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This is better than anything our media has produced. I don't know about death totals or anything, but it's impressive the power of a tsunami. I had to edit the title, just to show what it was about because there is no English

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on China to stop “aggressive actions” in the Indo-Pacific region as Washington looks to shore up alliances against Beijing. Blinken made the comments in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Tuesday as he began his tour of Southeast Asia. Talking about Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy, Blinken said that the US would work with allies and partners to “defend the rules-based order” and that countries should have the right to “choose their own path.” “That’s why there is so much concern — from northeast Asia to Southeast Asia, and from the Mekong River to the Pacific Islands...

It’s a start. In run-off elections for Houston ISD board trustees, two conservatives defeated their incumbent Democrat opponents. National politics look to have influenced voters as they rejected hot button issues like Critical Race Theory and face mask mandates in Houston public schools. Both conservative candidates used the issues on the campaign trail.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - As more Pennsylvanians are diagnosed with COVID-19, families of those infected are ready to give alternative treatments a try to save dying loved ones. But the path to experiment controversial medicines is not an easy one. On Monday, Rep. Dawn Keefer, who serves York and Cumberland Counties spoke in front of the state health committee on the benefits of House Bill 1741. The bill, written by Rep. Keefer, would give doctors the approval to prescribe off-label drugs like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients. "We need to give everyone more resources and effort into treatment, preventative...

Six police were injured after around 2,000 people gathered in Mannheim to protest coronavirus restrictions, police said late Monday. The rally, which had been organized since last week on the encrypted Telegram chat app, surprised police in its size. Police told local media the “Querdenker” movement, which roughly translates as “lateral thinkers,” was behind the protest action. About 120 people who refused to comply with police orders were arrested, and a total of 121 were charged with violations of the law of assembly. Three individuals are facing criminal proceedings for various offenses. …

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What would be Advent and Christmas in the Church of the New Advent without Pachamama making an appearance? ...

Melanie Bitner, 47, who insists she is not anti-vaccine, got her first shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine on April 23 and soon became extremely ill. The Squamish marketing and communications professional says that 12 days later she was admitted to the Vancouver General Hospital intensive care unit with multiple blood clots and was “pretty much at death’s door.” She was released from the hospital after a week but had to be readmitted when her rare condition, known as vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia, worsened. Bitner says she has since lost her business, six months of income, her health and is now...

Joe Biden on Monday said he will be visiting tornado-ravaged Kentucky on Wednesday. Over 100 are feared dead in Kentucky after at least 18 tornadoes tore through the heartland late Friday night and early Saturday morning. Deadly tornadoes ripped through Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee and Illinois. Kentucky got hit the hardest after a monstrous tornado traveled more than 200 miles and ripped through 5 states. Thousands in Kentucky lost homes but Joe Biden’s priority is to set up booster shot sites amid the rubble.

December 14th, 2021 Memorial of St. John of the Cross Church of the Savior, Xishiku Cathedral, Beijing, People's Republic of China Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingZephaniah 3:1-2,9-13 ©All peoples shall invoke the Lord's name and serve himTrouble is coming to the rebellious, the defiled,the tyrannical city!She would never listen to the call,would never learn the lesson;she has never trusted in the Lord,never drawn near to her God.Yes, I will then give the peoples lips that are clean,so that all may invoke the name of the Lordand...

Quirky China news: man uses sleeping woman’s irises to access Alipay app and a new blogger who films himself doing mundane activities is a hit. South China Morning Post artwork A man was found guilty of having stolen 150,000 yuan (S$32,000) from his ex-girlfriend by lifting her eyelids while she slept to use her irises to get past the facial recognition check on the Alipay app. A court in Nanning, in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, southern China, sentenced the man, surnamed Huang, to three and a half years in jail recently, the Beijing Evening News reported. At the end of...

A pair of newly-discovered 2,200 year-old copper Buddhas statues found in China are the oldest of their kind to be discovered in the country The small figurines were part of a trove of artifacts found among a group of ancient tombs from the Eastern Han Dynasty. One statue, known as Shakyamuni, shows Buddha standing on a platform while dressed in a long cloak and the other is for Five Tathāgatas, which highlights the five great Buddhas. These figurines are 200 years older previous Buddha statues found in China and were fashioned in Gandhara style. That is a style of Buddhist...

Chris Wallace is DONE! He’s gone from Fox News and running to his ideological comrades at CNN! The announcement of Wallace’s departure, see why so many believe that Tucker Carlson is actually behind The REAL reason why the media is so up in arms over this! [9 minute video]

Liz Cheney read subpoenaed text messages from FOX News personalities to Mark Meadows tonight during the sham January 6 Committee hearing. So these leftists subpoenaed Mark Meadows text messages from AT&T or another carrier, or maybe he turned them over to the sham committee. Now they are releasing them publicly.

What a remarkable sight to see the reunion of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss gathered around a couple of microphones in Nashville. It's been 14 years since their surprising and remarkable album Raising Sand and now they're back at Sound Emporium, the studio where they recorded some of that first record and the entirety of their new album Raise The Roof. Huddled in the control room are an all-star cast of musicians, with Jay Bellerose on drums, JD McPherson on guitar, Dennis Crouch on upright bass, Stuart Duncan on guitars and ukulele, and Viktor Krauss on electric bass and guitar....

“A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones” (Proverbs 14:30).

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to hear arguments Wednesday over whether a Health and Human Services mandate can force religious-based hospitals to perform sex-reassignment procedures that could cause "harm" to patients, plaintiffs say. Earlier this year, President Joe Biden's administration restored federal protections for gay and transgender people, allowing them to sue for "sex discrimination" in healthcare. The Religious Sisters of Mercy, along with other faith-based hospitals and medical providers, argue its facilities "routinely provide top-notch care to transgender patients," contending the HHS mandate should not force it to provide potentially "harmful" procedures such as sex-reassignment surgery...

One out of every 100 American seniors has died from Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic according to a report from The New York Times. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/one-percent-of-all-us-seniors-have-died-from-covid-since-beginning-of-pandemic-nyt/ar-AARLNl2?ocid=uxbndlbing

Pakistan: Mosque gives girls lessons in how to behead a person accused of blasphemyWhy not? The Qur’an says to do it. Shouldn’t people know how?“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)Anyone who finds this revolting or otherwise objectionable is a greasy Islamophobe with a “white savior complex.”Beheading Training Video“‘Beheading’ training being imparted to girl students in mosque, Video goes viral,” by Arpit Birtharia, NewsTrack, December 11 2021:…Meanwhile, a video has now surfaced from Pakistan that exposes Pakistan’s violent, hardcore Islamic, and chaotic face in blasphemy. The video is said to be from the Red Mosque in Islamabad.The...

....According to the FBI and Department of Justice, Xu had since 2013 used multiple aliases to target US and third-country aviation companies and experts in that field. He would invite them to China on academic pretexts and then slowly lure them to espionage. Xu's arrest and conviction are unique and shed light on a shadowy conflict in which Beijing is trying to wrestle global supremacy from the US using any means possible. Military secrets aren't the only target. The US's top counterintelligence agency estimates that Beijing steals $200 billion to $600 billion worth of economic secrets from the US every...