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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, have held a video meeting, as friction persists in both countries’ relations with the West. In their opening remarks at the virtual summit on Wednesday, Putin and Xi hailed relations between Russia and China, with the Russian leader declaring them “a proper example of interstate cooperation in the 21st century”. “A new model of cooperation has been formed between our countries, based among other things on such principles as not interfering in internal affairs [of each other], respect for each other’s interests, determination to turn the shared border into a...

As Christmas approaches, the network "news" divisions have showered the Bidens with gifts. NBC late-night host Jimmy Fallon gave resident Joe Biden a free platform for 16 minutes on Dec. 10, and hailed him as a "classy guy" who brought "class back" to the White House. Two days later, CBS reporter Rita Braver gushed for 10 minutes over Biden and his wife, Jill -- or "Dr. B," as Braver called her -- on "Sunday Morning." ou didn't even have to win the presidency to be handed a shiny platter of publicity. On "Sunday Today," NBC's Willie Geist offered 12 minutes...

December 15th, 2021 St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao, People's Republic of China Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red First readingIsaiah 45:6-8,18,21-25 ©I, the Lord, shall create deliveranceApart from me, all is nothing.I am the Lord, unrivalled,I form the light and create the dark.I make good fortune and create calamity,it is I, the Lord, who do all this.Send victory like a dew, you heavens,and let the clouds rain it down.Let the earth openfor salvation to spring up.Let deliverance, too, bud forthwhich I, the Lord, shall create.Yes, thus says the Lord,creator of the heavens,who is God,who formed the earth and made it,who set it...

Nikki Haley, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has served up a kind of Christmas present to the nation in the form of a new comprehensive policy book, issued by her organization Stand for America, serving up conservative solutions for our nation's many challenges -- domestic and foreign. Conservatives get a bad rap that they just say "no." That they're against everything but never clear what they are for. Haley is one conservative that cannot be accused of not having a broad vision and not being forthcoming in sharing it. It's all here in "American Strength: Conservative Solutions Worth...

resident Joe Biden and Capitol Hill Democrats are racing to pass their massive social spending bill, known as Build Back Better, before Christmas. Maybe they'll succeed, and maybe they won't -- a lot depends on whether Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin hops on board. But no one should have any illusions about what BBB, the final piece in the Democrats' COVID-year spending orgy, costs. After a lot of deceptive claims from Democrats, we finally have an answer. Biden has claimed, falsely, that the bill is "fully paid for." But last month, the Congressional Budget Office released an analysis saying BBB would...

Chinese companies listed on Wall Street will likely to be cut off from U.S. capital markets in the next three years as tensions between Beijing and Washington persist, says one global asset management firm. “I think for a lot of Chinese companies listed in U.S. markets, it’s essentially game over,” David Loevinger, managing director for emerging markets sovereign research at TCW Group, told CNBC Wednesday. “This is an issue that’s been hanging out there for 20 years — we haven’t been able to solve it.” TCW Group had $265.8 billion in assets under management as of Sept. 30, 2021, according...

Almost all the Democrat policy proposals involve transferring more power and money from the rest of the country to the extremely powerful federal government. Almost all the Democrat policy proposals involve transferring more power and money from the rest of the country to the extremely powerful federal government. While the Dems seek to destroy the millions of jobs related to oil, natural gas, and coal they seek to make more people dependent on the government. Democrats claim they care deeply about wealth and income inequality, yet they seek to transfer more wealth and income to the extremely wealthy DC area...

Whether it’s hospitals, the media, the FDA, or the Post Office, all seem desperate to stop Americans from having the Right to Try a potentially life-saving drug. Ivermectin is a drug so beneficial to humankind that its inventor won the Nobel Prize. It’s so safe that the CDC recommends that most refugees entering the U.S. from countries with common parasitical infections be given it prophylactically. Medical trials and empirical experiments strongly indicate that, when it’s given early after a COVID diagnosis, people quickly recover. However, Democrats, in healthcare, the media, and government, are determined to ensure that no Americans have...

COVID-19 deaths are up. Politicians tell us to wear masks and get vaccinated. Amid the fear, I'm surprised that we haven't heard more about two drugs that could make COVID-19 much less of a threat. In blind tests, Pfizer's Paxlovid was found to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death by 89%! It was so effective that Pfizer was advised to stop the tests. "They halted the clinical trials!" exclaims Michael Cannon, director of health policy at the Cato Institute in my new video. "They decided it would be unethical (not to give the drug to people in the control...

Tucker makes a scathing attack on the January 6 committee’s Soviet-style show trial and he reserves special, and deserved, contempt for Liz Cheney. Tucker Carlson was on fire Tuesday night, for he launched a scathing attack on the grotesque show trial taking place in the House of Representatives, ostensibly to expose the “truth” about the “insurrection” on January 6 but, in reality, to destroy political enemies and preempt Trump’s effort to regain the White House in 2024. To frame the attack, Tucker lit into Liz Cheney, and a more deserving target it’s hard to imagine. The monologue opens with Tucker...

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Democratic governors were already barreling straight into a perilous midterm election. But a building winter Covid surge is putting many of them in a greater bind. The party’s defeat last month in Virginia — and closer-than-expected victory in New Jersey — has many Democrats searching for an off-ramp to the pandemic that allows them to sell a brighter future to voters next November. But, at the same time, attendees here at the Democratic Governors Association’s winter meeting were nodding to voters’ frustrations with the enduring pandemic and its accompanying hardships, a potentially more contagious variant is emerging, and some blue...

The anti-American Left constantly lies. This is not surprising. What is troubling, however, is their bid to twist all American history into the narrative of the 1619 Project -- something that many historians have critiqued as containing misleading and factual inaccuracies. Case in point is the man whom Democrats once revered: Thomas Jefferson. To say that Jefferson was a complex and complicated man is an understatement… and virtually everyone knows that Jefferson was a complex and complicated man. New York City’s recent removal of his statue from their city hall indicted his legacy of slavery as the main reason. While...

The January/February issue of The Atlantic warns that Donald Trump, in 2024, may bring about a "democratic collapse." Hillary Clinton, the other day, predicted the end democracy in 2024 with the re-election of Mr. Trump. And David Leonhardt, in the Pravda-aping New York Times, offers a preview of "America's Anti-Democratic Movement" Clearly, the rleft has started to fire opening salvos of propaganda to mislead the American people into believing that the Republicans -- not the Democrats -- present the clear and present threat to what Madison, in Federalist No. 57, called the spirit of American freedom. Writes Leonhardt, quite falsely,...

Speaking in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday, resident Joe Biden blamed the recent deadly tornado outbreak in Kentucky on “climate change.” Biden stated, “The fact is we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming and obviously it has some impact here.” Biden’s statement is laughably inept and easily disproved. All one has to do is look past the opinions, pronouncements, and hand waving and concentrate on what science and data actually say about the issues. First, the top five deadliest tornadoes in America all occurred between 1840 and 1936. The Great Natchez Tornado on May 7, 1840,...

According to volunteers of the international intelligence community InformNapalm, in the near future, the Russian Federation plans to covertly transfer modernized anti-aircraft missile-gun complexes (ZRGK) "Shell-S1" to the occupied areas of Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine through uncontrolled sections of the border. The Russian military and political leadership thus pursues several tasks of tactical and strategic levels at once. Since 2014, the occupied territories in eastern Ukraine have actually been a training ground for Russians and a convenient platform for testing various types of weapons and special equipment in combat conditions. As has been repeatedly recorded by international researchers...

"A Chicago-based group called Defund CPD Campaign is advocating for the abolition of the Chicago Police Department's "racist" gang database, stating that a vast majority of individuals listed are Black or "Latinx." "Another racist surveillance tool used to criminalize is CPD's gang database. Of the 500,000 Gang Arrest Cards recorded, 95% of the individuals designated as gang members were Black and Latinx, with 91.3% of all individuals being male," a Twitter post from the Defund CPD Campaign reads. ..."

"He must have missed the COVID safety Clause in his contract… A Father Christmas impersonator’s maskless appearance at a Christmas market in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ended up getting him Saint Nicked by local authorities for flouting strict German guidelines. While this particular Santa might be on the officers’ COVID red list, the real big man may have just got a few more names to add to his naughty one, too!"

"AT&T assets such as CNN and DC Comics could be turned inside out, in a good way, by the incoming merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery into Warner Discovery and Congress is taking action. In a letter obtained by The Hollywood Reporter and sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Justice Department antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter, thirty Democrat Congressmen including Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the merger raises “significant” concerns over “competition in the media and entertainment industry.” “This transaction raises significant antitrust concerns,” the letter said. “In particular, the merger threatens to enhance the market power of the combined...

Here is my list:The vaccines are safe and effective. Ignore the 300,000 deaths in the VAERS system. Ignore the fact that we can show eight different ways that hundreds of thousands have been killed by the vaccine. Ignore the fact that some doctors report a 20,000 times increase in VAERS events this year. Since we’ll take away their license if they speak out, the public will be kept in the dark on this.Masks work. Ignore what the randomized trials say (which prove masks do absolutely nothing). We say it works, so it works. Get it? It’s all about belief, not...