went in and re-took Bagram, if that were to happen, if that decision were ever made, we had contingencies to do that,...

The massive surge of COVID-19 infections in Israel, one of the most vaccinated countries on earth, is nothing less than a disaster. The Israel vaccine crisis should be a warning to the rest of the world.Earlier in April, the Israeli Peoples Committee (IPC), a civilian body made of leading Israeli health experts, published its report into the Pfizer vaccine’s side effects indicating damage to almost every system in the human body.GreatGameIndia warned at the time that if the findings by IPC were genuine, then Pfizer vaccine was linked to more deaths in Israel than AstraZeneca’s in the whole of Europe.In...