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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A Taiwanese legislator, citing the latest congressional calendar, said a meeting between a congressional delegation led by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Taiwan's Legislative Speaker You Si-kun (游錫堃) was scheduled for Wednesday morning (Aug 3). William Tseng (曾銘宗), the Kuomintang (KMT) legislative caucus whip, said he was informed of a meeting scheduled for 8:50 a.m. Wednesday morning on the second floor of the Legislature.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The military aircraft likely carrying the delegation led by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was spotted possibly bypassing the South China Sea, where China is reportedly ratcheting up military activity ahead of her potential visit to Taiwan. Pelosi is expected to land at Taipei Songshan Airport in the country's capital city at 10:20 Tuesday night (Aug. 2), media reported. In addition to the military incursions into Taiwan's air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on a nearly daily basis this year, two Chinese warships – a missile destroyer and guided-missile frigate – were also tracked in international waters...

WASHINGTON — An American drone strike killed Ayman al-Zawahri, a key plotter of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks who took over as the leader of Al Qaeda after Osama bin Laden’s death, at an urban safe house in Afghanistan, President Biden announced on Monday night. The early-morning strike in the heart of downtown Kabul over the weekend capped a 21-year manhunt for an Egyptian radical who more than anyone besides Bin Laden was deemed responsible for the deadliest foreign attack on the United States in modern times and never gave up targeting Americans. “Now justice has been delivered and...

A federal judge ruled Friday that Visa helped Pornhub “monetize child porn” and sex trafficking ....

When an underwater volcano in Tonga erupted in January, it belched out more than ash and volcanic gases; it also spewed 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools' worth of water vapor into Earth's atmosphere, a new study finds. This water vapor could end up being the most destructive part of the volcano's eruption because it could potentially exacerbate global warming and deplete the ozone layer, according to the study. When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it became the most powerful explosion on Earth in more than 30 years, with an equivalent force of 100 Hiroshima bombs.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, will be arraigned Wednesday morning in a central California court on charges including driving under the influence of alcohol and causing injury. Pelosi was charged last month following his arrest in May in connection with his Porsche collided with a Jeep at an intersection near Yountville, Calif., police said. The Napa County Superior Court has not ordered Pelosi to appear at the arraignment, and he may choose to appear through his defense counsel, prosecutors also said. The arraignment will be broadcast over Zoom, and the detail of the court proceedings will afterward be...

The Biden White House has tried for weeks to convince Beijing and the world that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s expected visit to Taiwan says nothing about U.S. policy toward China or Taiwan. Yet experts say that effort misses the point, because intra-party schisms in Washington are effectively meaningless to the rest of the world. The fact that U.S. policy toward Taiwan is deliberately ambiguous has only made it more difficult for the White House to draw a distinction between what Pelosi is doing and what Biden is saying.

On August 16th there will be: In Alaska Special Election/Ranked Choice: to fill the remainder of Don Young's seat in Congress - Trump has endorsed Sarah Palin Jungle Primary/Ranked Choice: for the US Senate seat - Trump has endorsed Kelly Tshibaka to replace the odious oligarch Lisa Murkowski (has seat because of her daddy) In Wyoming Primary: for the at-large US House seat - Trump has endorsed Harriet Hageman to replace the odious oligarch Liz Cheney (has seat because of her daddy)

The Dane County Sheriff’s Office will be holding a gun “buyback” on August 13, 2022, in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Alliant Energy Center. “Buyback” is an Orwellian term. The guns which will be turned in to the police and sheriff deputies at the event were never owned by the government, so they cannot be “bought back”. The Alliant Energy Center is part of the Madison Coliseum complex, at 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way. There are large parking lots with little roadside parking. The event is to start at 10 a.m. and end at 2 p.m. $50,000 dollars has been allocated...

GO VOTE!! Strike a blow for Liberty! See below link for Trump's endorsements Big Races: Arizona: Four statewide offices, Governor, US Senator, Secretary of State, Attorney General (Trump endorsed Lake, Masters, Finchem and Hamadeh) Also, Speaker Rusty Bowers is term-limited out of the House and wants to be promoted to Senator. Help end his career by voting for Farnsworth! Kansas: Abortion referendum Governor, Attorney General races - See below info from a FReeper on Kansas Michigan: Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State (Trump endorsed Dixon, DePerno and Karamo) Impeachment-voting Peter Meijer - vote for John Gibbs Missouri: US Senate primary...

2 August 2022Tuesday of week 18 in Ordinary Time St Peter Julian’s Church, Sydney, Australia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingJeremiah 30:1-2,12-15,18-22 ©Your wound is incurable but I will heal youThe word addressed to Jeremiah by the Lord: the Lord, the God of Israel says this: Write all the words I have spoken to you in a book.Yes, the Lord says this:Your wound is incurable,your injury past healing.There is no one to care for your sore,no medicine to make you well again.All your lovers have forgotten you,they look for you no more.Yes, I have struck you as an...

At least four children in the U.S. have now tested positive for monkeypox, officials have confirmed.Amidst a growing emergence of cases across the country, state officials in Indiana confirmed late last week that two children had tested positive for monkeypox. At this time, no additional information has been made available due to patient privacy concerns, the Indiana Department of Health wrote in a statement.

An upstate New York county library in June hosted a series of four events in which eleven to eighteen-year-olds could “learn the art of drag from a local drag queen.” The Tompkins County Public Library, located in Ithaca, New York, hosted the four events on June 6, June 13, June 20, and June 27. “Participants will learn about costuming, makeup, lip synching, stage presence, and more,” the library boasted, urging, “Students will be best served by attending all classes in the series, as each week will address a different aspect of performing drag.” Then, to inculcate the youths further into...

The evidence is amassed and verified—the only unknown is what Republicans will do next. It could be the whopper of the year. “I can tell you that in every case we follow the facts and the evidence and the law and we do so without regard to politics or ideology,” Matthew Olsen, head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, solemnly assured the House Judiciary Committee during a hearing last week. Olsen was responding to a question by U.S. Representative Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) about the decision to arrest several men for supposedly conspiring to abduct and assassinate Michigan Governor Gretchen...

(Reuters) - Tiger Woods turned down a sum in the region of $700-800 million to join the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series, the breakaway circuit's CEO Greg Norman told Fox News. Norman said the offer was made before the Australian was named chief of the controversial series, which is bankrolled by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. "That number was out there before I became CEO. So that number has been out there, yes," two-times major winner Norman said in an interview that aired on Monday night. "Look, Tiger is a needle mover, right? So, of course you're got to look...

Although the issues surrounding “climate change” are among the most consequential ones in our politics, you have probably noticed that head-to-head debates on the subject are quite rare. The main reason is that proponents of climate change orthodoxy generally refuse to debate anyone who questions any aspect of the dogma. So you will be glad to hear that a real debate between significant figures on the two sides of the issues will shortly take place at — where else? — the Soho Forum. That’s the organization where daughter and frequent Manhattan Contrarian contributor Jane Menton is the Chief Operating Officer....

Chipmakers are cheering Washington's long-awaited passage of a bill to provide funding for the U.S. semiconductor industry, but accepting those subsidies could tie their hands when it comes to future investments in China. Is it a price that the likes of Intel, TSMC and Samsung will be willing to pay? The CHIPS and Science Act, a $280 billion package passed by both houses of Congress last week, contains $52 billion in support for the semiconductor industry. But it also specifies that companies accepting federal subsidies will be restricted from making any "significant transaction" to materially expand their chipmaking capacity in...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemGenesis 50Joseph Reassures His Brothers 15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?” 16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died: 17 ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your...

... A Pentagon adviser described the mood in Washington by recalling that the U.S. had supported Taiwan passively until the Obama administration, adding that the reality since then is so drastically different that the government, Congress and military are now driven by a sense of urgency to provide support. Efforts to safeguard the island's democracy have been gaining momentum since Beijing cracked down on pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong. Taiwan is also a crucial technology hub, accounting for more than 50% of global contract manufacturing for semiconductors in terms of sales. But the biggest reason the U.S. is rushing to...

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